Witnessed a gun exchange 😬

 BBBBBBBBBUENOS DÍAS HERMANOS Y HERMANAS!!!!

Did y'all notice that I missed an email last week? Jaja... probably not. But I'll give y'all a quick run down of what's happened the last 2 weeks anyway:

La Visión 

We invited our friend Noemi who's on bap-date to pray about the Restoration! Then later, when we followed up with her about it, she said that she had a dream about her baptism and right at the part where she got baptized she felt a strong confirmation that Joseph Smith was a prophet! Que genial!

On another note, her family is being kicked out of their current house and she has to find a new place to live by the end of the month, so she asked us to move her bap-date which was originally gonna be this week to later. Guys please keep Noemi in your prayers 😭😭

Intercambio de armas (Gun Exchange)

So one good old missionary day Hna Daugherty and I go to visit our good old friend Angela. And as we're pulling through our good old parking spot, we look up at the deck of one of the apartments, and find a bunch of good old latinos. 

Me and Hna Daugherty are both thinking, "Huh, maybe we should go talk to them" when out of nowhere one of the guys hands the other guy a BIG GUN. Like, AK-47 big gun. And we also realize that the guy being handed the gun has one of those black ski-mask things slid up in his forehead, you know, like the ROBBER MASKS!?!?

We both look at each other and are like, "ok, let's bounce." But as we're driving away, we accidentally make awkward eye contact with the gun guys. 

So yeah, we're zoomin', and I park across the street in front of a bunch of small-town stores. And as we're discussing and figuring out who we should call or what we should do, we see the guy that was handed the gun start walking across the street towards the stores with a duffle bag over his shoulder. 

We decide to take a picture of him in case it was needed for something, but just after we take the picture, he makes DIRECT EYE CONTACT with us!😬

So we zoomed outta there again and drove far far away. Then afterwards we called the cops and told our mission President. Long story short, we're not aloud to go to that apartment complex again😭

And as for what happened with the guy, we still have no idea🤷‍♀️

Also yes, the picture of him is in my album😅

Otras cosas

-Our friend Raul quit smoking because he started reading the Book of Mormon 😆

-Some random gal texted us out of the blue asking if we could give her daughter lessons and so we taught her and she came to church ion Sunday!!!

-Last P-day we played human waterballoon battleship with the district! Fue chido!!

-Our friend Urbano had to get his toe chopped off 😬

-found out that the term "Pan de Dios"- "bread of God" means that someone's a kind-hearted person or a lifesaver in spanish

-Me and Hna Daugherty made a fun mash up of "Come, Come Ye Saints" and "Far far away on Judea's Plain." (Video is in album)

Pensamiento Espiritual 

"Therefore, come unto me speedily with a few of your men, and leave the remainder in the charge of Lehi and Teancum; give unto them power to conduct the war in that part of the land, according to the Spirit of God, which is also the spirit of freedom which is in them"(Alma 61:15).

The spirit of God is the Spirit of Freedom. I hadn't really thought about it this way before, but it makes so much sense! We can feel the spirit in a variety of ways, but we can feel it the most when we sincerely repent. And when we sincerely repent we are freeing ourselves from the sins that we have!

We also feel his spirit when we obey his commandments, and obeying them allows us to exercise our freedom of choice!!

Remember that the spirit is a spirit of freedom, you guys. And that you can feel free every day, if you follow him!!!

Love you guys!! If you've made it this far, tell me about the sketchiest situation you've ever been in!

Les quiero!!

Hermana Perkins