Transfer week

So this week was transfers!

Im staying in Mesa Linda Ward...but I will be training!

I'm really excited, but im also pretty nervous about it. Its a lot of pressure to have to help a new missionary adjust to everything and help them learnt he ropes a little. But I think it will be a great experience to grow as a missionary, and I think itll be fun too!

Also they opened 4 new areas in our mission. They're slowing helping our mission grow :)  And they added 2 more companion ships into our zone this transfer! So instead of being in a zone with 10 elders and no sisters I'm in a zone with 14 elders and no sisters haha. Its fun though and I like it.

 

Anyways! This week was great! It was kind of slow because we had a lot of packing and cleaning to do before sister Cobabe left for transfers (I'm with a temporary companion, her name is sister Higbe!) BUt still a some exciting stuff happened!

 

First off with Sean, things are moving kind of slow... he said he really wants to be baptized, just not now. so we aren't sure how to work with that. But we are doing our best. We know that if he chooses to be baptized he'll be way happier, but we cant force him to, so we just have to show him even more this week what he is missing out on.

 

SO this was probably the best part of the week...

We went to our investigator Susan's house for a lesson this week, and she answered the door and said she had completely forgot but was super glad we were there. She Then told us how she had been read LDS.org like crazy this past week and had read President Monson's Christmas talk...she then began to tell us how when the Elders had tracted into her, it was a miracle for various different reasons, and then she said to us something along the lines of "you know...Because of the presidents speech I read.....Im this close to being Mormon" and held her fingers about an inch apart! we were so excited! she then brought up some concerns she had with baptism which e resolved all that night (just things like how many people have to be at the baptism, if it could be a private thing, ect.) and when we went to set a date with on  January 17th she said no because she might want to be baptized earlier than that!! how awesome! I then left Alma 32 with her to read that night and the next night she left us a voicemail that said " Sisters you don't have to call me back, but I just wanted to tell you, you know how I said I was almost there? well I read alma...and im there...Im a Mormon...Goodbye" I was handsdown the best phone call we could have gotten! she is awesome! and on Sunday she was telling everyone about how she was getting baptized! so cool!

 

Besides that, We had an awesome Christmas devotional for all the missionaries in the desert part of the mission and it was so fun! we got to sings songs and hear about missionaries from other countries celebrate Christmas in different ways. it was really fun! Oh also they had all the zones perform a Christmas song, and our zone wanted to sing Angels we have heard on high. So it seemed like a good idea...Until I realized how untalented our zone is at singing. And the fact that we would be singing right after the zone who has an elder graduated in musical theater and is a VERY good singer...Lets just say that everyone had a good time listening to us. By half way through the song. everyone, including us were dying laughing at how horrible it sounded. I loved it!

They also gave us small gift with some hats in the them since the desert is so cold and no one packed for that. It was really sweet. They also had letters from all of our parents in the bags. It was really nice :)

 

Anyways that was about it!

Love and miss you all so much!

Sister Redd