August 27, 2018

My last week in dartmouth😢 

This past week has been so awesome I'm going to be so sad to leave Dartmouth I can't believe that I've spent half of my mission here I just love the people here so much it was hard saying goodbye to the members on Sunday young women's Camp was so so good the young women are such a blast and groom a loved every second of it she said that she's definitely going next year and she is coming to Young Women's tomorrow night and should be coming every week now too and the young woman's activity is learning sign language so hopefully Colleen the lady who I was teaching before but stopped coming to church is hopefully going to be teaching the class with her little girl Lila hopefully this will be one of the first steps in getting them reactivated. The testimony meeting at Young Women's Camp was so powerful I forgot how hard it is for the young women to be at school and to feel alone and left out that they were so kind to each other at camp and helped each other to realize that they weren't alone in their feelings Grandma started crying and testimony meeting and she said afterwards that she really wanted to get up but she was just too nervous. I got to see so many of my favorite people this last week we got to meet with Elena on Sunday she's doing so awesome and is working towards going to the temple soon her daughter Isabella was that camp to Andrea really loved it she's warmed up to us so much. Dang I just really love the young woman it's like a flashback to last year and leaving st. John's and saying goodbye to all of them there thank goodness for Facebook and Instagram so I can stay caught up on their lives. We also got to meet with Vicky she is so sweet she gave us a bunch of her cards and just other things and she gave us a cake when we left your house too she said that she's not ready to work towards baptism right now but she's reading the book of Mormon and she wants to find her answer. that lady Rebecca was at church again this week and she brought her step-daughter I'm excited to hear more about her in the future she reminds me a lot of Laura and speaking of Laura we are seeing her today at 4 so I can go and Say Goodbye it's going to be hard but I hope that it will spark something and that she'll want to start coming back and being caught again. we taught him in again this past week and she promised to come to church again but she didn't come she told us that she moved to Halifax though so we're going to have to pass her off to the house fax sisters but it turns out that she lives super close to the church and Halifax and so it'll probably be better for her. We also finally met with this guy Michael we met him at a family history booth and we finally got to drop it off this past week and he let us in he has a super cute son Gabriel and so we taught him again on Sunday his sister is a super strong number in Sackville and we have really high hopes for him! thanks Grandma for always encouraging me to use family history to find people to teach😆 

 my heart is breaking a bit having to leave Dartmouth and saying goodbye to Sister Cartwright I haven't had to pack in so long (my camera somewhere in this apartment but I can't find it..😰) but I'm excited for what's next we got to see a sneak peek of the transfer table but I won't say anything yet just in case it's wrong or it changes:) I've just been so blessed to serve here. I've really tried to work diligently and help the sisters. I've been able to be apart of so many amazing experiences! Shania's conversion! She is living and going to church in Halifax now and that is just such a miracle! Charli's baptism and alayna coming back to church with her family. Teaching madeline and getting to go to her baptism! She is doing so well now! And also guess what!! Robbie (one of the first people that I taught in St John's) just got sealed in the temple this past weekend!!! I am just so so happy to be apart of these people's lives!!! There's so many others but I would be here forever:) 

I'm grateful that christ is at the head of this work and that I can trust that when I am working my harest everything that's suppose to will work out! 

I love you all and I'm grateful that heavenly father is keeping my family safe! 

Love sister wood