An eventful week!

Dear Family,

Whew. It's been an eventful week. 

Monday- PDAY!!!! We played some hardcore basketball. Couldn't walk normally for 3 days afterwards. And it was Halloween. 

Tuesday- We went to Charleston for MLC. The car ride did not help the soreness factor. It was a good meeting, and as usual, I felt like we are going to go out and baptize the world now. And now that Sister Ford is in Buckhannon, we got to ride down together! It was quite the party!

Wednesday- We were able to reconnect with one of our amazing investigators. It's been like a month since we were able to see her, and  It was 10 minutes before our dinner hour, and we were discussing if we had time to try Amber, or if we should just head for dinner. We decided to try her, and ended up teaching her the Restoration again. And she was so excited about it!! She told us afterwards, "Ya'll have to come back, because we are going to study this thing out." She also felt the Spirit strongly and we relayed the First Vision to her. I love the First Vision. When we recite those words to people, they almost always react, saying something like "Wow, that was powerful." I know that it truly did happen! 

Thursday- Have I told ya'll about the S.? They are awesome!! Sister S. grew up in the church, and has recently started coming again with her husband. He's going to be baptized on Dec 1st. We have dinner with them every Thursday, and teach their family. In preparation for baptism, Bro. S. has repented and started coming to church every week, and has come 3 weeks in a row now. And his testimony that he was on the right path was so much stronger this week! When we keep the commandments of God, we are more in tune with the Spirit, and we can feel more peace and guidance in our lives. Especially from coming to church! 

Friday- We went on exchanges with the Morgantown Sisters! I went up to their area with Sister Jarman. She is amazing, and we had a fantastic time! We miraculously found a woman to teach. We were walking by her apartment as she was going in, and we shouted hello up the front porch stairs. She then proceeded to tell us that it was not a good time, because she had just accidentally left her dinner in someone else's car, and that is was the only food she had. We had just come from a dinner appointment, and had leftover lasagna in our car, so we ran and grabbed it for her, and taught her the Restoration. She was a truly prepared soul, and felt the Spirit as we taught, so she invited us back. 

Saturday- An average day in the life of a WVCM missionary. We taught. We tracted. We ate hot dogs.  It was nice!

Sunday- It turns out our phones aren't high tech enough to do the Daylight Savings Time change on their own. So Sister Ivory and I showed up an hour early to the ward council meeting that had been cancelled.  The best part was, the elders came running in frantically 2 minutes after we did.  We were pretty sad about missing out on the extra hour of sleep. Then we faced a truckload of opposition that afternoon. Literally everyone we tried to see or talk to for 4 hours straight slammed the door, ran away, told us not to come back, or were mean. It was a little rough. But it always seems to come in waves like that. It makes me appreciate how lucky I am to serve somewhere where people actually love to talk about religion. It'd be rough if everyday was like that!! And we had a good finish to the night. We had a good lesson with David, and the member we brought with us turned out to be distantly related to him! Miracles! 

So next week, PDay won't be until Wed :) Ya'll get extra time to write me!!

Love ya'll!!  

Sister Ward