TRANSFERS AGAIN, but don’t worry, I’m staying.  

Hello everyone!  Another week has come and gone and I once again have to think of something to write that will let you know somewhat of what my week has been like. 

   So not a lot happened until the end of the week.  We had a district activity of watching how to train you dragon 2 which was amazing...and playing sports...which sucked.  Because all the athletic elders went and played basketball and I couldn’t go play because obviously I’m a sister so I was stuck playing volleyball and we couldn’t keep score and half the people didn’t know how to hit the ball.  So I quit and went and taught the kids there how to throw a football.  That was super fun. They didn’t quite get the hang of it but we all had a good time. 

   Also sister Sevia got sick so we just camped out at the mission office for a while and she slept on the couch.  It was nice.  Aircon is nice.  But I think I’m going to die when I get home because when we go into air con we just freeze and need to wear jackets and stuff like that haha.  So I’m not looking forward to next winter in Idaho!!

   Also we didn’t really have any of our investigators at church.  That was a serious bummer and I’m really hoping that changes soon.  

      But I’m going to spend most of my letter talking about our Friday and Saturday experience.  So if you’ve been keeping up with my letters you can probably remember that I REALLY dislike exchanges.  They always turn out ok in the end but the idea of having to go on exchanges is like death and I really dislike it.  If it was my way I would never do it. But unfortunately that isn’t an option haha.  So we had our exchanges Friday night to Saturday night.  We thought we were going to be able to go to the women’s broadcast in our stake on the Saturday so we only planned half a day’s work and everything was good.  Because I’m not super familiar with the area so I was a little worried about not remembering how to get to all the houses.  But since we didn’t have much time to work I was ok.  All was well until we received a text from the bishop saying the broadcast in our stake had been postponed till next week.  I kind of wanted to die because I had absolutely no idea who we were going to go to.  So I just dramatically laid on the floor and then took a nap hah. In the face of crisis what do I do?  sleep it off!  :)  But I woke up a little while later still not ready to face a full day of work when we received a text from president Tye saying we had permission to go to the neighboring stake to watch!  We were ecstatic and hurried and got ready...because the next stake is an hour and a half away.  And we headed out the door.  Just as we started walking the rain started too.  It felt like I just stepped into the shower.  We were soaked in like 2 seconds.  But we just kept going because we didn’t want to be late to the conference.  Anyway we braved the elements and found a member to show us the way to get to Dasma.  It took an hour and the conference actually started earlier than they said, so we were pretty late.  But it was still fun.  And we only got a few lessons in with the STLs hah.   The highlight of the story was that the whole day we were praying and our prayers got answered.  First we prayed for a chance to be able to see the women’s broadcast, then we prayed that we would get there on time, then we prayed that it would stop raining so the sisters baptism could go through, and many many more.  And all of them were answered to some extent.  Even though they were super duper tiny prayers they were all heard.  I’ll tell you what.  My testimony of prayer has grown a ton since I’ve been here on the mission.  No matter what happens there is always someone who knows how you feel.  And can take care of you. And prayer is the way you talk to him. So just remember to pray always.  Especially the times when you don’t feel like you should.  It doesn’t have to be long, it just has to happen. :)

   That’s all the good stuff I have for you today. Hope it was entertaining hah.  I’m just really hungry and I kind of want to go get lunch before we head off on our zone activity to Tagaytay haha.  So sorry :) But I love you all.  And I’m thankful for all your prayers.  You are always in my prayers too.  So don’t worry! Keep being good examples and don’t waste the time you’ve been given.  You are all amazing!

 XOXOX from Molino! 

Sister Van Tassell