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| Grape fields <3 |
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| My birthday cake with sparkling candles!! |
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| PS like the tan line on my wrist? :) |
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| Brother and Sister Anderson from the Stake in Bakersfield. They work with the Arvin group and took us to dinner in Arvin at Lupita's :) |
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| What a beautiful day <3
This is outside our apartment :)
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| Berto's baptism!!! - the lady in blue is Hermana Navarro and the 3 boys in front are her sons, Berto who got baptized is her brother, their uncle :) |
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| After the baptism, Berto and Hermano Rodier :) |
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What we left on Hermana Navarro's door for her birthday today :)
I made and drew on the hearts, Hermana White wrote the note on the big one :)
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| Arvin <3 |
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3:28 PM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Everyone Who Gets This Email:
I hope it gets to all of you happy and well :) I am happy and well :) Life is not perfect, not even missionary life, but ya know what? It's worth it. It's hard, it's REALLY hard!! I don't know of anyone that doesn't have a hard life in some way or another though. We all have struggles, we all have trials, we hurt, we have heartaches, feelings get hurt, but there is a way to over come all of that. JESUS CHRIST. He is the secret. He is everything. Without Him we truthfully cannot do anything. He is our rock, He is our light, He is our life, He is our joy. He is MY joy. I love Him so much and I am so grateful for His love, for His sacrifice, for His grace. He is what's giving me strength. He IS my strength.
This week has been pretty good! We have seen little miracles all week :) We were able to see Jessy Bueno again this week for the first time since his surgery. He's doing pretty well!! He thought we were mad at him for some reason but we cleared that up with him which was good! And we were able to teach our new friends Daniel and Monse this week. I can't remember if I told you about them. Our less-active friend Juanita who is a junior in high school referred us to them and they are SO COOL!!! They came to church with Juanita yesterday and they REALLY liked it!! Their family is Catholic but they used to go to different Christian churches on their own looking for a good one, but they never felt connected to any, even though they liked them. They walked into our little group in a tiny Veteran's Post shed and immediately felt a connection, a connection to the people, to the doctrine, to the Spirit there. It was cool. Then they asked us to come over and teach them after church so we did. And they brought a friend they want to share it with!! They are excited and ready to get baptized!! Their date is Nov 26. We are so excited!! This will help Juanita too and with her strength, eventually her family will come around and come back to church. :) And they are going to bring their friends to the gospel too!!! They're already doing missionary work!! It is awesome!! Also our old friend Julio came to church again!! We're still not sure how much he's understanding though.. He will probably take more time just because he's an older guy, but he's a cutie!!
Then Berto's baptism was AWESOME!!! The Spirit was very strong. While he was changing afterward I got the chance to play some interlude hymns. It was so fun and the Spirit was strong. After he got baptized when he was still in the font, he just hugged the guy who baptized him so tight. It was so sweet. He is such a sweet man <3 He is a very special spirit that's for sure <3
And my birthday was wonderful!!! We took some pictures in the grape fields and random places around Arvin. Then at the Noche de Hogar (family home evening) that we have every week with the group we had cake :) The family who had it at their house was la familia Navarro. Hermana Navarro bought the cake and they all sang to me. Hermana Martha Pulido gave me a present and another member Jazmin and her daughter Zoey gave me a card. They were very good to me :) It was really fun!!! :) They are wonderful people!! The lady who has sent you all the pictures and video is Hermana Navarro. We eat dinner with her every Thursday. Today is her birthday! You could text her "Feliz Cumpleanos" for me if you want!! :) She's awesome!! All the members are!! A member from Bakersfield who's in the Stake Presidency took us to dinner on my birthday, but they didn't even know it was my birthday!! It just worked out!! And tonight as a late birthday celebration our recent convert Ada Cortez and her family are having us over for enchiladas verdes - my FAVORITE!!!! So they are all super good to me!! I LOVE the members!!! I never want to leave Arvin!!! I hope I stay here till Christmas!!! I don't know that that will happen, but that is my hope!!! :)
But ya, all is well :) Arvin is growing, it is great <3 I love it so much!! And I love you all so much!!! Thank you so much for all the sweet birthday wishes, cards, and presents!! I really appreciated all of it!! I love you all so much!!! Thank you for your constant support!! <3
Have a great week!!
Tengan una buena semana!!
Les quiero mucho!!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Martineau <3
Hermana Martineau <3
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