This week has been lots of fun. We had some great lessons, and miracles and good news...all four South Shields sisters are STAYING! WHOO! The intensity transfer night every 6 weeks gets crazier and crazier. I was pretty sure we'd be staying though. Not too much even changed this transfer with our zone. And, exciting news, Sister Monroe is now a Sister Trainer Leader. It's so great to be able to go on exchanges with them all of the time, and now I live with one. :)
My mind is blanked...but we found a fantastic new investigator! Her name is Samantha and we met her while we were knocking. I may have already mentioned her (I can't remember anything during e-mail time) but she is incredible. We had our first lesson with her on Thursday and she was so enthusiastic about being able to pray and find out if Joseph Smith really did see God and Jesus Christ. She felt the Spirit strongly and she had a great desire to come to church with us on Sunday. It was all too perfect though (things like this don't happen with ease...the devil always has a way of slowing things down...) and ten minutes before Sacrament Meeting, she texted us saying there was some problems with support from her family and friends. It devastated me, but we are praying that she will get in contact with us again and that all is not lost.
It's funny Mom, that you mentioned Joseph Fielding Smith's book, because I picked that up today and read through the beginning about his mission. It really made me feel better and helped me again, to understand that this is all in the Lord's timing, even if this isn't Samantha's time, it will happen.
As for Ashleigh, she's doing brilliantly. We are seeing her again tonight and she loved church on Sunday. She's really motivated to make all of the necessary changes and to gain the courage she needs to change her work schedule around. There are so many blessings that we have experienced this past week. I was nervous to go from having so much holiday to full throttle missionary work, but it has proved to be even greater than before.
New Year's Eve we spent with Kirsty, her mom, and Sister Dodsworth. I love those three. They're hilarious together. We watched The Sound of Music and had some absolutely canny commentary fro everyone. I loved it. We then watched the end bit of "Nativity!" because we love it.
New Year's Day we had off entirely (which is probably the last day of my mission that will happen) and there was no transit going that day so we weren't able to go to Durham Cathedral like we had planned. Not to worry though, because we had a really spiritual and uplifting time in the flat. We read through our Patriarchal Blessings individually and then took some time to make goals for this year that would help us with becoming who God needs us to be. Then, we shared our goals with each other. It was actually so incredible and the Spirit was strong. I'm very excited for the year 2014. I just can't believe that it is already here. It is THE YEAR where Sister Lybbert will work harder and be stronger and become closer to God than she ever has before.I love you all and I'm grateful for your love and support. I am so grateful that my little bro has taken on the great responsibility of becoming a Deacon. I'm so happy to be here. I'm loving it.
Oh! and on Saturday, Sister Nigido and I did some service for Len and Elsie Power because they have done so much for us over the Christmas time and when we first arrived here. So, we made them a nice dinner (Talyia helped us too!). We made the mushroom chicken Dad always makes and banana bread for 'pudding.' It was delicious and they loved it too!
Now for some more fun stories of how small the world is:
Sister Power (formerly Sister Elsie Deacon - she was just re-married last summer) has a daughter-in-law who lives in Sugar City, Id. He name is Katie Deacon. Could someone ask Marnie and Doug if they know her? AND Sister Power also served a mission as a senior sister in Nauvoo when we would have been there! Not only that, but the lady from the frozen custard shop, Helen Campbell, is a really great friend of hers now AND she is from Magrath [Welling actually]. All too fun :)
The church is true and being a part of this work is beyond incredible.
I love you all,
Sister Lybbert
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