January 9, 2017
This week was pretty good! It was really different
getting a new companion. My new comp is Sister Nilsson. She's from SLC, and
she's super fun! I was really sad to see Sister Steadman leave. I really loved
working with her and learning from her, but Sister Nilsson is just as good :) I
hope you all are surviving your crazy storms in Boise! We had a minor snow
storm here in Monticello on Thursday, but it started raining today. It was
weird because it's winter and it's been super cold lately, but it still rained.
I'm a little worried for tomorrow after everything freezes tonight, but fear
not, our truck has 4wd. Speaking of which, I'm so glad we have a truck, and
that it has 4wd!! We would not be able to go anywhere without it! We use it to
get out of the driveway, and we had to use it again on the road. We have about
2 miles of dirt road, and it was sooo deep with mud!
Funny story- I felt a little dumb this week when we
were about to go try somebody, and so we parked on the side of the road.
Monticello is a small enough town that you can park on the left side and nobody
cares. So, I parked on the left side, but for some reason this time I thought I
better park on the right side. I flipped a u-turn and parked on the other side.
The people we were trying to visit weren't there, so we got back in the truck,
and I realized that even though I flipped around, we were still on the left
side of the road.... Haha we laughed at that for a long time.
I decided to start this transfer with a purification
process. Sister Steadman and I were going to do it together, but then she got
transferred. But we're still doing it, just apart from each other. It's a 40
day fast, but it's not from food. It's a fast from behaviors or thoughts or anything
like that. So I've been trying to do that, and it's hard but I can tell it's
making a difference. You should try it sometime :)
This week we were able to have another lesson with
Amalio. He decided he wants to be baptized, we're working towards Feb 4! We're
so happy for him!! And he came to church yesterday all by himself!! His friends
who are members who we've been having the lessons in their home were out of
town, but he still came! It's amazing to see how the gospel can really bless
people's lives and help them to have new desires to change and become better
people. Hector is still doing great, and Raylee is too. But we have to get
permission from her mom for her to be baptized, but we can't find where she
lives. Time is running short in this situation, because she wants to be
baptized on Feb 18, which is coming up!!
I really miss being able to go to the temple. Do you
appreciate the temple? I hope you all take the time to go and feel the sweet
spirit there. I have to wait til September before we missionaries in our
mission can go again. I'm so glad I got to be a worker in the temple before I
came, because I probably wouldn't remember anything.
I hope you all are doing well and that you're getting
back into the groove of things with school starting. I'm glad you got an extra
long break because of the snow. Snow days are always so exciting :) I love you
all more than the number of times we would be stuck without 4wd!
Love,
Sister Withers
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