Sevilla, Ashlee

Hey A tropical storm came through this week so on Tuesday and Wednesday we had to stay inside all day. Where we live the connection is super bad so the days were filled with a lot of "What?? It's cutting out" through the phone back and forth. But a huge miracle is that the power never went out! Usually when 1 drop of rain comes, the power goes out in an instant but throughout the storm it didn't! We had a lot of zoom meetings to have a district council, a zone council, and a mission council, and it was a huge throwback to be in so many zoom meetings haha. The storm sucked up a lot of our week so I don't really have a lot of exciting things to share. We had an exchange on Thursday! We also saw a dead body in the street on Monday Night :(. My top 10: 10. Spiritual work  works 9. God has a perfect plan, always 8. God truly is the same yesterday, today, and forever 7. Christ magnifies my efforts 6. How to have faith, hope, AND charity 5. A sense of urgency !!!  4. The...

What's up On Tuesday we had an exchange with the hermanas we live with and I love them! They are awesome! Then we had another exchange on Friday! Presidente Chaverri wants all the leaders to be doing 2 exchanges a week, so we've just been going from place to place! We had another MLC on Friday to talk about how we can implement some of the things we learned in zone conference to the mission and a few other matters. It was great. And WED GOT BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!!! It was awesome!!! He was so ready! Last week we taught him and asked him to pray about the Book of Mormon and he said "No I don't have to, I KNOW the Book of Mormon is true, it's like a key to the answer!" And then when we taught him about temples he was so fascinated and loved it. It was really tender. When he showed up on Saturday he had such a big smile on his face and was SO excited. He had such a big face of joy and relief when he came up from the water. It was such a happy day!!!!! He's t...

Hi! This week was so busy! It literally felt like 3 weeks long, so much happened. We had MLC on Wednesday where we focused a lot on exchanges and how we can get the most out of them! It was great! The next day we had zone conference, my last one :'). It was fun to see everyone and learn from the Chaverris! My companion and I gave a training on exchanges, how we all are gonna see an increased number of exchanges in the mission, and how we can get the most out of them.  After zone conference we got stranded by our Uber driver. We had some things with us and the guy was trying to get us to pay 200 pesos extra for the extra stuff we had, no way! We figured things out then we left the mission office and sat in traffic for such a long time, Santo Domingo traffic is the worst. After like 40 minutes in traffic, he pulled over and told us the ride originally said 50 minutes and it's been 50 minutes so he's gonna leave us there. ??? Because of the super heavy traffic, in 40 minutes w...

Hi!! This week was awesome! We were able to reach a lot of our weekly goals which was so great! We invited a lot of our friends to come unto Christ through baptism and they accepted!! Unfortunately we're still working on the coming to church part but this week we're gonna go ham on that.  This week we went to a reallllly far part of our area to meet up with a media referral and it was in the literal boonies, we had to take an Uber to get up there haha. Perry and I saw on the map that there's a way that connects the boonies we were at to another part of our area that connects to the main road, where we can get transportation, so we tried it and ay ay ay. It was a 45 minute trek to get from A to B, but it was fun! We got to walk through a jungle and cross a stream to get there but we made it. Definitely never doing it again but it was a fun one time thing! Hermana Perry finished her mission ahhhh I am so sad I love that woman with my whole heart, she has impacted my life for ...