Hola Familia,
Well for transfer updates here it is: I am staying in Ventura. I am going to be in a companionship of three missionaries. Hermana P and Hermana H are my new companions starting tomorrow. I am the Designated Driver. Yay, TIWI!!! I am so grateful for Hermana P because she is a native speaker. I didn't know how I would make it through this next transfer not being able to speak the language and trying to help my companion. Hermana H was with me in the MTC and we didn't get along too great. Heavenly Father is trying to humble me. I will make the best out of it. It's all about my attitude.
Our week was great, we didn't reach our goal of 100 declarations but we got 53 which is really good considering the standard of excellence is 20 declarations per week. Knocking on doors is hard here in California. I love knocking on the Spanish people's doors. But you never know what to expect when an English person answers. This week we got an Athesist women who said no thank you to everything that we asked her. We also ran into people who are still very hard-headed about Prop 8.
I didn't get my package yet because they usually stop the mail before transfers. Some things that I will be sending home are letters from MTC up until now and some things that I can't have like the Spanish book that you sent me for my birthday. It isn't approved so I have to send it home and wait until I get home to read it.
The funniest thing that happened this week is I had to play the piano for a baptism that the elders had. We parked our car in the front of the church. After the baptism we had to go back to our apartment to plan. We were trying to get our car to open, then realized that we parked our car in front of the church, and here we were trying to get into a members car in the parking lot in the backside of the church! Funny!!
From studies this week, I learned that we need to sacrifice in order to have faith for our eternal salvation. We also need to have love with charity. It's what happens when you leave a companion. You grow and learn together and then you have to sacrifice in order to be humbled and to grow even more outside of the comfort zone. It's these days that I wish I could just call you and tell you what's going on and get your advice on how to move forward. But this is part of the mission; learning to grow and to become the person that Christ wants me to become. Sometimes, I just wish that I didn't have such a big heart. When I love people, I love them with all my heart and its hard to say goodbye even if it is for a short time or a long time. I just want to bawl my eyes out. You know me. Change is difficult. I wish I could deal with it easily. But it never happens the way I expected it too. Don't worry, I'll be fine. It will take a little bit but I know that Hermana Walker and I will be friends for life and even after. She lives up in Farmington and so I will visit her when we go visit Utah. But I am grateful for the opportunity that I had to work with her. She has become one of my best friends.
I love you and all that you are doing for me. I will have to give Hermana Walker's info so you can meet up with her or have her call you.
Love you muchisima,
Kenzer Lou
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