I'm a cool Mom

Hey fam and friends!

Long time no mass email(; Sorry about that! The last few weeks were those "hard moments" missionaries usually try and sweep under the rug. But i am back in the game and ready more than ever!

First things first...transfers... Sister Carson is leaving to Illinois and I am staying here in Crystal City and TRAINING!! So mission lingo "im Preggo" but im not THAT cool of a missionary to keep up with that stuff so i just say im going to be a mom(; A cool mom!! I am so excited and grateful that President Bateman trusts me to have this calling. Ill pick her up Wednesday from the mission home and will introduce her to all ya'll next week!! Im SO excited for this new transfer!! Honestly its like God knew that this new trasnfer was going to be good because this last week everything lined up for a great up coming week! #tendermercies #itslikeHeknowsorsomething #Imissinstahashtags #canyoutell?

SO because i am staying that means you can send me even more letters and goodies! Ive been in a mail drought lately (except you dad, youre on top of your game) Heres my address again just in case!

3235 Richardson PL

Apt 8

Arnold, Mo 63010

So last Tuesday kicked off a fan-flipin-tastic week! (literally not exaggerating). We met this wonderful girl, Amanda, she is 24 years old and just the sweetest thing! She had got a hold of us early the last week and said a friend from her class introduced her to missionaries and she wanted to start the lessons in her home! She was SO prepared when we got there and wanted so badly to listen with out interruption. She had her BofM, resto pamphlet, and gospel principles book ready to go on the table. Which BTDubbs she had already read the first 9 chapters on GP book and started reading the Doctrine and Covenants... Ya she is an over achiever! We taught her a plan of salvation lesson and oh my goodness let me just say ive missed teaching so much!! With being down sick for a week and comp being sick the weeks before I forgot how amazing it felt to share this restored gospel with people. The spirit was so strong and she had this light in her eyes and i dont think i saw her smile drop once. The whole time she would say "Wow this makes more sense and feels so much better". I am so excited to see her this week and teach her some more!

Wednesday came around and we had a mission wide broadcast. It was so good! All the missionaries said that it felt like Christmas haha we get so excited hearing training's from general authorities. It was SO good!! They announced a few changes to the missionary schedule and key indicators. Our morning and study schedule are now different and it allows us to use our agency more and chose for ourselves. It is suitable world wide with the flexibility it offers. I LOVED what Elder Bednar said with this announcement, "the Church is world wide but it is not a one size fits all". How awesome and comforting is that!! The gospel is the same everywhere we go but the atonement and love it offers is so individual. We have been living the new schedule for the last few weeks (we got an early invitation to try it out) and its been great! Truly inspired.

Thursday we had an awesome lesson with a women in the ward who is inactive. We have a standing appointment with her every thursday and it started with us "practicing" our lessons on her but this lesson kind of changed that. We taught the restoration and focused on real intent. We asked a lot of inspired questions and mostly had her teach us about what real intent was. This Sisters issue has been she just doesnt feel like going to church or feels worn out so she wakes up for church then doesnt care to actually get up and get ready. It was cool is relate her to joseph smith and bare testimony on why real desire is so important in the gospel. Heavenly Feather wants us to return to Him and partake of the blessings that the gospel has to offer but more importantly He wants us to want it. Thats why He gave us agency. He wants us to feel for ourselves what life has to offer but also was eternity has to offer.  We invited her to come to a special sacrament we have coming up and she said that she does believe her desire and intent needs to change and that she will continue to have us guide her in that direction.

Saturday we decided it would be a good day to tract and find some new investigators! So we whipped out the GPS and "spirit tracted". I picked out 6 streets then individually me and sister carson picked 2 and whatever we had in common we tracted! Like spirit tracting always goes we had the 2 in common! SO we went on our way. The street though only had 3 houses... All rejections but my favorite was from this lady who brought her dog outside to do its business and i gave her our card and once she caught on she slowly walked backwards away from us and said "Im catholic...uhm good luck with your... evangelistic... walk?" and then ran to her backyard! hahah evangelistic walk?? Alright! We circled around to our car and decided to knock on this door where the glass door was showing right into the kitchen and we could see a family making dinner. We knocked and met John. After introductions he asked for us to come back and he will have us in! #spirittractinggoals

This week was full of tender mercies and LOTS of return appointments. Itll be perfect to introduce a new missionary to! Im so excited for this transfer, I know the Lord has set different things in our lives to build us up and make us better and i am grateful for those "hard missionary times" because it shows that the Lord trusts me to over come. And i get to exercise me trust in Him and my Father in Heaven.

I hope you all have a good week!! 

XOXO

Sister Bustillos

Can I ent-ICE you to read the Book of Mormon

Well Hello All!

What a week its been(: Really though its been awesome. And can you believe that Christmas is on Sunday?? I cant! December is flying by. Itll be 2017 before we know it! Really i felt like i blinked and this week was gone. This transfer is going to zoom by. This past week was busy and so great! Ill try to explain it all with out sounding too gibberish!

Tuesday rolled around and we had an appointment set with Lina. She was an online referal we had received weeks earlier but we couldnt ever catch her. So we were excited for this appointment to finally roll around. I was super nervous she was just having us over to bible bash with us or something though because on the phone she sounded super cold! Anyways, we spent the morning preparing for her and praying that we could help the spirit be present so that he could be the main teacher. She let us in and after brief intros she said "well, what do you have to tell me?! What about this Joseph Smith guy starting his own church?" I explained a little history of the church and talked about how our church isn't reformed it is restored and it wasn't BY Joseph Smith but THROUGH him. At the end she said "Woah okay i like this!". We continued on with the restoration and she asked "what do i need to do". We were blown away by her desire!! We asked her to read the BofM and pray. She agreed. We ended up reading the last two paragraphs of the intro page with her and when we finished she said "Dont stop there! Give me something else!". So we read moronis promise. Her face was priceless! She said that she felt something in her heart and that she had never felt so relaxed. Thank you spirit!! She said she would come to church but was not going to wear a dress because she didnt have one and we told her that it was okay. We prayed (shes a prayer whisperer #YAS ) and left. I got in the car and cried and told sister carson that she is why we both stayed. It was such an answer to our prayers!!

We were out Friday afternoon doing normal missionary work and after we walked out of one of our appointments BAM!!! Slipped and fell on ice!! What?? The ground was covered!! We drove off and instantly started sliding. We went to visit a family in the ward and on the way we saw people sliding off the roads and crashing and stuck on top of hills. People just parked their cars and walked!! By the time we got the members home we got a call that cars were groudned and we had to go home. We made it home safe and the drive was fairly easy but as soon as we got to our little hill our car gave up! We could not get up the hill so we walked across the street and walked home. About half way through crossing the street i heard a scream and look behind me to see sister carson on the ground trying to get on her hands and knees and crawled over me to help her up! haha i was dying!! She is so bruised i feel so bad! But karma came at me for laughing because last night i ATE it down a fill and my skirt flew right up! Thank goodness for tights(;

That night at 1 am we got a text from Lina saying she finished to Joseph Smith story and found it "interesting". I panicked and thought she got antied so we asked if we could come over and hear what she had learned. Although the cars were still grounded from the ice! About 45 minutes before we had planned to head over our cars got undergrounded!! #miracle ! We went over and she sat us down and said she was soo excited that we asked to come over. She then gave us the spill. She found her testimony of Joseph Smith and said he is a prophet!! She also said she has been happier and stopped swearing for some reason! And that she was going shopping that night for a dress to wear to church on Christmas!! WHAT??!? I think those are my favorite parts as a missionary! The spirit obviously taught her a lot and warmed her heart. We just got to bring the BofM into her home and he did the rest! He's making my job way too easy(; 

Church was canceled sunday and we were so bummed! but we got a call sunday morning from the zone leaders and said that out of the whole county their church wasnt cancelled and we were all invited! So all 22 missionaries in the surrounding area showed up for church! haha poeple were so confused!! It was the best sacrament ever!! I think it made the sacrament that much more amazing to partake of. The talks were also just what i needed to hear and there was a father and son musical number. SO GOOD!! I focused really hard on the sacrament prayer that day and as it was being passed read where i left off in the new testament. As the bread came my direction i read of Christ blessing the bread and passing it. Then the wine. How amazing is it that the same way and by the same power that Christ prepared the sacrament is how we are able to partake? Those small emblems represent so much and give us unmeasurable strength. No matter where we have been in our life we get to have it all washed away by simply partaking. How merciful and fulfilling. 

Im so excited to continue this week in the Christmas spirit. I hope you all have a good week and are keeping up on the church Christmas initiative!!! 

Love you!! 

XOXO

Sister Bustillos

Love.

Happy Thanksgiving week!!

I totally did not know that thanksgiving was this week haha then someone asked us what we were doing thursday and i was just like "uhhh missionary work?" then i clicked!! Crazy that the holidays are already here. President Bateman put out a music policy for Christmas music and we get to listen to any lds artist christmas music so I have some James the Mormon in my head phones right now #sogood #yetsovirtuous 

Well this week was super great and a really good learning experience. We were able to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ a lot of different times and we emphasized what repentance was. A lot of people quickly assumed that it was a scary thing and that it meant we were a bad person. But we focused on the definition of it. Love, repentance is the outcome of love. For ourselves and for our Savior. When we love someone or something we are willing to change and thats the outcome of repentance. We recognize we want to become better and the Savior gives us love and grace to make that possible. How much faith does it take to repent? "Its not as much faith as it is to move mountains. Its not enough faith to speak in tongues or heal the sick" Its enough faith to feel remorse for our wrong doing and enough faith to feel love for our Redeemer. For the man who already took on our sins before we even repented of it. I think thats been one of my favorite things to teach/learn on my mission. Repentance isnt scary and it shouldn't be intimidating. It should be one of the most joyful experiences we have. We may feel pain from our sin but we will always feel love during the process. 

So this week we have been wanting to find new people to teach. We know there are people in our area ready for the lessons but who? and where?? We had no idea how to answer that question so we let Jesus do it!! We prayed and picked out 10 streets then we individually prayed and picked out 5. We had two in common and both agreed that they were the ones we had the strongest impressions for! So off we went. So many tender mercies on the street that He picked out. We didn't even have to knock 3 doors before someone let us in and invited us back(: We decided to try that everyday. We want the holy ghost to be the "senior companion" in our companionship. Its been amazing to let God lead my life. I didnt think i could let myself be this vulnerable and not be in control but more peace comes from his way(:

Oh this last week it also decided to get really cold!! Like actually cold... even though everyone says its going to get WAY colder 😱 My hands were so numb and it hurt to knock doors haha. Missionaries say to wear gloves and just keep a golf ball in your pocket to knock or an eos chapstick. Because its so cold though people either dont want to open their doors and let cold air in or are super quick to let us in and get out of the cold! 

This week my favorite thing I heard was at church yesterday. Everything was thanksgiving themed (duh) but it was a quote by Thomas S Monson... "To express gratitude is gracious and honorable. To enact gratitude is generous and noble but to live with gr attitudes in our hearts is to touch heaven. " The lady giving her talk went on to share how she had lost 2 children over the course of a couple years and how people would call her and ask how she is handling it so well. She said "choose gratitude to change your story". I thought about my mission a lot through out the talks and how truly thankful i am to be here in Missouri. Its not a normal opportunity to get to put life on pause to help the Lord in such a close way. Every person i meet and even every door that gets slammed is an opportunity for me to give thanks. 

Love you all have a good thanksgiving. 

XOXO

Sister Bustillos

always making friends with the animals

Potatoe sac dresses!!

Adios Mexico

Holy Cow this transfer has come and gone so quick! and its November? NUTS! Itll be Christmas before we know it! 

So the dreaded day has come and its time for me to leave Mexico ): It was one of the hardest things to be told that I am being transferred but after 6 months it was kind of inevitable. The weekend was full of goodbyes and lots of tears. I never thought i would come out on my mission and find people i consider family. It felt like i was leaving home for a mission all over again. Mexico will always have a piece of me and I hope and pray that i made a tiny difference there. I got my new call to Crystal City MO. I have no clue where it is. Just that its closer the St Louis, i guess! I know some sisters that have served there and have heard great things so I am stoked to be able to experience more of the mission.  Here is my new address:

3235 Richardson pl. Apt #8

arnold, mo

63010

Letters much appreciated (;

Okay so lets start with the funnies of the week shall we!?

First of all, who remember the shed we live in? Ya well the door fell off!! Like on the floor in the dirt off!! haha shed happens i guess(; But we had to wait around for the door fixer guy to come put it back on because we didnt want to just leave the shed with no doors on... plus the front door was hanging on by a screw...one screw!! haha it made for a funny story but the shed was covered in bugs!! Earlier that week we went to a members home for dinner but before we could go we had to drop off the daughter at riding lessons down the street and she insisted we bring bingo!! Whose Bingo?? Her pet goat! He is the cutest thing ever! I sat in the back with him on the 2 minute drive over and he just chilled by me the whole time! Someone get me a pet goat when i get back pleasse??

So Yesterday we got to have a pretty cool experience before we left Mexico. I taught a lesson in SPANISH!! Okay not really but we taught and a member translated for us. I was so so nervous going into this lesson because of the language barrier and was quiet the debbie downer with my negative thoughts. I didnt think the lesson would go well or that anything would be undertsood so i went dove in with the worst attitude! We asked sister loyd ( the member ) to give the opening prayer in spanish and that instantly changed the mood of the room. The spirit quickly softened my heart and gave me a reassuring touch. We jumped into the message of the restoration and the words flowed out of our mouths. The lady we were teaching seemed to follow along quiet well and had a lot of good insight. We were all able to watch the first vision video in spanish and it brought tears to my eyes as Heavenly Father said " " (thank you google translate  ) but the spirit touched me so strong as those words were said because i was able to get a little glimpse into how much our Heavenly Father loves us and how true this gospel is anywhere in the world. and im only in missouri!! Our Heavenly Father knows how great each soul is worth and He is able to show that love to anyone in any language. He loves us so much that He will give us every opportunity to feel that love. As the lady who we were teaching watched the miracle of the first vision it was made known to me by the holy ghost that no matter the language barrier He was going to make sure that this daughter of His felt His love and have the opportunity to experience more truth. With both me and Sister Ellertson leaving im not sure what will happen with her but i know that the little lesson we had with her planted a seed that Heavenly Father needed to be made. We walked away saying how cool of an experience it was to be part of something like that and for our testimonies to grow on how true this gospel is and that the truth has been restored!!

I am so so sad to be leaving Mexico but Im ready to go share my love for the Lord in Crystal City!! My mission is changing my life in ways i didnt know were possible and I can honestly say its because I have the chance to be around such amazing people and focus on them and not myself. I'm always so happy with the decision i made to come back out to Missouri and even more greatful to my Heavenly Father for directing me to do so.

 Love you all!! 

XOXO

Sister Bustillos

Do you have a boyfriend?

Good morning! Good morning!

Woo I am getting very distracted this morning with writting this mass email so sorry if its all jumbled. Ill try by best here😏

I guess i can start off with my subject line!! We volunteer twice a week at the senior center helping serve lunch. Ive gotten to know the seniors pretty well! There is this one man who came up to me a few months ago and asked me if i have a boyfriend and when i said no he was shocked and said "What!? Why not?? Dont worry...a girl like you Itll happen" hahah. Then everyweek after that he would come up and say "Sister, have a boyfriend yet?" I wold just shrug and say no haha. He went a few weeks with out asking then this last week my shift started with "Do you have a boyfriend YET?" I said nope but maybe in a year or so and he came back later to me and said "you know.. you dont need a man. They all lie!" haha me and sister ellertson laughed and laughed at the story that followed. That was my funny story of the week! Theres more but they are lame haha.

This week we spent a lot of time up in Columbia. I love it up there though! Real buildings and more than one stop light!! haha

But first we had exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders. I normally dread exchanges because Im not in my area with my companion and its just unfamiliar but Ive grown on the idea and sort of like them now! Sort of..(; but i was with sister segner and we spent the day finding new people to teach and we found some awesome potentials and it just taught me that i need to try harder. Some days it feel like i cant try any harder but theres that last 5% i should be putting in and thats what i remind myself now in the mornings is to push myself and apply everything I have. The next day we had president interviews. We each go in one at a time and get to just chat with President Bateman. He is an amazing man and makes you feel so comfortable and loved! We had a really good discussion about my work and who i am/want to be as a missionary. I left that interview feeling really good about the person i am becoming and the missionary that ive worked to be. It was really rewarding to have someone acknowledge my work but makes me want to work harder to keep it up! We spent all that day in columbia for president interviews and then Barbra came down for her baptismal interview. She said it went really well and walked out with a big smile. Her baptism is set for this weekend but some issues occured with the building so keep her in your prayers and that Saturday will work(:

Sorry this email was short... limited time!

but i love you all!! Thanks for the prayers and thoughts! They dont go unnoticed. Love you all(:

XOXO

Sister Bustillos

On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was

"it's october 3d"

Happy National Mean Girls Day!! My morning has consisted of quoting as much mean girls as possible, wearing pink, and annoying Sister Ellertson with continuous singing of Jingle Bell Rock. It has started off a good pday(;

This week went pretty dang good if i do say so myself! Lots of tender mercies with our lessons and work. I love seeing prayers answered through other people. It was the first week of the transfer so made sure to go hard and set the tone for the next 5 weeks and we did just that(: For p day last week we took it easy because we were both getting sick but at our dinner appointment that night the kids wanted to play football and oh my heck it was freezing outside! It felt like winter but apparently winter is way worse than that haha but it was really cold and the grass got a little icy. It was a fun time though! There are no outdoor lights in the country so we put a big flash light on the outdoor table and played in the dark! I didn't hurt myself that time(;

Remember Cleo? Well we lost contact with her for a few weeks. She doesnt have a phone and she works two jobs and is going to school so she was like never home! We decided to stop by her house after a few weeks off. We walked right in because she saw us coming and said she was just thinking about us! We caught up with her some but she had to leave to get to class so we had a quick discussion about the restoration and focused on the b. of m. ! It was short and sweet but the spirit testified. She had a lot of questions. She studies a lot from the bible and said she read about how there was a book missing ( Ezekiel 37: 16-17) and was curious if the b of m was it. We talked to her about how they are seperate books but work hand in hand to complete the gospel of Jesus Christ. I invited her to read the last two paragraphs of the intro page of the b. of m. and before we could even discuss what it said she said she wanted to accept the invitation and read it for herself and if we had an extra for her to keep. How amazing!  Since she is so busy we wont be able to see her frequently but both me and Sister Ellertson left with the same confirming feeling that Christ would bring her to the truth when she was ready. He just needed us to plant the idea and resources there first. 

This Week we also had the chance to have dinner with a family who has been less active for years now. They have been inviting us into their home pretty often because they have a desire to be happy and recognized that they were the happiest when they lived the gospel. We shared the plan of salvation with them at the end of dinner and made it a discussion. We focused on our purpose here on earth. My ALL time favorite scripture to share with people who are looking for something is 2 nephi 2: 25. (for real sister ellertson knows how much i reference this scripture!) but its because its true. And i testified it to them. One of my sentences started " I think.." then I paused and said "No, i dont think, i know" and talked about our purpose here on earth. We discussed the atonement and asked them what that word meant to them. None of the family members could answer the question because they didn't recognize the word any more. The fathers voice was full of sorrow when he explained to us that he couldn't remember what it was. We lovingly explained the atonement and the huge role it plays in our daily life. He said "wow how could i have forgotten that?". That stuck with me a lot this week. Am i forgetting the atonement? I know the definition of it but am i remembering to use the action of it? The rest of the lesson with that family opened up their eyes and hearts to recognize that this life is more than going through the motions and surviving. Its finding pure happiness through the atonement of our Savior. Its allowing Christ to change our lives to a celestial potential. 

Then came the weekends of all weekends.... CONFERENCE! woot woot! oh my it was a different feeling than i expected. I learned so much and felt the spirit in so many different ways. Saturday we watched it at different members houses. I got so much out of those sessions and i knew that the following day would just over fill the cup. Sunday morning we watched it at the church and then the afternoon we watched it at Ashleighs home ( an Inv. ). I went into this conference weekend with one specific question and every talk given had an answer to it. But the best answers I received were to the questions i was too afraid to ask. It confirmed to me that Heavenly Father is aware of every feeling we have. He knows the depths of our souls. He "caste a light on the depths of my heart". The woman we watched it with said she got a few things out of it but didnt connect much with it but the more we talked about it the more she opened up and the more she realized she got out of it. She admitted to wanting happiness in her life and knew that it would be possible through Christ. We were able to testify of the gospel of Jesus Christ and how it is through this church we can reviece joy. It was really cool adding my witness to the ones she heard that evening. During the morning session while Russel M Nelson spoke i couldnt help but write her name on my notes. We invited her to read that talk and that we would help her on her effort to find real joy. She read this line and agreed:  “When the focus of our lives is on God’s plan of salvation ... and Jesus Christ and His gospel, we can feel joy regardless of what is happening — or not happening — in our lives”

Our spiritually high weekend seemed like it woudnt damper any mood and then we got to our dinner appointment... DUN DUN DUUUUUN!!! hahah i dont think ive ever laughed so hard on my mission. We got to dinner with a a woman and her family whose home we have never been in before. Maria (the 5 yr/o) insitisted on showing us her pet alvin. She returned with a giant black long tailed rat!! I stayed come because i knew what she was doing but sister ellertson screamed! Of course maria found humor in it and chased her with the rat haha we all laughed at her attempt to get alvins tail to touch Sister Ellertsons leg or arm. This went on and off for about ten minutes until Maria thought of something funnier to do. You could see the wheels spinning in her head and she came up to me and whispered in my ear, still holding the rat, "im going to kill your friend." At that point i got kind of worried but still knew she was young enough to just be playing. She started chasing Sister Ellertson again but this time when Sister Ellertson ran Maria chucked the rat across the room onto Sister Ellertsons back! The rat whipped its tale on her face and proceeded to hide in her hair and get stuck! hahah we were all laughing so hard we couldnt help her so she kept screaming and running around. I had tears come down my face!! hahah. Oh man thatll be a mission story i remember for ever!!

October has already kicked off so well here! I want to go on and on about conference but i know you all listened and got things out of it that you needed to hear(: This is going to be an AMAZING month, i can tell! love you all!

you go Glen Cocoa

xoxo

Sister Bustillos​

Wake me up when September Ends

Hey Sister Bustillos, guess that! You get to stay in Mexico!"

woot woot! best phone call of the weekend(: I get to stay in Mexico for another transfer! Gonna make it count since itll be my last one here.

Hey Fam bam!

What a week its been. It was SO dang hot last week. My flats tan line is coming a long very nicely haha. There was a walk back in time festival at one of the parks in mexico that we went to and helped a member show a hand cart he made. Sister Ellertson pulled little kids around and i applauded from the shade. haha jk i walked with her and told storied of pioneers. It was a cool experience. We even got home made rootbeer float ice cream as thank you for helping out #winning!

haha i just had to lean over to sister ellertson and ask "what did we do this week?" thats what kind of week its been. Busy busy! plus im coming down with some kind of cold flu thing that isnt really hitting me but just teasing me and playing with my immune system. Like, go away virus! We got to meet all of our investigators this week which was awesome! 2 baptism dates for October! We also got two amazing new investigators this week! Me and Sister E both agree that we met them in the coolest ways and walked away from the first lessons knowing that God prepared them for us. We are excited to continue to get to know them and help them come closer to christ. 

(okay side note: i think waka flaka just sat by me in the library)

We also had womens conference on Saturday. oh so good! Uchtdorf had me in tears by the end of his talk. Its amazing to know how influential missionaries can be and that if I follow Christ in the work i can become one. It was weird not sitting on the couch in pjs wrapped up in a blanket listening the the messages but there was such a power and spirit about listening as a missionary. Made me a little home sick but that feeling was outweighed by the confirming feeling that i am where i need to be. Carol (RC) was able to come and watch it at the church building too ( she was called to be in the RS presidency!!) and she had the biggest smile on her face the whole time! She would even look back and give us a wink anytime baptism or missionaries where brought up. Shes the best! We all talked about how it was really cool to watch the screen pan across the conference center and see all those seats filled and then to look in our little relief society room and see the chairs filled and then to think about how all over the world there are little towns and foreign countries all gathered together listening to the same thing. Listening the the same authority. The restoration made this possible! is what i kept thinking. I am so excited to watch the rest this weekend. I encourage everyone to watch and prayerfully ask a question before the next few sessions start and then seek out your answer. Some times our questions are hiding in the words of those inspired to speak to us. 

Friday we also celebrated our 6 month mark! We blabbed on and on how it feels like we have barely been out two months and how crazy fast then next 6 months will go. It was cool to think back on the last few months and think about where ive come and the things ive accomplished. It also put it into perspective how much we need to take advantage of the time we have here. We may get to serve the Lord 24/7 for 18 months but our time here will never compare to what the Lord did for us. This work goes beyond 18 months or 2 years. Its a daily effort that i will take with me forever. When it comes time to take the tag off it will truly be written on my heart forever. This work is something i never want to stop doing. Even those days in the heat where no one will talk to us. Those are the days i know that my Father above is cheering me on and helping me carry my heavy book of mormon loaded purse until i get to that "last door on the forth floor". 

I love this work because I love my Father and I love my Savior. They are the reason i put my face to the sun and work. 

Xoxo

Sister Bustillos

pics

bought blankets in 100 degree weather! best decision of my life. Mexican blankets bought in mexico! ( real mexico or not. still amazing!)

Sister Missionary selfies!

Our new 11 foot friend in front of the shed. Obvi october is about to get real fun!

at home pedicures!