Week 19

Hey everyone! :)

This week has been super fun! This week is also transfers...if sister Richardson and I make it another transfer it would be a miracle. So this week I could very well have a new companion.

We had the opportunity to teach activity days this week. There were about 20 girls and they were all so fun! They ran up and gave us a big group hug at the end. It was so much fun!

This week we started teaching an Ethiopian family. On our very first lesson with them they had some questions about why we needed the Book of Mormon and why we needed prophets. It was cool because as soon as we explained what they were and why we needed them, they both said, "ok!" And that was the end of it!

Another cool thing happened. We were walking along a neighborhood and we saw a black man and woman coasting down the street on a four wheeler and the woman was putting her arms in the air and yelling for

joy. We walked up and talked to them and the woman was so impressed that young people were out dedicating a portion of their life to talking to people about God. We set up a time to come back and share a

spiritual thought with her. At our appointment we taught the restoration of the gospel and we would ask her questions about how she came to know that there was God. As she was talking about her experiences I could feel the Holy Ghost really strongly. After we had finished the lesson she committed to reading and praying about the Book of Mormon.

2nd cool thing: our investigator Gus is on date for baptism soon. Today we drove by his house on the way to another persons house and we saw Gus outside. We decided to stop and see how he was doing. (Gus is

rarely ever home at all, let alone home and outside his house right at the time that we drive by. Definitely not a coincidence). We gave him a paper that had all of the rest of the things that he needed to do before his baptism. He seems excited although he said that it hasn't hit him yet!

3rd cool thing: we are teaching a woman named Bobbie. We have a really hard time scheduling with her. She doesn't have a phone, she's really busy, and whenever we see her she never has her calendar so she's

never sure when she's free. This week she had to cancel our appointment. A few days after that we felt like we needed to stop by her house. Bobbie was outside with her dog. We started talking to her and she had a few minutes before she needed to leave so we started teaching her the plan of salvation. And somehow got thought the whole thing in 20 minutes....that never happens! Especially with an investigator. As we were discussing, Bobbie had some really good questions that were out of sincere interest. After we were done she

just accepts the whole Plan of Salvation and said, "well I've got a little bit to ponder about then". And that was it. No hesitation even though a few minutes before she believed in heaven and he'll and didn't know that our spirits lived with God before this.

We've had a ton of amazing investigators pop out of nowhere this week!!

Someone a couple weeks ago said something that I really liked. "Excitement and fear are the same emotion. You just need to pick which one you want to feel".

but that's about it for the week! love you all!:)