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Week 8: August 24-30, 2021 Guatemala

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  Hello family and friends!  This week was absolutely fantastic, crazy, hard, amazing, and did I say fantastic?  We started off our week with a lesson with a recent convert. Brother Service is the most adorable man you will ever meet. He's super tall and gangly and extremely intelligent and quirky. I love him so much. He shared his conversion story and its absolutely amazing. As missionaries, we have to have a woman present at every lesson. So we invited a woman from the ward along. She had a very hard time comprehending what Brother Service was saying and kept asking him things like, "have you had all the lessons?" or "do you need the missionaries to talk more with you about what we believe?" For some reason she could not get that he was telling us the story of how he came to believe in the church. But it was such a great experience. I left that wanting to find another Brother Service and help that person come to know Christ like the missionaries did for hi...

Week 7: First week in the field: worst nightmare comes true... August 17-23, 2021

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  Hello Everyone!    This week was pure craziness. Saying goodbyes really sucks. And I was really sad to say goodbye to District 15D. I love you all so much!! You guys are going to kill it out in the mission field.  And then saying goodbye to my family. Ugh. The airport was so hard. I gave them all a hug and kind of just went for it. I knew if I looked back I wouldn't be able to do it. But I made it to the mission in one piece!  The flight wasn't too bad except for a really embarrassing moment... I accidentally got tangled in a cord as I was practically climbing over someone. I finally made it into the aisle and then the flight attendants walked down with a huge cart so I had to again climb over that person. Yikes. I just sat there thinking that of course this is how I start my mission.  After meeting President Rodarte and his amazing wife, I was driven out to Kingman, Arizona! Oh my goodness. I LOVE it here!! Its actually not that hot, there's a ...

The Departure and Arrival to the Nevada Las Vegas Mission

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  Dear Parents,   Hermana Snow arrived here in Las Vegas safe and sound. We are so happy to finally meet her!   We love your missionary so much and look forward to seeing her do great things as she works hard every day to fulfill her missionary purpose. She has been assigned a wonderful trainer who will work and train with love, patience, charity, and empathy.    Thank you for sharing Hermana Snow with us and the wonderful people in the Nevada Las Vegas Mission.   With love, President and Sister Rodarte NLVM   Missionary Assignment: Area-Boulder Springs Zone-Kingman   Companion Trainer: Sister Smyth