No title, just lots of pictures instead!

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Hey everybody!
This week was a little weird. We just ended up doing different things than usual, still missionary-work related, but just different. We are working on trying some new finding activities, since knocking hasn't been working lately. Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Favorite Miracle:
Last Sunday, the young women were combined with the relief society, and one of the young women leaders mentioned a few young women (not present) who were struggling. We decided to reach out to those girls and see if there's anything we can do to help them. There are these twins who live at the top of our area that we'd never met, so we planned to stop by them right after a lesson we had up there, but then the lesson fell through. We're a little low on miles right now, but we decided to still go up there. When we got there, the girls weren't home, but the mom was. She has been renovating her house, pretty much by herself, so she can sell it and move to Virginia. She's been so busy that she hasn't made it to church, and she was just a little stressed. But when we stopped by, we offered to help in any way we could, and she just seemed so grateful. It looks like we may be helping put in some floors this week! ; ) It was really cool; she told us that she hadn't prayed in a while, but she had today, and we showed up just a few hours later. I'm really glad we decided to stop by.

Favorite funny thing:
We walked into the gym one morning this week and saw that some guy was in there watching Tom and Jerry. Not that we were deliberately trying to watch the episode, but the treadmill faces the TV, so we picked up some of it. The episode had something to do with Tom singing opera. So Sister Trujillo and I worked out to fancy Italian music this week. ; ) We just looked at each other, looked at the guy watching Tom and Jerry, and just laughed. There wasn't much else we could do. ; )

Other stuff:
Our zone had two baptisms this week: one for this old man who is doesn't have any teeth, in the Spanish ward, and another of this kid who's like 9 or 10, who got to get baptized on the same day as his little brother. It was just really sweet to see these people as their lives were changed. The gospel really is for everyone, old and young. : )

I just want to let you all know that promptings of the Spirit are real things! Pay attention for them. They make a huge difference. Sister Trujillo and I have been trying to recognize them better this week, and we saw some cool miracles because of it!
I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Sister Garfield

PS. I know I didn't put captions on any of the pictures this week, but that's just because there were a lot of them. The sandwiches were from a Sister's activity on P-day where we all got together to celebrate Bastille Day a couple days late. They took forever to make, but they were so good! The pictures of the building with the cool architecture are from this Hindi temple we went to visit afterwards. In Elder Kerr's words, "The LA temple is closed, so we found another one to visit." ; )






















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