This week (11/7/16 email)

For Halloween, Sister Mandin and I last minute dressed up as sheep. So that was fun! 

But they were hot costumes so we really only wore them for a few seconds 

and then changed into comfy clothes to play sports. 

But it was fun!

This one girl, B, got baptized in May and her husband, M, is supportive and everything but used to preface every conversation emphasizing the fact that he will never be interested in the church. Haha we were always like, "Okay, M, that's fine. We can still be your friend!" But he's slowly made changes every time we see him, and it's amazing! None of us have been pushing anything, but he decided to come to church, and now he said he wants to stop chewing tobacco and smoking weed and drinking alcohol. At church, he would always announce that he's not interested and he was only going to support his wife, but in the lesson B was like, "M, you know that's not the real reason you go to church. You love it there!" Lolol. He then admitted that he loves church and wants to be baptized. So he's on date for January 28! He picked that date, but honestly at this rate I bet he'll push it forward. He still has a lot of change ahead of him before he can get baptized, but he's been improving by his own free will every week, so I believe in him!

Also we had our first lesson with this super nice man, T, and he's on date for baptism on December 10! He has family members that are active in the church, and he said he's always been intrigued but never asked them any questions. Then we ran into him as he was working outside and taught him a bit and he asked us to come back. So that was so meant to be! We've only taught him the first lesson, but he's definitely on the right track.

Our last district meeting of the transfer we all tried to wear black and white. 

Here's another role reversal picture of the elders and sisters in the zone. 

And we tried taking a panorama but I look so awkward bc I started to laugh when it was on me...

but it still looks good from afar so here you go!

Here's a cool scripture for the week: Alma 14! I was studying Ether 12, which references a bunch of stories where people went through a trial of their faith before they were able to experience a miracle. One of the references was to the story of Alma and Amulek in Alma 14 and I think everyone needs to take a look at that chapter. Alma and Amulek went through some crazy hard and gruesome things even though they were good, righteous people. But God pretty much teaches them that no eternally bad things happen to good people. It's cool! Love you all!