I love my mission!

Hi! Transfers
were good! My new companion is Hermana Townley, she is pretty great. She
trained Hermana Child who came out with me so I already knew her pretty well!
We get a long really well which is awesome. We have a lot of the same ideas of
missionary work, and she's pretty easy to work with. We have a really great
area! I love it because pretty much everyone here is Hispanic, which is such a
blessing considering my last area was so hard to find people to teach. We found
4 new investigators this week and have so many potentials that it's hard to
keep track of them all. My Spanish is going to improve a lot! I just
feel so blessed!  Also it may just be best if you sent packages to the
mission office, at least while I am in this area. I will get them pretty easily
because our zone leaders live in the area of the mission office,
so they can bring them to me every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Our
apartment complex is a little sketchy, so I don't really know if it would be
best to send them there. But any letters are good! Thank you so much for
everything! You really didn't have to get me that much, honestly I keep
forgetting that it's my birthday this week because of how busy we are. Thanks
for everything though! You do so much for me and I am so grateful for that!




This week has
been a lot of fun! Its crazy busy here, so at times it's even a struggle to get
in all of our personal and companionship study. We have lots of great service
opportunities too. Each Thursday, we get to go help out at the food bank. It's
really awesome, because we get to meet so many people.  Plus it's a great reminder of how blessed I
am to have so much. I also like it because we get free food too, and they get
upset if we don't take anything. A few members from out ward work there too, so
I got to know them a little. Then we also have service with Joe every Saturday.
He is in charge of keeping the community clean. Anyways all of the Spanish
missionaries serving in the west or south sides of Tucson go to that, so I have
been going to that since I got to Tucson besides last transfer when I was on
the east side. I gave him a book of Mormon this past week. One of the elders I
serve around is from Nephi, Utah and Joe was asking where that name came from,
and I said you clearly just need to read the Book of Mormon! So then he asked
us to go get him one, and we showed him how Nephi is one of the first words in
1st Nephi 1. Then he had all the missionaries sign it, and told us he will
actually read it this time. He has been taught before and has tons of them, but
hopefully each time we give him one he gets more and more of it.




Tuesday was
great because I got to meet our new investigator Ana. She is super sweet. She
at first seemed pretty set in her ways, but as we've taught her she has had an
increased desire to learn. Hopefully tomorrow we can set a baptism date with
her and her husband Manuel!




Thursday was
insane because we were able to bring a member out with us. Most of the members
here are kind of older, so we ended up bringing out Hermana Quijada. She is
super sweet and willing to come out with us which is awesome! Especially
because we ended up having to knock a bunch around this neighborhood while
trying to find a potential in the pooring rain. The best part is that Hermana
Quijada has to use a cane. So there we are out in the middle of a monsoon
knocking doors with this little old lady. She was totally all for it though!




Another
blessing about this area is there is a lot more member trust here, so we
already are getting a bunch of referrals. I think we got 3 or 4 just this week
which is a miracle because usually it takes me a whole transfer before we just
start getting referrals just given to us from members. I really love it here!







Sunday was
really great too. After church we were planning on visiting some potentials and
investigators, but our plans fell through because no one was home and the
member we had been planning to take out with us couldn't until after 6. We ended
up trying one of the less actives that we wanted to go see later that night. We
had been planning on asking her for a referral because she didn't seem all too
interested in returning to church, but we shared the restoration with her and
she had such a strong testimony of it! She just really opened up to us and now
we are helping her get back to church. I really felt like God sent us there
right then for a reason. Then it ended up working out perfectly because we were
able to visit Ana and Manuel with the member we had brought out with us. 
We also had dinner with the Cardenas family last night. It's funny because
Hermana Cardenas reminds we a lot of you mom. I think partially because she is
a seminary teacher here, but also because she just is always looking for ways
to help others, and she is so excited about helping people learn about the
Gospel. 




This week we
had to teach gospel principles on the final judgment. The thing that I think
stood out to me most is that we will be judged for our thoughts, words, and
deed which is kinda scary because I feel like I make a lot of mistakes, but I
think the beautiful thing about the atonement is that we can repent daily. God
truly wants us to return to Him. All we have to do is continually strive to be
better and luckily for us we can try again over and over. I am just so grateful
for that amazing gift :).




I hope you
all have an amazing week! Thanks again for everything! Also thanks for emailing
me.




Con amor,

Hermana Burgoyne