I'm getting transferred??

Just kidding. I'm staying in Plainview YSA for my final transfer! Woo!

But it's that time yet again -- transfers! We find out tomorrow who my

new companion will be & Sis M leaves Wednesday :'( SO sad to say

goodbye to her! But, we will be forever friends! Yay for mission

blessings of all sorts. Anyway, it's been a crazy week, getting things

ready for her to go home & her departing temple trip, etc.

On Tuesday, I had an exchange with my dear Sister Acosta because her

comp is also going home so her comp and mine went to the temple trip

together. It was so fun to be with Sister Acosta in her new area and

to see how much she has spiritually grown in the past YEAR since I

trained her (Sidenote: I can't believe it's been a year. What the

heck?). But, she is an amazing missionary and I"m so excited for her

because she is going to be training! Woo! In mission terms, I will

have a "grandchild." :) We taught a few lessons together and enjoyed

the chance to work together for a day.

We had a lesson planned Wednesday with a less active. We had invited a

guy who was in town for a week to be the member present. Well, God had

a different plan and as it turned out, we were supposed to teach the

guy we invited to teach with us. So, the less active couldn't show up

to the church until later, so we thought ..."Ok, let's just teach T

instead." And then a member from the YSA branch who was coming to

volleyball just walked into the room, sat down, and started teaching

with us .. it was a miracle! Super cool. T started crying during the

lesson as we talked about repentance and forgiveness. Man, I just felt

super strongly during that lesson that God loved him and wanted him to

receive forgiveness and move on with his life and not hang on the past

mistakes. That's what he wants for each one of us -- receive that

immediate forgiveness, and forgive ourselves, and let the healing

power of the Atonement help us. It was such a strong lesson. And it

was cool because T flew back to Utah that night so it all worked out

perfectly that we had the prompting to ask him to come with us. God

works in a lot of ways to bring about his purposes, right?

We also had a lesson with Kevin again, who we haven't been able to see

for a few weeks because of his crazy work schedule. He is our

investigator who told us he was going to a different church that is

closer to his house ... and has a rock band. But, we read 3 Nephi 27

with him and he stopped us and said, "Wait, so if it's in the name of

Moses, it's Moses' church? So if it's in the name of man, it's his

church?" And we were able to teach why it's important that it's the

Church of Jesus Christ and that it is built on HIS gospel. Kevin is

awesome.

It's been a crazy week -- I can hardly believe a new transfer starts

today. Tonight we have a talent show for FHE and Sis Montgomery and I

arranged a primary song to sing (it's on FB) which should be a lot of

fun. I just want you all to know that I know this church is true. I am

definitely seeing the blessings of being on a mission -- it is hard,

but it is so worth it. My testimony has gotten so much stronger and I

am grateful to share it with others.

I love you!

As always, some photos from the week!

I am not sure if the captions ever work so  I will put them all here

so you can read them for sure!

1. New York is known for bagels so we decided to go try it out for

ourselves at a local bagel place. I had a french toast bagel with

cinnamon raisin cream cheese. DELICIOUS! :)

2. A girl in the YSA is getting married so Sister Owens asked us to

help decorate cupcakes for her bridal shower... as you can imagine, I

was so down! I had a lot of fun frosting them and writing the labels.

3 & 4. The last two are with Zach ,our amazing branch mission leader.

He helps us out so much! Sis M and I bought matching shirts last week.

It's been funny to see the reactions.