Transfer 12 Week 1 July 14, 2014

Hola family!

How are things going? Things here are well. It was an ok week. I was
recovering from feeling sick so I was pretty tired all week. The
doctor in my ward said I had strep so my body just felt worn down.

This week was fun trying to find some new investigators.
We met with a lady named wakeysa. She is Native American and pretty
awesome. She talked about doing rituals and how she didn't throw any
hair away but flushes it down the toilet so people don't do voodoo on
her. I had a nightmare that she was casting spells on me and my
companion. But she is pretty cool. Keep her in your prayers—I'm
excited to teach her!

We also were able to meet with a head quarter referral named
Josephine. I think she looked up religious stuff on line because she
was having leg surgery and was nervous so something sparked an
interest that she felt the need to make changes in her life. I hope
something comes from it. We will be seeing her again this this next
week!

Finally there was a man named Al that seemed pretty solid. We had
stopped by an investigators house to see how he was doing and al was
the neighbor. I remembered seeing him outside the week before and so
just decided to talk to him. He said that he has a pretty clean life
and likes to have good morals and standards except he smokes
sometimes. We told him that we teach a stop smoking program and he
said we could do it with him! That will be super fun and I'm excited
to see what comes from it.

So I serve in the Vineland ward and in the same building the Spanish
branch is located. It was super cool, the Spanish branch just doubled
in a set of Spanish hermanas. That is new to our mission so we
currently only have two sets of Spanish hermanas in all of the ppm.
What was even cooler was my golden sister Reyes was called to switch
to Spanish speaking so now she is back serving by me. I was so
excited. It is really fun when you develop great friendships out here
and then they get to serve around you!

This last week we also participated in something called the YSA
rescue. Three are currently somewhere around 5000 less active ysa in
our mission and 904 in our stake. So together as missionaries from the
Cherry hill stake with some auxiliary members and the ysa youth group
we teemed up to go find the less actives and to reactivate and invite
to church and activities. From my own area we were able to find out
that a lot of people had just moved, but overall my favorite part was
seeing so many people work together in rescuing gods lost sheep! Our
ward is going to go out at least two Sundays a month to work on
finding people from the list. This is. Big push to get them more
involved instead of it just being the missionaries. I'm sure they will
see many miracles from this.
What are some things that you all are participating in your own wards
back home? I hope each of you find opportunities to serve and to get
out of your comfort zones! Good luck!

Well hope you all have a good week, and hope everyone was safe on the
camping trip. Roast a good mallow or two for me- I've been missing
those! :)

Love sister beames