Week 13 - September 12

Hi everyone!! How are you doing?

 This week has been rather interesting..... On Tuesday Hermana Starling
 found a bedbug in her bed..... It was only one, but it was definitely
 a bed bug :/ she saw it and screamed for me to come and see... We
 trapped it in a waterbottle where it exploded. It was rather exciting.
 We needed to disinfect our apartment because we weren't sure if there
 were more bedbugs. So we went to the store and bought 3 cans of bed
 bug killer spray and gloves and garbage bags and set off to work. We
 sprayed literally everything in our apartment. It was sooo strong that
 we had to sleep over at the apartment of another companionship of
 sisters. Oh and we also took everything that was made of cloth in our
 apartment (clothes, sheets, rugs, towels, etc) and put them in big
 black garbage bags in our car so all the bugs would die from the heat.
 The bags literally almost touched the ceiling of the car. Good times.
 We ended up sleeping at their house for 2 more nights and then going
 home. When we went back, we didn't know which bags our sheets or
 blankets were in so we slept with no blankets for one night. It was
 freezing. I have never been so grateful for blankets in my life as the
 next night. We ended up finding another bed bug while we were at our
 apartment, so we stayed with the sisters again. We bought more bug
 spray and sprayed everything again. So hopefully there aren't any
 more. So last night we finally slept in our own apartment again. Yay!

 So we were able to have 3 lessons with Jennifer last week and she is
 still progressing toward baptism. She is so willing to listen and do
 the things we ask, so she is still on track. Her baptism will be
 October 9th!!

 We had another lesson with Magali and she seemed to really like the
 things we taught her and says her heart has been more open.

 This week I have learned the importance of giving your heart fully to
 the Lord while serving a mission. I am still far from that point, but
 I hope I can continue to improve until I am entirely focused on being
 a missionary. It's actually quite a cool opportunity to be able to
 give all your time and energy to the Lord for a short period of time.
 And even for those who aren't serving full time missions, it's so
 important to make time for the things that matter most and will be
 most important in the end. We often don't think about them as being so
 important or we make excuses as to why we can't do them. These things
 are family, loved ones, prayer, church, studying scriptures, serving
 others and just in general trying to get closer to God. They are small
 and may not seem like they matter, but believe me, they do. If you put
 these things first in your life, everything else will fall into place.
 God has the power to do that :). He loves you and wants you to return
 to live with Him again someday. Try to become better each day by
 improving on just one thing. You will be blessed for it :)

 I love you all! Have a great week!