# 63

Sister Morreall, 

It was so good to spend the week with you as we traveled and conducted zone conferences. You continue to amaze me. 

Thank you for your thoughts on the sisters in the mission. I feel confident that they are in good hands, as you and your companion are out and about taking care of their needs. I hope the sister splits went well. Your thoughts on the subject? My thoughts have gone from are they productive, to maybe doing them for 48 hours instead of 24.

Thank you for all you do. We love you. Have a great week.

Dear President,

Thank you for your support and love. It's really easy to feel how much you and Sister C love me and all of the missionaries in the mission. I'm grateful for that, more than I can say over email! I liked your thoughts about sister exchanges. I know a lot of the sisters (especially in the North) could benefit from a longer exchange since we tend to do one only once a transfer. It gives more time to see all aspects of missionary work. Sister W and I will discuss the pros and cons and will be happy to talk to you about it whenever you want. 

We talked to the Georgia Zone Leaders this week to follow up on the exchanges with the sisters there. They talked with the sisters and the sisters seem to be geared up! We heard Sister S SYLed with Sister Sm outside AND inside the apartment haha. (Not sure how much Sister S enjoyed that). Sister B has also given Sister C and Sister B responsibilities (such as the phone, money, keys, etc.) as well. We know you're working on transfers with the zone leaders in Georgia, so we just wanted to fill you in on what we saw inside the apartment (where the Zone Leaders don't know). Sister W and I both felt that Sister B is progressing the most out of all of the sisters there. Everytime she is given a challenge she rises to it well, and she was also the sister we had the least amount of concerns for. Sister S told me during our interview that next transfer she hopes she has the opportunity to serve with Sister C because she feels she trusts Sister C and can help her the most in regards to the language and missionary work than the others. Sister C is working on improving her personal studies. Sister S wants someone to help push her in the language, although she does really well. She lacks confidence sometimes. She is the sweetest thing though! Sister B sometimes tends to dominate in lessons and in studies, but she is going to try and work on holding back and listening to the others' opinions. We think she's a little worn out of trios though. I don't know if that helps much, but that's what we noticed in our interviews and in the apartments. 

The exchange with the Gyumri Sisters went well! It was fun to be back with Sister M. I think that Sister M has been such a light for her. She has changed from when I served with her. It is evident that she is using her last transfer wisely. She is so concerned about making sure she uses every moment to the best of her abilities, but she is doing just fine. She is helping Sister M a lot with the language too. I also spent some time with Sister M..she is a ball of energy! She loves to talk to people...still in English, but she's working on SYLing and learning how to express herself in Armenian. We had a lesson with an English speaker though and Sister M asked a ton of great questions that I know our investigator felt the Spirit from. Sister M is very knowledgeable about the gospel and a great instrument for the Spirit, I just don't think she knows it.

Also, Sister W and I thought you and Sister C might find this funny...during the week we called all of the sisters to tell them about exchanges and when we called Arabkir, they told us that they couldn't go because their investigator (the one they've changed the baptismal date for) was getting baptized. We told them no problem and that we would rearrange the exchanges and have them go on an exchange later, so they could still have the baptism that day and not change it again. So a few minutes after we got off the phone, they called us again asking to know where they would have gone and who they would have been with...so we told them and it was obvious they were disappointed they were going to be missing it. So about half an hour later, they called us and told us that they moved the baptism a day earlier and that they could participate in exchanges now. I guess when we want an investigator to be baptized sooner all we have to do is plan exchanges that week!

Also, we talked to the Gyumri, Malatia and Center District Leaders who will be asking the trainees during their nightly callins how many words they have learned that day and which How To Begin Teaching they are learning that week. (We felt that those sisters have been doing well and we wanted to start holding them accountable and have them step up a bit.) The other trainees we are going to work with more personally to cater to their needs regarding the 12 week program.

Our investigators have been doing well this week. We found out that our investigator who is waiting for her kids to come home will most likely get baptized in July since her daughters will come home July 14th. She is progressing well and practically teaches us  when we come over.

We have another investigator who is absolutely stellar, and accepts everything we teach. She has been reading from the Book of Mormon and praying, but the only challenge for her is coming to church. Her family is always in town, so we are continuing to teach her the doctrine behind coming to church. 

Our English speaker is amazing. She questions God a lot...but it's good. I feel like a lot of our lessons start with her wondering why God lets things happen the way they do sometimes, but they always end with her understanding different principles of the gospel. She's one of my favorite people to teach because she asks us questions and they we respond with questions and then she thinks about it and responds how she feels and 90% of the time it's a gospel truth that we can testify about. 

We also have another investigator we are teaching who knows a lot of the members in the ward. She also really liked learning about the Restoration. Sister M, a member and I all felt like she could get baptize after a meeting we had with her on exchanges. That night we got a call from our Stake President's wife asking us not to teach her though because of the apartment she's worked with the police on in the past?...so we are not sure if we should go back and teach her or not. We are going to talk to our Bishop about it. Do you have any suggestions?

We also have an 8 year old girl in our ward who wants to be baptized. The family, the bishop nor the ward haven't taken any action though. We're not sure if we need to teach her or work with the family to get that going or if they just need to take care of that with the Bishop. Do you know?

This week was a little difficult for me personally. I just felt a little out of the loop on some things regarding the ward. Sister W is awesome and she's been helping me get used to the ward. I know it's hard because she's been here for a while and she knows everything really well, but we had a talk this week just so we'll both be on the same page a little more. I'm really grateful for how happy she is though about everything...we had a few run ins with people on the street this week that would have probably frustrated me if it wasn't for her. She's really good at brushing things off and just smiling afterwards. It's been a huge blessing for me. I'm trying to focus more on being happy like that and not letting things get me down.

Thanks for your love and support. I am looking forward to seeing you and Sister C on Friday for Mission Leadership Council. I love you both!

Love,

Sister Morreall