My Dear Family!!!

            I am so glad that you found a house!! I have spent a lot of long nights praying that everything would go smoothly and that you guys would be able to find a house so now I can be a little more at peace :) It’s really weird to think that I won’t be in the same home and that I will be in a different ward, but it’s exciting. We haven't moved since Eben was little!! It will be a good change.

So this week was very exciting and miracle week! I learned a lot about being selfless. Me and my comp are doing a lot better as I have tried to forget my pride. She really is amazing and i love her to death. Just have to always smile and stay upbeat!

This week we as a mission had a specialized training. It was super good about how we need to have love, unity, charity and obedience. It was really powerful and helped all of us refocus and remember why we are here and who we represent! But the best part was at the end when pres. said he had a surprise for us. And the surprise was........MEET THE MORMONS!! We got to watch it finally!! Oh my goodness it is amazing!! I was doing so well until the end when it talked about the missionary mom. Then me and my comp both lost it and started crying. We were like the only ones who cried. It just reminded me so much of you mom and made me miss home a bit.

 There was a quote I heard on Sunday and it said, “God couldn’t be everywhere so he gave us mothers.”  That is very true!! :) 

 Me and my comp worked really hard with Frank this week and he was baptized on Sunday!! Baptism week!!! It was such an amazing experience. He is so humble and amazing and i love him! It’s the most rewarding thing to see someone who has worked so hard and has had so many trials and burdens to come up out of the water smiling and a changed person. A clean person. :) He was beaming from ear to ear. Although it wasn't the smoothest ride getting everything ready. Before the elders in our district, who share the building with us, had a baptism too so we told them don't drain the font. What do they do? They drain the font because they are elders. So we had an hour till the baptism so we race into the gym where the font is and where elder’s quorum is being held and go into the font. It’s half full and we have to get the plug in so we go wading in the font in our dresses and try to put the plug in and it doesn’t work because its super ghetto. We try and swim around in the font for like 30 min trying to get this thing to plug. Finally our zone leaders come to the rescue and spend 15 min trying to figure it out until finally we plug it. It took 45 minutes to do all that plus we still had a billion of things. But a good baptism always has a little stress. In the end i wouldn’t have had it any other way and yeah we got to go swimming ;) Just kidding. Don’t worry about Frank’s son. His son is always in his room when he comes. He is shy and doesn’t have ADHD as bad as Isaac. 

We tried to set a date for baptism for Mathew on the 30th but its super hard because he doesn't have the support of his family. He knows and wants to be baptized. He just doesn’t want to come to church which is hard. So we might have to drop him. We are going to try and meet with his family and talk to them about church and baptism for Mathew. 

Michael did come to church again!! He is doing super well! We love him!! The family we have been teaching has been good. It has been slow because they are so busy and only really able to meet on the weekends. They are super awesome and elect.We just have to be able to teach them. Karl isn’t really progressing anymore which is sad :(( We are probably going to meet with him this week and have a drop talk. The word of wisdom is holding him back. It’s always hard to drop people but we planted seeds so hopefully in the future we can go again when he is more ready and teach him again.

We got a new investigator this week. Inez. She is this super cute old lady of about 60 and she came to church and stayed for gospel principles. She wants to know and learn more but she accepted a date for the 30th so we are so excited to teach and help her. She is so cute and so smart!! She caught onto everything really fast!! 

We are just focusing on finding and re filling our teaching pool :) This week was a growing week but I learned that my Heavenly Father is always there. This week I asked the bishop for a blessing because it was the closest thing I had to a fathers blessing and it gave me such comfort and peace to know that he doesn't give us anything we can’t handle.

I have reading a lot about Alma and Amulek this week in my scripture study and how amazing they are. They had to go through trials and tribulations and suffering before they were able to break free from the jail. It’s all about enduring to the end. Alma and Amulek were amazing missionaries. They are amazing examples of love, obedience, and charity. They are definitely my heroes. And they are also good examples of how well they worked together as a companionship. They taught powerfully together and always testified of each other. Super powerful!! Made me so happy and gave me strength :) 

Thanks so much for the quotes and for the story about Nephi's bow!! super powerful!!  Thanks for all you do!! I miss you all so much!! Not much longer till we get to Skype and I can see all your wonderful faces!!! Pray that I don't get fat on Thanksgiving!! I am so thankful for you all and this opportunity I have to serve the Lord! I am so thankful for all the blessings we have received as a family and I know more will come as well!!

   Hope you have a good week!!!! Always praying for you!!! :)))))) love you!!!! 

     Hermana Heacock