But
first! I found out I'm being transferred this week, and guess what! I'm
going back to Olympia!! I'll be in 1st and 5th wards with Sister
Tanner, who is going home next transfer so I'll be killing her there and
taking over. One of those wards is a YSA ward I think, so it'll be
interesting. I got to bear my testimony in church yesterday as a goodbye
to Deschutes ward, and it broke my heart. I LOVE this ward, and I'm
going to miss them a ton. But I'm super excited to see what this next
transfer holds, and see Oly again!
So this weekend we took
Sierra to the temple to do baptisms and Diana got baptized and we went
to UP to see one of Sis Harbaugh's old people get baptized! And just
about everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, haha.
It was ridiculous. Sis Harbaugh and I have titled this weekend "Faith
Boot Camp" because it really was. But despite the overwhelming odds
against us this weekend, everything worked out! :) We even made it to
the Seattle temple in an hour and a half during rush hour on a Friday
night - which nobody believed it could happen but we had been praying
all day and traffic was beautiful the whole way there! (I'll tell you
about all the miracles this weekend another day when we're not crunched
for time.)
Going to the temple with Sierra was so great - even
though all her youth friends didn't come we had fun on the drive and it
was an awesome experience - she brought her great-gpa's name and she
loved the whole thing. And that temple is way beautiful!! I'm SO glad we
made it, I've really super missed the temple.
Diana's
baptism was a heck of a time, haha. It takes about 2 hours to fill the
font so we got there at 7 to start it, and about 30 min later I went to
check on it and realized we hadn't plugged it... so it had just been
draining. *hits head against the wall* So we fixed it and it started
filling for reals, and we'd asked Diana to get to the church around
8:40, and at 8:45 her ride showed up without her... and we were like,
um, where's Diana? and right then Diana called us super nervous saying
her ride isn't here and she needed to be there and so we sent her ride
back to get her. In the meantime, past 9 we didn't have any presiding
authority so we called the 1st counselor and he said he told the 2nd
counselor to come, so we called him and he was totally in the dark about
everything and said he could be there in 30 minutes... So. We started
the baptism a lil late, but Diana made it and it all worked out and it
was awesome. Her confirmation was fantastic at church yesterday too, and
when we all sustained her a member her face just lit up. She is SO
happy. I have seen such an amazing change in her since that first night
we met her, and she was telling us the past few days "Thank you for
coming to my door! Thank you for knocking on my door!" over and over :)
It is so humbling and just amazing to be a part of this work. I
absolutely LOVE it. I'm glad I could leave this area with a bang and I
know Sis Harbaugh will take good care of it :) Well, I have no time to
write today because I have to go pack and we have a zone lunch up in
Lacey.. so . I love you all so so much and hope you have the greatest
week!!
Sister Wilson
This is our district. It's a pretty accurate depiction.
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