Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hello Friends and Family!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope you all remembered to wear green, Sister Ruth and I sure did! It has been a busy week here in Terre Haute! We taught a total of 20 lessons this week! Woot woot! We are supposed to teach that many every week but this is the first time since I got to Terre Haute that it's happened! Only took 5 weeks! Yep, that's right! I have been here for 5 weeks which means that we have transfer calls on Sunday! It is crazy how fast time flies out here!

So this week we taught some of our investigators, like usual. Nothing too exciting happened in those lessons. Mostly just teaching the Plan of Salvation. It seems like that is where most of our investigators are getting stuck on that lesson. Which makes sense because it is a lot of new information!

A couple cool miracles happened this week, one in particular that I want to share! So on Thursday afternoon, we were supposed to have back to back lessons. So one at 4 and one at 5. We show up to the 4:00 one, with a member and the investigator isn't there and won't be back for a while. So we decide to head to our next lesson a little early and as we pull up, that investigator texts and tells us that she can't meet that day anymore. So we are both pretty sad and decide to head to our back up plan. As we are driving to visit a less-active family, a inactive member calls and is almost in tears. She was having lots of pain and decided to take us up on having the Elders come give her a blessing. Which is amazing because she doesn't want anything really to do with the church outside of having us do service for her. We called the Elders and they came over and were able to give her a blessing. It was so cool to see the way that it all played out. It helped us realize that it is the Lord's work and we are just his messengers.If those 2 investigators would have been able to meet then we wouldn't have been able to help this sister. She wouldn't have felt comfortable to call anyone else and would have continued to be in pain. Another great thing is that since the blessing, that pain hasn't returned. The power of the Priesthood is so amazing!

Some fun adventures of the week include having dinner at a member's and getting paddled. The first time a missionary eats at their house, they get paddled and get to sign their name on the paddle. That was exciting! We got a free piece of pie with our meal on Friday for it being national Pi Day! Then on Saturday, we got fed homemade fried chicken and then this Arabic dessert thing! It was cut up strawberries mixed in Balsamic Vinaigrette salad dressing, sugar, salt, pepper, and lemon juice, served with vanilla ice cream. Yes, I tried it.....and yes, I liked it! It went well together and was enjoyable!

It was a good week with mostly beautiful weather in the 60's! There were a couple days where it went back down to 30's...however it was so great to not have to wear my coat for half of the week! :)

I love you all and appreciate you all so much! Have a fantastic week and Happy Birth-week Colie! :)

love,

Sister Abbie London

Getting Paddled

Pi Day