Training!

Hello again! Is everyone excited for thanksgiving this week? Yep

should be delicious!

Well this week has been pretty good I think!

Brittany has really been progressing and has such a strong desire to

be baptized! It's amazing, She went to church last week and said she

knew this is the place she needs to be, she said it was as if she had

been here all along :) She's only 16 and I think it's amazing how

dedicated she already seems. She needs courage to stand up to her mom

and let her see her testimony of the church.

Maria has been going through a lot of health issues and has been busy

with renovating her apartment. Sister Iaboo and I were praying for her

constantly and stopping by because her feet were the size of

cantaloupes! She hasn't been taking care of her health or diabetes and

it's really been scaring me, but we saw her yesterday, and had a great

lesson with her about the atonement. She's had all the lessons before

and she knows the fundamentals, she now understands that she is

hopeless without the atonement. We can all can move on, change, heal,

hope, live, love, feel free because of the atonement. And it's not

going to be learned all at once! We learn it every single day even

after we're baptized and that is what makes this life and this gospel

so amazing :)

Kanzm, is being taught by the Persian elders and they say he's doing great!

Dmitri, we picked up last week and he's a roommate of one of our

members. He lived in Russia half of his life and came to America all

on his own. He said he really liked the vibe he was getting from us

(*cough cough* spirit!) When we ended he said he wanted to say the

prayer! He said he had tried to pray before on his own just to try it

but now he felt like he really really needed to. He gave the most

beautiful prayer for someone who hadn't prayed before a loud. It's

amazing what the spirit can do through us if only we allow it to.

Justine and GiGi, they have actually been our investigators for some

time now. They are sisters, Justine is 15 and GiGi is 12. They live in

the projects where the blind side was filmed actually. They were

taught back in February, and had gone through all the lessons and even

had a date to be baptized! We met with them and they shared their

great testimonies on prayer, and the experiences they had. They go

every Sunday! So we know they have a testimony, they just need courage

as well.

Well I've been out in the mission for 12 weeks. Not that I'm counting,

I'm not! But there is a new missionary program called 12 week to help

you adjust to missionary life. So just finished that. Last Thursday I

got a call from the assistant presidents that I will be training a new

missionary this coming Tuesday!!! I'm so excited! I don't know who she

is yet, but I love her already!

But that's pretty much it! This week we taught all those

investigators! So I thought i would tell you a bit about them!! What I

really learned this week is that God puts us in places for a reason,

that we're supposed to be where we are now (even if it wasn't in the

plan beforehand) to fulfill a purpose. Nothing that we do goes to

waste. Everything is accounted for, and will have some effect either

right at that moment or in years to come! And I think that's amazing

:)

I love you all! Keep me updated in what's going on!!

Thank you to Sister Stullers Valiant 8 class for the pictures of

turkeys and encouraging words :)

Sister Plumb