February 19, 2018

Hey everyone!!

It's zone conference week again so right now we are on our way to moncton and our van is full of mail and mats and...PHONES ahhh. This is the zone conference where everyone gets theit phones and the missionaries are so excited haha it's so crazy when I first came out I never thought that I would have a smart phone on my mission and now I've had one since January 1st. Because we have to set up all the phones this zone cinference is starting a lit earlier than they usually do so tonight a lot of the missionaries get to stay in a hotel in moncton so they don't have to drive from their areas in the morning, they are pretty excited about that too:)

This past week we had exchanges with the fredricton sisters and so I got to be with sister auvigne again for a little and then we also had exchanges with the gander sisters, they are working with this family right now who is going to be getting baptized in march which is HUGE for gander!!! Right now I think gander has 5 members and two of them are moving in April.  And so I am so happy and excited for this baptism!! Heavenly Father is really blessing our mission right now, so many missionaries are finding people to teach and like 90% of them are under 30! It's so awesome!!

This past week we didn't get to meet with a lit of our investigators but the ones we did meet with their lessons went really well. We met with pam and she is on date for March 24 but she will have to get married before that so that date might end up being pushed. Vicki is doing awesome, her husband gave a talk and church and mentioned how she is meeting with us and how proud he is of her:) I don't know when she'll get baptised but I hope that when they get sealed in the temple I can come back here and be here with them. Vicki just treats us like her daughters. Ugh in just live her so much! We taught her about the plan of salvation and she never know before that Adam and eve couldn't progress or have children in the garden of eden, she was like "this changes everything!" Haha and she also didn't know about Jesus Christ suffering in the garden of Gethsemane. We explained that the rough his atonement we are saved from physical death and spiritual death. It is just so cool teaching pepole and watching them soak everything in:) 

On friday and Saturday sister claus was sick and so Friday just did splits with the gander sisters and sister behike and I met this guy named zak street contacting. He is really sweet. The elders ended up teachin him for us on Saturday and put him on date for baptism! Gander left on Saturday and soSaturday was the first day of my mission so far where I never left my apartment haha it was so boring! On tangled during that first song when she's singing about all of the things she does in her tower and how it's only 7:15 that was literally me hahah and so it's my goal now to never get sick on my mission. 

Something really sad happened this week. Our recent convert colleen messaged us and said that she doesn't want to meet with us anymore and doesn't want to come to church. She has responded tO our message back to her yet but she has answered back to some of the members that have messaged her. We have no idea what happened, we were going to be going to to hehe temple with her next week:( we are hoping for the best though and we have her sign language flash cards that we have to return to her so hopefully she will let us in. New members must just feel very overwhelmed and they need a lot of love and support.

I love you all!

Live sister wood