El Milagro de la cucaracha

MILAGROS ESTÁN PASANDO!!!!
There was a giant cockroach in our apartment one day this week and we
were really scared to study so we went to the church, which we have
never done before. Right as we had finished, we stepped out the door
and a lady in a car pulled up. She said she was seeking help and
didn't know what to do, so she came to our church. She mentioned that
she'd driven past it for years without stopping but this time she had.
We began to teach the restoration and about how she had made the best
decision by stopping there. She has a husband and 5 kids, and she came
to church on Sunday! It was so amazing. I really know we had to be
there at that moment. The Lord directs everything. We had time with
President Mortensen this week, which was obviously the highlight
because he is everything to me. I am so amazed at everything he does.
Hermana Bettridge killed it at 8 week follow up! President wrote me
and said he was very impressed with her teaching skills. She is
amazing!! Anyways, I love you all!!

Con amor, Hermana Sheirbon ❤️

Fotos:
1. 8 week follow up

2. District meeting/party

3. The Obandos are so cool

4. Church crew (Erick is getting baptized soon who!)

5. With my love, Hermana Beus 💗

La misión 😻

Hey friends and family,

I am still in my same area but so much has happened!!! We have a new
zone now, and it's awesome! We're the College Station East zone now!
It's so awesome because we are all just so excited for the miracles.
Also, we have a new Spanish district and it's the best!! 3 of our
investigators came to church this week, Kevin, Erick, and Jose!!
WOOOHOOO!! ❤️ I love you all and hope you have the best week ever.

Love always, Hermana Sheirbon
Fotos:
1. Sister Pinster and I ❤️

2. MLC

3. Our zona

4. Comida

5. This is a long story...

6. Español

7. Spanish class

8. El distrito

9. Otra vez

10. He's so precious

11. Training with president

12. ICEBLOCKING

13. Water balloons

14. Jesus Fernando

15. JOSE! He's getting baptized Oct 1st!

16. Zone meeting

17. Besties

18. Happy Burger

19. Navasota w/Hermana Barrera

20. We had to buy a car seat.....

Las aventuras ❤️

Hi amigos,

So this email makes it seem like we live right next door to the temple
but we really don't haha, I promise. We live about two hours away in
my area. But this week all the missionaries had the opportunity to
bring their own family ancestor names to bring to the temple and do
work for them here. It was awesome. It was a really special day. And
we also got the chance to go back later in the week in order to bring
our recent convert Alicia to the temple!! It was so amazing because
she loved it! We are pretty sure it was the best day of her life. For
all of you who don't know, the missionary with blonde curly hair is my
friend from home, Sister Selee, and this is our second time serving
together. She is an angel! I just love my sweet companion, Hermana
Bettridge, because she is the best! We just have way too much fun
together. This week we are praying for miracles this week so we can
find more investigators because our cool people have been slowly
fading away.. But Kevin came to church for his third time this week..
Whoohoo! Please keep praying for him and his brother Erick. They are
so important and just have a difficult life situation. I love you all
a lot!! Have an amazing week!
Love, Hermana Sheirbon

Fotos:
1. The hermanas/sisters

2&3. Mod pizza

4.chilling with liquid nitrogen ice cream

5. Sister Leavitt's face is hilariously creepy in the back

6. Nosotras

7. Part of our district

8. Pupas

9. Bianca is the best- Hna Kiser, her husband came to an activity this
week!! (First time in 5 years)

10. Michael. He pretends he can't speak English

11. Free yogurt land

12&13. Alicia's first time at the temple!

14. Our Brazos elders! Elder Wells is leaving tomorrow :(

🌧💦💦💦🏊🏊

Dear friends and loved ones,

Sorry I haven't written in a while! I have had really busy p-days and
I have no other excuses, but everything is going okay!! I went to the
dentist this week cause I had level 10 pain in my tooth but everything
is all good now! That was an interesting and hard experience but Hna
Bettridge got more time to teach since I couldn't talk hahaha..but
other than that, everything is going fine! Hermana Bettridge's Spanish
is coming along soooo well!!! I am so proud of her! Our investigators
Kevin and Erick need a lot of prayers right now so they can progress..
Please pray for them! Also, I LOVE all the rain we've been getting
here but sadly Hispanics here feel scared to go out in rain so if you
could pray for no rain on Sundays, that would be great haha. I hope
all is well with you!! Love and miss you all lots. I wanted to share
some scriptures with you about faith and repentance.. I know the word
repentance sounds so scary, but don't worry, it isn't. It's just
EVERYTHING God asks us to do:
"Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of
heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:19

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
perfect." Matthew 5:48

"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to
Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and
be thou perfect." Genesis 17:1

"And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good
but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments" Matthew 19:17

"If ye love me, keep my commandments" John 14:15

"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have
kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you,
and that your joy might be full." John 15:10-11

There are a hundred more examples I could share, but I invite you to
think about why it is that he invites us so often to repent. He loves
us. This is the whole purpose why we're here. He does not expect us to
live a cheap Christianity where we say vocally we believe in Him and
we're saved. That is the lie Satan loves to tempt us with. Christ
pulls us higher. Christ helps us literally overcome our sins and turn
away from them. In this lifetime we won't be perfect, but he
constantly invites us to strive. I promise as you build your faith in
him, your desire to change and repent will increase dramatically. He
loves you and he promises you the blessings of freedom and peace as
you follow him.

"Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin to
exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin to call upon his
holy name, that he would have mercy upon you"
Alma 34:17

Email me if you want to find out what it is that Christ asks of you
how to follow his commandments. :)


Con amor, Hermana Sheirbon

✌️agosto

Well, what can I say? Lots of things fell through this week, but we
have seen MIRACLES. For instance, yesterday our investigator Erick
didn't come to church, and we were really really sad, so anyways, we
continued about our day and on our way to a different appointment,
nowhere near Erick's house, we found him in a trailer park!! I just
stopped the car and rolled down the window to yell his name and ask
him what he was doing. He said his was visiting his girlfriend, so we
asked if we could meet her too... Long story short, we met the novia
and asked if she wanted to be taught too, and she said she needed
permission from her mom, so we asked to meet the mom, and now we are
coming back to teach their family too! Tiernas misericordias! Also, we
met a lady in a laundromat this week who is from Mexico and apparently
one of her friends just joined the church and she knows all about it,
so she explained that she wanted to learn more and talked about how
she had just met elders a few months ago, but they'd never gone to
teach her, and so we are gonna start teaching her too! Pretty cute
little story. It's amazing how the Lord prepares people and guides us
to them... I am always amazed! Also, I got to meet a return
missionary here who just came back from the Washington Vancouver
Mission!! (WOOOHOOO)

Here is the return missionary, used to be Sister Forsyth.. Idk if any of you know her!
(Shout out to Hermana Kiser's mom for sending me this dress haha)

💗MI HIJA 💗

Hey!! This was the best week ever because my baby came ;) Hermana
Bettridge is blonde like me and she is from Owasso, Oklahoma. We
literally matched outfits without even meeting each other on the first
day we met. President called her name after I came up and introduced
my area and as we walked up to each other everyone laughed because
they noticed we had the same skirt and shoes and everything , and
President Mortensen just said "Look at that, a match made it heaven"
from over the pulpit. How cute!! She is perfect and her Spanish is
already soooo good! She majors in French Education at SUU, so that's
probably why. I think she's gonna teach me more than I can teach her!
She has done so well this week. She has already invited several people
to be baptized and though she doesn't love it yet, she has knocked
several doors! Woohoo! She is the best! Her boyfriend at home is also
taking the missionary discussions right now, at home, so if you could
pray for him, that would be perfect.

Paulina and Francelia

While I was waiting for her to come, I got to go to a different area so I wouldn't be alone, called Conroe! It was SO fun and crazy because everyone there loves Hermana Lowry (my companion from a while ago who is also my twin and sister and life, etcc) So specifically, I went to one of Hermana Lowry's recent convert's houses to teach her, Paulina, and she COULD NOT believe it. She looked at my tag so hard and even during the lesson she kept interrupting the lesson to say how she kept thinking I was "Lowry" hahaha and even more special was that Francelia, Hermana Lowry's other recent convert came to the lesson with us. I just felt so much love for them because Hermana Lowry always talked about them and it was so fun to meet them and be their friend.

Reyes

On Sunday we decided to match with our recent convert, Alicia! She's the BEST

Hna Vasquez

BARRERAS

Hermana Homer!!!! Got to eat lunch with these girls :)

Saying goodbye to Hermana Kiser :( so sad. She is soooo special and we have the best memories together... I literally can't explain how much I love her!! She is life!

Elder Williams. We miss him too.

On Friday we took our recent convert, Adrian, to the temple for Faith Meets Families, and he loved it so much because it was his first time doing baptisms for the dead and he was able to be baptized for his uncle, as well as 12 other people. He says he can't wait to go back and do more! How special! If you're curious what baptism for the dead is, you can ask me, as well as look up a few scriptures in the bible about the spirit world:
1 Peter 3:18-19 and 1 Peter 4:6, that talk about Christ preaching to the Spirits in "prison"... These are those who have died without a knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Have you ever thought about how the vast majority of humankind hasn't had the chance to hear about Him? Do you think God loves them too and wants to give them a chance? He does! So they are being preached to as we speak, even though they have died. But what happens when they want to accept the gospel? They can, but they still need to be baptized! But wait... Their bodies are dead here on earth. They're only spirits.... This is where temples come in. The original church that Christ established also practiced baptisms for the dead. Pull out your bible and go to 1 Corinthians 15:29... Here, Paul casually mentions this, because it's so normal to them. He's teaching about the resurrection and how the reason WHY we do baptisms for the dead is because the resurrection is gonna happen! The dead will rise again. So we need to let them have the opportunity to be saved on judgement day. As Christ promises in John 3:5, one cannot be saved without being baptized by water and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost :)

If this makes a lot of sense to you, please let me know if you wanna find out more! Temples like these are ALL over the world and I know there's one close to you!