Man, oh man, has time flown by! 6 months in the mission! It's insane!
I can't believe how fast these last two transfers have gone by. It's been 12 weeks since I came to Bloomington, and now Elder Unsicker is being transferred. I'm getting my third companion! And then in 6 weeks I'm probably gonna be transferred out of Bloomington, which is way crazy! I can't believe how fast this is all going by.
This last week has been full of just getting ready and anticipating Transfers. Stress rose like crazy wondering what was going to happen with transfer calls, but it went pretty much how everyone expected and predicted it would. Elder Unsicker, Pratt and Guest are all being transferred so we're gonna get 3 new missionaries in our district. Which is cool I guess, I just hope that they are cool! Haha
This last week was pretty freaking exciting though, we happened to have 4 investigators referred over to us by 2 members! And they are SOLID! :) Yeah, I'm pretty freakin sure that we are gonna get them baptized. Just when is the question haha, but it's way sweet! We have had a lesson with 2 of them and we invited them to be baptized when they find that these things are true, and they were like "yeah! Cause if this is true then that'd be the next step right?!" so that was like WHOA! :) So we're gonna help them get to know the gospel. These investigators are Jennifer McCartney and her boyfriend Ben (I don't know his last name). They're way sweet. And then there is Tony and Nikki (I don't remember their last name) and they have a 8 year old, who I don't remember the name of at the moment. They're way sweet and currently looking for a new church cause they don't like the one they were going to previously, and the path it was taking. They have a 15 month old daughter who had recently serious brain surgery, and they were full of anxiety and the brother who reffered them gave them a blessing and they said they really felt the stress be relieved, so they want to learn more! :) We talked to them briefly on the doorstep the night we got the refferal and talked about families, and how the church is huge into them and they were just eating that up, particularly the dad was- they want to learn more! Yeah, I think they'll do ok ;)
The part about these families that makes me so happy is that they are referrals from members. It is so hard to get members to refer people, and this last week we had 2! That was amazing, and they want to have us teach them in their home, and work with them as well! It's sweet! So things are starting to pick up here big time. I'm way excited.
So Conference finally came around and that was AWESOME! My favorite thing was the smile on Pres. Eyrings face, it was so happy. It was almost to the extent it seemed like he was hiding something awesome and just couldn't wait to announce it! And he was cracking jokes in Priesthood session! What was with that?! I don't think I've ever heard Pres. Eyring crack a joke, and these weren't just chickle jokes too, they were funny! His talk in Priesthood though, was AMAZING! I loved it! Just to let you women know, Priesthood was the best session this round. The First Presidency gave killer talks, especially President Monson- it was a talk just focusing on how we can be better people. It really put on him for me at that time the image of what a Prophet is. He was fulfilling his role as a Prophet big time- he called out the men who are not getting married cause lots of guys just like to date around and never get married which is super true, so he said GET MARRIED. But the thing I liked was he covered just how to be good people, and be more Christ-like. Go to the Temple, avoid pornography, drugs, alcohol, gambling, listen to clean uplifting music, watch clean uplifting movies, serve one another, fulfill your calling, and live worthy of the priesthood. It was all central to personal worthiness to the Priesthood! It was a killer talk.
This Conference was centered on two words I found- Service, and Hope.
It was a really good conference. I've said that a ton, but it's true. I was just grateful to hear from the Prophet and all the leadership of the church.
Anyways, I finally got mail on monday too. I hadn't gotten any for a while, so I was a little worried I'd been forgotten- but obviously not so it's all good haha. It's great to hear from people, so I'm glad when I get stuff. BTW, I still would love to hear from lots of people I haven't yet! So please do write :) Especially if you have some big event coming up, like marriage or a mission call! I'd love to hear about those! I love sharing what's going on with me, but I love hearing about what's going on with you all, because I love ya'all! Plus your adresses are nice to have so I can send post cards and stuff ;)
Love ya!
Elder Prows
P-Trowsers <---That's my rapper name
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