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Friday, January 30, 2015

Email from Catarroja

My wonderful family! How are you doing?????? It sounds like there´s so much going on with all my pregnant sisters, Joe and Marianne´s new house and Titan, Melba getting sick (are you doing better by the way?????), and Mini and Katie´s baptism! Mini´s baptism sounds like it was just wonderful! I'm so sad I missed it and will miss the others, but I am so happy it was so good!!!!! And I can´t wait to hear about Katie´s--I´m sure it will be wonderful!!!!!!!!!

Wow, this week has been so crazy, but so good. The first part of the week was normal; we had some good lessons and it was good :) We had a really good chat with Cristobal--we went in not knowing what we were going to say, and just went completely by the Spirit. We talked about his doubts about baptism, his fears, and how if he gets baptized he will have the Spirit and the rest of his family will come along soon. It was so spiritual!!!!!!! He loved everything we said and agreed, then at the end he was like, "Okay, but I´m still going to wait for Susana." We were like, "Ahh!" haha. BUT it´s okay cause President is coming down next week and wants to come see him, so he´s getting baptized after that, no problem :) We are so excited. He´s amazing. We taught them both about the temple and had the anterior bishop come and testify about eternal marriage, and they both said how they want an eternal family. Cristobal was so excited about the temple that he was taking notes during our lesson! We are so excited for them :)

We couldn´t see Carmen all week cause she was really sick, but Hermana O´Neill saw her yesterday and said that she is reading the Book of Mormon like crazy and has been praying about baptism! Woohoo! We are so excited, she´s getting baptized in like 2 seconds for sure. I just have to clear something up though real fast--some people when they make baptism goals get super crazy and will do anything they can for it and forget about the people. But these people mean the world to me, and I want them to get baptized so badly, because they are some of my dearest friends and I want them to have the gospel! So I am so excited about baptism, but not because of my goal necessarily, because I love these people with my whole heart and I can´t stand them not having the blessings of the gospel :)

Anyway, okay so this week was concilio! That´s why I didn´t email yesterday! Sorry I thought it was next week so I didn´t say anything. It was SO amazing. So I left Sunday night at 6 with the zone leaders and Hermana Lamoreaux, the other STL in Valencia. We rode the 3-hour train to Barcelona, then stayed in the mission home that night. It was so fun cause the hermanas coming from far get to stay in the mission home, so we got there and Hermana Pace ordered us pizza and we all hung out with President and Hermana Pace the rest of the night. It was so fun! I loved it. And Hermana Shake is a STL so I got to see her! I was so happy--we freaked out when we saw each other :) Then the next morning we had a meeting with all 10 STLs, and it was really good. Then we had the actual meeting--so it´s all the STLs and zone leaders and assistants and President and Hermana PAce. It was one of the most spiritual meetings I have been to on my mission. It was incredible! We literally were counciling about what to do for the mission and how to reach our goals and be better. It was so amazing. We were talking about numbers and things, then it all came down to the fact that we all just needed more faith. So President got up right then and bore his testimony of the Savior. He invited the rest of us to do so, and the Spirit was so strong. Then that became the theme for this month--building our faith in the Savior. It was so inspired--I just loved being a part of it! It was amazing.
Hermana O´Neill was so amazing! She was with a brand-new missionary in our area while I was gone and she did so well! She taught lessons, invited to be baptized, and everything! I was so proud of her :)

So the mission is crazy now! 18 Hermanas went home this month, but 22 came in! 22 new hermanas!!!!!!! So every companionship in our zone of hermanas is training! So I am so excited to be with them on intercambios and just get to know them and be their mama! haha It's going to be wild and busy, but so fun :)

Okay, so one crazy thing--so all week last week I was working really hard, but I was so tired that I just wasn't myself. Finally Friday morning I woke up and just felt awful and had a bad pain in my lungs. I was planning on working, but then decided to pray if I should rest or not (I hate resting haha), but I realized that that day we didn't have anything planned, which is weird, cause we are always way busy. But I realized the Lord had protected that day so I could have the chance to rest. It was the biggest blessing. Hermana Pace sent me to the hospital (third time's the charm! :), and I was praying SO hard I didn't have pneumonia, cause my lungs really hurt, and I did NOT want to stay in piso for a week. So I got the tests and everything done, and the doctor said I have the closest thing to pneumonia that´s not actually pneumonia haha. My prayer was answered!!!!!!!!!!!! The actual diagnosis was "other pneumonial bacteria in the right lung," for all you doctor folks. Anyway, but DON¨T WORRY LOWLI!!!!!!!!!!!! I am on antibiotics, stayed in bed for 2 days, and now I´m as good as new except my lungs still hurt when I cough. But I am totally good--Hermana Pace got mad at me for not resting, so now I am working, but taking it easy. Anyway, so it´s wild.

So when I got a blessing for my health a month ago, the blessing said "you will have lots of trials at the end of your mission, but if you endure with faith, the Lord will bless you more than you can ever imagine." This week I was getting frustrated because I´m sick, not getting better, have so many things to do, so many goals to meet, so much work--and I can´t do it. but I've been praying and I've been realizing that the Lord´s hand is in every minute of our lives. He hears every single prayer. But he has to test our patience in order to test our faith. I know He is testing my patience, but I am so happy. I wouldn´t call anything that´s happening to me trials, because I am so incredibly happy and loving every single minute of my mission. But I think He is helping me have more patience :) I know there are giant miracles waiting for us, we just have to keep going, have faith, and trust that His timing is perfect. Maybe I should stop praying for more faith haha. No really though, He is there--in every single second, whether or not we realize it. But the Savior is at our side, it´s just a matter of looking up and letting Him be there with us. I know He´s there and He´s walking beside us in every minute. I am so grateful for His companionship and that He is always there for me, no matter what.
I love you, family!!!!!!!!! Know that I love you so much and that I am so so grateful to have the most wonderful family in the world!!!!!!

I love you so, so, so much!!!!!!!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)


P.S. One more miracle! I forgot--while we were in the ER, we were just sitting laughing and a lady came up to us and told us that seeing us filled her with so much joy and we had made her whole day. We told her we were missionaries and she started crying, telling us she was dying of a disease and didn´t know what would happen to her. We testified to her of the Plan of Salvation and gave her the pamphlet Hermana O´NEill had just been reading (inspired? yes!), and she was just crying telling us we were angels sent to her and we had brought her more joy than we knew. Wow! It was such a sweet opportunity to do missionary work even just from the ER :)


Sorry I haven´t sent pictures for so, so long!

This is Hermana O´Neil and me in front of a super old castle :)

This is us looking over an old city from the castle. Don´t mind that I hadn´t showered for a while haha :)

This was our district before transfers. Aren´t we a cute bunch? haha

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Catarroja to Stay!!

Hello, my wonderful family!!!! How are you all doing???? Are you all staying warm??? How are all the birthdays and craziness going? I hope you are all very happy and healthy :) It sounds like so much is going on with Sammie getting ordained; that is so so awesome!!!!!!! And Joe and Marianne's house and dog! That is the best thing ever!!!!! Wow, so much is happening haha. And Happy birthday Liza today!!!! I hope you have the best day ever--you deserve it!!!!

Soooooooooo.................. I´M STAYING IN CATARROJA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Biggest miracle of my life. Seriously. So in interviews 2 weeks ago, when President called me to be Sister Training Leader, he told me because of this calling, he would most likely move me to Valencia (Catarroja is a little suburb town of Valencia, which is a huge city), so that I could help the hermanas better there and be more a part of things. So the past 2 weeks Hermana O´Neill and I were SO SAD!!!!!! I was praying so hard for a more obedient heart to be able to leave, but I was just heartbroken to leave her, and to leave all the people we are teaching and the members who I just adore. It was seriously agonizing--I couldn't sleep I was so sad about it haha. I know I´m crazy, I just get too attached to people! But then on Friday President called me to tell me I´m staying! e is seriously the best. Usually we get transfer calls Saturday night, so we were waiting until then. But he called and said he didn't want me to worry, so he called me early. YAY! It was the happiest thing of my life. I couldn't have been happier haha. He said that it will be different, but I will be doing all the STL stuff from Catarroja. But he said he knows I need to stay there and he felt it so strongly. WHEW! I was so happy I still haven´t stopped saying gratitude prayers about it :)

So this next transfer is going to be WILD! We are doing intercambios (exchanges in English?) every week, so we will go to Valencia every week, and Hermana O´Neill will hang out with the hermanas there while I travel around and visit people haha. I have to go to Barc too, so she will just hang out in Valencia! So it´s going to be crazy, but we are both so, so excited, and we are going to see so many miracles! It will be the biggest adventure, and I can´t wait :)

So we have so much going on! We are finding lots of new people and staying super busy! We are fasting and praying SO HARD for baptisms! Seriously, I have never worked this hard, tried to be so obedient, and tried to have so much faith than now. We are literally giving EVERYTHING so the Lord blesses us with these baptisms we want, and I want to reach my personal baptism goal more than I have ever wanted anything.

So Cristobal and Susana. This week we fasted for them that they would get baptized this month and that something would change for them. And that same day Cristobal lost his job (oops!). But it was kind of good, actually haha, cause now we can see them more :) Every time we've gone over there lately, Susana just doesn't have time for us, and Cristobal gets so sad that she won´t listen to us. After praying and fasting, we feel that Cristobal getting baptized might be the only thing that makes Susana take it seriously. So we are going to go over tonight and talk to Cristobal and explain how he will need to set the example and when he gets baptized (on the 31st) he will receive so many blessings, including for his family and his work. It´s starting to cause problems between them, because Cristobal wants so badly to get baptized, but Susana is just too busy to listen to us. It´s heart-wrenching because Cristobal is there, so ready, and the only thing holding him back is that he wants Susana to be ready too. She is so wonderful, but she just never ever settles down, she´s always running around and never has her mind focused on what we say, so she never really listens. She also doesn´t really read and pray just because she doesn´t have time. So we are just fasting and praying, trying to see them everyday, seriously doing everything we can for them.

Carmen has been sick this week, so we haven´t seen her as much, but we had a really good lesson with her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and it clicked for her why baptism is important. She said she would pray about getting baptized. She is progressing and we love her so much :)

Hermana O´Neill is incredible! I am learning so much from her, it´s just crazy. I think it´s amazing how much she understands how obedience brings blessings and brings the Spirit. When we accidentally do something a little disobedient like leave a minute late or things like that, she understands that it will affect the Spirit we have the whole day, and she immediately repents. It´s amazing! I wish I had understood that at the beginning of my mission. She has the Spirit so strongly! We taught a new investigator this week and Hermana O´Neill shared the sweetest, most powerful testimony I had ever heard her say, and it was directly through the Spirit. It´s just amazing. She seriously is already one of the best missionaries I´ve ever met. I am so grateful for her and to learn from her! We have so much fun, and I just adore her.

Things are so good! Just crazy and wonderful and praying like we´ve never prayed before. I think the Lord is testing my patience, and I think that´s cause I´ve been praying so hard to have more faith :) So of course he has to stretch it to make it grow haha. But I know these people will get baptized and the Lord will bless our efforts, we just have to trust in Him and do everything we can. Something I´ve been learning so much recently is that the Lord hears our prayers in the moment we say them. Sometimes we feel like He doesn´t hear them unless we say them a bunch of times. But it´s like a child asking their parents for somethihg--the parents are aware of the need even if they don´t give it to them right then. I have been praying out loud every night and picturing myself at the feet of Heavenly Father as I pray. As I do, I literally feel like I am talking to Him face to face. It is such a special experience every time. Now I look forward to it every night--I can hardly wait to pray and just talk with the Lord. There is a difference between praying and talking to the Lord. We should tell Him everything that´s happening, exactly how we feel, ask for specific things and that´s when He can best answer us and work with us. It´s amazing!!! Prayer is literally, literally talking to God, who is our Heavenly Father. Recently I feel like I´ve had to make decisions and had to have so much direction from the Lord, so I´ve gotten to my knees so many times, because I know the Lord knows better than I do--so why not ask him for help when I don´t know? I am just so grateful for the opportunity we have every night, every day, whenever we want to talk to God--the Creator of the earth. It´s so sacred and so wonderful. I just love it.

Wow I ramble so much! I´m so sorry! But know that I love you all so, so, so much and pray for you every day! I am so grateful to have the most amazing family in the world! Seriously, I couldn´t do it without you! I can´t tell you how grateful I am for you! I love you so madly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love, Hermana Boyer :)

P.S. I went one day being healthy again, and then the next day got a super bad cold cause we were walking around in the humid cold that night haha! So I am just super congested and coughing, but I think the bronchitis is gone :) Just blowing my nose and sneezing all over the place, but everyone goes through that every winter, so it´s not a big deal :) haha so crazy.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

SPRINT

Hello Fam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How are you all???? I hope you are all doing well and staying warm! Please tell me you are all skiing it up for me? ;) Huge shout out to all the birthdays this week and next week! Liza, Ben, Mini, Katie, and Beth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a party! You gotta send me pictures of all the festivities that sounds like a party!! I hope you are all doing well and happy :) I heard about Matt's wisdom teeth and man, that is so funny. Save that video so I can see it!
Wow. I don´t even know where to start! Pretty much this was a crazy week. Mom, so you don´t worry anymore, I am better!!!!! This week my fever and flu and everything were gone, the only problem was that I kept coughing so hard that I would throw up haha. But other than that I was good! So it was weird. Tuesday night I threw up 3 times, so we went to the hospital again Wednesday and they told me I have laryngitis haha. But I never lost my voice or anything, so who knows. But they gave me lots of medicine, so I've been taking it and I'm better now! This week Hermana Pace told me I had to stay inside unless we had a planned cita--but I couldn't just be walking around in the cold. So Hermana O´Neill was really good and made me come in when we didn't have stuff, even though I argued with her every time haha! But I´m glad she made me come in because I was able to sleep off this crazy stuff and now I feel so much better! So this weekend we worked full time and I was tired, but better :) Now I just have a cough, but that's it :) So thank you for all your prayers! And Lowli, no more worrying cause I am totally good :)

Well, this week was Dia de los Reyes! Here in Spain, January 6 is bigger than Christmas--it´s when the three kings (reyes) come and give the kids all their gifts! So Monday night we watched a huge parade and it was so cool. Then we were in the street (I know I shouldn't have, but hey) and Cristobal and Susana called us and came and found us and brought us to eat dinner at their house, and they bought us all these gifts! We were so touched--they are the most wonderful people ever. Then Tuesday it was the holiday, and we ate with couple that are just the best, Pepe and Pepita :) Pepita has been a member for a long time, but her husband has never wanted anything. Just this last summer the hermanas made him pinky promise to take the lessons, and he got baptized at age 75 :) Most amazing couple ever. So we ate with them and it was so fun.

So updates! Cristobal and Susana. Man. I feel like I have never agonized over anything so much in my life haha. I think about them so much I can´t even sleep sometimes. This week we had a lesson with them and wanted them to get baptized on the 17th. When we invited them, Susana talked about how she has so many problems with her family that she doesn't have time to really figure out if this is true, but she likes it. Then Cristobal said he knows it´s true and loves it, but he doesn't want to get baptized without Susana. We talked to Susana about just praying and about how baptism gives you the power to face your problems, and it was good. The only problem is they've been sick and we pass by them every day but haven´t had a good lesson with them. So we are just praying our guts out for them. But I know they will get baptized soon, because we have never prayed so hard and worked so hard in our lives.

Carmen! Is amazing! She is reading the Book of Mormon like crazy and loves it! And she was so nervous about coming to church, and we kept trying to get her to come, but she was so nervous and didn't want to. Sunday morning we were waiting outside the church and she didn't come, and we were just so sad, so we went and said a prayer. Then as we are singing the first hymn, she walks in!!!!!!!!!!!! I almost screamed haha. Ahh!!!!!!!!!!!! And the best part was that the ward just ate her up and loved her, and she loved it!!!!!!!! This week we invited her to baptized again for the 24th and she said she´s not ready. We kept pushing it, but she just said no. But she said she would pray about it and really, sincerely ask if the BOM is true. She is so sincere and so prepared, so we have no doubts at all she´ll get her answer in no time and she´ll get baptized way soon. We are so stoked! And I´ve always wanted to baptize a Spaniard! She is seriously one of the biggest miracles of my mission. It´s amazing.

Hermana O´Neill is just incredible! Basically, she is the best missionary I have ever seen--she blows everyone away with her faith, obedience, and testimony. Now she is learning to express herself more in Spanish, and everyone is just adoring her fun personality. We are best friends and I am just LOVING training her. It´s been one of the best experiences I've had on my mission training her. I just adore her, and we are just seeing so many miracles because of her faith and testimony :)
So this week we had interviews with President and it was so good. So I sit down and he looks at me and told me he is so proud of me. Then he said, "Okay, so you´re okay to be a Sister Training Leader, right?" My jaw literally dropped and I was so shocked!!!!!!!! So I got called to be a Sister Training Leader! That is like a zone leader for the hermanas. So my job is to do an exchange every week and take care of all the hermanas in my zone. Also, I go with the zone leaders to the mission council of STLs and zone leaders and President every month. Scary! Haha. I am so grateful for the chance to serve, but I hardly feel qualified at all haha. But I am so grateful, and I know the Lord will help me. But it´s an amazing opportunity to learn from the hermanas, and I am really grateful and excited. We'll see how it goes!!!

Also in my interview, I showed President a plan I made. It´s becoming real to me that my mission isn't going to last forever, and I´m going to run with it--I´m sprinting. So I made a plan to be the missionary I have always wanted to be. I wrote down a bunch of goals and things I've always wanted to be and do. Then I made a baptism goal. During the training meeting, President challenged all the new missionaries to make their own personal mission baptism goal. I had never thought about that, but as soon as he said it, the number came to my mind. I know it´s inspired and I know the Lord has prepared these people for me to help get baptized in the next three months. I won´t share the number, but just know that I have a goal for the baptisms I will have in the next three months, and it´s happening!!!!!!!!! It is happening. I know it and feel it with my whole heart, it´s running through my veins. :) I just want you all to know that I am sprinting 100%. I am giving it my all--my whole heart, mind, and everything. I am sprinting and I know the Lord will help me reach my goals. Something I have been learning over and over the past few months is that when we set a goal and do everything in our power to reach it, we can pray and call down the powers of heaven and He will make it happen. The Lord wants to bless us and help us reach our goals, we just have to do everything for it and want it with all our hearts. Then He makes up the difference. Anyone want to sprint with me? Let´s all make goals, want it with all our hearts, do everything we can, and pray with all our hearts for the Lord to make up the difference. Anyone in with me? :) 

I know y'all are praying for me, and I appreciate it and feel it more than you even know. Maybe for the next few months you can pray for me to reach this goal, because it means everything in the world to me. Thank you so much for all you do for me, I can´t thank you enough. I love you all more than you can ever know and I could never be here if it wasn't for your love and support. You mean the world to me, I hope you know that.

I love you so, so, so, so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love, Hermana Boyer :)

Monday, January 5, 2015

Chicken Soup for the Soul :)

Hola, familia!!!!!!!!! 

Feliz 2015!!!!!!!!!! Happy New Year! I hope it was so fun for you all! With y'all it´s always a party, so I´m sure it was good :) I seriously can´t believe it´s 2015. I keep finding myself wishing it was the beginning of 2014 haha. But this year will be very good too :) I´m so glad you all had so much fun together on Butternut! I love that retreat idea! That sounded so fun! Yes please, it´s gotta become a tradition. I hope you are all doing really well! Dang, Matt--wisdom teeth, huh? It´s too bad cause you really are a smart kid! (eh eh eh). No, but really, good luck, I hope it´s not too bad!

This week. I don´t even know. There´s so much to say haha. Pretty much this is one of the most miracle-filled weeks of my entire mission. On Monday night and Tuesday here are the miracles we saw:
- We had a really good lesson with Cristobal and Susana about the Great Apostasy, and we were able to help them figure out a lot of their doubts, They both said they know for sure Joseph Smith is a prophet. Yay!!!!!!! We were just about to set a fecha with them, but the lesson got cut off. But it´s okay, it was really good!
- Vanessa and Enrique invited us to dinner and it was so fun! They made us all this food and we had so much fun with them. Then Vanessa said the prayer at the end and after, Enrique just stared at her and was so shocked. He looked at us and told us he had never heard her pray cause usually she´s too shy. He said our visits have helped them so much. Yay!!!!!
- Tuesday morning we were able to find a missing recent convert that no one has found in a long time, and we had a lesson with him! He was actually standing outside just talking to the YM President!
-We were about to cross a red light, then Hermana O´Neill said, "I think we should be perfectly obedient cause we need all the miracles we can get." So we waited and then as we´re walking on the other side, a man comes up to us and says, "Hey, I was wondering if you could teach me about the Book of Mormon, I´ve always wanted to know--when can you teach me about it?" Dang! Hermana O'Neill is amazing. I´m telling ya, she´s bringing us all these amazing miracles with her obedience.

Okay, let´s talk about Carmen. She is the most incredible miracle. So Carmen is a middle-aged Spanish lady who has lots of problems and heartache in her life. We contacted her on the street a little while ago and she said she wants us to come over. It turns out she´s really good friends with a member, Paqui, because she used to come to the RS aerobics class that Paqui teaches. So Paqui went with us to visit her and last week we had a really sweet lesson with her about the BOM. So we went back this week and taught her about the plan of salvation, because she has had a lot of death in the family. She just loved it! Afterwards, she looked at us and said, "So what do I need to do to become a Mormon?" Dang!!!!!!!!! We were floored haha. We invited her to be baptized this month and she accepted!!!!!!!! We were so excited, it was just crazy. It was amazing she told us that she has never wanted to know anything about the church or the missionaries, but when she saw us in the street, she said something in her heart changed. She said when she saw Hermana O´Neill, she said she just knew they had known each other before and she had to let her come over. Ah, it was incredible. It was so so special for Hermana O'Neill too, because she felt such a part of it, even though she can´t speak or understand very much. It was so, so, so special. Seriously, the Lord has prepared her heart so much. It's just amazing. So we are so excited! Biggest miracle ever!

The only reason Cristobal and Susana don´t have fechas is because they've been sick and had family for the holidays, and we just haven´t been able to have a real cita with them for a long time. It´s frustrating, but they are still progressing and we are going to set a fecha for this month. It´s HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Okay, so now for the not-so-fun stuff, but it´s fun cause we have seen so many miracles!!!!!!!!! On Monday and Tuesday I got a bad cold, and then Tuesday was one of the coldest, most humid days they've had here and we were out all day. I literally don´t ever remember being that cold. So Wednesday morning I woke up with a fever (102)--I don´t know if that´s really high, but yeah haha. So I was in bed all day and the fever was just high still, and I had a super deep cough. Then Thursday it was the same, so Hermana Pace sent us to the hospital, and they filled me with an IV, and that got rid of the fever but totally drugged me up. Then Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I was in and out of fever, and this cough is just way intense. But it´s all good :) I got to go out for a little bit Saturday and we went to church yesterday :) But today my fever is gone, so that´s good. But my cough is still bad, so Hermana Pace is going to call me today to tell me if I have to go to the hospital or not. But I´m on all these drugs that make me loopy, so I've just been a complete zombie--I feel so bad for Hermana O'Neill. She´s been so wonderful taking care of me. She´s had the best attitude. Anyway, so if this email makes no sense, it´s cause I´m totally drugged.

It was so funny though! So when I woke up with the fever on Wednesday, I called ONE member to tell them we couldn´t come to lunch. I´m not kidding--not 5 minutes later, literally--a member called to bring us lunch, one to bring us dinner, someone brought us oranges, someone brought us soup, and the elders were there with a member to give me a blessing. It was so wild!!!!!!!!!! I cannot tell you how wonderful the members have been! They have just been so, so sweet! They keep bringing us soup and food and juice and oranges and medicine and just everything! Seriously, every 10 minutes someone comes to our door with something, I'm not kidding. It´s so sweet. So I´m well taken care of :)

Sorry, I don´t know how profound I can be while I´m on 3 drowsy medications--but here I go. So today I finished the Book of Mormon for my 3rd time on the mission and the first time reading it in Spanish :) This past time reading it since August with the entire mission has been the most powerful experience I've ever had reading the Book of Mormon. I always knew it was powerful before the mission, but I didn't realize how pure it is. It is one of the purest things we have, and because of that it brings the Spirit so strongly. I don´t think there´s been a single time this time reading it when I haven't plead with the Lord first to teach me something and He hasn't taught me just the perfect thing for that day. Then when you read that, the Spirit fills you and it purifies you cause the BOM is pure. I love that purifying--it is what changes our lives. That is why people choose to accept the gospel, not because of the lessons or anything else. It´s the purifying, pure sweet knowledge and spirit that come from the Book of Mormon. It has changed my life, and I´ve seen it change so many other lives too. I love it with my whole entire heart, and I know with my whole being--everything I am--that it is absolutely 100% true. We are so lucky to read it every day! I just love it.

Anyway, thank you so much, fam, for being so wonderful. I love you all so much and am so grateful for all you do for me!!!! I love you so, so, so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Hermana Boyer :)