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Hola!!
  It's only been a couple days but so much still happens. I also just realized how scatterbrained my last email was and I'm sorry this one probably will be too. I didn't even explain my last email title! Ok so quick experience, when the English elders sent us over to find this lady named Amber, all we knew about her was that she owned a jeep. One day we decided to try and find her in the apartment building behind the jeep. And no joke, the first door we knock on, Oh sisters! I've been meaning to call you! MILAGROS. So my last email title, "too much" along with just a lot happening lately, is inspired by her. She has a super cute relationship with her son, and instead of embarrassing each other by calling out "love you!" when they say bye, they just say "too much!" Sooo cute. 
  Anyway, we had [S]'s baptism this Saturday! Finally! It was so beautiful, quite stressful though since her family was late, but it was so wonderful to see her say she felt so happy afterwards. She's super special. Other news, one of our favorite investigators told us yesterday that he's moving and I cried!! We felt inspired to ask him to be baptized before he leaves, but we chickened out, so then we called him that night and invited him to be baptized. He said he wants to, he just really wants to be ready so he said he would pray about it. This morning we got a text that said, "Gracias por ser parte de esta gran experiencia en mi vida, se que como misioneras es lo que hacen, es hermoso que puedan darle a la gente esperanza." He was basically thanking us for giving us hope, its so rewarding for us to see people's lives changed by following Jesus Christ!! Love the people in my mission, I never knew I could feel such joy and heartache. 
  This week I was thinking about why all returned missionaries can talk about is how amazing their mission was. And I figured out the answer: when Alma was comforting his fellow missionaries, it says in Alma 31:38 "he also gave them strength, that they should suffer no manner of afflictions, save it were swallowed up in the joy of Christ." No one ever said missions or life were easy, but no matter what happens, our joy can be swallowed up in the joy of Christ! I know that's true and I love you all,
Hermana Alley #Illuminaelmundo

[S]'s baptism!






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