PIC OVERLOAD

Alright so I have about 47382974382743298 photos to send home, so I'm going to do that first this week, so that I can make sure I send them, because I never have enough time as I always save it for the end, and now I'm like 4 weeks behind hahah SHOCKER!  Just a day in the life, am I right ? (:  Plus i know everyone just loves pictures more then my stupid letters anyway! Hahaha  I always leave the library and am just like "hahha, what did I even just write? Those poor people probably think I am thee worst missionary with not one spiritual experience." 

Hahah, I promise I have investigators and am actaully doing missionary work, it is often just so hard to actually explain what it is like to be out here and just like update the people that I am working with.  But I am loving it all, and am writing all those spiritual thigns down too.  I will try and be better and makin the letters a little more spiritual based. (:  This is just my time to be me ya know (: anywho.  Here I got off again.  I'm done.

That pastor lady that totally just macked with my face, HAHAHA BARF!

Sister Brown's recent convert VICTOR. He made us ALL a cuban lunch (: sucha cool man with such a cool story.

I'm a fan of the pines, but I'm lovin these palms! 

I FINALLY SAW THE beachhh!!!! 

Thought of cute cam cam and the whole richey clan at this street sign (: #HAPPI 

One of our zone activities. Chillin' with the district.

Killin' it with the minute to win it games! 

The zone leaders promised us that if we hit a certain amount of new investigators for the week as companionships, we would get to PIE them (or shaving cream them, ain't no missionary got the money for pie lol) in the face.  SISTER BROWN and I were one of the only companionships of the zone that got it, SO WE PROUDLY pounded them in the face (: 

I've had my fair share of shaving cream fights in my day, I didn't let them off the hook too easy.

ELDER MAR.  Literally the biggest goober!

Juan and Carlos. Our new names. J chillin' in west palm beach.  So much rice and beans were becoming full latin (::(:(:: 

Very acquainted with every public restroom. We know all the best ones (:

Just a sweet member treatin' Sister Brown and I for her BDAY.  Felt like home! 

THIS is probably why it felt like home (AKA MOTHER:) Don't worry I made sure they sang nice and loud to her !

Gonna let ya in on a little secret. The real reason people say missionaries are just "glowing" lol.  Sister Leslie and I.

Stake conference! Got us all. Spanish gals, English gals, and the Creole elders!  We're just missin' some Portugese 

Havin' a little fun to celebrate my gal SISTER BROWN AND HER 20th BDAY!!!!! (:(:(: 

THE SISTER DIMOND AND BROWN WESTERN ACCENT DUO.  Gonna miss this gal.  This transfer has FLOWN 

The V day/ Sis Brown day festivities.  I made all the elders dress up (: thanks mama for the swaggin glasses) 

But how NAST is this photo.  The bachelor should really consider using it that's all I'm gonna say. 

My cute little PENEDA family!!  I am obsessed with them!  They are the ones we found my very first night here(: We had a FHE with them and some families from the ward and we made PAPUSAS.  The grandma was just freaking out that I wanted to learn how to make them and was so impressed with mine (hahahha don't be fooled THEY SUCKED) but she just kept showing them to everyone, and kept them on a separate plate. Hahah!  My Bishop,Bbishop Vilorio, was the brave one and he wanted to try one of mine (: not too shabby. Looks like I'm ready to hit El Savaldor 

Sandras (the mom) father.  The cute man knows my love for fruit, so fresh picked me some of his passion fruit from his back yard.  Heart eyes for litlle MANUEL. 

Paintin' the crib.  MAN this has been a project.  We have spent so many days dejunking and cleaning this house as it was nast and they wanted to repaint and carpet it all!  BUT IT IS LOOKIN REAL GOOD(: and we are almost done!  Now I just pray that I stay in this area so I can enjoy the fresh new house.

My fav cute little stl SISTER EVANS.  She goes home next week.  Sad face.  But love her!  We went on an exchange this week.

Utah is a small world., okay mormon life is a small world.  This guy was totally from my home stake, and happened to be here for spring training for baseball so stopped at our ward.  Love it.  Had a good talk with him.

 BEST SURPRISE EVER LAST NIGHT.  I went on an exchagne with Sister Adams, and went to the area BOCA.  The whole day we had just been having a party together and she had told me that we were going to just a chill little FHE that night.  I didn't think anything of it.  As soon we were driving there, Sister Adams just bursts out "i can't hold it in any longer.  We are freaking going to like the biggest house you are ever going to see.  We are going to the Ft. Lauderdale Temple President's (the Boggess couple) house for dinner and for the FHE" hahaha I just started freakin out and we pull up to this straight up mansion!!.  They are the sweetest couple, and totally just let us take a tour and make oursevles at home(:  So best day ever to go on an exchange!  Met the sweet temple presidents and ate of their DELISH food.  Probs the best I will ever eat my whole mission.

Inside the MANSION lol 

Apparently they know Sharon and Dave Berry in our ward!

Sorry for the absolute OVERLOAD!  Holy smokes!  I didn't realize how many pics I had!  Well I may not even send a group email this week hahaha!  I think this is enough to make you never want to see my face again lol. I LOVE YOU ALL!! HAVE THE BEST WEEK! 

XOXOXOXO

Hermana Dimond 

Chuchi

GOOD MORNING OR AFTERNOON OR NIGHT (or whatever time you read this) my favorite people ever! What a good week. Lets get real, when is it not? I mean even when its hard, which it most definitely is, there seems to always been too many more things that I just laugh and smile about. So I would quickly like to just share a good ol' quick experience that Sister Brown and I had this week. If you are having a rough day, ya... I just hope you can read this and just realize you could be freak Sister Dimond right now and hopefully that will make you feel a little better.

Well one day this week, we were going to visit one of our investigators who stopped answering our calls (love when that happens :).  So we go and walk up to her house, all ready to just throw down something spiritual, but no, what do we encounter when we open up her gate? Just her nasty little dog who of course was not chained up.  So "Chuchi," this hideous nasty dog, saw his opportunity to be free and dang did he take it. He sprinted out of the gate so dang fast, We literally had no idea what to do.  Of course our investigator wasn't even home, so we couldn't just leave him loose out there, so for literally 25 minutes, I kid you not, Sister Brown and I were full blown running around this trailer park neighborhood chasing this dog around.  You can only imagine how much fun this dog was having just joking with us.  We were literally diving on the ground trying to catch him. HAHA!  I am just laughing just thinking about it.  IT WAS THE WORST!  Literally after 20 minutes I just had no idea what to do. Now don't ask me why, I dont know why it took me 20 mintues to realize that I just need to say a prayer, but it did. So I did. And literally right after I finished this prayer, Sister Brown and I jumped on this dog and brought him back.  Heavenly Father is good.  Even with nasty little latin dogs, he still answers prayers. Gotta love it. That is one experience that I am going to ask the Lord when I get back into heaven to replay for me. Just the high light reals (: 

Well we have still been teaching the sweet Peneda family, the family that we found the very first night I got here in the area. They were our very first door and everything! I am just obsessed with them. They have really opened my eyes of a few things.  First, HOW STINKING DEPRIVED OF FRUIT I HAVE BEEN My WHOLE LIFE.  Sandra, the mom, just tells me of all these fruits and foods that I have never even heard of, and then she hooks me up(: I tried my first passion fruit this week so theres that! Why utah, WHY!??? Well second, they have taught me to just love. They are taking much longer then other investigators because they could talk your dang ear off and just have so many questions, but they really just want to know. And that makes me so happy. They told our Bishop that when we knocked on their door, they felt something that they have never felt before. This sweet family just needs this gospel, and I feel so blessed that for some crazy reason, the Lord has entrusted me and Sister Brown with them right now. I just know they will be baptized, whether it is with me or other missionaries, but they will be baptized. She is pretty much already planning for when I come home from the mission to see her though (: and she said she is taking me to El Salvador.  So fam, looks like we got a free trip to El Salvador (: Dont even know what is there but I'm down (: 

I am just loving this area, and learning so much everyday. I sure thought I was going on a mission to serve the Lord, and try and pay back a little of the debt that I am in to him, but I have just come to realize more and more every day how much more I am in debt. I have learned so much. I am so happy! I feel so blessed. You are all in my thoughts and prayers every day! 

xoxoxo 

Crazy Hermana Dimond 

ps. I am so sorry these emails get more and more scattered and random every week but thank you for loving me anyways (:

Celebrating Sister Browns Big Day!!! (:

Latins and Fast Sundays. Ya right!

Hello LOVES happy LOVE MONTH (:(: 

What a great week here in West Palm! I HAD MY FIRST DREAM IN ESPANOL!  Haha, well at least the first one that I have remembered.  So dumb I know, but honestly just such an accomplishment for me (: So just had to include it.  Well also had a first happen to me (always).  Was kissed by a woman pastor... (on the cheek don't fret but still).  She like attacked me.  She was just so amazed by the work we do as missionaries, and the fact that we were little gringas learning Spanish I guess just pushed her over the edge hahah cuz she just went for it. So lucky me, I had a cute little lipstick mark on my face for the day and I didn't notice. Sister Brown just started BUSTING UP LAUGHING when she noticed it. Im sure everyone we talked to just got a kick outta that.

Well I finally saw the ocean!!!!  We went to visit some former investigators and they just happened to live right on the water.  I was pretty upset about it... HAHA SIKE!  Such a dream!  Not aloud to touch it at all, but not too shabby of a view, not to shabby at all. (:  We ended up knocking on some of the houses around there, and found such a sweet family from El Salvador, so we will see how that goes.  But along with all the beautiful cute colored houses along the beach, the trailer parks are currently my JAM!  I found a CUBAN fam.  My people!!! Hahha. They are just the craziest and speak five jagillion miles an hour, and I think that is why we get along so great!  We just can talk forever!  At least when I understand them haha. But we are teaching the sweetest investigator Haydales and her family, and just hearing their whole story and being in their tiny sweet home with them, reminds me everyday how blessed I am. How much of my life and the millions of blessings I have seen I have just taken for granted.  Such a humbling experience getting to be here and getting to meet people from all over the world, and hear their stories, hear their lives.  Never in my life am I going to be able to have this opportunity again, to just go an enter random peoples homes, and get to learn all about them, feel of their sweet spirits, and share the gospel like this. It truly is a feeling that I cannot describe, and it just brings me so much happiness.  I just lie down in my bed every night SO happy for this opportunity that God has given me. 

Hahaha!  Well the Latin culture just kills me still.  They sure do love their food. Even on fast Sunday they all still have the big ol' bag of chips just chillin' with them in the pews during testimony meeting.  I was just trying so hard not to bust up.  I just love them.  I am so grateful for this area and this ward though, they are too kind to us. Almost too nice!. They practically attacked our investigators yesterday at church. Hahah.  Honestly walking out of church is the biggest breath of fresh air, because it is so dang stressful.  But they just have the sweetest intentions and want to be member missionaries.  There really is opportunities for EVERYONE! I just invite you all to pray for those opportunities, pray for those that specifically need YOU.  They are out there. 

Well sorry this email is just all over the place but the mission is the best!  Its hard to explain it over email. Its hard to explain how I feel, and about all the people that I'm working with, but just know I truly am just happy.  That is all there is to it.  I just want to do what the Lord wants me to do.  I know that my time is short. I cannot believe it has already been six months! WHAT IS LIFE? Its a time warp out here i'll tell ya. Thanks y'all for everything. I am so blessed. 

Have the best week! 

xoxox

Hermana Dimond