Thursday, August 13, 2026

1+1+1=1000000000

 ¡Hola a todos! New week, new area! I'm in the same ward but in a bigger town closer to the border now. Its been fun to meet the people here and get to know the area! Highlights:

⭐️ Driving - i get to drive now!! πŸš—πŸ’¨ its been fun and also hard because I'm kind of directionally challenged, but Google Maps has my back 
⭐️ Knocking - we did a knock bout with a super sweet girl from our ward who is about to turn in her papers! She is awesome and it was so fun to have her with us! 
⭐️ meal calendar miracle - last week we had no member meals... we didn't know if it was just because the signup didn't get passed around or if we weren't reaching out to the right people, but it was not fun. This week, we also thought we had no meals again. We were reaching out to some people to see if they'd be willing to have us over, and then we found somebody who had the meal calendar!! We have a meal every day this week!!! πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™ 

🐞Bug of the WeekπŸ›
Not too many crazy bugs to report on this week thankfully (no bugs in this new apartment!) but I did see a pretty moth while we were knocking! 

Spanish word of the week: milagro = miracle πŸ¦‹ I have been trying to seek and expect miracles these past few weeks and there are so many every day! The people we meet, the beautiful sunsets, member meals - there's lots to be grateful for here and everywhere! 

Spiritual thought πŸ©·
To explain my email title, if we as the missionaries work with God (1+1), great things happen. BUT if missionaries plus God plus members work together, miracles happen! It was hard to understand this before my mission, but we NEED to work with members in order to be successful. Us missionaries can knock all we want and hope to find someone, but if a member can introduce us to someone they know who is interested and continue to meet with them? So much more productive and powerful! So meet with the missionaries in your area and learn how you can support them because they need you! If you haven't read The Power of Everyday Missionaries by Clay Christensen, I'd highly recommend it! It makes member missionary work feel manageable and exciting. Also listen to the talke "Witnesses Unto Me" by Elder Holland this week if you get a chance! Its such a good one. 
Thank you for all the emails this week, they brighten my day! God loves you all! Love,
Hermana Morales πŸ˜

For those who are interested, here's my address for the next 6+ weeks: 797 W Mesa Verde Dr #9, Nogales AZ πŸ’Œ 

Sunday, August 9, 2026

"Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today" - Master Wu from NinjagoπŸ₯·

¡Hola a todos! 

TRANSFER NEWS πŸ—£πŸ—£πŸ—£
I'm moving to Nogales! Which is just one area down so I'll still be on the same ward, but I have a new companion! I have to leave my favorite trainer ever Hermana Black πŸ₯² but thankfully I'll still see her all the time! We really thought we were going to be together for another transfer, but now all of our second transfer plans are gone πŸ˜” It's so interesting how you get to know someone really well for 6 weeks and you can hope that you can be together for another transfer, but you really have to make the time count while you while you have it. So actually "never put off until tomorrow what can be done today" because you never know what could be your last day with an awesome companion! 

Some highlights from this week: 
⭐️Plants!!! We visited this sweet old couple in our ward and they gave us so many plants to take home! So now our house really feels like a home! πŸͺ΄
⭐️Priesthood Blessing! One of our friends got in a car accident this week - it wasn't too bad, but we had the awesome opportutity to bring the elders quorum president and his wife to meet her and give her a priesthood blessing of healing! It was such a special ans spiritual experience. πŸ’•
⭐️Following the Spirit - there was one day this week where we had been knocking a bunch of doors and we had time to knock one more. I had really tried to pick a spot that felt guided by the Spirit but we hadn't found anyone yet. I felt like we needed to knock a certain door even though it looked abandoned and there were no cars or lights on, but we knocked anyways! And this sweet young mom answered and we set up a time to meet with her and it was super awesome! God guides us when we involve Him in His work!! 
⭐️My Violin!! My violin finally arrived!! Now I can fiddle away to my heart's content and do all the special musical numbers in the world! πŸŽ»
Lowlight: cockroach in the font... πŸͺ³
We were getting ready to give one of our friends a church tour and the elders told us to make sure there were no cockroaches in the baptismal font...uhhhh EUYUCK
But sure enough, there was one alive and running around stuck in the font πŸ«  and I had to catch it and put it in a cup and take him outside. Basically it was the worst experience of my life 
Spanish word of the week: superar = to overcome πŸ’ͺ i use this word all the time in our lessons because with Jesus Christ, we can overcome all of the trials we have and mistakes that we've made. It's important for all of us to remember that we're not alone on our journey through life!
πŸ›πŸžBug of the week: the Scorpion Killer™️ 
This. Was. Crazy. We were knocking on this lady's door with a member from the ward, and when she opened the door we realized there was this giant horrifying looking bug right by her door about to crawl inside! She closed the door thankfully but that bug was still just hanging out on the porch with us interested in the lesson πŸ’€  luckily our member was so brave and just swept him off of the porch, but he was HUGE and the member said that it eats scorpions! I'll attach a picture at the bottom (if you don't want to see it I'll make it the last picture)
🩷Spiritual thought: I studied obedience in Preach My Gospel (missionary handbook) this week and it said obeying commandments is an expression of love for God. God gives us commandments because He loves us! And He wants us to have guidance in our crazy lives. We can express love and gratitude for Him by showing that we value His teachings. I was also reading in Mormon 9, which says in verse 27 "Doubt not, but be believing, and begin as in times of old, and come unto the Lord with all your heart". I love thinking about beginning as in times of old because people like Moses and Nephi gave up their old lives in order to live a life that was more in line with gods will for them, and it blessed them exponentially! He can do so much more with our lives than we can. 
God loves you and I do too!! Im asking the same question as last week because no one answered πŸ‘€ what are your favorite General Conference talks for motivation? I hope you all have an amazing week!!! 
Hermana Morales ❤️ 
A few extra pictures and thoughts from Mom- 
Leah is not a complainer. Sometimes that makes it hard to know how she's really doing. BUT! I can testify that she has never once seriously complained of the heat, which is insanely impressive because it's near 100 degrees every day right now. She does an amazing job of looking for the beauty all around her, and I love seeing her discoveries in her pictures. 
Leah's violin did not, in fact, make the trip as safely as it should have. We were all devastated when she discovered the crack on the F hole that was definitely not there before the trip. Thankfully, the violin is still quite playable, it did actually arrive (eventually, heaven help me for the journey that it took because I put the wrong apartment number on the address), and miraculously, the insurance claim was immediately accepted, processed, and paid out for the replacement value of the entire violin. The crack can be repaired for a fraction of that price, but now Leah has a good and trusty mission violin with the funds to either repair or replace it when she comes home. Silver linings and blessings! 
Jesus Christ stands betwixt us and mercy! I love Leah's doodles. 
Another miracle- these letters from siblings arrived, even though the apartment number was wrong and most of them were addressed to "Mi hermana favorita" and "My best big sister!" 
Narwahl sisters forever!
Look at these happy, happy faces!  The bitterness of being apart makes the P-day reunions that much more sweet! 
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