June 6th Last P-Day of the 2nd

Dearest family!

Okay, this week has been a bit crazy (especially since it's the last pday of my second transfer), but that’s okay :DTransfers are this Wednesday, so next time I’ll be writing you, I’ll be with a different companion (more likely than not) and a different p-day(more likely than not) and hopefully a different apartment… >.> I’ve been in the same one for two transfers, and apparently that’s really weird.

So we cleaned a lot, because we have to have the apartments all spick and span for transfers so the sisters moving in can not be driven mad by our messes :P But it was fairly easy since our roommates are so diligent in cleaning in any case.

Today’s already been an amazing p-day. At 8 when we’d normally have personal study, we had a talent share, where a lot of sisters got up and played the piano/sang/guitar etc in the tabernacle. It was really neat, because we were all able to be in the tabernacle, just on our own, not having to worry about guests or anything, just us and it was really nice to have that time. I could feel the spirit so strongly when some sisters sang certain songs. One sister in particular wrote a song before her mission which she sang for us and played on the guitar. It was amazing to see the talent that the lord gives each and every one of us 

After that, my zone went to the main apartment where most of us live and gathered together for our Zone meeting. We then walked swiftly to a Karl Block art gallery, where we’d had our zone conference, and if you’ve ever heard the story of the Seminary teacher who asked one of his students to do 10 pushups for each of h is classmates to have doughnuts… yeah, that was our zone meeting. One of our Zone leaders was the one doing pushups (and for those of you who think that we have Elders for zone leaders, we don’t. Zone, and district leaders and APs are all girls) The other zone leader was the one who went to each sister and asked if they wanted a doughnut. Only one sister said she didn’t, and she was at the beginning. I think the others said they wanted one because of her, because they knew the sister doing the pushups would have to do them any way even if they didn’t accept. It was amazing to see how much love we all had for her, even before this thing. She, and we, were all crying by the end of it. Then we had a testimony meeting type thing. So my eyes are kind of dry right now.

So from last week:

Deaf Ward experience:

I can’t believe it’s June already. I’m going to be 22 soon O.oSo… I’ve been to two different deaf wards, and it’s pretty neat. One (the first week) was good, but I felt a bit rusty, and it was hard to focus on what everyone was saying all at once. The second one (last week) I had a bit of a cold, so it was hard to pay attention at times, but we had a voice interpreter for all the meetings, so I could close my eyes when I needed to, so I had a good time at both, but enjoyed the second one a bit better for some odd reason. :DWe’re inviting all different languages to come to temple square and use the resources that we have, so hopefully we’ll have a lot of ASL tours coming up. :D
The guy who possibly knew the teacher at the Deaf ward:So after the first deaf ward, where we went to class for about 15 minutes, the teacher of the class was from Ireland, and I met a guy the next day who’d gone on his mission to Ireland, a sign language mission, so that was really cool :D I couldn’t remember the teacher’s name so I couldn’t let the man know and see if he’d known him.

Thanking amy for the Talk she sent:A LOT of sisters love that talk. One sister in particular was reading it and she was trying not to cry because she felt that it was talking to her directly (the talk was “Making Right Choices”)

Sister Stephen's friend:So sister Stephen gave me a friend to call a while ago, and I didn’t call her for a long time, then just last week, I called her, and invited her to have the missionaries and she accepted. She’s going to have the lessons at Sis. Stephen’s home. It was kind of cool, because had I called her friend before, she probably wouldn’t have accepted, but because of all the things that had happened right before I called, she wanted to learn more.

Elder of the 70 and Family SearchSo I ran into my first (well first that I realized) incognito member of the 70. He was looking at a family chart with his wife and a couple other people. The other people wandered away and I told him and his wife a bit about the chart, etc, and then I shook his hand and introduced myself, he introduced himself as elder something of the 70, and that was not something that I was expecting, so I’m sure I had a look of shock on my face. His wife took pity on me and change t he subject. Afterwords, the other sisters asked if I had asked him for referrals. I was thinking that asking one of them was not allowed, but apparently it’s encouraged if they engage you in a conversation. My companion told me that she got a few referrals from Richard G Scott after I told her about my experience.

Sacrificing dinnersSis. Salazar and I were just on our way home for dinner (at about 8) one night when we walked past a couple taking a picture. We offered to take it for them so they could both be in one, and they agreed. That sparked a conversation, and we talked for quite some time, so long that it was time for us to go home for the night, just before 9. They didn’t ask for more information, but we invited them.The next night, just after we’d waited for a Spanish tour and didn’t get one, we were about to do something else before we went to dinner. We saw them on our way into the Assembly hall, and invited them in so we could talk about it. We did, and my conversation with the wife somehow got to family, and so on, and different things, and a thought popped into my mind, “Together Forever” which is one of the videos we offer. She accepted it, and the missionaries coming over. We then realized that we had 10-20 minutes to eat dinner before our next assignment, but our sacrifices yielded blessings.

Summer time/motorcoachI had my first motorcoach, which is a bunch of people coming to have a tour as part of a larger tour that they have going through the state of UT. It can be basically any one from anywhere, and the two I’ve had so far both had people who spoke Chinese as the main group. The first was a group of people with the tour who spoke English, so we gave them a tour in English. The second, sis. Salazar and I were just contacting (or in my case, herding so they didn’t get left behind because they were taking too many pictures) while one of the other sisters gave them the actual tour in Manderine.

So, life is good, and so is food :D YAY food!

LOVE YA ALL!!!!

~Sister of the Durtschi of the Sarah sort