Amy's Adventures in Ventura: Shoutout Zach Bryan

with Rodrigo

We showed Martin that he's completed 100% of the lessons. Buuut brotha still wants to learn more- he's a curious fella and has questions about if angles come from UFOs and stuff.

Had a sweet moment of driving back from getting frostys during the sunset whilst "something in the orange" was playing by Zach Bryan. It's the little things

Sometimes I like to keep water in my cheeks before I swallow idk Im tism and one time i got in the car and started laughing and the water burst out- I swear it quadrupled as it came out bc from my waist down my dress was soaked. We were going finding right after that and all the latinos were like ayo.. did you have an acidente jajaj?

Sunday had 6 hours at the church- english ward, spanish branch, branch meeting, and then we had our first trial of night church! Weve been working our booty off texting everyone in our area book, making tons of calls, handing out cards, and putting posters up around town. We had sooo much faith.

2 people came- Martin who came to the branch earlier in the day, and Marcelino who's.. kinda clueless. He wanders the streets a lot. It was kinda a joke lol. But its ok bc brother Murray gave a talk about preisthood and Martin totally needed to hear it.

Tuesday we helped 2 sets of elders move to new apartments. The senior housing missionaries helped and they're too good. Sister Weatherford has so much joy and gratitute she literally can't contain it and when we got done Elder Weatherford told us how amazing we were and it just kinda hit our hearts yk? They go home next month so we're gonna miss them

This week on Roami and Jerman

- we collabed and drew every single my little pony

- she now calls me her "butla"

- we finished her narwhal bird house to enter into the midstate fair

- she asked me if we gonna be best friends forever, yes roami we will

- oh also Alexis threatened to spank me i think im spending too much time with those children

Spiritual

We had a couple lessons with Biranida who was on date at some point in Oxnard then moved up here. She lives in this hot tiny trailer with 3 kids and her youngest daughter was born with a rare condition which is what turned her to God in the first place.

Her story reminded me of a hopes work video I watched this week. Why does God give us hard times, trials, dissabilities, scars, anxiety, and mess ups? Well maybe he needs us to have them for some reason. Maybe it's so we can always remember Him. Maybe His atonement wouldn't have meant much as much. So when we have those things in life that you're just like ugh why?? Those are oppurtunites to turn to Him. And when we turn to Him it doesn't mean He'll heal our scars and pains, but He will give us the strength to deal with them and CONVERT them into something even better.

It's also interesting to think about why He didn't heal His own scars.