June 23, 2014

Transfer week is officially over and boy was it a weird one!

 

It all started last friday. There was a minor incident while I was driving that resulted in me getting really dizzy and not being able to see and my companion having to take the wheel on a busy road. All very dramatic. So I'm currently not able to drive, and my companion has epilepsy, so she can't drive, so we informed president that changes needed to be made so that we wouldn't have to walk around in the suffocating heat. So on Monday I went to the doctor to figure out what was wrong, and on Tuesday mornining, the morning of tranfers, after transfer calls that stated that nothing was changing, we get a call from President saying that we were getting a third and that we needed to come and get her. Little did he know that we were currently carless, and unable to drive even if we had one, because we had walked out of our apartment that morning only to find that our car had been stolen.... by the tow truck. So we spent the entire morning trying to get our car back, for which we now have a large sum of money to pay, and came home to a bouncing baby girl named Sister Flanery weighing in at 120 pounds and a wee 62 inches. Even though she was unexpected, we love her and she is our happy little suprise. But it's not over yet. The plot thickens. So we're in our trio for 1 day and then on Thursday morning we get another call from President saying that there were two girls coming into the field so he had two trainers ready, but then unexpectedly one of the trainees got her visa to Hong Kong and left. So there was a sister who was companionless and we were the only trio in the mission, so he needed to take one of us. After much thought and like 5 minutes, he decided to take Sister Daniel. So she packed up her stuff that morning and she was gone by noon. So I am now currently in a companionship again with Sister Flanery, and it is bliss. We are just having so much fun. No worries though, we'll keep it as mature as possible.

 

A spiritual thing that happened this week is yesterday we were finally able to meet with our investigator Monica, after not seeing her for a very long time, and it was just divine providence. She's the one who died and was brought back to life a couple of weeks ago. She had been kind of putting the breaks on everything since the incident and we hadn't been able to get in contact with her, but we decided to just stop by yesterday and she happened to be sitting outside. It was so good. We talked to her about her dumb ex husband who is a druggie and abandoned her and her two kids with nothing and ran off with other women (plural) and about how hard that is and also about how the only thing that can heal her and her two kids is the gospel. It was pretty powerful and she agreed to let us come over and teach her the plan of salvation this week. Then when we were leaving she said that she felt like we came at the perfect time and that she knows this is something she needs. It was so cool! The spirit is the coolest thing in the whole world and like I've said before, the gospel is like the coolest thing as well. There is nothing it can't fix.

 

Well my dear family and friends. I love you all. I hope that you have a fun filled week and that you keep your eyes open for those unplanned opportunites to share the gospel. They are all around us and they are happening all of the time. I promise that if you pray to have eyes to see them, you will. Keep on keeping on and I'll see ya in 5!

 

-Love Sister Williams