Where in the World is Emily Hurley: Backing up a little...

A random guy I found at the CCM cafeteria who is my straight up twin!

My district in front of the CCM with one of our teachers

My zone in the MTC

So one day we are in our classroom and a bird flies into the window and falls to the ground, dazed.... so it was our pet for a while. Another day we found a random cat! It somehow made it passed CCM security. :)

So my companion and I have started a tradition of selfie sundays :) enjoy

We had a very powerful weekend! Our baptism went great! The boys, named Manuel and Jesus, that were baptized are 9 and 10 years old and they were so happy at the baptism, they were crying. We had two investigators attend the baptism as well! So that was fantastic.

Then Fast Sunday yesterday was amazing. First of all, it was testimony meeting. And the boys that got baptized the night before were confirmed with the Holy Ghost during Sacrament meeting. They really wanted to sit on the stand for the meeting and they were allowed to do so and were shockingly reverent. I decided to give my testimony and while I was up there I wanted to encourage Manuel and Jesus to share their testimonies, because I know they are very strong. Well I had barely made it up the steps when manuel called out to me "Sister Hurley!" so i walked over and sat down next to him. He said "Now that i am a member, do you think it would be ok if I gave my testimony about how I feel?" I said of course. He gave a beautiful testimony about how happy he was to be baptized and have the Holy Ghost. He cried. I cried. Then I gave mine. It was a very uplifting meeting. Another thing that made it a great day was that we had a special Fast.

We have a goal as a mission called White Christmas. The goal is for every companionship to have a baptism in the month of December! One thing we did to work towards this goals was we had a ward fast for the missionary work and we had barely started the fast when the miracles started flowing! The Elders found a "drop book" for our area and gave it to us yesterday. That means all the past missionaries that have taught people in Spanish at one point in the past but ended up "dropping" them because they were too busy, or never home, or not ready to maker further commitments, put their names and addresses in this book! So now we have stacks of Spanish speakers that have met with the missionaries before and their addresses! We know through that we can find at least one person that is ready to be baptized in December! Also, one of our investigators that has been promising to come to church for weeks came to church yesterday! He had a great experience! And many people he had met at the baptism the night before greeted him, which made him feel more welcome.

And finally, last night we went to a house to drop an investigator. We thought she wasn't interested in our message because she had stood us up for an appointment and hadn't been answering our calls. But instead of dropping her, we ended up having a fantastic lesson with their whole family and adding her husband as a new investigator! I am so grateful for the power of fasting and that I know that God provides us with miracles every time we ask.

this is a picture of some of the things Manuel has given me to hang on my fridge. He says I look like cinderella so he made me a book called Hurlyrella on the Mission. It is great. My companion is my fairy godmother and I dance with my prince at the ball (hopefully that is after the mission (: )