Layton!

Tell Dad and sisters sorry I can't reply to their emails today... NO TIME. I liked Centerville so much better than Layton but it's still really nice here. The members don't feed us as much here (thank goodness) and this past week we had 2 dinners back out on us so we just ate cereal at our house. There's a group of sisters in our zone with a car so they take us to the store but we have to go when they want, leave when they want etc.... so it's kind of annoying but okay. Tell Dad congrats on almost being done with radiation! Okay, here's the weekly update...

So our mission president picked 2 companionships per zone (so 4 people out of 20) to take on this challenge of getting at least one baptism and one person reactivated a week. He contacted us the other day and said our trio was chosen... no pressure, right? He promised that if we made an effort though, there would be miracles. This was going to be hard for us because we're the first sisters to be in this area... so we had to start from ground zero. We're doing really well though; the past week we taught 31 lessons, have 11 new investigators and have 1 person on date. Technically 2, but they're brothers and one of the boys is 8 so he doesn't count as a convert baptism... pretty much we're on a roll. There's one apartment complx in our area that has a big basketball court in the middle.... EVERY SINGLE PERSON we've met and talked to there has agreed to take the lessons. Without fail. Which is surprising because it's kind of a sketchy apartment complex, hahah. So me and my companions joke that we need to just build a baptismal font in the middle of the court and push people in. Like literally, it's insane. We've only been turned down by probably 3 people in general so far.... it's awesome. We're teaching a lot of excommunicated RM's who want to come back and that's really cool.... it's also hard because they already know more about the gospel than we do most of the time... we're just supposed to try to help them feel the spirit again. It's really interesting; during lessons they answer all the questions right and have all these good comments about church history and what not but then when they ask if they will say the closing prayer they almost always say no... like they're not ready for that yet or something. We also have been working with a lot of inactive sisters who have been offended and left the church... that's fun.... haha. The members are really nice here and always giving us rides places and inviting us over to do random things at their house... this one sister has us over like no joke, every other day. Then we figured out she only invited us over when her inactive teenage son was home.... and she dropped the hint that she wants us to work on him... there's a lot of people who want us to work on situations like that for them, it's kinda awkward... oh the funniest thing happened at church this week. Because there's 3 of us, we can have lessons with single guys and guys in the ward can drive us places without having their wives or whatever... it's really convenient!  So in Relief Society this week they were passing around a sign up for our meals and they said, "we all need to take advantage of having sisters to feed now so we can have early dinners without having our husbands home from work," and Sister P (one of my companions who can squat 550 pounds, btw. She's a BEAST) said, "also, because there's 3 of us, your husbands can just be the ones feeding us too!....or your sons....." and the whole Relief Society got really quiet and it was awkward.. and then the president said, "but let's try to avoid that and make sure there's a Sister present." AHHAHA Sister P was so embarrassed; it was hilarious. Thank you all for your prayers and emails, I would love letters sent to my apartment as well! Being able to serve a mission has been such a blessing in my life, missionary work is the best way to be happy. Love you all, xoxoxo