Amy's Adventures in Ventura: In the middle

Went to the Gonzalez's for wheat to say goodbye, alexis balled and then I cried on the way home haha. Gonna miss her

My new comp is hermana stubbs (more on her later) we re-taught biranida the word of wisdom and she said she feels like God's been preparing her bc lately she hasnt even wanted coffee and she used to be obsessed. She said she'd even dumped all her coffee stuff in the trash! She was so proud of herself and i was so hapyyy.

Met the new mission president and his wife the Rodriguez's, they sacraficed a lot to come be our mission leaders and I feel like me and them gonna be besties

One day 3 different drunk dudes tried to hug us and there was also a homeless lady sitting at the park having a full on night show by herself. She was actually spitting facts

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HSSvQba5UfmVEo5z7

Then we talked with this other lady at the park and she was like "that girl's got demons" then she held our hands and said a very loud prayer for us in the middle of the park lol.

Hna stubbs my new comp- basically her personality is spanish and is amazing at it, so she's also one of the few in the mish learning mixteco. (A dialect from two Mexican towns- Gorrero and Oaxaca and for some reason they all live here in Paso. Sounds like chinese.) She's a rule follower and very fastpaced, 2 things that have been hard to adjust to.

So ngl it's been tough the past couple weeks. Being with a superr diligent missionary whose spanish is near perfect has left me feeling idequate with my spanish and my teaching abilities. I've also felt like im not as faithful to the savior as i should be as a missionary. Comparison is tHe thEif oF jOy

Have you ever noticed that when ppl talk about their trials they tend to focus on what happened at the end or how it all worked out? That's not me yet tho im still in the middle of figuring it out, it's still hard for me to see my growth. All i do know is times like being on my knees in the bathroom praying for help is what brings me closer to the Savior, not being content.

So if you're in the "middle" of a trial and haven't gotten to the part where you've figured it out, that's ok and literally the only way the Savior becomes real to us. We finally say ok I can't do any of this on my own, Heavenly Father I need your help.

Later on I found out me and Stubbs share a love for potty humor! That's made us closer so thank you heavenly Father for giving me the humor of a 5 yr old

Hugs and kisses

-hermana jermaine

Pics

-mexican jello- took me back to kaleens dinners in elementary school