The Last Transfer:(:(

GUYS I absolutely love this family. Joas and Adriana are the most amazing people and I am in love with this family. They are close to our age but super mature and I love the way that they treat each other and their kids. On Tuesday, we visited them with our bishop and talked about eternal families. We read “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” with them, which is basically a statement the prophet released that states the role and importance of parents and family. We read it with them and had the best conversation about families and the plan God has for us and the Spirit was SO strong and after a little pause Adriana looked at us and said “I want to get married and I want to get baptized. I know all this is true.” We all kind of paused and then everyone started smiling and this warm happy feeling came into the room. We are trying to plan with the ward to get a simple little wedding organized for them and everyone is really excited. I know one of the reasons I am here is to be able to know them and I am so grateful for opportunities like this in my mission.

We also met Mariana this week, and it has been quite the interesting turn of events with her. She is 24 and literally famous(like 16million followers on instagram), but you would never know it just by talking to her. She went through a breakup recently and lost a few close friends and suffers from depression and told us she wants to find real happiness because she is tired of trying to find it in other places or people. She came to church and loved it and has become a friend in these last couple weeks. We are going out to acai with her and hoping to help her understand who she really is in the eternal perspective of things. It has been strange to see how perfect her life looks to the world and how sad and lonely she really is. More to come next week…

Still visiting Raquel’s family and their challenge is 8am church but other than that are learning so fast and I love these kids. Brought them lollipops one of our first visits and now if I come empty-handed, they all get sad! What have I started.. hahaha

Divisions this week and I got to spend another day with sister Bonierski. She has become an unofficial companion and a really good friend <3

Other than that it has been a pretty normal week! We had transfers last night but we knew we would stay so it wasn’t too much of a surprise. Still doesn’t seem real I am in my last 6 weeks…but 6 weeks is still a lot of time right??

Love you all and am so grateful for your prayers,

Sister Lauren Mather