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Whistling like Snow White by Sister Hale
Transfers went well. I really miss Sister Hale... she is my
sister! BUT I also really love Sister
Fife! It is different, but it's also really
good for me. I have definitely been
pushed out of my comfort zone this week as I have had to show Sister Fife the
ropes of YSA. I'm not used to not having
Sister Hale to answer my questions! But
Sister Hale was a very very good trainer!
I love yeeeee Sister Hale!!!!!
(she is going to be reading this)
Tuesday was P-day and also my
six month mark! Can you believe I have
been gone six months? I can't! We had lunch at a really good island
restaurant called Bahama Breeze. Haha,
we had a good laugh when we went to the restroom and saw that they have
mouthwash for their customers. It was
fun! Then we drove around until we found
Sweet Frogs Frozen yogurt. Frogs stands
for "Fully Rely On God." That
was as yummy as ever! I LOVE frozen yogurt!
That evening we got to take a
new sister out for a few hours of Prime Pross (The evening is the best time to
find people because families are home so we call it prime proselyting). Her name is Sister Stitt and she is from...
Washington? I think. Anyway she is really great! She is literally like a combination of me and
Sister Hale so it was perfect! We had a
lesson set up, but it fell through-welcome to missionary life Sister
Stitt! And so we went to Jax Beach and
talked to people there.
Wednesday afternoon we drove
to Mandarin to get our new companions.
The six Elders going home bore their testimonies. Elder Lundburg from Logan was one of
them. He was our district leader last
transfer. We got Sister Hale's bags
loaded up in their truck and somewhere in the process an Elder thought our car was his new one and he put his bike
on our bike rack. We came back to find a
green bike on our rack and no missionaries around. Haha, we laughed about riding it around until
someone came to claim it. He finally
realized his mistake and got it.
Also! I met Kyle's (my brother in
law) cousin!!!! Elder Rockwood!!!! He was standing next to our car and he asked
if I had any sisters. I told him I did
and he said one is married to his cousin!
I love connections we find on missions!
There were three sisters from
temple square going back to Utah and their flight was delayed so Sister Siegle
got to come with us for the rest of the day.
She is from Brazil. She is so
sweet and has a powerful testimony! She
got phone numbers while we were tracting so she can call them from Salt
Lake. We got Sister Fife moved in. She was living in the same apartment complex
just two buildings over so it was a pretty easy move.
This week my iPad decided that
I was not authorized to use the missionary planner app. So I felt super disorganized until Sister
Rhoads was able to fix it Monday morning.
Then when I got on lds.org to look up the Jax East stake roster all I
could see was the North Logan Green Canyon!
I was completely kicked out of the area!
We joked that I had been released early and no one told me. AND when Sister Fife and I got together I
turned on my GPS and all of the people had been deleted! So there we were covering half of the
geographically largest city in the country without people in our GPS. Needless to say we had to take some
organization time to put people back in the GPS. I often find myself wondering why technology
hates me so much. I think it's a
curse. Well technology is just going to
have to learn to live with me because I am using it to preach the gospel!
Thursday and Friday... oh and
Saturday were pretty slow. We visited
some less active members, tracted apartments, and went through various ward
rosters to find YSA's we don't know about.
Sundays must be my
favorite! We started out with Branch
Council before church. It was fun to
introduce everyone to Sister Fife. Only
one person couldn't pronounce her name!
(She normally gets called Sister Fee-fee a lot.. haha)
After church there was a
linger longer and then Phillip was baptized!
The Elders have been teaching him and he was planning on being baptized
mid-summer. Then this week the spirit
prompted him to move his baptism up! You
know how everyone thought a recent convert was a member before she really was?
Phillip is just like that. I first met
him at Caitlin's baptism and I had no idea he was not a member. He is in the Navy, and he came to church
after meeting Sierra (a member in the YSA who is home from her mission on
medical leave for a few months) on a LDS dating website. Only in the YSA would you find investigators on
a dating website. Haha!!! Sister Fife and I joked about telling
President Craig we need to get accounts on LDS Singles. :)
We also got a new
gator!!! Sam brought his new girlfriend
to church and she is not a member! She
is so nice and we are excited to start teaching her this week!
I hope ya'll have the best
week! I love all ya'll!!!
Sister Murray
