6/4/2013
Failure on the transfer prediction -
but thank you mom for doing it. I have been called as a Sister
Training Leader and I am being transferred to....Calgary. Yes sir, I am
staying in the city. At least I know I am going one of two places.
At Missionary Leadership Training we learned where all of the new areas that
will be opening. I will either be in the North East part of Calgary
(Conventry Hills) or the South East by the mission home and office (Willow
Park). Sister Fenn is training, so we will be meeting her
"daughter" tonight. Hopefully I'll be able to figure out who my
companion will be. I am a little nervous about purging, but I think it
will be a good adventure. At least it will be me and another Senior Sister
together...and we both have no idea what we are doing. I'm pretty sure
some grand adventures are ahead.
This week has been
bittersweet. I tend to hate the end of transfers and being reminded that
this is the last time you will see people for a while. I am ready for
change, but I will be missing a lot of people here. There have been
members here that have been true life savers for me.
I am trying to remember what
happened last week - I had two meetings to attend so that took up most of
Friday and Saturday. We got a really solid referral from a member. He
told us that one year he gave 48 referrals to the mission office and only 10
where contacted. We decided that we would be super diligent and contact
the referral within 24 hours. The referral was a mother and a daughter
from Ireland. The husband has moved back to Ireland and the mother is
selling the house and wanting to move back herself. The daughter is
graduating University this week and will be staying in Calgary. We talked
to the daughter, Rachel, and set up an appointment. Rachel is
super sweet and very interested. We had an appointment for yesterday, but
her mother told us that they are just too busy right now and they will contact
us. Sad face. We will make sure the YSA stays in contact with
Rachel. I feel that she will be baptized.
Lisa came to church again this week!
She is so sweet! Lisa is also very shy, but she felt that she should go up and
bear her testimony. So she did! In her testimony she said that when she
knows that this is true she will be baptized! The only down side to this is we
do not know where she lives and we think she is not in our stake. We will
have to jump through a few loops, but with God's help anything is possible.
Justin also came to church and he is
also wondering about baptism. We are trying to help him understand the
parole doesn't have to be the barrier holding him back from being
baptized. We also would love to have a lesson with just him because we
feel that he is getting some pressure from his finance.
Highlight of the week - Peter's
and Menchies. Hahaha, oh my. So, Peter's Drive-Through is the
Casper of Calgary, but on a much bigger scale. They are known for their
milkshakes and burgers. Sister Fenn and I stopped by on way from Trainers
Training. They were pretty good. We didn't realize that there was
another column for falvors and that you can mix them. Mom and dad- we are
going back. I must get a chocolate toasted marshmallow! :) Then we had
dinner plus desert and then our ward mission leader wanted to take us and
Thandi to Menchies - frozen yogurt. After consuming even more sugar we
went back to Thandi's. I was a little sleep deprived and on a sugar high.
Thandi and I were laughing uncontrollably the entire time. Oh my. I have not
laughed that hard for a while. It was so funny. You know when you
just get really slap happy? At least we were with Thandi and not with and
investigator that would have thought I was crazy. Good times, good times.
We were going to go to Banff today,
but we had no way of getting out there. :( But it's okay, I have been four
times already and I know I will be coming back in September.
I feel that was mostly our
week. I will have to finish packing - I don't really know what the future
will bring, but that's okay, my companion won't really either. We asked
President if we will get any additional training for being a sister
training leader and he said, no, he has not been giving any training for
us. Ugh. We have no idea how to do exchanges, but at least it is spelled out
in the missionary handbook. Sister Sagers reminded him that reading it
and doing it sometimes don't correlate as smoothly as we would live. ;)
Love you all and I am excited for
the adventures that are ahead!
-Sister Douglass
