Sister Call and Peanut being cheesy.
Apples to Apples with Babby and the gang for Family Home Evening.
Our Ellis Island training cupcakes.
Sister Wright and Sister Lowry (who's Canadian and Mauri--New Zealand kind!), lunching.
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Sister Adams with Sister and Elder Anderson.
I wonder what 'Mixcan' food tastes like.
Happy Conference and Happy Easters this week!
If you play games, someone has to remember to do kewl prizes. The best kind of prize doesn't cost anything, and it makes you laugh more (anybody thinking of winks and high fives right now? My point is made!).
This week was pretty swell. We didn't get that many lessons in, but we felt pretty busy the whole time. We were nearing the end of our given miles for our car, so we did a lot of walking to appointments, which was rather nice. We also had Ellis Island training this week. I didn't ever officially get trained when I first arrived, but this week all the sisters in the mission (and that's not many, maybe 20) got trained together. It was a blast! And then we had lunch outside together and admired the breeze and the view.
General Conference was just fantastic. We went to the church with a big casserole Sister Call made and lemon bars I made, because there's usually a pot luck in between sessions. But we were the only ones there:( So we ate basically half of the casserole and walked some over to a man who lives across from the Church. His name is Arthur, and he's rather hard of hearing. He's Jewish, but has always appreciated what people in the ward do for him, so he sometimes comes to Sacrament Meeting. And he loves reading the Book of Mormon. The next day more people came and we pulled out our potluck items again, and this time they got gobbled up. I loved the talks and noticed a lot of them were about family. For the last session, we went to Babby's, and watched it on the internet there. This was the first time it's been really reverent at their house. And the slew of random cousins came in and didn't laugh or yell or any of the usual shenanigans. It was very nice!
And lastly...Sara is getting baptized! She's a nanny for a member, and has lived with them for two years. She was planning on reading the whole Book of Mormon and giving herself a year to think about it after she'd had the official lessons. We've been asking her to pray for an answer that this is true, and one day she was. She was hoping and expecting a big answer and a big feeling of its truth. And whilst praying she thought to herself, "Wait, why do I keep asking if this is true? I know it's true! I could finish the Book of Mormon...I could wait another year...But in a year I'll know it's true...I could wait 10 years to get baptized...but I'd still know it's true!" She loves how she feels when she's at Church. She has already been keeping the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity and loves how doing those things makes her feel. And she's set to make covenants with Heavenly Father and receive a lifetime of blessings for herself and her future family, on April 22 (Earth Day)! Agh! I'm so excited!
Love you goons!
Love, sister mistipher
