First off, some exciting non-missionary related news: I got accepted into the BYU graduate school! No word on the other schools yet. Ok now on to more important things. I know this is going to be an awesome transfer! Hermana Stuart is my new companion and she's from Bountiful. She has brought so much faith to this area and it's really helping me to find more motivation as well! We're working hard to see miracles here. This week we were able to find 3 new investigators which was great. All of them by knocking doors. One of them was this couple with 6 kids. They told us they thought it was so amazing that we came to their door. "why our door?", they asked. We told them that we pray all the time to be guided to the people who need our message. They seem pretty legit except for one thing that was a little bit weird. When I asked them if we could come back a different day they asked if they could ask their spiritual guide first...basically they trust this guide on all spiritual matters. I testified about the importance of asking God directly versus any other person...but I don't know if it really clicked for them. So we'll see what happens when we go back. We're hoping to be able to keep teaching them and helping them to feel the spirit.
Our investigators with a baptismal date didn't come to church because they wanted to go car shopping. That was a sad moment. Especially because we had a really good and bold lesson with them two days earlier. They were starting to get doubts but we promised them that if they read, prayed, and came to church they would see miracles in their lives. They said they would but for some reason will never give us a for sure answer about church. We think they're shy about coming. I hope we don't lose them because they wont come to church.
Saturday was a really interesting day. The first part of the day we went back to Hna Stuart's old area to go to a baptism (President Doll let missionaries go back if it's within the first week of being transferred). That ended up taking a really long time. When we got back to our area we headed over to the ward activity for a bit. The Branch President was teaching how to make homemade bread (sooo good!). Since bread making is not exactly a quick process we decided to leave to do some missionary work and then come back later to help clean up and stuff. While we were out we went to stop by Rosa (the one we ran into at McDonald's last week). As we were walking up she came out and told us that her 15 year old daughter was missing and asked if we could help translate for her at the Police Department. She was so worried. Before going in we offered a prayer with her. It turned out to be fine. She and a friend had taken the train to Chicago and weren't answering their phones (probably because they knew they were doing something they shouldn't). They ended up being able to contact her while we were at the Police Station and the officer really gave them a scare I think. Lesson learned hopefully. But I think Rosa was really grateful for our help that day. Hopefully we'll be able to keep visiting with them and her to better understand the importance of the gospel.
Love you and hope you have a great week!
Hermana West
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