"This is the last time I am coming to church. I don't want to do this anymore."

Here is my pic for Marci and Landon's Harry Potter party!

We were asked to help set up a haunted hallway at an adult dare care center. It was lots o fun!

 SPOOOOKY

 Aunt Kayloni gave us some pumpkin pancake mix that we saved for this morning. They were delicious!!

Ok. In the words of Marysa Barfuss, I am going to keep this real. This was a tough week! Here is my Missionary Work Real Talk for the week. We had worked really hard to get a part member family and one of our investigators to Stake Conference. The part member family cancelled 10 minutes before conference and the investigator (that I have been working with since Mayo) came to conference, but out of the blue he walked out. We chased him down and he told us, "This is the last time I am coming to church. I don't want to do this anymore." We thanked him for his time and told him it was not time wasted. We let him know he could call us if he ever needed anything or had any questions. We shook hands, and then he left. 

We went back to watch the rest of Stake Conference. We sat in the very back of the gym and I sat on my metal chair and cried. My plans of having the best transfer of my life seemed to be crumbling to pieces. I am not telling you this to have a Hna Barfuss pity party. I am telling you this because in that moment I think I felt the tiniest bit of just how much God loves every one of his children. Pain in an inevitable part of loving people. I love that investigator. He has had his ups and downs, but it hurt my heart to see him walk out the church doors, and I can only imagine God's pain as he sees his children turn away from Him. God loves us so much. This work has so little to do with me and so much to do with God rescuing His children.

So missionary work isn't all baptisms and butterflies, but it is beautiful! I love being a missionary. The past 17 months have taught me just how involved God is in our lives. He is in the details. He works so hard to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. 

Look who I saw at Stake Conference!

I love you mom! I hope you have a happy halloween. I am happy and enjoying the cooler weather AND RAIN here in Noho :)

CON MUCHO AMOR

   Hna Moo

This random parade went by our apartment. It must have been catholic holiday! They all had these capes with the Virgen Guadalupe on them

Here are some beautiful song lyrics: 

not now, but in the coming years

it may not be when we demand

we'll read the meaning of our tears

and there, sometime, we'll understand

why what we've longed for most of all

eludes our open pleading hand

whatever silence meets our call 

somewhere, sometime we'll understand

so trust in god through all thy days

fear not; for he doth hold thy hand

though dark thy way still sing and praise

sometime, sometime we'll understand

sometime we'll fall on bended knee

and feel them graven on his hand

sometime with tearless eyes we'll see

what here we could not understand

so trust in god through all thy days

fear not; for he doth hold thy hand

though dark thy way still sing and praise

sometime, sometime we'll understand

though dark they way still sing and praise

sometime, sometime, we'll understand