Hermana Cordova's Las Vegas Mission Adventures!!: Out of Valley for Days! #lakehavasu #rockingit #bestwardever

We taught our first 1st lesson together on Monday this past week. It was so powerful! Tana offered the closing prayer, and the spirit was so strong. We all got choked up with emotion, before she was done praying. She's amazing. The cool thing about Tana is that we street contacted her while she was smoking in her garage, and she wasn't super interested!!!

I walked into one of our members houses. I looked over and saw a baby in a high chair. I was like "hm...that's weird, these are old people. why do they have a baby?" I walked a little closer and had to hold back a scream. It was a doll, with a super scary face. Then I looked around, the whole house is covered in custom made life sized dolls. It was like a horror movie. I tried not to have a panic attack. Hahaha.

Our area book was really bad when we got into the area. Most of the people didn't have addresses written in, so we have no idea where they live. We decided to call the ones that had numbers. I did a bunch of restoration contacts over the phone, and one guy was actually interested, although, he didn't give us his address.....

It RAINED!!!!!!! kind of..... Everywhere we went the rain avoided us. It was a sad life. People here act like rain in awful.... Weirdos.

I was talking to one of our less actives on the phone. She was so curmudgeonly. When I hung up I was like "hehehe, grumpy old people". To my horror the phone hadn't disconnected yet.... Ijole.

So time to write about my exchange. I got attacked by fleas. My right arm was covered in bites, I thought stuff like that only happened in more ghetto areas. Then the STL had an allergic reaction to the cats. Only one of her eyes swelled up, and her throat started to get scratchy. I had to drive like the wind to meet up with the other sisters to get her medicine. That was so scary!!! Then she was rude to a member, I was shocked, she kept interrupting the member as she tried to talk to our investigator. *facepalm* Then we volunteered to help a less active family set up their new trampoline. The STL was in charge because "I've set these up before". So whatever, I was there for moral support and reading the instructions. She set it up wrong, and so the net wouldn't fit, then as we were setting it up, it started pouring rain. We spent two hours, we were late to the ward party, and in the end the trampoline was not done. We were soaked, cold, and our hands were messed up from tightening the coils. Pretty much, I was so done by the time the party rolled around. I ate, went home and showered, then planned. Exchanges......

Sister Tui and I killed it this week! We found some extremely elect people!!! We also worked hard to talk to every body, no matter how awkward the situations were! Carol and her daughter Jessie, are probably the most elect people I have ever met. They came to church the day after the first lesson, then we read the BOM with them and set them with a date after church. They are so excited, and we have an FHE with them tonight. I cannot wait until the 23rd!!!

I love this ward, this week were are going to work harder in getting members out. It was super frustrating this week, we called, texted, and talked to members, but it seemed like last minute things kept coming up for them. Also dumb Satan was working super hard on some of our investigators, it was super sad to see them struggling! :(

We had a super cool experience with the mccoys. I had been studying in 2 nephi during personal study. I found a scripture that explained the reason why we need the Bible and the Book of Mormon. I was able to whip that scripture out and testify to them about the Book of Mormon. It was such an awesome experience. As prepare ourselves through studying the Lord will bring all things to our remembrance.

I love y'all! I hope you have an amazing week!!!! Looking Through Windows, I invite y'all to watch this video! It's one of my very favorite Mormon Messages! :) I recently listened to this talk given by President Monson, so it's fresh on my mind!

Choose the right! Remember who you are!!

<3 Hermana Cordova

*Tuimaualuga and I are only one week apart!!! Her birthday is tomorrow, and mine is next Tuesday!! :) We are twinners, obviously!!

*My mission president is better than yours. Seriously. I love him!!! #Hispanigatorhunter