May 14, 2012

Well Hello again!! It was soooo great to talk to my family yesterday! It was definetly a highlight of my week! I feel like I talked to you about everything that has been going on so we'll see what else I can scrape up... ;)

 Mom, Sister Chamberlain felt really bad after I got off skype cause she wanted to come in and tell y'all how grateful she was for the basket! It really meant a lot to her. We got to celebrate Mothers day dinner with their family and they took good care of us. Maybe after my mission we can come back here and visit them! They are a great family. :)

Oh also! Those family home evening packets would be great! I think that would help little children here a lot. I really love teaching kids! I'm grateful I had the opportunity to teach in primary before my mission cause it really prepared me for the kids here. I feel bad sometimes when the kids have to sit through lessons that are boring cause then they think that is what church is going to be like, but we make things fun for them and play games that go along with the topics we are teaching. Like the other day we were teaching the holy ghost so we blindfolded the kids and had them try to find their way around by themselves and then we had them get the "holy ghost"--a guide-- to help them find where they were going. Another time we were teaching obedience and we played mother may I? It's really fun! :)

Sorry I was so emotional on skype! Man that was the most I've cried in a while, but I think it was just all the emotions of being so excited, nervous, and everything. Hopefully I'll be better at Christmas. ;)

Well... we got transfer calls today and It is official. I really am getting transferred! I still don't know where yet, but I've been packing all this morning. It's not a good sign when I have 2 extra boxes of stuff I've collected in only 3 months... I'm going to have to ship some stuff home.

I've been trying to run around and say goodbye to all my friends here in South Shore... the members, investigators, and Erica and Ty--our recent converts. It's hard saying goodbye to people you come to love so much! I have taken several pictures with people I'll send in email. But last night when we finished skyping we ran over the Erica's and said goodbye. It was hard! I told her to come visit in Utah when I get home and she can stay at our house. :) I hope that's ok!

These next 2 nights before transfers are cram packed with appointments. Too bad we aren't out in the afternoon cause we have a lot to get done.

But, A piece of my heart will definitely be staying here in South Shore.

 A few things about this past week that I didn't get to tell y'all about over skype...

 If the Martinez family, and Thomas get baptized within this next transfer I'll still get to come back to their baptism! So pray with me that they will all get baptized on their dates we have set for them. The Martinez family-- Atala, Lala, Diego, James, and Norman-- are soo excited for their baptism. They just have to come to church one more time, and if they would have came yesterday they would've been able to get baptized on Saturday, but now we'll have to wait for another week. I feel bad for those kids because their parents just pass them from their mom to their dad. If the kids had a say in it they would have been baptized already, but their parents are holding things back by their decisions...

 You'll be so proud of me. ;) Do you remember how worked up I'd get over preparing for talks or lessons? Well on Saturday the Zone leaders called me and Sister Atterton an hour before a baptism they were having and asked us to speak for 15 mintues. Well we had an appointment to go to untill the baptism started which meant no time to prepare for the talk. Yep. I spoke for 15 minutes without notes. Haha that's what I get for being a missionary. You get used to talking to people real quick. But it was fun.

 Anyways, I'm sorry this is a shorter email but I'm sure I'll have lots of stories for next week when I find out where I'll be serving again!  

I love you all!!!!!