Staying here

This week we had transfer calls and I will be staying here in Deep Creek this transfer, unless something happens . . .  There are a lot of wonderful sisters coming into the mission and I am so happy to see all the wonderful changes that are coming about. We now have sister leaders and they will be doing trade-offs with all of the sisters. They will also be going to the monthly council. 

I have been having a wonderful time in this area, we have been teaching a lot of people in all different age groups, but Smitty is one that really stands out. He is a really good person and he wants to do what is right and good and with help from a member he works with he has been able to learn a lot and he comes to as many church activities as he can. 

This is a great area to be in and I hope to continue to learn how to be bold, but loving and how to help build the Lord's kingdom because it is one person at a time.  

I love ya'll!

Picture 1: I usually don't expect to get much mail (because most people send it to the mission home) but my companion usually does, so, when we opened the mail box this morning to find a spider, I was shocked.

Picture 2: The tunnel that leads to our apartment. I sing every night when we go in. :)

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Work

This week was really busy and really wonderful! There Sister Idell was baptized and she bore her testimony and it made me cry. 

We have also been able to work with a little girl who is 11 and she is so smart and she has been reading with her father who is a member and she has been taking all the lessons because she is getting baptized this week! 

This is a good area, so I'm interested to see what will happen. Transfer calls are coming this week so I will have to update ya'll on Tuesday next week. 

One day this week we were thinking that we would have to go on splits, but because there were other activities going on with the relief society everyone was too busy, so we rescheduled a few people, but it all worked out in the end and we were able to do what we needed. It has been very busy this week, so wonderful! :) I hope it continues!

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Sundays are my Happy day!

This Sunday was amazing. Idell is an investigator who has a son who was baptized last year, and we had told her that he could baptize her, but she hadn't told us who was going to baptize her. during testimony meeting her son stood up and bore his testimony and he is a really wonderful speaker, and he started to cry as he talked about how wonderful it would be to be able to baptize his mother. 

Then we saw her get up and as she bore her testimony she sounded just like the woman who President Uchtdorf spoke of, then she said that she felt so loved here and it was hard to except because she had never really felt loved before and she was so happy that she would be able to be baptized and that she would be getting the greatest gift of all, the Holy Ghost and it would be free. I was bawling. And there was an investigator there for the first time and he said he left wanting more! I loved it!

There is such a great spirit right now and it is covering the entire earth. There is so much that I can do to help that sometimes it can feel like a daunting task, but I know because He has promised me, that I will be able to fulfill the calling that he has given me to be His daughter here at this time. I am so happy that I am continually meeting wonderful people and I am so happy that I can share just a little bit with ya'll. Keep up the good works and let me know if there is something more I can do for you because I want to do all that I can!!!

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Aww, conference, so refreshing!

In answer to the question, "When will you be coming home?" I will be coming home June 13th. CRAZY! I still really don't think it will ever come. ;) 

I have been so excited for conference for the past six months and it never lets me down! I loved all the talks and the order was amazing too! I was able to learn so much and I hope that I will be able to apply all the things that I learned too! 

In between sessions on Sunday, we went to contact this man and while we were talking I was moving the box that I keep my Book of Mormon and pass along cards and pamphlets in and my other hand apparently wasn't ready for it so it fell and great was the fall there of. and All of my stuff came flying out at him. (My companion later said you just wanted to throw the gospel at him all at once!) It would have all be well and good if that had been the end of that moment, but as we said goodbye I took three steps back and ended up falling over his car! Better yet, he had just pointed at that car and we had all looked back to see it! ( Heavenly Father knew that we really needed a laugh, because moments before a lady had been yelling at us for parking with the front part of our car in her yard.) TENDER MERCY! Loved it! We laugh all the way back to the church!

We are doing really great here! There is a wonderful lady who is preparing to be baptized on the 19th and when she came to the church for the last session she brought her daughter and her son's friend! We were so happy, Sister Montgomery was jumping up and down with joy! This is a great time and a great area to be "catching the wave!"

I better start studying conference, only 6 months until the next one!

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April Fools!

Spring time! Sunday was wonderful, full of sunshine and light. I feel like I am finally getting a hold of what missionary life is all about, maybe. I have been so blessed to meet so many people and I have learned that people. This week we have been sharing a lot of pass along cards, but they are all the same, the one with the Savior stepping out of the tomb, we have been sharing an Easter message using 3 Nephi 11 to show that the Saviors is still moving forward and He wants all of His childern to know that they can live with Him. 

I am so excited for conference, I didn't feel like we could talk about it as much because of Easter message, but now we can share it with everyone and let them know how to watch it. I am so excited! The General Young Women Broadcast was on Saturday too! So happy! I loved it.

My Easter was great, I went to church, but there were not many members there and then we went over to a recent convert's house, Sister Hug. She is really great and a wonderful missionary, in fact her sister was baptized on Saturday and she lives in a different State!  

Hope you all are having a wonderful week! 

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No time

Sorry I don't have time to write this week. 

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