Another Week in the 509 👍

 Hola amigos!

Once again, it's been a pretty crazy week!

We had a miracle yesterday that a Facebook friend wanted to come to church!!!! And it was a bit of insanity with trying to get a translation working and all of that for Spanish at stake conference yesterday, so he was a bit overwhelmed and stressed I think, but also, I definitely know that he could feel something too. So if he can handle crazy stake conference, he'll be so good for church next week. 

We tried to have a normal and natural activity on Saturday, just playing soccer in the park with the youth of the ward and then also the kids we're teaching. And we had lots of members make it sound like they were coming, that their kids were coming, and no one showed up so that's incredibly sad.

We had zone conference this week and Elder Lynn G. Robbins and Elder Ravilio and their wives came and trained us. And I played the piano basically the entire day for that and it was awesome. But they had some great training and it was just so cool to talk about how success is directly related to our live of commitment. And that was a neat concept that I have 100% control over the amount of success I have in my life. But then we took some cute pictures in front of the temple so that's pretty fun!

I hope you have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Blackburn 

Otra vez 👌

 

Holaaaaaa, cómo está????? 

I hope this week has been good for everyone! We've had a bit of a crazy time with our area!!!! 

We went back to 1 hour church yesterday and I really hope that everything is going to get better but we'll have to see 

This week we had exchanges and that was super super fun!!!! Hermana Pulu and Hermana Platt came and chilled with me in SP4 and that was way cool! We had a great time chilling, and we had a fun sleepover where we sang Disney songs and just talked the night away. And that was a really much needed stress release. 

Our recent concert Javier passed the sacrament yesterday and he's doing so good!!!! We are so excited for him to go to the temple soon. 

But I hope you have a great week! I love you all! 

Hermana Blackburn 

Mr. Blue Skies 🎉

 

Holaaaaaaaa!

Well it's been a crazy week but pretty good! We had interviews with President Rasmussen and that was super fun and awesome this week. 

In super duper exciting news, Javier Hernandez my recent convert, got the Aaronic Priesthood yesterday and it was amazing! The ward gifted him some church clothes and it was the first time that I've ever seen him in a clean white shirt and a tie and when he walked in with Hno Woolstenhulme and I about cried tears of pure happiness. He is doing soooooooo good and I'm so very hyped for him. So hopefully he can go to the temple really soon. 

But this week has been super crazy but alsoooooo, the smoke finally went away! We woke up on Friday morning and there was blue skies and it was awesome! So that was really great. I did not realize how much I have missed blue skies until I saw a beautiful sunset for the first time in like 2 weeks. 

Pero, espero que todo vaya bien! 

Hermana Blackburn 

Is the World on Fire? 🔥

Hola a todos! 

So this has been a super crazy week! Hermana Hollingsworth went home this past week and that's been really strange because I spent almost a third of my mission with her so it's felt a bit odd to not have her here with me. 

But I'm also training this transfer and it is super wild and I don't know what what the heck I'm doing! Especially since I only got 3 weeks of actual training so for me to train someone else is super strange. 

SP4 has been super super wild this week with lots of crazy instances. I really have wanted to have my area behave for my new trainee, Hermana Murri, but it's been super super crazy. So that's been fun. 

But yesterday at church, all of the Aguirre family came!!!!!!! And it was so amazing and such a super sweet surprise. And so that was a miracle. 

But also the smoke has been so bad up here and that has been wild. And we also like had a lot of rain this week and it Is Still Bad!!!!!!!! 

But I hope that everything is going well for all of you. I love you all! 

Hermana Blackburn