Signing in L.A.

Hey guys!!!!

To start out our p-day, we had a flat tire! Yay! So much fun! But this week was great. The traffic was really bad one day and we asked someone what was going on and they said President Trump was here. So it only took 2 hours to drive 8 miles, love LA traffic!!!

I had a really cool experience the other day, while we were street contacting. We started talking to this guy and his daughter came out.  He told us that she could not speak and we thought "Oh, she can't speak Spanish".  So I started to talk to her in English, but no she really could not speak, she was deaf. She started to sign to me, and me having one year of high school ASL (American Sign Language), tried to sign back.  I don't know how, but I remembered things I never thought I would -- gift of tongues! She showed us her family and everything. It was way cool. Never thought I'd use something I learned in high school in the real world, but I did! Crazy!!!!

Being here in LA, I've seen so many sad situations and I've seen how much the gospel blesses lives. I want you all to know how much your Heavenly Father loves you! I love you guys so much! 

Love,

Hermana Weenig <3 

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P-day at the Tire Shop

Luv

Hi Y'all,

This week was great. Our amazing ward held a Valentine's Day party, which was fun.  We spent a lot of time this week doing street contacting to find people interested in hearing about the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Once in a while, we talk to students who attend USC (University of Southern California) since the campus is just across the street from our chapel.

We are continuing to teach Luis. He is progressing and is on track to be baptized.

Steven is not progressing as fast.  He needs to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon.  We were able to get him a simplified version in Spanish to help him understand what he is reading.

Hermana Ramírez has been helping me with my Spanish so much. Each day, I read aloud in Spanish to her from the Book of Mormon and she helps with the pronunciations and vocabulary. Since she's learning English, she takes a turn and reads to me in English and I help her in the same way.  It has been so helpful and the Spanish is coming along.  She always says "What the heck?!" To literally everything, it's so funny.  

Anyway, I want y'all to know how much God loves you and that He is always there for you!!!! 

Love, 

Hermana Weenig <3

Valentine's Day!
Hermana Wall (Virginia), Me, & Hermana Ramirez (Peru)

Trio Life

Hermana Ramirez wants to dye her hair

Tree Lover

Trio Orta Vez

Hi Y'all,

It's been a busy week.  We finally moved apartments!!!!!! We are in an awesome two room apartment instead of our tiny one room.  yayaya  I'm going to miss the black mold in my other apartment, so sad... Not! It only took us 15 hours to move and close the other apartment, too! We had to clear out junk and clean from years of other missionaries living there.  So much fun. :(

Transfers happened and I'm staying with Hermana Wall. We are also getting another companion! I'm going to be in a trio otra vez (again)!!! Our new companion's name is Hermana Ramirez.  She is from Peru and she doesn't speak any English. I'm so excited!  She will join us on Wednesday.

So this past week has been crazy. We got fed literally almost every meal. We are teaching this older lady named Luisa and she served us dandelion weeds.  They were in a big bowl of brown water and literally tasted like gross grass, but she eats them like popcorn. 

One evening, we were doing drop bys for members and when we knocked on this door, thinking it was a member's house.  This guy opened the door that we didn't know.  It was just really awkward, so we just told him who we were.  He was like "Oh, I might have daughters who would be interested, come in!" So we went in and talked to his two daughters for awhile. They were awesome and super interested that we have a living prophet today.  We are going back another day to teach them more.

Emely had a birthday party and it was amazing. She turned 10! She's the cutest little girl. 

We are still teaching Steven and he is interested in getting baptized! Its crazyyyyyy! He is awesome! 

For p-day, we celebrated Hermana Wall's birthday.  We took her out for lunch and played soccer with some elders in our district.

Love y'all! Be safe!

Love,

Hermana Weenig <3

Happy Birthday, Hermana Wall!  With the Elders in our Ward.

Emely's 10th Birthday Celebration

Hermana Wall is exhausted from moving!

Eating on the balcony of our new apartment! (Hermana Wall, Sisters Birch & Westcott)

Some of our district.

New Chair

Hi Y'all,

The reason I titled this email "New Chair" is because in LA when people don't want furniture and stuff, they leave it on the side of the road.  Soooooo we saw this nice chair and brought it back to our apartment.  Our roommates weren't super impressed, but its growing on them. haha  We switched it for one of our chairs.   We put the old chair on the street and we see homeless people sitting in it all the time, we are happy we could help them. 

This week was great! The other day we were out street contacting and met Luis! He's the best. We invited him to church and he came!!!!! After the meeting, he asked for a Book of Mormon and he's super interested. Plus, Emely was confirmed in sacrament meeting! It was awesome!

We had a great lesson with Steven yesterday, but he keeps looking up things on YouTube about our church. Let me tell y'all, YouTube isn't the place to find answers!!!! If you wanna know for yourself, read the Book of Mormon! You can't go off what other people say, you need to find out for yourself.  Sorry for the little tangent, but for real,  y'all, you need to find out for yourself. 

We met this family that works at a smog check place.  They were so nice and invited us in and gave us food.  They told us about how they took this kid in that grew up with a super hard life and that they take care of him now. His name is Kevin! He's one of our new friends and he's awesome.

We meet people all the time that tell us their whole life story and how they grew up in gangs and all that crazy stuff.  People go through such hard things.  It's crazy. That's why the gospel is the best because it gives people hope! Guys, I'm so grateful and lucky to have grown up in the gospel, it has blessed my life so much.  The more we teach people, the more I see their lives change. God is real! 

I love you all so much! Stay safe. 

Love,

Hermana Weenig <3

LA Temple Visitor's Center -- Hermana Wall & I with Sisters Birch & Westcott

Floating in LA 

Presenting our "new chair" to Sister Birch :)

Emely

Hi Y'all, 

Emely Muñoz was baptized yesterday! It was so cool. Her family just moved from Honduras and they are so sweet. While we were helping Emely get ready, her mom said "I cant wait for my baptism" (in Spanish, of course).  We both were so shocked. haha  She's awesome. The service was so cool, her dad sang "I am a Child of God" and the spirit was so strong! These people are amazing.

We were out finding the other day and we passed this guy walking his dogs.  We started to talk to him and he told us that he is retired now.  When we asked what he formally did for work, he said he was Michael Jackson's hair stylist! He did hair for a bunch of other famous people, too.  But like Michael Jackson !?? It was cool. 

We took Steven to the temple visitor's center yesterday.  A member guitarist was performing. It was really cool. He talked about how music is God's language, because it's the same wherever you go. Steven loved it. We walked around the temple grounds and answered all the questions he had. It was super cool.

I hope you all have a wonderful week and keep being amazing. Love you guys! 

Love,

Hermana Weenig <3

Emely

Hollywood

Heyyyy Y'all,

This week has been crazy with everything. We are still teaching Emely and her baptism is this Sunday! Yay! She's super excited.  Her family is super involved, too, even though none of them are members (issues with not being legally married).  They attend church, do Come Follow Me, etc.  I love this family!

We are still teaching Steven and he is finally opening up to us. YAY!

We went on exchanges this week, which was fun.  I was helping back the car out of the parking spot, and this guy came up to the side of me and just started to pee.  I didn't know what to do, so I just jumped into the car and we drove away. You gotta love the city. 

For p-day today, we hiked to the Hollywood sign.   A great hike and a beautiful view with a little smog. :) 

Also, I'm getting use to the California weather, because it got below 60 degrees and I was freezing. hahaha -- Cali baby. 

Love y'all! Stay safe!!!!

Love, 

Hermana Weenig <3

View of LA from above the Hollywood sign.

With Sister Westcott

Yummy!

Feliz Año Nuevo

Feliz Año Nuevo,

Hope y'all had a wonderful new year celebration. My ward threw a fun new year party, but we had to leave early because of curfew.  So we came back and made cookies with our roommates and had a dance party, while Sister Westcott went crazy with the harmonica.

Anyway, this past week has been good! Both my companion and Sister Westcott's companion got sick so Sister Westcott and I were pretty much companions for the week. I went to her lessons and she came to mine. She is English speaking so she doesn't know any Spanish.  It really tested my Spanish.  Haha. I had a really cool experience. Sister Westcott and I went out finding in her area.  We came across this guy named Jose and I started to talk to him in Spanish.  It was like all the words I needed to say came and we had a conversation.  He was interested to learn more so I got his number and everything. THE GIFT OF TONGUES IS REAL Y'ALL. 

Love you guys!  Have a wonderful week! Stay safe! 

Love, 

Hermana Weenig <3

Feliz Año Nuevo

Cheese and Crackers Time