So even though I was
super sad to leave Waunakee, Sister Smith and I left it CRAZY BUSY. She
and her trainee are going to have SO MUCH to do there!
News: my convert, Jaime,
is ENGAGED!!! To a guy from the Racine ward. They met at institute. How
cool is she? I'm SOOOOO happy :)
Our last few days in
Waunakee together we met some AMAZING people. But I'm not there anymore
so I won't go into them but when they get baptized I'll let you know!!
Haha.
Wednesday (transfer day)
was crazy! I went to Milwaukee and sat around for a few hours, then to
Osh Kosh (where they're putting SISTERS, yeah!) then to Green Bay 2 with
Sister Erickson. She is going home at the end of this transfer! What?
That means I'll most likely be spending the rest of forever (meaning the
Winter) in Green Bay. But I'll stop putting guesses on such things
because clearly I'm horrible at it!!
We started talking about
the sister missionaries that we are working with (there are 8 sets of
them) and it made me SO HAPPY! Now it's Monday and I've been here for
almost a week and I still feel like I'm on some sort of strange extended
exchange because the ward doesn't quite feel like home yet and
the investigators don't quite feel like mine, but these girls sure do! I
love them all so much! Some of them are struggling, and I really feel
like I can help! I'm hoping I'll adapt to the ward/investigators soon.
This is my first time...not...opening an area, and it's way different!
Strangely, the transition is actually harder!
We haven't actually spent
hardly any time with members or investigators, which is probably why it
doesn't really feel homey yet. We spent most of the past week planning
exchanges. And on Saturday, we had a BAPTISM! Two little Hmong girls who
are the sweetest ever :)
Also, you didn't hear it from me, but prepare to hear about a Green Bay Temple at Conference. It's happening. SOOO EXCITED!!!!!
Sister Erickson
is already doing her own designs for it. She's really into architecture
and stuff. We're making a finger-painting of it to put on our wall. It's
going to be fantastic :P
Church was super good! We
had tons of less actives there. Our ward is SUPER huge. Like,
the chapel is pretty much full when the active people all come, but if
all the inactive people were to start showing up, our ward would be
split into three wards. SO MUCH INACTIVITY. So that's how we find out
investigators :) It works pretty good!
In our ward we have
English elders and sisters, and Hmong elders. There's Hmong people here.
You know what that means. Well you don't, but I do.
It means I'm going to have to eat squirrel.
NEW ADVENTURES! I'll let you know how it goes when it happens. I hear...mixed reviews.
In more missionary-minded
news, THE ATONEMENT. It's so fantastic. We're focusing on it with our
sisters this transfer and I'm really excited! I LOVE THE ATONEMENT. The
BoM is where we learn like...everything...about it. So it's also our
focus this transfer. This is my first time with an experienced
missionary who isn't my trainer, and I was so ready for it! Sister
Erickson has so many different ideas and cool lesson plans and I'm
learning a ton from her :)
Party in green bay!
Lambeau field is right smack in my area. Muahaha. maybe I'll go convert
some Packers :) I'm just worried the fans will kill us...
All for the Lord's work!
Love, Sister Neal :)
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