Trust in the Lord and Go and Do

Hey! 

I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had the chance to have dinner with a family in our ward, along with the Elders, together. It was pretty fun!

Favorite Miracle:

Until recently, most of us were advised to do some of our studies at night since it isn't necessarily the safest thing ever to be out in the dark in some of the areas of our mission (ie, Compton). However, just last week there was a change in missions on the West Coast to allow us to spend all of our time from 5-9pm out finding and teaching people. At first some of us were a little skeptical about the details of the change and the ability to find people (safely) when it's super dark outside. But we have seen so many little miracles from it already! Just since Monday, we have talked to Giovanne, Gary, Simon, Jorge, Zach, Larissa, Karl, Trevor, and Dariya all after dark, most of which were on the streets between walking to people who we were stopping by. And those are just the ones whose names I remember, who we were able to invite to do something. It has been super cool to have more freedom to allow us to actually be out when people are home from work! People have actually been commenting on it, asking why we're out so late, and we just tell them that we know we have the Lord on our side, and that He protects us when we do what He asks of us.

Favorite Spiritual Moment:

This was more of a spiritual comment than anything else, but our landlord randomly showed up last week to measure the window in our bathroom so they can do some repairs, and she said something I thought was really cool. We live in kind of a sketchier part of our area (sorry Mom ; ), and the landlord was talking about how the apartment itself didn't use to have all that great of people in it. Earlier, she had talked about how she never knew who was going to be in our apartment because we move around so much as missionaries, but she seemed to be fine with it, and I guess this comment explained why. She said something like "ever since you guys (meaning all the missionaries who have lived in this apartment) showed up, you've just shined your spotlight of goodness on us all and made us do the right thing." It was kind of cool to hear. She's not a member, and I just thought it was awesome that she recognized that the Spirit was here in her complex, even if she didn't know what it was.

Other Stuff:

You know you're in Hollywood when David Archuleta randomly shows up at your sacrament meeting to sing a musical number. Yep. That happened yesterday. ; ) 

Wishing everyone the best,

Love,

Sister Garfield

There are Lots of pictures this week (yay! since we didn't get any last week!)

This one's for you, Mom. ; )

This statue was so freaking cool! Perks of living near Hollywood Blvd

Cool Sunset from all the smoke in the air ;-)

Sister Howard getting ready to face-down

Facing down...

Oh dang. ; )

We had a Sisters conference this week, where I ran into Hermana Wood! She is in my stake! She just got moved here from a mission in Mexico.

Us with Olga, a Russian member of our ward

Back to bike life? No, thank heavens. ; ) 

Us with Soffia, a Ukrainian girl were trying to teach, at the Thanksgiving party

Some of the weirdest ice cream I've ever had.

Some of the weirdest ice cream I've ever had

There are so many Russians that hang out in a park in our area. This is Raya.

This one deserves a funny caption, but I don't even know what to say we were doing. ; )

That's better. ; ) 

It's a freaking addiction, guys. ; )

This is why it's so hard to park in LA.