Boden, Libby T

HOLA! CÓMO HAN ESTADO? Another week in the heat! We had our zone conference. Learned a bunch of stuff and received revelation as usual. Got to talk to the pres! Showed him some pics of our little ranch and when I shot a deer. He liked that, jaja! I learned how to make empanadas with the district today and then I made a dog empanada! Don’t worry, I didn’t eat it! Miracle of the week is our friend IRMA. She is Católica but has so much faith in Heavenly Father and loves talking to us about Him. She calls us her "ANGELES" - "ANGELS." She went to our family home evening activity this week and loved it! Jaja, we played charades and it took a little bit, but she got out of her comfort zone and got involved and was the cutest mariposa! Not just that, but this Sunday she came to church with us as well, and wow, the members were amazing and the Spirit definitely touched our hearts that day! I strive every day to be more like Irma! She never STOPS SMILING! Something about our ...

Hellooo my friendssss! Another fast week has passed! Met some cool people this week. Went to a Relief Society devotional and it made me feel proud to be a woman. Then today for p-day we went to the beach again because you know, WE'RE LIKE THAT! I'm currently in a combi, surrounded by a bunch of people, a weird movie is playing, and I'm listening to church music while trying to figure out what to share with you guys! Hmmmm what do I got for you guys this week... Ah, I remember now, I've got something! Ok my extraordinary people, I remember reading this talk by Elder David A. Bednar called "Watchful Unto Prayer Continually" this week. It's a killer talk, I would recommend reading it! He shared two great scriptures in his talk that I liked. The first was in Alma 34:39: "39: Yea, and I also exhort you, my brethren, that ye BE WATCHFUL UNTO PRAYER CONTINUALLY, that ye may not be led away by the temptations of the devil, that he may not overpower you, that ...

HERE WE ARE AGAIN! UPDATE FRIENDS: I'm still here living it up in the coast, I received my new comp on Wednesday and her name is Hna Padilla! I'm TANNER and my SPANISH is improving. I'm basically LATINA now, even some of the members say so jajaja! Also, I eat seafood almost every single day. Didn't like seafood before the mish, but I actually LOVE IT NOW! It was quite the week! We started teaching a woman that is 80 YEARS OLD and is so freaking cute and delicate! Brought me back to my working in the nursing home days! I miss my old people! She kept telling us about how she felt, "SOLA" - "LONELY." I loved that we could help her feel that she was cared for. We talked to her about the plan of salvation and she said we could stop by her house and take her to church next Sunday! My most PRECIOUS and AMAZING FATHER since being here in the coast has sent me an email almost every week. He sent me an email one day and it has been with me ever since. This is ...

OLA DE LA COSTA! We went to the beach again today! This week was probably one of the CRAZIEST weeks I’ve had while being here in the mission, so it was nice to relax a bit in a hut in a hammock and listen to the waves! (RANDOM FACT: wave = ola in Spanish, the same as hola, only spelled differently.) I don’t know what it is about the waves of the ocean, but it always brings me so much peace and the presence of the Savior. Seriously feels like, in a way, He is saying "hola" to me through the olas of the ocean. Long story short, basically, I got a new comp for these last few days, and we have been working TWO AREAS! Crazy, but it’s been fun and an adventure! I’m also supposed to find out who is my NEW COMP TONIGHT!!!! My buddy from my other area, Aeropuerto, ELISA, got baptized this week, and I got permission from the Presidente to watch it through Zoom! A little about her and her family is that her mom is a member who was inactive for many years. The family never let the missio...

Shoot, I'm sending my email a little late, sorry! Anyways... First off, our week started out CRAZYYY! On Monday, we were going to stay the night at some other sisters' house because we were going to do a service project the next day. Their power went out, so our only solution was to sleep in the church. So yeah, basically had a sleepover at the church! SIEMPRE ALGO, jaja! And after that night, basically the whole week, those girls have stayed the night at our house! Fun times! Then this Sunday, our friend DARIANGEL decided to get BAPTIZED! I remember the day when we asked her to get baptized—she was so HAPPY and SMILEY! About her: she is 16 years old, and her boyfriend is a member. Her mom passed away a few years ago. Because of that, she loved hearing about the Plan of Salvation. More about her is that we have been teaching her for more than a month, but in the week of her baptism, she moved to the elders' area, jaja! So in the end, they got to know her and helped us with ...