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Bienvenida a casa Hermana Larsen!

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Loving a people and a culture that I never imagined even meeting

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Hola familia! Thank you all for your sweet thoughts on this time that I've spent serving in Chiapas :) Wow, 18 months. How do you put 18 months into one letter?? I can honestly say that serving a mission has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. These last few days have been full of a lot of mixed emotions, I'm not sure if it's really hit me yet that I'm going home this week haha. We had a last week full of a lot of miracles! We started teaching a the family of a contact we made a couple of weeks ago. he is almost never there, but his mom took a lot of interest. Her name is Ma_ and she is very receptive! She has seven kids, so the lessons that we have had have been very lively haha, most of them aren't really paying attention, but I know this family is going to progress a lot! The relief society president went with us to meet them and made the lesson awesome!  The week ended on a sweet note when Hermana Si_ and her family came to church for th...

Something so beautiful to look back upon

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Hola familia!! Haha sounds like you guys have had an awesome week! Thanks for celebrating my birthday, hahah! Cami and Patch, I think I definitely already told you guys not to make any more plans until I get back! ;) Jarrad and Maddi, suerte con los examines !!! Mo, but do you like me? JJ, sounds like an awesome spring break!! With lots of sleep haha! Ez, what a fun vacation! lots of video games you'll have to teach me how to play! It's been a great week! Almost everyone was still on vacation, but they have been slowly trickling back to their real lives and into our eager hands! Haha. We still won't see An_ until tomorrow, but his baptism is programmed for Saturday. And Ma_'s doing awesome! She didn't go on vacation! Wooo! We can always count on her ;) But we saw some really cool miracles this week! It started when we got a phone call from a lady named Am_ who had gotten our number from a member. She needed help cleaning up around her house and is someone who ...

Another testament of Christ written here in the Americas

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Hola Familia! Ez, so glad to hear about your Easter!! haha I honestly don't understand what your gifts were! JJ, haha go extra breaks! Mo, I want some of those chinese dumblings! Jarrad and Maddi, I'm jealous of your conf trip! Haha aw, Grandma and Grandpa, I'll interpret for you soon! Cami and Patch, yaaaaay! finally the week I've long awaited!!! haha love the pics!!! Mom and Dad, wow, that's a lot of parents to meet! Just been here taking mom's advice and preaching to these Comitan people ;) hahaha! It's been an awesome week! Because it started off with an AWESOME miracle! We have an investigator named Si_ that we contacted in the street at the beginning of the transfer. She usually only has time on Sundays, so since the first time we met her we set up an appointment for the next Sunday. We went, but she told us that she was busy and to come back the next week. We did, but this time she wasn't there, but we met and taught a little to her three swee...