Week of Oct 19th - Transfers that come a few days after transfer day

Chillin with my Uke!

Hey y'all!
I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to write a group email! Life has been pretty crazy in the mission and I don't even know where to start. Our investigator Angee, decided to be baptized on October 17th! We finished the rest of the lessons with her and they were incredible. When we teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, it becomes so clear to me that Jesus Christ is specifically there for each and everyone of us..the spirit was really strong during the lessons we taught Angee.





Transfer calls came and every companionship in my district was getting transferred except for me and Sister Tomblin! I was excited that we were both going to be able to stay for Angees Baptism. PLOT TWIST. On Tuesday morning President calls us and informs Sister Tomblin and I that I am getting transferred. It was super crazy because a normal P day turned into chaos. I had to hurry and pack everything up and visit everyone to say goodbye. It was a bitter sweet..even though I really didn't want to leave I felt that the Lord needed me somewhere else.









Some of the people that I leave behind in Leeds

Sister Ririe and I sharing some German candy
shared to us as we tracted

Goodbye to another one
of our investigators, Vickie

Goodbye to one of our investigators,Tina

Goodbye to recent converts
Nikki and Noah

Sister Bible

I was really sad to leave Sister Tomblin because she was such an amazing companion!










Luckily, I was able to see Angees baptism via Skype on Saturday, so I didn't completely miss it :) I am still sad that I won't be there to see her continually progress in the gospel..but I know that she is in good hands with the other missionaries :)




Lafayette, Here I Come!

On Wednesday I was transferred to LAFAYETTE! It is a lot bigger than Leesville and I feel a lot more at home here :) The work here is also pretty busy; we get a lot of online referrals. They have a Chic Fil A so that is always a plus :)











On Friday I ate Canes for the first time. Canes is a really popular chicken place down here; it was actually really good! We don't have as many dinner appointments down here, which is sad, but also good because I don't want to get fat haha.



My new companion is Sister Blaylock! She is from Rexburg, Idaho and goes home in 3 months! I am so excited to learn from her and she is so amazing! The Lord is REALLY taking care of me out here. We had a lesson with an investigator (Ashley) and we discussed the importance of the Book of Mormon. It was so incredible to feel the spirit there and the power of the Book of Mormon. We invited her to read it and promised her questions would be answered if she did.






This last week I was studying a lot about the Tree of Life (found in 1 Nephi chapter 8 and 11) and the significance of it. Reading it just made my purpose out here more clear and I found great importance in it. The Tree of Life signifies God's love for us, and the whole purpose of life is to stay on the path that leads to this tree and partake of the joy. This path sometimes gets really fuzzy and unclear, so that is why we are given the Iron Rod to help guide us on this path. The Iron Rod is the Word of God. If we truly cling on to the Rod by reading our scriptures and going to church, I PROMISE that we will feel of God's love. We will feel everlasting joy, a joy that cannot be found anywhere else. I am sacrificing 18 months of my life so that I can help others come to find this tree and this happiness. I know that most of you have already heard and studied out the Tree of Life, but it just stuck out to me this week and I wanted to share it with yall :) I am growing so much and am so grateful that I have the knowledge that can bring eternal happiness.


LOL Moments>>>

The other day Sister Blaylock and I were making dinner and found some biscuits in the fridge so we decided to cook them. They looked really funny but we cooked them anyway, obviously because we were hungry! So, after a century of time passed (at least that is what it felt like) they were finished. We ate them and they tasted so weird! After we ate them, we looked at the expiration date on the package and saw that they expired clear back in July...haha whoops!

On Sunday, Sister Blaylock and I along with the Spanish Elders were invited to speak to the primary kids on how they can prepare to serve missions. The sisters went first and we said our part. Then it was the Spanish Elder's turn. When the Spanish Elders were talking, Elder Quoinz was talking about praying for people instead of things he said "So if you are praying for things...stop." It was just really funny because he told a bunch of primary kids to stop praying! A look of horror came to his companion's face and then he added "Well don't stop praying, just pray for good things". Me and Sister Blaylock were laughing so hard! We will never let him live that one down :) haha

The last one was the scary/funny one! It actually just barely happened here in the library. We had just sat down to start emailing and out of no where a security guy came up to confront the guy sitting right behind me. In a very aggressive voice he said "GET UP". The guy he was speaking to responded with "Why do you gotta be so mean to me?!" and then the security guy told him again and again "GET UP" and then the other guy starts yelling "I NEED WITNESSES...THIS AINT RIGHT...THIS AINT FAIR". Then as he stands up he held onto my chair as the security guard pulled him away and handcuffed him! It was so scary!! I thought he was going to start a fight! Thank goodness we didn't die haha. Louisiana has some crazy people...

Hope y'all have a fantastic week :)

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