Hello family and friends! I hope your week has been great and filled with less walking than mine has!
I'm pretty sure I'm just a curse on cars because I used to have tons of car trouble before my mission as well. But we started having some issues and had to take our car in to be fixed, so we've been without a car for most of the week, and we'll be without a car again next week while it's actually being fixed. So we've been doing a lot of walking lately. We did have one day though that the elders in our area were super sweet and biked all day so we could borrow their car since sisters aren't allowed to bike in our mission. We thanked them with goodies and hidden sticky notes all over their car (they're in for a suprise when they fill up their car with gas and find one inside the little door to the gas). In addition to loaning us their car, our district leader, Elder Widmer, also informed me that my spirit animal is a bunny because I'm happy and energetic and he can see me hopping around like one. Just thought you all might be interested in knowing that because anyone who knows me really well will realize that it's 100% true 
As much as missionary work is hard and takes a lot of work, I've never been happier than I am right now dedicating my life to helping others. The hardest part really is wanting to help people but having people who don't understand the things we're teaching or aren't willing to put in the effort of having faith and putting that faith into action because it pains me to see others who are struggling in their lives when I know that the gospel would help them so much if they'd just let it.
Ether 12:27 says "And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."
I've seen this so much in my life, especially recently. There was a time when I simply could not understand the scriptures or get much out of them but I wanted so badly to get something out of my scripture study, so one day, just a few months ago in fact, I sat down and decided I was going to figure out the scriptures. I spent a few hours each day just sitting down and reading scriptures and simply rewriting them into simple wording in a notebook, and if something didn't make sense I'd study it and look things up until I understood it. After a few days of this it just clicked and I could finally understand the scriptures. It doesn't actually make any rational sense why studying out part of the scriptures would suddenly cause me to be able to understand the rest of the scriptures that are just as confusing, so I know it was my Heavenly Father helping me out and making my weakness a strength.
I promise as you all try to better yourselves, your Heavenly Father will help you along the way if you ask him for help. I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!
Question of the week:
What's your favorite quote? (or favorite 5 or 10 quotes. I'm just in need of quotes because I'm a quote junkie and can't access google anymore )
A quote I love that I heard recently from my mission president is:
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat." -Teddy Roosevelt
Pictures!
(I'm done numbering them because they always send out of order, haha)
The sticky note Elder Widmer hid in the car we borrowed that gave me my spirit animal, me and Sister Priego walking in the rain, the Book of Mormon we put in one of those cute free library box things, and our cute district :)
Additional Pictures her mom wanted to add: :-)
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