Hello Sweethearts!
Sister T….. and I have had a miracle–filled week.  We are truly grateful for the bishop and our whole ward for helping us move out today! We found out that we were moving at 9:30 last night and had to have everything packed by 10 AM this morning!  haha so it was a pretty crazy experience!! HOWEVER, Everything just worked so well, as if Heavenly Father’s hand was in it the entire time! 😉 We are moving into The Jensen’s basement.  They have 5 girls, but the basement is beautiful, and OUR BEDROOM IS PAINTED SUNFLOWER YELLOW!! My fave:) 🙂 🙂 A bunch of males from the ward helped out, and A member is letting us store all of the missions old furniture until some new missionaries come.  They are so sweet…I’m shocked at how much people sacrifice for the church/missionaries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The other wonderful news is that….drumroll please???!!!!!  PAUL IS GETTING BAPTISED ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE will get the gift of the Holy Ghost on MY BIRTHDAY!! Hehe it will be the best present for ME to watch someone I helped teach get the best gift in the world!  I can’t wait. 🙂  That’s all I wanted for my birthday. He had a huge smile on his face after his interview.  Which is rare, because he’s very quiet and reserved.  But I cracked a good joke or two, and he’s really opening up with us! Hehe 🙂 We were reading about the 10 commandments in Mosiah 13 and I said, “Thou shalt not covet your neighbor’s house, nor his wife, nor his man servant, nor his ass…And that means both definitions now Paul….” 😉 He’s really amazing.  He took the missionary discussion so that he could prove us wrong, but then he realized everything made sense.  He has already read, “George Albert Smith’s” History, about half of “Joseph Smith’s” Teachings, and Mosiah in the BOM. Please pray that He will show up…there’s always adversity that comes up when something soooo important happens!

This ward has some cool small world connections again!  One of the lady in the ward is my friend from my BYU ward’s mom!! And the famous Olympic wrestler, Rulon Gardner (whom I LOVE!!!!!) from Star Valley Wyoming’s Cousin is in my ward!!!, And of course long distance relatives from Snowflake Arizona, The Flake Family is also in my ward!!! 🙂 🙂

A member told us about a neighbor they have that was jealous neighbor that missionaries would always go over to help them clean the windows and do service.  So he asked them about why they came over, and said, “Well, the missionaries will do service for you if you let them share a message!!” And he said, “nooo….I’m not interested. Thanks though!”  So I told the neighbors, “We’ll do service without sharing a message!” (Because I knew that if he let us do service for them, he’d eventually ask us some questions. Ha!) And he let us come in.  We did everything we could to get a BOM in his hand, and as soon as we did, He was interested! Hahaha 🙂  So just a thought,  Before you force your way in, offer service! 🙂

Sis. T….. and I worked through some disagreements, and I grew a lot this week through understanding how important it is that I just pour out my feelings through prayer. 🙂  I am 101% sure that I would FAIL without getting to pray so much.  Heavenly Father really showed me the meaning of Charity, and how much I need to work on it!  Hehe 🙂  But in a really graceful way.  I’m so blessed to be here, in this mission, in this area, with my companion who is exactly obedient!!

Lots of Love!

Your 21 year old (For the last time on email!!) Sister Missionary!

Sister Tobias 🙂

P.S. The sister with the Peace Sign up was my companion that left with the headaches….And the Video is from Christmas!  I finally got a video sent!  Sorry for the Delay! 🙂