The Morrill of the Story

 My zone is crazy. Cross-eyed kitty!   So this week was kind of a pain. We found out on Tuesday that Sister Gunson would be training new missionary. Which meant that I was almost 100% sure leaving. I had very mixed feelings, mostly sad ones haha. I love Euless and all the people here. Sister Gunson is going to be a wonderful trainer though! She's got a pretty lucky newbie. Then for the rest of the week all of the appointments that we had scheduled punched. For really good reasons though. It was just hard because we were certain we were going to have this awesome week because all of our evenings were filled like a week in advance, which is like the first time that has ever happened. Then for whatever reason everyone had to cancel. The adversary is working hard, but we're not going to let him win. This week did have some awesome highlights though. We went on an exchange with a girl in the Tongan ward who is going on a mission in June! She was a lot of fun...

This week was long but good. Zone conference was awesome! It's always so spiritual and it's such a pump up. We've found some more potential investigators this week that we're excited about. Oh and after e-mails last Monday we got a referral for a woman who has a friend getting baptized in Detroit and was interested in learning more about the church. So we immediately called her and set up an appointment, she was really excited about it. We met with "El Salvador" on Friday and it was so awesome! She was so excited to learn more, and before we could really explain what the Book of Mormon was she was just like "Oh I just want to read it!" She wasn't able to come to church on Sunday but she seemed really interested and we're going to try to set up a time to give her a church tour this week. Sarah is doing awesome as well! Things seem to have finally calmed down for her a little bit. We taught her about tithing yesterd...

  This flag is flying across the freeway from our apartment.  :)   This week was kind of stressful but okay. Sarah has a lot going on in her life that we're trying to help her out with, as much as we possibly can considering we're just missionaries and not counselors. She's doing amazing though and she is basically off of cigarettes. She's so ready to get baptized and we just can't wait to help her get there.   We've found a new investigator who is really awesome.  The Elders in the Togan ward here referred her to us. We'll nickname her Sister P.  She seems really open to learning more and she's got a 12 year old daughter that we'll hopefully be able to teach as well. We went over the restoration with her, but it was more like a brief summary rather than a full on lesson. She's getting surgery sometime this week and then after that we'll be able to stop by and work with her since she won't be able to ...

We've done a lot of work with members this week. We've been asking members if they'd like to take the missionary discussions so that we can 1)Strengthen their testimony 2)Practice our teaching and 3)Get referrals. It seems to be working pretty well so far. Our members are definitely starting to catch on to the missionary spirit because we've got some referrals that we've got to go hunt down now.  We've also been teaching Sarah a lot.She is doing so great and she is progressing so much! It's been so amazing to see the changes that she has made in her life. I am so proud of her! The Elders in our ward had a baptism this week. It was so cool to see. I can't wait for Sarah to get to that point! We also did some more work with "Tender Mercies". She is so awesome! We helped her clean her house and pack up some things. Then she decided to reward us by getting us some In N' Out which Sister Gunson has so desperately been craving. It was...

 Biggest dog I have ever seen!  Nightmares?  Gecko!  Glad I don't live on this street!   This week was hard but awesome at the same time. Sister Gunson and I are still getting used to each other, but we love each other and laugh a lot. She has been a huge help to me already in so short of a time. She's teaching me to work hard, but not at the cost of running myself into the ground. We were able to get into contact with a lot of less active members and see how they are doing. We made huge progress with M&M who are a less active couple in our ward. They actually came to church yesterday and it was so awesome to see them there. We're going to start teaching them the missionary discussions to help strengthen their testimonies. It should be fun, they are so great. We also met a wonderful woman who I am nicknaming "Tender Mercies" or "TM". She is a less active member in our ward as well, and when we initially show...

This week has been a little chaotic but awesome as well. Transfers happened. My new companion Sister Gunson is so hilarious. I love her already and I can tell that I have a ton to learn from her. So when transfers initially happened neither of us had driving privileges at the time. So we were unable to drive for a day and a half. It was kind of funny and definitely made me grateful for our car. We finally got that all figured out and are now driving around in missionary style again. We're really trying hard to work with our members right now. We met with the Elders that serve in our ward as well and figured out the members that we all wanted to work with so that we don't overlap. We've been making tons of phone calls trying to set up appointments. Sarah is doing okay. She's having some struggles, but we've seen a lot of answers to her and our prayers this week. So hopefully things will start to look up for her. She is still so awesome and d...

So, I'm not getting transferred, but Sister Bangs is. My new companions name is either Sister Jensen or Jennison. My zone leader was a little unclear haha. Sister Bangs is going to Hillboro, I'm sure she'll love it. Every companionship in our zone got split up actually, so we're going to have a bunch of new missionaries to meet. This week we met with Sarah a couple of times. Her life is crazy, I don't know how she does it. She actually got whooping cough and was out of work for like a week. We still met with her though when she started to feel better, because we'd already been exposed. Not feeling sick yet so I think we're safe haha. She's doing so awesome though. She's tough and so absolutely determined to get baptized. We asked her to pick a date and she's thinking either the first or second week of June. Hopefully we'll be able to pick a solid date soon. Daphne has been coming with us to see her and has been a huge help. Some ...