Goin' to Indiana

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 Highlight is at the end! Clickbait is in the begginnning

My companion is getting reassigned over to Indiana to finish serving there! Everyone is like wha? and I'm like 😭. Elder Massey is a good comp and as an English major, he helped proofread my letters to make them be more eloquent. Be warned if you start to see the quality plummet. Now we can ALL miss Elder Massey for a variety of reasons. I've been with my district leader Elder Peterson and his companion Elder Thompson for the past couple days and it has been rockin.

While planning the lesson for one of the people they're teaching we got the feeling we should just see how she's been doing instead of having a focus on a lesson. It turns out that she's been giving out private information to a guy in India, and she didn't realize that he wasn't legit until she talked with us about it. The guy had her social security number and banking info among other things. Yikes! I hope that she'll be able to stay safe. She really is the sweetest person, so that really bothers me to think that someone would be taking advantage of her.

Highlight of the week: We felt like we should just read over the chapter we had assigned to Kathy instead of plowing through with a different lesson. I'm glad we did! Haha she had thought we had assigned the destruction chapters in Mormon (we actually assigned Moroni 10 because it talks a lot about gifts of the spirit). While we were reading, I was thinking about what we should invite her to do, and in verse 32 the spirit was like, "invite her to be baptized." I was like, "wha?" cus in the past she's said that she's comfortable in her own church. I reread a part of verse 33 and said "Kathy, I invite you to be baptized," and she said yes, but she wants to order her life first. I was so so elated the rest of the day. Trust the spirit! You're not more knowledgeable than the spirit! She is so so golden and is always giving the best insights during discussions. Anyways, I'll stop rambling. Have a nice week!


Us at a vegan burger place. Elder Peterson on left and Elder Thompson on right.


Elder Massey's and my final picture together

Something that Elder Massey painted for me using potato water

A cool alleyway


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