7 Months on Saturday

Hey Everybody!!! Can you believe that I have almost been gone
for 7 months!? That is crazy! I feel like my time keeps moving but
that everyone around me stands still in time. I am not quite sure why
I feel this way but regardless of the reason, I know it is not true.
Time is moving outside of mission life just as much as it is moving in
mission life. I 'm not sure if that statement made sense but just go
with it..haha! I have found that when I teach I LOVE to use analogies.
Its easier for people to relate to when they can liken it to something
in their normal everyday lives. Sometimes,I 'm sorry to say but my
analogies don't make sense...I explain it the way it comes to my mind
and sometimes it comes out perfectly and they understand what I am
trying to say and sometimes it comes out kinda crazy so I find myself
saying, "Just go with me on it, Ok?" and everyone laughs and tries to
keep up with my crazy teaching style. Most of the time, even if the
analogy starts off kinda silly it ends up making sense with the help
of the Spirit.
      This week was pretty awesome! It started off pretty rough, we
had teaching appts and they fell through and none of our back up plans
worked out so we were a little bit frustrated and we didn't know where
the Lord wanted us to be. We made it to Wednesday and we had
interviews with President and Sister Greer. I was fine and excited all
week for this to happen and then right when we got to the church to go
in for the interviews I started to get nervous. I am not sure why, BUT
the second I started to talk to Sister Greer everything turned around
and I was able to tell her all of my concerns about the area and how
hard Sister Dilworth and I had been working but nothing was working
out. So she boosted my spirits and then it was time for me to go and
talk to President. He is so inspired! He told me that there were going
to be a lot of new sisters coming into the mission soon and that there
was a big possibility that I would be training soon. He pretty much
said don't hold your breath but don't be surprised when you get the
"training call." I am so nervous! I have always known that I would
train a new missionary someday and that would be fine with me, I just
pray that I wouldn't mess her up too bad. But at the same time....this
area is not a good area, in my opinion, to train someone in! So I hope
and pray that the Lord takes my thoughts into consideration and puts
my mind at ease what ever happens in the next couple of transfers.
                After interviews on Wednesday we had a whole day of
appts set and almost all of them held! The ones that didn't hold we
were able to go to our backups and they were successful. We were on
such a Spiritual high by the end of the day is was amazing and we were
exhausted! Thursday was an awesome day and we ended up getting 2 new
investigators and then the rest of the week was full of lessons and
appts! It was so exciting! I love teaching lessons! I love answering
people questions on the Gospel. Sunday Sister Dilworth and I split up
for church so that one of us could attend Ward Council in one ward
while the other went to all 3 hours of the other ward, which never
happens. Since I am still pretty new to the area I was not totally
comfortable going to ward council with this particular ward yet by
myself, so Sis Dilworth went and I went to the other ward. It was so
awesome to be able to divide and conquer!  But on the other
hand it felt super weird to not have Sis Dilworth within sight and
sound the whole time! We were able to accomplish a lot by the time we
got back together after the second Sacrament meeting!
          We had a meeting right after church with all of the ward
missionaries and one of them brought their daughter who is one of our
investigators! So after we were done with the meeting we taught her a
lesson and she is so close to being baptized! She is 13 but wants to
wait till she is 14 so that she can be a mia maid when she gets
baptized. So it will have to wait till October for her to be baptized
but that is ok, because we don't want to push her into anything, even
though we know she is ready! :) More to come on this story later
because there are MIRACLES happening with this family! I love them so
much!
           I am not sure what else to write about though, so I will
close and go write a letter to President and hopefully send a couple
pics of Sis Dilworth and I acting silly and such! I love you all so
much and I miss you! I look forward to hearing from you! Next week I
will not be writing till Tuesday because it is Labor day and the
library will be closed, so don' t be worried! There will be a lot to
talk about next week too, because we are doing exchanges twice this
week! woo hoo! The gospel it true!  (That rhymes)! =)
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