Viva Las Nampa!

Hola familia y amigos!

So I'm here in Nampa!! First week. We cover the whole Nampa South Stake in Spanish. There are 8 or 9 wards in the English south then we go to our Spanish ward. It's been very different than Kuna, but really good. My companion is Hna. Poblete. She's from Argentina but moved to Texas when she was 6. So Spanish and English are both her native language. It's really great. She likes to talk, but we actually teach together really well. And we're having a lot of fun.

Nampa Spanish is a lot bigger than Kuna. The ward is about 5 times bigger! We fill up a chapel. A LOTTT bigger than our little Kuna branch. Already I've met a lot of people and am starting to get the hang of how things run around here. I get to drive, so I'm learning the area pretty fast.

We had our first district meeting with our new English district on Friday. It was really different. Our district is bigger and there are now more elders than sisters. But they seem really great. It'll be fun to get to know the English missionaries in the area and work with them.

We had a really cool experience yesterday. We went to contact this referral we actually had from when I was in Kuna/Melba. I had found this family in Melba only to find out after that it was in the South Stake (where I am now). So I got to go back with H. Poblete. Their names are Maria and Carlos. They weren't there, but we had driven all the way out there, so we decided to just knock on the neighbors' doors. It's a good thing that we did, because we met this really nice guy named Miguel. When we first asked, he said he was atheist and I got kinda nervous, but he was just kidding and was really willing to listen to us. We're going to come back again next week. Then we realized that they actually lived close to other investigators who we hadn't been able to visit because they were so far out there. So we went and visited them all and had really good visits. There's a whole group of open people out there and we can just take a day and visit them all out there at the same time. It's really convenient. The Lord blesses us in little ways like that. I love being here and being able to recognize stuff like that. Heavenly Father is in this work and willing to help us out if we reach out and show Him we're willing to act.

Have an amazing week, everyone!

Con amor,

Hermanita Shirley

1) Hermana Poblete. She likes to take selfies.

2) Selfies with all the girls in our ward.