Hola!!!

Hello my beautiful family!! And loveliest friends!!!!!!

First off, sorry I am emailing soo late. We ran lots of errands today

and then the English sisters came over and we had some fun together

outside. I couldn't bare to stay inside when the sun was shining!!! So

we are just coming back inside. Haha and we didn't go to p-day

activity because the Elders were going to ROPE COWS. Yep, farm town. I

love it. Oh, and last week on p-day while we were in our lesson at the

church with Angel, some of the Elders in our zone parked their cars

all around ours so we were STUCK and couldn't leave till p-day

activity was over. Hahah they are ridiculous. And one Elder even hid

my shoes. They are honestly out of control. YeBut we didn't go roping

and so us sisters had fun together. So that is why I am emailing so

late... But anyways... how are you all!? Sounds like everything is

going very well in SALT LAKE CITY. Wow, I love Salt Lake soo much.

Haha whenever people ask me where I am from I am SO proud to tell

them. But how is everything!? Sounds like the weather is getting to be

very nice! It is BEAUTIFUL here. Soo sunny and warm. I am loving it

actually. We are still praying for rain but it's nice to get a little

Vitamin D. Also, we have been walking tons more so it has been super

nice. Also, all of the orchards are starting to bloom so it's

gorgeous!!!! All of these perfectly lined trees topped with white

blossoms. Sooo so pretty and magical. But my dearest darlings... I

love you all so much!!!

 Ohh and guess what is NEXT Sunday!?!? BARB J's

BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! I can't believe it is already here!!! And guess who

else's Birthday that is!?! My sweetest Hermana Howe's!!!!!! How is it

possible that two of my favorite people share the same Birthday!? It's

too perfect. But HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you

soooo much. I can't believe it is almost March though! Where has the

time gone!?! It's starting to freak me out a little bit haha. Also,

what is going on with everyone at home either seriously dating

someone, getting engaged or close to it!?! Sounds like there is LOTS

of love in the air over there hahaha. Every week I am hearing about

more and more. It is CRAZY!!!! I feel like I am missing a million

weddings but that's okay. I'll be able to attend the one I really have

to, that being my own. Hahaha and luckily I have a few weddings I can

be positive I will not miss. That being my mission companions haha.

Other than that, I have absolutely no idea!! Soo exciting though. I

love weddings, summer wedding season, all of that. So so fun. Abs, get

on top of sending me lots of pictures!!! I want to see pictures of all

the beautiful brides. 

However, even though I am missing all of that...

I want you to know I truly could not be happier and would not want to

be ANYWHERE else in the world right now, doing anything else. I am

seriously THE happiest person alive and couldn't love my life more

right now. I am just constantly filled with such happiness, peace, and

comfort. I am SOO HAPPY!!!! I love my mission more than I can or will

ever be able to express and never want it to end!!!!!!!!!!! Naturally

it will have to some day...... But I am too happy and loving it too

much!!! I absolutely love everything about my mission right now. I

LOVE Gridley, I love love the people here with all of my heart, I love

my companion, love my last companion who I got to see on Saturday

(Hermana Piggott!!!!!), I love everyone so much.... My investigators,

recent converts (my little angels), the less-actives, the members,

even the Mexican man who sells us mangos!!!!! I love everyone and

everything and I am just soooo happy I could scream!!! Hahaha it's

amazing I tell you. I love spreading and preaching the gospel all day

every single day, I love studying my Book of Mormon  every morning...

I honestly am soo excited to study each day, it's sooo wonderful and I

think about every day when we're reading I'll stop and just say, 

"THE BOOK OF MORMON IS HONESTLY AMAZING!!!!!"

And the Book of Mormon I am

currently marking right now is so precious to me. Haha I am

obsessed!!!!!!! I want everyone to read this book soooo badly. Because

I KNOW that if they will just READ it, and PRAY about it... they will

KNOW it is soooo so true!!!! And will CHANGE their lives!!!!!!!!! I am

so beyond blessed to have this knowledge and to have the Book of

Mormon and gospel in my life. I truly, sincerely cannot imagine what

my life would be like without it. So family... I hope you all are

reading EVERY SINGLE DAY. And TRULY reading and pondering over the

words you read. I don't know if I ever told you about this but at our

Christmas Conference President Weston challenged our entire mission to

read the Book of Mormon by March (I can't remember the exact day) but

so what the goal is... Is we read 6 pages a day (of the brand new book

we each got) and we have to mark everything that revolves around faith

and then underline anytime it says Lord, Savior, Jesus Christ, God,

Messiah, etc. and ohh my goodness. How amazing has this experience

been. My entire Book of Mormon is marked up with colors (I have all my

favorite favorite scriptures marked in a different color too, etc.)

but I have been learning sooo much and it is just AMAZING!!!! I find

myself making cross-references and reference chains all the time

too... It's the best!! You should all do it. Starting off my day by

reading helps sooo much too. I am starting off my day with the spirit

so strongly touching and filling me and then for the rest of the day I

am pondering over what I have read, applying the doctrine and

principles I learn to those I am teaching, etc. It's the best!!!!! But

okay... As for quick updates...... I have to hurry haha

1. We had THE best Zone Conference this past week!!!! Wow. I don't

know if I have ever been more inspired or uplifted in my entire

life!!!! It was AMAZING!!! Can I just tell you that my mission

president is the absolute BEST man in the world (besides you dad) and

is just the most spiritual, intelligent, loving, inspiring, self-less,

Christ-like person!!!!! He is seriously THE BEST and my companion and

I joked afterwards that our Husbands BETTER be like him. He is

seriously amazing. We won't settle for less. Haha. Hermana Piggott and

I would have these talks as well. And him with his wife.... My heart.

They are so precious!!!! I am obsessed with them. Haha honestly we are

all soo obsessed with them. They are just incredible incredible

people. I feel soo beyond blessed and lucky to have been able to serve

under him and I am going to soak up this last bit of time we have with

him as well!!! I cannot even talk about him leaving yet. So sad. But I

wish I could go on and on about all that was talked about and done at

Zone Conference but I don't have enough time. It truly changed me

though and I feel like I sincerely walked out of that building a new

person!! With new ideas, goals, motivations, etc. AMAZING. I felt the

spirit soooo strongly throughout the whole meeting and even got teary

at parts. We also talked about the Spirit for a long time during it

and wow, it gives me chills even thinking back on it. Ahhh I have so

much to say about it. I will share more thoughts on it next week.

2. On Saturday we went to the baptism in Lincoln and I got to see my

HERMANA PIGGOTT!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It was EVEN better than I

anticipated!!! Haha Sister Hamblin drove us and as soon as we got to

the church, Hermana Piggott opened the door from the building and I

jumped out of the car, OPENED my arms out wide hahahaha yelled,

"HERMANA PIGGOTT!!!!!!" and raaaaan to her!!!! Hahaha we then hugged

like crazy and I cannot even tell you the joy that filled me. I

immediately had tears in my eyes as well and it felt as if I hadn't

seen her in SOO LONG!!!!! It felt like an after the mission, airport

deal hahaha. I was SOOO HAPPY!!!!! And I couldn't stop hugging her. Oh

my goodness. I am so obsessed with her. Haha I know she is going to be

reading this too...... but she already is clearly aware of my

obsession. We are the same person though and she is my best best

friend. I had always heard of people meeting their BEST friends on

their missions too but I didn't expect to find an Hermana Piggott. She

is more than a best friend to me. She's honestly my sister. My

Hermana!!! Hahaha OHHH my goodness. Amazing. Amazing. The rest of the

time I was there we were glued to the hip too and couldn't stop

talking and catching up. Haha one of her investigators saw us chatting

forever and said, "I can tell you two miss each other a lot!!" OHHH

Hermana Piggott. I love her so much. I cannot WAIT for you all to meet

her in person. I know you met her over Skype on Christmas haha but it

will be so fun when we all can be together again. It will be too good

to be true!! But anyways... It was such a joyous reunion and I was so

so happy. It was the best catching up and I miss her more than I can

say!!!!! Haha I wish you could all have seen us when we saw each

other. It was a movie moment. She also has never looked more gorgeous

and ahhhh I love her so much. Ps. We made a promise to write every

week even if it's a short note so it's the best. We're really "keeping

in touch" hahaha love you Hermana Piggott. Get ready for my letter

this weeek!!!!

3. We have started teaching a FAMILY!!!!! The Castaneda's. Hermana

Piggott and I started teaching them awhile back but we weren't able to

get a hold of the mom very much... And she never came to church. But

Sister Payne (the stake president's wife and friend of the mom) got

Erin her daughter Cookie to come to church one Sunday and then that

day we had dinner at the Payne's, then we delivered beds and bedding

to their house that President Lopez had because they were in need and

that's when we met the cute dad and now we are teaching the WHOLE

family!!!!!! Amazing!!!!!!! We are constantly praying and searching

for families so the fact that we are now teaching a GOLDEN one. I

couldn't be happier. There are 6 in the family and they don't have

much religious knowledge so it's all pretty fresh, like a blank slate

and we are loving teaching them!!! We invited them to be baptized too,

after they barely KNEW anything about baptism... And they said yesss

but they just want to learn more. PERFECT. They will be baptized this

upcoming transfer for sure. Which leads me to my next subject...

4. Transfers. Transfers are this upcoming Sunday!!!! Ahhhh I am

freaking out. I am not at all ready to leave Gridley. We have sooo

many people soo close to baptism, I need one more transfer!!!! We

still have so much work to do!! Together! I still have so much work to

do here. And I know many miracles are going to happen this next 6

weeks. So cross your fingers!!! I cannot leave!!! However, we have

zero Spanish sisters coming until April so I don't think President

Weston will switch things up again until then. You NEVER know though.

And he likes to keep us on our toes. So I am a little nervous. We get

3 new Spanish sisters next transfer though and I am super excited

about it. I don't know if I told you this but we have only had one new

Spanish sister since me. Haha so slowly but surely the Hermanas are

coming!!!!! Oh! And it was Hermana Rodriguez that came dad!! I saw her

at Zone Conference!! She is soo cute and I told her I had heard about

her from you and she wants to know who the Sister is that you talked

to. She threw out some names of Sisters she thought it could have been

but what's the Sister's name?? Who served in Arizona Spanish

speaking?? Anyways, I would love to be this Hermana's compañera one

day. She is awesome!!!!!!!! Oh, and on Saturday night we were at the

Rodriguez's for dinner and I was talking to Oscar about transfers..

Well little Christopher then asked me when I thought I was leaving and

I told him maybe in a week and he started crying hahaha. It was sad.

Love that family so so much. I love everyone here soo much. They are

all my family and I feel sooo so close to them. My little branch

family especially.... Ahhhh I love them so much.

5. After Zone Conference President and Sister Weston came to our place

to do "inspections" haha more like they walked in, looked around the

house for a second and just chatted with us. But then we went over to

the Elizondo's and visited Yamara and Lorenza!! President came up to

me at the beginning of Conference saying he wanted to visit them and

Lorenza didn't get off work till 5 so we planned it perfectly and went

over as soon as she got home. It was a miracle actually. More to the

story. But we went over there and it was quick, President had to head

to Redding for their next Conference but it was sooo good. He got to

talk to them for a little (we translated for President and Lorenza)

and then he gave a blessing on the house. Very very sweet and special.

Yamara appreciated it very much and was still shaking in her boots

when she saw him and he was in her presence haha. But afterwards

Yamara called us and said that after we left she sat down and read

with her mom in the Book of Mormon and they talked about what they

read, etc. SO AWESOME!!! Lorenza will be baptized soon. I can feel it.

Another reason why I cannot leave yet!!! However, Hermana Piggott and

I will be at that baptism no matter what. President will give us

permission to. Also, a couple of weeks ago President sent Yamara a

personal letter in the mail congratulating her on her baptism and

asking for her to send him her conversion story. Sooo cool!!! She

really is so amazing and President admires her a lot. They have a very

sweet and special relationship now.

6. Yesterday we had 6 investigators to church which was very

exciting!!!! We honestly have sooo many amazing people right now and

keep finding more!!! The Lord is truly blessing us and hastening the

work!! I love MY mission!!!!!! The California ROSEVILLE Mission!!!

Best mission in the world. I am convinced. But also, in church I was a

mom again. Haha I sat in between Estrellita, Marcella's little darling

and Maria, Jesús's hermanita, my little obsessions... And anyways...

They were both using my crayons and drawing and it was soo fun for me

and I am obsessed with the both of them. I cannot wait to come back

for the both of their baptisms!!!!!!

Okay, so we just had to run over to the Hamblin's to help Brother

Hamblin and get some stuff to make Gridley sweatshirts next week haha

but so I am back and p-day is almost over and same with my emailing

time!!! So I have to go. But real quick... I have a couple more

scriptures I want you to all read......

Alma 37:36-37 ... We talked about Alma 37-37 a TON at Zone Conference

and since it has been so engraved into our minds and we have pondered

over it so much, we have shared it with a lot of other people and I

just love it so much!!!!

36 "Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings

be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord;

yea, let all they thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the

affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever."

37 "Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee

for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord,

that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the

morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these

things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day."

I really will expound on my thoughts on these two verses next week.

Ahhhh wish I had more time. I wish so badly I could talk more about

these but I have to go!!!!! Think and ponder about them. I love you

all so much!!!! Sorry this has been the most scattered email ever. I

have been all over the place today. Okay HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN MY

BEAUTIFUL MAMA AND HERMANA HOWE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! March 2nd... WOOT

WOOT!!!!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Barth