Week 45 (1/14/19): "Cookies are a tool of missionary work."

Seriously, cookies get you in so many doors. So your challenge for this week, should you choose to accept it, is to make cookies and choose a couple names from the ward directory you don't recognize and take them cookies. It seriously works wonders. 

So this week has been fun. I have never used so much Spanish in my life, so it is a huge growing experience. I think I caught about half of sacrament meeting. And then I got to play the piano for Primary, which was so fun! But there were definitely times when we were talking with someone and I caught so little of it. Also, food should be its own love language. The people here love to feed us. Seriously, they don't give you an option, you must eat. It's a good thing we do so much biking. 

We have done more biking than ever in my life. We were going to try to bike to Dinuba (15 miles), but Sister Harris' bike got a flat tire. And we redid our math and determined that we can drive to the closest part of Dinuba, park, and bike everywhere else. But we were willing to bike it! (Well, I'm not sure if I could have actually made it, especially with the bike I was on, but I was willing to try! I have since gotten a bike that is the right height.) And I didn't get my skirt caught in the chain at all this week, so that was a plus. 

We got a super amazing referral from sisters in the Los Angeles Visitor's Center! They called us and told us that they'd taught him twice and he wanted us to come visit and teach him more and bring him a copy of the Book of Mormon! And so the sister I was talking to wanted to set up a group chat on Facebook, so she asked my name so she could find me on Facebook, and we had a mutual friend, and I asked how she knew Sister Molina, and it turns out she trained one of my best friends from college! I think the other missionaries there were laughing at us a little bit, but it was seriously a tender mercy for me. 

It's been such a blessing to be here thus far. I absolutely love it here, and I know this is where God needs me. 

Love you, bye! 

Sister Cate