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Hey everyone!!

It's been another great week here in Cristobal Colon! We're already in week five out of six of this transfer which just blows my mind. Hna. Vega and I have already been through so much and I feel like I've been with her forever even though I'm technically still new in this sector haha. Time is flying. I had like a kind of sureal time warp experience today haha. We went to some other hermanas apartment so they could cut my hair (yay my second trim during my whole mission haha hooray) and saw some missionaries walking down the street so we stopped to say hi. Turns out this was like their last day in Chile because they were all finishing up their missions and as we got ready to say goodbye they were like, "ahhh the last six months fly by sooooo fast!! Enjoy every second of it!!!" And I was like, "YEAH IT DOES." So that gives me anxiety haha. But not really though because Hna. Vega is teaching me a lot how to really live in the moment and absorb every bit of happiness the moment has to offer. Also I've been studying repentance a lot this week and that has really opened my eyes to a lot of things I was missing out on before. I feel like my eyes have opened up like on the Claritin Clear commercial when they peel away the fuzzy film and everything brightens up a little. IT'S SO COOL. That's what a change of heart will do for you. Aka repentance. Pride is so funny because you truly do believe you're right, but then when you open yourself to the possibility you could be wrong, and then you actually learn you were wrong, and then you change, life gets soooooo much better. But when we are still blinded by pride, we honestly think there could be nothing better than our own ideas, and we end up missing out on a whole bunch of awesome happiness. I feel like I accepted Alma's invitation in Alma 5:26. It talks about how when we experience a change of heart, we get filled with this awesome desire to just sing the song of love at the top of our lungs because we feel redeemed. Then we asks at the end, if we haven't felt that way yet, can we feel that way now?? If we have a heart and it's still beating, the answer is a yesssssss! :) As long as our clocks are still ticking, we can just go ahead and be redeemed as much as we want. 

So yeah. I love the gospel. :) And I love teaching it. We had a really cool lesson this week with a girl named Jimena. She's 17 and we were explaining the plan of salvation. She had a lot of really great questions and by the end she said that she had received a lot of answers that she had been wondering about for a long time. She accepted to be baptized on Sept. 27. :)

We were also teaching Hernan this week, who was a reference from the mission office, who also accepted to be baptized. We also went on a temple tour with him this week which was really beautiful. They let visitors stand in the reception area so we just stood there for a while to look around and feel the spirit. I swear it's tangible in the temple. It was a really cool experience being there with him and getting to see it through new eyes. I think sometimes we take the temple for granted, especially if we live in Utah and there's five temple in every city haha. But by seeing the temple through the eyes of our investigators, it's really opened mine up too and I've really come to appreciate and marvel at the temples. Not only are they magnificently beautiful but they're the house of God. 

Hope you guys all have an awesome week! Also go to the temple if you can because it's the best ever. Or even just to the grounds if you don't have a recommend just to sit there and feel the spirit. It's almost just as tangible in the gardens haha. 

Love you guys. :)

Hermana Cannon II  

1. Hna Vega hit 9 months in the mission and the baby's showing ha ha

 

2. We went running! Woohoo! Go us.

 

 

3. Temple tour with Hna. Vega, the other Hermanas, Hernan, and Danny

 

 

 

 

4. Gettin' my hairs cut XD

 

 

 

House Upon a Rock

Hey everyone! :) 

Wow, what a week it has been. I've learned sooooo much this week. I knew progress was awaiting me with transfers happening, and now that I've been here for about 2 weeks, it has come true haha. 

There have been a lot of challenges this week--new sector, new companion, new everything. I felt like I started my mission all over again haha, since it was my first time being transferred after a year. And through it all, I've learned now more than ever what it means to rely on Christ. I have never felt so strongly the strengthening power of the Atonement. It makes me brave. It makes me endure. It makes me not worry about what other people think. It gives me a reason to believe I can and should do difficult things. And as I do the right thing, no matter how difficult, no matter how much it seems like I should be suffering, I feel extremely happy. And that happiness is overwhelmingly reassuring because it's undeniable. My faith is becoming unbreakable. And wow is that something I needed to learn. This for me, is a testimony of many things. That God really does inspire the transfers, that I can learn more through the spirit, faith, and action than I ever could just through study, the power of Christ is real, the spirit really is a comfort, everything that Jesus taught in Matthew 5 is true, and so much more. 

So now I'm just praying with all my heart that I can stay firmly built upon Christ, because if I can, I won't fall. I know that, not just because it is written in Helaman 5:12, but because I've lived it. 

Love you all so much :). Keeping you in my prayers.

Hermana Cannon II   

Starting from scratch!

From August 4, 2015

Hey everyone!

Just finished week one in my new area--Cristobal Colon. I loooooove the area. Seriously so beautiful. Trees, green, the sweetest apartment buildings ever, and really nice people. It feels like a completely different world haha. My new companion is Hermana Vega from Peru! So far I've had 2 Peruvian companions (Hna. Gil and Hna. Vega), 1 from Guatamala (Hna. Garcia), and 1 from California (Hna. Andersen). Just in case you wanted an update haha. And this is my second area. We'll see if I finish my mission here since I was in my first area for 11 months! haha. We'll see. I'd be happy with that. 

So miracles. 

Literally such an awesome sector. 2 weeks ago, Hna. Vega and her other companion (before I got here) were walking down the street and met Evenlyn. They just randomly said hi to her and then she stopped to talk to them. Turns out she was a less active member and wanted to know where the church was. So they gave her the address, got her contact info, and made an appointment. She came back to church that Sunday for the first time in about 15 years. Then I got here and we had a lesson with her and her husband Jaime, who is Catholic. We talked about the temple and eternal marriage and my heart was literally about to melt off my chest when Evelyn testified to Jaime about how she wanted to be with him forever and how grateful she was to have met the sisters. He's been totally supportive to her about getting reactivated but has been kind of closed off himself. Until the other day when she told us that a friend had asked him if he was going to join the church and he said "ya never know." Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh they are so incredible. Her example is so inspiring to me.... coming back to the church after 15 years of no contact whatsoever. Her faith is so strong. 

So yeah! It's been a great week despite the fact that I feel like I just started my mission over again haha. It's okay though. Growing pains. Change is good. I can't let myself think about Ñuñoa too much though or my heart starts to hurt haha. I had to leave behind a lot of people I love and a lot of progressing investigators who I still think about and pray for constantly.... But Hna. Andersen and her new companion are AWESOME and I'm excited to hear about the miracles they're gonna see. :)

Love you guys so so much!!!

Hna. Cannon II