Okay, so Transfers happened on Tuesday, and we just got news on Saturday. I will be staying here with Hermana U------. Hermana E----- is going to Clarksville. We will be just a regular companionship (sort of), which will be so strange. The really big news is that they are splitting our area! Our area is really big. We can only literally cover a small part of it. So we are receiving two more hermanas here! One is a hermana that is almost done with her mission and was here before! And the other is a girl from Mexico who has been waiting for her visa for nine months and it will be her first transfer here. (She doesn't speak English, so...!)They will be our roommates! So now instead of three, there will be four. I'm a little worried how we will split up the area and existing investigators, but the Lord knows best. There is a lot of excitement here, and we will do
our best to execute the work. It will be an adventure for sure! I am very excited. :)
J----'s baptism did not happen on Saturday because, even though he was totally prepared, and very excited, his aunt, who is basically his mom, had to be rushed to the hospital Friday and has been in critical condition due to complications of pregnancy. So we had to postpone till next Saturday or maybe later.
We have had a lot of appointments fall through which just allows us to see a lot of our less active friends.
Just a follow up Exchange miracle. On Exchanges, we knocked a lot of doors and talked with a lot of people. Almost a week later, on Tuesday, we saw I had put a return appointment with a address in Cochran. No idea who it was, but we went to the address at the appointed time and before we could get to the door, a lady was waiting for us and ushered us right in. She was African-American and so sweet and funny. Her name was P-------, and even though I didn't remember her, she remembered me. We taught her The Restoration (we taught in English, which is very uncommon), and it was such a amazing lesson. She was hallelujah-ing and was so interested. She was taking notes and having us repeat things so she could write it just right. She soaked it up like a sponge. When we told her the elders could bring her a Book of Mormon, she said wait and went and brought out two copies of the Book of Mormon that she had already read some of (she loved it). She even accepted a baptism date! We gave her to the elders. As we went to leave, she handed us some JW literature as she was looking for the other Book of Mormon from a box of books, and we just casually hid it behind a potted plant. He He! She was so awesome!
We are seeing so much awesomeness in the work! It's only going to multiply exponentially!
Hope everyone has a great week!
Con amor,
Hermana Nielson
P.S. This is us and J----
P.P.S Sometimes you forget your serving in the south until you see a memorial to Rosa Parks on a bus.
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