August 24, 2009 Email Transferred!

Hello Hello Family! I am so happy right now! I can’t even express it! I have been transferred back down to the lower mainland. Chillowack is so amazing! We have the biggest ward in BC and it is a farming town! Everyone here is so nice! And it is soooooo beautiful! My companion is amazing! Her name is Sister Barnum from Las Vegas. She’s just a year older then me and she has her master’s degree in teaching and has been teaching elementary for three years already! Can you believe it? So we do not have a problem with working hard..... Diligent is her middle name! It makes the work so much better when you both want to work hard! So life is just perfect here! Basically we wake up and run down the most picturesque country road with tall corn fields and fruit trees all over the place....and gorgeous tree-covered mountains in the distance....then at the end of the road there’s a bunch of blackberry bushes. We eat all the berries we can handle and then run back. Then for breakfast I have toast with homemade raspberry jam from someone in the ward and a couple of scrambled eggs from a local farm! wow! This is the life....and the apartment is sooo cool. It’s basically a dance studio. For some reason there are mirrors on almost every wall and the kitchen is big enough to dance in! It’s like God created this place for me! Wow! Well anyway we whitewashed the area meaning that there were elders here and we took their place. We have found that there was not much work going on here for the last year due to some disobedient elders....so ever since we bore our testimonies to the ward on Sunday we have had refferals just dumped upon us! Plus we have an area book full of unfinished teaching records that have already been very fruitful as we have been doing phone calls and drop bys. We found out that the bishop had been praying for sister missionaries. and this morning we got a phone call from a women in the ward who said she feels her friend is finally ready to take the lessons....she is the third person to tell us that and its only been 4 days! This is a missionary paradise! I can’t believe it! Sister Barnum and I have seen so many miracles! And I love Sister Barnum so much! She is an amazing teacher and knows how to follow the spirit! We laugh a lot and enjoy every moment! And we have a lot in common including that we both come from the desert and love fruit! Speaking of fruit! We feel that there is a lot of fruit to reap here! We know we have a great responsibility to get this area going.....we would really appreciate your prayers in helping us find those prepared to be baptized. There are a lot of people counting on us right now. It’s been so amazing to see the Lords hand in this work....especially in the last four days. I know this is His work. He is helping all these wonderful things happen here and we are blessed to be His instruments at this time. Thank your for your love and support! I am so grateful for this gospel. I know even more now that Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us and wants us to find the most happiness. As you may know the past couple transfers had been very trying for me. Discouragement was bringing me low....but the Lord has been preparing me...and has now poured out blessings and because I had felt sorrow for a while the joy is so much greater! I love the Lord! He is so good to me! I am forever indebted to Him! Love, sister flake
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