Week 61: Phoenix: give yourself some grace my friend 🌼

 feliz lunes mis amores!!

oh i just love my mission. the weeks just go by too fast and that makes me sad. pero esta bien!! we are just going to love every moment!!

this week has just been THE BEST. i am still trio-ing with sister rose and sister bolton, who are honestly now hermana rosa y hermana bolton because they are KILLING IT with their spanish it has been so beautiful to watch:) having to suddenly add an english area has not been the easiest but it has been exactly what i needed. i am so grateful for my two companions, i have heard so many stories of trios who do not get along and how hard it is but honestly it has been like heaven we all get along SO GOOD.

we got bashed this week for 2.5 hours at a lunch lesson. luckily there was a member with us. but uh at least we got free lunch:)

but the spirit was just so strong in all the other lessons we had this week. the highlight was definitely yesterday's lesson with marcelo. we were outside teaching him about prophets when his friend humberto came up and got sooo excited when he saw us and was like "i used to meet with missionaries before!!!!!!!!" so we started teaching them about prophets and the book of mormon and they had so many questions and were just so amazed by what they were hearing. at the very end they just paused and commented on how peaceful they felt. in that moment i was like wow. i literally love being a missionary so much. the gospel gives us vision guys. it opens our minds to a correct understanding of why we are here, who we are, who God is, and what we need to do to be like Him. it is so pure. so simple. so good. 

mi cute compa hermana rosa has told me this a lot this week: give yourself some grace. sometimes i dont think we realize how hard we are on ourselves. the Lord sees every effort we make to become more like Him. so give yourself some grace this week friends:)

you are precious in the eyes of the Most High. dont you dare forget:)

con mucho amor,

hna zayas