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Peeps!! I learned the best news this week! A family that I found while
knocking last transfer in Waller with Hermana Renteria is getting
baptized in March!! I could not believe it when I heard the happy
news. So awesome! I can't overemphasize the joy this gospel brings.

This week we made papusas with a family from El Salvador, and I am
basically hooked on them. We also found a lot of new people to start
teaching, so we're really excited. This area is slowly starting to
pick up with work. The Lord is blessing us so much.

Something I've learned this week is that absolutely nothing is a
coincidence. The Lord allows things to happen to each of us in His own
time, and in His ways. If we pay attention to the clues he leaves us,
and listen to the Spirit, we can be led in amazing ways!

Love you all, and hope you have a stellar week! Para siempre, Hermana
Sheirbon ❤️

PS- yes I did get my companion hooked on my green smoothies 🌈

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This week I went to 5 fiestas. Maybe more. Hey, you have to go where
the people are if you want to find investigators! #party I don't think
I have ever eaten this much in my life.. People take really good care
of us in this ward!

Anyways, this week was perfect! Even the throw up
I cleaned out of a couch didn't get me down! Even though we don't have
that many investigators right now and the ones we do have with
baptismal dates, we can only teach once a week..and 3 of our other
investigators moved away/dropped off the face of the earth, we still
are working hard to find more people! I have just felt really grateful
lately. Sometimes I just want to cry tears of gratitude for how much
help I've received with my Spanish.

It is incredible how much the
atonement can make up for all of our weaknesses.. Even with a really
white girl like me who just really needs to understand people even
though it seems impossible. Sometimes I will listen to people explain
things and I can't understand how it's happening, because I'm
understanding words and concepts I've never learned, and that's when I
know the Spirit is taking over completely. It is so humbling to have
this calling.
This week in our zone conference, I learned from President Mortensen
about the Book of Mormon. Blew. My. Mind. I wish you all could have
been there... This chalk board doesn't explain any of it.. But it
literally was the coolest thing I've ever heard in my life. I'll have
to explain it to you all when I come home.

I just want to testify to all of you that the Book of Mormon will fix
your problems. It has the power to change everything. Let me know if
you want to know more about how! I have never in my life felt so
privileged to be a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ on the
Earth. I love you all!!! ❤️💕❤️😘

Con amor, Hermana Sheirbon

PS- we had another surprise meeting last night where I got to see all
my friends, and it's crazy how much I love the missionaries in this
mission. I didn't know I could love so many people so much!

Zone conference

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Happy Valentine's Day, my dear friends!! Guess what I've been doing
this week? 🚪👊 (knocking doors)..... Always my favorite part of
missionary work (I'm not kidding), and we were even called Atheists by
one lady we knocked into, which of course made us laugh! And we also
got to have several V-day parties with all our English classes that we
teach. That was the best! Something I've noticed this week is that my
companion and I both love teaching about and bearing testimony of is
the plan of salvation. Both of us lost our moms to car accidents, and
because of this, our testimony and gratitude towards the Savior has
increased so much. Love is the greatest gift, and Christ has shown us
the greatest love by laying down his life for us. 

I hope you all know how much I love you, and how much the Savior loves each and every one
of you! Have a great week! 😘 Hermana Sheirbon

This family constantly makes fun of my laugh... You know why

I miss you all!

This week was amazing, and I have loved every minute of it. So many
miracles happened, so many ruined skirts, so many laughs, and I'm now
learning how to speak proper Spanish from a new friend we made from
Uruguay... So who knows what kind of accent I have. It's every dialect
of Spanish mixed together.

But I just wanted to tell you all that I love you so much, and miss
every single one of you. I pray for all of you, and tell everyone I
meet about how blessed I am to have such amazing friends and family. I
meet so many different people as a missionary, and sometimes I
encounter personalities that remind me of people back home, and it
makes me so happy, and I realize that every single person is special,
and everyone I meet is special to someone else the way you all are to
me. We're all so connected and we are definitely just one big family,
and that's what I love about this work, just getting to love and know
everyone around you.

Here's an old pic of my old branch all working together on breaking
into a car..... Hahaha something like that. They were trying to help a
sister because she locked her keys in her car. Good times.

Love and miss you all! Love, Hermana Sheirbon

Blondes have more fun & Meeting President Nelson

HOLA,

A few things:
1. My new area is supposedly the best Spanish area in the mission, so
I was really happy to be sent here. It's called Spring Branch, and my
ward is Houston 10. I'm right by downtown, so that's just the opposite
of my last area in Waller, which was the middle of nowhere. It's
really cool here, but we are kind of whitewashing the area, which
means that both my companion and I are pretty new to the area, so
there's a lot of work to do! Yesterday I met members from the ward
from Chile!!! (Shoutout to Brother G) and they made me churrascos, and
I asked them if they could make me completos (best food ever), and
they're going to next week! Woohoo! 

2. My new companion is just like me. She is blonde, and we are weirdly
similar, and it's kind of crazy! I know we'll see lots of miracles
together. Her name is Hermana Lowry and she's from Cedar, Utah. You
should see how people react when we start speaking Spanish. They are
always confused haha, but I am learning a lot from her already. She is
going home soon too! I am killing off all my companions!

3. I shook President Russell M Nelson's hand two days ago and
yesterday he spoke to our stake (an all-Spanish stake) IN Spanish!
There were so many tears. I cannot tell you how amazing it was to hear
from an apostle of the Lord. Everyone could tell that he truly is a
representative of Christ. It was so amazing. I learned things I will
never forget. He spoke to us about the doctrine of Christ, and how it
is the most important news we can bring to others; Faith, Repentance,
Baptism, Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the
End. Something I loved that he counseled us missionaries on, is to
accept the atonement of Christ and come unto him. He said "Don't spend
one minute thinking about the dumb things you did in the past." I
believe this can be said to everyone of you too. Every day we have an
opportunity to change and be better, because of Him. I love you all
sooo much! I always pray for you. Thank you for all you do.

Here's my new address: 

Hermana Amanda Sheirbon

10221 Centre Park Dr

Apt 926

Houston, TX 77043

Les amo muchisimo, Hermana Sheirbon