Tuesday I went on exchanges with Sister Blacker on Purdue campus. It was fun to be able to teach, I got overwhelmed with talking to people on campus though. Unfortunately it's dead week here so a lot of the people we talked to aren't going to be around for the summer.
Tuesday night we went to a part member's house for dinner. We walked in and we asked what we could help with. He told us he would teach us how to make sushi....Sister Hales and I just about died haha. It wasn't so bad especially since it was just crap meat. The egg rolls were good!
Wednesday morning we got to rip trees out of the ground at a member's house in the 2nd ward. Mom you should have gotten pictures e-mailed to you. Most of the missionaries in the zone were there and we are going back tomorrow morning. It's fun to do physical labor like that since it doesn't happen too often. That afternoon we went to Delphi to contact some less actives that are now in our ward from the ward realignment. We got a pretty positive response. It always makes me sad to meet people who have made covenants but no longer want to keep them :(
Friday we dressed up as nerds for zone meeting. We also blitzed campus for a little bit afterward. From zone meeting I learned that I need to step up my game with leaving commitments with people. If we don't leave commitments then we aren't helping investigators repent.
Saturday was sweet! That morning we went to breakfast with all the sisters in the stake at a member's house. Then we had a ward pitch in at the park. Luckily it finally warmed up! It was fun to continue to get to know members more. The elders started a game of soccer with some of the kids in the ward. We were dragged into playing too. Playing soccer in a skirt is a bit interesting, but we figured if we could ride bikes we could do that too. I kind of felt like I was in a foreign county playing soccer with kids in the dirt. The best part was when Sister Hales kicked the ball and her shoe went into the goal and the ball didn't :)
Afterwards we had an incredible lesson with new investigators we found last week, the sister and brother. We taught them the Restoration and committed them to baptism and the read the Book of Mormon. They were a little hesitant about the baptism but more than willing to read. They also told us they would be at church for sure. I'm grateful because I was totally focused during that lesson. Often time I find my mind wandering during lessons, but not this one! I was fulling my purpose to the end.
Saturday night we helped out at a Cinco de Mayo dinner at the church. It was a youth fundraiser for the Spanish branch in the stake. Never leave it up to missionaries to serve dinner; it was complete chaos. But it was a lot of fun and we got authentic Mexican food.
9:05 Sunday rolls around and Audrey and Arthur weren't at church. We texted them to see what had happened. Audrey texted us at about 9:20 saying they were on their way! They only got the end of sacrament but then stayed for the next two hours. She said that they had accidentally slept in. I was impressed because usually when that happens people just give up and don't come at all. I think they really enjoyed themselves though. Audrey is coming to play volleyball with us tonight at the church!
I'm getting transferred.....I'm pretty upset about it. Sister Hales will be staying and training and I'll be a sister training leader. We were planning last night and our phone lit up and it was President Cleveland calling. You don't want President to call you for transfers because it means one (or both) of you is getting a leadership position. I made Sister Hales take the call because I didn't want to. I had heard rumors all week I would becoming a STL so it wasn't a huge surprise, but still. President even apologized for taking me out right when we were getting settled into the area. I don't want to leave and I still want to be companions with Sister Hales.
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