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Week 42

Another week done✅
Here's a little summary of the week:
I don't know if I've talked about Wilow very much, but she is a super sweet girl who we have been teaching for my whole time here with no progress (at least that we saw outwardly). She has been taught since 2018 and her brother got baptized, but every time we brought up baptism with her it usually got awkward or you could tell she was uninterested. So we decided to just watch a conference talk with their family and her instead of trying to teach a lesson. We watched "I love to see the temple" by Henry B Eyring and afterwards we were talking about the temple and randomly Wilow blurts, "I've been thinking a lot about baptism. Can I be baptized now?" Bruh my eyes went so wide cuz it caught me off guard. I was STUNNED. Y'all don't understand how much I love this girl even tho she has been slow to progress. It made my heart so happy and I am excited for this baptism!! 

We also had a really good lesson with our friend named Brian. Pray for him that he can feel organized enough to "add church" into his life. That's kinda the barrier he's running into and it's hard to just promise him blessings because it requires a lot of faith in his part. But he is awesome! He has a lot of potential and he has been on date for baptism before! 

We did a lot of yardwork this week and it was AWESOME. It felt really good to be outside. The weather is so nice this time of year and yardwork literally makes me so happy (which has never happened before haha, don't expect it to stick mom). 

This week I've just been focusing on living in the moment. I've tried to enjoy every little thing even when things aren't going my way. It's makes the hard things easier cuz I am always finding something out of the experience that is good. It's a lot easier said than done, but my time here is too short to not enjoy it!!

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