Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful fathers out there! I'm so grateful for my father and all the love and support he's given me throughout the years and the wonderful example of hard work he's always been to me. I'm also grateful for my father in heaven and the love I know he has for me.
I am now part of a normal district where elders outnumber the sisters. I knew it was going to be an interesting transfer as soon as we parked at our first district meeting and our oh so loving elders decided to park on either side of us so Sister Priego would be forced to maneuver me out of our parking spot when we left (because our rules say you have to have someone backing you if you're in reverse and elders love to do anything to inconvenience the person who has to be out of the car backing the driver). But the elders are all really nice and I can tell this is going to be an awesome transfer.
So, the story of how Sister Priego saved someone's life:
A few days ago we decided to make cookies for a woman who had stopped talking to us and we wanted to go see if we could mend our relationship with her. We were running slightly behind schedule and by the time we were leaving the apartment we had to decide if we wanted to stop by her place really fast and go to our next appointment a bit late (which wouldn't matter because we didn't actually have a set time for the next woman we were seeing) or just go visit her after. We both felt like we needed to go to our other appointment first and drop off the cookies after, so that's what we did. About an hour later we were finally out of our scripture study with a new member and on our way to drop off the cookies. When we showed up we had just enough time to give her the cookies and talk for a couple minutes when suddenly we heard someone shout "Does anyone know CPR?" Next thing I knew, Sister Priego shouted back "I know CPR!", threw her bag, and was running down the street. After what felt like far too long, the man was finally conscious in time for the ambulance to arrive and take him to a hospital. After we left I found out that the only knowledge she actually had of CPR was what she'd been taught in Girl's Camp when she was 12. It was a wonderful experience of being in the right place at the right time and proved to me just how valuable the things we learn in young women's can really be!
Thanks to Father's Day I've been thinking a lot of my Heavenly Father's love for me (in addition to my earthly father of course). So I'd just like to share one of my favorite scriptures about both Heavenly Father and Christ's love for us:
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
There may be times in our lives when we don't feel God's love. Or there may be those of you who have simply never felt it before. But it's always there. God is a perfect being, which includes having perfect love. I knew a guy who put it in perspective once that in order to be a God you have to be perfect. Which means, if at any point God were to stop loving a single one of his children that would no longer make him God because he wouldn't be perfect. But because he is a perfect and all loving God his love is there for us regardless of whether or not we feel it. I'm so grateful for the blessing it is that I can feel my Heavenly Father's love. And I'm so grateful that I get to be on a mission to help share the knowledge of his love with others 
Until next week,
Sure love you all!
-Sister Bliss
Pictures!
Al (aka the coolest guy ever) gave us bandanas as a thank you for being his friends so we can be cool like him! And mine is a marauders map, so it's basically the coolest thing ever.
We were doing daily contacting one day and I turned to Sister Priego to get the okay for one of our texts and found her with this note on her head!
The elders joyfully walking away from the atrocity that is their parking job.
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