We're the womanaries!!

Hello!!! Happy transfer pday!!! I'm happy to say I'm staying in Palm Bay!!! Sister Hunsaker is being transferred to New Smyrna...  she's going to be an STL! Which is super exciting but I will miss her... but I'm excited to meet my new companion Sister Call! Apparently she's like 4'8" so I'm like... a foot taller than her. She's only been out one more transfer than I have so hopefully we won't be chickens with our head cut off. But she looks super cute and I've heard good things so I'm excited! But because of the lack of missionaries coming out right now, the elders area is now being shut down. So it will just be us in our ward and one set of elders in the other ward. We're already so busy I have no idea how we're going to handle that!! Wish us luck!!

So in other good news!! R- got a job! One of the members in our ward has a camping/outdoors company and he set up an interview for her. She'll be doing a lot of sewing sleeping bags and tents and things like that. But it's good money and she said the people that work there are a bunch of hippies with crazy hair and tattoos so she said she'll fit in hahaha. Also they may have found a house!! Well it's a duplex.. and it has no appliances right now but it's looking hopeful. And it's still in our ward boundaries! They'll find out on Wednesday if they get it so say some extra fervent prayers for them. Our bishop and his wife are seriously saints. They've been letting their family live with them for over a week now. They are the most patient and Christlike people I've met. There are so many good people in this world! Yesterday E- was wearing the bishops daughters dresses and had her hair in this adorable little bun, she looked so cute. And Da- and Dak- had little bowties on. It just warms my heart. 

In other news we've been working really hard to get less actives back to church. My goodness they are so stubborn sometimes!! I know they've felt the spirit, I know that they had to believe this church was true or they wouldn't have gotten baptized but they've just forgotten. But we've been working with this sweet old lady B- C- since we got in the area. We just talk to her and sing for her. She used to be quite a well known singer with her sisters. They used to have a radio show and would perform on variety shows all over the country. And we recently found out that Tad R Callister (general Sunday school president) was one of the missionaries that converted her when she lived back in Massachusetts. Crazy!!!! And a year ago, he actually called up our bishop and told him to go visit her. And he wrote a letter to her but she hasn't responded to him. But after 50 years we finally convinced her to come to church. She is the sweetest lady. She told me and Sister Hunsaker that we better not settle on our husbands and that she would call them and make sure that they were good enough for us. So it was a big success to have her come to church!

Miracles!!! We found 2 investigators in a day! One surprised us because it was the partner of E- who we've been teaching for about a month. We've met him before but haven't talked to him a lot. But E- invited him to sit in on our lesson and he did and he had tons of questions! He didn't grow up Christian but wanted the peace and the direction he noticed in Christians lives. He was super on board about the restoration and told us he would read the Book of Mormon with E- everyday! And he wanted to come to church.

Then there was G-. We met him a few weeks ago and he is very Catholic, Greek  and very stubborn but he also had a lot of questions and wanted to know more out of "curiosity." But we went to his house at the perfect time right as he got home and he let us right in and we taught him the restoration. When we taught him the first vision he just said "I believe it" and then when we bore testimony at the end he said "wow you guys really know this, you're glowing" he said he wanted to buy a Book of Mormon but we told him we'd get him one for free. He surprised us by saying he'd come to church and he seemed pretty set on it, but then he didn't show. So that was a bummer.. But we're not giving up.

So to explain the subject line one of the ladies in our ward picked us up from exchanges and her son who's like 5 said "what are we doing with the womanaries?" Anyways he's adorable... I bribed him with a sticker if he'd eat his chicken nuggets. And me and sister Hunsaker did indeed wear the ties we made to district meeting. I looked absolutely ridiculous because I had 3 different patterns on but I kinda dig the tie look hahahaha!!! We're noobs.... it's fine..

But it has been a great week! Miracles happen all over the place. I was reading in Mosiah 21 today and I learned a profound lesson. The people of Limhi are put in bondage by the lamanites because of a promise that he made with Abinadi. First off, tells us that God always keeps his promises, even if it's not always the most favorable outcome. And the people cry to the Lord to deliver them from bondage and he hears them but it isn't his will to deliver them at that time. But he does help them prosper while their in bondage. He doesn't deliver them or answer their prayers the way they wanted them to be answered but he will give us everything we need to endure our trials. Then, when we need to learn what we need to and become sufficiently humble, he will help us overcome anything. I don't know if that made sense but I thought it might benefit someone.. it's a good chapter. Look it up!! 

Lots of love!! 

Sister Grant