Transfer 5 Week 3

Hello all!!!

This week I will do my best to give a full report on who we are teaching and how my companion is and the sort. 

So this week we traveled quite a bit. On Tuesday we went to Powers which is a tiny town about an hour away from us (yes our area is that large) and we visited Rita. Rita is an amazing woman who started coming to church because her father came to town who is a member, found out where the nearest chapel was (an hour away) and brought her. She is getting baptized on the 17th of August and we are so excited for her! She has the clearest green eyes and the most thankful way of praying. She is quitting smoking at the moment and we learn so much from her faith in Christ and her desire to follow God's will. 

We had a new missionary training meeting on Wednesday of which we qualified for because my comp is on her 8th week in the field. She is such a pro though. She really doesn't need a trainer. She came pre-trained and she is the one who teaches me really. But we went and learned lots from our mission President. One of things that was impressed upon us is that we are constantly being watched and whatever we do either increases or decreases trust. I thought about how that translates over into life as well. We have to watch our selves and our actions because as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints we are constantly and consistently being watched. I know and have seen the impact a good example can make. Our president is challenging us to go into every home in our ward and challenge them to make a ward mission plan. To do this we are to challenge them to change simple things in their life that will invite the spirit more often and then to act upon those promptings. That is something I'd like to extend to each of you to do as well. 

On Thursday we started teaching a beautiful new family. The mother is best friends with one of our members who recently started coming back to church. We are teaching her and her 10 and 8 yr old  In the first lesson we had she wanted to know if her kids and herself could be baptized. We were, you know... pretty much thrilled out of our minds!!!!!! We walked away from that knowing it was a blessing and a miracle.

On Friday we went to North Bend for our Zone Meeting. Also in the evening we had our first ever correlation meeting with the bishop and all four of us missionaries. P.S I love the bishops daughter! She is my favorite! She gives me jelly fish high fives all the time! And Jelly fish hugs! I love it! 

On Saturday we began teaching Alisha. She works at the gas station. We took her on a tour of the church building and she loved it. She was also very taken with the picture of the savior in Gethsemane. She is amazing and we are so excited to be teaching her as well!

More about my companion. She is 19 going on 91. She was seriously born in the wrong time. But I am so happy that she was born at the time she was and that she is my companion. She is amazing. She is so focused on serving and so dedicated and diligent  She is happy that I make her laugh. So... let it be known... I can be funny. That is all. But really. She is a brilliant missionary and I am happy to learn from her.

I love you all! Have a great week!!

P.S My comp and I decided to do away with the term DTR. We have to 'define the relationship' with investigators all the time and instead we are calling it WIGO!! 'What is going on?!?!!?' Its better this way. Believe me, in five years everyone will say WIGO.