You Can Find Happiness Right Where You Are . . . Week 21

 Hello!

This week was lowkey kinda crazy and I don't remember a ton but...

Tuesday was pretty amazing. We had normal lessons and then I got to do the English class Facebook Live with Hernama Santa Maria! So basically if you want to see me awkwardly stand and try to teach English, watch our lives on Friday nights!! We got to go over to Gonzales and eat just the most amazing food ever! 

Wednesday was just crazy. We ended up going to Oxnard for a meeting for some Facebook things and so we hung out there for around two hours! Then we got to go to dinner with Gonzales again and we went to this family in the English ward, the senior Barlows! They are just the sweetest and were so very welcoming to let us crash their dinner! 

Thursday was crazy. I was on exchanges again in Oxnard. It was a pretty chill day. We ran into this guy. His name is Jesus but we are friends now and he said we could call him Peaches. He shared about his family and how he got to California and he truly was just so sweet and helped us to feel so much joy! I most likely won't see him again but he was really cool and a blessing in my day! 

Friday was Zone conference so we spent the day in Ventura and that was just so amazing and we got to learn so many helpful things! Then we ended up just staying in Oxnard the rest of the day for some training! 

Saturday was just a very crazy day! We had some lessons and lots of cancels and just so many things went wrong but it was truly a beautiful day to see the Lord's hand in our work and I'm so so grateful for it! 

Sunday!! Of course it is just always the best day! We got Rene to church and Nancy and her kid Daniel! It was so exciting to see our friends come to church! Then we got to go to the family Avila's and eat some pretty amazing Ecuadorian food. 

Highlights

☆Rene passed his interview and is getting baptized this Friday! 

☆Peaches! 

☆English class lives 

Spiritual Thought 

1 Nephi 17

" 13 And I will also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led." 

One of the elders in my district told me this was his favorite and so it's been on my mind!! And I know that anytime that we feel we are in darkness if we take the time to look around I promise you will see His light! 

Love you all so so much  

catch y'all next week *finger guns* 

Hermana McVey

I know every mile will be worth my while... Week 20

 Hola!!!!

There is truly so much to say in this email!! The last two weeks have had so much going on!!! (lol sorry for not sharing like any deets last week the day went by so fast) 

But last Monday we ended up having to change apartments which was crazy and unexpected! We found out late Sunday night that we had to be packed and ready to be moved out at 9:30am, so we got up super quick and packed everything! The rest of the day was pretty chill. We played rage cage with the district and got Subway!! 

Tuesday was sooo good. We got a lesson with Juan!! He is one of our amazing friends (you'll find out later in the email we put him on date) anddd we got to have an amazing lesson with our cute friends Leticia and Aurora! Aurora was baptized last spring and she just turned 91!! She is such a cutie and Leticia is her daughter who has the strongest desire to be baptised!! Sooo we put her on date for the beginning of March!! She is so excited and has been telling everyone that she is getting baptized!! 

Wednesday!! I don't remember a ton but we had a lesson with our friend Rene! And had lunch at the Rangels!! The Rangels always feed us the best food ever and this week we got Pozole

Thursday lowkey I don't remember much but it just rained all day long!! And so like 90% of our lessons canceled and no one showed up for English class but it was still a great day

Friday!! What a great day to spread the love of God. I don't remember anything that happened during the day but at night we partied it up with the branch and had our English class live! BTW go follow the clase de inglés page Hermana Santa Maria and I teach the lives Tuesday and Friday (it's definitely more I just answer questions and comments and she teaches but still) 

Saturday we had exchanges and Hermana Olaveson and I were busy all day. We had lessons with all of our friends on date for baptism and the best part was Juan accepted a date for baptism! I have never seen someone with the amount of faith he has! But please keep him in your prayers he is in a lot of pain and needs the extra love

Sunday such an amazing day we had Julio and Rene at church!! We were so worried about Rene not coming! He's getting baptized next week!! And we called him right before and asked where he was and he was at Dennys!! He's such a cutie!! And he made it to church on time! And after church we had a great lesson with him…it definitely was way way long… but so worth it! 

Highlights

☆ René is so ready for baptism and is basically a missionary already 

☆ Juan accepting a date:)

☆ Best branch ever and they know how to party like no other

Spiritual Thought!!! 

I was studying in this talk this week and holy cow it is just so powerful I love a quote from this talk it goes: 

“ The answer is yes. You can survive. You have in fact already been rescued; you have already been saved—by the One who has suffered the very torment you are suffering and endured the very agony you are enduring. Jesus has overcome the abuses of this world to give you power to not only survive but one day, through Him, to overcome and even conquer—to completely rise above the pain, the misery, the anguish, and see them replaced by peace.”

I just want to add my testimony to his that Jesus Christ is my savior, he is my brother and my friend. He knows what I have gone through, what I am going through, and what I will have to overcome and I can promise that he knows you! Jesus Christ overcame the challenges of the world for YOU. And I promise that he knows you and if you turn to him he will always be there for you! Through him you will not just survive you will conquer

He Is Risen with Healing in His Wings: We Can Be More Than Conquerors

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2022/04/24kearon?lang=eng

Aurora  y Leticia 

Heart cookies (they ended up in blobs but it's the effort that counts) 

JUAN

René and all of our member support 

Love you all so so much  
catch y'all next week *finger guns*

Hermana McVey

You've Got a Friend in Me . . . Week 19

Hello hello!!!! 

Transfer #3 in Camarillo!! I am happy to say I am in Camarillo for another transfer!!! I'm so happy to be here!! 

Sad note, Hermana Moon is long gone. She was sent to Simi Valley for her last transfer 

But anyways, this week was so amazing! I got blessed with Hermana Santa Maria and I'm so excited to learn and grow with her!! 

Okay thank you to my mom who sent this out!! I didn't forget I just ran out of time… 

We had to move apartments today with no notice.

I'm grateful for all the many blessings this week and I'm so grateful for our friends. We were able to invite so many of our amazing friends to follow the example of Christ and be baptized! 

I'm also grateful for prayer and the fruits and answers of those prayers! Especially with our friends and members! 

This will be so short but just want to leave you with a thought that prayer works, thanks to our Heavenly Father and the gift he has blessed us with, we can talk to our loving Father, and he will listen. 

I invite all of you to pray as soon as you get this! Pray for strength, pray for charity, pray for others, just pray I promise you your Father in Heaven is waiting for you, he wants to hear from you! If you don't know how to pray, just start talking, he knows what you'll mean! 

Love you all so so much  

catch y'all next week *finger guns* 

Hermana McVey 

Hermana Moon 💖

Hermana Santa Maria 💖