Almost graduated 🎓

Hello!

I've been gone THREE MONTHS. I only have ONE MORE WEEK of training! AHH.
Sounds like you had an awesome week, even with being sick! Sister
Lamborn lost her voice for part of this week. :P
I wish I could go to the temple and the beach, haha. Both are within
close driving distance, but alas.
Oh, turns out I can charge the iPod in the car! So that's a little
weird, but it works.

THIS WEEK. I didn't write as much in my journal this week. Oops.

Tuesday we had District meeting/interviews with President Clark. He
gave me a really cool insight on feeling inadequate... That inadequacy
is awesome! Nephi was totally not qualified to build a ship. But with
the Lord's help and guidance, he was able.

Wednesday we got to work at the Castle in GKTW again! There were way
more families in there that day than the last time. :) It's so fun to
interact with all the little kids and see them light up. Also when
nobody's in there, coloring is great.

Also decided that day that I can definitely improve upon working with
all my heart, might, mind, and strength. Gotta forget myself, trust in
the Lord, and go to work. :)

So I tried that on Thursday, and saw a huge difference. It was SUCH a
great day! Our first lesson, I just felt the Spirit SO strongly and
was able to give input more and testify more powerfully.

We met a less active we've been meaning to see since the first week,
Jessica. She's awesome. Her testimony of the gospel is so, so amazing.
And she was just really fun to talk to. (She also has 3 6-month old
kittens who wanted to cuddle, and they brightened my day a ton. Didn't
even have any allergic reactions. :P )

Aaaand we finally met a potential investigator we've been trying to
see since really early on! He was super sweet and interested in what
we were teaching, and the lesson went so smoothly. When he read
Moroni's promise, it made him wonder if his prayers were sincere
enough. He hesitated to pray in front of us, but it was so great. :)

Friday, instead of planning, all four of us went to Sister Palomino's
house to discuss the Relief Society sisters. She just got called as
president (and her husband is Bishop, and she has 4 kids... this woman
is a superhero) and wanted our insight on the sisters, since we know
some of them best. We just went through A-Z and talked about what we
knew, who had moved, and who we hadn't met yet. Took like 6 hours. She
fed us and her kids entertained us. It was fun. :)

Dunno if I mentioned that Brian and Angie had their baby! Olivia! We
went to meet her and took dinner. She's tiny and cute. Alex loves
being a big sister. :)

Sister Jones has decided that she wants to work on getting her
patriarchal blessing, and so she's been reading the Book of Mormon
daily! We read some with her and talked about it. And then we asked
one of the people she lives with if she wants to learn more about the
church, and she agreed! We've been coming around long enough that she
trusts us, I guess. :)

Saturday was a little different. Since we're full car now, we're able
to go to the south part of our area more often (if we're careful with
miles, which we haven't been. Oops). Tried to bring Sister Howse with
us to a lesson, but he wasn't home. She thinks she's bad luck, haha.
But we took her to visit a less active family she wanted to see
anyway, to invite their daughter to Young Women's activities. (Sister
Howse just got called as the YW president. All the women's
organizations were released at once.)

Visited with Sister Fritz for a while! She keeps us updated on what's
happening in the world. Sister Lamborn loves keeping up with politics,
so she tells us about that craziness. And she told us what happened
with the shooting. :( She's got 7 dogs and a few cats, though only one
is comfortable with people.

And then we visited and got to know Sister Matee! She told some really
cool stories. Once an African prince kissed her, haha.

Sunday, church! We were a little late because Sister Fritz drove us
and her gas pedal froze. Froze. In Florida. It was SO COLD on Sunday.
We had fast and testimony meeting this week instead of on New Year's.
Dunno why. But some super sweet people bore their testimonies about
us. We love them. Love this ward.

The Kobers had us over for dinner! They're just so stinking awesome.
They would do absolutely anything for the missionaries, for the ward,
for God. He told us about some of his crazy mission experiences in
Colombia.

Then we went and read from the Book of Mormon with Brother Wilson and
his kids. They were super excited and wanted to read more, which he
was shocked at, haha.

Transfers are happening next week. We find out on Saturday.  I know that
Heavenly Father will send me where I need to be, with people I need to meet,
and where I can learnand grow the most! I'm excited and interested to see what happens!
I won't be a missionary baby anymore! :P

Have a fantastic week!

Love,

Christine

Yikes, I'm really slacking on pictures this week. This is the one I
have. I can kind of put my hair in a ponytail. A pirate ponytail, as
Sister Lamborn would call it. :P