If you don't have the bread of life, Your toast!!!

Hola!

Did you know that there is only 128 days left till Christmas... Yep I'm counting. :) So I decided the subjects of my emails will now be some of the fun church signs we see down here :) I've started to collect them. Some of them are pretty clever! Life has been great here in good ol' Huntsville! I am just extremely grateful to have the opportunity to work here in the Spanish Branch. It really is a blessing considering there are only 3 spanish branches in all of Alabama and I, out of hundreds of missionaries, get to serve here :) Que bendicion! The branch is so great. I have never seen a set of stronger members than in the Spanish branches. They have a lot going against them and yet they still stick it out because they know the truth. LOVE THEM! I am hoping and praying that I don't get transferred from this area! The members are just to great :)

Well... Let's see what happened this week. We went on three exchanges. It's our last three exchange week for the transfer. Woot! I love the sisters, but moving around that much just wears you out! And I'm already exhausted as it is! :) We went to Athens, Madison, and Guntersville this week. All are beautiful places! Guntersville is probably my favorite though since it's right next to the lake. All the sister are AMAZING! I swear, I don't know why they have me as Sister Training Leader, these sisters could kick me out of the baptismal font ;) Of course there is the occasional correction that needs to be given. Which by the way... I stink at. But! I am getting better! I loved Brayden's article he sent last week on Leadership. That definitely helped me a lot. I guess I just have this notion in my head that if I correct the sisters, I'll be the bad guy. Which may be true for some of them. Some of them pretty much beg me to tell them what they can do better. Those are always the easier ones to work with :) Most of the time we hardly ever need to correct anyone, but I usually make Hermana Hazelgren do it when they do come up. I'm a pansy :) Oh well, Christ makes weak things stronger.

We met an amazing investigator this week. Her name is Juanita and we met her outside her apartment last week and we stopped by last monday to talk to her a bit. She is pretty intelligent which is always a relief. She recognizes the spirit so easily it is amazing. In our first couple of minutes together she recognized us as representatives of Christ and really opened up. We came by with a member later that week, Hermana Lopez (presidents wife) and turns out that they have a mutual friend! And their daughters know eachother. Small world. It's amazing how the Lord is really micromanaging every aspect of his work :) Anyways, we had a great lesson, she accepted a baptismal date AND... she didn't come to church and we can't get a hold of her... Sad day. We are not quite sure what happened, but we are determined to keep stopping by until she opens the door.

OH! Ariel got baptized last week! The lady we found at Steak and Shake. I didn't get to go because I was on exchanges, but Hermana Hazelgren got to go. They said when she got in the font, she started going down into the water before anything was said. Haha. She is amazing. I am so grateful I have been able to see this miracle take place and her life change. I expect great things from this one :)

We had a less than great week this week... For some reason we just had a hard week teaching people. Our numbers were pathetic. It was good though because I have been praying for more dilligence and this week has made me take a step back and really discern where we can improve. Sometimes it takes us being kicked to the bottom to realize we got some work to do :) But this week will be better! It's a bit discouraging though... it makes you feel like a failure as a missionary. I have a lot of work to do that's for sure. You can't let yourself get discouraged though, or your performance gets worse. So I'm trying to look towards the positive. It's hard trying to be the example sometimes. I guess that's where Christ comes in though. We can't do any of this without him anyways.

Happy anniversary mom and dad! I hope you do something fun and get away from the kids for a while. (And going to Costco is not a date!!) Do something nice :) Tell all of the kids I love them. Give 'em big hugs and kisses from me :) Sure do miss them. And good work on the missionary work! I'm so proud :') Keep up the good work! I'll be praying for you!

Thanks everyone for the Love and support and prayers!!! Love you all mucho!

Love, Hermana Masey