E-mail (Dated: 5/4/2015)

Hey hey hey!

Awesome surprise!! Guess who is now in a trio with her MTC companion!? THIS COOKIE!! Hermana Neuberger had special changes and now shes part of our companionship! Its such a good time! I love that girl! Its been so fun to see how far we have each come. And she has fit so so well in our area here in Palmas. She has such a sweet spirit and the people already love her. But I doubt our trio will last for long... changes are next monday and i think im out of here... i have almost 8 months here in Palmas! Ill let ya know what happens though (:

Our area is going great. I feel like we are really on a roll and Heavenly Father is blessing us so much. Our investigators are so so special and are fitting great into the ward. We have also been recieving so many references in this past week! Which is amazing cause its been so hard to recieve them in the past. So we are excited to contact all of them.

One hard thing we had this week was that our recent convert Maria Elena ran into Hermana Skinner while we were doing divisions. We havent been able to find her in a couple weeks (Weve passed by her house and called her family so many times). And she told Hermana Skinner that she didnt want to see us anymore. :( She said she wants to be alone and she moved to Xochitepec. So we dont know where she lives exactly to help her new ward help her and visit her. But i know that she is in the hands of God and he will take care of her. Im still going to be calling her family and passing by to get her new address from her family.

So if you guys could pray extra hard for her it would be very appreciated! Also please keep Jose in your prayers. Hes a champ but still is fightin.

But other than that everything is great!! I actually wanted to share a quote and thought with you guys from President Hinckley that i read this morning...

"Cultivate a testimony of the restoration of the gospel. You have to nourish, you have to feed your testimony by reading the scriptures, praying, and by being active and faithful in the church, by doing his will. If  you dont have a testimony, go to work to get one. The Lord told us how to do it. He said "If any man will do His will, he shall know of the Doctrine."

Ive had a lot of situations lately where ive noticed how important it is to have a FIRM testimony. We have to do all that we can to strengthen our testimonies every day. If not we can fall so so easily. We really are protected from the world if our testimonies are strong.

I love you all! Have such a great week! Cant wait to talk to you on SUNDAY!!! (:
Con todo el amor del mundo,
Hermana Chynoweth aka brookie cookie

Ps here are some fun pics for ya. FYI me and Hermana Neuberger literally did not plan to match either time haha. So funny!