Jan 20, 2014

Dear Family,
The transfer is almost over! we have had so much success in this area.
we have a lot of people that we are teaching we are trying really hard
to get them to progress but with some of them if feel like we are just
hitting our heads against a brick wall who knows if we hit it hard
enough it will come down! this week has been so great. every Saturday
our zone does a consecrated finding hour. and this week we did a hot
chocolate stand and we got tons of people to talk to us, we set up
some appointments and got some phone numbers. but we didnt find a new
investigators and that was the goal for this activity, well after this
activity our sister training leaders text  us and challenge us to find
a new investigator so even though we failed at finding one new this go
around we were determined to find one by the end of the day. turns out
now one wanted to hear from us.. as we were walking in our door we had
a thought to text a couple that we had taught a few days ago, if we
could set up an appointment with them then we would have our new
investigator, not only one but two. so we texted, no reply and we are
running on the last few minutes here.. so we say our prayer for
planning . end planning and say our goodnight prayer and ask for
heavenly fathers help, for these people to reply if that was his
intention  as we said amen we looked down at the phone waited a second
and as soon as we were about to walk away disappointed the phone
buzzed.the moral of the story is that we can't do anything on our own.
This week has taught me that. Everything must be done through the
lord. it is his timing and prayer really does work, whether it is
immediately or days later! this week we had the opportunity to
instruct other missionaries i was so scared, because how am i suppose
to teach missionaries who have been out longer than me, but as i
relied on the spirit in our preparation we were able to prepare an
instruction that was exactly what our zone needed. it was incredible
to feel that i didnt need to fear for loss of words because i wasnt
teaching the spirit was. it was a great week! a little nervous for
transfer s i think i will be staying here though, but i may get a new
companion because sister cross has been here for 4.5months. ITs so
good to hear that grandpa is doing better!! love you all so much.
sorry this week is short ill try to write more next week. LOVe sister
HAdley