Hi! 03.30.2009 (Email)

My Family,

Hi! How are you? I hope that you´re all doing wonderful. Things here are going well. I am actually in Roca. We came here for a zone activity before transfers next Monday. It should be good. We´re going to eat and everything, so we´re waiting for now.

Well... We have a baptismal date! Yay!!! We went and visited Cecilia and Antonela yesterday. Cecilia said she would like to prepare herself to be baptized May 2nd. Yay! She´s 28.

So we were able to talk to Antonela as well this last week. She is doing well, but it´s a little more complicated because she doesn´t know how to read. Cecilia is reading the Book of Mormon to her so that helps A LOT. We´re going to keep helping them progress. We haven´t really had the chance to meet with the rest of the family.

We have had a couple of appointments with Valeria, and her friend who lives with her, Laura. Laura is a member. She was baptized when she was like 12 or 13, and has been less-active since she was like 15. She´s 33 now, so it has been a while. As we taught them yesterday we talked more about the importance of praying and reading the scriptures. They both committed to read, so it made me happy. After so many years that Laura hasn´t been reading or praying, I´m happy that she´s starting up again. It´s funny how people have the same worries here as they do at home. People seem to think that they just don´t have time to read the scriptures! I assure them that although we as missionaries have a little different life right now, we were ¨normal¨before the mission and we had busy lives as well. We have to make time to read the scriptures. Even if it´s not for much time, it needs to be a daily thing. Then we can think about what we read all day. We just have to do it, no matter how much time we think we have. Anyway, It´s fun to take part in it all.

I have a favor to ask. Hno. Espinoza in my ward collects money from different countries, and I said that I could send a $2 bill from home. Is that at all possible? I do believe that there are several in my file at home. I´m thinking that you can just send it to the mission office normal in a letter like AK always sends letters. If it´s more complicated, don´t worry about it. :D

This last week in English was fun. Remember Clara and her daughters Cecilia, Marina, and Camila? It´s okay if not, it has been a while. Anyway, we have tried and tried to get them to church, and it hasn´t happened yet. So we were very excited when Marina and Cecilia came to english class! Even if they didn´t come for church yet, it was a good step that they entered the church. We gave them a tour afterwards, and they seemed to enjoy it.

It turns out that seminary is at the same time as english, so I think we´ll be changing the time of english here pretty soon. Both are good things, but seminary is definitely MUCH more important. We´ll see what happens. It is a little tricky teaching english, because I think there´s a pretty fair range of ability in the group. They´re all learning though, so I think it´s okay. Hna. Wilches helps me out too. She speaks english pretty well and understands the majority of what I say. :D

We found a lady this last week that had met with elders for quite a while, a while back. She actually read the entire Book of Mormon. Wow. We have another appointment with her this week so we´re praying that it goes well.

Have I talked much about Miriam and Lilen? It´s tricky because they´re 14 and 9, and their families really don´t have any interest. I don´t know for sure what to do a lot of times. I know that everyone needs to be baptized, but I want to be sure that they ¨endure to the end¨. They need to have a STRONG testimony if they´re young and are joining the church without their parents. We´ll see what happens.

Things are going well with Hna. Wilches. She´s a very good missionary. I told her that I think she has no fear. It´s great to be her companion. I love hearing her pray. Anyway, I think she´s getting a little nervous about going home in a week, but she´s trying not to think about it.

Did I mention that we´re having FHE as a ward every Saturday night now? We have only had two so far, but they have gone well. We as missionaries have been in charge so far, but we´re going to pass lessons and games onto members here before too long. We have had pretty good participation, so it´s great. Here´s a funny story. We played ¨Do you love your neighbor?¨the other day at FHE. They said that everyone with light colored eyes had to move seats.They assured me that I have ¨ojos claros¨. It made me giggle, because I have never considered my eyes to be light colored. Funny how perspective can change depending on where you live.

Mom, I liked what you write a while back about scripture study, and how we should be studying to get to know Jesus Christ better instead of studying just to put a check mark next to our ¨To Do¨list. Hna. Wilches and I were talking this last week about the importance of faith in Jesus Christ. We talk about commandments and blessings every day, that we receive from a loving Heavenly Father and His Son. We ask people if they would like to live with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ again. It all makes me think. It makes me think of the people that I trust in my life. I trust my family for example. I know I can trust you because I know you, I´ve been with you in many situations, how you handled the situations, and what you´ll do in the same situation in the future. I feel like I know you pretty well, and so I put my trust in you. Can we do the same with Jesus Christ? Do we know Him so well that we put our trust in Him without reservation? I have decided that this is part of the reason that the scriptures are so important. We need the scriptures to get to know Jesus Christ. We can learn about how He helped other people in the past, how He handled different situations, in order to trust in him 100%. It´s pretty incredible. We can all increase our faith in Jesus Christ, and do what He asks us to do. And we can help others do the same.

Thanks so much for your love and support. Thanks for your examples. I love you and pray for you. Read the scriptures and pray always. ¨Be of good cheer. Make it a happy day¨.

Love always and forever,
Hermana Jana Banana Pincock

Hola! 03.23.2009 (Email)

Hi everyone! How are you all doing? I hope you´re all doing great. First off, before I forget, we got a letter saying that our families shouldn´t send anything FedEX or DHL (?? I don´t remember if that´s how it really is and I don´t have the paper with me). I don´t even know how you have sent things in the past, so I don´t know if it applies. Anyway, I guess it´s because it´s pretty pricy to receive them. We do have to pay to receive packages, and I believe the price depends on the size and weight. I don´t know for sure, but until now, I haven´t had any problems. So no problem. :D

Things here are going well. I tried out my first ¨Daily Dose¨ english class this last week, and I think it actually went really well. I really didn´t know how to do it, but I think it went well. It was actually perfect because more people had gone this week as well. We learned ¨Introducing Yourself¨. Good times. This way, the ¨students¨are actually talking the whole time instead of just writing and listening to me talk, so I think it´s much better this way. We tried to make it fun, and not scary to talk a different language in front of other people. It turns out it´s hard for everyone to talk in a different language! :D No really though, it made me very grateful for the progress that I have been able to make with spanish since I started the mission. I know that I haven´t done it on my own. I have definitely received A LOT of help from Heavenly Father.

Nyah, Happy Birthday!!! ¨Que los cumple feliz, que los cumple feliz, que los cumple feliz, que los cumple feliz!¨ (That was me singing) :D Two years old! I´m sure that you´re going to celebrate, or have already celebrated again since the trip to Colorado where you celebrated both she, and Shari´s birthday. Wow, I can hardly believe it has been two years already. How time flies by.

No, we still don´t have a bishop. However, Hna. Mansilla, is basically the bishop, and things are going well. Some less-active members have gradually starting coming to church recently, so we´re excited about that. We´re going to keep working on it.

We have been really blessed to be working more with members recently. I don´t remember if I have written about the Rocha family. We met Aide, the mom, in the street and she said we could pass by her house. We had gone two times. Her husband, Fabian, has really been more interested in everything. Anyway, we went yesterday with Sylvana Espinoza, a RM who´s like 27, to teach them again. We got there, and it was pretty sad. Fabian wasn´t there, and Aide told us she´s very content where she´s at, and she has no intentions of learning more or changing anything. It about breaks my heart everytime it happens, because I´m convinced that they really have no idea what they´re rejecting. Because if they really understood, I don´t think they would reject it. But we can´t learn and open their hearts for them. It´s their responsibility. We as missionaries have the responsibility to teach clearly and with the Spirit, and the rest is really up to them. So sad. I just wish they would understand!

So I think I mentioned in the last letter that we have started going to a neighborhood, that missionaries haven´t been in for like 3-5 years. I must say, that I´m thoroughly enjoying it! We feel like we´re opening an area in a way. :D We have found some really good people.

Yesterday for example, we were in this neighborhood (Barrio Colonizadora). We were knocking at one door, where nobody was there, and noticed a lady a little further down the street. So we started talking to her, Antonela, and her daughter, Cecilia. They had talked to elders a while back. Then we started teaching her son, Manuel, who even went to church before. As we were teaching the restoration, another son, Ruben, got there, and he listened into part of the lesson as well. It turns out that Ruben, is the boyfriend, of another investigator´s sister, and we already had an appointment to go to their house to teach this coming Tuesday. So anyway, very interesting. The neighborhoods here kind of remind me of Whitaker road. Everyone´s family! So anyway, we´re working and finding, and I know we´re going to find people that are willing to study, search, and keep commitments, so they can progress in the Gospel.

We´re still teaching Hna. Panero, who needs to get married before she can be baptized. She´s progressing. I don´t want to leave here until she´s baptized!

We´re still teaching Carla Ruiz, her daughter-in-law, as well. Lisa, Carla kind of reminds me of you. I´m not sure why, but she does. One of her little kids even reminds me a little bit of Hallie. It´s fun. :D Anyway, she´s trying to decide what to do as well. She wants to be baptized, and she´s trying to make big decisions in her life.

Do you remember the Ormeño family that Hna. Ramirez and I met a while back? The less-active family? Everytime that we go there, we ask again if they´re reading their scriptures and praying. This is so important! Well, if they can´t say anything else, at least they can say we´re persistent!

I finally ordered a new book bag for my scriptures, etc. the other day. My other one had really had it. I think I had sowed the strap back on like three times, and the zipper was broken. But now I have a brand new one. :D Fun fun.

I had the same question about the spirit world as well. In Preach My Gospel¨ it really doesn´t specify if it´s a ¨state of mind¨or actually two different places. After reading DyC 138 I came to realize that there are definitely two different places. Kind of tricky sometimes.

Hna. Wilches is doing well. She is a great companion. I can´t believe that a month has already gone by. I would love to be her companion for another transfer, but I´m afraid we don´t have much of a choice. haha. She´s a good egg. :D

So I hope you are all doing well. From what I hear, it sounds like you´re doing well. I´m grateful to be a missionary. I want to be better and improve everyday. It´s part of the adventure. Thanks for your examples and love always. I´m grateful for having a lot of wonderful teachers in my life. Remember I love you all ALOT and that I know that this church is directed by Jesus Christ. There isn´t any other way to live with our Heavenly Father again, but by Him. How blessed we are that we can change, and become better every day. Love you lots!

Love Always and Forever,
Hermana Jana Banana Pincock

Hola! 03.16.2009 (Email)

Hola! How are you all doing? I hope you´re all doing well. Well, I´m in Roca because our district is going to have a little activity, so while we´re waiting for it to start we decided to start internet. I don´t know that I have that much time, so if I don´t write much right now, I´ll be sure to write more later.

Well, how did your talks go for stake conference? I´m sure that you both did wonderful. I actually ended up speaking yesterday as well... :D Saturday night about 10:00 I found out I was speaking the next morning at 9:00, so there wasn´t much preparation, but I think it went just fine.. I spoke on members and missionary work. Why ít´s important, and what the members can do.

I got letters from Shari, Lisa and Jordan, and AK as well. Very fun. I got the blog of all the fun things Nyah is doing. And Hallie - not a huge fan of the sand? And I´ve heard a little about the Denver trip. Good times.

Happy Easter! :D I got the package from Mom and Dad with all the yummy easter candy. Gracias! And of course, all the english stuff. I honestly haven´t had time yet to really check out the english materials, but I´ll do it as soon as I can. I´m excited to use all the stuff. Gracias!

AK, a bummer that things didn´t work out with Darci. Hopefully you´ve found someone else by now.

Well, we had a good week this week here in Allen. We decided to start working in a neighborhood that we really hadn´t worked in before, and things are going really well there. We have found some really great people so we´re excited.

I´m really enjoying getting to know the ward members better. There are some great people here in Allen. I am definitely learning about wards, how they function, and how I can help wards both now and after the mission.

I really have a testimony of the importance of visiting and home teaching. People need individual attention!

Yesterday we went on ¨splits¨and it actually went really well. I went with Hna. Moreno, our ward mission leader´s wife. As we headed off I told her we were going to do contacts in the street, and asked her what she thought about it. She kind of just looked at me like... What?? It made me giggle. But we did it and she helped a ton. She joined the church after already being married, but I´m pretty sure she would have left on the mission had she had a chance.

The splits actually went really well. I felt much better prepared this time than the first time I went without Hna. Celis. Things went well for Hna. Wilches as well and we found some new investigators. Yay!

We were eating lunch the other day with two sisters - Hna. Gabriela and Nilda Acosta. They were asking about my family again, and Nilda jokingly asked if I have any brothers. I assured her that I do, that he´s about her age, but if she wants to marry him she´ll have to learn english, or he´ll have to practice his spanish. Haha It made me laugh.

Lets see, Lisa reminded me that I never really wrote my new years goals. I think one of mine should be better posture as well. :D I did write some goals down, but I need to look at them more often. I want to improve my spanish - just a better vocabulary over all. I want to be more confident and bold in my teaching, but do so in a loving way at the same time. I want to be more patient and humble. I read a talk this week by President Ezra Taft Benson that talks about pride and it really opened my eyes. It was written in 1986 I believe, and it is a great talk. I believe it´s called ¨Beware of Pride¨ if anyone´s interested. I basically just want to be a better person over all. A better instrument in the hands of the Lord. It´s a constant battle isn´t it? I also want to be a better companion. I want to think about other´s needs before my own.
Needless to say, I have lots of work to do! It should be a good year.

I also read Pres. Monson´s talk from the last ensign about prayer and faith. Prayer really is important. You´re all praying and reading your scriptures every day right? :D

Dad, I love that you´re still playing soccer every once in a while with the Spanish branch. You´re playing much more soccer than I am! It´s interesting to be surrounded by a language that you don´t understand every once in a while. It´s a good reminder not to take our native language for granted. :D

I thought it was interesting because when Elder Scott was here he told us we should be doing our personal study in our native language, no matter how well we know spanish, because the Spirit can speak to us better that way. It´s the truth.

I love hearing from all of you. I love hearing what you think. The things that make you giggle, trials, thoughts... how the life is. The mission is great. I´m grateful for trials, because they help me appreciate the really good times as well. Hna. Wilches and I are really working here in Allen, and we´re starting to see miracles. Thanks for your good examples. Mom and Dad, thanks for raising us in the gospel, and for always being strong. And thanks to all the generations before hand, that made it possible for me to be born into the gospel! I love you all, and I´ll write again next week. :D

Love Always and Forever,
Hermana Jana Banana Pincock

P.S. Jordan, I¨m thinking of starting up the ¨peace¨and ¨I love you¨sign.

Hola! 03.09.2009 (Email)

Hi! How are you all doing? Things here are going well. First off, Shari and Orrin, Happy Anniversary this week, and Shari, happy birthday! O... Feliz Cumpleaños! I hope both days are wonderful. And Happy Birthday to Grandma Stephenson as well. :D Lots of good days this week.

Lets see, to answer couple of questions. Meals are pretty much figured out. As of now we don´t have lunch on Wednesday or Thursday, but it´s okay. It´s better than it was! Have I mentioned that everyone works with fruit? They´re either actually picking the fruit, or sorting it and preparing it to be sent to the other countries. So this is the season that everyone is ALWAYS working. So maybe we´ll have more lunch opportunities towards the end of April when the fruit season isn´t in full swing. We´ll see.

I´ve never seen so many crazy pears in my whole life. Did you know there are red and green pears? Pears that look like apples? Pears that look a little like bananas? Pretty funny if you ask me. But they´re all delicious. :D I took a picture of different pears a while back. I don´t know if I sent that picture as well...

I´m so glad you got the CD of pictures okay! I guess that means I can delete the pictures off my camera now. I didn´t want to delete them off my camera until I was 100% sure that there are copies safe somewhere. I have another CD here as well that I assume works great as well.

My favorite argentine foods so far? There´s a type of meat, called Milanesa. There´s Chicken milanesa, or basically like beef. Anyway, it´s a thin slice of different kinds of meat, and then they put it in a type of bread crumb thing with different seasonings. Then they fry it, or put it in the oven. So anyway, my favorite is the chicken milanesa, and above it they put a tomatoe sauce and cheese. Delicious! And we ALWAYS have bread (basically french bread) when we eat lunch, and with milanesa we eat mashed potatoes alot. Of course, since I´m an Idaho girl, I love the mashed potatoes. Can´t go wrong there.

Alright, so about mission work. :o) We worked hard this week! We changed the way that we count lessons, so now they´re only a lesson if we actually enter the house, with prayers and everything. So now, we´re realizing how much we´re actually in the houses, and how much we´re out and about talking in the street. It´s good, because we need to be in the houses, where there aren´t distractions and they can feel the spirit. More motive to get in! So we´re working on that.

We found some new investigators this week, so that was good. We have an ¨area chica¨that we´re knocking on the doors, and things are going pretty well there. We have found more people recently who met with the missionaries before. Elders mostly. It´s good to see the fruit of other people´s hard work.

Oh here´s a story. We need to keep inviting more people to english. As of this last week, there was just Hna. Wilches and I, and three other 12-year-old girls. One a member, and the other two aren´t members, Paula and Rocio. The member, Maria, is actually friends of the other two. Anyway, we always start with a song and a prayer, but other than that, we don´t talk much about religion. Sunday, as I was playing prelude music before sacrament meeting started, Paula walked in to sacrament meeting! Wow, quite the surprise! Maria, the member, did everything on her own as far as inviting her and everything. I´m so proud of her! We´ll see if we can get into the house of Paula so we can teach her and her Mom. :D

Carla Ruiz is still progressing. We´re really talking to her, and Hna. Panero, alot about marriage, and what they want for their lives. Their goals. Carla went to church this week for the THIRD time in a row. Yay! She learns super fast, and is great. She´s reading a good amount in The Book of Mormon and the book ¨Gospel Principles¨. We´re excited for her.

I forgot to mention last week that Hna. Wilches and I went for a while last Saturday morning and cleaned the church. It was actually very enjoyable. We were cleaning the outside because it REALLY needed it. It looks much better now, and it was pretty funny in the process. Trying to reach high places without a ladder can be interesting. hahaha

This last week in english we learned about the seasons of the year, and what we do. Vocabulary like ¨leaves, snow, rain, etc... ¨pretty simple. I try to teach some kind of song to liven things up and help them to remember. So guess what song I thought of? I originally thought of ¨Once There Was a Snowman¨ but then decided not to, because it´s summer here. So guess what song we sang! ´Once There Was a Tulip¨!!! Lisa, I thought of you, and giggled as I taught it. I´m afraid they didn´t want to do the actions with me. haha

Everyone, thanks for the letters! Shari and Orrin, good luck house shopping! That´s so exciting! AK and Ryan, Nyah is doing so many fun things. I love that she´s walking backwards. It´s a pretty fun trick. Give Nyah and Hallie a hug and a kiss for me.

The temperature is cooling down here, and I´m LOVING it! I love the fall! The leaves are thinking about changing colors. It turns out that they don´t carve pumpkins here. Crazy. Funny how I don´t realize that culture is culture, until I´m in a different culture!

We had a great lesson with Clara and one of her daughters the other day a well. There are things that she would like to be different in her family. As she explained some of her concerns, it made me SO GRATEFUL for my family! We talked about how she can see changes in her family. We told her that if she wants to see changes, she has to make changes in her life. As missionaries, we´re always inviting people to make changes in their lives (repent) in order to find more happiness and purpose in their lives, and most importantly, in order to come unto Christ. We talked about how she can´t expect things to be different, if she´s not willing to make changes! It made me think. Often times when I´m teaching I realize that I should be directing my words to myself as well. Change has never been easy, but change is good. We need to change every day - for the better! What changes do we want in our lives? What are we going to do in order to achieve those changes?

Well, it´s time to go. I love you all a ton. Thanks for your continued love and support. Remember that I have a testimony that the church is true. It´s true, I miss you all, but I need to be here. Choose the right, and like grandma always wrote in her letters, ¨make it a good day¨.

Con Muchísimo Amor, Para Siempre,
Hermana Jamba Pincock

Hola! 03.03.2009 (Email)

My Family,

Hi! How are you all doing? So sorry that you´re getting this email on Tuesday instead of Monday. I forgot to write last week that I had zone conference yesterday so our preparation day is today. Sorry, and I hope you weren´t worried wondering what in the world happened. But, all is well. :D

Well, about Scotty. Thanks for writing to tell me about him. I was a little surprised, but not too surprised. I´m sure it was in his best interest. He was old. I hope you gave him some loves for me too. Good little puppy. :D

Well, where to start? It has been quite the week. Gabriela Acosta that stayed the night with me is thirty. She´s wonderful. She really helped fill me in on the ward a little bit more, so I feel like I understand the dynamics a little bit better. That´s nice. She also had some really good advice that she learned from the mission. It was a good experience.

Then Hermana Wilches got here Tuesday morning! She´s so great! I can´t believe it has only been a week since she got here. It seems like so much has happened. She´s from Bogotá Colombia, and has been a member of the church all her life. All her family members are members as well. She has two older sisters and an older brother. She´s the baby too. :D I´m already learning A LOT from her. I´m enjoying it.

So Thursday we had the amazing opportunity to have a meeting with Elder Richard G. Scott and Elder Bowen, the area president for southern, South America I believe. It was so good. It was a meeting for just the missionaries here in the area, and I really enjoyed it. And I got to shake his hand. :o) I lead the music, and thoroughly enjoyed that. Singing ¨Called to Serve¨ with lots of missionaries and ¨Hark All Ye Nations¨is just flat out fun.

Elder Scott taught us several things. He talked to us about receiving personal revelation for ourselves, and for our areas. He talked about how the Spirit talks to our hearts and to our minds. He said that usually we receive a general impression - a feeling or a general thought. When we act on that impression, or obey, we have the right or ability to receive more guidance. He talked about writing down the inspiration that we receive, because as we write we record it, and show to Heavenly Father that we value what we´re receiving.

He talked about following the Spirit as we´re teaching, and how we can´t teach, or atleast make a difference as we´re teaching, without the Spirit. It´s true.

He also talked to us about how we study the scriptures. We shouldn´t just read to read, but read and study the scriptures. For example, he decided that we were going to read scriptures to learn how to be worthy of and have the Spirit. We then made a list of the things we need to do as we read and studied the different scriptures he had. It was good.

He talked to us about our decisions after the mission, and how we need to apply the mission and the things we learn to life afterwards. We shouldn´t just return to the person we were before. Heavenly Father teaches and stretches us for a reason on the mission. I hope I´m a better person after the mission than I was when I started.

The young men/ women and the adults here had another meeting with Elder Scott but we weren´t invited. :D I heard it was great though. Amazing.

Oh, and something fun about being there, was that I got to see Hermana Riquelme again, and I got to meet her companion, Hna. Morrill. Did I mention she´s from Logan? It was so good to see Hna. Riquelme again. I just love her. I saw her again yesterday, and I must admit I wasn´t that excited to say bye to her because the chances of seeing her again before she goes home are pretty slim. It´s okay though. We´ll write.

And then yesterday, we had a meeting with Elder Marcos Aidukaitis (sp???) who´s in the first quorum of the seventy. He gave a talk this last conference on the power of the Book of Mormon in missionary work. Wow. Where to begin. It was an amazing meeting.

He started off by asking us if he could be blunt with us, without worrying about offending anyone. We assured him it would be find. He started by talking to us about what our purpose is as missionaries. He summed it up in 3 words as Baptize, Confirm, and Retain. He then took it down to one word: baptize.

He talked to us about our goals. Every night we set goals for the next day. He asked us how many of us had set goals the day before, and had us all stand up. He then asked us who of everyone had met their goals. He then asked who had had a baptism in the last six weeks. Not many.

We in the mission as a whole, and myself included, need to make a lot of changes in the way we are doing missionary work. We read the scriptures that say the ¨Field is White already to harvest¨and what it really means. It´s ready, right now, in the Neuquen mission - in Allen.

He said in a meeting he was in with Elder Perry one time, Elder Perry said that one third of the entire world is prepared to accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One Third! We justify, and make excuses a lot of times for why things aren´t happening in our area. That other areas are easier, etc...

He talked to us about our faith. In the scriptures it talks about the faith of the missionaries, and the affect it had on their areas. THOUSANDS were baptized. It really made me take a look at myself. If one third of Allen is ready for the Gospel, and an apostle of the Lord said that it is, Hna. Wilches and I have a lot of work to do. Often times we´re too content with what´s happening, and we don´t have the vision that Heavenly Father has.

I think it´s fair to say that his talk yesterday has definitely left me thinking about who I am, and what type of missionary I am and should be.. There´s never a better time than now to change and become a better instrument in the hands of the Lord right?

I´m so grateful for a living prophet, and apostles who guide the Church of Jesus Christ today. I know that they are inspired by our Heavenly Father.

One quick story. Sunday night we were planning for how many new investigators we were going to find yesterday. We prayed, and we both thought three.. We thought to ourselves -- really? Three? We´re only going to be out working for a couple of hours... But we set the goal anyway. Last night we were knocking in our ¨area chica¨and we met a lady named Cristina. She let us in. We met her daughter Lucía and her sons Cristian and Juakin (sp???). We taught the restoration to them, and her husband came in for the last little bit. So with Cristina, and two of her kids that are over age 8, we have, yes, three new investigators. Miracles.

Mom and Dad, good luck with your Stake Conference talks. It´s this coming Sunday right? You´ll both do great.

Thanks so much for everything. I´m excited to work here in Allen with Hna. Wilches. She´s an amazing missionary and she´s helping me to become a better missionary as well. The Church is true, and Heavenly Father is a God of miracles. I´ll write again next week!

Love Always,
Hermana Jana Banana Pincock