Life is Great :) September 26, 2016

I am so grateful to be a missionary! God has shown us so many amazing miracles this week! We of course had a great time at Zone Conference. Our leaders are very inspired.

I of course had to bare my testimony because this is my last transfer which did not go well. I was crying so hard that I'm positive they had no Idea what I was saying. I probably sounded like Dory off of Finding Nemo when she is attempting to communicate with the wale. Owe well, at least they felt how much I love being a missionary. And how lucky all of them are that they get to be a missionary for however long they have left. I hope every missionary is using their time wisely because it is short. Jacob 7:28. It goes like a dream. Literally.

But man, our investigators are doing great. One of our investigators is getting baptized on the 29th but he is progressing so well so we are going to move it forward a couple weeks. He is awesome!! He prayed about the Prophet Joseph Smith and he received an answer in a way I have never heard of. He said that he was woken up by someone @ 3 am in the morning and he is pretty sure it was his mother who has past away. He says that he felt so good and that Joseph was truly called as a prophet. We know and he knows that his family is helping him on the other side to come to know the truth! We explained that we can do his family names in the Temple and what an amazing day that will be:) We taught him about the Word of Wisdom at the Wright's home last night and he has fully committed to give up Chewing Tobacco (which is not easy.) and to give up drinking Tea. He has no problems with the other ones. He is so committed! He has told all of his family about his baptism and he is really excited. He thanks us every lesson for helping him to change his life. But its not us, it is Our Heavenly Father:) What a miracle it is to see this change in him. We tell others about His baptismal date and its a small town so everyone knows who he is and they are all shocked! He used to be a Saul. He was very angry at God but he has totally changed his life around! He has an amazing and tear jerking story and he is going to be such a great member of Christ's Church. we am so excited for him!

Oh and we have to take a break teaching Darvy because he needs to work some things out with his family but then we will get to start teaching him again:) He is still working to finish the Book of Mormon. Something has been trying to keep him from reading and he can feel it.

We have some other people and Families that we are working with whom a member referred us too. Miracles come when you work with members in the missionary work. Its not the members helping the missionaries with the work its the Missionaries helping the members with their missionary work! That's how God has made it to be and when you do it his way, it works out a whole lot better:) We are so excited to continue to help the Dalhart Branch!

We love our amazing family that is here.

One thing that Heavenly Father has done for me while I have been on a mission is that He has helped me to receive Spiritual Eyesight. It is something that has changed everything that I can see! And has helped me to see a whole new miraculous perspective on things. I feel as though when I entered into the field, Heavenly Father placed some glasses on my eyes that have taught me how to recognize the spirit and to follow his guidance. I will never take off these spiritual Glasses. Matt. 13:16
"Those who have felt the touch of the masters hand somehow can not explain the change which comes into their lives." -Thomas S. Monson

Chao and love you ALL,

Hermana Russell

It took Tracy (who is getting baptized the 29th) 8 hours to make this and he gave it to us. He is so awesome!

The Rojas's cut our hair! Mine was getting bad. They are the cutest little Mexican family:)