Getting Used to Cobblestone

Hola!

 Not a lot of time but I´m going to load some pictures for you.

Junin is beautiful place. Freezing, but beautiful. 

Couple things:

We live far, so sometimes we have zone meetings on the telephone. Singing the opening hymn this morning was interesting haha.

Went to the hospital in Junin and sang hymns for the patients who have mental illnesse there. One of them is the picture below, Sandra Fuego. She is a gem! Loves everyone. 

Celebrated Dia del Nino with the ward. We´re teaching several families who have kids and it was fun visiting with them and having them interact with the ward.

Well we´re working hard...

Hermana Morales and I have been working on visiting all the less active members in our hour area and saw miracles in the capilla this past sunday. We had knocked on a door of Hermano Ricardo who hadn´t been to church for 3 years and really did nothing but invite him to come to church for the next morning (it was about time to head back home) He responded with enthusiasm that it was about time he came back and he was ready. Yes! The next morning, there was Ricardo in the capilla. He had brought a friend who later agreed to listen to the lessons as well as a fecha for the 31 de augusto. His name is Claudio. These past months I´ve seen the change the spirit brings. Those who have gone inactive, or those investigators we have deferred- in that time where we´re not teaching and they´re not keeping those commandments- they´re not feeling the spirit like before. For Hermano Ricardo, it was plain as day that he had missed doing those things that invite the spirit. I´ve seen that, sometimes, all people need is an invitacion. Sister Morales and I have had some great conversaciones in the street. Some have accepted a return appointment, some not, but I don´t let the ones who don´t accept get me down. These are the moments that will prepare them for the day when they will accept the invitacion because of positive experiences before.

A couple things about Hermana Morales. She is patient and she is generous. I started this traslado and those were two attributes I noticed right away and continue to see day by day. It´s a part of who she is. I admire that.

I love Junin!

PS. Mom! Could you call my debit card? ha I forgot to let them know I´m in argentina already...the EECU. 

I´m glad the beach went well for all and that you´re being a missionary familia! Keep it up!

Love, Hermana Cleveland

pics. Guillermo, this boy was silent as a rock when we started teaching his mom. Had been 2 weeks when one day I noticed they had a couple tenis balls. I started to juggle and ever since that day we´ve been friends. He practices everyday and is begging to show me everytime we visit. He´s also obssessed with singing hymns. Great family!

Hi DIRT

Hola familia!

So the title of this letter is a little misleading because it´s not all dirt out here in JUNIN! That´s right. Traslados. I have left Castelar, traveled four hours to el campo. We´re on bikes. Ay! The city here is beautiful, so beautiful. and when we travel out of the city that´s when the dirt hits haha. We (oi! my new companion!) Hermana Morales and I biked nearly an hour to the edges of our area sabado and we were distraught to not have brought our cameras. Saw a beautiful river.

Ok. Hermana Morales is from Mexico. All her family son miembros. Are members?  Yeah. She´s 20, and has been here in Junin 2 more weeks than I. President opened up a new area. Our area book literally had 5 investigators in it the day I came. We´re total nubes out here and just working the dusty roads of Junin. Not a big fan of cobblestone streets- looks cool, but it´s not cool! Not on bikes. If I lived in Argentina, this is the place I would live. Charming :) A movie.

Well new area, we had three days to find, teach, do everything. And we did it! O those last few minutes of sunday when Hermana Morales and I were racing home was the moment I knew this transfer was going to be one in a million. Nothing better than a companion who has the desire to work. Found 2 BIG families just by knocking door and wow. I don´t know. Our small rama of 20 saw 40 in the capilla this past sunday?! Not often when half of the reunion is investigadores. What is happening here in Junin is special. God is a god of miracles.

Don´t have much to say except that I love this. It´s a blessing to serve. Ammon sure is an example for me. Talk about enthusiasm for la obra misional. I know we´re all children of God and that He loves us. 

I love you all!

Love, Hermana Cleveland

Yikes!

Weeeeeellll  hola familia! Currently writing from the lovely city of Moron. 

Ayer vimos un milagro cuando un miembro, una mujer jovena, habia invitada a dos amigas asistir la iglesia. Uno de sus amigas, Naomi, tiene un deseo aprender y eventualmente ser bautizado. Este es una ejemplo de un miembro missionera. Ella no tuvo miedo y solo vio la oportunidad extender una invitacion. We were so excited!

Members of the ward are coming out with us more. It´s a miracle, huge. Hermana Salas and I have plans to take photos of members being missionaries in action and putting it on our little wall in the ward. It´s going to be awesome! It´ll help the ward see what´s going on. Cuz there´s a lot going on...like..

We have a new mission leader. He´s enthusiastic out of this world and we´re really excited to see the ward be more unified. 

A young member of the ward invited two friends to church. One, Naomi, has a desire to be baptized. Wow! Member missionery at it´s finest. She saw the chance to invite and wasn´t afraid. We are so excited for her!

Worked with Hermana Rohm this past week, went on splits and wow I learned a lot. She just got to Argentina and was talking up a storm with people on the street. Ok, so not a storm, but she was talking and I learned a ton from her. Things you think you always know and then you realize there´s more. I was surprised by how eager she was to talk. What was interesting to watch was that the people were very receptive. She would walk by someone washing their car and say "como esta! Usted esta lavando su auto. Que bueno..." First they´d laugh, but then wonder- what message does she have that´s so important to say? She´s trying so hard. Being with Sister Rohm has shown me that the spirit speaks when we trust in him. No Fear!

 Being with Hermana Salas this past transfer has taught me the things I know, moments without her are moments when I really get a feel for the obra. This is the Lord´s work. And when we trust in Him we cannot fail.

Love you all!

Love,

Hermana Cleveland

Frozen Igloo

Ooooh family but it is cold down here!

Ok this week has been a flash.l One translado en argentina and 5 months in the mission. Too too fast. Seen milagros este semana. Seems every person I randomly decided to talk to has past story with the missionaries. The other days this lady ran into me and was so excited for us to come over...when is the soonest you can come? Here´s my dirrecion, number...everything. A dream come true for a missionary. We have also met with several less-active families and have had great experiences with them. Didn´t know it was a milagro that they allowed us into they´re home until after the fact. A member of the ward was shocked when we told him some of the families we´ve visited and are currently teaching- said for years they haven´t opened their doors to anyone from the church, especially the missionaries. Goes to show the Lord knows what he´s doing and that there is a time and a place for everything. People are being prepared. Watching one of these families, the rojas family come back to church and have a desire to be an eternal family has been a blessing from the Lord. Sometimes I look around and think how am I here, talking to these people, watching milagros happen...everything. 

Family I love you and I´m happy to hear about you! Enjoy the week together! Almost beach time!

Love, Hma Cleveland

Short and Sweet

Familia! 

I don´t have time for nada today, so I hope to respond to all of you all individually next week ok? Hold the emails! haha Catch-up work to do...I still love you all :)

Quote of the week  "Nobody practices more than professional golfers." 

Thank you president!

Ooooooook! Miracles of the week.

Almost finished with all my laundry today.

Sun!

Pablo and Leonor were baptized this week and are unhurt safe and sound in their homes this very moment. Pablo is 82 annnnnd Leonor is 91! That´s right. I haven´t talked about then much. We found them in our carpeta and decided to pass by. They are a funny pair, special, and they loved us from the start. You can´t not love Lenor y Pablo. For me to see their baptism...for them to have lived most of their lives and have the chance to be baptized. Clean!

What I´ve realized is that making mistakes is fine, to stop trying isn´t fine. Just like everything else, we need to try and try and try and try again until we become good at something. I enjoyed hearing President Packer mention that understanding the atonement, just like everything else, takes practice. How grateful I am that we´re not expected to be perfect! Only that we never stop wanting to be better. President mentioned he had an interview with an Elder who said he had really tried the past week and was feeling down after not seeing any success. He told this elder "lucky for us you weren´t Nefi!" Think about it. The kind of person who returns 1,2,3 times to Jerusalem despite the fact he might die each tme. I´m definitely not there...TRYING to apply what I´m learning. That´s the hardest part, requires trusting the spirit more than myself.

 I feel like it´s a miracle I´m here, doing the things I´m doing, with my wonderful hma salas from peru. This mission, it´s rules, president and sister carter, everything about it makes sense for why I was called here.The mission doesn´t need me, I need this mission. Learning everyday.

Love you all! 

Hermana Cleveland

Smile

Familia!

Milagros of the week

Not much rain

I found raison brand!! I found it I say

The work is a moving. we´ve really been working on fellow-shipping the ward. Missionary work has been kinda of dormant. This ward is small, but the tesimonies here are strong. They are diamonds in the rough. These people love to talk, they love their carne asada, they love their families. They are blunt and ask questions not because they´re trying to offend- they just want to know what´s going on haha. Honest people.I admire them for the pioneers they are. It´s not easy being a member of the church here. You really are one in a million. One member was called to open the first mission in Spain and later was married by Elder Packer to his wife in Utah. They had special plans to move back to the states, but Elder Packer told them not to. That they were needed here in Argentina and would be a big part of the missionary work here. I think that is so cool! This family reminds be of the gma and gma Boyer. They sure have sacrificed a lot for the Lord´s work.

O! Sister Salas is whipping me into shape. But with love ha. It´s the greatest. We work hard, the necessites of life have stopped becoming necessities. Leonor and pablo(80´s) came to church! It was a miracle. This Sunday t hey´ll be baptized. I keep thinking wow, that´s a whole life´s worth of sins being washed away. I´ve enjoyed teaching them, really helped me to teach with simplicity. They call us their chicas. :)  Today President Carter talked about the difference between serving an honorable mission and serving a sacred one. Losing yourself completely in the work. Physically, and more importantly, mentally. President is awesome. Tells us to forget it all!  I think he´s right. A year and a half that will shape the rest of my life. This isn´t my time.

I´ve learned that it´s the little things that make the big difference. It´s remembering the important unimportant details about a person´s life that show we care. I´ve learned that a smile changes everything :). Turns what might be taken as critisim into advice. Turns a boring conversation into a fun one. Having a smile changes the way the world sees- treats you, which then changes the way you see yourself. You don´t need a reason! Smiling for no reason often brings the best moments. Moments when you see a serious face crack a smile. And then- what?! We´re laughing. Laughing about nothing! The day has changed. I enjoy watching people on the street change as I interact with them. So SMILE today!

I love you family!

Love,

Hermana Cleveland

pic 1 oreo night

2- found a mouse trap behind my closet

This is the Place

Familia,

This is Hermana Cleveland informing YOU that this is the place. This is my mission and I LOVE it. My mind hurts from all this thinking.

Some details on hma salas:

She´s from pero. Lima pero :)

She works like no other missionary I´ve seen before.

It was HER idea to celebrate the 4th of july! We are for sure friends. (making some american food to celebrate. Including.... popcorn! She´s all about the popcorn for some reason I´m not to sure why haha)

K this is going to be short.

This week I had the chance to meet a young boy and his family. I can honestly say I love this family. They have nothing but the clothes on their backs. They don´t have much food. Their lives have been way harder than what I´ve ever known. I always knew that people didn´t have around the world, but this is the first time loving and being  close with a family who has literally nothing but a shack. We shared a little bit about how we´re all children of God that he has a plan for us and wants to bless us. As we taught the lessons the grandfather started to cry. O family, was I crying. It´s humbling to see people who don´t know when they´ll next eat. I feel sad walking in the streets, and at the same time all I want is to give. I really have everything. My life in comparison to some, many...it´s perfect. I am thankful to be here in Argentina because it has allowed me to value what I have. I´m not teaching these people, they are teaching me. Only a week and my experiences have giving me another perspective. I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how it changes and blesses the family.

I hope you´re all working hard and doing good things. Count your blessings! There´s no way in this world we could ever count them all!

Love you all,

Hermana Cleveland

ps. I don´t know what it is. Pictures won´t download on this computer. Next week maybe?

We are here! We are here! We are here!

Right about now I´m thinking this is the hardest keyboard I have typed on y et. And I´m in Argentina! It´s a shame I didn´t bring my camera with me and you could see all the things I´m seeing here. Day one was overwhelming. Sat  next to these two Argentinian princes (but really) and had several disucussions about the word of wisdom, book of mormon throughout our 10 hr flight. They got a kick out of our spanish(the plane probably had about 30 missionaries. Geez a lot!) Anyways, it was good.

More the the culture shock I´m experiencing "mission shock¨" This mission is so different. And it´s my mission! Only the best mission in the world! President Carter has got to be the strictest person I know in a good way. He reminds me of Uncle Larry alot. An accountant, successful, hardworking, no exucuses kind of guy. Him and Sister Carter are great. Another huge difference, I have gone from meticulously searching for that one person to suddenly living in a place where every person is that "one person." It¨s overwhelming. Mom and Pops don´t worry. President basically placed me in the richest safest place in the mission. Sister Salas and I are opening a new area here in Castelar. It´s the roads that kill you I tell you! I´m working on not tripping on the time, don´t want to get sent home for breaking my foot. Lame.

Well we put five people on date this week and had five at church. That would be 10 huge milagros! E y P ( in their 80s) are super sweet and are excited to be baptized in two weeks. E has a huge personality. They last time we visited her she wanted to measure the length of my legs. I´m tall. All the old people call me rubia (don´t know what the problem is here. everyone struggles with cleveland!

My favorite experience of the week was sister salas and I were walking, crossed paths with a couple women chatting up a storm. Kept walking...but still, minutes after I could not get that cross walk out of my head. I asked hma what she thought (litterally, didn´t have the words to say more ha) and she told me "you´re right. I felt something too. Let´s go back." Ended up finding a sweet woman, walking home who had had a history with the missionaries in the united states. She invited us over for a lesson. When I walk by people in the streets now without giving them a passalong card I feel guilty. These people literally are standing right in front of me waiting for me to say something. Serving in utah has helped me value more the circumstances I have here. I´m here to invite EVERYONE to come unto Christ. that´s my purpose.

Well, all in all I´m great. Alive. Still a little on edge with stuff. Took the train today for the first time. How many ppl can you shove into one station? Too many!!! Counted. Everything´s different, but good.
 I have never respected a sister missionary like I respect sister salas. She is meticulously obedient and does everything out of love. Lucky to have her. she is the best!

Love, Hermana Cleveland

Shout out to my friend Royce!! Oreo night is still alive. STILL! and it´s the greatest. Didn´t get it before...no one can get it  unless they´re here I think. yep.

(the mission has oreo night every thursday after planning...really random but I like oreos so all is well)

Fun Happenings

Fun happenings of the week. 

We had a family share some homemade slush with us and the hermano accidentally poured too much dye into my companiera's cup to make it green. She had green teeth the rest of the night. Our cita ended up canceling and the only positive we could see out of that is we avoided teaching a lesson with green teeth. Really awkward haha. The kids started calling sister arias hermana hulk.

Get this. We had a service project in the yard of a progressing family and we layed down sod, only we worked the dirt for hours before that. It was fun being with everyone but o we were zombies afterwards. That was hard work. The service project was for a family which first, finding them was a miracle and is a whole other story and second, it really opened theirs hearts to hear the gospel. We have a fhe with them tonight. 5 kids, it's going to be fun. Miracle family.

I feel like in the last 2 weeks I've done a lot of lawn mowing...4. Sister arias had never touched a lawn mower in her life so..o! You should have seen her face! She was laughing and smiling the whole time! The most random, happiest moment of the week, watching her mow grass!

Yesterday I was talking with an inactive member- Ana. We were having this conversation and it was all really random. I knew her mother wasn't a member. The whole time I was really concentrating on how I could really make a connect with Ana and her mother both. A small thought of mentioning family history work came to my head and at first I thought of how to connect it to our conversation. And there was no connection! Now that's the worst. I decided to come out with it anyway. Why not? Topic switch! And nowww we're going to talk about family history! It felt right. After I asked her if her of her mother had ever been interested in family history she looked at me with this shocked expression. Turns out  they had a conversation earlier that day, and her mother is super interested in doing family history work. she told me we had to be on the same wavelength (which we absolutely were not! ha!) and was super energetic about the whole conversation. The spirit helped me out. Felt good.

Every time I take the leap of faith I see the blessings. Finding the family lope was a miracle. Finding anyone here in layton is a miracle. I've learned I can do better...I need to have more faith sometimes. There's no feeling like following the spirit! Blesses my life and everyone I talk to when I do.

Love,

Hermana Cleveland

Hulk Sister!!

Practicing the Piano...mother, i can see your smile

Hola!

So it seems no one in the spanish ward plays the piano so I've played at 3 baptisms. And played for the primary last week. It's fun. The sister and I are being asked to sing a lot as well.

This week...don't even know when to start. I love my companions! They are my best friends.

Us visa waiters are actually leaving on the 17th of June. 

Tonight we're having an fhe with a familia. Teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is a family who feels like my family. I am visiting them again after my mission, and will write them during my mission. I love them. They're daughter is investigating the church, she is attentive and is learning fast. It's a blessing to watch people progress. Accepting to be baptized requires faith. It's interesting that we want to know it all before we make important decisions. There's no faith that way. And who knows it all anyway? We need to be willing to act. The  blessings will follow.

This week was a special one because for the first time Sister Aris willingly and openly shared a meaningful part of her life with me. Now we talk all the time, but this was a different. I feel close with sister Arias. I really do love her and know she loves me. (familia she hugs me randomly all the time, if only you could see!) We don't have a lot in common- but the important stuff we do. Same team.  We both want to be good missionaries and we both love our families. The language gap requires that I really focus. I've noticed the difference. Listen with love.

I love you all. I have been blessed beyond what I deserve and that's for sure!

Love, Hermana Cleveland

pics. Sister Adorable is adorable no?!

TUES

Happy Memorial Day!  

Ok! Yes I am aware it is TUES. Great day tues. We have sister's training today in Salt Lake so we're about to head over there. We worked pretty hard yesterday morning with bikes and lessons and them realized all the family history centers and libraries were closed for the holidays. Nice. So yes, it's tuesday.

Hopefully everyone knows by now but my visa is in. Have it and I'll be gone within 3 weeks! Not ready to leave....I love these families.

So the work is a moving. We basically white-washed a new trailer park yesterday and found 12 new investigators. Miracle! Also went out with Sister adorable and walker this week (hermana arias was sick) and we literally shouted the restoration to the rooftops (7 men were working on the roof) My confidence in the language is growing. 

Another miracle this week, we decided to go to an area where we had no investigators- nada. On the map it looked like an empty, gray area. So went to the area, decided we needed to pick a specific house, knocked, and guess who answered?! Vicky answered that's who! Little, tiny Vicky. She opened the door and said "ok, who sent you?" She was shocked to know that we not only randomly picked this area, but we also randomly picked her house. She is a sweet lady. Bore her testimony with us. Apparently it had been a very long time. Miracle.

Had the opportunity to sing with hermana walker and adorable in sacrament meeting. We sang "Nearer my God to Thee". We love singing. Sometimes when we're tracting and we're teaching people who are more distracted, we're offer to sing a hymn for them. Music invites the spirit. It's a different take on teaching new investigators. They are more receptive afterwards and we're able to have a different conversation.

It's a short one this week..hopefully the pictures make up for it.

Be good to one another! If life weren't hard we wouldn't have nearly as much fun! 

Love, 

Hermana Cleveland

Pictures. I pet a horse. Took a picture with my comp next to this awesome water fountain in the back of a trailer home. yep!

Walking the Streets of Temple Square. Ahora!

Hola familia,

We were able to go to the temple this morning and yeah, that's a highlight for the whole transfer. Love my district and the sister's I'm with.

I'm now comps with Sister Arias from Guatemala. Pushing spanish this transfer.

Here are two funny things that have happened this week (with sister Arias)

- Randomly plucked a flower off a tree and started eating it. Normal, I gave her a weird look and she said "Whaaat? Is good!" 

- This week a gardener had pulled a weed and she ran to it and thought it was a nice plant. At our next investigator's door, she genuinely offered them the plant. "You want? You can have!" And then continued to tell them how to plant and water it. It was so funny! All so genuine!

She has me laughing all the time. The other sisters too. Sister Walker and Sister Adorable. This transfer needs to stop moving so quick!

So this week I've been studying prayer and how to know when I'm receiving answers to them. Been writing down my prayers this week. Focusing on remembering what I'm praying for. Figure the more I remember, the more miracles I'll be blessed to witness. The change I didn't expect (at least not this much) is that I'm noticing blessings I haven't paid attention to before. I sure take a lot for granted. Seeing more blessings motivates be to share I have more with others. I feel like my mind is going crazy! The more I realize, the more energy I have to find. FINDING here in my area has been a struggle and has tested my faith. But I'm starting to feel like I'm finally getting over myself. All I want to do is talk anyone who will listen. It's the weirdest feeling walking down the street and looking (peripherals and all ha) for any sign of a moving living person. We found 5 new investigators this week! That's a miracle!

Well family, I love you. Hopefully you all can tell, I love my mission! Life is no breeze, but when you're working hard for something the positives can't be beat. 

Happy Mothers' Day

Since we were able to talk with Hermana Cleveland on Mothers' Day, no letter! but lots of pictures:)

Hermana Cleveland did have a very dangerous encounter with a lose wire on her bike, and will not be riding a  bike for a couple of weeks until the stitches heal. She was so excited on Skype to show us, haha

I'm sorry if this irks you....its quite disgusting.

...see, its not That bad; only five stitches

Stud

To the Best Family in the World

...Visa status= no visa. Kinda awesome because I really like serving here. TRANFERS!! are this week and nobody knows where to put all us visa waiters  because when they actually get here, we're off. Possibly mid-transfer. No clue. 

Ok I'm going to go ahead and describe a bit about the mission, where I'm living, that stuff. It's about time. Right now I'm with three other sisters living in a member home. It's weird because the neighborhood I live in is a bunch of mansions, up overlooking the valley right next to the mountains, but my whole day is spent in around four trailer parks. Layton is so pretty! I thought I was close to the mountains in Provo. Here I feel like I can touch them, that close. The weather is as bi-polar as it gets but esta bien.

We met with the Amaya's again today and basically they're top notch people. It's weird to think that Janeth is my age. I really respect her and her decision to investigate the church. I love that in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we all teach and learn from each other. There is no one person who knows it all. From the 8 year old who speaks in sacrament meeting to the bishop, we are able to see how others have learned and come unto Christ and then apply what they have learned to our lives as well. Makes sense.

Had the chance to meet Asencio the other day. Asencio is in his late 50's, from Mexico, and waiting for his family to join him in the United States this summer. He is so excited! He really got a kick out of my Spanish, straight up started laughing. This week I've made it a goal to not tell anyone that I'm "learning spanish" and instead just go for it. Throwing words out there. It's been going nicely and it's changed the conversations I have. When people see that I'm trying and not making excuses, willing to look dumb, they respect me more. Even trust what I have to say more. When the effort is there and you're teaching with humility you allow the spirit to testify to investigators. Ok, so here's the miracle. The minute we left Asencio, Hermana Roades mentioned that Asencio had actually dropped them around 4 months ago- hard core drop. Please leave. I don't want to hear anymore drop. What?! But he loves us?! Shocker. Seems that his heart has been softened. I'm excited for him to hear the gospel a second time with a willing heart.

My first transfer has already changed the way I think about everything. The mission, my relationship with my companion and with you, my family. It is TRUE that when you love your companion, you'll love your mission. I can see that it could be easy to judge your first couple trainers- well every companion you have I guess. But we just need to learn that some things DON'T MATTER. Being united with Sister Roades this transfer has allowed me to show my love, Christ's love, for those we teach. Surprise, this transfer has been hard. I've have been studying and really trying to understand humility. Thinking, how can I develop humility? It's consistent work. I know that faith leads to action, and when we are consistently trying to be better, Heavenly Father will help us out. Thinking about charity, having the pure love of Christ is a GIFT....and I could go on forever so stopping now.

This week I encourage all of you to decide what really matters to you and to let the small stuff go! Do it! You will feel better, you will have a better relationship with every one...

Whew. Long letter...sermon. 

I love you all! Excited to hear from you!

Love, 

Hermana Cleveland

Shortie

Yikes time is moving. This week is a short one. Earlier this morning we hiked Ensign Peak with half the mission and it was a spiritual experience. We are hear and we are preaching His word. Most of the pictures this week are from the hike.
Ok funnies of the week. Hermana Roades and I have biked through some ADULT sprinklers twice already. (like bullets) You think we'd learn. So funny!
People will ask me all the time if I'm understanding them. some advice for myself. SAY YES. Sure makes for an easier, more normal conversation.
Janny (Uruguay, recent convert) has said I look like a pioneer, princess kate, and today said I look like a doll. Something about the way I eat my food? I don't know what's she's thinking...she makes me smile. I ate my first mango today (Dad!) and I love them! We had a great lesson with Janeth and her husband today about the Plan of Salvation. I feel really excited and good when I'm around them. I just want to say more. It's going to take some hard core language study- but more importantly- it's going to require that I have courage and do what the spirit tells me. Because even with my limited vocabulary I know I can teach with the Spirit. The hardest part is having a prompting to say something or ask a question that doesn't quite pertain to the lesson. Those are the times when we all need to take a leap of faith and trust. That's when we see the miracles happen. Speaking of miracles, I've been trying to look for miracles happen every day. I'd say yesterday was a miracle for me in the sense that we weren't having a lot of success and we were beat. It's amazing the energy missionaries have. I know the Lord was supporting me with the energy to bike my 6th hill yesterday. Miracle in my book.At one point during the day Sister Roades and I had no one- zip- to teach. Now that is the worst feeling. Here in the SLC mission we're not allowed to go tracting- everything is by referral or through the members. Saying a prayer, we went over to a group of trailer homes and just by talking to people on the way, we were able to knock on five more potential doors. Another miracles. I'm sure miracles are happening all the time. It was a goal for Sister Roades and I to write down a miracle we say every thirty minutes! Try it familia.
Well I'm sorry it's a short one, I love you all!

Hiking It UP/Conference

Current Address

And Hermana Cleveland loves letters so write, write, write!!!
Hermana Cleveland
2455 E 3750 N
Layton UT 84040

Pictures!!!:):)

 Maddy so happy with candy from Gma Cleveland:)