Hanover 11/7/16

Greetings!

Highlights, Inserts, and Epiphanies:

• Halloween, we went hiking (again) with Madison Elders and our sister training leaders from Charlestown. I'll send a picture. I climbed the rock face we're standing on in the picture. And then Dad, you sent that email about respecting gravity that night haha. I guess it was the spirit?;) We weren't allowed to be out and about in the evening, so we got to have a night in. 
• Experienced something the kids call a hump day?! That means that I'm supposedly halfway done with my mission? Que??
• We had interviews with President and Sister Brough on Wednesday! He also did a training on talking with EVERYONE and always being in finding mode. He demonstrated his reaction when missionaries say they have an on/off switch for finding--it's called the dying cockroach. He laid on the ground with his feet and arms in the air and floundered around. Haha!  It was so helpful to talk one on one with President. He is an absolute six year old sometimes, but is incredibly spiritually powerful, and I gained a testimony that he is the right President for me and this mission.
• Met a lady who moved here a few months ago. She wanted us to come and help her unpack. So we spent an hour in her clothes closets (plural) which looked like Goodwill threw up in there. Ha! The random service you do for complete strangers!
• There is an absolutely wonderful family who moved here from Russia a few years ago and joined the church. The husband and wife were baptized last December, but they've been waiting for their 13 year old daughter to be baptized until they get sealed. Their daughter wasn't interested in baptism at all when I first got here. But this week, her mom told us that she wants to get baptized next month!!! Families are what it's all about!!
• The nurse we're teaching is progressing really well, and is excited to get baptized on the 20th. It's amazing to see how Christ is changing her heart as she gains more faith in Him. 
• My whole mission I've been trying to figure out what makes a successful missionary. And how to measure that. I've been learning that the measure of my success as a missionary is equal to the measure of my conversion to Christ.

Have a fab week!

Sister Johns

Zone Meeting 

Hiking on Halloween

Little climbing... :)

Exchanges

Exchanges