Expecitng

Hey guess what. I’m pregnant.

That’s right; I’m going to be a momma. My greenie, Sister Austin arrives on Thursday. And we are pink washing. That means we are replacing Elders in some random area that I still know nothing about. So that should be fun.

Basically I was just shell-shocked when I got the call from Irma Fluckiger and then the longer I processed it the more stressed I got. Also it got consecutively harder because we found out early enough for me to go around the area on the way back to the mission home and say goodbye to everyone. It was really hard. But it’s definitely time to leave, so it will be good. I feel okay about leaving I’m just still not sure about the destination.

At least we are having a huge slumber party in the mission home though because all the sisters are here to get ready to train!

Other than that... Our week was really cool. Here’s what I wrote President Fluckiger, Ola Presidente,

we had a lot of miracles this past week! We are so excited for the area to split and have Elders. It will really help our Ward Mission Leader and some recent converts who are struggling with activity. I know they would like to go on teaching appointments with the Elders and I think it will help them stay firm in church attendance.

We feel really happy with the growth we've seen in our area as well. We were able to spend some good time in the part of our area that is further away and we found new investigators without even trying. We were reminded of the importance of "going about doing good" in the success stories from last week, and we planned lessons for every hour of the day and trusted that the Lord would give us novos. We went and almost none of the appointments went through but we were able to meet five new investigators, including three members of a family, within an hour as we walked to and from back up plans. We feel really good about the status of the investigators, and the ward has also shown a lot of desire and interest this past two weeks in being involved in missionary work. We had an amazing thing happen last Monday after emails. An old investigator, Pedro, sent us a text message asking us to call him. I started teaching him with Irma Olson and he had a really hard time grasping faith, was waiting for some kind of a big sign from God and wouldn't keep the commitment to attend church even after he accepted a baptismal date, so we ended up dropping him after the first visit when Irma Walton had arrived. It had been at least two months since we had any contact with him, so we called and he said, "Eu queria falar convosco sobre sendo batizado."(I wanted to talk to you guys about being baptized) We said absolutely and went to his house on Wednesday. In the lesson he said he had continued reading 1-2 chapters in the Book of Mormon per week and was saying prayers. He had prayed and made a promise to God that if he received an answer that He existed, he would be baptized. Pedro said he had received some answers and now he needed to own up to his part of the deal. We marked him to be baptized in June and he will be an excellent addition to the Priesthood in Ala 1.

But yeah. Ugh sorry. I’m like in a weird mood because I’m still in shock and also there’s a lot of craziness happening here in the office.

But I loved loved loved talking to you guys yesterday and you all look great! I love you so much and I will definitely have more to tell you next week ha-ha.

Love Irma Dean