The Beginning of the End

 Hola a todos!

So uhhhhhh, this week is transfers so this marks the beginning of my last transfer as a full time missionary and that is super scary and wild to say! Because it also has been 2 years since I was in the online MTC it feels at the same time like it's been a long time coming. 7 weeks left and that is just insanity but I am so excited to keep working hard and finish strong! For transfers, nothing is happening to our companionship, Hna Bradley and I will be staying together. But there is a lot that is changing in the mission, lots of areas getting doubled out. On the Kennewick side, they combined my old area of SP4, where I was last year at this time, with SP2 and they're putting elderes there! So that'll be super interesting. We really do live in exciting times. :)

This week we saw huge miracles with finding people! We have been trying our best to find people and we've talked to a lot of people but they've just cycled out of interest and we've never been able to meet with them again or they really haven't been interested. But this week we found a new amazing family that is sooooooooooo cool! Esmeralda and Manuel are the parents and they have 2 little boys and a daughter named Priscila who is super sweet and is in middle school. They let us come by and meet with them 2 days in a row after we met them this past week, Thursday and Friday. And then on Saturday they came to the Father's Day fiesta with the whole ward! It was so awesome and they just fit in immediately with the ward and everyone was so excited to see them and they had a good time. Esmeralda and Manuel had to work yesterday because they couldn't get it off because we had literally only met them like 3 days before, but they said that they're going to come next week which is sooooooooo exciting! They're such a cool family and I love them so much!

But that's about it for this week! I want to share a really cool quote I found this week that changed my perspective a bit on the power of the Gift of the Holy Ghost:

"I have had visions, I have had revelations, I have seen angels, but the greatest of all is that still, small voice." -President Wilford Woodruff

And that shifted my perspective a little bit to think that even greater than all these physical manifestations of divine intervention and power, the companionship of the Holy Ghost is the greatest miracle of them all. I have definitely seen how if we strive to Hear Him more, we will receive guidance and power in our lives.

Love you all! Have an amazing week!

Hermana Blackburn 

Chaos Continues

 Hola a todos!

I am currently typing this email out without the use of my left pinky finger and that's a little inconvenient but I'm making it work! Update: I don't need surgery for my finger so all is well! They're saying 6 weeks or so in a splint and it should be back to normal. So that's super exciting!

But this week we have had a lot of stuff happen so I'll try to give you all an update: We had zone conference up in Walla Walla which was super fun! We got to drive up by my old area and spend the day up in the mountains with the trees. But also it made me really sad because this is the last zone conference with president and sister Rasmussen before they go home at the end of June. So there were a lot of tears shed as I tried to keep my sadness under control. But the new mission president and his wife are going to do so good, I'm just super sad to see them go. 

Also, currently here in the Tri City Spanish Zone I am serving as an STL again but this past week my STL partner went home due to some illness very suddenly. So it was sad to see her go as well and now I am STL-ing it on my own trying to keep everything under control as we've dealt with emergency transfers and things like that. So things are getting a bit wrecked but all is good.

This week we have also had a lot of rain!!!! Which is very abnormal for this time of year. Summer hasn't quite arrived yet. So we went out tracting yesterday and literally water was dripping off my nose. But we're vibing up here in the 509! 

This week is going to be Hermana Bradley's last week of training so that is super exciting for her. She already knows everything, I feel as though I haven't had to do a whole lot to help her out. So we'll get transfer news next monday and see what happens. But we are still just working really hard to find people here in East Pasco and not having too much luck yet but that just means that there are huge milagros on the horizon.

Love you all! Espero que todo vaya bien durante esta semana! 

Con amor,

Hermana Blackburn

Pasco Vibes 💕

 Hola a todos,

So this week has been pretty normal actually!!! So this email is gonna be pretty short because nothing super crazy happened. We just have been grinding out in the streets trying to figure out this whole new area we're opening. We found some cool spots we're gonna go back and knock so that's exciting. 

I went on an exchange this week with Hna Johnson and she is so sweet! She is really good at talking to everyone and we had some cool experiences that came from really trying to seek inspiration and go where the Lord wanted us to go. And then we ended up talking to some cool people and they're gonna go back and hopefully start teaching them! There is so much power from trusting in the Lord and asking how He wants us to do His work instead of just doing it the way we think we should. Because He truly does know better than we do. 

Now, I was just kidding about there being nothing crazy. So sorry, but it wouldn't be a true Hna Blackburn week if something didn't happen. The something just happened today so it took its sweet time. I was playing sports this morning and messed my left pinky finger up pretty good. We went to the hospital and we literally just got the news that I fractured a bone in my pinky finger so that's fun! So there will probably be more news on how that all goes next week. But don't worry, we know what it is now and all will be well. 

I hope you all have an amazing week! 

Con todo mi amor, 

Hermana Blackburn