Heading for the Border

Dear Family and Friends,

Well this week Sister Ah Puck and I decided that we just couldn't take it anymore and made a run for the border, with our District Leaders, and an older couple from our ward. That's right--a District Temple trip! The Myatts were great and fit all of us into their Pickup and we went to the temple in Medford, Oregon. We left at 7:00 am and didn't get home until just barely in time to head to our dinner appointments (somehow the 2.5 hour trips turned out closer to 3 hours both ways). But we got to stop in Ashland, Oregon to eat dinner with a nice scenic view of the park where they have the Shakespeare festival. It was all in all a good trip. It did, however, mean that we had to proselyte last Monday in lieu of our P-day (just leaving time to get our laundry done, go shopping, and send out our emails). So sorry to everyone I meant to write last week, but there was no time! Also I meant to tell the Odhiambos happy birthday last week and completely forgot! So, Happy Birthday.

What else happened? Well we helped Sister Abbot move; which was sad but good. She and her sons were baptized on December 31 and so her church membership had a nice parallel to my mission. But she moved to be closer to her boys so that is a good thing. Then we were actually able to get a lot of lessons with members this week. That was very good. And one of our investigators came to a baptism with us (another one of them gave us a ride to and from the baptism, which was kind of weird but we managed to get another lesson out of it). And two of our investigators came to church! Getting our investigators to church has proven to be at least as difficult as setting baptism dates. Particularly when we don't have the good excuse that one of us is speaking! So there were definitely some good things. Now one more week until transfers and Sister Ah Puck and I are so confused about what might happen that I think we're going to draw up a massive transfer possibility board, and even then we probably won't be right.

Love,
Sister Sorensen