Michelle is getting Married

Hello to the fam!

First off BIG SHOUT OUT to my bestest friend in the world Michelle Bonham who is engaged!!! cant believe my best friend is engaged, but im so so happy for her and that she is getting married in the temple. Everyone go to her wedding for me since i wont be there haha.

in other news.

good news this week. We had our short interviews this week with Presidente Spjut. And no need to worry....i found out that President and Hermana Spjut are Utah Ute fans! So Im in good hands ;) GO UTES! haha no but really they are such great people. I found out that hermana spjut also loves dance and theater and she was in the nutcracker several times...so yeah i think we relate really well haha. It was great to meet and talk with them a little. Our interviews were short and just to get to know them a little. But Presidnet Spjut told me something that has helped me a lot this week. I was asking him in my interview how i could be more satisfied with my efforts and the work im doing and how i can have more success as a missionary. He told me the story of when President Eyring was called to be an apostle and how one of the general authorities told him " i can see it in your eyes...you are starting to doubt yourself..." and it really helped me to realize i cant doubt myself. God called me this mission and he trusts in me. This week i really tried to focus on doing my part and when i do my best God makes up the rest. I saw a lot of miracles this week for that. Really it is amazing. This whole week i just tried focusing on doing my part and just being an instrument in His hands. There were some days where i just didnt know how we were going to find new people to teach but somehow we found new people.

Also sunday in the morning we went to pass to bring our investigadores to church and they all had excuses for why they couldnt go or they werent there. So i was a little disappointed walking to church, but i just thought...well ive done my part and i cant do anything else about it...so the whole time walking to the church i just prayed in my heart that in some way the other investigators that we have (that we couldnt pass by their houses) that they could go to the church. And yep, God made up the difference. We had Alvaro Moreno (he is the husband of a member and we are helping him to be baptized in the future but he has to wait a few months) and also an investigator Carlos (who is an older guy) came to church by himself, and then another member brought one of our investigators who are teaching. It really was an answer to my prayers that those three came. They all had great experiences. Also the Familia Martinez (who are less actives) came again this week! this is there second time attending church this month, so i am really really happy for them.

Im really exicted to teach our investigator Carlos. Its super funny because i basically have to yell in the lessons for him to understand me. But he is great. He thinks all of the members of the church are great people. We have been teaching him with a member who lives close in his house. THe member has the pizzaría. Its awesome. I feel like when we work with the members its like on the church website or all of the conference talks when you here about members and missionaries working together. Its great.

Anyways we have cambios not this wednesday but the next...i think next monday i will know if i have cambios or not. Truth is i kind of hope i have cambios because if not i will probably be here for two more cambios because my comp is finishing her mission so if i stay i will be here for two more cambios. But we´ll see what happens.

Also i would just like to tell you i am officially obsessed with chocolate-banana-peanut butter milkshakes. basically how i end every night.

Well i dont really have much to tell you. Im super happy here in the mission. This week was SUPER HOT. didnt rain once. so im hoping for some more rain this week.

Well i love you all so much. Im so grateful for the mission and all of the experiences i have here.

I´ll hear from you all next week!

Hermana Groneman

New Mission President

Hola Familia,

Wow this week went by SUPER quick. I know i always say that, but really it went by super quickly. It was a pretty good week and we have found more people to teach this week.

To start off on Tuesday we had our meeting to welcome Presidente Spjut and Hermana Spjut. It was only with 2 other zones, so it was smaller groups. They are awesome! So nice and so humble and im so excited to learn a lot from them. When they walked in they came and shook hand with each one of us and they are already trying to learn all of our names. When President Spjut read my last name he just stopped and thought for a minute and then he asked, "do your parents live in springville?" haha yep so i guess he knows you...or well he knows that you know his sister dad. Remind me how you know her? she taught you spanish or where did you know her? Anyways im really excited to work with them. I think we are going to have personal interviews with president this week, but we´ll see. We havent seen a ton of changes in the mission but something that he told us that he learned from his training is that now as missionaries we are going to be teaching the lessons from lesson 5 before baptism now. Before we were teaching lesson 5 after baptism...so that will be good. Lesson 5 is a lot about temples, the priesthood, temples, family history, missionary work...so yeah im excited. Also presidente Spjut wants us to start focusing on temples with our investigators from the beginning. That they can see baptism as their ultimate goal. I think that will help a lot.

Well this week we were able to find some new investigators and i am really grateful. Truly it is so hard to find the people. And knocking doors isnt that effective. But this week we have received several refferals from those miembros and im really excited to keep working with these people. There is a member who lives in our boundaries but assist another ward but he has been super helpful. He has a pizzaria called Pizza Helaman. its great. But he has invited his neighbors to come to his house, we chat for a little and share pizza, and then after we share a message. its been great. Im SO grateful for the members who help us in this work. It is not easy to find people and the truth is we NEED the members.

We have a few investigators but they dont have baptismal dates yet. They are newer investigators. We are teaching a 19 year old and this week we watched the joseph smith movie with him and he said at the end when josephs dad is baptized he got the chills. Afterwards we knelt and had him say a prayer. But he prayed in silence...so we dont really know what he said....but it was thee longest prayer ever haha and after he sat their for a long time just thinking and such. He said after that he feels calm and everything...but he still isnt completely sure. I think he knows its true but he is just doubting but his whole family has always been catholic. But we are going to work more with him to recognize his answer. he is just a little shy but he is great. The only thing is he doesnt like to wake up on sunday early...So sunday we went to pass for him at his house but no one was awake in his house so no one answered the door. But we´ll keep working with him.

Also we are working with the husband of one of the members. He wanted to be baptized before and had an interview with the mission president but because of things in his past he has to wait several months and has to assist church regularly. Before he wasnt really motivated to do it but he has had a great change and we are visiting him once a week. We are trying to help him become like a member while he is waiting for the opportunity to be baptized. He probably wont be able to baptized until december...but it doesnt matter if im here or not for the baptism, we are here to work and invite others to christ and im grateful for the opportunity to work with this family.

Anyways It was weird that the other day was the 4th of July. Time is flying! its super crazy, but im glad that you all enjoyed it. I hope you are all enjoying summertime.

Dad im really excited to read your history when i get back, that is really neat.

I hope all is well and i love you all so much!

Until next week,

Hermana Groneman