Hermana Aubrey Frank / Nicaragua Managua South Mission

Hello!  So I know this is late but... I hope ya'll had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for each & every one of you && this amazing Gospel!  We had thanksgiving with the Pleitez family and we ate a traditional Salvadorean meal called Panes Rellenos! Nope no pie & no turkey! But it was sooo yummy & they shared lots of cool mission stories with us! &&& Hermana Pleitez gave us those cool color changing sequin pillows. Exciting news: I'm a mom!! Im training! My trainee is Hermana Meldrum from Meridian Idaho! She is literally the cutest person you could ever meet and she is 5'9 so I feel a little short sometimes... We have seen so many miracles!  Wednesday was the coldest day of pouring rain & lots of wind!! & we did not want to go proselyting in this weather but we DID and we met SO MANY cool people!! We approached one door & just as we were knocking the door burst open! A big friendly guy named Al opened the door ...

Hello!! I am still alive & I now have 8 months in the mission! I got transferred to the Esperanza ward, which is also in Palmdale & now I'm with Hermana W oolums! She is literally the cutest & she is from Brigham City Utah!  This week we did service for a wonderful member who asked us to sort dirt... She gave us a broken screen door & a pair of gloves. so we had good ole time sifting dirt by shaking it through a screen door.. quite the experience. Right now we are teaching Ana who is dating Hermano Figaroa (a member of the church) & it is incredible how quickly she is progressing! Ana has come to church every Sunday since we've begun teaching her. She is getting baptized on November 10th & we are so excited for her! :) Hermano Figaroa is kind of the coolest because he is sending the missionaries referrals left & right. He owns a tire company & one of his workers, Ivan, is getting baptized this Saturday! It has been so cool to find and teach th...

Hey guys! soo its been another couple weeks and SO much has happened! Ive been transfered out of Wasco & it broke my heart a little to leave such amazing investigators and members behind. PLUS i left my companion, hna ruelas, who i learned so so much from and i just loved working with that sweet girl!! The transfer started out a little rough but the Lord knew exactly what he was doing when he stuck us together... we cried when we found out I was leaving! HOWEVER i have been truly blessed with another amazing companion, hna greenwood, who also started her mission in Nicaragua! Now there are 4 missionaries from the Nicaragua mission in our zone.. Nicas unite!!  Also get this: I'm now serving in Palmdale, CA &&& my grandparents plus other various family members live about 20 minutes from our apartment ... WEIRD RIGHT? randomly throughout the week I'll notice a water park or a mall that I have definitely been to multiple times when visiting family in the past. Wei...

Hi everyone(: my weekly group email has quickly turned into a monthly email and I truly apologize whoops. the past couple weeks have been super awesome out here in the Lord's vineyard. & so I will apologize again because this email will probably be on the long side! ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE LITTLE BROTHER((: milagro: Hermana Ruelas & I met Jose Tellez as we were walking down the street. It was a super hot day & no one had opened the door to us yet nor had we seen anyone in the caille. A couple blocks down we saw a man crossing the street towards his house. We leaped at this opportunity to finally talk to someone, anyone. We called out to him and ran over. He seemed uninterested but we were persistent and he somewhat reluctantly agreed to listen to our message. It went wonderfully and when the lesson was over he asked when we could come back. He later told us that when we first contacted him he was returning home from work & was very tired; he was n...

Hey friends & fam! The past two weeks have been a blast! My new comp, Hermana Ruelas is from Texas and she actually started her mission in Guatemla for 6 months! Due to her knees she was sent home early and after 9 months she came back out to the mission field. She was called to the San Fernando mission which is now part of our mission. She has so much faith & her scripture knowledge is insaneeeee, I am learning SO much. We are working so hard out here and have seen sooo many miracles.  We have made quite of few hard decisions to drop a few investigators who weren't progressing but the Lord has opened new doors for us. So not a ton has happened for us this week but we're working to find more prepared people. It's super weird to be doing both English work and Spanish work but it's been a lot of fun. The people here are amazing, everyone offers us water and a lot are willing to listen.  This week I read in Jacob 5 and I love the comparison of the gathering of s...

I hit my 5 month mark!!!!! Missionaries always say that the time flies & I used to think they were crazy! but now I'm saying it! Because it's true!  The mission came out with a new expectation for each missionary and companionship called OYM 10/20. It stands for open your mouth, and each companionship needs to speak to 20 new people everyday. Some days have been easier than others but as we have committed to do this we have seen so many miracles and doors being opened to us.  We got transfer calls! My sweet trainer is leaving to Palmdale and I will miss her so much! My new companion is Hermana Ruelas from the San Fernando mission. Both Santa Clarita and Valencia from that mission were added to ours so we got a whole bunch of new missionaries. There's going to be a lot of changes this transfer! Our ward/district had 4 companionships including two trios but now there'll just be 2 and hna ruelas & I will cover all of wasco!  Our investigator Anthony is in Te...

Okay it's been a couple weeks! We've been super busy! I will soon hit 5 months, so that's crazy! We went to the LA temple and we stayed at the STLs apartment in Bakersfield the night before to be able to ride up with them. So so grateful for the opportunity to visit the temple. 4 months without a visit to the temple had felt like an eternity! I couldn't help but think of the wonderful people of Nicaragua who will soon be blessed to have a temple. We are so blessed to live so close to temples & have the opportunity to visit the house of the Lord.  All the missionaries and several members went to help a less active member move from one house to another that was just a couple streets over. When we arrived ready to load the Uhaul we quickly realized that almost nothing was packed into boxes yet. This particular member had quite the collection of.. well just about everything. In the backyard there was a big old shed. She told us (specifically the sisters) that she hadn...