New Transfer, New Me

 Sent Sister Bertola home and picked up Sister Bruce on Friday! It's hard sending a companion home but it helps to tell myself that they are just being transferred to a new area... even if that new area is Disneyland. I'm stoked to be leading out this area and for Sister Bruce to be my companion! On our almost 3 hour drive back home from Columbia, we were talking about what we love about our missions. We talked about how a mission is a wonderful time to become! I love this word so much and sister bruce defined it perfectly: it's a word that captures a goal in a way to begin with the end in mind and understanding that it will be a process. That is what I am going to focus on this transfer. I know I can become patient, humble, kind, and charitable through Christ's Atonement. 

This week was also full of miracles! Brother and Sister Crapse took us to Miyabi, a hibachi restaurant! It was my first time going to a place where they cook the food right in front of you! It was sooo fancy and the food was delicious! There was another family sitting at our table that we started talking to. They noticed our name tags and asked what that was about. We shared with them what we do and how missions work and they were so sweet! Turns out they even had a lot in common with the Crapse! They knew a lot of the same people because they went to high school together! We all made great friends with them and they said God put us in each other's paths!

Sister Bruce and I were talking about how amazing it would be to have more service opportunities and it would be fun to be able to do a game night with a part member family. The very next day we stopped by a less active / part member family and she said that shed love for us to help her weed her yard and then she pulled out a board game and asked if we had ever played that game. When we said no she said we'll have to come over to play it some time! God answers prayers!!! 

On Sister Bruce's first day in the area, we joined the ward in cleaning out someone's house. She was a hoarder and breeds dogs... So that was fun. We were in charge of the laundry room. Our task was to fold up the doggy beds and and blankets and put them in a box. We worked on that for an hour but we finished! The owner of the house came to check on us and informed us that those "doggy beds" were actually their pee pads... and they still needed to be washed. So as we were fathoming what we had just folded, she began pulling them out of the box and putting them back on the floor.🤦‍♀️ When she looked behind the washer she said "OH! I found my cat! What are you doing back there cat?"  my reaction was: "There's a CAT back there?!? Is it alive??" poor thing has been back there for who knows how long!

Please pray for

juliana

allison

chelsey

Pictures

Cleaning 

Bishop made a makeshift railing and the house we cleaned up

Goodbye Sister Bertola 🛩

Me and sister Bruce 

Miyabi restaurant!