Transfers :)

First a Congratulations to by dear mother who got married this week :) She is wonderful :) Thank
you for being an example in my life.

We also had transfers this week and I will be staying in Toa Baja with Hermana Paredes from
Peru :) She has been an amazing companion and we have been through some good ups and
downs together and I cannot wait to continue working with her. :)

I wanted to write about President Russel M. Nelson's talk from the 2018 October woman's
conference and the role of women in the Gathering of Israel. President Nelson said "My
dear sisters, you have special spiritual gifts and propensities. Tonight I urge you, with all
the hope of my heart, to pray to understand your spiritual gifts—to cultivate,
use, and expand them, even more than you ever have. You will change the world as you do so."

As women we have a responsibility to share the gospel just as much as the men in the church
do. We can touch hearts in different ways and we have a power to use this gifts that we have
been given to support priesthood leaders and to move the work of the Lord forward.

In 2015 President Russel M. Nelson gave a talk called "A plea to women" he said "Thirty-six
years ago, in 1979, President Spencer W. Kimball made a profound prophecy about the impact
that covenant-keeping women would have on the future of the Lord’s Church. He prophesied:
“Much of the major growth that is coming to the Church in the last days will come because
many of the good women of the world … will be drawn to the Church in large
numbers. This will happen to the degree that the women of the Church reflect righteousness
and articulateness in their lives and to the degree that the women of the Church are seen as
distinct and different—in happy ways—from the women of the world.”5

My dear sisters, you who are our vital associates during this winding-up scene, the day that
President Kimball foresaw is today. You are the women he foresaw! Your virtue, light, love,
knowledge, courage, character, faith, and righteous lives will draw good women of the world,
along with their families, to the Church in unprecedented numbers!"

I know that the women of the church have a large responsibility to share the gospel and move
the work forward. For the young women in my ward and my young cousins who read my emails,
I ask that you prepare to do your part now to serve a mission. To prepare by reading the
Book of Mormon and living in accordance to the covenants that you have made at baptism
and the ones you will make one day in the House of the Lord. I am so grateful for
the covenant living women in my life who have fulfilled prophecy and lived in a way that is
not of this world but of the world to come. I am so grateful to be serving a mission and to be
using my talents to move the work of the Lord forward. I know this is the true church of Jesus
Christ and I am grateful to have had this gospel in my hands my whole life.

My companion Hermana Paredes is a wonderful example to me of a woman of faith,
knowledge, and a covenant living woman. She does not use "buts" or tries to find a right
way to do the wrong thing. She is a strong woman and will always be an example to me.