Hey Everyone! Here is Lauren's letter from last week. I'll have to get these out a little sooner! Pictures too!
Sister Oa, Sister Lindsay, Sister Kim, Sister Johnson, Sister Campos, and Sister Kwok!
On an exchange with Sister Cooper!
In front of the Oakland Temple
Eating Taro and Avocado Ice Cream
Hi Mom!
No worries, I got your email in
time! I will send you some pics today and take the rest you requested this
week. Haha you just took the Christmas tree down?! Why am I not surprised! Jk.
:)
So actually we have transfers next
Wednesday (April 9). We find out this Saturday if we're staying/leaving, etc.
And I might stay but there is a chance I could be leaving, or that I'll get
another follow-up trainer if Sister Kim leaves. Sister Kim feels like she is
going to be leaving Berkeley, which is scary because that means I kinda have to
be expected to know everything! Well not know everything, but you know what I
mean. I really don't know what's going to happen. But I'll let you know next
Monday!
Yes it's General Conference this
weekend! Super excited! We hope all of our investigators will make it!
We already had our Zone Conference
this transfer and I don't think we are going to be having one before transfers.
I think for Brad, all the missionaries in his zone got together for a
"goodbye" meeting or something, but I don't think they do that here,
which kinda stinks because I think it'd be cool. Oh well! We have District
Meetings every week, and they are fun! Our District Leader's are Elder Hoole
and Elder Petersen. They conduct them and I'm usually laughing the whole time
because they are super funny. They don't go all out like Brad did though with
his metal armor suit and such haha. In our district is Sister Kim and I
(Berkeley A Sisters), Sister Oa and Lindsay (Berkeley B Sisters), Sister Kwok
and Sister Campos (Oakland 1st Sisters) and Elder Hoole and Petersen (Berkeley
Family Ward). So three companionships of sisters and one set of elders.
Everyone in our district is awesome!
So I'll tell you a little bit about
our week last week:
On P-Day last week we had a Zone
activity and played captured the flag! I was scared because sometimes I don't
like playing sports with guys because they always get super competitive and
scary (especially when Polynesians play haha) but it was super fun!! We all got
Zone t-shirts. We got a zone picture; I don't have it yet but when I get it
I'll have to send it to ya'll. On Tuesday we had exchanges with the Visitor's
Center Sister Training Leaders. Guess who I was with? Sister Cooper! She's the
one that dad talked to on the phone to ask about stuff to buy for the mission.
Brad also predicted that she would be my trainer (which would have been awesome
because she's amazing!!!!) It was an awesome day! She's so wise and comforting and
loving and amazing! And, we found a new investigator for Sister Kim and I! Her
name is M**** - Sister Cooper and I found her at the Visitor's Center - she was
on Spring Break and decided to visit because she's always wanted to visit the
Temple (she grew up Catholic but has been looking into different churches and
wants to find the right one :)) and so we started talking to her and taught her
about why we have temples/what we do inside them and the Book of Mormon! She
was really interested so we got her info and she happens to be in our area!
Then, we took her to the Family History Center downstairs and she ended up
spending an hour down there doing family history work! Sister Kim and I have
visited her twice since Tuesday and she is so optimistic and receptive to
everything we're teaching her! It's crazy, it's a miracle we found her and I
really believe the Lord has been preparing her for the gospel. :) She's so
sweet and cute too! Such a blessing. We also had our second/last missionary
training for new missionaries (we had one at the beginning of this transfer and
one at the end). Crazy that my first transfer is almost over!! Friday was super
fun - we had dinner with Elder Hoole and Elder Petersen at a member's home from
the Berkeley family ward. We were at Brother and Sister Co's house. They are
soooo funny. They are an older couple and both love bird-watching! Haha. Before
dinner they heard a wood-pecker outside, so we went outside to find it and they
were looking through their binoculars to see it and what kind of woodpecker it
is. Hahaha it was neat. Brother Co is a jokester and is so funny, but Sister Co
doesn't like that he always tries to be funny so she gets really annoyed with
him. But that just makes it more funny. I was seriously laughing the whole time
we were there. Also, we got to see General Woman's conference yesterday! Did
anyone else watch it? If not you should because it was super good. :) It was
all about being covenant-keeping women and helping to strengthen one another as
daughters of God! :) We met with our investigator S****** who is getting
baptized on April 13th (woohoo!) And we're doing our best to prepare him. He is
such a neat person! He's originally from Nigeria. It's such a blessing to be
able to meet so many different people from all around the world here. This past
week I realized how precious everyone I meet is. They aren't just people from
foreign countries in different cultures; they are all children of God and the
fact that I get to know them and help them is a huge blessing and
responsibility!!
Well, that's it for this past week.
It was a great week though! I love you all so much! Thanks for all your
love!!!!!
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