week 45- Yet Another Transfer

February 22, 2010

Hello again!
How is everyone doing?? Alright, well I'm just going to jump into whats been going on this week because it's been a CRAZY week! I told you about how Sister Longmore (the greenie) got transferred last Tuesday and we got two new temple square sisters on Wednesday. The sister we got is from Mongolia and her name is Sister Enkhbold. She is soooooo awesome, I just love her to death! I think the first day was really, really hard for her but after that she has been so much fun. She's been on her mission for about 8 months and didn't speak any english before she came. But now she is very fluent! It's cool how the spirit has been able to help her. But I love her asian accent and how we have to explain what words or phrases mean. It's so fun! haha, example, last night when we were saying our night prayer, Sister Sorensen said, "is it my turn?" and I said "Go for it" Then later on when we were all in bed, Sister Enkhbold asks "Sister LaMont, what does gofer mean?" hahahahha I had to explain what I meant by it but she's such a cute little missionary and her testimony is so strong of the gospel, despite a little language barrier.
We did find out about our transfers yesterday. You ready for this??? I'm staying in Pittsburgh again! BUT I am moving apartments. So here is my new address so you can write me there. 9 Edith Pl Pittsburgh, PA 15213
I'll be serving with Sister Westbrook who was a Harrisburg missionary too and also another temple square sister, her name is Sister Droge (she's from Germany! She's awesome too!) It'll be a good transfer and a lot of things going on now! Sister Sorensen is transferring to Lititz (lucky lucky girl!!!) and Sister Enkhbold is going to Hershey (lucky girl too!)
Now as for some of the people we are working with, we met with Erin Jonas this past week and had a great lesson with her. She's the one who's parents are very very against the church. As we met with her, we told her we are not going to push her to baptism, because we know she already wants it. But we are going to commit her to have little conversations with her parents and of course praying hard core for her parents hearts to be softened. She was pretty happy about that because I think our last meeting, she felt a lot of pressure from us that it made her feel like she didn't want to meet with us anymore. I may have already told you all of this, I don't remember, but please keep praying for Erin! She needs them!
We are meeting with a new investigator named Pritish. He is Hindu and is from India. He's very open minded though and says he has gone to christian churches before and he really enjoys the peace and quiet of it. Good thing he's coming to a singles ward at this time! haha. And since I am moving to the other sisters apartment, I also get to start working with their investigators. They have some pretty awesome people they are working with as well who have a whole lot of potential! Again, it should be a pretty good transfer! :)
I'm sorry if none of this email really makes sense. It's been a crazy week and I'm not really sure how to really explain all that happened. It's one of those, 'if you were here, it might make more sense' kind of things. But one more funny story :) We had zone conference this week and it is our district leaders last transfer...he goes home tomorrow. So he really, really wanted to do a musical number with us sisters. haha, his special talent.....he plays a lime green recorder!!!! :) (He did get permission from the Zone Leaders and President, haha) He started out with the recorder up his sleeve and he pulled it out and started playing Teach Me To Walk. We sang along and it was SOOOO hard to keep a straight face! I couldn't even look at people because I could see everyone giggling. Even President was laughing too. hahaha, that moment will go down in history. And it made this elders heart happy to do it his last transfer! :) *I was reading over that and it makes it sound like Elder Hartshorn is weird. But he's not, he's really cool, he's just funny!*
Ok, I'll stop babbling. I hope you all have a great week and I love you all so much! I love you all so much and miss you!!!!
Love, Holly