Here's Sister Rasmussen and me! This was the moment we met! She's my new companion from Texas and I'm sooo excited to be with her! She's excited to be here, she has a geat love for the Lord and she's ready and willing to work. She's fun and we get along great! I love her sooo much already. We're in an awesome area too! Sister Dixon and Sister Walker did so much here and they left amazing records!!!! It's been so easy for us to pick up where they left off and keep the work moving. We're only serving in one ward, so we get to really focus on them! It's a wonderful ward too! I'm just so happy to be here serving where I should! I love the gospel and I love the Lord! This work is great!!!!

So, I still exist and I'm still LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVING my mission. Sorry for neglecting the blog so much lately. Here are the new happenings!

 

It's TRANSFER TIME!!!!!

 

So I'm going to the Highland Hills Zone and TRAINING a new missionary again. I'm sooo pumped! Leaving my third area is hard too. It's alllllways so bittersweet!!!! I looooved being with Sister Shaw and serving in an amazing area. I looooove the people here and they'll always hold a special place in my heart!

 

The first time I got DTed (double transferred-when both missionaries are moved out of the area and two new ones are brought in) was into an area where elders were before and we had to do....a lot of work. This time it's different! The last set of sisters got DTed into the area 3 months ago and are now finishing their missions together. We actually have FIVE sisters going home tomorrow. CRAZY, right?!?!? So they've done a lot of work and it's sounds like the area is greeeeeeeat!!! I'm soooooooooo pumped to go there!!

 

So our mission is growing RAPIDLY! Since the mission split, we lost about half our missionaries to the Reno Mission and now we're building our numbers back up again. We have 3 new sisters coming in today! And a tonnnnnnnnn of elders. They said within the next 2 transfers, over half the missionaries will be new to the mission! And as of tomorrow, besides the zone leaders, only 4 companionships in the mission aren't at some point in the training program! The number of missionaries in the mission will get back to what it used to be, but this time, we'll be covering a smaller geographical region....which means we're going to be flooding Las Vegas with missionaries!!!! haha. We're opening new areas and new zones. It's a time of great growth and it's EXCITING!

 

I'll send a picture of my new missionary and me next week! Keep being amazing out there! The gospel of Jesus Christ is the way to go! :) And check out the Bible videos at http://www.lds.org/bible-videos?lang=eng 

They're AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING!!!!!