Surprise! We got our letter(s) in the mail today and Sister Tait wrote this blog post and asked me to type it up and send it out....so, here you go, the latest update from Sister Tait. And we only have to wait two days till the next one!! Yippee - we are doing a happy dance over here :) Have a great weekend everyone!
So let me tell you about my journey to damariscotta! Haha! We got the record for shortest transfer - Sister Huefner just came down to Topsham, picked me up and back to Damariscotta we went. Easy peasy! We're still trying to get used to the fact that we're actually companions and not just on exchange! So first things first, we stopped at McDonalds and got some breakfast, then we had mormon.org tim so I got on there and Sister Huefner finished applying for grad school. We were there for a while then for lunch we stopped at Hannaford and bought some food for the week. Then we came to the Royers to let the dos out since they were at the temple - then we had a lesson with our investigators, Linda & Arnez & Tom. They all want to get baptized and it will be very soon hopefully. Anyway, that's what we did on Tuesday. We came home and did our personal and companion study since we missed it that morning...then we had dinner, did our nightly planning, unpacked and a little and went to bed. We were a little worried about mornings because we know that both of us don't really enjoy getting up so early haha, but so far so good & it turns out 2 negatives make a positive! So we woke up on time, bright and early Wednesday morning and it was a bright sunshiny day! We've been having the January thaw this week so it's been relatively warm - All we needed was our rain jackets outside. And then the snow came back yesterday - but it was nice while it lasted.
Wednesday we went and did service for Melanie - a potential investigator. We painted a bed set for her granddaughter Oh and funny story...so Melanie was on the phone and there was a knock on the door...Sis. Huefner went and answered it and guess who it was? The Jehovah's Witnesses! Haha it was really funny to see their startled faces when they saw our name tags First they thought we were the physical therapists and then we said nope, just visiting. They weren't too happy...they asked if we could give Melanie a pamphlet, so we did and then she thanked us. Maybe they won't come back haha - it was just really funny! Then we went and saw a less active Sister Russell and read the Book of Mormon with her. After that we went to the church and coordination with the elders and Brother Royer (he's the branch mission leader), then we got to go to the youth activity and play scripture charades with them.
Thursday we had zone meeting. So with transfers and everything, they changed up some of the mission boundaries, so now Topsham is not in our zone and there is no Topsham district anymore! We're in a whole new district now and I won't get to see Sister Hoffman now and we won't go on exchanges there cuz we're in different zones! Zone meeting was good. Our zone leaders made another challenge like the 12 days of Christmas, but this time it's Family History Madness! Unfortunately we're not as dedicated to the challenge this time since our district was demolished, but we'll still do our best and see how it goes. After zone meeting we went and saw Linda and Arnez, did the challenge and went on family search.org and showed them how to do a fan chart.
Friday we did weekly planning and then went to see Christy - an investigator but she was sick. After that we went to the Seversons and had a lesson with them and then they decided to feed us dinner. Then we went and did more painting for Melanie.
Saturday we did the stop smoking program with Arnez and it went really well! Sister Duffy came with us and Arnez's grandkids were there and helped put signs all over the house. So, that was good. It just takes 7 days, so next Saturday we are having a victory party! We tried to see some other potentials/formers that day and then we did transfer planning.
Sunday was great! Church starts at 10:00 here. It was pretty snowy so it was a small crowd in our little branch, but Linda, Tom and Arnez were there! I love the branch and all the members here. They're so great! Sister McInnis is Betsey's mom, so she wanted to take me with here to Cory's baptism. I wanted to go so bad but I couldn't. But hey! Corey is baptized now!! Woohoo!! We got to go to primary and play the piano because there were no other pianists, so Sister Huefner & I will just switch off being the primary pianist :) After church we had a linger longer so that was fun and delicious! We stopped by a few less actives, had a meeting with the elders, then home for dinner. So, it's been a pretty great week. We've got some really great goals for this transfer. We are sad because we know we'll probably only get one transfer together...but it is going to be one wicked awesome transfer!! Last night we were talking about life and such and about our missions. We were really pondering and thinking about how great Heavenly Father is. He really is so aware of us - of our wants and needs - he know what's best and it always works out. He has a plan! It's so cool to see how all the pieces fall into place! We were thinking back to our first exchange together & afterwards we had both written in our journals similar things about how we wished we could be companions. But, we knew it probably wouldn't happen, then how last transfer when we were all sure I was being transferred and then surprise! I wasn't! That was pretty crazy - it caused me to have some doubts and I was quite confused. Sister Huefner was confused too, but now seeing how it all worked out, I know that there were several reasons why I had to stay another transfer...but one big reason was so that then Sister Huefner and I could be companions! Tricky tricky! Oh Heavenly Father - He's so cool!! I love Him! He just knows how to make it all work! I love this gospel so much and I love being a missionary. And I love all of you!!!
Love,
Sister Tait
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