With tomorrow being the anniversary of Grandad's "transfer", I'm dedicating this one to him. He would've loved this!

Today is a special day isn't it :) sigh...... i cant believe how fast time goes... we are so blessed.

ok i have NO WORDS FOR THIS WEEK... like........................................
i dont even know where to start...umm, ok

so we are FULLY RECOVERED AND HEALTHY SHMEALTHY :) thank you for all your prayers on our behalf. i know that is why we are better. i also know we needed to be better and on top of our A game so we could handle all the INVESTIGATORS Heavenly Father threw our way. ya. real live investigators!!!!!

SOOOOOOOOOO its this beautiful weaving of how everything needed to happen!

the week before we got sick we were FINDING machines just knocking every door, going crazy and thinking we could do everything by ourselves..... but we had some humbling experiences where we KNEW that we needed to work with the members... so we focused ALL our energy on building relationships with the members and working with them on getting them excited and then we got SICK?????!!!!! and that was when we had the epiphany to FIND FOR THE MEMBERS!! and our finding craziness gets blended perfectly with working with the members and getting them excited about who we are teaching because its THEIR investigators as well!!! SO i feel like the fire of this week of wonderfulness started a couple days before district meeting where sister h and i just had these puzzle pieces of revelation just come to us on how to find and use more effective door approaches and just like... everything was falling into place... THEN at district meeting.... ah MAN! it was CRAZY!!!! LIKE SPIRITUALLY OVERWHELMING i dont have words to even explain to you how INTENSE it was..... we just... like EVERY COMPANIONSHIP had experienced these moments of adversity but then we had all over come it and had new insights and were pumped for this next transfer and coming weeks... president is upping the expectations of how many baptisms and all that soon and we know big changes are coming we could FEEL it... it was like static electricity in the air of excitement and i think empowerment as well... Heavenly Father saw how ready we were to just go to work and the whole meeting was just line upon line of perfection inspiration and enlightenment.... at the end of the meeting we all agreed that before next week (our last district meeting all together) we would each have 2 more new investigators... and we KNEW that Heavenly Father was preparing people at that moment for us to find and to teach. we ended singing at the top of our lungs called to serve..... there were 8 of us missionaries singing but i know angels were singing with us.

WELLLLL I left that room just SHAKING i really can see why people in the book of mormon would faint when they were overwhelmed with the spirit haha... it was crazy

so we went to work

praying every ten minutes it seems..
asking seeking and FINDING!!!
we went tracting every spare second we had and we would look in areas with members near by.

ON JUST ONE STREET WE FOUND 11 POTENTIAL INVESTIGATORS AND GOT 6 RETURN APPOINTMENTS for this week...... just to put that into perspective for you we maybe will get ONE of those a WEEK and we got that many in ONE DAY.

it was insane i felt like singing the whole day and wanted to just SHOUT TO EVERYONE THAT WE HAVE THE TRUTH CAN YOU SEE THIS!!?!?!??!?! also i dont think i have ever been so tired in my entire life... haha like.... hiking the grand canyon status of fatigue.. but the Lord has really been in our lives... He has been our rearward, gone before us, beared us up on every side... we have been so strengthened and uplifted when i have felt like i could drop dead on someones porch haha

oh so we found tons there and i dont even have time to tell you all the miracles... one lady in broken english asked for a book of mormon.. and we just so happened to have one in punjabi in our bag... like... we never carry punjabi book of mormons with us... BUT WE DID.... and then we found a boy who had been baptized then moved and he wants to come back to church and then a lady who has gone to our church but her fellowshipper moved... like all these insane PERFECT times for us to find them.. who have been SO prepared...

OUR TEACHING POOL HAS DOUBLED.

one of our new investigators i just need to tell you what she said... it makes me cry..

after teaching her for about 20 minutes... and getting through some of her TOUGH questions i was beginning to think this lady was never going to believe what we were teaching her.. she was so skeptical of our beliefs and i was just like ugh... but then... we got to the part of the restoration... let me tell you when we teach the restoration, no matter WHAT, a special spirit comes...she changed completely when we started talking about the first vision... and this girl is SMART let me tell you like VERY INTELLIGENT.. and we let the silence just sit for a second.. and then she's like.. "WOW...wooooooooooooooooooow... this is so crazy... this is so heavily weighted.... you guys are either the craziest people i have ever talked to for believing something like this... OR this is the best news i have ever heard." and we were like... "uh... ya. thats how it is supposed to be" and then she sat there for a second and shes like" well shooot!!! im only one girl how am i supposed to convince my church that the mormons had it right all along!?!?!?!" HAHAHAHA it was so cool.... so ya c is my favorite and after sister h and i left we had to pull over on the side of the road and bawl for a little bit as we thanked Heavenly Father for what a blessing it is to be apart of that, to SEE light change people.

man... there are so many other people that have been ABSOLUTE miracles this week.. like w who ACCEPTED THE INVITE TO BE BAPTIZED!!!! and L who invited us back as soon as she talked to us and said i have been WAITING for you girls...or C who has been searching for the truth and s who left the church but wants to come back.. like we are at our boiling point here trying to balance it all but i know that the Lord doesnt give us anything we cant handle... and i KNOW that i have the best friend ever working along side us... i dont remember what chapter but in revelations it talks about the Son of God working in the vineyard.. i know that the Savior works with us.. this is HIS work!!!

i love you all so much :) thank you for your prayers i really do feel them.. and i LOVE you :):))

Im trying to think of any other crazy things that have happened that i could tell you real quick before i go... umm we had delicious cinnamon rolls TWICE which i ate to many of but it was worth it :) its warmer outside today, the temple is wonderful, we got a CARWASH! thats a miracle haha... i dont even know its just been a miraculous week :)

tell everyone in the family that i love them... when you see all my cousins and aunties and uncles hug them ALL for me and tell them i love them and that I am thinking of Grandad too.. but he is working with sarah and me too :) missioanry work is EVERYWHERE :) i love you so much!!
love sister douglas