week 48 - Spring break

March 15, 2010

Hi again~
Well, last week was spring break, the sun was beautiful and shining (for most of the week) and the students were gone, which made it a little harder to be out street contacting. BUT the students are now all back, we have lots to do this week and the sun is supposed to be shining again later this week. :)
We really have a lot of good things going on here. Our investigator Samantha is set to be baptized this upcoming Sunday night! It's been difficult getting her to church these past couple weeks though. Yesterday she slept in because she forgot to change her clock and didn't make it to our ward. But we called her up to ask what happened and she ended up coming to the ward right after us. Good! She is still on for next week. We would have had to push it back (again) but she is solid and wants this so bad!
I don't remember if I've told you about Pritish, but he's an Indian guy who is doing his masters at Carnegie Mellon. We've met with him a few times and this past week we set him with a baptism date :) We set him for April 10th and he seems pretty excited to do it. He's come to church only once because he's been out of town the past couple weekends, but he always says how badly he wants to come to church again. At our last appointment with him, we was so greatful to be meeting with us because he said he had a really hard week and this appointment was a relief to him. So I am so excited about Pritish too!
We also had zone conference and interviews this week. I love that time of the transfer! In my interview, President Summerhays asked me how the companionship was going and I told him how awesomely we work together. I really love serving with Sister Westbrook and Droge. This is the first transfer where we've all just worked and meshed so well together and I love it. But unfortunately, Sister Westbrook has been here for 9 months and President told me that she will be going to another area next transfer. Then he told me that the Oakland/Shadyside area are going to be split up again and Sister Droge and I will be getting new companions. So I'll probably be going back to the other apartment I was in last transfer. He then told Sister Droge in her interview that she would probably be getting an experienced sister and that a new sister would be coming to the city as well. So I don't know if that means I'm training next transfer or not, but we'll see........scary!
We never know for sure until the very last minute!
Ready for the funny story of the week? It might not be that funny to you guys but I loved this. Our ward mission leader moved out to Utah on Friday, so earlier in the week we put together a little goodbye something for him ;) At institute on Tuesday night, they had a little goodbye party for him, so me and my companions put together a goodbye song, haha, sooooo funny! We used hymns and songs and changed the words to them to tell him how much we've appreciated his help, but the thing was the words were just crazy and out there that we couldn't stop laughing throughout our little performance. Of course, he acted all embarrassed during it, but he thanked us afterward for putting that together for him, haha, he really liked it deep down! Don't worry, we have it on video too and I'll show you it someday. I hope you like it!
Ok, this email is getting long enough! I hope you don't get too bored reading it but know that we are doing a lot of good out here and it's been fun! I love you guys and miss you a lot! Have a great week!
Love, Holly