4th of July Surprise Guest!

Surprise! It's Pday! Sorry it's so late. Full site life always keeps you on your tours (literally the iPad just autocorrected toes to tours, and I about died laughing, so I'm keeping it). Transfers have come again and I am still full site with Sister Dickey from New Zealand! She just finished training and the best way to describe her is through the cookie she ordered today from Subway titled "Rainbow Gem". She is just the sweetest and most definitely a gem ;)

Unfortunately with pageant coming up we won't actually get a Pday for two weeks. We'll get Pday hours dispersed throughout the week, just know I'll be trying to email next Monday and then the following Thursday, though not for very long.  Then after that, Pday will be on the 26th, the 2nd, and the 9th. Despite this I couldn't be more excited because PAGEANT IS COMING.

Something else is coming...well actually came, and for the past two weeks I've had to keep it secret which has been killer. But now that it's happened I can tell you. PRESIDENT UCHTDORF CAME TO OUR MISSION. His family was here on vacation and he took the time to gather the mission and speak to us. We each shook his hand and met his wife, and seriously, what an honor. Even more of an honor was the fact that Sister Packard, Sister Embley (each sisters I love very dearly and serve at the sites with often) and I had the chance to perform the musical number. We'd been practicing for weeks but just a few days before Sister Embley got really sick. The night before President Uchtdorf came she was in the hospital and President and Sister Evans had stayed up the whole night with her. There was lots of prayers and lots of fasting. Randomly, the morning of, her illness just went away. She came and sang and her voice was amazing and it was SUCH an honor to watch it all and be a part of that miracle. "Abide with me Tis Eventide" was very appropriate, because the Savior is truly with us

through every single moment of our lives. And this was such an amazing reminder.

Now more than ever I am so pumped to be at the sites! I was called last night to give a tour to a couple in Spanish. At the end of the tour outside the window of the Grandin building I saw fireworks

peeking out and buzzing behind the woman as she bore her testimony of the Book of Mormon and it really all just hit me where I was and what I was doing. I really really love my mission.

I love you all and hope you've had a happy fourth!

-Hermana Abreu

1. One of the last days with Sister Canova

2. Pageant set!

3. Sister Dickey from New Zealand!

4. Pday lake activities--fancy photo creds to Sister Nielsen

5. Being majestic at the locks