Happy Week Of Miracles

OH MY GOSH BUBBA I CAN'T BELIEVE IT IS FINALLY TIME! We've been talking about this moment forever and it's finally here! Holy beans! I can't wait! I get a proud tear every time that I talk about it! I tell everyone I can that my little brother is going to be a missionary at the same time as me. Boo-yah!

     So, how was my week? Fantastic! It was a happy week of miracles :) We'll start with the 4th. I was slightly bummed that I missed out on the usual tradition of Plain City and the parade with all of the fam bam. However, it sounds like you all put your own little twist on things. We started the day out by doing some service for a lady and her husband that we met at the open house last week. Her grandparents had a house and the people who lived there let the back yard go to waste so  it was pretty trashed. We were there for a few hours :) We did our weekly planning and attempted to teach a few people. Not even the Hispanic people want to be bothered on the 4th of July...we went to the church and it was a mandatory activity for north and south Stockton combined. We played soccer for a long time and I have some beautiful battle scars :) We were also able to watch 17 Miracles which was great! I, of course, cried like a baby. I'm just like that. We came home and went out to the dock with the ASL sisters and lit off some sparklers and threw some pop-its. We also enjoyed some rather tasty gummy bears-shout out to the Dave and Janet Freestone family :) We watched some super great fireworks and sang some fantastic hymns on the dock and just enjoyed our freedoms :) It was pretty fun :)

     Yesterday was fast Sunday and it was so great! And you know that must mean something because you know how I get when I don't have food...o_O  So, we both fasted to help our investigators and we saw some great miracles! Ricardo and Rosa came to church again. Mia stayed in Primary by herself and that in and of itself. Then, on our way back to their house we asked Rosa if she would prepare herself to be baptized on the 24th of July and she said yes! She really wants to get baptized and her parents asked if she could do it without them. We told her that it is preferred that the whole family gets baptized at the same time, but she can do it. I would feel fine because she has family support and her mom is really trying to be able to get a job that doesn't require her to work on Sunday. And the Gonzalez family is willing to drive them. Also, we went to Ricardo and J.P.'s. Let me just start by saying that the Zavala Family is so cool! They have testimonies like you would not even imagine! So we decided to invite them both to be baptized. We talked about why we do it and how it can give us a clean slate. They both said yes! We invited them to set a goal to be baptized on the the 26th. Ricardo said yes and J.P. said he wants some more time to think about it. But he will pray about the 26th anyway. We are going to teach them the Plan of Salvation next time. I think it will really help. Yesterday was a such a tender mercy from the Lord. 

     We also met a lady named Cristina and that was a crazy miracle! We were going to teach her the Plan of Salvation and nothing was really flowing. We tried a few things and it didn't work. Hermana Cardullo whipped out the Plan of Salvation pamphlet and Cristina was like, "I've seen that before!" Right after my husband died 3 years ago I was cleaning out a drawer full of his old things and I found that pamphlet along with a bunch of other like it. Turns out her husband had been meeting with the missionaries behind her back right before he died. He had also ditched his church to attend ours. She was like, "Maybe he liked yours better and now he sent you here to tell me to check it out?" It was so cool!

     Well, I love you all family and I look forward to next week when I get to read about Bubba's MTC experience. :) Transfers are next week so I won't get on till Tuesday. If you don't think that the mail will make it then just sent it to the mission office. Love you all! I'm getting old because I got my flight plans this last week.... crazy!

MWAH!

Love, Hermana Freestone 

1, 2 and 3 4th of july

4 me and my bestie!
 5 -what the missionaries do on P-day

6. me and sister lewis

7. mia, cardullo, rosa, yo

8. me and my bestie!