What Was That Again?: In Which I Find My Seven and Bros Come Before Sister Missionaries

Disclaimer - my focus? It's completely out the window. I've been sitting here talking with Elder Erickson for the past hour or so just hoping that somehow, some way, this email will write itself. I want to talk to y'all, but the actual effort involved is making me sad inside.

I'll get over it.

First things first - transfers, even though that seems like three weeks ago than less than a week. #missionproblems My new companion is the lovely Sister Priddis from ye olde Oak Ridge days. She is amazing, and I am so grateful for her. Before Sister Christensen left, I was thinking out loud and told her that the ward and I were like the pH scale - I am a 1, and the ward is a 14. I needed a 7 in order for things to work out and for me not to lose my mind. Sister Priddis? She's my 7. It's been a pretty fun week.

There's not too much to report because we're kind of working from the ground up. We still don't have any investigators, and we don't really know anyone in the ward - we even had to have our phone reset and our contacts wiped, just for good measure. (Not on purpose. It stopped working, and that was the only way to fix it. It's not very fun.) We've started to see the less actives in the ward, and are trying to knock the doors around them. It's like tracting, but not. Anything to convince my mind that it's not too bad. We haven't found anyone so far, but we still have a lot of people to see, and I am working on my faith to find people.

A couple of cool things happened this week - Sister Priddis had a baptism from her last area, so we got to go to that on Saturday morning. I love baptisms. They're just great. Destiny is pretty much the coolest 14 year old ever...except for maybe Joseph Smith. They're neck and neck. She found the church on Wikipedia, and read the Book of Mormon in a day and a half because she wanted to finish it before her baptism. She is just so prepared, and she's totally hilarious at the same time. I love that.

I also got to talk to my people last night. Pretty much the most awesome thing.

I've been feeling a lot better this week. I am so grateful for Sister Priddis and her work ethic. She's so good to listen to me and help me out, but she's also a good worker, and has been pushing to get more work done. I feel hopeful about this area for the first time in a long time, and good things are going to happen - I can feel it.

I apologize so much for this email, my friends. If it makes you feel any better, we've been having a grand old time here at the family history center. I'm currently in the company of the Sam Houston YSA 1st ward Sisters, the ASL South Elders, the Inwood Elders, and the Kleinwood Elders. It's pretty much a party. Elder Garnder's been helping us - and by us I mean all of the other Sisters - with Family History, and Elder Erickson's been distracting me from finishing this email. He's the one that said that bros come before Sister Missionaries. He's pretty funny.

Have a good week, do good things, and be happy, okay?

Love, Me.

I FOUND HERMANA JENSEN AT TRANSFER MEETING!