Yay! Not getting transferred! We broke the trend!

Hi Everyone!

So I know you've all been just dying to know what happened with transfer calls.... well.... Saturday was the day.... it was a pretty ridiculous day...longest day ever!! People canceling left and right...then all the doors we knocked on no one would answer... ugh....it was rough... Oh! tender mercy though... we're just walking along in the blazing hot and this old guy drives by with his windows rolled down blasting taylor swift...hahhaha too great :) anyways...it was a long day...finally it was time to go in for the night and wait for the call...or the not call... we were hoping to not get a call since that would mean we were both staying.... We were really worried because there's been a trend in this area that a sister trains, then leaves so they've been staying for 12 weeks only! But we knew there weren't very many sisters coming out this transfer so we were just hoping there wouldn't been very many changes... So we sat there...and sat there... thinking "don't ring! don't ring!!!!" and then................ 9:34...the phone rings! GAH!!!!!! So we look at it and it's just the Topsham Elders!! The elders in our ward! Phew!!! They were asking if we had gotten a call yet and we said nope but you just gave us a heart attack!!! haha then they told us that we were probably safe because they had already gotten a call! AHH!! We were SO happy!! :) :) :) So Elder Jensen has been here for six months and he's getting transfered and Elder Lund is staying and will be our new District Leader! And me and Sister Sowards are staying together!!!!! We broke the trend!! YAY!!! We are going to work so hard this transfer!!! AH! it's going to be so awesome!!! :) So we are both super happy!! :D

I am SO glad I am staying here! I have met some of the most amazing pepole and I am just not ready to leave them yet! So I am super grateful that I get to spend another transfer here! and with Sister Sowards! :)

So it's been a good week! :) Mondays are always good! And I really can't believe it's monday again! This month has flown by!! We've done a lot this past week! Taught lots of lessons...did lots of walking...but we're learning to make the most out of our time and to really focus on our puropse! That's something that's hard....to always be focused on why you're here and to fell like a missionary everyday! but we've been making some good goals to really help us with this! We are memorizing lots of scriptures and one thing that is awesome is we are memorizing The Living Christ! When we are doing lots of walking we'll just pull it out and start memorizing it! We have half of it down already :) So that helps us :) oh another one of my goals... anyone who knows me really well knows how bad I am at making decisions... haha and Sister Sowrads has gotten to know me very well now and knows that this is one of my weaknesses... hahaha so my goal has been to not say "I don't know" haha good one huh? I just am the worst at deciding what we should teach people and what we should do next... so I'm working on that! And getting much better at that :) you would all be so proud haha it's really all about having more faith and listening to the spirit! I have to have faith that the spirit will tell me what to say! and when I have faith instead of fear...guess what! It works! I know what to say and I don't have to say "I don't know"! I'm gaining more confidence everyday and still learning so much! It's great :) We've had some really good lessons this week!  I don't think I've told you about Greg... He's been investigating the church for SIX years now... He's going to get baptized soon... I'm really glad that me and Sister Sowards are staying together because it's been hard for him I think with so much change in the missionaries since they leave every 12 weeks! But nope not us! :) So he's gaining more trust in us and we had a really awesome lesson with him and he participated a lot! I really felt the spirit and know that it was a good lesson because of the spirit!

I have lots more to write but not a lot of time! But I am just so happy to be a missionary and to get to stay here in Brunswick!!! :) I love this gospel SO much!! and I love you all so much too :) Have a great week!! :)