Qualicum Beach Transfer 11, Week 2, June 23, 2014

What a wonderful week! Full of crazy stuff, but great all the same. G's baptismal interview was on Friday, and he passed with flying colors! Now all we have to do is wait for the S family to get back from Switzerland, and he will get baptized on Saturday. I am so glad. It was a little crazy at his interview though. We almost couldn't go, because we couldn't find a female member to come with us. We had a male member, so that the zone leader who wasn't interviewing G wouldn't be alone with females, but we couldn't be alone with them! Luckily, we were able to find a member last minute. But when we showed up, G was having an allergic reaction to aspirin! Nothing super serious, but his hands were really red and itchy. He told us a few days before that his doctor told him that he was allergic to aspirin, and that he needed to stop taking it, so he did. But then he decided Friday morning that he needed to make sure that he was allergic, so he took some! AH!! Luckily, it wasn't any worse than itchy red hands! Crazy. That is just so G though.

So, President Tilleman only has one full week left on his mission, and it is definitely an interesting adjustment. It is really cool though, because I already feel like I have a connection with the Burts. I am really excited to meet them. I actually get to meet them for the first time on the 4th of July, at our mission council. The assistants also called yesterday, and they told us that we are going to have an interview with them on the 6th, and then have a zone conference on the 8th. So, I will get to see quite a lot of them right after they get here! They also asked Sister Gibb and I to be available to help them with anything they need and to make sure they get to their plane and other places on time and show them around. No pressure. None at all. But it will be great. As sad as I am about President and Sister Tilleman leaving, it doesn't feel bad. It's not like I'll never see them again. They live in Arizona, and that's super close to Utah. :)

Oh, I forgot to mention last week, but Sister Gibb cut my hair! It was getting super long and lots of split ends, so we just chopped it off. It took two or three tries to get it all done, so I just wore it in a braid to hide the uneven parts. No one noticed at all (or at least, they didn't comment if they did!).

So, we are also teaching an older man named D, and he is doing so well. He came to church this week, and he brought his niece as well. They are super great. He tried to come the week before, but somehow, times got mixed up and he thought we had said that church started at one, when it actually started at 10! So he showed up for the last 5 minutes, which was a little awkward. But this time, he was there on time. :) Sister Slocombe, our branch president's wife, had come with us to one of his lessons, so as soon as Sacrament meeting was over, she came over and grabbed him and his niece and dragged them off the meet President Slocombe, and one of our recent converts who lives really close to them, and then continued to introduce them to everyone else she could. It was actually really funny, because she would get them talking to one person, and then look around, and go grab another person by the arm and bring them over to introduce them. It was fantastic! We didn't have to do a single thing!

I just love missionary work! it really is the best. Even when you have ups and downs, everything works out the way it is supposed to. I know there were definitely times this week when I was lacking faith in some things, but then Heavenly Father sent us the help we needed. Even when I didn't have enough faith, as I started and asked for help, He provided. We aren't meant to do anything in this life on our own, but we are meant to ask for the help we need. God will provide.

I love you all! Have a wonderful week!

Sister Peterson