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Hi everyone!

What a great day! What a great week! What a great life!

No matter what happens y'all. Always remember things can be worse!

There's always a light at the end of the tunnel. I'm so grateful for

the hope of the gospel. There's always a reason to be joyful :)

Alrighty. Fun story of the week was probably Sunday when Edward bore

his testimony in church! He is quite the guy. He always wants to tell

us how Buddah is the anti-christ. He talks about it so much it seems

like he is in love with Buddah. So when he got up to the pew to bare

his testimony Sister Barney, Briscoe and I sat frozen in our seats. We

told him if he did bare his testimony it should only be about Jesus

Christ. So he went up and bore a beautiful testimony of how he knew

Christ was his Savior. We all sighed in relief. We'll see what happens

with Edward. 

Ann came to church!! Oh my lanta y'all Ann is my favorite.  She truly is a testimony to me of spiritual strength. And Joseph of course is still coming in strong with a date set for the February 18th.

I'm so grateful that he's getting more and more comfortable at church.

I love the people here in Rowland Heights. They are so real and willing

to help us and to listen to us. If all else seems to fail just remember God is there and that he loves you :)

And I do too!

Sister Plumb

Xinien keyle

                                                     

That means Happy New Year in Chinese!!

Wow y'all what an adventure it has been being in a trio here. It's

been in a word, Legendary. And I cannot believe a week has gone

by...... ok so the update on my life. It's good! We are working hard

and fast and furiously. Joseph is getting closer and closer to baptism

but he has to tell his family! We are hoping that he'll get that

courage soon. Also Jason is doing good! Working on repentance, which

we all know is hard so keep him in your prayers too. Ann is doing

amazing. She is praying about baptism this week and we know she is

going to take some convincing but there’s nothing the spirit can't do.

So she'll be fine. We were a little worried about Siv because he had

kinda dropped off the face of the planet but then we went to a Chinese

New Year celebration at the church and he was there!! He looked pretty

upset so we ate good food with him and practiced our Chinese writing

and it cheered him up a bit. I can imagine just a tiny bit of what

these boys are going through leaving their homes and families and

going to a foreign land but my land isn't as foreign as theirs.

Something that I really wanted to work on this week was my faith, and

knowledge in the gospel. Mainly because I wanted to apply the things

that I have been learning more, and I realized how much faith that is

taking. It's really intriguing the correlation between faith and

knowledge because as we know, "faith is not to have a perfect

knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things

which are not seen, which are true." Alma 32:21 once we exercise our

faith and put the trust that is needed in Heavenly Father and his

will, we gain experience and it turns into a perfect knowledge. Faith

and knowledge are necessary in order to have a strong testimony and it

is amazing to be sharing that with the people that I meet here.

I hope you all had a fantastic week :) thanks for being so awesome.

Love ya

Sister Plumb

1. Going to the temple with Joseph and Sister Hernandez

2. Last pic/jam sesh with my girl Sister Z

3. Sister Barney’s birthday!

4. Zone pic

5. Chinese New Year!

I'll Be What You Want Me to Be

Hey y'all! I really don't have anytime. It was transfers this last

week. Sister Zollinger is no longer with me. :( she has actually gone

to my old stomping ground in Huntington. And guess who's back to be my

last companion?? Sister Briscoe!! Haha that's right! My baby girl is

gonna kill me (Mission language). And not only that. But it takes two

to bring me down. That's right. We are in a trio!! Sister Barney is

coming down from Azusa to be in a trio with us! Oh my goodness y'all

this is going to be such an amazing last 6 weeks.... I can't believe

that has all gone by.

Sister Zollinger and I sang with Neil this week in sacrament meeting.

I'm gonna try to send the video of us practicing. Hope y'all can see

it. Please excuse the singing....

Also went to the temple with Joseph. He's so ready to be baptized.

He's amazing. Also taught Ann this week :) and taught her grandson

Patrick how to read from the children's Book of Mormon and we are

going to be seeing her more.

Well talk to you later!

Have a wonderful week! Also stay dry because I'm not.

Sister Plumb

Letter from Dad / Called to be a Sister Trainer Leader in Last Area like her Papa was...

Hello Sister Plumb,

That is so exciting about Richard getting baptized. It's amazing the change of heart he was able to have. So you baptized the Brother of Bobby? What is his name? It must hard to say, kind of like the Brother of Jared if you are referring to him as the Brother of Bobby:)

I know you don't want to hear this, but Mom has a missionary count down for you and instead of cruising for the next 44 days, I'm sure you are prayerfully thinking about what other miracles God has in store for you to experience as a blessed missionary in the Arcadia, CA mission. My second to last month I was a Zone Leader with another missionary, Elder Worthington, who was going home the next transfer and he would talk to his girlfriend in the middle of the night and try to do as little as possible during the days by faking sick or just letting me know he lost all motivation. I lost it with him one day and told him I could not agree with him more about be excited for him to go home so that I can resume and enjoy a productive last month of my mission.  Elder Worthington I think was a good missionary most his mission, but joining him in his area as a Zone leader his last month was not a great experience and I felt like I had failed to motivate a missionary who went home trunky. My last month of my mission turned into a month extension where I got a chance to train a really good missionary for two months and continue as Zone Leader, so basically I felt like that lost month of trying to get my trunky companion out to work never counted against me. Whatever you do, finish strong and don't extend a month like I did.

Calvin will be talking to the Bishop today about getting his papers started for his mission. Calvin is a really good kid and he surprises me with how good he is, but he also struggles a lot with motivation. I know we all have our struggle at times, I'm just hoping and praying his issues don't keep him from going on a mission. Calvin and Jack do not treat each very good, but I was really impressed with Calvin the other day when we were playing football with the Lamberts and a few other kids. Playing with the Lamberts is got competitive and Calvin and I get competitive against each other. Calvin and Jack were playing on the same team and we were killing them and Calvin kept yelling at Jack for making mistakes to the point I decided to trade Tyson Lambert for Jack. Jack got on my team and I don't get mad at anyone for making mistakes like not catching a ball, but I did start yelling at Jack for not hustling and trying hard. At the end of the game, I was a little hard on Jack and while driving to the Shell station to get drinks, I heard Calvin ask Jack if he was all right and apologized for giving him a hard time. I could not believe Calvin: A) Apologized to anyone B) Showed concern for Jack by asking if he was alright C) Recognized someone was feeling bad and felt bad enough for that person to ask if they were OK. One of the proudest moments of the year for me as a dad. I had to apologized to Jack for getting on him, but it took the example of Calvin for me to do it.

We are still praying all the time for you. Thanks for being such a great example to the family.

Love you,

Dad.

Hey Dad!

The brother Bobby ah yes. A very complicated name haha his name is

Brian. So sorry I never added his name in there!

We just had transfer calls on Saturday. And we got a call that I

really wasn't expecting my last transfer.... usually the zone leaders

call us when we are getting transfers but this time we got a call from

the APs and they told sister Zollinger that she was going to

Huntington with Sister Barrus and that I would be going to be staying

in Rowland Heights but that I would be having a new assignment as a

sister training leader and that I would be receiving 2 companions,

Sister Barney who was an STL in Azusa and Sister Briscoe who I trained

in Glendora! They said that Sister Briscoe is going through some hard

things right now and that it will be good for us to be companions so

we will see how that goes and what my role will be.

Sorry I am totally out of time! I wish I could say more and email mom

and Calvin and Jesse back but I can't :( also we have a car! Yay! You

can update everyone for me thanks!

Hope you're well! Love you lots!

Sister Plumb