Hermana Aubrey Frank / Nicaragua Managua South Mission

Hello!!  After 7 & 1/2 months, my time in Palmdale has come to an end.  So my hija is going to be follow up trained and I'm goin to south Bakersfield, Buena Vista ward to be a sister training leader WITH Hermana Weller from the Nicaragua mission as well!! There's only three of us left in the mission & the other one is our zone leader ! Also in our apartment we live with another set of hermanas WHICH are two of my past companions.. IT IS SO FUN. It was so hard to say goodbye to everyone, members & investigators.  Also I found out my aunt lived 7 minutes from me in my area and I had no idea for 7 months lol.   The cutest family we are teaching came to conference and they just loved it.  Conference was AMAZING ! We went to service on Wednesday and we steamed clothes at a fancy thrift store raising money for cancer research!  So fun but my poor companion burnt her arm way bad with the steamer and it left a gnarly scar.   We went to m...

It has been a truly great week! I have a million pictures I meant to send last week!! (Some really old birthday pics) This week we helped a super cool family move into their house and we ate a lot a lot of tacos.  Our favorite members the Munoz fam moved to Colorado and we are so so sad. We went on another hike for p-day & we had zone conference (so good). Miracle: we had a lesson with a very promising family who we have been teaching for a couple weeks now.  They have baptismal dates and have been reading in the Book of Mormon, we just love them to death.  When we got to the appointment they told us they were no longer interested in taking lessons... wow, very unexpected.  When we walked away we decided we wouldn't be discouraged because we knew if we had faith, the Lord would place the prepared in our path.  As we walked down the street away from their house a car pulled up next to us and rolled down their window.  They wanted to know if we spoke Sp...

I cannot believe it has gone so fast. Also I'm 20 years old & I still look like I'm 14!  We ate so much cake & cupcakes and I even got a cake smashed in my face. the members are so kind they just give us random stuff for my birthday.  For p-day we hiked to a waterfall and it was beautiful!! I'M TRAINING AGAIN!! I'm staying in Palmdale another transfer at least and I'm training another greenie! Her name is Hermana Cummings from Washington DC and she is SO fun! IT SNOWED YES IT SNOWED IN PALMDALE CALIFORNIA... FOUR TIMES!! It hasn't snowed here for 15 years! We were in part member families house for a pass off lesson when the investigator, Juan Carlos, randomly decided he needed to get up and look outside. He announced it was snowing and we all ran outside and played in the snow with their family. Then they gave us chamomile tea and cheese rolls. Literally best day ever!! Yesterday at church a less active member came to church for the first time in y...

Oh hello!! Not too much has happened.. just Thanksgiving, Christmas, new years, my 10 month mark AND our temple trip! Hermana Meldrum & I are having a literal blast.  We are SToKED to finally be wearing pants & the mish gave us 100 bucks to purchase them. M Russell Ballard is visiting us on January 13th wowowo so exciting!   The light the world initiative was amazinggg this Christmas season.  For one day of service we raked leaves because a lot of people have leaves & they just don't rake em.  We met some of the coolest people who were just so excited that we would rake random peoples lawns for free. For a cute family who is less active, we wrapped all the pieces of a nativity & left each one on thier doorstep everyday leading up to Christmas.  We left a part of the story of Jesus' birth from the bible with every piece. & then finished with Jesus on Christmas day. As we were walking down the street we ran into...