It's been a good and busy week with all sorts of laughs and adventures

It's weird we've hardly gone a full week without sister hone. She's back holding the Morgan park fort down with hermana Toney and it sounds like they are doing great!

Sister Bradley and I have enjoyed doing work for our own area, and we have some great ideas we are excited to work towards- especially with our members.

At the top of at list, is getting them to the temple! We has 3 or 4 recent converts who were working with to get names from their family history to do work for in the her temple on June 20! Were so excited :)

Steven and Maria got callings yesterday (our two recent converts)-- they are on the temple committee and will be working with people on family history- they are going to do so great!!!

Last week, the elders from the family ward gave us an investigator named Tee. We didn't get to visit with him all week but he came to church! He's this 22-year old black guy with dreads and tatts. He came to church with a tank top with a girl on it, camo shorts, and some sweet kicks. He made instant friends with about half the branch on his first Sunday there. He is just so real and genuine and funny.

And guess who the last one to get up and bear his testimony was?? Yep. Our friend Tee. Ha it made the branch president nervous watching him walk up to the stand on his first day there. (I wish You occult all see the picture in my mind of this). It was a pretty funny testimony cause he's just so down-to-earth. But he's also a sincere seeker of truth. He talked about how he's lived on the south side his whole life, seen a lot of stuff, and people would throw Jesus at him all the time, like "if you need help, Jesus can save you" and stuff like that. He said that he just imagined Jesus as a super-hero or something- he didn't really get what any of that meant. Then he started noticing that people would say that hey changed their lives because of Jesus. Well, he wanted to know how to do that- so he's here. It was so awesome, I'm so grateful he shared :) that's why were here!!!

We had a great few lessons with some new investigators as well that we are excited for. INCLUDING one with a girl training to run the 800 in the Olympics in Brazil! Her PR now is something like a 2:04. Sweet. She's awesome, that was a great spirit filled lesson!!

We also had one of the saddest lessons with a less active who we've deactivated in me past month or two who is choosing to pull away AGAIN just as we were about to prepare her for our temple trip and a calling. It was so sad. 

But it's been a good and busy week with all sorts of laughs and adventures. We've been so spoiled with a whole week together in our area.. Now were off to exchanges with the other sisters! Whooo!

I've been on a scripture-reading fettish! having a blast asking questions and finding answers! and really literally DIVING into the scriptures. Im such a scripture nerd now, I love it. It's so sad to see what people are missing out on! It's so hard to get people to even read a verse, much less study to find the answers to questions for themselves. I've had a good ol time doing that this week. The answers are in the scriptures!!

But yeah, missionary work is the best. It's an awkward and crazy ride, but I love it :) this church is SO true. And it is literally through Christ that anything is possible. I don't think any of is fully comprehend or understand that, but I realize more and more just HOW MUCH we need Christ and how much he has done for us.

Love you!!

Sister Walton