Me encanta la misión

I just want to say that I love being a missionary... Also, can you
please take a look at how our temple now has a reflecting pool...but
guess what? This temple really doesn't have a reflecting pool. It's
just the rain. 💦💦💦

We have been wearing our cool yellow vests and helping everyone here
with the floods, but everything seems okay now.

This week was the best thing ever because I got to go on an exchange
with my old companion, Hermana Lowry! 💗


I love you all, Have a great week!

Love, Hermana Sheirbon

Rain, Rain, Go away....

EXCITING stuff is happening here.... We are teaching an awesome family
who now have the baptismal date of June 11!!! Woohoo!! I can't even
begin to tell you how amazing they are.... The mom already wants to go
to the temple, and shared with us that she began to do their family
history work, found information on her dad, and started crying and had
to call her mom about it. It's really amazing. They are already up to
Jacob in the Book of Mormon, and teaching them is so precious. We have
never met such prepared people. While teaching them about the plan of
salvation, Victoria (the mom) asked about the people in spirit prison,
and if she would be allowed to go from paradise to help the people in
prison learn more about Christ too..... Amazing, right? Anyways, we
are super excited for all that they're doing to follow Christ, and we
can see the happiness it's brought them, knowing they can be together
forever as a family.

Also, (as pictured below) the beauty of being a Spanish missionary in
the United States is that you get to experience every Hispanic culture
all at once! I met a brother from Argentina that is really less active
and started to talk to him about how I've eaten a bunch of food from
Argentina because my friends have served missions there and he is now
my friend.. Even though he's like 70.. Hehe and he came to the ward
activity yesterday with all his grandkids.. And guess what? He brought
me empanadas (yes, the kind with the eggs and green olives and
beef)... But they were SO GOOD! Seriously, best food ever.

It's been a week of miracles and I hope you've had one too! Love you always,
Hermana Sheirbon ❤️💦💦💦🏊🏊🏊 (me swimming in the floods here)

La Vida es Una Misión

Hi everyone,

I just want to tell you all that YOU are the ones who can do great
things and really make a difference in the lives of the people around
you. You don't have to be a missionary in order to teach people about
Christ. I just wanted to give some ideas about easy ways you can build
the kingdom:
1. Talk to every new person you see at church! Be their friend! You
can make all the difference in someone else's venture to learn more
about their Heavenly Father.
2. Make friends with the missionaries! They will help you find ways to
be involved in the most happy work of all, bringing people to Christ
3. Constantly make new friends.. As you make friends, you'll find
opportunities to share the gospel and your friends will see your light
and wonder why you're different!

I just have such a strong testimony of how everyone really can be a
missionary and help others have happier lives, and as you do these
things, you will be happy!

I'm learning a lot in this area. A lot! And something I've been
learning about lately is how family history really opens hearts and
changes lives. Learning about our ancestors and their stories; where
we came from, and in turn, our personal potential...our families are
strengthened! I want to challenge all of you to start putting together
your family tree. There's a really cool, obviously free website
called: Familysearch.org and it can help you find some really cool
stuff about your family! Let me know if you wanna learn more about why
this is so important!

Love you all, and hope you have an amazing week!!
Love, Hermana Sheirbon

I saw Crystal on TV & Feliz Conferencia General

Amigos,

I'm just gonna try to explain this series of pictures below. They are
out of order, but they explain the week I've had.

1. Sweet little girls in my ward (the one on the right's name is
Juliet and they call her Juju..sound familiar?)

2. The moment when we actually turned into superheroes and had to save

the town from a giant branch that had fallen down into the road, but
was still attached to the tree.... Awkward. It was really dark and
cars were hitting it full speed, nearly breaking windows. So we just grabbed it, held it out of the way (it's WAY bigger than the picture makes it seem) and waited, until suddenly a quite scary man came from the apartments behind us with a stepstool and a SAW, out of nowhere.
There we were, in the middle of the night, with me holding the giant
branch out of the way, while the man was on the stool, sawing away, and I was shielding my eyes from the saw dust.... 

Pretty funny stuff

3. Dinner with the Cortes family

4. El bautismo de Alex! We had the opportunity to teach this little
guy!! He is happy! He's just not one for smiling.. Haha

5. Crazy Texans

6. Hermana Lowry and I 💗 I love her. Shhh

7. A family made me CAFE RIO... Tin and all! 

It was the happiest moment ever.

8. General Conference!! This weekend, the world had the awesome
opportunity to hear the prophet speak! It was amazing! We also
listened to apostles, and other great leaders.

One of my favorite
talks was from President Uchtdorf. He said: "It matters not how you
became lost." And spoke of the redeeming power of the Savior, Jesus
Christ, and how he wants to save us, but we have to let him. If you
want to check it out, go here:
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/media/session_4_talk_12/4829486498001?lang=eng.

During general conference, I recognized a familiar face, singing...
Crystal! I jumped up and said "That's my friend!!" ....awkward hahaha

9. Flashback to us leaving the MTC in Mexico and driving to the

airport to come to Texas! I can't believe we've been gone almost 7
months now...

I had the best week ever!!! I hope you all have a chance to click on
the link and find a talk from general conference that can answer the
questions of your soul. I know I always receive answers when I listen
to inspired servants of God. I love you all, and hope you have an
amazing week!

Love, Hermana Sheirbon ❤️