4/8/13: My Second Transfer!

It's POURING outside. It's warmer than it's been though, which I'm so grateful for! I'm ready for spring.

I'm so stunned by the members here. They work SO hard, ALL the time. My personal insight that you shouldn't take as gospel: members in Utah are hard-core on the letter of the law, but it's really easy to forget the spirit of the law there. That wasn't something I didn't really like when I moved to Utah. In wisconsin, however, you will find members who swear, have tattoos, drink coffee, smoke. They aren't that great with the letter of the law, but MAN do they live the spirit of it! I almost want to cry as I consider how much these wonderful people sacrifice to make the work go forward. Service, service, service!!!

Jaime and Alex are still planning on getting baptized this week. Hopefully their interviews will be today. I love them so much. They really are ready for baptism :) the little things will come with time.

We did get one investigator to General Conference--Rheeda. Unfortunately, we found out that curiosity got the best of Michelle, and she's neck-deep in anti-stuff on the internet. No wonder she hasn't been talking to us. We're going over on Wednesday and hopefully she will be there so we can address her questions. At the moment, her hang-up is that the apostles are dead and no man can call himself as a prophet. So...that should be easy. I'm not super worried about her at this point. She's a smart girl. But it has been stressful.

Rheeda loved conference, though! Hopefully she can provide a strong backbone when we talk to Michelle and Erica.

We've gotten a lot of new potential investigators this week, and I'm super excited to see what comes of them. They're awesome!

We also had interviews with President on Thursday, the day after transfers. Those were fun. I might tell you a little more about them later :)

Elder Stanley was the only person in our district who got moved. Everyone else is either training, or the Assistants. But at the same time we got another set of elders, so there would have been seven sets of missionaries in our district, but our district split. Now it's West Allis Elders and Sisters with the Meskego Lake Elders. We're so small :/

We met with a referral that should be fantastic. I lvoe when members get involved in the missionary work! It's SO much more effective!

Conference. Was. Fantastic. Congratulations Cedar City! (And Rio)

My favorite talked: Monsons, Hollands, Christoffersens, Bednars, and Cardons. Then everyone else was also amazing, but those are the ones I have to pick as my favorites :) And there was a pretty cool focus on member missionary work, which I'm grateful for. Each and every individual in the church is SO important. Any little thing any of us does to reach out to another person counts :)

The work is hastening forward! I love it!!

Sister Neal