Week 8

June 8, 2009

Hey hey everyone!!!
Ok so this week has been one of the craziest yet! Let me tell you a little about it. On Monday, we went to Intercourse, PA--Home of the Amish :) It was stinkin cool. I got a whole bunch of pictures of them and their homes and their farms...they are so interesting! We didn't do a whole lot while we were there though, p-day is too short, but we went in some cute little amish shops and went on a buggy ride. I am such a tourist! haha. 
Well here's where the crazy part of the week begins. But first let me tell you how transfers work. On Saturday night, missionaries get a call from the district leader telling them who is staying and who is going....but they still dont' know where they are going. Transfer meetings are on Monday mornings and thats where he tells us. Well, on Tuesday we had interviews with President Pugh. He told us sisters in our interviews kind of what was going to be happening with transfers. He asked us "How are you and your companion" Of course I say "really good" and then he says "Good, because you'll be staying with her next transfer" Ok then!! haha, no surprise in that! He also told Sister Deal that all the sisters are staying in their areas. So we planned on staying in E-Town for the next 7 weeks...we told members and our investigators that they got to keep us. Then on Friday, Sister Deal had to call President for something and he asks "will you put me on speaker so I can talk to you and your companion?" dun dun dun....what is going on? haha, well he told us that we are LEAVING our area but staying together. Not only are we leaving but our area is closing. So we were to take the rest of the weekend to pack up and clean the apartment when we didn't have appointments so we could be ready to leave Monday morning (this morning). But we still didn't know where we were going so you can imagine us speculating all weekend long! Well it came and now we are here. :) We are serving in together in Dover...which is just a little northwest of York, PA. We just got here about an hour or so ago so we still don't know the area at all. We don't know what we are doing tonight....tracting I guess? haha. We've gotta find people to teach! But we hear that the members here are amazing! So pray that it all goes well for us! Anyway, with all that, I really can't remember a lot of other things that went on this week. We had some REALLY crazy teaching appointments....to the crazy point where we told our district leader if he would please take over our investigators! And actually that came true too. We share the ward with two elders and since our area is closing, they are taking over the whole ward AND our investigators. Isn't that funny how we had just asked him the night before? Well, time is almost out so I've gotta go now. I'll let you know how the week went trying to white-wash this area :) Sure do love all of you! Have a great week!!
Love, Holli-sister LaMont