Week 15 A SNOWY Week in Paradise

February 17, 2015

TRANSFERS! Well I have a new companion, Sister Sperry :) And she is pretty amazing! AND a new apartment! This past week was CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Transfer meeting was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was spiritually filling and much needed, I was sad to leave Sister E but I know she is needed elsewhere and is doing great things :) My new companions name is Sister Sperry, and she is so FUN! and funny, we laugh and smile a lot! and she is so in tune with the spirit :) it is so great!

 

So we got back from transfers and dropped off Sister Sperry's stuff at the Centralia apt and then went to the Salem apartment to pick up my stuff and to meet the office Elders to pack up the furniture. We got there at about the same time as the office elders and then started to pack everything into the trailer and our car :) It took a long time! We finally got done and drove back to Centralia and then unpacked a few things from the trailer and said goodbye to the Elders and Elder Limb. Then we started to unpack our car... which was filled to the brim!

 

The next day we rearranged and unpacked everything and then it was back to Salem to pack the last of it and to clean the apartment. We then had a lesson with Moose and he felt the spirit SO strong! Brother H called later that night while we were driving and said that he had just dropped off Moose and that Moose had said that this was the most peaceful he has ever felt in his life! It is so amazing what the gospel does for people!

 

Well then it was Friday and we did weekly planning where we talk about our investigators and what we can do to help them. We went and saw K and R and Joe... When we saw R she had a friend over and he seemed very interested in reading the Book of Mormon so we gave him one and he asked us a lot of questions :) which we were happy to answer!

 

Saturday we finally had the time and opportunity to finish cleaning and unpacking! Heavenly Father made it possible for us to get SO MUCH done in very little time! It was amazing and a huge miracle! Then we went out and saw M :) She is so cute and intelligent! I am very excited to see her this next week! Then we went and saw some others that the Elders left for us to take over teaching :) And they are pretty awesome people.

 

Yesterday was the BEST DAY EVER!!!!! For Reals... It snowed about 5-6 inches Sunday night and our cars were grounded so we couldn't go anywhere... And the Elders left "The Tower of Coco Rice" which was a tower of empty cereal boxes...

 

 

...so Sister Sperry and I took it down and of course built forts... and we found some NERF guns and darts so we had a NERF war... :) So fun! And then a member called us and asked if we would go sledding with her... so we did! It was very fun!  MIRACLE!- A member of our ward asked if he could take us shopping Monday and buy our groceries! and then invited us to dinner later this week! It was so great! We are so blessed! Then we went to rotate our laundry and the gentleman that was running the laundry-mat had rotated it for us, which was a miracle because we were running late! Good day :) And then later that night Sister Sperry was like, "We need to go see B." So I was like, "Ok". :) And now we are going to be teaching them! (B was one of the investigators that the Elders left for us.)

 

And then! Today we went and saw a lady named J and she is going through A LOT right now. She is so prepared for us to teach her, she has such a strong belief in God and sees how He works in her life. The only problem is that she is planning on moving in the next two weeks, so we are going to see her as much as possible while we can.

 

Well, I have written a lot and there is so much more but I am running out of time :/ I am LOVING it here! And I am loving being a missionary! :)

-Sister Brimley