Moroni 10:32

Family and Friends,

Another fantastically fantastic week!! It was such a miracle! We were able to reach both of the "Standards of Excellence" this week! The Standards of Excellence are to have 20 lessons with 60% or 12 of them being "member present" lessons. We were able to achieve that! We got 21 lessons and 14 member present lessons...making 67%! Wahoo! It was so great! Every time we have to start a new week we get a little nervous and stressed out because we just aren't sure if we are going to be able to do it again. But this week we were able to! Now we get to do it again!

Sister Hobbs baptism was the best baptism I've been to on my mission! I mean, all of them have been good, but this one was especially good! The Spirit was so strong and a lot of her family was there. Sister Ficklin and I sang a special musical number called "I'll Find You My Friend." Everyone said that we did really well and that our voices blend really good together. The song is about us knowing someone in the pre-existance and how we tell them that we will find them down here on earth so that we can share the gospel with them. It just fit perfectly well with the situation because we probably knew the Hobbs family up in the pre-existance and now we are here on earth sharing the gospel with them. It was such a good experience to see her get baptized. When she came out, we were standing in the bathroom with her and was asked her how she felt and she just jumped up and down and was so excited. She said she felt super good! We just love her so much and I'm excited to be a part of the Hobbs life for a very long time. She had her brother in law, Brandon, and sister in law, Tina give the talks. Brandon has been inactive and Tina is semi active. It was so good for them to be able to study and give the talks! They did such a good job! Brandon even came to church yesterday. The entire Hobbs family took up three rows in the chapel!!! It was so cool to look over and see all of them sitting there! We also had dinner with the whole family yesterday and they ALL said they were going to be at church. Even Bro. Hobbs and Brandon. So we are pretty excited!!! Sis. Hobbs bought her three boys suits from TJMaxx and said she got a pretty good price on them. They only wore them to the baptism but they all looked pretty spiffy in them! I just know that they will be sealed in the temple one day! It's only a matter of time! :)

We have also been trying to continue to work with Lexus and Katie. We hadn't been able to meet with Katie all week and had only seen Lexus once during the week so, during Sunday School yesterday, we divided and conquered!!! Sis. Ficklin went with Ariana Brandli and taught Lexus while I went with Unico Pitcock and taught Katie! I guess teaching Lexus was a little difficult because she hadn't had her medicine that day, but they did a lot of activities to teach the things they had to! The lesson with Katie went well. We went over quite a few things because we have to finish teaching her the lessons before she gets baptized in a week!!! Yay!!!

I went on an exchange to Muskogee this week! It was okay. Not the best exchange. It was good to go to Muskogee again though. It was the last time before I go home. I also went on an exchange to Mena. That was fun! :) Now we only have one exchange left! It's on Friday and I get to go to Van Buren with Sis. Breaux!!! I love her so much! She is such a great missionary! So I'll be ending my mission with a great exchange! They actually haven't been quite as bad as I though they were going to be. So I'm grateful for that!!!

We picked up a new investiagtor named Tommy. He is the Vendel's daughter's boyfriend. He is a pretty interesting guy! We've taught him twice and he actually came to Sacrament Meeting yesterday. He's been before and he's just not the biggest fan of it. We'll keep working with him. Pray for us! ;)

There was a Stake Relief Society Activity/Meeting on Saturday. It was so much fun! There were a few classes and we really enjoyed it!

I think I'll leave it at that this week. thanks so much for everything!!

Love you all!!

See you soon then!!

Love, Sister Pahl

Picture #1 - Us with Bishop and Bro. Lynch.
Picture #2 - Us with Sis. Hobbs and Bro. Eagar
Picture #3 - Us with the Hobbs family
Picture #4 - Us with Sis. Hobbs


(sorry ... The mom couldn't get the pictures on here ... Brianna ... help me!!!) :)