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