A Mighty Change of Heart

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Hey everybody!
I hope that you all have had a good week! Ours wasn't too out of the ordinary, but it was still a pretty good one. 

Favorite Spiritual Moment:
For this person's privacy, I'm not going to say exactly who this was, but one of our recent converts broke down in front of us the other day because she's really struggling with a member of her family who she just wants to help, but she doesn't know what to do. Now, that sounds really depressing, and we did what we could to help her figure out the situation, but the cool part was how much light she had with her throughout this whole experience. When she was telling us about what was going on, it was really interesting, because we could just see her soul aching for this family member, because she knows how much the gospel has blessed her and helped her with the same problem the family member is going through, and she just wants to help them to have the same blessings. I thought back to when I first met her and she was learning about the gospel. She was a pretty good person then, but it has been amazing to see how her countenance has truly changed since getting baptized. Sometimes she looks like a completely different person, and she just glows with the Spirit. She wants to serve a mission someday, and I know she'll do an amazing job. She is going to help so many people. She literally just glows with the Spirit, and it is so amazing to see how the gospel has changed her life. It's one of my favorite things about being a missionary, to see people truly have a change of heart. I love this gospel so much.

Favorite Service Opportunity:
We got to take part in a double-zone service opportunity this weekend with the Granada Hills Zone! There is a large house in Chatsworth that is being converted into a shelter for up to 13 homeless families. We got to go help get it ready to open in a couple of weeks, and it was a lot of fun. It was mostly just cleaning up dust from construction and picking up a bunch of leaves outside, but it was so cool to see how the people running it were so grateful for our help. The man in charge asked us to pray with him before we started, and one of the Granada Hills Zone Leaders said the prayer. It is so amazing to see how united people can be with the Lord on their side.

I hope everybody has such a great week! Keep smiling, keep praying, and trust in the Lord.
Love,
Sister Garfield



Apparently on the 31st of every month that has a 31st, Baskin Robbins has a half off sale. Who knew?

A funny thing I saw on exchanges with Sister Wood this week

This one's for my mom, haha.

Members of the Granada Hills and Canoga Park Zones getting ready to go serve

Everybody at the end of the service project. I think we had 5 different languages in the group: English, ASL, Korean, Spanish, and Chinese. 

Working hard or hardly working? ; )


A few more pictures from last week......

One of the few meals we got to eat last week. ; )

The District: Elder Costello, Hermana Proteau, Hermana Giles, Sister Jarvis, me, and Elder Meraz

Con las Hermanas

Comp picture

Armed and ready to take on the Hermanas' spider. ; )

"Wait, we were taking a picture?" ; ) 

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