Vamos a Janesvilleeeee- Week 30

Hey friends and family! I hope all is going extremely well for you all:) thanks for all of your love and prayers! I look up to you all and I hope you know how much I appreciate you!

I will be staying here in Janesville with Elder Bird! We will also be adding another new missionary to our companionship so I will be double training! It's been a fun ride and it will continue to be a fun ride as we try to bring others the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ here in Janesville!

For example of our super fun times we have had here in Janesville, this last Sunday night at about 12:45AM so I guess you could say Monday morning we had to take an emergency trip to the Emergency Room. My wonderful companion thought it would be a good idea to eat a Carolina Reaper Pepper at a members house(which is the hottest pepper in the world) and thought he could handle it but while he was digesting it, the heat and gas got to him and I woke up to yelling and screaming and him banging the floor in pain asking me to do SOMETHING. So I took up to the hospital and we were there for about 3 hours before they released him after they gave him some milk and crackers! But thankfully is all better now!

This week has been kinda crazy! It seems like we never had time to do anything and everything just came and went out of no where. One day I felt like it was Friday and the next like it was Tuesday and now it is already Monday! Time as a missionary is actually pretty messed up.😂 But I love it! It's incredible how blessed I have been since I have been out on the mission. 

We started a Family Home Evening on every Monday night with the Hispanics in the ward! Last week was our first week and it was so fun! There was actually a video that one of the members took of me flossing and it was pretty awesome, not gonna lie;) but I LOVE the Hispanic people here. They are so nice and loving and make me feel good about myself even if I sound like an idiot because I say something wrong they love me anyways!

We also changed soccer sport night to volleyball sport night because it seems like every Hispanic here likes volleyball? And every person in general! And we actually did get quite a bit of people to come. So far they have just been members but still more than we got with soccer!

We are also wanting to start a Spanish class for some of the members so that they can communicate with the Hispanics and get referrals for us! That will be happening on Wednesday nights which will be awesome. The ward here is fantastic! 

In the beloved chapter of James 1 there was a couple verses that stood out to me. Verses 22-25

"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."

I testify that when we are not only hearers of God's word, but we also magnify our church callings, read the scriptures and share what we learn with others, live the Gospel of Jesus Christ out loud, and are doers just like Jesus Christ, we will be blessed in our deed. And I testify that we will BECOME what God needs us to become. He can shape us into what he wants us to but we have to be willing to be doers of His words and His work. I promise that as we do this we will be disciples of Jesus Christ and will have true joy in our lives. I love you all so much. 

DO GOOD, BE GOOD