This week was honestly. Very productive. Nonstop 
working hard. It feels good.
We had some miraculous lessons, i.e. when somebody actually picked up while we were calling whitepages (when we say 'whitepages' what we really mean is dialing random numbers where the middle 3 numbers are for Perris, CA. Not gonna lie, its mostly something we do to fill up extra time cause it hasn't been very fruitful in the past. Mostly the numbers are disconnected, hang up on you, or are doctors offices or restaurants and you have an awkward face-off of trying to help each other until you realize what's going on haha) OK anyways yes. Back to my story. We had like 10 more minutes left before 9 so we were like "eh 🤷♀️ might as well call some whitepages for the heck of it" and BOOM the very first number we call the guy picks up and we start talking and find that he is a bible NERD. But in the best way. He was like "in the baptism of Christ in Matthew it's very clear that God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are three separate beings" and we were like "
" and then we taught about the Book of Mormon and at first he was like "hmm idk, cause what about that one scripture in Revelations that says you can't add on to the Bible?" But we were 
ready for his question and by the end he was like "honestly Jesus Christ is Jesus Christ and if he wants to go visit another continent and teach the gospel, I don't doubt he could and would do it". So anyways it was just a special surprise. But we had to give the referral to the English elders :'(.
Also remember that horrible lesson from last week? Well we finally worked up the humility to call him again and it rang one time and then he picked up and we ended up having a really awesome lesson about prayer and then he went and liked our Facebook page in English AND Spanish so that was good.
Also we're teaching a woman who has a baptismal date and we had a scheduled lesson with her on Wednesday night at 8. We had had an exhausting day and weren't super excited to 'go to' one more lesson but man oh man, by the end of it we were all feeling the spirit and crying and it was a beautiful thing. She was like "you two are angels sent from God and you shared that with me right when I needed it".
I'm trying to think if there's any other news to give...we did some intense weeding service 2 days in a row and we're very tan and sore from it now. And uhhh, yeah. Oh, I spoke in our little zone church meeting. That was good.
Here's a couple quotes from General Conference for your enjoyment:
"The fact that our Heavenly Father would entrust this power and responsibility [the Priesthood] to man is evidence of His great love for us and a foreshadowing of our potential as sons [and daughters] of God in the hereafter."
-Elder Dieter F Uchtdorf
Your Potential, Your Privilege- April 2011
"Following celestial road signs while in telestial traffic jams is not easy, especially when we are not just moving next door—or even across town."
-Neal A Maxwell
Notwithstanding My Weakness- October 1976
Ok well
Today we have fun things planned cause it's Hermana Parker's birthday so maybe I'll send pictures later but if not then I'll do it next week. I say that as if this post will be lacking in pictures but it really won't because we had a photo shoot with our Tacoma and also took many other pictures this week so.
I hope you all have a great week.
Love ya
-Hermana Tolman
Pictures from a photoshoot with our beloved Tacoma 2020:
Me and Hna Coronel put our heads together and hijacked her lego men to make this video about prophets.
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