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Sveiki sveiki!! 

I hope everyone had a great week!!

This week was way fun! Last P-day we were with all the missionaries in Riga and we went to a park and just played all sorts of games and had frozen yogurt and subway. We also spray painted shirts which was way fun. We have such a fun zone and it's always great to spend time with them. Then that night we went to FHE and played human battleship and got to spend time with some of our potentials! 

Tuesday was a really good day and we had a lot of potentials! I'm excited to work with them! We also had interviews with President which is always great to get advice from him from what I can do to improve.

Wednesday we went whiteboarding which was super great as always and we even set up a few lessons that did happen this week wahoo!!! Then later that night I went on an exchange with Sister Bolander! And she is the cutest. She has been out for almost 6 months and is such a great missionary! I learned so much from her and her sweet spirit! With her we also went to one of the embassy families homes and she fed us delicious food and cookies from America!! It was sooo good!!! We also helped one of the young women with English this week. She is the cutest and wants to learn so she can come to America to study but it was fun to get to know her even better!!

This week the whole mission fasted for Sister Boswell and for her knee. It was such a cool experience to all come together to help her and grow stronger as a mission. Sister Boswell truly is amazing to be able to have had these problems for so long and to always keep going and to find the good in everything. She is a testimony that through trial we can smile and find the happy moments and laugh! Our zone did a break the fast together and the Berry's, senior couple, got us all subway!! It was so nice of them!!! 

Thursday we had a lesson with Liga and as we were walking to her house we got caught in a Baltic rainstorm so we hurried as fast as we could to her house but we were drenched in 2 minutes and we show up just soaked and dripping wet. We told her we could just sit on the floor or something but she insisted that we changed. So she got us some towels and we dried off and then brought us her whole closet. Most stuff she brought wasn't going to work because she is so small so we tried to find 3 outfits that we could wear and look like missionaries and we did!! it was so funny but she's so sweet to help us and let us soaked missionaries in her house!

Friday I hit 500 days as a missionary wahoo!! I love being here and being a missionary and telling everyone of Christ! It truly is the best thing I have ever done. We also had a lesson with Anita about the 10 commandments and we told her what slamming is which is something us missionaries do so next time we're going to do it with her! 

Saturday we met with Dace which is always a great part of the week. She is still killing it and this week will be her one year mark as a member! It's truly been a miracle to watch how much she has grown in the last year. Then we had two first lessons with people we contacted! Evita was the first one and she loved the Restoration and even read part of the Book of Mormon before our meeting. And we had another with Baiba who has so much fun energy! We talked about the Book of Mormon and finding answers. They were both great lessons and I'm excited to continue to meet with them. 

Sunday was such a blessing. Last week church was a little rough, but this week it was one of the best times in my life. We had two random people show up. One lady decided to just came and I was able to sit next to her and explain how everything worked and why we do what we do. That was a great blessing because it really centered my thoughts on Christ and the why of the Sacrament. She is also the cutest lady and she wants to meet later this week. She also said how comfortable she felt in our branch and how she never felt like a foreigner which is a huge blessing! The members were so nice to her!! And then we had a member who hasn't come in forever and usually doesn't live in Latvia come back to church!!!! She is the cutest! And she also wants to meet with us!!! God has given us so many miracles this week!!

This week while studying "Come, Follow Me" I realized something really cool. I've been thinking a lot about trust and trying to find in the scritpures where people trusted God and how I can grow my trust in Him. While reading Matthew 26 I realized how Christ, as our perfect example, had great trust in Heavenly Father. In verse 39 He says, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." We know that He went forth and He then suffered for us and died for us so that we could have joy and forgiveness. In verses 53-54 As He is being betrayed He says, "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus is must be?" This to me showed how much He trusted Heavenly Father. He knew that it would be hard. He knew that He could deliver Himself, but He had love for us and trusted and He went forth. I am so grateful He did so that each on of us could have the chance to start again and again and have someone who will always understand us. I love Jesus Christ. I know He is my Savior. Put more trust in Him and in His plan that He has for you!!

Thank you for everything and for the prayers! I love you all and have a great week!!!

Love,

Masa Brunere

Pics

1: spray painting our shirts!

2: Zone pday!

3: Exchange with Sister Bolander! She also has the coolest dreams that will become movies one day!

4: Wearing Liga's clothes!

5: Bubble waffle!

6: Our shirts finished

7: Sister Smithdriggs happened to be in Riga this week!