I hope this email finds you well. It has been another fantastic week in Florida, I just love this place!
The week started off with the transfer call, and I found out that I will be paired with my trainee (Sister Carling) again for this transfer. I went to go pick her up at transfers on Wednesday, and it was lots of fun to see all the other missionaries. It was a long hour and half drive back to our area, but we made it. We went out to work that night, and it was almost like we never even parted. It has been so fun.
On Thursday we had a District Training, and we talked about plans for the upcoming transfer. We talked about going Christmas Caroling as a district, and I made sure to request we do it early in December. We have a great district with very focused and hard working missionaries.
On Friday Sister Carling and I left early to carpool with some other STLs for MLC (Missionary Leadership Conference). We drove to the mission home, and met with all the STLs and Zone Leaders for a training. We talked a lot about the goals that we are setting, and what we can do to become more converted to our goals. If we are converted to our goals, and know they were inspired of the Lord, then we will have the faith necessary to hit them. It was great! Sister Garns always makes us lunch, and she is quite the chef. It was a long drive back to our area again. By the time we went out to work that night it was pouring rain, and Sister Carling had not yet put her umbrella in the car, so we huddled under one umbrella and entertained ourselves by running from door to door.
Sister Carling as telling me that the day before transfers she was at Chick Fil A for lunch, and someone came up and introduced herself and her husband as President and Sister Smart. Turns out it was the mission president and his wife from the Puerto Rico mission. They bought Sister Carling and her companion lunch, and talked with them for a while. A lot of the missionaries from Puerto Rico have been transferred into our mission, and they had some pretty crazy stories to share about getting them all to safety before the hurricane hit.
On Saturday we did two exchanges with two sets of Sisters, and it was lots of fun. In one of the areas the sisters are feeling overwhelmed with all of the referrals they need to contact so we split up and contacted as many people on their 2 sheets of referrals as possible in 2 and half hours. They felt a lot better after, so we were glad we could help. We were supposed to meet with Freddy and Darlyne that night, but Freddy had received some startling news about his mom's health so they took their family on the bus to go visit her, but then they got stuck because it was downpouring rain, and the bus station was not that close to her house. Our ward mission leader went to pick them up and give them a ride back to their house. Brother Dietz is awesome and has been really great about fellowshipping them.
Darlyne was sick yesterday, so we didn't get to see her, but Freddy came to church. We were also able to meet with him for a little bit after, and it went really well. Freddy is determined to stop smoking this week, and we are praying that he will be able to do it! Darlyne is right behind him.
It has been a great week. We have not found many new investigators, but we know there are great things ahead! Talk to you next Monday!
Love, Sister Monson
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