Week 50 - Happy Easter and General Conference!

March 29, 2010

Hi!
I was totally planning on bringing my camera cord so I could attach pictures, but I forgot yet again. I'm sorry! Next week it will happen! I'll write it in my planner this time so I remember.
It's been a pretty good week. Samantha's confirmation was yesterday and it was sooo amazing! She's officially official and she is so happy about it! We gave her a little baptism book of a whole bunch of pictures and notes/testimonies of people at her baptism and she cried because she loved it so much. I just love this girl. Samantha also went to a palm sunday musical fireside the stake had last night. It was at the stake center which is about 20 minutes away, so we had the guy who baptized her, Greg, take her. hehe, we try to play matchmaker with them because we think they'd be such a cute little couple! :) Plus, to think someday down the road when someone asked them how they met, she could say "He baptized me!" hahaha, I love it. Not only are we missionaries to help people make the covenants of baptism, but we are also missionaries to help people make covenants of eternal marriage ;) YAY!
Erin also went to that musical fireside and loved it to. She is practically a member already, she comes to church every week and she even shares the gospel to people around them. OHH, cool story! Yesterday in Relief Society, they had a "missionary moment" where people told about different experiences they had with sharing the gospel with their friends. There were SOO many people who commented, it took like 15 minutes of relief society time. Everyone does such a good job with sharing the gospel BUT Samantha and Erin both commented on how they shared the gospel with people and are inviting them to meet the missionaries. Cool huh? The recent convert and investigator are the ones who invite people to listen to the message. See, those two girls are awesome. I hope Erin gets baptized when I'm still here (which I'm expecting to be here for at least another 3 months or so).
Still no new investigators though......thank you for your prayers, mom!! We are in desperate need of it! Still. :) We did try another booth at Carnegie Mellon University, but this time we talked about family history. It was actually the most successful booths we had. We mostly talked about family history and invited people to take a free class on learning how to start. We had a good number of people sign up! Now the trick is getting them from family history to learning more about the church. So maybe new investigators will come from that.
This is the last week of the transfer. Last week of being with Sister Westbrook and Droge. I have enjoyed this transfer so much!! I told them yesterday that I appreciate them so much, this has been the most low-stress transfer I've had because they are so easy-going yet want to work hard. But I'm guessing I'll still be with Sister Droge, but another sister too. I guess we'll all find out next week!
I hope you all have a wonderful week! I love you all lots and lots!!!
HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What are you doing for easter by the way? We got invited up to the institute teachers house for the last session of general conference and dinner. yay, a real easter!
And I hope you all enjoy General Conference!!! This should be a super good one, as they always are!
Love you all and miss you all too!
Love, Holly