Week 57 - Happy Fourth of July

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE!!

We will be in the 4th of July parade here, so there will be extra pics in this email. Also today (Tuesday) is Pday instead of Monday so that's why I didn't write:)

I hit my 13 months of being on the missh this week... why does time go by so fast?

Lots happened this week, so here are the highlights:  First Freddy was baptized!!! Woot! It was a great day and the spirit was definitely there. He was so happy and I'm so happy he made this decision to come closer to Christ.

We had some lessons with Jackie. She told us she went to Starbucks and ordered a hot chocolate and the workers were so shocked because she is a regular customer there. She told them she has given up coffee. So proud of her!! We took her and her husband, Bryan, to the temple to just walk around it. We had a lesson in the waiting room and as we were leaving Bryan told the front desk guy, "We will be back in a year!" Aweeee! I just love that they have this goal to go to the temple and to be sealed forever! I can't wait till Jackie gets baptized.

Jackie and Bryan at the Logan Temple - she can't wait to be baptized

Marissa and Sister Davis with Jackie at the Logan Temple

We had a blitz in Hyrum and we found two new investigators for Sister Segura who is over that area. One lady we met was named Carol. We scheduled a lesson for Friday night, but turned out Sister Segura had something at that time already so we just went to the lesson without her and it was an amazing lesson. Carol opened up and we invited her to be baptized on July 29th and she said yes! Sister Segura still hasn't met her and she's her investigator but now she's already on date. Sweet!

We had a blitz in our area. The ZLS, DLS, and another Elder companionship came to Nibley and we gave them people to go visit. They found us two new investigators!! Woot woot! Our mission president challenged the whole mission to find 3 investigators per companionship this week. Our mission found 259 investigators this week!! WOW!

This week we moved. We finally found a new place to live and it is so nice! I love it here. The people we live with are the Saunders and they are the nicest people ever. They just keep giving us food and supplies. They have an underground trampoline and a soccer field they said we can use. I love it here....but I hate packing (worst part of the mission is packing, haha, but I did it).

President Nielsen came again to film us for this video that he is making about working with Ward mission leaders, So he videoed us knocking on Jackie's door with the Ward mission leader and then videoed us teaching Jackie. Jackie thought it was cool she was getting filmed. I'll be happy when all of this video stuff is over... it’s kind of stressful, haha.

At the Mission Office

Sister Davis and Sister Lowe - best companions

 Getting ready for 4th of July!!!

Well it was definitely a better week for us. We didn't even have a lot a time for tracting this week which was unusual, but it's great to be busy. Transfers are Thursday...so we will find out what happens soon. I've loved it here in Nibley and hope to stay. I've loved my comp, it's been a great time with so many memories. I love this gospel so much. It brings me so much joy and happiness. It truly is the best gift I have in this life and I love being able to share this gift with everyone we meet.

Sister Lowe