The Morrill of the Story

      This week has been really great! I just love Azle! It's lots of pretty country and you know what the country is full of? Animals! All over the place. It makes my heart so happy! So of course there's going to be lots of animal pictures from here on out. Let's see, what happened this week? Tuesday was a good day. I was able to say good-bye to some good people. Had one last lesson with Alison. She told us that she would for sure be coming to church, I felt pretty confident that she was over her concerns of coming to church. I hope her and family actually made it!  On Wednesday I had to wake up at 3 in the morning to get ready and make sure I had all my stuff. Then we had to be at the Killeen Stake Center by 5 to make sure that all our stuff got loaded so that we could be on the road by 9. I was really tired that day! Then I met up with Sister Meiners and we headed off to Azle. Sister Meiners is just so awesome! I absolutely love her....

Killeen zone just before this week's transfers. So. My time at Copperas Cove has come to an end. On Wednesday I will be heading up north to go to Azle! My new companion's name will be Sister Meiners. I think I've actually met her a couple of times before so it should be good! Azle was Sister Larsen's last area so she's been telling me all about it. It's a cute country place, which means there will be lots of dogs, so I'm pretty excited haha. This week was pretty good. We were able to see quite a few people that we haven't been able to see in a little while like Emma and Ariel and Sebastian. We were able to take a sister in the ward with us to see Emma and they both really hit it off! So we're pretty excited for that. We really did quite a bit of work this week, and saw lots of good people. There's just nothing extraordinary I feel like I need to talk about. Which sounds kind of bad, but is true haha. I'm sad to be le...

  Texas shaped tortilla chips! We built a fort.  As Lehi received inspiration as he dwelt in a tent, so did we!  :)   So. This week and the week before were a bit crazy, but it's all good!  We found a new investigator named Alison! She's really awesome! Her husband is a member and recently got back from deployment. He's been less active for quite a while but is interested in coming back. Alison told the military relations couple here that she'd be interested in taking the missionary lessons again and so we showed up at her door and she invited us right in! She's such a neat lady and is very welcoming and friendly. Alison really likes the idea that families can be together forever and seems to really want that for her family. She actually took the missionary lessons a few years back but had some hang-ups and decided not to join. She's told us that she feels like she could get over those hang-ups now and we're already seeing that happe...

    This has been another hard week, but it's had lot of good moments and we've still seen a lot of miracles. I know that God loves us because even on the hardest of weeks or the hardest of moments he still sends us miracles, and I know that it's because of our faith that we are able to see that. We saw Emma again and were able to have a really good lesson with her. We were able to ask lots of questions and basically reset expectations with her. It was truly a miracle because we've been praying and praying that we'd be able to have a normal conversation with her, because she's got a lot on her plate and usually takes up most of the time telling us about the things going on in her life. It was really amazing because I could feel the spirit working through us throughout the lesson. I was really able to feel it work through me which was a tender mercy because I'd been losing a little bit of confidence in my teaching skills. After we saw...

      Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! I had a really good day. I ate dinner with the senior couple in the YSA as well as a few of the YSA members. We also we're able to meet this really sweet guy named Sam who is working on going to the temple. He said he really wants to take his family to the temple. He just had such a clear direction on where he wanted to go. It was really great to see! John is totally getting baptized this week! He was interviewed on Sunday and is all set. It's really awesome because his whole family is coming to see it and they're all non-members! I hope that they'll feel the spirit! How can they not? John is so amazing. I'm so proud of him and so grateful for this decision he is making. He's already talking about the temple so it's good that he's set his sights on that. On Friday we had a really great lesson with our Elders Quorum President. We went over to share a missionary m...

This week has had it's ups and downs, but it's all good. We did a lot of work with recent converts and less active members this week. We also saw John this week and he's still on track for his baptism on the 20th! He's really an awesome guy and has a strong testimony! Miracles we saw this week: Saturday was just a very rough day. None of our plans worked out like we hoped they would and we had a lot of people just giving us some opposition. It was 8 o clock and we couldn't think of anyone to go see. We debated just going in early, because we felt so exhausted, and planning a really good day for the next day or trying to find someone to see. We said a really great prayer and a recently returning single sister's name popped into my head. We texted her to see if we could stop by and she said she had just gotten in to town from Austin and wouldn't be home for another ten minutes, but we could come by then. So we go over and have a good con...

  Here's a picture of a pretty Lutheran church in our area.   This week has been hard. I've been struggling a lot with some personal issues. We saw a lot of miracles though and have done some great work. We were able to see a lot of people, but not much progression has happened this week. Which is okay. We haven't been able to meet with Felix but we have plans to see him on Wednesday . OH I'm also going to be staying here for another 6 weeks with Sister Larsen, we're pretty excited about that. We were able to see John this week and it was really awesome! He's just so open and it eating it all up. He loves the gospel and you can just tell he does when you talk to him and look at him. I don't think I'd ever been able to notice people's countenances before, but his has changed so much and it's truly a miracle to witness! He's going to be getting baptized on the 20th now instead of the 21st to accommodate some family is...