Mission Confrence and Another Tranfer in Phoenix

Hello everybody! how are you? :)
this week was wonderful but it went by way to fast.
Now for the fun part!! WE found a new investigator , it was a refferal from a recent convert and she came out to teach The Restoration with us, her testimony flooded the room with the spirit, my love for her grew, she said something along the lines of the happiness God brings is the best, it is not what the world wants you to think is happiness like having a great job, a good body, a mega good looking husband, money, no it doesn't come from all of that. It comes from becoming more like chirst, and even tho i make tons of mistakes and i am mean sometimes, i know i can repent and refine myself  little by little and eventho i am a single mother with a lot of problems and i sometimes get depressed for dumb things like financial things i think of the plan that God has for me and it gives me strength to keep pressing forward with hope and faith. "I love to pray because my heart is just so filled with gratitude for the blessings i recieve from heavenly father gives me, i am joyful and he gives me the peace that i could'nt find anywhere else. then when i ask for something, without me noticing it, it comes to pass, so i know he answers my prayers, those simple things testify to me that he lives and loves me"  Would'nt hearing that make you love her? well after all the fruits of the spirit are love, peace and joy. We know that the lessons go ten times better when we have a member share their testimony, for it motivates them to try it.
we had another lesson on tuesday and it wa with our eternigator, he is a really mature 14 year old, who is very polite and funny, we brought over a middle aged married couple. We read alma 36 about hen alma was sharing his conversion story with his son heleman. We all read and analyzed the story, my favorite part was the testimony of hte sister we brought and how she came to know it was true. At first she did not believe, and one day out of curiosity she opened the book and read a little then she prayed about it, yet doubting that she will recieve and answer. this reminded me of this scipture alma32:27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than adesire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words. and how she felt it in her heart that it was true and how she has never felt so intuned with god before than at that moment, after she got baptized she always felt super happy and she explanied to him that whenever he feels happy out of nowhere that that is the spirit. He wants to be baptized, but wants to be super ready.
 You can apply it many things, like in memeber missionary work, sometimes all you need is a little bit of faith to share the gospel , you don't need to be a perfect spiritual person, you just have to have the faith that H.F has prepared the gospel for All of his children, to help us resolve difficuilties and live happpier lives here and forever, knowledge that has been kept so it can be of benefit to us in whatever issue we may face.  When tou art converted strengthen thy bretheren. I have come to learn that more fully on my mission. the Book of Mormon is so awesome, God wrote it through his prophets for us, to comfort us during the most difficult times, to remind us to change for the better, to serve and not let our weaknesses weaken our ability to love and serve Him with all our mights and love and cherish every single moment of learning. I dont want to use this short time that I have casualy, i want to allow Him to make of me, the best missionary I can be, and most importantly like his beloved son Jesus Christ, and with a portion of his strength and power given to me i can serve his children my whole life, because it truly brings more happiness into my life and who cares about your problems when you are focusing on others.
I want to tell you a funny story. We went to help a family get ready for church, They werent home but as we were about to leave, she called us and invited us over for breakfast, so we went and helped the kids and had some breafast, then had to leave to go to chruch, they promised to meet us there. We waited and waited and i called them and they said they werent coming becaue she had to go sell some stuff. I was bummed. THis isn't wasy, i love her and we love serving her, but we dont know what to do anymore, i just have to have faith.
I  dont have very much time left sorry but love you all and pray for you, please pray for us and all the missionaries. take care.

Hermana Joanna Salas

January 13, 2014

Work is hard. The morning shift works differently than the swing shift. I work at Santa Cruz Nutritionals, a factory that makes gummy nutritional products. We call it candy, but the products are high end quality. I like it because it is physical, and I am not sitting down all day long; also, I get to do a lot of lifting. Talking about how the factory works is like a temple of God. I can't talk deeply about it because they own intellectual property rights.

At work I don’t cook the products in the kitchen, but I work production and packaging. One of the main thing that we do is put the product in boxes. There are many production lines in the factory. Each one is like a river to me. Some product are streams like waterfalls, and some candy goes up hill. Watching to pick out the bad product, especially when very few are bad, makes me drowsy. One of the shortest lines produces the SpongeBob Squarepants, Scooby Doo, and other snacks. A funny thing that happens occasionally is that the machine malfunctions, continuing to pull up product. At first I use to think that I was loading the hooper too slow, but the machine fills quickly. When it has too much candy in its storage, it explodes and candy falls all over the place.

I felt a little slow on Saturday. I was working a very fast line. One thing that was annoying is that a guy was not being flexible, adapting to the situation. I learned not to judge people because I was doing the same thing. At first I was working with a girl, and we worked it out that I would put half of the product in a box and she will put the other half in. Another sister joined us, and my half was not needed as much because there are not three halves. I had a kept on loading my half until I got a little frustrated. I went to work another place, trying to assess the situation. What can I do? I realized after the day of working that I kept to the pattern that we discussed for too long. I would have helped the two sister more if I had put both halves in the box. The two sisters were having a hard time with keeping up with the line, but they did not want my half. One thing that I learned in the family foundation class is that putting in your half does not work in a family. Both spouses in a family need to put their all. I did not think that this would turn out to be a parable, but it seems to have.

After work, Nathalia, my Brazilian sister, a foreign English student, asked if I wanted to go to the beach. Since she just bought a long board skateboard, I said that we should go skateboarding. I was a little confused what she does with the skateboard because she said that the only thing that she liked to do is walk with it. After skating with her, I realized that she meant that she only uses it for transportation. We went to Pleasure Point. She took a lot of pictures and videos mainly of herself.

I was exhausted because I woke up before three o' clock on Saturday. I realized that since I did the same thing today; I think that my body is used to getting six hours of sleep because I usually go to sleep after midnight, waking up about seven.

I was bummed because Nathalia got sand all over her new skateboard's grip tape, and the grip tape was clear. She was hoping that it would rain, saying that she might put it out so it would get washed. I thought that would mess up her new long board, but she denied my assumption. Since she was not cleaning her skateboard Sunday, I cleaned her grip tape, since I felt bad, taking her to the beach on her first walk with her skateboard. I swept a lot of it off with a broom, but there was still a little sand on it. I showed her how I cleaned it, and she was satisfied.

When we were walking home with our skateboards from Pleasure Point, we ran into the Bishop of the ward that she attended last Sunday. He was on a jog, and his name is Greg Madsen. He randomly started pushing her a long as he ran, and I was surprised when she said that she enjoyed it. I think that girls like their space, and would think that is creepy. Bishop Madsen has a couple daughters, so I trusted that he knew what he was doing.