Dear amazing family and wonderful friends,

I hope you got the chance to watch the leadership broadcast about missionary work last night. It was amazing! It was mostly about things that we already are doing or know we should be doing as missionaries and as member of the restored church, but I could feel the urgency in the message. We are in the last days and we as the Church are organizing ourselves to more effectively bring the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all the world!

In other news, I am leaving Rohnert Park. Wednesday I will be going to Vallejo, California, where I will be training two brand new Hermanas. I'm excited for the challenge and have heard wonderful things about my new area from other missionaries who have served there.

It has been a wonderful 18 weeks in Rohnert Park and Cotati, and I am so grateful for the experiences I've had here. It's a wonderful thing to be able to look back and see that change and growth has taken place in this area during my time here. I'm so glad I could be a part of it.

I love you all! Hope you're enjoying the summer. (:

Love,

Hermana Brighton

Dear family and friends,

This was an INCREDIBLE week! We received a new Hermana in our apartment. Now Hermana H is training Hermana L, who came to the mission in the middle of the transfer because she had broken her foot in the missionary training center and had to wait for it to recover. So we divided Rohnert Park once again! We now have 3 sets of Spanish missionaries in our town!!! Hermana W and I are working mostly in the area where we haven't been doing a lot of work before. Already we have seen miracles this week.

On Thursday, we had the chance to help a lady we are teaching with her garden. It was amazing to see how she changed from not really wanting us to come by to making us dinner and wanting to hear the message of the gospel. On Sunday, she came to sacrament meeting and stayed for all of the church meetings. She's started reading the Book of Mormon, too, and read 15 chapters in one night! 

I love being a missionary. I am so grateful for the opportunities I have every day to be a part of miracles. 

Thank you to all of you for your love and support. Thank you for your prayers.

Love,

Hermana Brighton

Dear Friends and Wonderful Family,

Hi! I hope that you all are having a great day!!

This was a really busy, really great week. This next week that's coming will be even busier and even more great! We are going to the temple on Wednesdaymorning. It is always such a blessing to go and feel the peace of the house of the Lord. Then, on Wednesday night, we are receiving two "mini-missionaries," young women who will be spending three days with us and getting the chance to see what missionary work is really like. One of the sisters will be working with me and one of them will be with Hermana Hooton and Hermana Wallace. 

One of the sweetest moments of this week was sitting in sacrament meeting yesterday at church and listening to so many of the members share their love and appreciation for the missionaries. Their trust in us is increasing, and that is such a wonderful and rewarding thing to see and feel.

Also, we had a leadership council for the whole mission this last Friday. Heavenly Father's work is really taking off all over our mission. We have a goal as a mission to baptize 101 people in the month of July. I don't remember if I'd mentioned that before. So anyway we are really gearing up for that and working to exercise greater faith in everything we do. Please pray for us to be able to increase our faith to find the families that Heavenly Father has prepared to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Please pray for the windows of heaven to be opened over our mission at this time. 

I hope that you are recognizing the miracles Heavenly Father is sending you in your life. I know that as we seek His help, He lifts us to be able to do all that we need to.

Love you all!!

Love,

Hermana Brighton