Transfer News

This was a fun and busy week! We had zone council, exchanges, the temple trip, and transfers!!! 

First of all, transfer news! I am going to Toronto!! I am so excited I have wanted to serve there since I got here! I am going to be companions with Sister J. Sister M will be going to St. Catharines with Sister B and Sister C. :) They will have a party. I was telling Sister M last night that I am slightly envious of her. I love St. Catharines! Sister M does not have any word on her visa yet. Keep her in your prayers.

I got to go to the Temple! I love the Toronto temple. It is so beautiful. I am so lucky to have been able to go so many times on my mission. The mission has a temple trip every six months right before conference, and only people living within two hours get to go. President Clayton started allowing new missionaries to go to the temple after their first six weeks as a missionary, so I have been able to go with Sister B and Sister C. Heavenly Father is so kind. Temples allow us to make covenants with Heavenly Father, and when we keep our covenants we are blessed. Go to the temple everyone! GO! 

Exchanges were really fun. I was with Sister J again. :) We were able to find a new investigator for her area. His name is R. It was a really really cold and rainy day and we didn't have many appointments so we just went out and tracted. We knocked on his door and asked if we could teach him about the Restoration. He allowed us to come in and while we were standing in his doorstep we taught him the entire Restoration! It was wonderful. We asked him if he would be baptized and he said yes, but that he wanted to search the scriptures first. We gave him The Book of Mormon and invited him to read 2ND Nephi 31, and then to pray and ask Heavenly Father if it was true. He said he would and we set up another time to meet with him. All of this took place in about 15 minutes. It was incredible! I haven't been able to invite very many people to be baptized this last transfer so it felt so good to extend that invitation. I LOVE BAPTISM!! WOOO!! 

​This week one of our investigators wife had a baby girl. :) He always feels the spirit, so it was really good for him to have this baby. His wife is a member and really wants him to be baptized but won't make him. We went to visit them in the Hospital and I'll tell you what I was such an emotional wreck! The spirit was so strong in that little hospital room. As I was looking at their new baby girl I was just fighting back tears. It was such a beautiful moment. Babies are wonderful. :) M, the mom, was teasing me saying that I am going to have a million little mormon babies. She came to the conclusion that I will be the perfect mormon mom. I just laughed and thought about how wonderful my mom is. :) Thanks for having me mom! 

Zone Council is always fun! Sister D and I gave an instruction on planning. :) ​Planning easily has been one of my favorite parts of being a missionary. I think that it was the only thing that I actually felt like I could do so I have loved it ever since. I found a really cool scripture talking about revelation. It is in D&C 42:61. It is my ponderizing scripture for the week. 

Well everyone, it's been real. But, we have to go and baptize people. :) Everyone check out christmas.mormon.org, and find out how you can share #aSaviorIsBorn this year. :) You will hear a lot about that  this next month! YAY! Christmas! :) 🎄🎄🎄