Hola familia!
So results are in for transfers again and.......I'm staying here again! surprise. The Branch President has been joking a bit about how they'll probably just go ahead and give me a calling in the branch soon. I'm also with Hermana Frandsen still which we're happy about. Elder Faamu who had been in my district the same amount of time as me is leaving though so I will have been in the area way longer than everyone else (maybe even in the whole zone). Another exciting but mostly weird thing is that today marks my 9 month mark exactly. As in halfway through my mission. Weird sauce. President Doll sent out departure dates a few weeks ago. Mine is March 29. As for my favorite scripture...thats a hard one but the one that comes to my mind first is probably the "by small and simple means shall great things come to pass" one which I think is in Alma 37: 6-7 ish. If one of the other missionaries out from the ward though chose that let me know and I'll pick something else.
Last wednesday we were planning on going into Chicago again but then found out that they changed the rules and now we're considered too far away. President says we'll have to wait until we're serving closer to the city. But we had fun anyways. We pumped up the tires on the old bikes in our apartment and went a little ways on the fox river trail (which is really close to where we live). It was fun, but we were extremely saddle sore the next day. Also the very next day my allergies decided to magnify 5 bajillion times. I'm not sure what changed, but something did. So this week I was pretty sore, dying of allergies, and hot and sticky from the humid, 90-100 degree weather. Also I'm starting to get a nice farmer's tan. haha. It was a good week though. We've just recently started trying some new ideas with the members to try to get them more excited about missionary work. We're trying to have every family in the ward have a Preach My Gospel so we can teaching a little bit from it every time we go over. Also we're doing role plays with them to help resolve their fears about sharing the Gospel. So far it's been getting a pretty good reaction. Presidente Urrutia loves the idea. We're hope that it works! On sunday we had a special stake conference where one of the seventy came to speak (Elder Lynn G Robbins I think). It was pretty good. He talked about the importance of Temples and always being ready and worthy to enter. He said "If we can't get into the Lord's house on earth here how do we expect to get into his kingdom afterwards?". He also talked about the parable of the 10 virgins and how its not really that they were 5 good and 5 bad people but that they were all good people, 5 were just prepared when the bridegroom came and the other 5 weren't.
Last week we stopped by an old investigator named Abigail to see if she'd be interested again. It was lucky that we found her there because they'd just recently moved a few miles away. She was back at her old place to clean it up some more. She seemed a little bit weirded out that we came and didn't really appear to be interested but agreed to let us come back to help her sweep inside and outside (no one ever lets us help so we were excited!). So we went back a few days later and helped her clean a bit. Afterwards she was way more friendly and open towards us. She even invited us to go to her nieces graduation party. Even after we told her that we don't drink or anything she joked; "yeah come - drink a little, dance a little, and maybe even find some cute Mexicans". Hermana Frandsen protested and said "but I have someone already" to which Abigain responded "but maybe thats not your true love". haha. She also said we could come back and share a message with her, which was the cool part. We've been really thinking a lot about service since then and how it can really be the key to the door a lot of times. Just like Ammon (probably one of the best missionaries ever) and how his service eventually brought the gospel to many.
Well I hope that everything continues to go fantastically back home, hope you have a great week!
Love,
Hermana West
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