Halloween Happiness

Hello Everyone!

So I just realized now that I have been out for 16 months how hard it is getting to come up with a subject line that I haven't already used that is still catchy enough for you all to want to read my emails....haha the struggles of becoming an old missionary...anywho, this week was awesome! It was such a wonderful week and we got a lot done!

We had a pretty normal beginning of the week, nothing super new and exciting. On Thursday we had exchanges and that was awesome! It was nice because the Sister Training Leaders blitzed our area, which means that all 4 of us were working in Greencastle. So by the end of the day, we had taught 8 lessons for the day bumping our total lessons up to 13 and it was only Thursday! :D It was really nice! I was with Sister Tua. She is a really cool sister. She has been on her mission for 9 months and is just an excellent missionary! It was a fun day and we got some cool potentials that day.

Friday was Halloween and it was a pretty relaxing day. We  have our district meetingson Friday so we had our district meeting. Since it was also the last day of the month some of the other missionaries in the district were tight on miles so we had our meeting in Plainfield, about 35 minutes away. It was fine though since we had enough miles to make the trip. It was a good meeting! I always love district meetings though...they are probably my favorite of the meetings we go to. I always learn so much! We went to lunch after the meeting, we usually do...haha but this time one of the Elders in the other ward left his lights on as we ate so by the time we left their car was dead...so we had to drive the other sisters back to their apartment so they could get their jumper cables and take it back and jump the elders car. So by the time we actually got back to Greencastle it was like 3:00ish and we had left at 10. We met with a less-active before going to dinner with a member. Halloween as a missionary is kind of different than any other day. Since so many people are out and about, they don't like us to be out tracting or teaching people. So unless you were with a member, you were supposed to be doing your weekly planning. Lucky for us, we had a member invite us over to carve pumpkins! It was really fun! I enjoyed it a lot and made a cute owl pumpkin! It was a fun night and I am glad we were inside since it was freezing that night! There were snow flurries...which just shows us that winter is right around the corner!

We had a good weekend. Natalie came to church again and had a much better experience this week! We got a new Brach Mission Leader who is ready and excited to get the work moving better in the branch! It will be a nice change! We also had a really cool lesson last night after our dinner. We had finished eating and were just chatting with the member family...well I guess it is part member family. So the members have their non member daughter and her 2 girls living with them. One of the granddaughters is a member but is less-active. As we were planning on Saturday night we felt like the scripture we needed to share was Isaiah 1:18, which is about the atonement. It was the perfect lesson! After we shared that the conversation took off and we were able to find out the less-active granddaughters concerns about why she isn't coming to church. She really opened up and it was a really great lesson! We are going to start going over and having like a scripture study class with her! It was just the perfect lesson! It also really helped me get a better testimony of the power of effective planning! Bro. Evans (the member) told us as we were leaving how it was the best night of a missionary dinner that they have had! It was so spiritual and just so awesome!

That is about all I've got for you this week...well it's more like it is about all I can remember! Haha I hope you have a wonderful week! Love you all!

love,

Sister Abbie Paige!

1. the things you can find in a small town!

2. Pumpkin Carving