Hey everyone!

Hope you all had great weeks! Your emails all sounded like you did. Haha it never ceases to amaze me the crazy things you all do. I didn't realize how spontaneous and just how crazy my family and friends are until i was reading it from the outside haha. I love it!

My week was pretty good :)

On Monday I went to good will and got a new skirt :) anyone looking for long skirts, goodwill is the place to go. At least in southern California. Between me and my companion and on other companion, i think we bought 7 skirts? haha it was great :)

On Tuesday was a typical day of visiting people and knocking on doors haha. Thursday was pretty much like that too.

Wednesday was really good. I was on exchanges with a Sister from Tennessee, and we got to teach a new investigator! I LOVE teaching! haha it is so cool to help people understand the gospel and just what it means in their life. I love seeing when it finally clicks for people and they realize the hope that comes with the gospel. It definitely my favorite part of my mission.

Friday I was on exchanges again and it was a really great day. The night before we were planning for the day and i felt so bad because i was having a complete blank on people we could visit. So we planned the best we could and just said a prayer that we would be prompted to just be where we needed to be. As we were going out the next morning we were driving around and just doing our best to find places (our GPS broke so now we use like 7 pages worth of maps) when i recognized some street that i had only ever been to once. I remembered that a former investigator lived there, So we flipped a u-turn and went down it. Her dad had told us to only come after 5:00, but we figured we might as well try. When we knocked on the door, a little Spanish woman came up and we asked for Selia. She got really confused and just walked away. She didn't close the door all the way though so we weren't sure if we should leave. SO we waited about 3 minutes at their door contemplating leaving when the girl showed up! and we set a return appointment with her and she told us she has been wanting to go to church! i t was a miracle! :)

Then Saturday was the BEST!

We went and taught Selia from the day before and she was awesome! Sadly she has a baby though so we are passing her off to Spanish missionaries in the family wards, but it was still so exciting, she was so happy to hear how the gospel would help her :) And after....Our ward had a LUAU! it was sooooo cool. Our ward has a lot of Polynesian people so they put on this huge luau, it had soooo much food, and it was so good haha and it was so pretty, and they had Polynesian dancing. It was awesome. And it was really cool because lots of people brought their friends so it was really great :) Ill have to add picture next week when i get some from the people in our ward.

and lastly Sunday. We had a really great Sunday. AT one point, we were waiting for church to start, and we were passing out the programs when this guy Gabe came over and gave everyone around me and Sister cook hugs. Then Gabe started walking towards me with his arms wide open, about to hug me. I PANICKED haha i like freaked out and just stood up super straight and right before he hugged me he BUSTED up laughing. He just wanted to freak me out and he succeeded haha. But then the rest of the day he kept telling our ward about it and people kept doing the same thing to freak me out. It was horrible....But pretty funny too. haha

Anyways that was my week :) i love and miss you alll soooooooo much!

Hope your next week is good :)

Love Sister Rebecca Redd