I feel silly every email I send because I always start them off by saying, “This week was SUCH an AWESOME week!!”  I feel really uncreative in thinking of other words…Miraculous, Splendid, exciting, a little disappointing, spiritual, and joyful…  That sums it up! 🙂

But really.  This week was good.  It was my comp.’s birthday!  She got three cakes and a free pie! Hehe honestly, it was the happiest I’ve ever seen her! 🙂  The members we live with made her a BOM bear cake and woke us up at 6 AM to give it to us. 🙂  A member gave us a $ 30 gift card to Village Inn because we had an appointment at 6 with Christine and they couldn’t move it.  So sweet, huh?!

NEAT-O STORY!! 🙂 🙂  WE were serving in the library, and this man handed me a note, “Call me if you’re interested.”  So…I know it sounds like a flirt.  But I was like, “I’m using this to my advantage!! haha.  We told him we are missionaries and made it clear we’re not here to flirt.  He turned out to be really interested in what we had to say about the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation.  So we have met with him and the Childers two more times and he already has a baptismal date for June 1st!!! Too bad I won’t be here to see it happen.  He’s from Nigeria and very humble and happy.

Sherry Dunn, the lady we took to the temple is really starting to make a rebound. 🙂 🙂 🙂 She spoke in church yesterday about the temple and it was SO powerful, I was bawling!  She and I truly have a connection.  We took her on a church tour and the reality that Joseph Smith really saw God the Father and Jesus Christ hit us SUPER strongly.  She’s like, “THAT’S AMAZING, ISN’T IT?!! Nobody else claims that happens to that anymore!!”  and The peacefullness we felt in the church was serine because we’ve received a ton of rain!! LIke, I feel like I’m in Monsoon weather!  Lots of basements have flooded!  Anyways…She’s super funny and I will miss her dearly….

Yes….I will miss all of the people I have met in the PERFECT TOWN OF BETTENDORF, IOWA!!! Because I got the call that I am getting transferred!  President Jergensen extended a very special call to me! 😀 😀 😀 😀 I AM OPENING AN AREA WHERE NO SISTER HAS EVER BEEN BEFORE!!!! AND TRAINING ANOTHER NEW SISTER!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 It’s in a branch.  That means we’re gonna baptize a lot of people to help build it up to be a ward! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Also, the very next day I get there, 2 mini-missionaries are coming to spend the weekend with us!  Cute huh?! 🙂  So i’ll be in charge of 3 little cuties and a new area… It’s a little intimidating, but I’m going to rely on the Lord the most I ever have I’m sure! Hehe 🙂  There is not a single complaint about this area.  The Bishop, the ward, the investigators, the service we get to render, and the housing situation is all SUPREME!!!  I know i’ll never have another area that spoiled me more!  haha at least, I can’t imagine it! 🙂

More craziness…I got pretty sick this week.  But I got a blessing from the Member I live with and a Dr. Robins (who is MOVING TO SOUTH JORDAN, UT in a month…awesome, huh?!) and I felt immediatly better! Not even kidding!  I was so worried that I got sick from being disobedient or something, but the blessing said, “The Lord is proud of you for your obedience and work here,” and I felt a TON of comfort in that too. 🙂

If you can’t tell….I’m super happy out here.  LIke blissfully happy!  I encourage everyone to taste the joy of relying on the Lord to help them find missionary opportunities wherever they are.  I know they exist!  I know that if you ask for help, your faith will be noticed and He will send those who are prepared to meet you!! 🙂  The Lord is my light!  The Gospel will NEVER change.  and in a world of opposition in all things, we NEED to know what will keep us grounded and on track! 🙂

YOU ARE SO wonderful. 🙂  Thank you for supporting the missionaries!  I love you all.

Enjoy the sunshine!

Sister Tobias 😉