10/28/13: I Love GB2!!

This was like the longest week on my mission, but it still passed super fast. It felt long because technically it's the 6th week of the transfer and normally we would be transferring, but instead it's next week. We also didn't even find out who is coming into the mission until today, and the waiting to know everything has just been killing me!! We also only had one exchange.

The sisters coming out has slowed down a lot :(

If I had been transferred out after my first transfer here I would have been perfectly content. I liked the area, and there were certain people I would have missed, but I would have been happy to see someplace else.

And that's how most of this transfer has been too! But just this week with everything that has been happening I've realized that I don't want to leave!!! We have SO much going on in this area, it's insane. We determined that we don't do enough finding--but we NEVER do finding here, because we have so much to do! It's great, but we decided we would do more finding anyway. Then we went to church and met Gabriella, who isn't a member, who was like "I know I'll be a member someday. I've just kind of procrastinated it. But I want to be."

Apparently the Lord just really doesn't want us doing finding here. THINGS LIKE THAT JUST KEEP HAPPENING TO US. We feel like we aren't even trying! And now we have so much potential and so many baptisms coming up, I just don't even know what I would do if I left. I really do love all of our amazing people here. They are incredible :)

ChyAnne is getting baptized this week. Then Mia and Nick should be getting baptized on the 16th. Kim, Madison, and Chad are on the 30th. Then we have Quentin and Tina (and Fuchi) who all need to get baptized. And we have some awesome potentials like Gabriella and Sister Dresang that we haven't even started working with yet. I just don't even know why we are so blessed.

That pretty much covers our whole week. Meeting with awesome investigators and awesome less actives and playing volleyball. Always volleyball. So much volleyball.

Then yesterday we ate dinner with an active family and the husband--who just thinks way more than any human being should possibly think--dived into a discussion on faith and power, which developed into thoughts and feelings, which developed right on into priesthood and then godhood and then who knows what. All based on physical health. The man is crazy. But totally awesome. It was actually kinda cool because all the conclusions he had come to were all the same conclusions I have come to, just with way more evidence and way better eloquence, haha :)

Lesson of the day: learn all you can. think critically. search out answers. we hardly even comprehend all that we could have and do if we tried. there is SO much out there to learn :)

Sister Neal