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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Letter 62: 3 Months Left 😬

September 09, 2025 0
Hey all!

Today's a little crazy so I don't have a ton of time but nothing too thrilling this week!

We put our friend Karen on baptismal date for September 24th which is awesome and we're so happy about it!! The ward hasn't had a baptism in 3 years, so everyone is very excited.

That's pretty much the only thing of note this week. It was honestly a rough week with a temple trip falling through for the same reason his baptism was postponed a year ago which was just heartbreaking. And there was lots of other drama—it just wasn't a great week. Prayers for Julio and prayers that people stop being punks. 🤪

2 Nephi 7:7: "For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded. Therefore, have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed."

Love y’all, have a good week!!

🤍 Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)

1. District firesticks🔥😎 (main photograph above)
2. Sleepover gang
3. Sister Erickson is an hermana now🫶
4. Sister Tunibeia🤍
5. Pretty sunset
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Letter 61: Why did you save it?

September 02, 2025 0
Hey everyone!

This week was una locura as they say, but we made it through. 😅

The highlight of this week was definitely zone conference! It was probably the best conference of my mission, and every training was so good. My favorite thing that was said was by President Coleman, and he told a story about how someone was running up and down stairs at a basketball practice. This kid decided to give it his all for the last round of stairs, and when the coach noticed the change, he stopped the whole practice to ask the kid, "Why did you save it? Why didn't you give it your all from the beginning?" Why aren't we giving it our all every day? Something that has always been a big focus in this mission has been to give it everything, every single day. We've been frequently trained to live one day at a time, to think about what we would do if it was our last day on the mission, and to do everything in our power to be able to go home with no regrets. President's invitation for us was to think about what we're saving, what we're holding back, and then to get rid of it. To give it our all every single day and recommit ourselves to the work so that when we leave, we can honestly say that we gave it everything we had. It was a very powerful training, and I think everyone left a little more invigorated to go out and get to work.

Other things that happened this week:

☆ We were actually in our area for a whole day, and we knocked doors for the first time in a really long time and it was so fun. I didn't love knocking doors at the beginning of my mission, but it's now one of my favorite things to do.

☆ We had 4 sisters stay with us last night and it was literally the funnest night of my whole mission.

☆ I had an exchange with Sister Parks, and it was a party and a half. 🥳

☆ Our district leader taught us how to fireknife (spin one of the sticks they light on fire in luaus, i.e. Lilo & Stitch), and we're making our own today because the mops that we're using aren't very good for it apparently. That's been a major highlight and has kept us extremely entertained.

Love y'all and hope you have the best week ever!!!

🧡 Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)

1. Zconnn😎 (main photograph above)
2. Sleepover
3. The Cannons are leaving😢
4. Sisters Richards and Pope🩷
5. The fireknifing is spreading
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Letter 60: Pahrump🤠

August 28, 2025 0
Hello!

There were some awesome things this week!! First off, our friend Jonathan is getting baptized on September 1st (hopefully)!!🌊 We had a phone lesson with him last Tuesday and asked him what he was thinking about baptism, and he said he didn't know yet. We told him he was ready, hyped it up, gave him the date, and he said yes! The area's been a little slower this transfer so it's nice to feel like there's something going on.

The craziest thing that happened this week was that during district council yesterday, these 3 Spanish-speaking women just walked into the building and asked us how they could be baptized.🤯 It was actually wild because if they didn't just happen to show up on a Monday morning, to the one building in the area that happens to be where the Spanish ward meets, who knows what would have happened? It was crazy!! Highlights of the week!:

☆ We got to go to the temple last Tuesday! One of the biggest blessings of my mission is having a temple that's so close and having the chance to go every transfer—it's the best.

☆ I had an exchange in Pahrump which is like the boonies of the mission, and it was so fun! Got to spend the day with Sister Dickman and Sister Davenport so that was a party time. 🥳

☆ Sister Gadd and I are making a zone music video so stay tuned for that. 😏

☆ Sister Peraza came to night church to visit so I got to talk to her for a long time which was super fun. Prayers for her though, she's having a rough time right now. 🙏

☆ Did a musical number in the Spanish branch with Sister Gadd on cello and Elder Tuala singing, and it was actually pretty good. We've been recruited to do one next week, so the branch members were fans.

Favorite scripture this week was from Luke 15:20 which is the story of the Prodigal Son. It says, "And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him."

Love y'all!

💚 Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)

1. Birthday party🥳 (main photograph above)
2. Welcome to Pahrump🪧
3. Exchange with my favsss
4-5. Pretty sunsetsss 🌅
6. Traditional restaurant pic with the 20th person to go🤪
7. Blitz with Sister Shakespear🩷
8. Pahrump vibes
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Letter 59: You + Jesus = Perfect

August 19, 2025 0

Hola!

This week was super fun, and we had some cool things going on!

☆ On Wednesday I had an exchange with Sister Pope in my dream area, and it was so fun. Sister Pope, as we know, is just the best ever, and the area is literally amazing. We put 2 people on date and I'm praying with my whole heart that President sends me there for my last 2 transfers. 🙏

☆ On Friday I had 2 blitzes with 3 different sisters which was kinda crazy, but it was super fun!! Also, WE SAW DONKEYS. 🫏 That might not seem super thrilling to any of you, but Vegas has 0 wildlife except for in the boonies where there are wild donkeys, and we saw some on our way out there! It was awesome.

☆ We had a meeting with a visiting authority, Elder Schmitt, and it was super cool. He was the nicest person ever, so smart, and he had so many good ideas for us of how to keep the mission momentum going and keep things moving forward. Definitely the highlight of the week!

☆ Jeziel is just a highlight every week, haha. He comes to every lesson or calls in, he's giving our friends rides to church, he's trying to put people on date, he's just the best ever. And he's going to hopefully get his patriarchal blessing within the next month so I'm super excited for him!!

There were 2 things that Elder Schmitt shared that I loved so I'm sharing them both. The first thing that Elder Schmitt shared this weekend was in Matthew 28:18. It says, "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." He talked about how lots of times we doubt ourselves and the power and authority of our calling, but we have to remember whose power it is. We have to know that Christ is the source of our power and that through Him, all things are possible.

And then the second thing was in Moroni 10:32 which says, "Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God." He talked about how it's only through Jesus that we can be perfected and that the equation is: You + Jesus = Perfect.

Love y'all and hope you have a good week!!

💕 Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)

1. Donkey + Decker + Davenport🫏(main photograph above)
2. Exchange w/ Sis. Pope🩷
3. Blitz w/ Sis. Dickman🐄
4. Josue played the piano w/ me at a baptism
5. Sis. Gadd is awesome🥳
6. I petted a donkey🤭
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Letter 58: Exceedingly Great Joy☀️

August 12, 2025 0
Hi 👋

That's the text we receive from Jeziel every morning, and I'm running out of intros so there ya go.

This week was pretty chill, nothing too exciting! We did a lot of contacting and finding, it's crazy how much work can be done when we don't have additional study lol.

Highlights of the week:

☆ We had a lot of impromptu phone call lessons! We'd call people to set up times and lots of people had time in that moment, which is always the best.

☆ Sister Gadd is so awesome and we're having a great time down here. 🥳 We've discovered that we both have a love for Les Misérables so the one song we have from the soundtrack may have been playing nonstop for the past week.

☆ We're having another music devotional and Sister Gadd and I are going to be playing a piano duet for some sisters who are singing and it's going to be super pretty (hopefully…haven't actually heard any of it🤞)

☆ We hit the highest temperature we've had this summer (I think) of 112°, 🥵 which might not sound like a highlight, but last summer was in the 120's so while we are melting, it's not as bad and everyone is super grateful.

Honestly, nothing big happened this past week, but it was such a good one because it was one of those weeks where it's just so fun to do the work. To go out and talk to everyone, to chase people down, to invite people to come to church, it's so awesome!! It reminded me of this scripture in Alma 36:24-25 that says, "Yea, and from that time even until now, I have labored without ceasing, that I might bring souls unto repentance; that I might bring them to taste of the exceeding joy of which I did taste; that they might also be born of God, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Yea, and now behold, O my son, the Lord doth give me exceedingly great joy in... my labors." It's so true! Sister Gadd and I were talking about how much happier the mission has made us, and it's because of this work! Nothing will bring more joy than bringing others to the gospel and I have the strongest testimony of that.

Love y'all!!

❤️ Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)

1. POV I'm not the driver anymore hallelujah🙏
2. Half the zone (the other half is out-of-valley)💀
3. Traditional mountain restaurant pic
4. Best chicken and rice ever
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Letter 57: 😱Transfers + Temple🥳 pt. 3

August 05, 2025 0
Hey everyone! Transfers are today so this is going to be short.

Transfer news is that I'm staying in my area, and I'll be with Sister Gadd!! Honestly didn't see either of those things coming, but it'll be a fun one!!

The highlight of the week was going to the temple with Jeziel! He was able to be baptized for his dad in the temple, and it was the most tender moment of my whole mission, honestly. Like I just sat in that witness chair and tried not to fully sob because it's so amazing to see friends progress as much as Jeziel has. To go from an uninterested phone call to him being baptized and baptizing in the temple is a crazy thing, and it's just so awesome because I know how much his life is going to be blessed for it!!

My favorite scripture from this week was Ether 3:5 which says, "Behold, O Lord, thou canst do this. We know that thou art able to show forth great power which looks small unto the understanding of men." Christ can do anything. The brother of Jared doesn't say "we believe" or "we hope". He says, "we know" and I can testify that I know that the Lord can do all things. The first time I talked to Jeziel, he told me he wanted to come to church to play soccer and learn English. And to look at where he is now, I know it wouldn't have been possible without the Lord's power. It might seem small at times, but that power does more than we can ever imagine.

Love y'all!!

🤍 Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)
1. Jeziel at the temple🤍🥲
2. Spanish partayyy for departing missionaries🥳 #hiremeforyourpartieswhenicomehome
3. SISTRICT (+ZLs)👑
4. Bye Sis Polera🪦
5. Whole temple crew
6. 💖🌸🎀
7. Jeziel being super helpful
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Letter 56: Exchanges🤩🤪

July 29, 2025 0
Hey y'all!

This week was so fun, and the thought of my mission ending is making me ill.

Highlights!!

★ Jeziel passed the Sacrament at church! I've never had my own recent convert be the one to pass me the Sacrament and it was such a tender little moment, I was so happy. 🥲 We're going to the temple with him this week so pray that it happens! 🙏

★ We had a lesson with our friend Jonathan, and it ended with him agreeing to pray about being baptized on August 16th!!🌊 It was honestly kinda wild because we've met him like once, but Sister Menchi was super bold and challenging and now he's praying about baptism!

★ Exchange with Sister Pope in my favorite area!!😍🥳 I got to spend the day in my last area with Sis. Pope and it was legitimately so much fun. We had some awesome lessons, and she literally just led everything with no problems, and I was so proud, hehe. 😊 Pretty much this is just me hyping up Sister Pope and it was the best day ever. We also got an hour-long blitz together on Saturday and anytime I get to see her is such a highlight for me.

☆ Sub-highlight of that was getting to visit my member mission mom, Zulay!!👩‍👧 She somehow found out I was in the area (I messaged her and told her to have us over🤪) and we just happened to end up at her house!! She's the best. 🫶

★ Exchange with Sister Menchi!! Sister Menchi is tragically going home but we got one last exchange together and it was an absolute party. She's so fun and is such a hard worker, and we had some awesome lessons thanks to her! Also had a blitz with her on Monday to take her to the best restaurant ever. 😋

★ Blitz with Sister Wright! You know someone's fun when you knock doors for 4 hours, in 105° heat, in the worst area of Vegas (aka rich white people👎) and you don't even want to quit and go home because you're just laughing so hard!!

Tad R. Callister gave a devotional at the Provo MTC in 2008 called "Becoming a Consecrated Missionary,” and we were reading it this week as a zone. My favorite thing about it was where he said, "The Lord demands our whole soul on the sacrificial altar. That is the price we must pay, and when we do, we then become instruments in the hands of God." He's talking to missionaries here, but it applies to everyone! We have to give our all to the Lord. We have to dedicate our time, talents, and energy to this cause, because it is the single greatest cause on earth today.

Love you all! Pray that President sends me to the one area I haven't been in (aka the best spanish area) for transfers!! We'll see what happens🤞

💖 Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)
1. Literal best day ever😍
2. Final pics with Sis Menchi🥲
3. Centrooo💪😎
4. The average phone lesson
5. Exchange🥳
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Letter 55: 🌊Jeziel's Weekend🥳

July 22, 2025 0
Hola! 👋🏻

Ok, I know I said last week was the best week of my whole mission, but I actually think this weekend was the best weekend of my whole life.

JEZIEL GOT BAPTIZED!!!🤩🥳😭😱😁 We were honestly a little worried because we know that the adversary tends to go absolutely feral the week of a baptism and mess things up. Thursday night, Jeziel comes up to us after English classes with the most frantic look on his face and tells us he needs to talk to the branch president on Friday. I was like ohhhh no, but we asked him how he was feeling about Saturday, and he says that he needs to be baptized more than ever, so that was a win. He met with President Kidd on Friday, everything is fine and there were no issues, but it was a jumpscare and a half.

Saturday was baptism day!!!🙌 He showed up 30 minutes early with his sister (who's an inactive member) and his mom. The baptism started, talks were given, and then Jeziel got baptized! Turns out the water was a little toasty and he wouldn't stop making jokes about baptism by fire and how he didn’t know his sins had to be burned out of him, but he's fine, just dramatic.🙄 It was super Spirit-filled though and he had tears in his eyes the whole time. We asked him afterwards how he felt and what he was thinking, and he said that he couldn't even begin to describe it and that he would never forget July 19th, 2025.

Sunday was INCREDIBLE. Jeziel's sister just had a baby, so she brought her to church so she could get a baby blessing, and it was the sweetest moment of my whole mission. The blessing was precious, but I literally could not stop crying the entire time because it's so cool to think of the impact that this one baptism can have. Jeziel just got baptized, and his sister, who hasn't come to church in 10+ years comes back and wants her daughter to be blessed. His mom who hasn't ever really liked the church came to his baptism and gave the sweetest testimony about the good that the church has done for him and how grateful she is for all the members and missionaries. His little niece is now going to grow up with these good influences around her and with the gospel as a part of her life. Jeziel came up to me after Sacrament and said that he's excited for his niece to go and be a missionary in 19 years and it's CRAZY to think about that. Because of one person, so many lives are going to be changed, and it was just such a special weekend. 😭

That was obviously the highlight of the week, but there were lots of other fun things!!

☆ Got to do interview trainings which were the funniest things ever and the sisters reallyyy got into it

☆ The Kidds took us to dinner with Jeziel, and I've decided I'm actually not going to leave the mission because it was so fun, and I love everyone here so much 🤗

☆ Blitzes with Sister Davenport and Sister Bank!

☆ A scorpion stung me on my lip while I was sleeping, and I've been looking like a Kardashian for about 4 days now 🦂💋

☆ Had interviews with the Colemans!!

My favorite verse from this week was 3 Nephi 22:10: "For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee." 🤍

Love y'all and thanks for the prayers for Jeziel, they seriously worked. 💪

💙 Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)
1. The man, the myth, the legend, JEZIEL🫶 (main photo above)
2. Funnest dinner of my whole life
3. Pretty sunset in the mountains😍🌄
4. Sista Bank pt. 2🤑
5. Sister Gabbard committing to her role as King Benjamin🦈
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Letter 54: We Are to Act!! 🌊

July 15, 2025 0
Hola!!

Honestly, the main event/person of this week was our friend Jeziel. We've taught him for a little over a month now, and he's just a super awesome guy. We've invited him to be baptized several times, but there's always been something that's stopping him. However, this past week had some of the most spiritual lessons of my mission and really reminded me of the Lord's involvement in everything.

We ended up having a lesson with Jeziel every night this week, and they were all so cool for different reasons. On Wednesday, we had a lesson before he had soccer, and he ended up asking if dreams come from God. He shared the dreams he'd been having, but if we're being honest, I was about to say that maybe all dreams don't come from God, and we don't need to read into them too much because I was just not seeing a connection. Fortunately for me, our recent convert had a more spiritual connection and tied all of Jeziel's dreams to the gospel perfectly. We ended the lesson with a prayer, and the Spirit was sooo strong. Jeziel had tears in his eyes and said that he didn't want to go to soccer anymore and was just going to go home and think about what we said.

Then on Saturday, there was a baptism in another ward and Jeziel ended up going. We had a lesson afterwards and it was genuinely the best lesson of my mission. He ended up telling us about some of his fears and doubts which he hadn’t shared before, and then our member legitimately just crouched next to Jeziel and testified for 20 minutes. We couldn't hear anything that the member said because of the screaming kids that were running around, but Jeziel had tears in his eyes, and we could feel the Spirit so strong, so I assume it was good. Then our member left, and Jeziel shared one more thing that I related to perfectly, so he ended up hearing another 20-minute testimony. Jeziel was silent by the end of the lesson and then started laughing and we were like, "Uhhh why are you laughing, none of that was funny," and he just started crying then and said that he laughs so he doesn't cry, but that it didn't work that time.

On Sunday, we, along with the elders, decided to fast with Jeziel and pray that he could recognize the answers he's been getting. We came home after church and didn't look at our phones for about an hour. When we grabbed them again, we had 10 MISSED CALLS from people. We called Jeziel so quickly, and he answered and was like, "Did you already hear?" And we said, "No, we want to hear it from you." He goes, "Hmmm, well, hmmm, I'm potentially going to get baptized on Saturday." We asked him if it was really just a potential, and he says, "Hmmm, well, hmmm, I'm definitely getting baptized on Saturday." HE'S GETTING BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY! 🥳😭🙏😱🤯 It's actually such a miracle and this week was just so insane!

Teaching Jeziel has been such a testimony-building experience for me because we really had to pull out everything for him. He wanted to learn everything he could, he always had deep questions, he had concerns that I've never had another friend have before, but this week taught me so many things:

1. God ALWAYS answers prayers, just maybe not in the way we want them.

2. Fasting DOES bring the additional spiritual power and insight that we need into our lives.

3. Revelation is different for everybody, but it's also perfectly tailored to each person's individual needs.

4. It takes a village (or in this case the most enthusiastic Spanish branch you've ever seen.)

Sorry, that was a little long, but it was the coolest week of my whole mission and I wanted to share.😁

Love y'all! Pray hard that Jeziel gets baptized on Saturday and that it's a special day for him!!

🧡 Hna. Pursglove

Photographs Below :)
1. Zone conference 😎 (main photo above)
2. We are to act 💪
3. Temple 💛
4. Exchange with Sister Wright 🥳
5. Split comp Sister Hansen!
6. Pretty flowers
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