Week 45: Arizona: bikebikebikebike🚲💨

 hello beautiful people!!!



• this week i accidentally turned 20. like wow, how did that happen?!! i spent the day on exchanges in via verde with one of my previous companions hna jenson. it was just INCREDIBLE i love Phoenix i really really hope i get to serve there. 

• we didn't have a car thursday, friday, saturday, or sunday. SO !! we BIKED. A LOT. its a 1.5 hr bike ride into our area. i am grateful we have bikes but im also even more grateful for our car hahhah 

• miracles: we met some really cool people while on bikes so that's a tender mercy! hopefully we will be able to meet with them this week!!

• transfer news came out! hna brandt and i are both staying in via linda & we are going to be sister training leaders wooooo

this week's quote is a bit longer but it just really touched me this week:

"Most of us know that when we do wrong things, we need help to overcome the effects of sin in our lives. The Savior has paid the price and made it possible for us to become clean through His redeeming power. Most of us clearly understand that the Atonement is for sinners. I am not so sure, however, that we know and understand that the Atonement is also for saints—for good men and women who are obedient, worthy, and conscientious and who are striving to become better and serve more faithfully. We may mistakenly believe we must make the journey from good to better and become a saint all by ourselves, through sheer grit, willpower, and discipline, and with our obviously limited capacities."

i am grateful for my Savior's faithfulness to me. i know He is mighty to save because He does it for me every day. the Atonement of Jesus Christ is for all of us, do not go a day without partaking of this precious gift.


im sorry this is so short but today has been so busy. i hope you have a beautiful Thanksgiving!! i am so grateful for you!! hug your loved ones extra extra tight!!

con mucho amor,

hna zayas








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