Thanksgiving Week

Thank you for the Thanksgiving cards! 

I am well over my hump mark(halfway mark) now! I love the mission. You experience the best things...and the worst but just like in the end, the best things are the ones that stand out to you at the end of the day. Change is a tricky thing, I still have not grasped it. I love the mission, and God has been helping me to stretch and grow, but it is hard to look at myself and see it. I do feel like I am making a difference, though. We are unique and different as individuals. Even though we both have the gift of the Holy Ghost, my companion and I listen and act on different levels. 

Sister Ewing and Sister Cutler have helped me to not be too hard on myself-Sister Ewing left for Idaho after 6 weeks with me, and Sister Cutler and I will have been together for 12. It is all about what you want to become. I was reading Elder Uchtdorf's talk from Women's Conference this morning. He said that the Lord loves us and rejoices in everything good that we do-even if it is small and insignificant to us. 

This week has been SO LONG and SO SHORT. Yep, at the same time. But that is a good thing:). We have a new bishopric now as of yesterday. The Bishop has been in the ward only 6 months or so. We have two baptisms coming up for the Elders, and we just put Brian on date for January 17! He is progressing slowly. The problem is getting him to church, since he has no one to take care of his parents while he is away. We got two new investigators this week, and have been finding more potentials as well! We have appointments with two potentials that can become investigators this week! I love the work-I have seen that if we are diligent, the Lord will bless us. 

Well, I got to get going, but please check out "He is the Gift"! It is the new video the church is putting out for everyone to watch, share, and invite people to learn more! It is going to be playing on New York times square 

Please think of someone you can share this video with, as well as invite to the Church Christmas party and Church service before Christmas:). It is a great way to do missionary work in a not so scary way!

My thanksgiving went well. We went tracting in the morning and before prayed that we would find someone who was alone on the holiday. We found Mary, after talking to some not so nice people. Mary is from Georgia, and is agnostic. She said we could come back this next Tuesday! We had lunch and dinner each at a member's house. For lunch we had a traditional turkey/thanksgiving feast and played a new game, a Canadian game called Crokinole. It is such a fun game! It is so awesome-we played with 2 members, and my team one! If you go on wayne kelly's Crokinole Pro shop on crokinole.com/rules.asp it will tell you how to play, etc. It consists of a board that is probably a little bigger than a chinese checkers board.

We taught Brian the word of wisdom this past week. He is going to begin throwing away everything with cigarettes so that he can begin following that commandment. The next thing will be coffee. We had a member come with us, the spirit was there. We were not planning on teaching it so soon, but the spirit prompted us to do it that day. 

Other than teaching Brian, we have mainly just been knocking on doors.

So as you know Sister Cutler my companion goes home in 2 weeks. She is awesome. I love her:). We are doing two musical numbers in the next 2 weeks, one for a christmas party and one for a baptism next Saturday(13th) and she is just so patient-I have been a little stressed out;). We are going to Detroit so that she can say goodbye to the city a week from today with a member. it should be fun-I will have just an hour to email, so sorry if it is short.

Have a great week! Look for opportunities to serve! The success is in the invite!

Love, Sister Weight