Alvin Week 1

Hi! Idk if I mentioned it in my last email but I've been transfered.. again! Goodbye Katy, hello Alvin! I'm in the Spanish branch down here:) this week was full of meeting people and getting adjusted. Moving around so much is pretty challenging but it's fun to get to experience all different places. Alvin is very different from Katy. I've seen probably 20 cockroaches in my apartment since I got here🤢 so.. yeah. 

Hna Grimes and Hna Johansen are so fun! They're really hard workers so we've been pounding those unpaved trailer park streets. But that means I've  really well the past few days!

I swatted a piñata, biked, carried my bike up and down stairs, handed out food at an Episcopalian church, performed carol of the bells with our district at Christmas conference (we used cups filled with water, a piano, a beatboxer, and a kazoo), saw SO many friends at Christmas conference yesterday it was the best gift ever, AND last Monday we got a personal tour of Minute Maid stadium because Hna Grimes has connections. It was the best day ever. 

A couple days ago I had a cool experience. I had been feeling kind of homesick and tired, just wanting these next few months to go by fast. And during my personal study I was looking up scriptures relating to missionary work. And I stumbled upon John 4:35. If you go read it, you'll see why it was so cool for me! (Hint: I've been on a mission for 14 months.) Like a little text message straight to me from heaven. It really built my testimony that God speaks to us. He answers prayers. He knows us and how we feel. And I'm so grateful for that. 

"Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."

Hermana Eastman