every missionary in the whole world is losing their mind + psych + maira

In other news, I met the cutest ever old Hindi woman the other day who actually had good English, and as we finished our conversation she got real close to me and said "You give me good energy." and I was the happiest Hermana because really that's all we're trying to do!!!!!!!!!!!!! And also help people get closer to God and find salvation and such. It's a process.

Lots of little things happened this week, including finding Abriana, golden investigator, and Gema POR FIN setting a baptismal date for March! But to be perfectly honest all I want to do is tell you about Maira.

SHE IS THE GREATEST IN ALL OF EVER.

Mairi is from Colombia, she's 20, and we are absolute homies now. She somehow met, like, all of the elders in the zone at the mall one day I think, and they invited her to our Noche Internacional back in November. I met her there, we hit it off, but I hadn't seen her since because the elders were teaching her. Yesterday she walked into church, and I died a little bit. We sat together and somehow got on the topic of temples, and lo and behold she says to me, "Oh yeah, I actually went to the Saint George temple a couple weeks ago". And I died, again. 

So for those of you who are wondering how a non-member, Colombian-Canadian ended up at the Saint George temple in Utah, let me explain.

Long story short she met a cute Mormon boy at a tournament in Vegas a couple months ago, they've been in touch ever since and she went down to Saint George to visit him  where he lives! Sorry if this doesn't make any grammatical sense, time crunch as always. ANYWAYS they were up on some mountain top (probably Dixie Rock lol), and she saw the temple, recognized it, and was like, "Hey, I want you to take me to the temple." This poor boy was probably so bewildered. But, they went, and she met a darling little old man outside the temple who talked to her about God and all kinds of lovely, important, wonderful things and she had feelings that she had never come across before and she got on the plane to come home knowing that she needed to give some more time and effort and energy to God and that she needed to learn more from us. So then she came to sacrament meeting. 

MIRACLES.

So yeah, I love Maira, and she's for sure coming to Utah when I get home (weird that that's in less than a year) and all I know right now is Hermana Archibald and I are going to teach her this week and pray super hard and go from there. I don't think I've ever loved my mission more than sitting next to her in sacrament, listening to that story, feeling all kinds of things about how good God is at putting us in the right place at the right time and how much goodness comes from this Gospel.

I'm off, but I love you all with absolutely everything I've got and the Church is true.

xxx Reags

AND ALSO I WANT TO TELL ALL OF YOU SOMETHING SUPER COOL and my junior high self would have died but we went to White Rock this week and Psych was filmed there, and I got to see Shawn and Gus's office :))) and run around on the pier :))) And we had God Bless the USA absolutely blasting the whole drive down and went thrift shopping (didn't compare to pay-by-weight thrift shops in Paris though) and simply loved our lives.