October 28

Hello!  Oh my goodness this last week has just been crazy!  I am so grateful to be finally serving with a sister who has been out longer than me and has experience because Sister Heiner is totally changing the face of this area!  As STL's, we are expected to have higher numbers than the rest of the zone and also to go on 2-4 transfers a week.  Pretty stressful especially because the numbers in this area haven't been all that high although we are working with some pretty solid investigators.  However, Sister Heiner came in and told me the numbers that we are expected to receive and somehow we're well on our way to reaching them. Heavenly Father has definitely blessed us tremendously this last week!  We've been busy teaching a ton of lessons to members and also some lessons to investigators and also had the time to knock on doors and exceed our goal for how many new people we contact weekly.  I don't know how it happened except that the Lord was totally the one in charge.

We're going on exchanges this week and I'm looking forward to getting to know the sisters and seeing what we can do to help them progress as missionaries in their effort to do missionary work.  I'm a little nervous because I don't feel super qualified for this but I know that I must be or else the Lord wouldn't have called me to this!  It's pretty exciting to be able to go and meet sisters and get to know them one-on-one. Hopefully we can help them out!

Dad, that's awesome that you had such a great missionary opportunity!  I will definitely pray about this and see what the Lord wants me to do with this information.  It is pretty hard and scary for a member to send missionaries to their friends and family so I will definitely remember that as I pray and ask Heavenly Father what He wants us to do for Linda.  Thank you for following your spiritual promptings and being bold!  That is something that I've been striving to improve my entire mission because being bold but loving is the best way for the Spirit to come and testify to both members and non-members alike.  It's exciting to hear about everyone's missionary moments because it testifies to me that members are so important in this missionary effort!  Members and full-time missionaries can't do missionary work as effectively without each other!

We are pretty excited about our investigators.  We have 2 that are definitely getting baptized which is exciting.  One of them is a husband of a less-active woman and he is just so excited to get baptized next month!  The other is the woman we've been working with for a while now.  She's so solid and excited about her baptism too!  It's a slower process because of her work schedule but we're hoping that she'll be able to get baptized before Thanksgiving, it'll just depend on her work schedule!

Haha no mom, I did not receive a Halloween package from the Moore's.  In fact, I haven't received anything in a package from anyone since August.  Honestly, I love receiving packages and such, but it also doesn't bother me if I don't receive one.  The only time I get annoyed is if people say that they're sending one and they take forever to send it because then I'm just waiting in anticipation and that's what is distracting for me.  But usually I don't even really think about it.  I just like hearing from you guys on occasion!

Being a Sister Trainer Leader is kind of like a District Leader...but not at the same time.  The sisters still report and discuss the missionary work with their DL, but the STL goes on exchanges and counsels with the sisters because the sisters can't counsel with their DL.  Basically we don't have any stewardship over anyone but we are there to help and assist in any way that's needed.  It's awesome.

Sister Heiner is the trainer I had when I got emergency transferred to Leesburg.  We struggled while we were together because I was super prideful so I was excited to be able to have another chance to redeem myself!  ;-)  She's just great and is doing so much for this area that I couldn't do in the past!  I'm super excited to see how things go.

We did service on Saturday for an elementary school in our stake boundaries.  The picture is from that.  We loved wearing the Mormon Helping Hands vests!

I'm so sad that President Trevort is leaving!  But I know that the new stake president is going to be just what this stake needs.  :(

Anyways, I'm out of time.  Love you all and I hope that everything is going great!  Thanks for the updates!

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