Week 70 - a lot of good stuff!

August 23, 2010

Hellooooooo!
It was so good to hear from all of you! Thanks for your emails. This week has been pretty good. A lot better then last week! Sister Johnson has started to get over her bronchitis and feeling better and I've gotten over my cold, now we can just be hard at work! I got the most EXCITING news on Saturday night! There is this girl in our ward named Kaitlin Moss who has been going out with us to prepare herself for her mission. She got her mission call on Saturday night, called me up and said "L-Dawg (that's what she calls me), would you be willing to go tracting with ME after your mission?" I freaked out and asked her if she was going to Boise and she said yes!!! YAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited for her! Heck yes I'll go tracting with her in Boise! I was seriously so excited, I was jumping and dancing around our apartment. It'll be so fun to have her out there and (selfishly) for me to still have a part of missionary work! hahaha. Are there any sisters areas near by our area? She better make sure to call me up to let me go out on exchanges with her! Yay! She goes into the MTC on November 17, so it'll be a while but I'm still stoked!
We were also able to set two of our investigators with a baptism date. The first one is Jess. She is married to a less-active member and lives in his active mothers home so Jess has been able to see what a change the gospel brings into their home. She's gone to several Relief Society activities too and she loves all the women. We've met with her quite a few times but this time we were finally able to set her with a date. She is set for Oct. 16 :) Ya, it's after I leave, but there is things she has to work on and I'm just excited that she's working for that day.
Our other investigator who is set with a date is named Amber. She is actually Jess's sister-in-law. Amber is married to Jess's brother. The sisters had met with her for quite a while a couple months ago but then things went on in Ambers life that made it to hectic and busy to keep meeting. She even had a baptism date for June but didn't get to it. But Amber came to a Relief Society activity and we got an appointment set up with her. As we visited with her she was telling us how she felt so bad that she didn't have time for the sisters but she wants to start working toward baptism again. She didn't want to steal Jess's thunder though, so she decided to do it after Jess's baptism. So she is set for Oct. 23. I'm so happy for these two! They are awesome girls!
Fall semester for Penn State started today so it is CRAZY busy!!! Everyone has been moving in, there are tons of Uhauls everywhere and the roads and Walmart have been packed! But you know what that means, right??? Lots and lots of work to do!!! We have a public forum tomorrow at the student union building, so I'm pretty sure we'll have tons of people to talk to. :)
Last thing that kind of made me sad.........with the new mission changes, they have a leadership training meeting for all the zone leaders, district leaders, trainers and some sisters. Me and another sister in this area were invited to go and I was soooooooooo excited about it! It is going to be in Harrisburg so I was going to be able to see that area again and I was excited to learn whatever they are going to have us learn. Well.....last night the zone leaders called Sister Cahoon and I and told us that we were uninvited. Sad, huh? I asked why and they didn't really give us a legitimate answer but the some of the other sisters still get to go. So that really bummed me out yesterday. Plus we blocked off all of thursday and friday to go and now we have nothing set to do! Do a mad rush of finding appointments I guess. I am just hoping that the reason he uninvited us is because President got some spiritual prompting that something AMAZING is going to happen to both sets of sisters here over those days. Let's hope so!!!
I love you all soo soo much! I'll see you in less then a month! Woah!! Have a great week and I'll talk to you all soon!
Love, Holly