12/07/10

Dear Family,

We received our transfer calls last night and the results are....Sister Rae will be leaving and Sister Boyd and I will be staying here in Old Settlers. After this transfer is complete Sister Boyd and I will have served together for 6 months of our missions. Sister Rae will be missed but transfers are always such a fun time for me. I love that our Heavenly Father can reveal to us where He would have us be.

Both of my mission Presidents have explained the process they go through with transfers and both have testified of how they've been guided by our Heavenly Father to best place all 180 of us. That reminds me of Elder Rasband's talk for Easter Conference when he spoke about missionary work and how the General Authorities receive revelation when placing missionaries in their field of labor. Heavenly Father is too good to us.

This is a wonderful area to be in. the members are looking forward to some consistency because there have been a lot of changes made within the past few months. They're all still really supportive and they LOVE to do missionary work.

One highlight from this week happened a few days ago. We received a referral on our phone (meaning there's someone in our area who is interested in learning more about the gospel). The referral was for a woman named Sherri Shultz and she lives here with her husband and as far as we know two sons.

Sherri and her family really enjoy listening to Glen Beck and she was listening in when he spoke about emergency preparedness. He referenced a website that people could look at if they were interested and Sherri went online to search. She looked up the address for the local bishop's storehouse and dropped by the week before last. A member showed her around and answered some of her questions and there was also another member who had a copy of the Book of Mormon with her (just in case:). Sherri accepted and began her personal study of the Book of Mormon.

When we stopped by to see her she had lots of wonderful questions about the things she read in a little less than a week and we found out that she had read the first 100 pages of the Book of Mormon; with her favorite parts highlighted. We were able to pray and share more with her and she was so receptive and willing to listen. Her oldest son is having jaw surgery today and she'll be busy taking care of him for the next month or so. We won't be able to see her during that time but she wants to learn more when her son is better and I know she'll continue to feast on the Book of Mormon until then. She will have it read by our next appointment.

I love this gospel and I know there are people, our brothers and sisters who are searching for truth. We just need to be good examples and when the time comes open our mouths and share the good news.

Thank you all for your prayers and support. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Sorry it's taken so long to get a picture of my mission presidents off to y'all. The Cutlers are first and the Jones' are next. Have a great week

Love you guys,

Sister Green