Taking on Tacoma: Hibellibo!

Hey Everyone!

Things are going great here in Soundview! I'm loving it here!

We had transfers on Tuesday and I got my new companion, Sister Skousen. She's from New Hampshire. (TWO NON UTAHNS, yeah!) I'm really excited to spend this transfer with her. We already have some fun goals that will really push us. For instance, our goal this week is to think and be like elders. haha So, to do that we are going to:

- wear fanny packs.

- talk in ibish.

- and invite literally everyone that we talk to, to be baptized. So, hopefully we'll invite like 300 or more people this week. And I'm really hoping that we'll have some miracles from that because of our faith.

Wish us luck. :)

This past week though, we had some great things happen. Debra Blair is on date to be baptized on July 24th. That's this coming Sunday. She is SO prepared, it's amazing. So, thank you for praying for her. Keep the prayers coming! :)

On Tuesday at transfers we got to be the "transfer meeting bouncers." Which means that I got to walk around and tell everyone to leave. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. (It also meant that I had to stay there until everyone was gone, which allowed me to socialize and talk to everyone I wanted to. (; ) People didn't really listen to me very well, but eventually they all left like they were supposed to.

We had district meeting on Wednesday. Our district has TOTALLY changed. Instead of only 6 Soundview missionaries at district meeting, this week we had 4 Soundview missionaries, two being new ones. We also had 4 Highland Hills ward missionaries. And 3 Millers (a super missionary minded family has 3 kids that come knocking with us all the time. They come to district meeting occasionally.) And also President and Sister Blatter. It was the biggest district meeting I've ever been too! So, we had 2 of the same people and 11 new ones.

We did service at the homeless shelter on Friday.

Last night we went to the mission office at 8:30 and heart attacked the office. We spent our lunch time for a few days cutting out hearts and then last night we went and taped them EVERYWHERE. Elder and Sister Brandi leave on Wednesday and they've done a lot for us missionaries. They've been here since last Spring. The other office missionaries also do so much for us missionaries, so we wanted to make sure they felt loved. :) I love heart attacking people.

This morning we got 6 sisters together and we ran half of the Tacoma Narrows bridge. I don't have pictures yet from that, but I do have pictures from last week when we ran with our zone.

So, that's my week! :) I love ya'll. I hope everything good possible happens for you this week.

Oh! And a spiritual thought!

Alma 4:19 "And this he (Alma) did (gave up the judgement seat) that he himself might go forth among his people, or among the people of Nephi, that he might preach the word of God unto them, to stir them up in remembrance of their duty, and that he might pull down, by the word of God, all the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were among his people, seeing no way that he might reclaim them save it were in bearing down in pure testimony against them."

I love this. I love being a missionary because I have really learned how to bear my testimony to everyone. And I LOVE bearing my testimony. When people are confused or angry or contentious, bearing my testimony is the only way I can answer that to stop it. I can't argue back, I can't reason with them, all I can do is bear my testimony. And if it doesn't help them, then at least it's helping me!

So, go out there and bear your testimony at least once this week! More if you can! :)

I love you all!

Love,

Sister Warburton