Sister Reagan Garrick

Hi!  Kind of a hectic day recovering from Christmas so I will write more next week! Love and pray for you all! Keep Christ at the center of your lives and all you do, even though its not the Christmas season anymore! I'll write again next week, Tuesday, because transfers are next week already!  --  Sister Garrick skyping my family! Jumping on the trampoline with kids on Christmas giving gifts to Marys great grandkids my christmas card I created haha im holding the fattest cat named Oliver sunset at the mesa temple before the lights! not my pic but we saw this rocket in the sky! mesa again so many boxes from christmas packages haha mary got a new phone!! :) our christmas tree our gingerbread temple haha pozole haha look at the cats face a bunch of eggs.. one of our ward mission leaders works at an egg factory fat cat sunset swinging on christmas  ...

Hey everyone!  So this week was packed with fun and lessons and lots of great stuff! The Lord is hastening His work!  So we went to the Mesa temple lights two more times this week, last week Monday, and Thursday with Mary and 2 of her great grandkids! It was such a great experience :) Becca and Bubba, her great grandkids, said they wanted to get baptized and go inside the temple. We started teaching them at the visitors center, and have had 2 lessons since - along with 3 more of her grandkids! 3 of them are on date to be baptized next month :) Also, Larry came to visit me!! He drove 30 miles to take us out to lunch :') Its so nice to have a "grandpa" here! He's so awesome! He will get baptized one day haha he's just stubborn ;)  Jeremiahs baptism was this week as well! We postponed Rays, but he will still get baptized one day :) He's doing great though! We had our first lesson with Brittany and it went SO well!! She is so excited to learn ...

So this week I went on exchanges (where you switch companions for a day) in a Spanish speaking area! I mostly just sat and smiled all day haha. I thought about how my dad was nicknamed Elder Smiley at the beginning of his mission in Mexico because he didn't speak Spanish well yet. My high school Spanish proved to be almost no help. I understood the gist of most conversations, but got lost in the details. It was cool to see how you can still feel the Spirit even when you don't know what they're saying, though!  They thought it was funny when I told them all I know how to say is: Me duele la cara de ser tan guapa. Jaja ;) Thanks, Dad, for teaching me that!  We went to the Mesa Visitors Center with Ray on Saturday! It was super spiritual, and fun to go with some YSA (young single adult) ward members! We watched my favorite videos there. Its all about the witnesses and the translation of the Book Of Mormon. It is all true stories and it is so powerful to see the miracle...