FAM!
It's been a lovely week, but I'm afraid I have very little time to email. I will do my best! We decided to meet with a group of missionaries at Revere Beach this afternoon (oldest beach in America or something cool like that) and it took FOREVER! (Public transportation) We have 2 "mini missionaries" with us this week from the Providence Rhode Island Stake (Sister Phelps is 16 and Sister Vargus is 17) and we think they're exhausted from running around with us. Plus 6:30 AM is pretty rough when you're still a teenager. But, I'm doing my best to be the super cool EFY counselor that I am so they get excited about serving missions. :) We get to go on splits with them tonight and for the rest of the week, so last week Sister Slater and I did our best to plan two weeks worth of work into one week. Phew!
Not a ton has happened this week. Caty and William are both stellar and will be interviewed this week for baptism! We had a pretty special meeting with Caty on Tuesday where we went over the interview questions with her so she felt prepared. When we first got there and she answered the door, she was grinning from ear to ear and said that she had just been reading the Book of Mormon and felt so happy. She knows it's true and was just bursting to share her favorite passages with us about Ammon and King Lamoni. Her enthusiasm is amazing! We went over the questions with her and I bore my testimony to her that I know that her Heavenly Father is so happy about this choice she is making and I know that this is the first step to getting home to Him and it will fill her life with more peace and happiness than she can imagine. Sis. Slater and Kim Fowler (an amazing member in our ward) added their testimonies. The Spirit was so strong and all of us were tearing up. It was incredible. It's moments like that where I think of King Lamoni's father saying "I would give away all my sins to know thee." I feel the same way- I would give away all my sins to be able to be a small part of someone's journey back to our heavenly home.
We also had Return and Report this week (the meeting where the trainers and trainees come back and talk about how things are going). I got to see Sister Hollan and I adore her! I had a rough time with her when we were first companions, but I ran into a line in the hymn "Should You Feel Inclined to Censure" (random... I've never actually heard it) that describes my relationship with her so perfectly: "Those of whom we thought unkindly oft become our warmest friends." :)
Oh... and we also got Red Sox tickets for Labor Day... NBD. More importantly, we'll get to go to the temple that morning! We're pretty excited. :)
Okay, sorry so short this week! I love you all so much!
Sister Wheeler
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