January 13, 2014

Here's this week's email! Enjoy!

Thankfully we are both feeling better! I guess it comes with the territory of being with so many different people each day. We get what they have. Thankfully, it was only a 24 hour thing and we have been back to work all week! It thankfully won't be as cold this week!!! They closed school here too with the - 30 to -50 with windchill that we had last Monday. But there are a lot of people her that are from Minnesota and they were saying that they very very rarely cancel for cold. It's pretty rare here but not as much as Minnesota.

We had transfers this last week and I am still in Plattsmouth! It's so crazy! I really wasn't sure if I would be staying or going. I have been here for a really long time but I am training so I wasn't really sure what would happen but I am still here. I love it here, it's just weird seeing some people literally be in a different area or with a different companion each transfer and I have just stayed here my whole mission. I was thinking about it last week and I have served here longer than I have even lived in some wards. It's cool though because I feel like I have been able to get to know people so much better being in an area this long, and I just feel like part of the ward.

Other than that, nothing too crazy this week. We have just really been trying to at least get a hold of all the less-actives on the ward roster, and we have been pretty successful with it. We have contacted almost everyone! It's been really helpful, even if they are not interested at least now we know, and we can focus on those less-actives that want to come back or are on the path to returning. We really have been working a ton more with the less-actives. Sometimes it seems like even more than with our investigators. The bad news for the week was that Jenny isn't investigating the church anymore. She just said she felt like she needed a break, that we had taught her all that we could for right now. She said she would still read the Book of Mormon but she needed time. I am thinking that it is good for her because she will really have the chance to think and get the answer for herself. I am also not sure if she really wants the answer right now. She wasn't really acting on the things that we were teaching her, other than to read the Book of Mormon. But I am hoping this gives her a chance to feel what its like to not have the Spirit in her home as often and to really think on the things that we have taught her. I think eventually she will get baptized maybe just not her time right now. We did say that we would still keep in contact and that before either of us gets transferred. We will say goodbye to her and check up on her occasionally. It's sad but we can only do so much and then they have to choose what they will do, and I know that she will get her answer eventually.

Thanks, have a great week! Love you guys!