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Querida familia 💜

Holy moly I can't believe how fast time can go. This week was grand! On Tuesday we had a single adult FHE by the ward...well the teacher only speaks Spanish so sister Cienfuegos and I had to translate for the few English people that came. So this was my first official translating through the little head phones thing. Oh my funny. The ones listening were like 2 members and one of the elders
investigators. So at first I was doing pretty good. Then the teacher was talking a million miles per second and not finishing her sentences!! My facial expressions were priceless I'm sure. I often
just said, I'm sorry I don't know what she just said. Haha. A bilingual member was sitting near me and just dying laughing! So since she was I started to and so when I laugh I apparently do a "phuh" kind of noise before...well...I didn't realize that goes right into their ears. The investigator suddenly screams, "ahh" holding his ear because of my noise. " your going to burst my eardrum!" I was like oh my I'm so sorry and we both start laughing! Ah good thing he is cool and forgave me. He was sitting next to sis Cienfuegos and I was like hey (S), tell sister Cienfuegos to get over here :) then she did the rest. Funny moments.

We had a joint MLC with the north mission this week! It was super cool! We got to be with two mission presidents and all of their leaders. It was very spiritual to learn about all they do. I will miss
these uplifting meetings! My soul needs them. I got the opportunity of 6 to bear my testimony. Whew...I almost didn't cry. Then that night we had volleyball night and it was AWESOME!! So many people came!! :) :) I just was sitting on the stage watching and just couldn't stop smiling! So great.

I had my departing interview with president, man I'm going to miss that man. It was super good! Very comforting and a special moment. (N) finally committed to go to the temple on the 13th!!!!! Miracle. Pray for her to continue to have the strength to go. :) we found a new investigator! Fruits of doing look ups :) we had 118 people at church yesterday!!!! So happy!!!!!

I love you all!!

continue in patience

Heyyyya!

Cabin looked super fun! Can't wait to join. :) this week was lots of meetings, transfers, mlc, district meeting, coordination, ward council, stl meeting, etc etc. and lots of service!! I love doing service. We helped sister hartrick out a lot, I love this woman. Defiantly have to visit her when we come back. We had THE MIRACLE lesson with (j)!! We have been waiting and waiting for this lesson for our whole lives. The spirit did it all! We were teaching about the atonement and a little bit into it I could tell something was wrong with (J), he just wasn't understanding. So we pause and he asks us to wait and really explain what the atonement is. After that he opened up completely! He expressed how he wants to be a good member and be one forever, not just get baptized and then fall away. So we committed him and asked if he was ready to make that decision to truly try and start becoming
converted. He said how he wants his son to be a missionary and raise their kids in the church. Ah! They were crying and just happiness. Such a good lesson! Sister Cienfuegos is a boss. She amazes me this woman, her testimony seriously just radiates. Then at church J are golden. I can see it now, she will be relief society president one day, even though it only matters how you serve not in what position she will just be amazing
wherever she goes. I love you all!

Hermana Kelsey Karen

el mes de julio

wow, once again! a little behind...sorry about that! just been a little busy over here in little neckers. :) buuut it has been an amazing transfer in a half! i get to have the great blessing of staying companions and dying with my sweet companion sister cienfuegos!! here is a re-cap...

So this week we had 4 exchanges!! It's been really cool to see the sisters grow. I love it! They are such good missionaries!! So we were only with each other on Thursday and had to do everything plus prepare for the
baptism in one day. Super fun. We had to change the time last minute but it all worked out perfectly!! I'm so grateful for the members who helped so much. She is in good hands :) she was so so happy!! She is such a good example of immediately giving thanks to Heavenly Father after she receives a blessing. She has taught me so much. Sister Cienfuegos is so fun, I just love her. Seriously we have some great comp unity!! We are on fire, just like her name!! Whoop whoop. So grateful for her. 

                    

well this week flew by. again. i can't believe its the last week of the transfer!!! it blows my mind, i try not to think about it though cause i don't even feel like i'm in real life sometimes. i don't know why it was so crazy looking back...haha but we only had like two days to do our studies. due to meetings, conference calls, service, car problems, etc. so i definitely noticed a difference not having them...it was a huge reminder to me of how important DAILY scripture study and prayer is and that i must never stop doing it. i learn so much every day and most of the time its not enough time! ...let me tell you about Friday. oh my this day. so first, we had to wake up at like 5 to go get sister cienfuegos social security number. so we wake up, say a prayer and leave to go run for a little bit. we close the door and she asks me if i have the keys. i just didn't respond. oops!! yep..we locked ourselves out of our house at 5 in the morning. luckily we had the phone...so we called the elders and asked if they had our spare key. they said they had a few so they came over and tried to get in but none of them worked. then our only option was to knock on the neighbors door at 5am to get in the backyard and see if we could break in our back door. so we get in the back and the door is like sealed shut. so the elders are like hanging off the deck to try and open the window! they miraculously get it open and he slides in our window! haha. so that happened. then we hurried and got ready in 15 minutes to go to jamaica. so we get there to the place get in and everything and then they tell her the paper she has doesn't work (this is like the 4th time we've gone). dah!! so we walk back to our car to go to the office to get the original paper. well we get to our car and look whats waiting for us! a nice big fat NYC parking ticket. not to mention...the second one of the week! we just start laughing! so we get to the office get all her stuff and elder bottomfield who works in the office heard about our morning and he says, "well you two sure are happy anyways!" :)  then we went to jenny's for a lesson and lunch! it was delish..peruvian food. :) they came to church and are progressing! they just need to get married dang it. then we go to our street sweep at a park and it ends up us randomly playing basketball with this 12 year old girl. i'm sure she thought we were insane. then we leave to go to our appointment and i was being delirious like usual and was switching lanes and didn't see a huge truck coming and the sides of our cars swipped eachother. we both just scream! haha. oh my gosh..i thought that man was going to rip my head off. but we pull over and i think he could tell we were both freaking out inside and just asked if we were ok. tender mercy!! he was so nice. his truck didn't have much damage but our poor little rosita had a good bruise. then we go to zohars we picked cherries! then we went to our lesson with (s) and (m) and it was SO GOOD. we didn't know (m) was going to be there so i just open my ipad, say a little prayer and just asked heavenly father to please help me know what we should share. testimony of applying what we learn--i turned to ether, which is what i studied like the one time we studied last week ha. and the spirit taught us all so well! we talked about hope and faith. we related our day with hope. even though probably everything went "wrong" we had hope. we stayed positive. we never once felt upset or wanted to quit. and i'm so glad we stayed positive because it just makes everything that much better. so--have HOPE! be positive in every situation, even when its hard! you will be so much happier and so will those around you. sorry this is a novel. our fireside went well on saturday!! anesia got confirmed on sunday--very cool spiritual moment. she is so special. my goals this week...put myself in others shoes before i think say or do anything. i invite you to do the same! everyone is different and has a story. i love you all dearly.