Transfer week and 5 Weeks on Sunday!

THIS IS TRANSFER WEEK!!!!! In case you couldn't tell by the title of the email! haha I am so excited about transfers! We called the office missionaries Friday afternoon to get a phone number approved (because its out of our area code) and we asked if there were any new sisters coming in to the mission since we have one leaving this transfer. They said that there was going to be one but she for some reason was not coming anymore. So we have no new sisters which meant that I was not at risk to be a trainer! haha! Yay! We knew for sure then that we would be staying together. We got the calls on Saturday and since Sister Faamau and I had only been together for one transfer I was not expecting anything to be happening to us but I WAS WRONG! Sister Faamau will be transfered to the other sister area here in Vancouver to be with Sister Horvorka and another sister named Sister Dilworth, who was half trained by Chatwin. I will be receiving Sister McGhie! She has been on her mission for more than a year and she is from Georgia and was an English major in college. She is kinda short, silly, has red hair and snores. She loves Hello Kitty and doesn't like it when people kill bugs. The only reason I know these things is because Sister Faamau has been companions with her before and so was Sister Lush. I am so excited to work with Sister McGhie here in Vancouver! Sister Faamau and I have been working very hard to make the area stronger and I know that through the work and the power of God we are having success! Even though we don't find as many new investigators as we would like to each week, we are still working hard! The Lord is blessing me and I am so grateful! I am slightly sad this week because Sister Chatwin is leaving but I know that it is her time to go home and she is ready for this next season of her life which also makes me excited for her! I was able to finish the Book of Mormon last Saturday, a week early, and when we first started the challenge I didn't even feel like it was possible to finish on time. Near the end I had to slow myself down! I would be so into reading the stories that I would sometimes forget that I was sitting at my desk! I needed to remind myself that I was not sitting at the Waters of Mormon listening to Alma teach, marching in my rank after my righteous leader Captain Moroni, or being driven by the waves of the sea in a barge lit by stones touched by the finger of the Lord. I couldn't help but feel sorry for Ether, Mormon, Moroni, and others as they watched their people perish in unbelief. I know that my missionary work isn't nearly as hard as theirs but they never complained and I try to model my teaching after their great examples. I know the Book of Mormon is true and I have known that since I read it when I was 16 but receiving and retaining that mighty change of heart is so important for the work and for the rest of my life! I was slightly frustrated after church on Sunday because we were expecting at LEAST 3 of our investigators and none of them showed up! President Greer is always stressing how important it is for us to get our investigators to the "Ordinances", meaning Sacrament meeting, Baptisms, and Confirmations. It makes me sad when we work so hard to bring people closer to Christ and they say that they will be at church on Sunday and then they don't show. I know that it has nothing to do with me and that it is their own decision but if they would only put forth the little bit of effort they could experience the joy of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for themselves! I can't believe that it is almost JULY! Craziness!!! So that means that if I come home "early transfer" (which as of right now that is what I am planning on doing) then I will be home in almost a year, on July 9th! Super Craziness! It is going by way fast! Is it going by as fast for you guys as it is for me?!? Anyway, Sister Faamau and I have been taking some photo shoots so I will send a couple pics to y'all! I love you all so much and I hope you have a wonderful week! The church is true and Christ lives!