Sister McKenzie Tate

HEYY idk about y'all but for me this week really flew by!! Probably bc we were actually pretty busy!!  I got to know more of the members in my area and realized how truly LUCKY I am to be in this ward! These members are so awesome! We really had a lot of our prayers answered with the help of members in our lessons!  We have been teaching the sweetest old man named Francisco. We were actually able to have a lesson in person this week (outside & social distancing of course) that made me feel like a real missionary again!! This man has been taught by the missionaries for a while but he has struggled to commit to paying tithing. Our trio decided maybe it would be a good idea to try to find someone in the ward who had a cool spiritual experience with tithing but we had never gotten around to asking our members. Then Thursday when we were calling some members to ask them for referrals this one member named Hno Arevalo shared an amazing person tithing experience with us...

Hey y'all!! I survived my first week back in the field WAHOO!! What a time to be alive as a missionary! For those of you who don't know, I have been reassigned to the CALIFORNIA ARCADIA mission!! I was home for about 5 weeks and I got here last Tuesday. Even though I'm not back in Argentina yet and we are still in quarantine over here in LA, I have never been happier to get to put this name tag back on!! My area is called Chino and YES I am Spanish speaking!! My new mission president said I got lucky I was sent back out so soon so I could speak my mission language. Getting to speak Spanish again has been the BEST thing ever. I missed it so much. Sadly things are pretty strict here in LA and we can't get out much, but we have been able to teach a lot of people (our friends and members) over the phone and through zoom calls!! I LOVE LOVE the members of this Spanish ward already! One family actually brought us some Argentine empanadas bc they heard I was serving in Ar...