JULY 11, 2017

BOYNTON BEACH!

FRIENDS!! FAM!!! I am getting transfer! I seriously can’t believe that my time with Sister Isham is over...She is so awesome I am still amazed at how much I learned from the opportunity I had to train her. It was a truly inspired companionship. She is going to do awesome thing here in the FFLM! Watch out!!! 

So, I am transferring to an area called Boynton Beach. Its back over on the east coast of Florida. I will actually be serving as an STL, or Sister Training Leader, and be with Sister Larsen. I have no idea who she is but I’ve heard great things! It will be my first english area on my mission! Basically, what an STL does is going on exchanges with sisters in the mission and helps them out and goes to mission leadership meetings... I honestly really have no idea what they actually do but hey! I’ll find out! It’s going to different but I’m ready for the challenge :) 

This week felt super long just because it was packed full of so many things! The 4th of July was so fun!!! We had to come in at 7:00 which was a bit of a bummer but the Sisters in my house are such a party! We also got to go to a member in the English ward and have hamburgers and hotdogs (which are honestly my favorite thing now) IT WAS SO AWESOME. We also biked all day so we could just talk to everyone on the street. I love biking so much. 

Oh! We got to meet the new President, Pres Garns. It was super cool. He is a really interesting man. He’s SUPER different than President Richardson but I still really like him! He lived in California his whole life and loves the ocean. He was also a marine so he’s kinda strict but also he really loves art and owns a photography business... It’s a really cool mix! He’s already made a few changes here in the FFLM so I’m really excited that now I get to work closer with him as STL and see all these changes happen! 

The area here in Bahia Norte is going so well, I am really sad to leave! We saw a really cool miracle this week. Apparently, there has been a 13 year old girl attending our ward with one of her member friends for the past 3 weeks and she even went to girls camp! We had no idea at all. On Monday our bishop called us and said "I have someone for you to baptize!" Of course, we went right over there and it turns out her and her family took the lessons in North Carolina but the sisters up there just kinda stopped coming around one day, but Joselyn never forgot how she felt when they were there. We are now teaching her everything over again and she is so awesome! She always has so many questions and is so eager to learn. She is going to get baptized the week after I leave.... I am pretty sad I’ll miss it but I know she’s in good hands! 

That’s really all for this week! I love you all so very much! Thank you for being so awesome!!! I pray for you all the time! Have a great week!!! 

 This is Hna Yalcin. We went over to her house last night for FHE. She is such an awesome woman! My first week in this area her Son passed away and ever since then we have been visiting her and doing FHE at her house everyone month. She is seriously one of my biggest role models

 This is Joselyn (right) and her friend! (and is also the worst picture of me ever) but i just love these girls SO much. and i am SO excited for Joselyn to get baptized on the 21st

 This morning we went on a 12 mile bike ride through a swamp. Legit SWAMP. I seriously felt like I was no longer the top of the food chain. We had to walk our bikes through the marsh for about 3 miles. It was crazy! So many alligators! SO FUN. But ill never do it again--for sure...

 THE 4th!!!! It was a party! Im going to miss living in this house!