A Week Of Miracles

Hello Everyone!!

This week has been a week of miracles! We started out the week with basically no investigators and now we an Investigator on date for baptism. Nadine is an awesome lady. Her husband is already a member of the church but we don't have his records in the ward because he's been inactive for awhile. But Nadine is ready to have an eternal family and wants to become a member of the church! She's basically an answer to our prayers and I'm so grateful that she came into our lives right now. I was beginning to think that Heavenly Father didn't have anyone else for us to teach but that's just what Satan wants us to think. I'm so grateful for the chance to continue to learn from Nadine and her family. They truly are AMAZING!

Sister Fairchild and I are almost running 3 miles in the morning.... But we'll get there this week for sure! It's been interesting being with a companion who loves to work out so much. Definitely not one of my favorite things to do but I'm learning to love it? Actually I'm just loving the results of working out so hard. But we're doing good together!

So our mission does this cool musical Fireside each month and it was on Thursday. We thought that a hundred people or so would come but it ended up being more like 200 people. That was really cool!  Nadine even came and I got to see a lot of members from my previous areas and it was just a really good experience. Especially since the focus was on the Restoration of the gospel and anytime we get to talk about Joseph Smith and the 1st vision the Spirit is really strong, so basically it was great!

This week we had FHA (family home afternoon) and we played the Couch/Name Game. It was fun to play a game that I use to play with my friends in Utah. Brought back some really good memories. We played 1 game for a full two hours.... way too long but it was fun. We're too smart for our own good. It's a game of strategy and remembering- we switch names for the game.

This is the Bella Vista Zone, yes! We're a tiny zone... I think that they'll switch up the zones next transfer because a lot of missionaries are going home in November

SO the Elder on the left side in this picture. That's Elder Peery, he was on my MTC group and now he's my ZONE LEADER! Sometimes I can't take him seriously when we're in trainings because all I can think about is the MTC and all the funny moments we had there as a district.  And then I have to focus back and remember that he's my leadership and I should respect him but it's really hard for me to do. Something Im working on. lol

  

This week was cooler but not cold. Still pretty warm, I hope that I will be able to wear the boots that I bought last PDay eventually. Maybe in December? This week during Planning we set a date for one of our investigators and it was in December and I had this weird flashback to last November when my trainer and I were planning baptism dates for investigators in December last year.... that was a strange moment. When something like that happens I realize that I've been a missionary for a long time...

 

Wyatt is the cute little boy in this picture. Whenever we go over to his house he always dresses up for us. This day he was Captain American and he really wanted to take a selfie with us. So here it is. We also have to hold him back sometimes because he loves to kiss us. This little boy is a flirt but SUPER CUTE!!! :)

This week we get to have Zone Conference and SISTERS Conference and go to the Mission President's Fireside for Recent Converts so it's going to be a crazy, awesome, busy week and I'm totally looking forward to it!!!

ALL MY LOVE,

SISTER RAUBENHEIMER