Hello my lovelies

What a turn around from last week! last week i was crying most of the time i was writing this and now i just cant wait to tell you all the things that have been happening here. thank you for your prayers i KNOW that is why all the miracles are happening.

soooooo sister B got a weird infection on her hand that we had to get taken care of quickly this week which was Heavenly Fathers way of giving us some time to catch a breather... we have been running 100 mph it seems like trying to meet with everyone and talking with everyone and making enough contacts and still meeting with members and dr appointents and calls and cleaning and meetings... absolutely crazy.. i felt some of my Comfort Inn skills come in as i had to manage phone calls and appointments... i have never been one to be very organized but BOY can we snap it into gear and jam it all in when we need to.

on friday we had zone conference which was SO INSPIRING you could tangibly feel the presence of angels in the room

president has called for higher goals.. more numbers and more baptisms... he has set the standards for our mission and when i first saw the numbers he expected my jaw dropped... he wants us to get 6 new investigators a week which means we have to have 6 quality discussions with different people everyday... which means we need to go finding and tracting more than we are and he wants to have EVERY investigator lesson in members homes. now i would have normally said.. dont be ridiculous that is crazy... but heavenly father the week before had shown us that those things were possible... so we have gone to WORK these past 4 days and we have done it!!!!!!! ok i shouldnt say we have done it.. with heavens help we have done it. our goals are higher than i ever thought we would ever set and a part of me is gasping for breath and hoping we can do this but there is a being inside me that is getting stronger every day that sings "WE CAN DO THIS!!!!!!!!! thats why we are here is to bring people to Christ!!"

now let me tell you some amazing news i could just cry im so happy

The mother and daughter from sudan... the mom is married to a man that i cant remember his name cause its so different but he says we can just call him brother lam... haha well the mom has always been hesitant about baptism and we have had a hard time teaching her because of the language barrier but  her 9 year old daughter would get baptized tomorrow if we let her.. she is SO EXCITED TO LEARN!! welllllllll the 9 yr old went to activity days and the lady who took her (whom i love by the way... and they might come stay with us during conference when i get home because i love their family so much) wellllll when she dropped her off she started talking to the mom and told her about church and that she would take her daughter to church and the mom said well actually i was thinking about going to!!!!! so mom and daughter said they would come to church so we saved them a spot and then GUESS WHO ALL CAME!?!?!?!??! THE WHOLE FAMILY!!!!!ALL SEVEN OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!  ;) oh i love them all) and the whole family came to church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! brother lam was so intrigued by the lessons in church (we talked alot about prophets) that he committed to take the lessons and come to church every week! and he downloaded lds tools on his phone and was so excited he could have the bible and the "Mormon bible" on his phone to study all the time...the nine year old is tearing through the book of mormon.. shes already in ENOS!!! ya... she is legit!

THENNNNNNNNNNNNA and M came to church as welllllllll!!!!!!!! and they are going to be baptized in april!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love them so much and i just cant wait to teach them more... like A is the best ever she is plowing through the book of mormon and writes all her questions down for us to answer when we come by and even does these additional study questions from the pamphlets that we give her.. she is so awesome :) and M  is only 13 years old but he is just eating everything up and loving learning so much.

oh i need a nap. im trying to figure out that balance of doing all i can do and not running faster than i have the strength..  i really think the harder the work the more lessons we will have... and not that we are busy bodies doing pointless things and stressing ourselves over nothing.. we are anxiously engaged in a good cause.. in the best cause and yes it is draining.. but it is so fullfilling.

i pray for strength every hour it seems, and every minute there are miracles on our right hand and on our left.. some day im going to be able to paint a picture of the way i feel or somethng to some how express the beauty of the exhaustion and work that goes into the salvation of souls... i cant imagine being the prophet... whew that would be so tiring haha... or like... Ammon!! he served his mission for 14 YEARS!!! i would die lol.... but i want to serve till forever actually... not just now :)

oh i love this :)
i love you all! i love love love you all :) and i miss you
love sister Douglas :)