Oh manny... well it turns out we were all wrong! haha all week I was going around thinking I was going to be transferred....so I was saying see ya later to everyone...and looks like I'm gonna be seeing them a lot sooner than later! I'm staying in Portsmouth!! :D and I'm going to train a brand new sister! Crazy!!!! It's been a crazy week! and the craziness doesn't end....haha today is kinda insane with all the packing and getting everything ready with sister beus leaving tomorrow morning! so i'll just try and tell you really fast about our week :)
Last Monday we went and walked around Portsmouth for a bit, went to a few of the shops downtown and then had fhe at Sister Whitney's!
Tuesday we went to the the food pantry and did service and then went and visited Sister Bock! Then we went street contacting for a little while and then had dinner with the Keele's! :)
Wednesday we got to go to the food pantry again since zone conference was on Thursday! We had fun there and then everyone was sad that I was going to be leaving...we took pictures and everything! said see ya later and then went and did bingo! Then we did some street contacting and later went to activity days!
Thursday was zone conference! We went to Exeter and Elder Larry Y. Wilson of the seventy and his wife came and spoke to us! The whole thing was all about the Book of Mormon and how it is the most powerful tool in conversion! It was a great meeting! maybe another time i'll be able to tell you more about all that we talked about there.... We talked about 1 Nephi 1 and how cool it is that it has all the points of the first lesson the restoration in it! coincidence? I think not... hah... So that's pretty awesome! and we compared it to Joseph Smith History (the first vision and "Lehi's vision") Basically it was just an amazing zone conference and we are going to focus on using the Book of Mormon even more!! He had us get into our districts and make a "trailer" for 1 Nephi 3-5 to get people excited to read those chapters...and four of the districts got to present them/act it out...haha so we got to do ours and that was pretty exciting! It was pretty hilarious and awesome! And then we talked a lot about how we can use the book of Mormon more and how important it is that everyone is holding onto the iron rod and don't let go! Ahhh I just love the Book of Mormon :) Hold to the rod :)
Friday we did weekly planning....and doing that I totally felt like I was leaving and sister beus was staying... anyways...we went and saw sister bromfield, stopped by the Bilodeau's and sister bilodeau was out in her garden and we asked if we could help and she said we could come back the next day :) Then we had dinner and a fhe lesson with Mary and Mandy :) so that was super fun!
Saturday we went over to the Bilodeau's to help with the gardening! That helped to keep us busy and our minds off of what was coming that night...transfer calls.... we had lunch with them and then when we were leaving I looked at the phone and there was a missed call from President Stoker.... uh oh..... so we drove home....and we were freaking out! thinking of all the possibilities and what was gonna happen because we knew our transfer call was coming early! I even said "how funny would it be after all week i'm going around saying see ya to everyone and then what if I don't get transferred.... nah...that's not gonna happen..." but I kept thinking it! haha so it was an option.... we got home, called President and he said he was doing some calls early and then he told us! "Sister Tait you are going to stay and train!" :O whaaaaaat?!!?!?! and said sister beus was going to be transferred! oh manny... we both accepted and then hung up the phone and started texting and calling everyone... we were kinda confused for a second because it was not what we were expecting! haha but I know that even though Heavenly Father throws curve balls at us, or we may be confused, I know that everything always works out according to His will! It was perfect because that day in my Book of Mormon reading I was in Words of Mormon and I love verse 7 that says "And I do this for a wise purpose; for thus it whispereth me, according to the workings of the Spirit of the Lord which is in me. And now, I do not know all things; but the Lord knoweth all things which are to come; wherefore, he worketh in me to do according to his will." I love this scripture!!! I do not know all things, and things don't always go the way I think they will or should...but it's always for a wise purpose...Heavenly Father has a plan and He always knows what's best! :) So after finding out the news we've just been going crazy! haha running around visiting lots of members, packing...
church yesterday - We had lunch with the Caspers, then dessert at the Keele's and then went to the Hafen's! now we're just finishing up emails and then getting sister beus all packed and ready for tomorrow! I can't believe i'm staying!!! and I'm so excited to train! wowowowowowowowowow! haha so crazy! can't wait to meet my new little "daughter"! :) anyways...sorry I didn't really get to tell you that much about everything we did...maybe later...haha so much to do... so little time!!!!!! I hope you all have a great week! LOVE YOU LOTS!! :)
Sister Tait
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