May 12, 2015

I feel like every P-day for the past month has been craziness. We've had zone activity and the temple today and just all kinds of crazy, so I feel like I haven't sent much of an email in a while. 

Today I got to go to the DC temple. It is GORGEOUS. Inside and out. I LOVED being there. The temple is such a wonderful place. My advice to everyone is to set their sights on the temple and always be working to get there and remain worthy to go. There is no better place to be. 

A few weeks ago we had zone conference, and during zone conference, President Riggs made us a promise. He told us that if we tracted for an hour every day and asked for referrals from everyone, we would find two new investigators. Sister Christiansen and I found......3!!! And then another one a few days later. We're so excited to work with all these new people! Two are a Hindu couple from India with a 5 year old son. They have no concept of Jesus Christ, so it will be a very different experience to teach them. One is Catholic man named Joe who talked to us on his porch for 20 minutes and accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon. We tried to come back to see him, but no one was home. We'll try again soon. The 4th person we found is a woman named Shannon. We were trying to check on a less active, but when we knocked on the door, we discovered that Heidi had moved and Shannon and her teenage son now lived there. She let us in and we showed her the He Lives video. As she watched it, she began to cry. She told us that she was going through a really rough time, and our timing in showing up (and God's timing in sending us), was perfect. We have a return appointment with her on Friday. :)

Transfers are on Thursday (boo!). Last night the assistants called us. Sister Christiansen is getting transferred and will be a Sister Training Leader (that's basically the equivalent to a Zone Leader, but for sisters.) We're both really sad she is leaving Manassas. We've loved serving here together. I wish she could stay, but that's selfish of me, because she's an AMAZING missionary, and I need to share her. Drat. 

Anyhoo, I love you all!! Have a great week!

Pictures:

1: We live by the train station. The trains go by all day and all night blaring their horns of death. The first time you hear it, you think its the end of the world

2. Two geese on the roof honking loud enough to rival the trains.

3. My district! We're  missing one elder, because he was at the temple that day, but the rest of us are there!

4.Sister Christiansen pulled these sheets out of the dryer and then wrapped me in them. They were very warm. 

5.We don't know what this little beasty is. It fell out of a tree and into Sister Christiansen's hair or something. It fell out of her hair while we were praying. 

6.Me beast-wrangling. 

7. My hair dryer broke. After having my hair up in a crazy bun all day in the humidity,this was the result. A mane. 

8.. Before doing service all day yesterday. We did insulation and screwed cement things into a floor to prep it for tile. We didn't look nearly as pretty afterward.....

9, 10, 11. DC temple!!! I love it!