Where You Want Me to Go: I'm giving birth to a Swede?!?! February 27, 2018

Hello family and friends!
So yeah, this week has been heck a crazy with tons of ups and downs, but it's been awesome! I can't wait to write about the craziness that has been this week.

HIGHLIGHTS

1. So Wednesday afternoon we got a call from President Bednar, and that's never good. Every time President has called, I've got emergency transferred, put in a trio, a family member of my companion has died, it's just not good. Well, this week was a little different. There is a Sister who has been called to my mission has been waiting for her visa to come to America in her home country of Sweden. She finally got her visa, and will be coming to the mission this Thursday. President Bednar has called me to be her trainer, and I will finish my mission training her in Erie. Sister Jeffery will be with us until March 15th and then she will go. I'm having a Swedish daughter!. I'm SO excited and so terrified at the same time, but it's going to be great! The opportunity to train a brand new missionary is very humbling and I hope I can live up to the trust president has put in me. Also, her name is Sister Nilsson, I forgot to say that.
2. This weekend we had stake conference in Jamestown and it was absolutely amazing. There was so many wonderful messages given and and the spirit was so strong there. It definitely gave me the spiritual boost that I needed.
3. I got to see my favorite person in the whole wide world from Warren, Theresa. She is just the most wonderful person and I look up to her so much. I hope to be half the woman she is when I am older. I know I was sent to Pennsylvania on my mission to meet and teach her.
4. Yesterday we had a lesson with Hagaar and Judy, two girls from south Sudan we've been teaching for the past few weeks. We invited them to be baptized and Hagar said "I thought you'd never ask! " She is so excited to be baptized, she is definitely on the fast track to getting there too!
5. On Sunday we gave a church tour for a Russian family who moved to the US about 5 years ago. Let me just say, Russian people are beautiful. And their accents are awesome haha. But it was awesome! The two sons and caught er spoke great English and Russian, but their father Valentine didn't. It was so cool that despite the language barrier, the spirit of God was there so strong and by the end they were so excited to read the Book of Mormon and learn more. Miracles on miracles!
6. Yesterday we had zone conference in Pittsburgh, where Elder Randall K. Bennett, a general authority of our church, came and trained us. We aren't allowed to say a ton of what he spoke about, but let me tell ya, it changed my life. The Message he gave was so powerful and was exactly what I needed to make sure I finish strong. During lunch, Sister Jeffery and I went to a different room and read scriptures together and made some goals for our companionship. During that time, Elder Bennett came in. He told us he had been looking for us because he wanted to say we had some of the brightest countenances he had ever seen. Talk about a compliment, geez! Haha. But he asked so sincerely if we felt like when he taught was going to help and if there was anything he could do better. We are literally two 20 year old girls and he asked us that. That truly testified to me that he is called of God. Ugh, so good! So this email is longer than it normally is, but I will not apologize, because this was a good week. My heart is so full, like a missionary in the book of mormon named Ammon, "I cannot say the smallest part which I feel". I have been forever blessed to serve a mission here in Pennsylvania. I know the message I and thousands of other missionaries can change lives forever. I know that the church which espouses this message to be the real, one and only, true church of Jesus Christ on the earth. I am forever changed because of what I have experienced here. This week I hit 14 months as a missionary. Let me tell you, it has gone way to fast, and has been the best time for my life and of my life. I cannot thank God enough for this opportunity.
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! HAVE AN INCREDIBLE WEEK!!
P. S. Today my legs saw sunshine for the first time since October and I'm pretty sure I blinded a few drivers going by. The sun out today is a not so little miracle.