Transfer FOUR!

Hi Everyone! I'm in my fourth transfer starting today. I'm still at West Gate (Yay!), but I have a new companion now. Her name is Sister Fogg and she is coming back from outbound so I don't really know her very well, yet. She was serving in the Spokane, WA mission for two transfers. I hear that she served at West Gate before, so she knows what she is doing there. That's nice. I don't have to move apartments either! I just have to move rooms because Sister Williams is still my roommate (yay!). Sister Williams is also my District Leader...also yay! That means that I still get to see her a lot and work with her. Also, Sister Guanzon is coming back from California today from her outbound. I'm excited to see her. 

Maybe you're wondering what we did for the Fourth. Since we can't all leave the Square at once, half of us had a party in the morning and the other half had a party in the evening. I was the evening party shift, which I was quite happy about. We went to Brigham Young park and played games and had hamburgers and watermelon ... plus some other food. Some of the Sisters wanted to play baseball so we made an attempt. Half of the Sisters that wanted to play didn't know anything about the rules of baseball or what the objective is. It was a little bit funny. There was one sister from France that ran all of the bases and made it to home and then asked, "now what?". She didn't understand that when you make it back to home base it counts as a run. We also did skits with our districts. Afterwards there was a lot of watermelon left over, so Sister Williams and I hauled one back to our apartment and we cut off the top of it and everyone grabbed a spoon and started to dig in. We didn't finish it in one night, don't worry.

Oh, when Sister Williams and I were on West Gate on Independence Day morning, we had 300 Koreans come through on motor coaches. I don't think I've ever seen so many Koreans in my life. 

So Nicole should be baptized and married by now. We haven't heard from her since those big events, but I'm hoping that she sends us some pictures.

Ever since I've been at West Gate I've had a lot more to say in my sleep. A few nights ago Sister Williams heard me say "I know that the prophet is called of God ... it's pretty cool, isn't it".  Last night I sat up and I was trying to explain something to someone. All that Sister Williams can remember me saying is "7:30", but I think I woke myself up as I was talking and realized that I didn't need to explain it to "them" in the middle of the night. I've also stood up a few times because I thought I needed to go and do something, but before I went anywhere I realized what I was doing and went back to bed. 

Yesterday we took a wonderful member on a tour. Yesterday was his first day in Salt Lake because he was moving back to the States from Poland. He got himself off of the straight and narrow a few years ago and hit rock bottom pretty recently. He had a serious suicide attempt and it was evident from the scars he had. He came all the way here to try to reactivate himself in the church and get himself back on his feet. It was a amazing to see the faith that he had and the desire he has to come back. We took him to the Conference Center and showed him the auditorium and also the Book of Mormon paintings. We shared with him Ether 12:27:

And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

It was a really wonderful tour, and I'm glad that I got to know him a little bit. I'm excited for him to continue to grow in the Gospel and to have the Spirit back in his life again.