Week 29

Winter in Logan

We went to the temple with our recents converts, our ward mission leader, and some members from the branch!!!!!!!!! it was an amazing experience! words cannot even describe!!! everyone was crying even our ward mission leader and the spirit was so strong! i could feel the joy of the people who were having their work done and it was so amazing!!!!!!! AND I AM STAYING HERE IN BUENA VISTA SOUTH!!!!! I am so happy! the branch has two sets of missionaries and i am still staying here in our area but hermana gaines will be going up to the north part of the branch which is so amazing that we are all still in the branch!!! I will be with hermana tolman who used to be up north with hermana gaines' new companion hermana allen so everyone was really shocked that we just did that switch cause that rarely ever happens! but we are all so happy! i love hermana tolman so much and we will still see hermana gaines a few times every week!!!!!!!! so great!!!!!! this week so much has happened!!!!!!!!!!! miracles miracles miracles!!!!!!!!!!! so one of them was one night we were walking around after a lesson fell through and we felt we should knock on a door we knock and white people answer so we thought this was a joke then it is a super drunk white guy holding a beer can but hermana gaines decides to ask him if he knows where the hispanics live around here and he is not very responsive but another white lady form around the corner sticks her head out and says quickly and quietly that there is a hispanic family across the street on the corner house. so we go as strange as it was we knew we were being guided by Heavenly Father. We knock the door and she is on the phone and tells us to come back tomorrow. we came back the next day and taught the most amazing lesson ever!!!!!!! we taught with the spirit and she felt the holy ghost! she was smiling the whole time and nodding it was amazing you can see the light of christ in her eyes! we taught with power and authority and she wants to learn more and says that she wants to be baptized after she learns more it was so amazing!!!!!! the daughter was in the other room listening and we invited her to come but she just wanted to listen but we are excited to teach their whole family!!!!!!! I love to be a missionary. I know that miracles happen! Heavenly Father is the reason why we can do everything in missionary work! This week we have had many incredible experiences where the holy ghost has guided us and even made known unto us the thoughts and concerns of the people we were teaching. so many powerful experiences. and i feel a fire burning in my heart! I love to be a missionary! I know our message is true and that is why we are able to share it! I am so grateful for my Heavenly Father, my Savior Jesus Christ and The Holy Ghost!

Con Carino, Hermana Egan

Week 28

HOOOLAAA! 

THIS WEEK HAS BEEN AMAZING!!!!!!!! the members in this branch are my family and i love them all so much! they are all so eager and willing to help it is amazing! and we have the most amazing ward mission leader ever! we talk to him every day and when we bike to our investigators house he is already there visiting them!!! it is incredible! i love the members of the branch they are all so sweet and generous! i have been here so long and i am so nervous i may leave this next week for transfers but i will go where the lord wants me but i will probably still cry. OH! and one of our recent converts is preparing to serve a mission!!!!!!!!!! I have never been so happy then when she told us! We are going to bring her over a preach my gospel and go through everything with her! I am so excited! she is a senior in college and she is also thinking about colleges but she doesnt know how to do any of it and so we are going to help her so much and do everything with her! I am so excited her family is my family in logan i love them so much! We also went carolling with our branch on a saturday night and some our the recent converts were there and members and we all went out in the freezing cold and carolled to all the less actives!!!!!! it was one of the best nights of my entire mission almost number one but competing with a few others! the unity of the branch was so amazing and everyone was so happy even though we were all freezing it didn't matter we even had a keyboard that we carried around to each house and hermana tolman played the piano while we all sang and rang bells it was so fun to see the members carrying the piano and stand and the cookies we gave to everyone it was amazing and to see how happy the people were was so great we invited them all to church and i feel so happy! I know that the church of Christ has been restored! HOW INCREDIBLE! I know that God has a plan for each and every one of us and he is with us every day of our lives! AND I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!!! for this time of happiness and spirit we have to celebrate our savior's birth!!!!!!! 

AMOR AMOR AMOR,

Hermana Egan

Week 27

Ready to bike at night

ME ENCANTA SER UNA MISIONERA. Estoy muy agradecido por la opportunidad que tengo para servir mi Dios y para ser un representante de el Salvador JesuCristo. Lo Siente Bien. Y ESTOY FELIZ. ME ENCANTA ESTA MISION Y ESTA MARAVILLOSA LUGAR QUE ESTA LLENA DE ASOMBROSAS PERSONAS. estoy agradecido por perdon y por la misericordia y gracia de Dios. Estoy agradecido para la santa cena y la oportunidad que tenemos para tomarlo cada semana. Se que el sacerdocio ha restaurado y es el poder de dios para efectuar el baptismos y ordananzas. se que es real y lo que es lo mismo poder que cristo tuvo cuando el vino a la tierra. Se que Dios tiene un plan para nosotros y que las personas que rodean es para un razon y por su designio. ME ENCANTA EL EVANGELIO DE JESUCRISTO- LA IGLESIA DE JESUCRISTO DE LOS SANTOS DE LOS ULTIMOS DIAS. 

paz, fe, gozo,

hermana egan

Week 26

this has been the greatest day ever and i feel very grateful! we have just got back from the temple and i feel full of joy and spirit! we also need to leave here in about 10 minutes to teach a lesson to one of our recent converts we are going to read the scriptures with her and she cant read so it is a really nice thing to do with her! she is incredible i am so excited and after that we are going to one of the stake presidents house and he teaches us some things he is so amazing! we are so blessed! and it is even thanksgiving in two days yay!!!!! we will be eating tomales with the spanish branch so it will definitely be a thanksgiving i will always remember!!! also there have been miracles this week and especially yesterday!!!!!!! one of the less actives we visit her daughters arent members and they use to hate the missionaries and avoid them at all costs and because of some amazing blessing they love us and i think we are going to be able to begin teaching them we are so excited!!!! and we have a family home evening set up with them for tomorrow!!!! i love them so much! 

35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

acts 20:35 

i love this scripture!!!!! and for me it means that even how many blessings and joy that i have from having the gospel of jesus christ in my life that i will be even more blessed and happy to share it with others than to have it! i love it!!!!!!

i love everything i love all of you!!!!!!

HERMANA EGAN

happy thanksgiving!!!!

Week 25

Winter has come!

Hola! it is the winter time i guess! but the people keep telling me that this is nothing and that us little girls will die in the winter in our skirts and bikes but i guess we will see them we tell them about the pioneers but they usually just shake their heads. hahaha. but really it is not bad yet but i am starting to get scared only because a few people say this to us each day so you start to believe them. anyways! the work is amazing and this week was wonderful! mostly sunday! because every one in town came to church! so each sunday before church my and hermana gaines end our studies early so that we can go out and we say "round up the gang" but pretty much just invite every one to church again even though we have invited them many times already and then they all say they will come and show us their outfits they will wear and then no one ever comes and then this week everyone came!!!!! well not everyone... but it was incredible during the meeting i would tap hermana gaines on the shoulder and say loooook looook who is here and we were so happy and would go and sit by them and say hello and it was so wonderful! i love the people here! the abuelita taught me how to make pupusas this weekend i love her so much she is my best friend i love their whole family so much and now we are making plans to go to the temple with them and they are hopefully getting their interviews on sunday after church! SO PUMPED!!!! I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!! oh and also one of our investigators came to church and we were teaching the priests his class and we were talking about missionary work and practicing door approaches  and they were talking about mini missions and he wants to serve one!!! it was so cool! oh and also he had just gotten out of the juvenile detention center an hour before church started we were so happy when he walked in! he is the best! 

AND MORE THAN ANYTHING I LOVE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

"the kingdom of god or nothing" - John Taylor

AMOR AMOR AMOR,

hermana egan

Week 24

Maria's Baptism (Lorena's grandma)

we had transfers today AND ME AND HERMANA GAINES ARE BOTH STAYING IN LOGAN WE ARE SO HAPPY! i hope i never leave this place i love it so much! and we are so happy we get to stay together because hermana gaines is the best missionary ever i love her so much! this week was amazing! maria, lorenas grandma was baptized on saturday and it was so amazing! i love her and their whole family so much! Elder Clark came and talked with us on wednesday it was incredible and very powerful, he gave us many slaps to the face! it was awesome! i loved him so much! after the training with elder clark our mission has made many more changes that are above and more strict than general mission standards but we are very excited about it all! i am so excited for this transfer! yesterday we had such a miracle! we usually have about 3 family home evenings with different families on monday night and they all went very well but the last one was so amazing our ward mission leader came with us and this is a family we have been teaching for a very long time but they are not married, and before they always have just told us that they didnt want to get married, and then hermano morales was very bold but the spirit was so strong and he told them that they were living in adultery and that they need to be married. i normally wouldn't tell someone that they are commiting adultery but he did it because he loves them and the spirit was so strong it was amazing and then after we found out the real reasons and she is still married to someone else in mexico and she cant speak english and cant fill out the papers but they want to be married and we are going to help them with everything and with the papers or court or everything we are so excited for them! this is their first step to having an eternal family! i love this family so much! we have been visiting them my entire mission so far and we have almost dropped them many times because they were not progressing but never did for some reason. also i love their daughters! they have three and the youngest ones and 3 and 5 and they do our hair every time we teach and it is very cute and very painful but i love them so much! and their oldest daughter is 11 and she is amazing she is the reason why they go to church because she begs to go and she is always so anxious to learn more last night she was begging her parents that they can all be baptized and she wants them to get married also so that they can go to the temple one day! it was so incredible! the members are really great here too! they are my best friends! after we finish emailing we are going to go to the stake presidents house of one of the english stakes he is amazing and paints a lot of the art in the temples he has a huge library and he basically just teaches us when we go over and its the greatest thing ever! he has so much knowledge it is really incredible! and speaking of knowledge! i love this quote! "knowledge without labor is profitless. knowledge with labor is genius." also if you are reading this you need to go to your church leaders and get the list of members and ask which are the less actives or inactives in your ward and go visit them and love them! we have seen miracles from this! 

Yo se que JesuCristo vive y es el solo camino a felicidad verdadero! si guardamos los mandamientos del senor estaremos feliz y el bendicira nosotros! No hay otra manera sino mediante nuestro Salvador JesuCristo y su evangelio de paz esperanza y gozo!

AMOR AMOR AMOR,

Hermana Egan

Week 23

Another Baptism!!!!!!!

hola de logan utah!

I AM SO HAPPY! so many good things have been happening! and i am so happy that i cannot stop smiling and sometimes my face even hurts! leslie was baptized on saturday and it was such a miracle and a happy day! she has been going to church for a long time and hasn't had the desire to be baptized until now. also the abuelita who is incredible is going to be baptized on saturday and she is so excited she is so prepared and is so close to god it is amazing i love her so much. yesterday was one of the best days of my life. the spirit was so strong and we had an experience where we almost didn't go where we needed to be at that moment and i didn't want to go there and we went anyways because we knew we had to and the spirit was so strong it was incredible i was so happy! heavenly father told me through the holy ghost that that was exactly where we needed to be at that time and that was part of his plan and design for us. i have seen on my mission satans influence and how subtle it is sometimes but also i have learned to discern it more and now sometimes it even seems so obvious. but i have also learned how his influence can even be to continue doing good things or to do good things rather than doing better things. I am so grateful for the gift of the holy ghost that comes after we are baptized. I am grateful for this guidance I have in my life and the peace and joy that i am able to feel even when people are rejecting us or in time when we should not have peace. I know this gospel of jesus christ is true and i love it.

sigue adelante!

hermana egan