Marissa Week 10 - Lansing

Hi everyone!
So this week has been a bit sad. We had to hand over all of the people that we were teaching to the elders that now cover that area (roughly around 7 people). Most of our lessons were hand off lessons where we introduce them to the new elders and hope they like them. Elder Larsen and Edmond cover 2nd stake and married 1st stake, Elder Sloan and Fukumoto cover 4th stake and Elder Torres and Shoemaker cover 1st stake.  We covered all of those and are so sad to leave them.

This weeks been a bit slow because we are just knocking a bunch of doors. A lot of people are moving apartments for the fall so it's hard to keep tract of everyone. We have done a lot of service this week. We helped these two member girls paint there house which was fun.  We also helped out at the family place again and were sweeping the dirt off the side walk. We also have been helping people move out or into apartments. It's fun, we will just be walking and then see people who need help packing and will go and help them.

 This week we had mission conference. Our whole mission got together and we took a mission picture. It's crazy how many missionaries we have in this mission, I didn't know like anyone 😳.

This was the first Sunday where we didn't go building hopping to catch all of our stakes since we only cover third stake now. 3rd stake meets at the institute building and we went to two wards today. I bore my testimony in both...I know! I'm way out of my comfort zone now!

Lansing came to church for all 3 hours  and bore her testimony and said "I know this church is true!" We went to her house for a lesson and she said that all through out church she had been thinking whether she should get baptized and was reading 2 Nephi 31 when she got home. She just flipped to that chapter and all it talked about was baptism and why if Jesus was baptized, we need to be baptized by proper authority to follow his example. We are so excited for her and hope she prays about whether she should be baptized.

Well this week was slow but I know it'll pick up soon as people start to move in for school in the fall. I hope everyone is having a great week and loving the end of summer:)

Love,
Sister Lowe