Week 19-
Monday- what a crazy day getting everything packed!!! We met with Ricardo and Angi at 10am at the church and helped them find baptismal jumpsuits. Ricardo's was a tad bit small ha but it still worked! When Angie came out in hers she started showing off and telling us how good she looked. We all started laughing so hard.
Tuesday- Tuesday was the craziest day of my entire life. We were running around making sure everything was set for the baptism and we saw Ida who had just gotten out of the hospital from a stroke. We had root beer floats with her a chatted with her for a couple minutes before we went up to see bishop in his home before the baptism. We is starting to put weight on his foot again so that is good! Then we booked it down to the Thornton's home for dinner and Trevor told us he had two investigators for us. Hey are both his friends and they both are interested in the church. I was so happy for him and so pumped for sister staker! Then we headed to the baptism. The entire baptism had such a sweet spirit to it. Both Ricardo and Angie looked so happy!
Words cannot even describe how happy I was for the two of them and how humbled I was to witness this incredible step for the two of them. We made it a small goodbye party as well and a lot of the ward members came to support Ricardo and Angie and say bye to me. It was sad and I am going to miss all my friends so so much. That night we went to sherry's with Jan, Kim and Joni for the last time. It took me back to two transfers ago when we were sitting in the same corner table and I was freaking out because sister Okerlund was leaving and I was training. So much has happened since then and I have grown so much!
Wednesday came way too fast. The Morning was quiet and chaotic all at the same time. As we put my stuff in the car and drove to the stake center all I could think about was how everything I knew for the past four months is going to change now and I am not going to know anything anymore (pretty much dramatic, but you know what I mean. New area. New people. New changes). I said goodby to sister staker and it was weird thinking I wouldn't see her everyday anymore. I hope we get back together soon! We had a world wide transfer meeting put on by some of the 12 apostles and other members of our church. It was an amazing training focused on repentance and conversion. We are getting a new mission president while president Taylor recovers for a couple months.
It will be weird not seeing president Taylor but I am so blessed that we have such an organized church run by the priesthood and we have so many faithful servants of the lord that will step up when they are called and just get to work. The new president and his wife should be arriving this Friday. My new companion is Sister Tualua! She is from Hawaii and she is the bomb! we moved out of where she was staying in a members home and went to a new members home. It was a lot of work and we traveled back a forth a couple times to clean and get everything set up. We are staying with a cute family who just got back from a mission in Navhoo. It is going to be a new adventure living with members because I haven't since I have been out here, but sister Tualua has her entire mission so she will teach me the ways. We have a smaller area then Powell butte. It's called hazedell but I am so excited to get to work.
Thursday was a loooong day because sister Tualua and I were so tired haha. We haven't even really unpacked yet but we still worked hard.
It's hard to tell you about the people we met because I don't know them or can remember their names..it is very different here and I am going to have to get adapted to it. The ward and how we do missionary work it not like how we did it in Gresham. I am excited to take a lot away from this new experiment though! We trackted a lot and saw some less active people. A lot of them love in old folk homes so that is new! We did meet a sweet lady named Ruth who was just the cutest thing. She painted for a living and so she and I had a wonderful conversation about her history. Friday and Saturday unfortunately were a little slow because sister Tualua and I got some sort of stomach bug. we really aren't too sure of what it was or how we got it...we tried so hard to go out both Friday and Saturday, but we epically failed and ended up right back at home. We planned when we weren't sleeping and one of us would study while the other was sick. It was not a fun couple of days, but it was fun to get to know my companion better and let's just say this whole experience has brought us closer haha. We finally we're feeling better for church on Sunday. They are splitting up the areas around us and are forming a new stake so church was a tad bit different. We met at the local college gym and had over
3,000 people attending from two stakes. We had three 70 come and talk to us and we got to meet a new mission president named president Ferrin. He said he has some family in holliday, UT (a brother maybe) can't really remember where he lives but maybe you know him mom or dad? Anyways, He is taking over the duties of president Taylor while he recovers from his surgery. He is an awesome man along with his wife and they remind me of president Taylor so that's fun! This week has had a lot of fun changes and I am so grateful for all the experiences and all the opportunities to grow and learn! I hope you all have a wonderful week!(:
Ricardo and Angie's baptism!!! Goodbye Powell butte and Gresham.....
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