SPPPPRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG is here!!!!

Hi everyone!

So this week was pretty intense. And when I say intense, I actually mean INTENSE!! We have had so many miracles here, it blows my mind! The work is really hastening. Seriously, we need more servants in the vineyard to harvest the amount of people that are ready for the Gospel! No wonder President Monson has asked that the members be included. There are so many people that have been prepared and are so ready for this message, it blows my mind! For instance, not only do we have 2 people on date for baptism, but we've had several accept a baptismal invitation! We've gotten a new investigator almost every day and we've had over 20 lesson this week! Now, in a normal week, that's pretty incredible. But what makes this amazing is that we were actually out of town on Wednesday for Zone conference (which was phenomenal!) and we were in Snowflake for about half of the day on Friday. So we crammed those lessons into about 3 full days! Can I get a "What WHAT!" hahaha

Anyway, Zone conference was the highlight of my week this week. We got to meet with President and Sister Sweeney and we got some amazing training on being a consecrated missionary and what we will put on the altar of sacrifice (or what weapon of war we want to bury). We also took a color-code personality test and we discovered that Hermana Carillo, Hermana Christensen and I are ALL white-blues while Sister Goodwin is a red-yellow. President Sweeney just looked at us and said "I bet there's never a cross word said in your apartment!" which is basically the truth! I live with some amazing sisters! About mid-way through the training out zone did a special musical number which consisted of 2 elders (1 of them being one of the zone leaders) Hermana Christensen (a sister training leader) and my companion and I (I was the only alto). It went really well. It's just preparing me for the fact that we're singing "How Great Thou Art" in Sacrament Meeting this week in one of our wards. We're also set to sing on the 26th of April as well, so pray for "my poor nerves!"

We've been so blessed this week, not only with investigators, but we didn't set up any dinners and practically everyone that we visited this week sent us home with food! We got tacos, oranges, shrimp pasta, and so many other things! I've also been making my chicken noodle soup from memory (and not all of the ingredients) but it still tastes pretty good! I'm not going to attempt Zupa Toscana from memory. I'd probably kill it and never make it again! Which would be sad for all ya'll. haha Watch out! If I spend much more time here, I'll come back talking with a Southern/hick accent!

So, the lack of pics can be explained in one sentence: I forgot to charge my camera. SO here's a pic of a service that we've been doing the past few weeks. We've been helping HAND-QUILT a quilt that has over 3,000 pieces in it! Let me just say, it's almost as addicting as puzzles! The next pic was taking when we were driving to an appointment and we noticed that the horses were kissing. It was kind of weird and cute, and definitely photo worthy!

Oh, and i would absolutely LOOVE some pictures of the fam! Honestly, I'm starting to forget what you all look like! Just attach them to an email and send 'em my way!