Week of Sacrifice

This week is what our mission president, President Moldenhauer, has entitled the Week of Sacrifice. It's super awesome :) We have specific hymns and scriptures to incorporate into our companionship study each morning. They center around Christ's sacrifice for us and are teaching us a lot. Each area of missionaries has been designated a specific day of the week in which we will participate in a special fast. We are spending 5 hours Mon-Fri on finding activities like tracting or park contacting. We are even ending our Preparation day at 2 pm instead of 6 pm today and dedication those hours to finding. These are days that are incredibly exhausting, but wonderful. This will be a week to remember and I'm so blessed to be a part of it.

Ironically, in preparation for this week Sister Stott and I caught the Mega-Cold of the Century! It's been an adventure to try to take care of ourselves and be effective missionaries at the same time. I started taking some Zicam tablets when it set in on Saturday. They're supposed to decrease the severity and length of a cold and I think they work, because I'm feeling much better much quicker than Sister Stott. It's mostly just congestion and a sore throat for me now. The Lord is strengthening us and providing us with wisdom as we deal with it. Sister Miller has been a great sport about helping us out in our sick state.

The work is still going great and we are so excited about it! Miss B's baptism was wonderful! She had several friends and family attend that are not members of our church, and she is clearly enthusiastic about sharing the truth she has found with others! It's really quite awesome :) Miss B.A. is still planning to be baptized, but we've had to push the date back to April 24th. She has been unable to attend church because of health reasons and we want to make sure she is ready and prepared for her baptism. We're still very excited about her and love watching her progress and understanding increase.

We are so excited about General Conference this weekend! I hope you all make time to watch as much of it as possible- it's going to be amazing :)

I'm pretty much out of time, but will leave you with a brief "Animal Experience". We met a woman while tracting last week. We discussed the gospel with her on a bench in her front yard. She kept mentioning her dogs and then asked if we wanted to meet them. We agreed and went into her home to meet 12 TOY POODLES!! That's right... 12 crazy little poodles. Let your imagination run wild- it was that fascinating.

I love you all and hope you are all well!!!