Week #76

Dear Mum and All,
     Congrats to Taylor [and Carson], that's so exciting! I also approve of the name. I am happy it is classic, yet not overused or boring. Cute, cute!
     Also, congrats to Ciana for being a star, I'm sure she was the best even if she only had a few lines. She always is the best.
      This week was fantastic. As you know, we had Zone Conference, and you got a really long e-mail about that so I will not tell you any more about it. It was amazing though. And then on Friday we had our interviews. It was really strange knowing that all of these things are happening for the last time. I think it is starting to sink in, and I really wish I could stay longer, or take everyone here back home with me. I would take President and Sister Pilkington, the missionaries, the people , the Jaffa Cakes, the whole lot! President said that he was hoping they'd pass a low in parliament these next couple of weeks to allow legal kidnapping. He doesn't think it will happen, but he hopes so, because then we, the others going and myself, can stay!
     We had some incredible miracles on Saturday! We were heading to a small village to go knocking, and we missed our bus stop. The fog was thicker than I've ever seen it, and we accidentally hit the bell in the middle of nowhere. Everyone on the bus looked puzzled to see who would want to get off in the middle of a field, and then it was kind of embarrassing having to go tell the bus driver this wasn't the stop we wanted, haha. The old people at the front of the bus started talking to us though, and we all laughed about it. We ended up going to the next village.
      When we got there, we prayed to know where we should go, and what bus we should catch back for tea. (We didn't have tons of time due to our mistake.) Well, we went to a street, knocked on a couple doors, but nobody was home, and then the first house that answered the door was Gemma. She let us in strait away and we taught her and we are seeing her again tomorrow! She is so cute, and her 4-year-old daughter, Ava, is too. It made me so happy to know that we really are sent places, we don't just go places. And our prayer was answered about what bus to take back. When we got out of the lesson we had just enough time to catch the later bus. It all worked out splendidly. :)

Elder Rush, Eddie, Sister Garrett & Me

      Then that night, it was Eddie's baptism! It all went smoothly, the Spirit was so strong. The only thing was that there was hardly anybody there. A lot more people told us they were coming than what number actually showed up. I was disappointed at first, but then it made for a beautiful, simple baptismal service with a few wonderful people.
And last night was the Mission President's Fireside for everyone, members, investigators, etc. All the missionaries in the Zone were at the front to sing. We also sang "Pack up Your Troubles" for everyone. President's message was so good. He has a talent when it comes to speaking, and he is hilarious. He told a story about how, when he was a boy, he believed his dad when he told him that single-handedly, he had won the Second World War. He was talking about the concept of how truth is always truth, but there are people who deceive us for many reasons. Some, don't have consequences (such as his father telling him the WWII story), but some do. It was a lot more in depth than that, but that sums it up. I wish you could have been there, it was incredible.
Well,
I love you all and hope that you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Lybbert

Maple!

Harry wasn't home, but we tried! (We
may have the wrong city)

Christmas!