Earthquake

Well I will start off by saying it was awesome.  Not for a lot of people around here though, it really scared everyone.  For some reason I didn't think it was very strong, and then we heard it was a 7.2 earthquake.  There wasn't any damage in our area that we have seen or heard of, but I guess that a house went down in our zone, but that is all I have heard.  From now on we are supposed to call our zone district leaders anytime we have an earth quake, I have a feeling more are coming.  We had another one on Sunday and it was 6.8, but wasn't as long as the first one was. 

We had zone meeting a couple of weeks ago and President and Hermana Brough gave us all a emergency plan and told us what we need to have and do and such, and we will all have 72 hour kits and such.  After that I knew something is going to happen that is big.  My companion and I actually don`t have our emergency booklets yet so hopefully we`ll get them tomorrow.  We get to go to change meeting tomorrow even though we aren't being changed since my companion is the retention leader for the mission. I am very excited to see all of the new missionaries come in!  It is VERY weird to think that I have been in the field for 6 weeks already, in 6 more I get to call home for Christmas!!!

We are teaching our neighbors, I think I mentioned that last week, but they came to church again.  I really hope they will progress!  Jorge and Carmen are their names.  Jorge doesn't have much of a back ground with church and Christ and our Heavenly Father, so he has a lot of questions, but I know we can help him!  I am excited for them!  We had an amazing experience the other day!  My companion and I had both planned on Studying the Book of Mormon for personal study and I could not concentrate on what I was reading and felt I needed to study Eternal Marriage for a less active family that is working hard on coming to church.  Familia Marenco.  They are amazing!  So I studied, and for some reason I felt like we needed to tell her that she will have children if they do all that they can to live the Gospel and go to the temple together.  Hermana Treviño shared first of what she had studied and to my surprise she had the EXACT experience I did!  We studied all the same scriptures, and she also felt like we needed to tell them they will have children.  Side note, they haven`t been able to, which made it even cooler.  The lesson with them that night was amazing, and I think really helped.  I hope they keep working forward to the temple. 

Which brings me to another point.  I have realized more and more the importance of the temple and attending it!  Those of you that are close to a temple, please go this week!  People are waiting for you to do their work, and they can`t do it with out us.  Even though it is a lot for others, and you might not realize it, but we need to go to the temple for ourselves too.  We might not realize we are learning something, I don`t realize it, but we do each time, even if it is just to feel of the love and spirit there.  Annie and Ron that is so exciting, it`ll be different to come home and have you all there all the time!  How fun!  Well here is to posting some pictures!  Love you all, thank you for your prayers and all of your support, I definitely need it!
SLY!
Hermana Wilcox