Sister Rivera goes to Canada

heyyy everyone!! I cant believe summer is officiallyy over! time flies wowza. so let me tell you.. life is good here in the city! So i was super nervous going to the big city of edmonton! I LOVE IT. Edmonton is soooo gorgeous. Sister Hall and Sister Blackburn are my companions and oh my heavens I just love them so much!! Our apartment is on th 10th floor so we have this gorgeous view of the city and we drive a 2017 Rav4. Are we blessed or what!!! Its been a blast pinkwashing this area and we've went only 1 day without teaching a lesson so its been such a good experience! I love love love it!! We go finding by going on the LRT. Idk what that stands for but its like the city railing system. It is so much fun and I love it!! It seems like itd be scary because its one on one but its awesome because you just pop a squat by someone and talk to them. Its so  much more natural and Ive noticed as you just get to know them, a topic of the gospel always gets brought up and it takes off fr...

Hi everyone :) well. im 2 for 2 on transfers with the changes and Im getting transferred to Mt. Pleasant which is in the city ( i think) and we will be serving in a YSA(Young Single Adult) Ward!! Ill be in a companionship of 3 and we will be pinkwashing the area (or starting clean) so it is going to be fun. Ill sure miss Beaumont! I love this place!!!! <3 So this week was just crazy hectic. Between cleaning and packing up the apartment on top of regular life in a week was crazy. I cant believe its already Pday! Holy smokes. I dont have much thats new this week  but we had a really cool experience! So we did mutual for the YW this week and we had them write their testimonies in a Book of Mormon and pick a house on the map that they wanted it to go to. Since we tracted out the whole town, we knew most of the houses so we went to deliver this Book of Mormon and last transfer, I had went to this house and visited with this woman and we all got to be pretty good frinds! I rememb...

Hi everyone! I hoppe your last weeks of summer are going great! I cant believe that its August already!! My week has been pretty jam packed! So heres a little overview of my week.. Tuesday- WE WENT TO JASPER AND SAW THE MTNS Wednesday- Zone Conference in North Edmonton with a new implementation called Tiwi for our cars. Thursday- We got Facebook and had a day long training on using smartphones and social media. Friday-Saturday- complete blur lol Sunday- 2 of our investigators came to church!!!  Monday- We volunteered at Heritage Days! Jasper was just the most amazing thing ever. Haha I know it has been just 3 months but oh i wanted to just shed a little tear when i saw the mountains. Ah! They are gorgeous!!!!! The glacier lakes too. Everyone needs to go to Jasper. Hands down. It was so much fun. The member that took us forgot to exit so we toured a little bit of Edmonton before going to Jasper lol. We saw elk, mountain goats, mountain she...

hi everyone! holy moly. this week was crazy..awesome..and crazy again. all good things, all good things :) So it has just been storming like crazy here. The rain is insane!! Sister Passey and I are convinced that a tsunami is going hit or something wild. Haha i thought Valley weather was bi polar..Canada is probably worse even lol. So let me tell you why Im telling you about this crazy weather. We had like a crazy day and to be honest, it was a very discouraging day. We had been looking and looking for fellowshippers to come to our lesson with one of our investigators and it took some hard work and looking for two to come with us, finally got two men to come with us,  then that teaching appointment was cancelled, and it was just a crazy day. Then, we went to do our backups.. and our backups fell through because it was pouring rain and we couldnt tract in that. So we filled our time trying to fulfill our purpose as best as we could going through the area book and finally it was...

Happy 4th of July everyone! I'll try to keep some of the Star Spangled Banner in my mind today but after this weekend, O Canada is engraven in my head forever.   😂 Transfers came and I'm staying here in Beaumont and getting a new companion!!! Her name is Sister Patsy so I am so excited to get to know her and see her tomorrow!! :) :)) :) ):)) This week flew by. Time always flies!  We had a very busy weekend with Canada Day!! We were able to go to our wards pancake breakfast and a lot of the community came. It was a really neat experience to be there for their flag raising and all of their festivities. At the pancake breakfast, we noticed this family that we had knocked on their door. When we knocked on their door, we started going into a little discussion and nothing came out of it. Well they were there!!! At the pancake breakfast!!! And they recognized us and they started asking more and more questions and we taught them the first lesson right then and there in the m...

 Week 10 Hey everyone!! :) i hope you all had a great great week!! Haha this week was, oh my heavens, one for the books! It was like the best week ever. Sister Passey, my new companion, is like the coolest person ever, super hardworking, and just awesome!! It is going to be a fun transfer for sure. Our work from last transfer and from this transfer is already paying off. We are doing some more teaching and not just finding so that is always great!! :) We have 2 new investigators so we have THREE total!!! Super pumped about that!!!!!! :)) Savannah is getting baptized  on Saturday  and ahhhh, we are so excited for that we can hardly wait!!! Then this guyy named Lance.. well he is just so prepared. Heavenly Fathers hand is in this work, let me tell you. I mightve mentioned him before but he was just telling us how he had been looking for something and didnt know what it was but he thinks that this is it. And just talking about how there is always just...

Things in Canada are going good!! Very good! Our investigators baptism is in a couple weeks (on the 15th) so we are just preparing for that and I am soooo excited. We have been  doing a ton of finding trying to find a new investigator! One day we tracted a huge chunk of Beaumont and didn't get a single potential investigator and then the next day we had two lessons on a doorstep within 3 houses of each other!! It was definitely the coolest thing ever!! One of the ladies that we had a lesson with was just so prepared, it was awesome. Some elders had given her a Book of Mormon on the bus in Edmonton and she had been reading it since then but because of time, the elders didn't get to explain really anything about it. So we talked about that and then she mentioned that her husband and her are on a journey to find their faith. So we were definitely led to the right street and the right house. Then this other guy.. Haha we started teaching him the restoration, got through i...