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Week 53

It was a busy busy week, but it made the time fly!
Last Tuesday I hit my 1 year!!! 🥳 It was such a good day and we went out to eat, and God was good to me... the restaurant TV  was playing tennis, and I got to see Nadal's beautiful face🫠 and then one of my favorite songs came on in the restaurant too!! It was too good to be true lolll. As a missionary you come to appreciate the little things so much more. We also had an amazing lesson with our friends Jenny and Roel. Jenny wants to be baptized, but she is praying about a date. So please pray for her that she can hold on to that desire! 

Also, side note, our apartment has an unreal roach infestation. Like bad. We kill about 15 baby roaches with our fingers a day. Big roaches are always all over our counters, in our bathrooms, everywhere in the pantry and drawers. Even in the microwave. The only place I haven't seen them is in the fridge, so that's good! I'm so used to them that I kill them with my fingers now. But it's the whole building that's infested, not just our apartment... So there's nothing we can do 😗✌️

 As for the rest of the week, we had MLC (mission leadership council) and we talked about the data in our mission and how we can flip it, cuz it's not looking too good. It was kind of a stressful meeting to be in and i felt pretty overwhelmed afterwards. But I'm still gonna try and be the best leader I can be without feeling like I have to change the entire mission.
I also had an overnight exchange in knoxville and we met the coolest guy  amed bryan. We started talking to him while he was working on his car and at first he wasn't interested, but then he started expressing some really good questions he had about God. Turns out, there was something that he has been wrestling with for over 2 years that has taken joy out of his life, and I had almost the exact same thing happen to me. I shared my experience with him and how I overcame it with the gospel and christ, and he was intrigued. It was cool how God sent me 2 hours away to Knoxville, for one day, in that area, in that neighborhood, down that street, while he was working outside, just so we could meet because my story matched his. God is a very smart fella and that was a mini testimony builder for me that God is in the details.

Then the next day I had another exchange about an hour away in Athens. I spent the day with sister griffiths (from Mapleton UT😁) and we had a lot of fun. She is such a hard worker and deals with anything that is thrown at her. I still want to be her companion:)
I'm loving life rn and I love sister Stevens! She is such a fun companion and always had good intentions with every little thing she does  and I am always happy when I'm around her! Thank the lord Jesus above, I'm so blessed (that's how you say you are grateful here).

I am looking forward to another week to work hard with sister Stevens! I can't say it enough, she is the BEST. Life is good and God is great🥰

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