Transfer 6 Week 5

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—legit!! We had the best week so far up here in Gardnerville this past week!! 2 new investigators, 2 potentials, TONS of lessons, trust built, a baptismal date (for February 12, she won’t budge any earlier), and 2 folks I was teaching in Vegas got baptized on Saturday!!! SUCH AN INCREDIBLE THING!!!! AAHHHHH!!! I got permission to call and congratulate them and one of my RC Tyler from down there got on the phone and said hi!!! I almost started crying!!!! Every day I realize how much I really truly love the folks out here on my mission. UGH I just cannot get over it. And remember the lady I talked about who had cancer? SHE IS A MIRACLE!!!! She went to the Doctor’s last Monday and they took a sample of her tumor, and then a couple hours later they checked it again and it was essentially GONE!!!! THE LORD WORKS MIRACLES BASED ON OUR FAITH!!!! She has such incredible faith. I got teary eyed when she called to tell us that she was going to be okay. AH what a relief!!!!
My ankle is doing very well.
MAN!!! I am just obsessed with this work right now. In fact, I think I will forever more be obsessed with it. We had an AMAZING ward party for 3rd ward. My comp and I sang for it along with another gentleman, and did so much service oriented stuff, and a couple of our investigators came and some less-actives and recent converts. My comp and I did some service and helped make 300 cinnamon rolls to put into the local food closet for it earlier in the day—holy holy and the recipe the lady has for them is the BEST recipe in the universe—legit. And now I know how to make them.
Today my comp and I got to go to LAKE TAHOE!!! IT was so beautiful!!! The lady who took us said, “how can people see this an not believe in God?” I SECOND THAT NOTION!! The world around us is so dad gum amazing—beautiful!! How is it possible for there NOT to be a God? As I was looking at the mountains today I had to smile—he created this place to remind us a little of what our Heavenly Home is like—but still, what we have is NOTHING compared to what we had. It makes me uber excited to meet my Heavenly Father in His kingdom and remember what it was like. Man. How lucky are we to have a Father in Heaven who loves us so much??? HOW LUCKY???
Man. I need to start writing down things again to write in these emails. I cannot remember a single thing that happened the past week. Well, I remember bits and pieces of things, but not details. I love the Harrison family. They are the most amazing family in the world. Jessica has really been pushing away the whole religion thing with us, but this past Friday we were able to have a really great conversation in which I shared my own conversion story to the Gospel. I may have been born and raised in the church, but we are all converts in one way or another. We really connected and I recommitted her to reading her Book of Mormon—not for me this time, but for HER!! She fits so well at church I just can’t stand her not accepting the gospel NOW!! But as we all know things happen in the Lord’s time, not my time. Thank goodness.
Oh yeah duh!! Wednesday we had our Northern Nevada training/ Christmas party. It was so awesome. The ladies in the Stake who were in charge of feeding us lunch went over the top. I wanted to cry because they all had tear-filled eyes as they spoke of their children being missionaries and how they wanted to make us feel good since they couldn’t be with their children. It was so sweet. The highlight, however, was when all the missionaries were sitting in a circle (it was a HUGE circle with 100 of us there) and Santa came out—aka President Black. We all laughed so hard and hooted and cheered when Santa kissed Sister Black. They are truly amazing. SO corny with the joke telling, but amazing none-the-less. I also got to go on splits with Sister Rummler. That was cool. She came here and we did good work. That’s when we got our 2 new investigators. And we talked to an old LA lady who cried because no one ever visits her and she’s got cancer again. I cried too. I think Christmas time puts something in the air that effects my eyes.
Anyway, I have to go—we have dinner in 15. LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!


love love love,
sister mack