Alright everyone...

Were getting down to the last little bit of my mission.

Sister Havens (current companion) Sister Cook and Sister Price (past comps.) all went home today. I also saw sister Cobabe (past comp) who goes home in 6 weeks and it was crazy to realize 1) that all my friends are ending their missions and 2) that I'm not far behind them!

Its crazy to think about...so i kind of avoid it haha, but its been so awesome to see the miracles that God is sending us :)

Oh also for the record. I will be staying in Phelan for the next transfer and training a new missionary :) Im nervous, but excited!

So the week started a little rough.. Sister Havens thought i'd be a good idea to promise God that she would stay focused her last week no matter what happened...So naturally all of our appointments fell though haha. But by Wednesday we were up and going again.

Friday was the BEST though. We had the opportunity to have a Zone Conference with Elder Golden who is a member of the 1st Quorum of the 70. I am slowly realizing that some of the people getting these don't know what that is (sorry it took me 15 months...) but basically he is someone who works directly under the Apostles.....and since being on my mission I've realize that i don't know what words are common vocabulary anymore....so Apostles are like Peter, James, and John from the bible. (also sometimes called Disciples) If that didn't clear it up i strongly recommend looking at LDS.ORG for a better definition.

ANYWAYS...He had like a 6 hour meeting where he just taught us and we were able to ask questions...and let me tell you...he was awesome!

I'll share a few thoughts that really stood out to me.

1) he is particularly fond of a phase Dad used to like when we were growing up...

 "you know what you do when you assume....you make and ass out of u and me" I thought this was pretty funny coming from a servant of the Lord, but he then talked about how we can never assume who will except the gospel or how people will react, if we do, not only do we hinder their progression, but we hinder our own.

2) When you are being obedient to the Lord, you can always trust the first impression you receive, the first one will be from the lord, and the second one will be from the adversary. I was able to really ponder this the following days, and realize how often i doubt myself, and the promptings i receive. So I've been working on my obedience and my trust in the spirit. And in the few times i have done this so far, amazing things have happened. We were able to have a great lesson about the importance of church attendance because i trusted in my first prompting to go see an investigator who had told us not to visit her for a while.

3) When we truly work our hardest, we will not need to say that we tried our best, because we will see success. This is God's work and it will succeed as long as will do what he has asked. I thought that was a super cool thought. and just made me want to work even harder then i am.

Basically it was just amazing to see how down to earth he is and see him talk about the gospel. the spirit was really strong.

Pretty much that was the highlights of the week.

I love hearing from you all!

i hope you all have a good week :)

thanks for always telling me the miracles you guys see in your days. I think its awesome to hear.

I love you,

Sister Becca Redd