week 53 - Hallooo

April 19, 2010


Hi my wonderful family!
It has been a week full of craziness and business!! haha, I'm tired! But we had some pretty cool things happen this week. Like I told you before, we were struggling finding new people to teach last transfer and I was afraid once our current investigators were baptized, we would have no one to teach. Well, we had a miracle week! I love having Sister Anderson here! We got many new investigators, ones who seem pretty solid too. This one girl we met named Alex is super awesome! She's from Alabama and she is just the sweetest girl in the world. She loved hearing about the first vision and is excited to read the Book of Mormon. We'll be meeting with her again this week :) We also met a few men who seem pretty interested in learning more, they are at a point in there life where they are searching and trying to find out what they truly believe. I'm glad the Lord led us to these people! Hopefully we can find more amazing people who are ready this week.
We had another zone conference this week, those are my favorite times of the transfer! I love zone conference! So our mission is getting pretty young now! Just this year, we've probably gotten 50 or more brand new missionaries, which makes it almost half of us. Plus, a lot of missionaries will be going home this summer. Sooo, our zone conference was all about being prepared to take on leadership positions and getting these newer missionaries prepared to be trainers and district leaders and zone leaders early on in their missions. They all seem like a pretty prepared bunch of missionaries too.
We also had a pretty cool thing happen last night. This lady named Rose called us up randomly and invited us over to her house. She had visited with the sister missionaries like 4 years ago. She enjoyed the visits and came to church a couple times but liked her church too much so the sisters had to drop her. Well, a few weeks ago, she ran into some of the elders and she asked them for the sisters phone number. We went over there and she wants to meet with us again! I'm not sure how interested she really is in learning about the gospel but she had her 18 year old son sit in with us :) So we set up another time to visit with both of them so we could teach him more about the church. yay! Cool and amazing things always happen with a little faith, hard work, and diligence. I truly feel blessed in this area right now. It was pretty rough when I first got to the city, but I am so thankful for all the wonderful miracles we have seen here!!! I was reading in Alma this morning when Alma goes and teaches the people in Zarahemla, then Gideon, then Melek, then Ammonihah. I was just noticing all the differences with the people in the different areas and the different trials that he went through and different situations and ways he had to teach them. We all know Ammonihah was pretty rough for him, but he was so blessed with the people in Melek who wanted to hear the word. And that's the way missionary work goes. Some areas are great and we see many miracles and others are so hard that you want to just walk away. But faith and diligence and hope make everything worth it! Alma was led back to Ammonihah where he was blessed with his companion, Amulek. I dont' know if that makes as much sense to you guys as it did to me this morning, but I really liked it. Well I hope you are all having a great spring and I'd love to hear of any stories you have had lately where you have gotten to share the gospel with someone. Have a wonderful week! I love you all!!!!! Miss you!
Love, Holly