This week was amazing! We had exchanges with the Los Alamos Sisters and Sister McFarland came down here! It was a blast! I promise that we were in bed at about 10:30 that night... we just might not have been asleep until 12:50 :) haha, It was great and it was truly needed. I think that we both needed to hear from each other and get advise on certain things. Its crazy to think that we have been out almost 6 months. It feels like forever, that I know so much more, but that I still know absolutely nothing at all! She is one of the best people that I know. I love her sooo much. (Although we are pretty sure that our companions almost killed each other... oops!)
So, transfers come up next Tuesday on the 12th. Who knows where i will be??? This area has a history of having the same missionaries here forever! Like 9monthes or so. We are 99 percent sure that this area is going to get split up this transfer. It is sad to think about because it means that no matter what I will have to say bye to half of the people I see all the time. That would be strange.
Something great that happened this week was being able to see Brother Simpson and setting a date for baptism. I was sooo nervous about inviting him (thinking he would have a million excuses) but it all went perfectly. He is so ready for the gospel. He is very old and it is like he was just waiting for the time that he could accept it into his life. I have high hopes for him!
Get this, we now have 2 investigators in the hospital! I promise, we are being very nice to them! haha, I am sure it is Satan up to his old tricks- attacking them and us. We are praying a lot for these simply amazing people. It is hard to see people being "compelled to be humble" but maybe this is what Heavenly Father has in store for them now? I truly hope that these choice spirits of God listen to his voice and rely upon him in the time of difficulty.
The young women (Bern. ward) have decided to throw a dinner together for some of our investigators as well as some of the other people that we visit regularly. It will be very interested to see how it turns out. I am mainly excited for a few of our poorer families. This is going to mean so much to them to just be loved and fed. Its funny though, on the invitation, the girls put the "Bern. Ward" and i'm not quite sure what some of these people think about coming to a "ward" we will see.
I am also so excited because Isabella, the 12 year i was here to teach and baptize her, will be going to do baptisms for the dead this Wednesday! I am sooo excited and proud of her! It is amazing to see her continue to stregthen and grow always. Althought I do have to admit I wish I could go with her. A few weeks ago, her mother told us that she had heard that she wouldn't be able to go to her daughters wedding in the temple and asked us if that was true. We answered honestly, and her mom said that it would all be up to Isabella. That was a blessing, at least for now.
Do you remember the picture of Payne and his family (the boys were baptized)? Well, after they were baptized, they stopped coming to church. The dad had gotten a new job and is now a single parent and he has not had su ndays off liek he had planned. Us and the ward have been so worried about him and the boys without the gospel in his life. However, we recently saw him and We are so proud of the things that he is doing. he is trying to be the best Dad possible and he is readying and praying everyday with the boys. Amazing! I am still so sad that they are not coming to churhc to partake of the blessings there, but I am so excited that they are trying to build there relationship with Christ and with the Church. It is one step at a time. I have seen and heard so many recent converts tell me about how they were offended or how they just got so "busy" in life. I truly hope and pray that they will will be able to come back to church and be active once more.
This week, without a car and a bike, we get to do a lot of tracting and contacting. I am really excited and hoping for good weather all week. It will be fun. We also have awesome members who are willing to driving us places, even if it is just from one ward to another. They truly are the best.
Something cool that happened this week came in going down a street, at night, to find that one person who needed us down there. We had tried a door or two, but just kept walking when Sister Daines came to a home and knew that was where we were meant to be. But when we got to the door, we didnt feel like knocking on it. Instead, we left a book of mormon in a pot of rocks by the door. But before we left, we felt impressed to say a prayer that the right person would find this Book of Mormon. As I said that prayer, It was amazing the way I felt. Weasked that the book be kept safe, that the one person who needed that book would find it and that the rest would overlook it and not see it. We asked for the book to go where it needed to be so that the person who needed it would find it. I even asked that if it be possible for us to one day know the destination and the intent of this particular book, to let us know. But i also recognized that that was a selfish wish, and asked for God's Will to be done in all things. It was incredible becasue of the way I felt and the thought I had afterwords. I knew that the book would be kept well and safe. I also knew that the prayer I said would have been like unto the prophets of old. This miracle was also an answer to my own prayers in being able to live the scriptures. The more I study the Book of Mormon, the more I love them with my whole heart. I have learned more about how the prophets of old were men, doing the Lord's will before there own. Wow.
I love yall lots and lots and lots and lots and lots! and i think about Eyn every day as well. Yall are amazing! I love yall!
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