Week 69- I love you all SOOOOOO much

August, 16, 2010

Hello my dear wonderful family!
How are you all doing? I hope you are all holding up wonderfully and doing ok. I love you guys a lot! I'm not going to make this email long because I'm going to write everyone an individual email. So I'll just basically go over the things that happened this week to let you know all that is going on out here in State College.
So it's going pretty well! My new sisters name is Sister Johnson and she is from Mt. Vernon, WA.......and Abilene, TX. Raised in WA but more recently from TX. She is doing great though and excited to be a missionary! It's really interesting to see the difference between the two different missionaries that I've trained. And boy is it two different experiences!!!! hahaha. It's going great and Sister Johnson is trying her best. She got sick her very first day out here though. Sad, huh? She started out with a cold, with sore throat, cough, runny/stuffy nose, etc. That stinks to be sick right off the bat! But the ward members have been great to her and have brought her lots of cough drops, tissues, chicken noodle soup, orange juice, etc. And while we've been tracting, there have been a couple people who made her some herbal tea to help her. It's been precious. There really are some great people in the world! She thinks it's turning into tonsillitis so we did have to stay in for a bit on Friday night......which makes me go stir-crazy. But I guess if we don't let her get a little rest, it's never going to go away. Actually yesterday was quite a crazy Sunday!! The way church normally works for us on Sundays goes like this......we have PEC at 7:30 for our ward, so the other sisters come with us and do their personal study at the church since we share the car. Then after PEC, sometimes we do a split and two missionaries go to our home ward at 9:00 while the others go to the PEC/university branch at 10:00, which is over on the Penn State campus. Then they come back and go to Relief Society for their own ward. So Sundays are usually pretty nutty, but yesterday it was even more nutty! After we got out of PEC yesterday, we found out that one of the other sister missionaries was sick and throwing up. haha, good way to start the day! So we decided to take her home along with Sister Johnson since she wasn't feeling well still and let them rest. Then Sister Cahoon and I tried to manage three wards by ourselves, jumping back and forth from the church, to campus, back to church, etc. Crazy, crazy day! Then after all of church was over, luckily neither companionship had solid appointments for the night so we managed to work everything out great. We saw one of our investigators, had a dinner appointment with someone in their ward. I'm glad for the way the night worked out, haha. And I am also very grateful that Sister Cahoon was healthy so we could still go to church and go out and work. I hate sitting inside!!!! I'm taking Sister Johnson to the doctor today to get some medicine or something and hopefully she'll recover soon enough.
We did get a new investigator this week. He's way cool! His name is Shawn and he is Chinese. He's cool because he really wants to learn about God and what that really means. He did an exchange program in Alabama and lived with a minister so he learned a lot about Christianity through him. He gets so confused though with everything the world tells him, which is understandable. As we were talking about prophets and how we have one on the earth today, he got really excited and was like "REALLY????????" haha, it was cute. I'm excited for him to learn more. :)
Well it's definitely been a crazy first week of the transfer, probably one of the craziest ones I've had. But everything is going great here and I'm so excited for all the miracles that are going to happen this transfer! You guys are in my prayers, every prayer! I love you lots and can't wait to see you soon enough. Have a great week, keep a positive attitude and outlook and remember how wonderful the plan of salvation is!!!! It's such a blessing that we can know of it! Love you lots!
Love, Holly