January 21st 2009

What a great week! We finally are starting to have some great success. On Thursday we got to attend the institue class and they're studying the 2nd half of the New Testament! Good stuff! We are still working with Monica and Jairo and they attended all 3 blocks of church on Sunday and really enjoyed it. They are such a great family! Monica said the nicest thing to me the other day. She said that she absolutely LOVES hearing me talk because I have that voice that just draws people in. OK, it may not sound like that great of a thing, but it meant a lot to me because I really admire that about other people.
We found another family tracting and will be teaching them at 4 this afternoon. They have 2 kids and are looking for a church to attend. I gave him a pass along card earlier that day then ended up tracting into his wife later on. The Lord is amazing!
We are also teaching the new member lessons to Josh McConchie who was baptized during the school break. He's solid! He knows everything and has GREAT friends that support him. They all get together every night and have a study session! How great is that? I dont' even know why we're teaching him :) His friends got it covered! They were all their when we were teaching him on Saturday. It was a really fun lesson. We taught him about Eternal Marriage, Temples, and Family History! I love teaching!
The Demastus family is still tuggin along. Bro Demastus got a bad infection in his left long and had to go to the hospital. It was pretty scary. He's diabetic so he had a REALLY bad reaction. We had a lesson with them last night and he seems to be doing a little better. I care so much for them and it makes me so sad to see how inactive they are. I'm doing all that I can to help. I think us just showing them we love them and listen to what's bothering them really helps them out. We're working on strengthening their testimony's and forgivness. They are really great though! I love them!
Transfers are coming up next week! Tuesday night we'll be getting the call. I'm almost POSITIVE I'll be staying here in Harrisonburg. I actually think I'll be here a good chunk of my mission. People tend to stay here a long time. Sister Hopoate will get transfered I'm sure. She's been here for 6 months and is way too comfortable. Our mission President doesn't like his missinonaries to be comfortable. One of our Zone Leaders are going home so I think someone from New Port News will come up here with Elder Gubler or Gubler will be training another missionary to be a Zone Leader. Yorktown will stay the same and I think my district leader will stay here with his Greenie Elder McEntire. We'll see though. I'm usually wrong :)
Well, as far as studying goes, I absolutely love is still! I'm in Alma 10 and moving right a long through the BOM. I have a lot of goals I want to accomplish before I leave and I only have a year! I wanted to read all the standard works, do ALL the activities in PMG, read all of the Bible, memorize 3 scriptures for each of the principles in PMG, read all of the missionary library, baptize monthly, and always be myself. I hear that a lot of missionaries tend to forget who they really are. God has prepared us for the past 19-21 years for our missions. We need to rely on the person he made us to begin with and just improve. We had a district meeting yesterday and that was talked about a lot. The Lord called us to where we're are serving for a reason because our personalities are what the people need out here. I LOVE MY MISSION! It's going by so fast and I'm loving every second of it. The "hard times" just help us grow and develope into the people God wants and needs us to be. They Church IS TRUE! I love you all so much! Keep on helping to spread the gospel to everyone you come in contact with. They need it just as much as we do!
-Sister Fluffy
or
Sister Spark Plug
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Sister Orawiec
Whatever you prefer! I love this work!
p.s. Let me know if there's anything I can do for anyone!