This week has flown by! Time just seems to go by faster and faster every transfer. This week is board week for President S., and it’s the time that transfers are decided. I’m kind of nervous. We heard that there are two new spanish sisters coming in, and only one is going home, which means that because our number is already uneven, there will have to be another area opened somewhere for spanish sisters. So someone will be whitewashing into an area. :{ Who knows what is going to happen next transfer. I think that I am getting transferred though. 🙁

Anyway, just a couple things that happened this week.

Monday: I took my cans that I have collected to a totally sketch recycling place, and got $3.50. Pretty great right? Ha ha. It was not worth my time, but now I know not to go back to that place. And I was $3.50 richer. Sweet! We also ate dinner with a less active family. They asked us to sing a specific hymn for the “spiritual thought”, and when we started singing, the hermana just started crying. She was so touched because that is one of her favorite hymns. I love that hymns can bring the spririt so freely, most the time even more than words.

Wednesday: We had a great lesson with A. She is the one that her “husband” and her are getting married on the 5th of May. We didn’t end up teaching him, just her. She has been taking the lessons for about a year, so she basically knows all the doctrine that we teach to people in the main lessons we teach. So we just let her ask us questions. She is so amazing. She would ask us something, and then just listen and soak it up like a sponge. She’s just awesome! She wants to get baptized so bad, and the only reason she hasn’t before now is because she isn’t married, but she soon will be. 🙂 We are excited for this Saturday. 😀

Thursday: I turned 1 year old in Texas!! 1 year ago on this day, I was talking to you from the airport, and then I was on an airplane flying into the great state of Texas. Wow! It has gone by quick. Also…drum roll…we FINALLY found J.! Woo!! He told us that the reason he was avoiding us was because all of these problems he was having, and he didn’t want us to get involved with it. But we talked to him outside of his apartment, and he told us he still wants to learn, and we asked him if we could come by later in the evening to visit him. He said yes, so we stopped by later and taught him. He’s still not exactly 100% back, but we’re going to work on him.

Friday: We had a specialized training meeting with President S. Everyone in the mission that has 6 months or less left was invited to go, so I saw a lot of other cool people who I have served with in the past, but haven’t seen for a while. It was so good. We had Elder Roberts of the Seventy there and he taught us about a lot of cool stuff, and President S. shared a very personal story with us. As he was sharing it, he started to tear up. It was so crazy, because if you know President S. at all, you know that he doesn’t cry. He also told us we are the “cream of the crop”, and that we are here to be examples to the younger missionaries. They see us as the older, more experienced missionaries, so we need to show them how things are supposed to be done. It’s weird being here, when I feel like just yesterday, I was the greenie, and everyone else was showing me how to do things.

Sunday: We had stake conference, and J. and A. came. It was a good stake conference. They talked a lot about trusting in the Lord, and dealing with trials. That seems to be a pretty common subject in recent times. I guess people everywhere are going through tough times.

Mom: I’m glad you went to visit Reese’s. I was thinking about them, and praying for them since you wrote me. I cannot even imagine how difficult it must be to lose a child. We met a brother the other day, and he lost his daughter two years ago. She had down syndrome, and she also them got leukemia. After she went through radiation and the cancer was gone, she went home. About a week later she got an infection. Because her defenses were down, she ended up dying from the infection. It was sad. He started crying when he talked about her still. The problem that he has had is that he has pulled away from God, and the gospel. Something that I have been learning lately is that we need to hold onto the Lord when hard times come. Otherwise, it is us against the world, instead of us and the Lord against the world. Everything is easier if you have the Lord to comfort you and bring you peace in times of trouble.

That is also cool you went to women’s conference. Was there any good talks that I should know about, or that I should read later? 🙂

Dad: I’m glad you have been getting some appointments in. How does that work? Do you just go by and talk to them? That’s cool you have been visiting with Mike and Jamie. How are their kids doing? Is Jessica enjoying married life? Ha ha. That is really weird, I’m not gonna lie. Ha ha. Anyway, that’s awesome that you were playing hand and foot. Sometimes of p-day we play card games. Usually we play like scum though, because there are a lot of us. Anyway, I gotta go now.

Emmy: Hey seest! (note to self: do not shorten seester! 😉 ha ha ha) Wow! You are doing awesome! That is so cool that you are doing such great things with your life. Have you decided to go to more college, or are you just going to work after you graduate from high school? What is is exactly that you want to do for work? You are such a nerd taking Harry Potter to people’s doors. It’s funny that you told me about that because, Sister V. was just asking about random things that we have done. I told her about the time you and I went to Costco to get Riley, and we had a dance party in the parking lot. That was the most random thing I have done that I could think of at the time. Ha ha. Good times! 🙂

Well, anyways, I am out of time. I love you all a lot!!!! Be good. See you soon. 🙂

Love, Kelsey

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