Week 57: June 27, 2017: Our branch has been really focused on missionary work lately, which is the best!

This week was really busy and really good! Shift at the visitor center kinda limits the time that we have in our area but it just helps us to be super productive with the time that we do have. I do love being here at the visitor center though and I have been able to talk to so many incredible people from all over. We have shift every single day (including pdays) so I finished off last pday at the visitor center and then had it wednesday morning too. After shift we went straight to district meeting and that was really good! We talked about faith and working with the members.

We have been meeting with our branch mission leader, the elders, and the branch president a ton so that we can get the work moving along. Sister Farnsworth and I have been thinking and praying so much about what we can do to help the members in the ward and how we can bring more people into the fold. We have been feeling a little inadequate with the language but we study and talk in spanish like literally all the time. I know that the gift of tongues is real, seriously it has helped me so much. But it was really cool to see how fasting this past week helped us to understand the needs of the branch so much clearer and I feel like we have a pretty good idea of how we want to tackle all the work that we need to do. I couldn't do any of this without the spirit. 

Our branch has been really focused on missionary work lately, which is the best! They are planning a missionary activity for August (it got pushed back like a month..) which I think will be really good to help the members have a little more direction with the missionary work and I know that we'll be able to see tons of success from it. 

On to some investigators, we were finally able to meet with G and R this week! They are the siblings of a recent convert that was baptized the sunday before we came into the branch so super new and we have been trying to work with her 2 siblings. They came to church on sunday, which was great!! G is going to the temple for the first time tonight with the youth and her siblings are going to walk around outside the temple with a couple other members! Its also her birthday today and she just kept saying that she wouldn't want to be anywhere else on her birthday, so sweet! 

As far as less actives go, we have been visiting and talking to tons but none of them have really acted on our message yet...but that's okay, we'll keep working! 

We did weekly planning yesterday and with studies and shift that basically filled our entire day, but it was good and we now have tons of good things planned for this upcoming week. 

Today for pday we went and toured the Community of Christ temple across the street and that was good. They have a cool little museum there and then we took a tour of their prayer room and sanctuary and art work and stuff, it was all good! I'll send my pictures from this week in a separate email.

I hope that you are all doing well! I love hearing about all of your adventures and I'm happy that you're all having fun together in Houston. I love you all tons :) Give the babies a big hug and kiss for me!
Erin