Another Crazy Week

This week has been a crazy week. We are meeting and teaching a lot of people. Two people are getting baptized soon! That is so exciting. I am learning so much from Sister Anderson, she is a great missionary.  It turns out that she does have Lyme Disease! Craziness but she has antibiotics so we hope that it works fast. She still gets painful headaches but her body does not hurt a lot.

This week has been super crazy. Friday there was this really mean guy (we named Lucifer) who is just crazy and mean to us. Anyways it helped us strengthen our testimony. I prayed to know if the Book of Mormon is true and was translated by a prophet of God and I did receive an answer that yes it is true. It was such a wonderful experience.

But we met a wonderful girl named Hawa who is from Sierra Leone and she is just great. She was raised Muslim but she also believes in God. She wants to be Christian and so we met with her. She is so fantastic and loves learning about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and their love for us and all of the things that they have done for us. She wants to get baptized super soon. So we are working with her.

We have been teaching a woman named Mary whose husband is a member. Missionaries have been teaching her for ten years. Yesterday she called the bishop and said that she is ready to be baptized! How wonderful. I am so happy that she has chosen this path. It has been a long journey but I am grateful that she is finally ready. Now they will be an eternal family.

I get to have dinner with Bryce and Elise on Wednesday! I am so excited. I love them so much. I feel so relaxed and at home there. Anyways, I hope you all are doing well and enjoying the summer.

A Potential Baptism and Mid-singles Conference

I love you so much! I miss you all so much. There are so many crazy things going on this week. We are hopefully having a baptism this week- if we can meet with him. He has not been feeling very well and is hard to get in touch with. So this week or next week we will have him baptized. I am so excited. He is such a great person.

Thanks for the letter (Mike) it was just what I needed to hear. Seriously I think of all of the wonderful things that you all have done for me all of the time. I talk about you all every day with my companion. You truly have helped me so much.

I am so happy to hear that there is a RM board up! There is one in the Mount Vernon Ward and it has like five people on there and they are all in completely unique places. It is so cool to see and read a little about them.

I love my companion. She is so fun and so sweet. We are always laughing and just having fun. Even when days are long and feel like a failure, she knows how to just laugh. I think that she is one of the most fantastic people that I know. We are trying so hard to find more people and get to know the wards. There are so many amazing conversion stories those members in the Mount Vernon Ward have that we never knew until we met them. It is so wonderful to hear how they found the church and were baptized. They are so willing to bring nonmembers to activities that it is easy to find a referral.

Yesterday the Potomac Mid-singles ward (single people age 31 and more) had the close of a huge conference. Singles from all over the country (and other countries) came for 3 days to meet each other and join together as Mormons. It was so spectacular to see the close of it. Many people sang different uplifting songs and bore testimony. It was just amazing.

I have been struggling with homesickness lately. I miss you all and I am worried about your health mommy. I got a wonderful blessing from Elders Dixon and Frazier and I felt so much better.

I had dinner with Elise and the children. I love them so much! They are so funny and so loving. It was Sister Anderson’s first time at their house and the kids told her everything about them. It was so funny. They were so excited to have her there. They would not let Elise say anything because they were too busy talking to us. Elise was so happy to have the company. She wants us over every week but unfortunately I have only been given permission for once a month- so sad. I just love them so much.

The new mission president is awesome. President Riggs is only 46 years old but he and his wife have been married for 23 years and they brought 4 out of the 6 children. They are super funny and love to laugh and enjoy the world. They really are super funny. I cannot explain it. I just almost instantly fell in love with them when I first met them.

New Companion, Power Outage, and New Mission President

Life is crazy here! On Tuesday I got my new companion. Her name is Sister Anderson from SLC area, Utah! She is awesome! She just loves life. She loves to laugh just as I do.

 

Because neither one of us knows the area super well so we have been going around meeting the leaders and members in our wards. as a result we are teaching even more potentials! It was all her idea and is just working so well. I love how she lets me know when she is confused and asks me tons of questions about my life and my conversion. She tells me all of the time that I know more (about the gospel) than I think I do and it is making me more confident when I teach.

 

Saturday was a difficult day for us. Friday night (around 10pm) there was a huge storm that lasted until morning and it just ruined Saturday. We woke-up on Saturday and our cell phone did not have service and we had a ton of appointments that we had to confirm. So we spent a long time driving around trying to find cellular service. All of our appointments fell through (no power and did not want us to come over and do service) so we tracted but noone was in the mood. We tried to find people (or places) to do service for and noone wanted our help. We could not find a place to sit down and eat (we do not live in our prosletying area) beacuse they were all closed due to powere outages. It was just a bad day.

 

But Sunday was amazing! We met so many people in the wards and they were so nice to us and asked us if we needed help. We met a few potentials and tracting was fun. Funny story: as we left Potomac Ward (Arlington, VA) going home (Alexandria, VA) there were like 6 different bridges that we had to choose from and our GPS is psycho. Long story short, we ended up in Maryland! Instead of getting angry or whatever, we laughed, and we laughed, and we laughed... until we had to pull over because we were crying so much. It just made our life.

 

Anyway, the time is gone. I love you all so much. I miss you too. I just found that there are pictures on my Ipod. Thanks! You all are amazing. We have not had time to go by Bryce and Elise. Hopefully next week. This week is so crazy. We get to meet our new Mission President on Thursday but the conference is about an hour and a half away so we need to conserve miles. Can you relay the message to Bryce and Elise. Tell them I love them too!