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"Idaho grows potatoes, Utah grows Mormons, 

Louisiana grows bugs & eats them too"

-Brother Huerta

Had dinner with the Bishop last Sunday and he asked us to reach out to the Dominguez family! 

We had never been able to meet with them, but we said we'd try!! 

Checked our meal calendar and THEY had signed up to feed US that week! 

MIRACLE??

So we headed on over and had dinner with the parents!! 

Halfway through the meal Brother Dominguez says, "So I have three kids who need to be baptized. Can you guys help us with that?" 

uhhhhhh PLEASE!!!!!!! 

We are now best friends with the Dominguez kids & getting them READY for baptism!!

Pres. Amos roasted my squinting face MULTIPLE times at MLC, because I forgot my glasses & could NOT see anything that was happening. 

Good thing he called me "Sister Starling" every time though!!! 

August 11th is my new favorite holiday. 

Made a massive watermelon cake and it was quite possibly the most fun I have ever had. 

Poisonous snakes. 

Sounds like my worst nightmare! I think the people in Ether 9 felt the same way...BUT they were being the WORST and so God sent them poisonous snakes to PUT them in a position where they could be humbled! 

God's been sending me some poisonous snakes lately. Do I like it?? No. Do I appreciate it? A little bit! It's putting me in a place where I'm learning to HEAVILY rely on my Father in Heaven, which is what I want & NEED. 

There He goes again!!!! Giving me exactly what I REALLY need, in ways I really don't want.... but God's perspective is eternal & mine is not. Not at all. FOR NOW. 

BUT at the SAME time, the end of Ether 9 is ALSO coming to fruition and the blessings are being RAINED down. 

Saw an old man do a one handed cartwheel in the Walmart parking lot. 

Then the SAME man spanked his car and drove off faster than Lighting McQueen. 

I need a pocket sized Evie Jarman to carry with me every where I go. She is my biggest hype girl. 

My 3 year old angel. 

ANYTIME I even looked at her she would GASP, "OH I LOVE your face!!!" "OH I love your clean teeth!!" "OH I love your eyeballs!!" 

My favorite part was when she shoved her arm in my face and whispered, "don't you just love my wrists??" 

Best wrists I've ever seen. 

Leonard is a BIG BIG fan of Joseph Smith, so we showed him The Restoration movie and he bore the most beautiful testimony afterwards. 

He then turned to one of the little kids there and said, "don't EVER forget what Joseph did for you." 

I'm gonna give you all the! same! advice! Don't ever forget what Joseph Smith went through to give you the restored gospel. 

Half court shot. One handed. 

NEED I SAY MORE???? 

My proudest moment. 

Sister Ervin & I are almost halfway through our THIRD transfer together here in Denham Springs! 

We've definitely gotten into a routine SO last weekly planning we decided to SPICE things up and change something about EVERY activity we do. 

Lemme tell ya, it's been GOOD. REAL GOOD! 

STILL OBSESSED WITH BEING A MISSIONARY IN LOUISIANA & WITH MY SAVIOR!!!!!

SISTER SPANGLER