Sorry I am really behind in blogging for Julie. I'm attempting to catch up.
Greetings.
Man, emailing just drains me. Lets see what happened this week......
Well Tuesday it snowed. A lot! We had to pick up our district leader and his companion for district meeting, and we were an hour late because we were stuck in traffic. It was kinda scary. Once we picked them up, Elder Bateman, who is from Utah and LOVES driving in the snow took over. Thank goodness. He had really good control of the car when we started fishtailing. There were two missionaries from our district going home this transfer: Sister Christensen and Elder Thomas. I really liked this district, so it was kinda sad to see them go. But they're pretty happy about being home, so it's good!
Wednesday we had two dinners. I was so full, I about died. We've been eating a TON of food lately and it's killing me. A while ago, I got to the point where I could only eat one helping and then I stopped because I was full. But being forced to eat TWO dinners.... it's a killer. This ward takes reallyyyy good care of us.
Thursday was transfers. I embarrassed myself pretty good this time. Not that that's an unusual thing for me. President Riggs calls out the transfers according to each zone adn then by each district within the zone. I get a small anxiety attack every time he reads the transfer assignments because I just want to know who my new companion is so badly and he always takes forever to call out my name. This time, he got to the Ashburn Zone next to last. He called out a few new assignments in some of the other districts, and then he finally got to the Sterling Park District. He called out my district leader and his new companion's name, then as soon as he called out the other two elders in my district, I knew my name was next, so I stood up where I had been sitting in the chapel. He had just called out Elder Johnson and Elder Laing, so when I stood up President Riggs stopped and looked at me. He said, "You aren't Elder Laing!" and I said, "I know I know! But my name is next!!!" Everyone turned and laughed..... I just couldn't wait any longer- I was DYING to know who my new companion was. President Riggs is a jokester, so he took his time calling out my companion's name and it about KILLED me!!! oh man. It was crazy. He finally called out "Sister Jones!" ...... no one stood up..... we don't have a sister jones in our mission!!! I started walking up the isle of the chapel toward him and he called out SISTER SAVAGE! :) phew. Finally. But yeah, it was pretty exciting.
Sister Savage is from North Logan, UT and is one of four kids. She has an older brother who is serving his mission in Berma, and she has a younger sister and a younger brother who are both in high school. She is 5'9'', sings really well, and is really funny. Before her mission she was in beauty school! One of the first things she told me is that she's a beauty school drop out! haha. She's going to go back and finish it after her mission. She's been out a year this month! The cool part about being her companion is that Sister Lamborn trained her!!! So Sister Lamborn was pretty excited to find out we are companions.
Since we've been together, we've found two new investigators. One of them is Muslim and a few days after we found him, asked us to not come over because he liked being Muslim. The other one that we found is a high school girl. She said she just barely started reading the bible with her sister in law. Pretty cool. Sister Savage and I set some pretty high goals to find lots of people this transfer. After all, it's my second to last transfer and I still need to baptize!!!!! It's going to happen. I just know it will.
Being a missionary is so fun. It's almost hard to imagine myself without my name tag on, it's just a part of who I am these days. I know I'm right where God wants me to be, and it feels so good. :)
I love you all!
Have a wonderful week
love,
Sister Anderson
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