Hey everyone! Can you believe that today is my 5-month mark? I can't! Things are good here. Transfers were huge -- only three sister companionships stayed together -- but I am still here and Sister K. is still my companion. Hooray! We have lots of work left to do so I'm glad we're still together. We also have a lot more to learn from each other, as well. My top moments from this week (not in any particular order):
We had a great contact with a new family. We got a chapel tour arranged with them and it went great! We had brought a family from the ward as fellowshippers and it was completely inspired. The mother in the investigating family is a doctor, but she had a stroke while giving birth to their son and hasn't been able to practice since. She is the sweetest lady in the world and wants to come to church with her neighbors. Her son is also interested in primary. Well, it turns out that the father in the fellowshipping family is also a doctor, and that they both did their residency at IU the same year. Coincidence? I think NOT! Anyways, the fellowshipping family was stellar. I don't know what we would have done without them. It was a great chapel tour, and the best thing was that I could see Heavenly Father's help throughout the whole thing.
Wednesday morning Mamma K dropped by to share a treat with us in case we got transferred the next day. It was Grape Nuts and chocolate milk -- pretty darn good! Sister K. thinks it's crazy that it was my first time trying chocolate milk, but what can I say?
I had the Frito Bandito song stuck in my head all week; it made me think of Dad!
While everyone else was at transfers, we found a new investigator. She is very sweet. We found her tracting and set up a return appointment. We've been back several times since then, and she agreed to be baptized at the end of April. We're so excited! She's great. She's excited to read the Book of Mormon and wants to pray about it.
Sister C. came to train us on Friday. She's the best of the best! One thing I learned from her is why we do weekly planning. The Lord created everything spiritually before he created it physically (Abraham 4), which means that He plans. If He plans, it must be very important for us to plan, too!
About a week ago I wrote B. a letter to say hello. There was a lovely llama (thank you Kelsey J.) and a few Jedi llama protectors: B, Sister K., and myself. He called us a few days later to say he'd gotten it. We had a nice visit with his family; his older sister wants to come to YW. As we were leaving, we asked B. for a referral and he gave us one. We stopped by and they were super nice; we set up a return appointment for this Saturday!
We taught one of our neighbors because she approached us and asked us how we got sent to Ohio, of all places. It went really well; she seemed genuinely interested.
We made brownies for Bishop and dropped them by his house; we ended up reading scriptures with his family. . . and having a quote battle. His son quickly turned it into a Mulan quoting battle, which Sister K. and I won . . . obviously!
Our Fearless Youth of Zion meeting was great! We were worried because it's spring break and everyone in the Midwest goes to Florida for spring break, but we had at least 12 youth at the meeting. Awesome! I'm glad they want to come. We role-played the Word of Wisdom and talked about how awesome Preach My Gospel is. We gave them a brief overview of what it contains and how they can use it now, not just on their future missions.
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