Ava's Mission

Hello friends and family! It's been another good short week here in Peoria AZ! We found 4 new people this week and are finding like crazy lately so our already huge teaching pool just keeps growing and growing! The other day we taught 7 lessons in one day and it was AWESOME. I love this area and the people here so much. We spent a good amount of time pulling the nautious weeds that take over this entire state! There was one point where we had gotten all the weeds except for a small patch of especially dead ones. And when we stepped on them it made the exact same sound as packed snow when you step on it. You know when it crunches under your feet and the hair on your neck kindof stands up and its a disgusting noise? Yeah I love that noise and miss it so much. I just closed my eyes and for a few moments all of us missionaries were walking on snow and it was heavenly. Hilariously pathetic but heavenly. I had two kindof tough days when everything fell though I felt super weird, bu...

Okay friends!!!! Quick lil update for ya. The miracle with the hindi family continued.... a couple weeks ago I picked up Arabic pamphlets from the mission home because I wasn't sure what language they spoke and when I found out it was hindi I just left these Arabic pamphlets chilling in my bag for only God knew what reason. This week we went to do some service for Kursta, someone we are teaching, and she wasn't home. We had spent a lot of time getting there and I was a little frustrated at the waste of time. Sister Fairbanks was more in tune with the spirit at that point than I was and knew that there had to be some reason that we were there.... she saw this house and felt like we needed to knock it. But we were bother super sweaty and gross and in our service clothes so we decided to come back when we were more presentable. We didn't even make it to the first light when we both looked at each other and were like yep, we are turning around and kocking that door. The spirit...