Sister Camille Beck Tacoma, Washington: February 13, 2017

Okay so I love serving in Elma here with Sister Pike! She is just super sweet and I love the way we are able to work together so well! So Elma is huge and covers a lot of little towns and my favorite is Montesano! It is such a cute little town and everyone is just too sweet! Also a bit about Sister Pike--she is from Tooele, Utah and is the oldest and has a younger sister and brother. She played soccer in HS and is just super sweet!!!!!

So the work here is great and this week started off great finding 9 new investigators in an area that pushes hard to reach 4 new so that's great and it was pretty easy! We taught Tony who Sister Pike found her first transfer in the area back in October and he is so elect but he needs to just marry Kelly who is a recently returning less active and that will be March 18th and then get him to stop smoking and he is set in his mind not to stop till after the marriage so its a little frustrating but we want him to solidly stop for good and not rush and start up again after the baptism and so that's good! Also we got a referral from the YSA sisters this week for a man named Timothy who was taught by the sisters a year ago. He is 32 so they gave him to us nicely:) And we weren't sure why he wanted to learn again but we found his teaching record and he seemed pretty legit! So we had a lesson with him and his 6 year old daughter who kept running all over their RV the whole lesson. We found out that he had been reading the Book of Mormon and when he moved had lost his copy of the Book of Mormon so self referred himself to get another copy and start to be taught again..... well the lesson was so smooth (other than his daughter being crazy:) and found out he was 60 pages into the BOM and loves it and can't get enough of it. So we put him on date for baptism but fell off date because he accidentally slept through church which he feels terrible about and is excited for next Sunday and our lessons this week.

Also I found out that Gary (the one who is ex- Jehovah's Witness) is finally on date for March 4th!!!! I can't wait to go back for it! He must have been able to get work off to come to church so YAY!

Well love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!

Here are some pics from the Why I believe Fireside last night.