Week 68 - Beginning of the Last

August 9, 2010

Hi everybody!
Here it is....the beginning of the last transfer. And guess what? I'm going to be training again. Yay! I'm excited to have a little greenie who has that greenie fire! It'll be a great way to end the mission and we are going to see SO many wonderful miracles! It'll be the best transfer yet! Guess what else? Sister Anderson (who I trained before) is going to be training too!! Cool huh? She's an amazing missionary! I'm so excited for her! Sister Westbrook is going home though, so that's a little sad. Exciting for her, but sad for all of us who she is leaving. This week was full of goodbye appointments and LOTS of dinner appointments. Even lunch appointments. I'm surprised I haven't gained 500 pounds just this week! Maybe by the end of this next transfer I will, who knows, haha. I'll miss Sister Westbrook though, we've had a great transfer together and a whole lot of fun! :)
Since this week was full of a whole bunch of goodbye appointments, not a whole lot more really happened. BUT two appointments that I am absolutely excited about. The first was with Elizabeth. We met with her on Friday and taught her the plan of salvation. She loved it! Right now she is studying Buddhism because it's been the closest thing she has found to what she believes. But she can't get over the fact that they don't believe in one God and that Christ was the Son of God. She also has been looking into Dowism (sp?) but I guess they don't really believe in prayer and she is a huge pray-er. So when she heard the plan of salvation she was like "wow! I totally believe that this could happen!" She was so excited about it all. Elizabeth is great! We invited her to be baptized and she said she would definitely pray about it and pray about all the things we have been teaching her. She is going through a lot right now though, trying to figure out wedding planning and moving and a whole lot more, so it may be a while until she's ready to be baptized.
Then we have a new investigator, Karen! She's awesome too. We tracted into her house earlier this week and she let us in right away. She is newly married as of like 2 months ago. Cute! She told us that she has family that lives in Tremonton, Utah (they aren't members) but she goes out to visit every now and then. She's seen the SLC temple from a distance and thinks it's beautiful! Of course! She said that she has no knowledge about the church though and she's really interested in learning. So we set an appointment to bring her a Book of Mormon and she was really intrigued by it all. It's fun to be able to see people learn of the gospel when they have never heard a thing about it before. She's really interested in the Book of Mormon too. She told us that she had never really thought of people living here on the American continent but that it makes sense. She also told us that she talked to her family in another part of Pennsylvania about meeting us and had a good discussion with them. All good signs, I'm loving it!
One other cool story. A family in our ward brought their neighbors to church with them yesterday!!!! They seemed to really enjoy it too! The members have talked all about the church with them and have given them a copy of the Book of Mormon and even talked about us meeting up with them. So we got to meet them yesterday and get an appointment with them. I'm so excited to teach them! It'll be fun to have a brand new greenie get to teach them too. I'm telling you, great things are going to happen this transfer!
This isn't very long, I know. Probably a relief to you guys though, haha. I remember just skimming through other missionaries emails because they were so long. So this will be a good break. I love you all soooooo much! Hope to hear from you all next week. Keep staying strong and keep being amazing member missionaries! :)

Love, Holly