Helloooooo friends! Happy Halloween and Feliz Día de Los Muertos :)) I hope you all had a fun weekend! We had a traditional missionary holiday of being home by 6:30 pm, and just kind of hanging out! I got to have a fun girls night though with my NEW COMPANION and so we made it fun by getting pizza and soda and cookies :))
Last Thursday I was transferred out of Kuna and am now in Ontario, Oregon- one of the biggest weed capitals of the state, perfect for 2 little sister missionaries ;)) This area is reaaaaaaaaally different than good ole Kuna and I miss it and my district and friends there so badly, but I know it will be great here too. We cover 2 wards- a YSA (young single adult) ward and a Spanish Branch. I get to use my Spanish again which is soooo fun! The branch is tiny though- at church yesterday there were only 5 people in the congregation... hahaha soo we have a lot of work to do getting the members to come back to church!
My new companion's name is Sister Thatcher and she is from New Mexico! She has been on her mission for 9 months, and she was originally assigned to serve in Chile! She was only there for 1 month though before she got sent home and was reassigned to here.
We are teaching lots of awesome people! We found a new girl to start teaching the first night I got here named Cassidy, she is a friend of someone in the YSA- she's super nice and we are excited to start working with her. We have another girl in the YSA ward, Edith, that is on date to be baptized November 21st!! She is super awesome and wants to be baptized really bad, but we are having a hard time getting her to come to church. Pray that we can help her reach her goal of being baptized and that she will feel a desire to attend church on Sundays! We also are going to begin having lessons with a lady named Shaya. We will eventually have to pass her off to the Elders that cover the family ward she would be in, but as for right now, she prefers to be taught by sisters so we get to work with her! She is awesome and we are excited to help her increase her faith and grow closer to Jesus Christ.
I am studying the Old Testament right now and have been reading the stories of Samuel. In chapter 3 of 1 Samuel, the Lord calls to him in his sleep, and each time the Lord calls, Samuel readily and anxiously responds, "Here Am I," "Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth." I have so much admiration for Samuel and his willingness to respond to the Lord's call and in being so quick to do whatever it was he was going to be asked to do. We all have a call from the Lord- to be His disciples, His followers, examples to those around us. He also always comes to us using the still, small voice of the Spirit, giving us more personal calls and impressions, everyday. May we all be like Samuel, so ready to hear and respond to the voice and call of the Savior. Let us live in our lives in a way that our minds and ears will be open to hearing that still, small voice, that when it comes we may, like Samuel, say, "Speak Lord; for thy servant heareth."
Soooo much love, have a good week!
Hermana Rawlins
Address:
345 NW 7th St.
Ontario, OR 97914
Pictures:
1. Last pic with Sister Pearson
2. Last pic of me and cutie Sister Taylor
3. Cool pic of me and my best friend Elder Gifford
4. Me and my NEW COMP SISTER THATCHER
5. Last stop to get lunch at Zupa's before I met my new companion :,)
6. Me and Sister Thatcher and our sodas on Halloween :))
7. Me and my bffffff Sister Robertson finally got a cute picture too before I left <33
