Wow what an eventful week!
Boy was this week AMAZING!! Wow. We had a wedding, a baptism, transfer
letters, cookies, and more. Stay tuned!
Soooo this week was R and S's wedding! We had the opportunity to help
them see the importance of marriage and they are just so cute and in
love and they are being SOOO blessed because of the decisions they're
making. They are the literal cutest <3
Also, R got baptized the very next day and was confirmed the very next
day after that! He is just so open and genuinely wants to do all he
can to follow God. He has such a strong testimony of the importance of
families and he said he's going to bear his testimony next month in
sacrament meeting.
Umm transfer letters?? So the letters always come on Saturdays, and if
we don't get a letter that means we're staying. This Saturday we
checked the mail and didn't get any transfer letters, so we immediately
called Penny and we were all rejoicing over the glorious news that
we'd all be together for Christmas. But then things
changed...apparently the letters were sent out late. I finally found
out today that I'm going to be a sister training leader (like a zone
leader but specifically for sisters) in Gresham, OR! Omg I am on a
roller coaster of emotions! I was so sad when I found out I was
leaving Vancouver, but now I am so happy to know I'm going to Gresham
to be an STL! I'm going to be serving in the Kelly Clark Ward in the
Gresham Stake with Sister Singleton, who was my very first sister
training leader when I got here! I'm excited...but also sad to say
a temporary goodbye to everyone here...but also excited!!
Also, I'm not sure if I ever told you about T, so I'll tell you about
him now just in case. In HS, he had some Mormon friends in choir and
such, and he came to church once last year to sing in sacrament
meeting. Anyways, he came to his friend's farewell a few weeks ago, and
his friend, Sarah, invited him to meet with us. Well we met with him
and now he's preparing for baptism on December 19. Thankfully I'll get to
come back for the baptism even though I'll be serving in Gresham at
that point! SO MUCH EXCITEMENT YAYAYA :)
We also made cookies with sweet Sister Ball this week. <3 She is so
wonderful. We baked a million cookies with her and then delivered them
to some investigators and less active members. It was such a great
experience because we prayed about who all we should bring them to,
and four of the families we brought them to said something like, "Oh
my gosh we were just talking about how we miss you two!" God doesn't
do random, people! He just doesn't!
Well I have about a gazillion pictures/videos I want to send to y'all,
but I'll narrow them down.
Wedding Day! <3
I had to take some goodbye pictures with Penny, Sister Reeves, and of
course Penny's psycho cat.
This cat tries to bite/scratch anyone who
touches her, but I just love her so much! I feel like we have this
bond, so sometimes I build up the courage to hold her. I sure am going to miss Psycho!
Sister Reeves and I squeezed in a quick trip to the mall today. (It is so hard to find time to actually do things haha we were running from store to store.)
Oh also, I was watching the Christmas devotional on BYU-TV and I
loooooved this quote: "May all the lights this season remind you to
look to the ultimate source of all light because He is the way." Ok I
think I quoted that all wrong so idk why I put quotation marks around
it haha but the same message is there and that's what counts. Remember
our Savior this Christmas!! (Also everyone should visit
Christmas.mormon.org because it is amazing and has a bunch of cool
GIFs about Christ's birth and a short video and music and everything
good all in one website.)
I LOVE YOU ALL!
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