Saturday, November 7, 2026

Spirit > Natural Man! October 20, 2026

Hola everyone! Today the goal is to send out my email before the middle of the night so I'm starting it bright and early! To switch it up a bit:

🩷 Spiritual thought first!! 
This week I've been thinking a lot about the two parts that make up who we are - our spirits and our bodies. One missionary said we are spirits having a physical experience, not bodies having a spiritual experience. Which really got me thinking, especially when I was fasting last Sunday. Our bodies/natural man want to be lazy and unmotivated and just do whatever is comfortable. Our spirits, or the more Godly and powerful part of who we are, want to go the extra mile and work hard, even if its awkward or uncomfortable. So this week, I'm trying to focus on making decisions based on my spiritual wants instead of natural man wants. 
In summary, 1 John 5:4 says, "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world". SO choosing to follow spiritual inclinations isn't something we do alone! When we choose to change and be born of God, HE will help us become who He knows we can become. 
Hopefully that made sense. I'm excited to have it as a focus all week! As for last week: 
⭐️ mini exchange!! I took exactly 0 pictures but Hna Black and Hna Ayres came down from Rio Rico to Nogales for a day!! It was a crazy day but it was so fun to learn from them and spend a day together 🫶 theyre awesome missionaries! 
⭐️ Met a super cool guy who has been trying to get in contact with missionaries for a long time but his phone is weird so it was divine timing that he answered our phone call! 
⭐️ BYU beat Notre Dame hehe 😛🤙
⭐️ one day we were driving home and somehow ended up at wingstop (what a shame) and as we were driving home it started dumping rain so when we got home we had warm dinner right away! 
⭐️ emma sent me a hair tutorial so I got to do a diva hairstyle and switch it up for once (thanks queen 👑)

Cloudy Moments
☁️ I have this conspiracy that approximately every 2 months the entire world goes slightly deaf and the volume of everything i say goes down so genuinely no one can hear what im saying for like a week.... and its happening right now 😤
☁️ 1 HOUR LONG correlation meeting....
☁️ so many friends confirmed for church... 0 friends came (even the one we took on a church tour the day before grr)

🏔 Spanish word of the week: llegar a ser 
Means "to become"! A lifelong process. 

Guau another week gone by already! This transfer has been flying bc I have an awesome comp and our days are full. I also hit 5 months as a missionary today! If you got all the way to the end of this email, you get a gold star! ⭐️ I hope your week is delightful! Lots of love, 
Hermana Morales 

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Fall Time in Iowa

Iowa shines in the fall. 
Day and night, we are lucky to witness the beauty. 
The first and only frost so far came in October, a gentle reminder that these colorful days never last. But then again, neither do the frozen gray ones.
My favorite field was the last to be harvested this year
(you can't really live in Iowa and not have a favorite field).
Falltime in Iowa means a trip to Jester Park! 
Noah may have outgrown the elk binoculars.
I don't know why I'm like this. 
Laney loved Noah's hum-bachi-boo-bah performance.
She was a great sport with all of the hiking and sniffing, until she was done. 
I carried her a whole bunch, and eventually gave her the shepherd treatment. 
Noah and I enjoyed a little cheesecake afterward! Youngest child perks. Emma was with friends and Adam was... somewhere.... maybe studying calculus with friends? 
The humble and graceful barred owl was among the first woodland creatures to greet us when we moved into this house (scared the bejeezus out of us until we figured out what it was). I was so sad to see this beautiful and tragic owl laying in the road on fall day. But we loved seeing him up close. 
Find yourself a partner who will move a dead bird out of the road so that they can rest in peace. 
Falltime looks like tractors resting in the sunrise, getting ready for another day of harvest.
And corn mazes in the sunset!
City fall views are some of my favorite!
Especially the views that lead to music!
Oh, just our backyard. I'm standing near the washed away friendship bridge.
The portal!
The best sunset of the month. What a wonderful world! 
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