💕🇺🇸 happy 4th of July!

Prestbury: sisters Andersen and Wilson
Mission staff: elder and sister Matthias, elder and sister Busher

Great week! So busy!

- We got a new investigator named Beatriz! She is so cool! Her boyfriend is André, the less active member that saw us walking down the street and called out to us. They are both so ready to change, we're super excited to be working with them! André got baptized in Idaho just a few years ago and completely turned away from a life of crime. We haven't really figured out Beatriz's story yet, but she seems super willing to learn!

-We had an awesome lesson in a member's home (the Kings) with Maria about the temple. She is so excited to go do baptisms for the dead! We hope to get her in before the temple closes for cleaning in a few weeks.
-We got to participate in a research project where people came from SLC and we talked about missionary problems and came up with crazy ways to solve them. It was super interesting. The volunteers that I
worked with were Matt from Kaysville and Julia from Provo. :)

Aurora: hermanas Krebs and Allison

-We had two exchanges this week in our area, with the Prestbury sisters and the Aurora hermanas. Both were awesome, these missionaries are amazing! Sorry we didn't take a ton of pictures.

- Maricela and Jocelyn came to church this week, and Angel (Maria's grandson! ).

Cool quote:
“I would invite all members of the Church to live with ever more attention to the life and example of the Lord Jesus Christ, especially the love and hope and compassion He displayed. “I pray that we might treat each other with more kindness, more courtesy, more humility and patience and forgiveness. We do have high expectations of one another, and all can improve. Our world cries out for more disciplined living of the commandments of God. But the way we are to encourage that, as the Lord told the Prophet Joseph in the wintry depths of Liberty Jail, is ‘by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned; … without hypocrisy, and without guile’ (D&C 121:41–42).”
- President Howard W. Hunter

This is so important! The way we treat each other says a lot about who we really are. We need to make sure we are viewing others with the same compassion that Jesus Christ has. Love before anything else.

Con amor,
Hermana Hokanson