This week started out slow, but got faster and faster!!!

This week started out slow, but got faster and faster haha. We helped one of our sweet ward members move. It was actually the best. I love doing stuff like that helping out. AND, I got a pretty killer leg workout. So actually it probably did more good for me than for her anyway ;) but it was great

Our investigator, jacqui, is awesome. She totally adores Simone. Simone is making such a huge difference already!! She is an amazing friend and gospel principles teacher, and does such a beautiful job answering people's questions (mostly because she's already asked them all herself!) seriously. Amazing.

Brent's baptism is this week. A month ago tomorrow will be when sister Bradley and I first ran into him. The Lord knows him. He's entering the waters of baptism is Saturday :)

Sister Nielsen and I got on the bus to go downtown this week. She got on first and had an impression to sit by a guy, but say by another girl instead. That's why it's funny that I got on the bus right after her, had a prompting to sit next to the same guy, and I sat by him. I was figuring out how to start up a conversation with him when he turned to me and said, "so, how long do you have left?" Haha there are certain things that people say to you that hint that they know more than most people about Mormons, and that's definitely one of them! Ha turns out he's an inactive member-- one that I've personally actually called on a couple different occasions since I've been in this area. Ha I was so excited to meet him. We had a great conversation on the way up- he was great. After a while, our bus stop was approaching. He made a comment on how it was such a coincidence we sat next to each other. I told him that the spirit told me to sit next to him. He laughed. Ha I looked him in the eye, smiled, and told him that god knows exactly who he is- it was no coincidence that out of all the people and buses in Chicago at that moment, that I (a missionary who had called him unsuccessfully on many occasions) sat next to him. I told him that god is ready for him when he is ready to come back and invited him to church. It was a rather awesome experience :)

We have an active member named Kyle who we visit on a regular basis just to help him out. Holy cow, I love that guy so much! We decided we would surprise him his week by showing up at his work. He's been telling us about the wasabi ginger lays chips for weeks, so we thought we'd try them. We went into the heart of Chicago, to his walgreens and it was awesome. I love the city :) and the chips were good too!

So I've read 190 pages of the Book of Mormon since I started last week. Whew! Lots of reading! But it's great :) a cool side effect of reading the scriptures really diligently and studying them effectively is that your prayers improve. I haven't really done much with my prayers, but they have been improving this week and I know it's because of my reading of the Book of Mormon. It's super cool too, because I notice how faith and prayer works in the Book of Mormon, and its transferring over into my actual life and making a difference on how I do things. Love it. 

Well, Chicago is great, I love it so much and the work is going great! Love you all :)

Sister Walton