God Loves us and we are His Children

 Before going to Mexico, Sophia will be at the Missionary Training Center in Provo Utah for 6 weeks.  There she will be training to be a missionary and also learning to teach the gospel in the Spanish language.  The following is her first letter since entering the MTC

Feb 8, 2014
  HOLLLLAAAAAA FAMILIA Y FRIENDDDDSSSS!!!! Gosh just opening up these emails and being able to email you guys makes me cry!!  I only have an hour but I am going to try to say as much as I can!

 First off, let me say, I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOO MUCH!!! And I truthfully feel your prayers and love! haha all the missionaries are all like, ' awwww Hermana, Hermana!" because I am just full of love and I am crying! haha so many emotions! But I am not crying because I am sad, the MTC iss so awesome! Just feeling a lot! I am actually staying at the MTC west! which...believe it or not is exactly where I stayed at for BYU!!!!!!! CRAZY! Not in the same dorm but I am close! So hopefully I see  my roommate sometime :)  Its like the Lord was preparing me all along! Mi companera is muy muy muy nice and fun! We are so alike its amazing!!! We are totally there for each other when we need it and I am just really thankful for her! haha and Karch youre going to like this... shes a Red Sox fan!! ayyeeee!! but I mean I have learned to love you Red Soxs so I know we will be fine! haha :)

  Spanish is coming along pretty well however, Hermana Bailey (mi companera) y yo taught an "investigator" Felipe yesterday and we kind of struggled..a lot! but we know we can only get better from here. They keep telling us to just make sure we have the spirit, and we are all trying but its just a little frustrating because even though we feel the spirit we cant communicate! But we will get it! I just know it!!

Our district and teachers here are just so amazing! Everybody just wants to do good and we all help each other out! We have had a lot of tears and laughs together and its nice that all of us are speaking Spanish and just trying to do the same thing! The spirit is SO strong here its just incredible! I am just learning so much! It is amazing but exhausting, I don't think I have ever been so tired in my entire life and this is just the beginning but guess what? I don't mind it! Its all worth it! Working hard to make sure people can receive real happiness and just come to know of the Love God and Jesus Christ have for them is worth it! Today our district went to the Provo temple today and it was beautiful, I was sitting there trying to find scriptures for Felipe but I kept finding scriptures for me, and the Lord just kept telling me to have faith and that I can do this and that the language WILL come! He is there for me and I am so thankful for that, I may lose in myself but HE never does!! God loves us and we are his children, we can talk to him about anything, and I have realized that even though I am on a mission he wants me to talk to him about EVERYTHING! So please know that I love you and the Lord loves you also :)

oh yes! the dear elder is working so for anybody who has time, please write me on there! I would love to hear from you! You all mean the world. 

I wish I had more time to write but I dont, and to all the missionaries who ever wrote me on your mission...THANK YOU! i did not realize that theres almost no extra time to even write letters!

I love this work and this gospel so much! Its challenging but I know I can do this! I love the work and its so fulfilling and selfless. I had scriptures to share but I left that in my journal! sorry this is my first time but next weeks letter will be much more structured! Mi companera y yo are teaching Felipe again today en espanol so I will let you know hwo that goes! Felipe goes to BYU but hes not a member. Hes an international student and he doesnt really know if he believes in God however he does want to pray to Him to see if he is really there so we are hoping to help him even more today! So that should be good :)

But please dont worry too much about me! They treat us so well here and its a little cold but you all have helped me a lot to stay comfortable, warm, and safe here! 

To Sandy, Sherida, Sherrie, and Lisa! THANK YOU for your dear elder letters! I will respond I promise  :)  Fabrice and Mom I love YOU!! 

Okay well I really got to do now but thanks for helping me get here! 

I love you!

Hermana Guerrero