Hermana Ashley Samantha Pachner

Mar. 20th, 2017

Hi Everyone!,

I have had such a busy and crazy week! I am now in Lindsay, CA with Sister Jones. She is awesome! She is from Vernal Utah! She went to school at SVU though so she is familiar with the East Coast!

We have gotten along really well and we laugh a lot. She reminds me of a friend back home and we have become united as a companionship pretty fast!

We got the opportunity to host a mini mission this past weekend too! It was so much fun we were in a trio! Her name was Hermana Phippen and she was from Visalia. She had taken Spanish in High School and helped us out a little bit. We teach a TON in Spanish out here. We even translate in Relief Society. Yeah that was probably the hardest thing I had ever done. Sister Jones' Spanish is awesome too. We are over a Ward but they have two different sacraments for each language. I bore my testimony in both and got to share where I was from and all. It was awesome. The people here are so nice! They feed us so much and I truly love it.

We have biked so much! Holy Cow. Since we are so far from Fresno (where all our meetings are) we have like no miles to use here in Lindsay. We biked this whole week but we found SO much. We are so excited to follow through with them this week.

Yeah we also totally crashed the bikes! Well kind of. Haha Sister Jones was in the front and I was in the middle then Sister Phippen was behind me. Sister Jones stopped suddenly to say hi to these people and give them a picture of Christ. We crash like dominoes one right after the other. SO embarrassing haha but we have learned to laugh off at awkward situation, rejection, and just in general.

We also created a wonderful teach we have been eating for breakfast! It is overnight oatmeal. I know it sounds gross but it was good! It is just oats, blueberries, almond milk, brown sugar, and bananas. We have loved it! It was super OATY!

They had a confirmation too yesterday and we have two with baptismal dates. We are so excited to keep finding and declare the gospel. We went to the Flea Market here which is every Friday. We had some really good Spanish corn! It was such an eventful week!

We also had some really good papusas and a terrible empanada haha. Anyways hope everyone has a great week! Lots of love!

Hermana Pachner

Bye to Kerman ------ All the way to Lindsay

BIKING IN LINDSAY w/ Sister Jones and Sister Phippen

Our famous Overnight Oatmeal :)