HAPPY EASTER! 

Hey family, hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! Ours was great here in Rialto. We were able to get into quite a few houses and share lots of messages about the Savior and His resurrection. This week, because of Easter, I made it a goal to spend part of my personal study every morning studying about the Savior. Although all the lessons are centered on the Savior and He is the center of our message, I wanted to go beyond His Atonement and Resurrection. I wanted to learn more about His life and who He was as a person. I spent a lot of time with the scriptures that our mission president sent us last week and I read quite a bit in Jesus the Christ. I feel like I now have a better idea of who Jesus Christ really was and I know more about His nature. I have come to know and love Him more and that alone has made me love missionary work more. With this greater understanding of the Savior I am more motivated and excited to go out and share His gospel. I still have a lot to learn but I am so grateful for this start of learning of our Redeemer and I really received a greater witness of Him through the Holy Ghost this week.

 

This week was probably my most successful week of my whole mission so far! Which is good because the last week was pretty hard. I've come to notice that when things get really hard and I start doubting myself and questioning if we'll ever have any success, that's when we're about to see some miracles! This week we had the most lessons we've ever had in this area and one of our investigators committed to be baptized in a few weeks. I'm so excited and have faith that we're going to start seeing the fruits of our labors! We just have to remember that when things don't look very promising or when we feel discouraged, we have to have faith and just hang in there. Keep working for those blessings!

 

We did some service for our investigator Joseph on Saturday. We and two of the elders and some members came and helped him fix up his yard. I was blowing dirt out of my nose for two days afterwards but it was worth it- he was so happy to see us and the members there ready and willing to help. He appreciated it a lot! I'll attach the picture we took after service. Also this week we helped a family catch some mice. They got mice in their kitchen and the wife is scared to go in there, well I guess we didn't really help but we were excited with the husband when we found out his traps worked! One day this week we're going over to help her clean out all the cabinets because she doesn't want to do it by herself. So that should be interesting!

It's what we're here for - to help :)

 

Yesterday we had dinner with one of the members and they gave us pepperoni pizza. Well they told us that the way they eat it is with jalapenos on it! So they put them on the table and said we could try it if we wanted but we didn't have to. Guys, I didn't know what I was missing! I put a jalapeno on every single bite I took, so good! I'll never be able to eat pizza the same. The mission and the dinners that the members give us are really changing my tastes. I can hardly eat anything without some salsa on it anymore. I am very lucky because being here in Californina I've gotten to try a lot of different kinds of food. I have had food from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico... yum! The other day a member invited us over for breakfast and she made us a traditional breakfast from El Salvador. It was so good!

 

Love and miss you all so much!

 

Love,

Your California Girl

Hermana Granado