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Week 52

Transfers😔 rip to the legend sister booth🙏⚰️💀💐 that was hands down the saddest transfer day of my entire mission. I did NOT want to leave her🥺 this past transfer had been so much fun, I've never had a transfer where I looked forward to every. single. day. Sister Booth is the type of missionary that I aspire to be!! I miss her tons🥺 I'm no longer in a trio, so now I have fomo, buts it's ok , I'll survive haha.
BUT my new companion is amazing!! Her name is sister Stevens and she is from bountiful Utah and she is approaching the end of her mission in the next few months. She is the definition of a hard worker and there have already been so many miracles from it.
We went knocking doors one day (which is usually never successful) and we had a prompting to go to this really nice huge neighborhood. Usually we like going to the sketchy trailer parks, but for some reason we felt to go to the opposite. We met Chase and Hailey who didn't grow up religious but were super willing to have us back, and even asked for a copy of the Book of Mormon, Nick just moved here and is looking for a church, Amanda and Maurice were very open to a message about Christ and said we could come over any day, and Christian and Sarah who recently moved here with their 3 kids and said they can always make time for God. It was crazy!! It was super reviving to find new people to teach cuz I was getting pretty burned out being in the same area for this long. Definitely a tender mercy!
Im just so excited to not only see the miracles that god is going to work in the next few weeks, but be a part of them! It's really special getting to watch people slowly comprehend the gospel and the restoration. The thing that I've come to realize is the urgency of sharing the gospel. Sometimes YOU are the only chance that someone else will get to hear the gospel in this life. That is a huge responsibility, so prove to God that he can trust you enough to send people your way that need to hear about the true restored church. We are God's hands!!! 💪

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