June 16th Transfer #3

Crazy how time is flying!
As you can tell, my p-day is still on Saturday! Which means I'm in the same zone, Extended. But guess what? I'm still in the same District! Family Search. And guess who my companion is? The District Leader! So I'm kind of the unofficial official District Leader Helper person.

I'm with Sister Cox, Who is also from Southern California (oh the irony. Heavenly father has a sense of humor. But she also has lived most of her life in New Mexico, so she's claiming that place this transfer)She's a pitite blondeish young woman. It's been fun to get to know her. I've seen her around, but I never knew her very well. That's something I've loved so far, I've been able to be friends with some sisters even though they're not my companions, and then when I have companions, I don't really have any set expectations of them, because i know sometimes when we get to be with our really good friends, things don't always turn out the way we plan, so I'm glad I get to find out about my new companions the way I do. :) At least I'm able to know what she looks like before I knew she was my companion, unlike it was with sister Salazar.So Sister Salazar is Training! She didn't want to but I had the feeling that she would. Her Trainee is from... Samoa? someplace like that. It's been so much fun seeing the new sisters and remembering that I had that look of 'Where am I? What am I doing here?' on my face when I first arrived. It has been fun.

I don't know if I mentioned in any of my letters that there was a sister Carlisle and Martin that looked a lot alike especially since they were both new. Sister Martin went home early, and this transfer another sister Martin came. It was kind of funny, and neat at the same time.

Shoot, I was going to bring my old planner... oh well.

So On Thursday I went on Exchanges with a sister from Hawaii, because her companion and my companion are both district leaders and they had to go to training. As they were at training, we were at Family Search. Since Sister Levai is newish, she had never been to Family Search, so I was showing her around, and as we worked together we started seeing so many miracles.Now something you have to know about sister Levai, when she smiles, it’s not just her face that smiles, everything about her smiles. She’s very expressive. One of the things I mentioned to her is that when she smiles at someone, she makes them feel like they’re a child of God. She is also very enthusiastic, so the combination of me knowing a bit more about Family Search, and her enthusiasm for everything made it so we were able to help people in ways that I’d not helped them before. We had at least 3 people refer their friends to receive a DVD, etc, and possibly the missionaries. One couple in particular comes to mind. Sister Levai was engaging them in conversation and I was just off to the side, somewhat listening. They included me in the conversation, and as we talked, the woman spoke about her mother who wasn’t against the church, but her mother didn’t really agree with her daughter joining it. She (the mother) already has basically every movie, and book, we offer, but as we were talking a new movie came to mind, Finding Happiness, it’s one that is brand new and pretty neat, really short. So IMentioned that to her(the daughter), and she responded something like, “You know what, that’s probably just what they need, my father has been out of work for a while and they need that.”It’s wonderful how the spirit works.

So You might have noticed I haven’t talked much about my experiences with sister Cox. That’s because even though we’re companions, we haven’t done much together since she is the district leader. It’s kind of funny, but we get along well. She also likes Harry Potter, so on the first night, when she found out that I liked the books, etc, she enthusiastically suggested, “We should have a Harry Potter moment every day!” in addition to our “Faith Thoughts” that we decided to have daily. Hehe. So it’s been fun.

One of my zone leaders is the same as last transfer, but the other is new… kind of. She was a district leader last transfer, in this zone, just not my district leader. So today we had our Zone Meeting, and last transfer, they had a demonstration where sister Ward shoved cake in the faces of some of the sisters to demonstrate a point, that we need to present things in a way that people want to have them. Today, they did a demonstration of how we need to have Balance in everything we do by putting WAY too much salt into some brownies they gave to us. One of the sisters noticed that you could actually see the salt crystals it was so salty. So they’re good at giving memorable demonstrations.

We also had District meeting, and that was excellent. Sister Cox is going to be an excellent District Leader.

I LOVE you all!

Be happy and so on and so forth!