January 2, 2017

Hey!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR - CRAZY ITS 2017!!!!

So this week was pretty great! It was sad to say goodbye to Sister Codling but Sister Stephens is great too! So I can't remember if I told you all but Sister Pen gave us a referral for Gwen Lee and she came to church... Loved it... we taught her a lesson and watched the restoration video and oh man she is so elect!!!!!!! Then Saturday we had a lesson with the assistants to hand her over because she is YSA... and the lesson was resto again focusing on baptism because she was wanting to wait till she finished the BOM ( which she totally could because she is flying through it we committed her to read 2 Nephi 2 and so she did but she also read from the very beginning to there and I guess that's all she does in her spare time... on the bus, etc. and she has this note pad just for the BOM that she writes notes in it like words she doesn't know so she looks them up and writes them in and also her first language is Vietnamese and wanted to read it in English so so cool!) with the APs help we put her on date for January 8th and focused on how when you're baptized you get the gift of the holy ghost and you don't want to wait for it and that got her! We had to say good bye and she was sad but she will be fine- it will be a lot better in the YSA ward!

So for a while now we have been visiting with this member Sister Scott's and she told us how her Granddaughters who are 10 and 9 and aren't baptized yet but love church, and will be coming to live with her because of parent issues and will eventually adopt them. So they just got here this week and so they came to church yesterday and want to be baptized and taught them last night. The only problem is that Sister Scott isn't sure when they can get baptized with legal issues but I definitely think this is a tender mercy!!!!! Their names are Layla and Sadie and such sweet girls but they were board yesterday so we need to do better at making the lessons fun!

Well I still love it out here and don't ever want it to end! I know its true and I can't deny it!

This is from transfers!

Pic 1 Sister Stephens well I wasn't sure if I would send this home but this is Exactly who she is and this is our good friend Adam (so I guess that makes Sister Stephans Eve...)

Pic 2 Sister Stephens, Gwen, and I after the lesson Saturday!

Pic 3 New years eve cheers to the new year with the Macjack Family!!! and no its sparkling grape juice! 

Pic 4 So the picture- it's a charger so our DVD Charger Broke the two little metal prongs broke so we took another charger thing and took the hardware out of the dvd on and put it in the new on and then rigged the wires so the could get electricity and it totally worked it was fantastic!!!!!!!! 

Pic 5 and 6 Us watching The Testaments on New Years Eve and then we celebrated it with Utah... so at 11 :)

Pic 7 And then we had a white New Nears Day! With Sister Stephens and I.