Sister Chelsey Tait: Goodbye?? well sort of…last week in Tomsham

Oh man! Crazy things happening here! haha you're never gonna believe this but... I'm being transferred!! Okay so that part is believable but you'll never guess where I'm going!! ....haha I'm going to Damariscotta!! yup! just like 40 minutes away from my area now... haha and my companion is going to be Sister Huefner!!! :D no way right?! Before my mission I thought it was a one time thing...all that suspense and excitement waiting to get your mission call... but nope! It happens every six weeks! (or at least the possibility of every six weeks) haha! all that all over again! wondering where will i go?? but this time it's not where in the world will i go... but where in New England will I go?? haha so Saturday night is when transfer calls happen... we were out in Lisbon teaching Corey so we were driving home and we stopped to get gas and I checked the phone and said Sister Hoffman we missed our call! well...guess i'm not leaving! haha...so that was at 8:18 missed the call...oops.. haha then we got a text from the Damariscotta sisters saying "and transfer calls have officially begun...may the odds be ever in your favor" so we knew they had gotten their call so we asked what was happening!! they said sister lundahl was leaving and sister huefner was staying sister training leader and staying in damariscotta! so then we were home...doing our nightly planning and since we missed our call we had to wait til they called again since they were calling everyone else... haha so then 9:20 rolls around and we get a call from the assistants! and no surprises! he just told us that sister hoffman was staying and I was being transferred!! We texted the Damariscotta sisters and told them and they said we'll miss you sister tait! so then.... Sunday morning the zone leaders call to give you your travel plans... I answered the phone and he said "you need to get a member ride to the Topsham chapel... be there at 6:50... Sister Hoffman will go to transfer meeting to meet her new companion and Sister Tait you will meet Sister Huefner and go to your new area.. Damariscotta!" wait are you serious??? haha he was like yeah crazy i know!! haha but i said well alrighty!! awesome!!! haha :) So then we texted the sisters and asked if they got their travel plans and then Sister Huefner said "well looks like i won't be missing you sister tait!" haha it was just funny and awesome!! :) i can't believe it!!! so yeah! that's how it happened! haha normally you don't know where you're going or who your new companion is... unless your travel plans are close by or you're meeting your companion there or whatever... so anyways!! it's gonna be great!! haha :D sister jones will pick us up tomorrow morning at 6:30 and take us to the church then i'll go to damariscotta with sis huefner and sis hoffman will go to manchester and get her new companion!! crazy crazy!! :) So i'm not really going too far! Yesterday at church all the members were anxious to hear what was happening! It was so great to tell them I wouldn't be too far! cuz of course that's the hardest part! see it's not just a one time call and not just a one time goodbye... but no goodbyes, just see you later.. and this time it's more like sooner than later...just a hop, skip and a jump away :) haha too great :)

So it's been an awesome week!!! Great way to end the transfer and my time in Topsham!! It has been an awesome 7 months...crazy that it's been 7 months... but it's been so cool to be here and really see the area grow!! So many miracles have happened in the past 5 transfers! It's so great! This morning we were doing some reflecting on just this last transfer and we had 8 new investigators!! Wow!! I remember back in the day when we had like one investigator and we were just so focused on less actives! Now our less actives are active...we have to hunt down more less actives and we have people that we are teaching regularly! It's wonderful!! It's cool to see how all these investigators have come from so many different ways too! Tracting, street contacting, referrals, part member families... I know that as we have just tried our hardest and didn't give up the Lord blessed us and led us to those prepared people! It was just an instant & here's all these investigators... there were lots of ups and downs... It's like a roller coaster! Well life can be a roller coaster...but a mission...it's a whole other kind of roller coaster... haha! It's been a crazy one! There are really hard days...really hard hours...but then really amazing ones that make it all worth it! You just can't give up!! I know it's because of that that we were able to find these amazing prepared people! And guess what! Sister Hoffman and I will still be in the same district so I'll still get to hear all about these people :)

So Monday we had a great pday and then we had dinner with Sister Wallace :) She is seriously the cutest ever! Yesterday she told me she didn't want me to leave and that she might just drive over and kidnap me! haha! Tuesday we went to the soup kitchen and we told them I was probably leaving...for reals this time... and they said oh sure... haha so i said i needed a picture! I got my picture but it's gonna be really funny if I come back to topsham for exchanges on a tuesday and i'm back! haha not sure if that will happen because sister huefner might not be over topsham...but we'll see! :) We met with John who we met at the soup kitchen the other day and had a really good lesson with him! We told him I was probably going to be transferred so he wanted to meet again before I left so tonight we have a lesson with him! He is going to bible school...and has lots of good questions...so should be good! We had a great lesson with Shawn and Megan on Wednesday! They had lots of good questions and we taught them all about the plan of salvation! It was so good! Then Thursday we served at the hospital..did some tracting...visited some less actives! Friday we had a good lesson with the Jacksons then Saturday taught Mike and Corey!!!

Ahh! i'm out of time!! sorry i can't tell you more!! haha well!!! I love you all!!! hope you have a great week!!! :)

Love,

Sister Tait

p.s. My new address is... 447Goshen Rd.

Waldaboro, ME 04572

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