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Week 32

Lots of random stuff happened this week, one of them being, I am in a trio now!! It's temporary and it's only for 2 weeks, but I realized how much I missed being in a trio! There was a sister who went home, so her companion is with us now! And we are also working her area as well, so now we are over 3 areas and SMS😅 and the new area is 30 minutes away. So it has been really interesting to see this all work out, but it's fun! We will work like half the day in Farragut and Pellissippi, then we'll make the drive to Loudon and work there for a few hours before coming home. It's pretty fun! The new Sister is names Sister Jones and boy did I need her. She has lifted my spirit so much! Also, I have very good news!! THE WEATHER IS COOLING DOWN!!!! I can not express how happy this makes me🥳 
As for the people we have been teaching, Stephanie and guang are AWESOME as always. They are making steady progress towards having a relationship with God. 
The 2 awesome twins we were teaching moved to Michigan 😭 but they came to institute on Thursday, so I had an excuse to go to institute again!!!! I haven't gone to institute since I was in the YSA, so I was sooo excited. When we pulled in the parking lot, I SAW CHRIS!! So I jumped out of the car to go say hi. I missed that guy. For those who don't remember, Chris was the guy we baptized my 2nd Transfer. I was in heaven being with all the YSA again, I miss them so much. Chris came up to me and was so proud to show me that he still had the Bearden missionaries's phone number saved as "Rozlyn".😂😂 I told him to never change it haha. It was so much fun seeing everyone, but then on the drive home I got really sad and had this empty feeling cuz I wanted to be back in Bearden so bad. But it's all good cuz there are awesome people in Farragut and Pellissippi too! 
Sunday we had a TON of meetings, so we were at the church for 6 hours. And it was ward conference. 
Something that I am working on this week is learning to recognize the spirit. This has been my goal for a while, but I have been struggling with learning to trust the spirit more than my own judgment. The gift of the holy ghost that we get at baptism is so amazing. I've seen this gift more fully on my mission, and I realize how much more we all should be relying on it. There's a quote from Boyd k Packer that says "No member of this Church—and that means each of you—will ever make a serious mistake without first being warned by the promptings of the Holy Ghost". I thought that was pretty cool:) 
I hope everyone is doing well! 
(I apologize fir not having many photos haha the only pics I took this week was of cars😅)
-Sister Hilton

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