April 24, 2017 Peace in a Storm

¡Hola mi familia y mis amigos!

Homies are Forever.
I love Hermana Davis so much
and we already has transfers coming up next week.
We are hoping we will stay together haha

   I hope you all had a wonderful week :) this was a really great week for being a missionary here in Minnesota. The weather was SO nice this weekend that I finally didn't wear tights! I have been debating if I could go outside without tights, and finally I got the opportunity to do so. It was so nice, because we have been able to be outside a lot more and there are so many more people outside who we can talk to. However, before the weather turned so nice we had lots of rain and we got soaked a couple of times being outside haha.
   

Happy Weather Warning week :) awkward tub pictures, am I right?

Also, this week was apparently weather week for testing the tornado alarms. Normally, every first Wednesday of each month the tornado alarm goes off just to test. But, on Thursday the alarm started going off!! Hermana Davis and I just had finished up studies so we were still in our apartment. We honestly were really confused and didn't think it was actually happening. Nevertheless, we went and sat in the tub and asked some of the members who lived nearby if we should be panicked. Little did we know (because we are missionaries and aren't able to watch the new every morning) that it was just another test :) So we took pictures, that I will attach, to document the embarrassing moment of sitting in a tub haha.

I kind of failed trying to make it look like
I was holding the smiley face but oh well haha

    This week was such a great week! We have been finding so many new people to teach and seeing SO many miracles! We are hoping and praying that we will continue to find those who are ready to accept this message. I know that as we continually follow the promptings of the Spirit and follow the Lord's guidance that we are doing what we are supposed to.  
     I would like to share this amazing experience that we had last Tuesday! Hermana Davis and I were at this apartment building because we were supposed to have a lesson with some one that we had met earlier that week. That girl ended up not being home; and, because we had already knocked this whole apartment building, we decided that we were going to leace. But we had a prompting to go up to the third floor because we heard someone vacuuming. It ended up being this lady named Roxanne. She told us that her husband had passed away 3 months ago from that day. And right before she came to clean this apartment, she visited his grave and she said a prayer that she would be able to just receive strength to keep moving forward. Then, we showed up in her life just a couple hours later. We had a wonderful discussion about what happens after this life and we were able to share some of our favorite scriptures from the Book of Mormon with her. The spirit was just so strong. She cried as she told us that she knew that we were sent by god to meet her and that God loves her very, very much. She accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon and that she wants to read it and discuss it with us eventually!! We haven't been able to set up another time to meet with her because she works so much, but I know that eventually down the road she will remember that two girls in dresses who followed the prompting to go talk to the person who was vacuuming the third floor!
  Something that I have been thinking A LOT about this week was how Heavenly Father always answers the prayers that we have. Even if it is in His timing and it may be in a completely different way than we would ever expect, He will ALWAYS answer us. I cannot comprehend HOW He does answer EVERY SINGLE PRAYER, but what I do know is that He will always answer us because He loves us all so much. In Matthew 7:7-11 it says,
"7. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
9. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
10. Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?"
I know that because Heavenly Father loves us all so much, that there are always great things in store for us. I know that we will always be the happiest when we align our will with His will. I know that the greatest gift that He has given us is His Son, Jesus Christ, and that as we continually rely on our Savior that we will always be able to find peace even among a great storm.

I love you all so much. But, more importantly, Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, love you all so much more! Have a wonderful week :)

con amor,
Hermana Duvall

Some of the Birdsell kids! We love Faith so much.
She is one of the Young Women in our ward
and we look up to her so much.
She has so much faith and love for the gospel :)

We took this picture after we got soaked walking around a trailer park
it had only been sprinkling throughout the whole time, but the last half of a mile
we had to run to our car because it started pouring... haha!

 Hna Alfaro is one of our favorite members.
She is heading off to Washington, DC this week. She is going to try
and find Jeremy somehow so watch out haha Jere.

7)

Abiu Espinal. We had a great lesson on temples
and why we have them and we all drew pictures of the temple.
Abiu is an amazing artist and was taking a little longer because he was adding
so much detail, so he hadn't finished drawing it when we took the picture.

Random sunset with a Book of Mormon reflecting in the window

Grace Bell! She is a cute lady that we met the other day.
She is from Jamaica.

We went out for ice cream with the Espinal Family.
Not everyone made it into the picture