Where You Want Me to Go: Once In A Trio, Always In A Trio! December 4, 2017

Well friends, this may have officially been the craziest week of my mission. Mostly good, but crazy haha. Hopefully you can bare with me for the craziness. I will say, I was overwhelmed by the amount of letters I got from people this week, the mail famine was over! Thank you for all the kind words and love during the Christmas season, I sure need them haha!

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

1. We are OFFICIALLY MOVED! Ah! So happy about that, seriously so pumped. I have been sleeping like a baby and we feel so safe here. God is so GOOD. BUT, It took packing like crazy on Monday, moving everything on Tuesday, leaving for 2 days, and coming back to unpack it. But it's good! The Christmas Tree is up so I'm happy lol
2. Monday night we got a call that we needed to go to Olean, New York for a few days because a sister went home and we had to pick up her companion. So Tuesday we moved everything to the new apartment and then ran down to Franklin, PA and pick up Sister Barton, who was serving in Olean. So, until December 14th, Warren will be a trio and Sister Barton will be with us. Craziness!
3. On Tuesday and Wednesday we spent the day in Olean and it was so fun to meet some of the awesome people there and have some lessons. Now I can officially say I served in New York haha.
4. On Thursday we had zone conference and as always, it was awesome! I learned so much and came back with some ideas on how to be more obedient and use Christs sacrifice more in my life. I'm so grateful for the Bednar and all they do for us
5. On Friday Warren had its annual Christmas parade and "Christmas walk", where tons of vendors are set up for people to buy things. We were able to hand out almost 100 pass along cards about light the world! That was really nerve racking but exhilarating once I got the hang of it haha.
6. On our way home from the parade, we drove passed a Dollar General and I just had this feeling we needed to go there. So I made us turn around and go. The first person we saw Sister Anderson and I knew for sure was who we needed to talk to. Turns out, the woman was a less active who we've never met. She used to meet a lot with the missionaries, but her husband is super against the church. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she was so grateful for it. She told us she would hide it from her husband but wanted to read it. Never ignore a prompting.
7. On Saturday we went back to Olean and had a baptism for Dave Sisson! It was so cool to teach him a couple lessons before he was baptized. He was so prepared and I'm so blessed to have been able to be apart of it. My favorite part was seeing his face as he came out of the water. The joy was worth every stress we have had this week over it.
8. Last night we broadcasted the Christmas Devotional and Light the world from the Church. We had way more people than we expected there and it was seriously a Christmas miracle. The messages were all AMAZING. I was so touched and really am so excited for this Christmas season, even if I'm away from my family. That's all I have for now.. Thank you everyone!