Dearest family and friends,
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, I'm staying in Muskogee for another 6 weeks!!!! Sister Hatch and I are going to be staying together. This will be the longest that I've spent in one area. It's crazy because I really thought that I was going to be transferred, but I'm not! :) I'm excited out of my mind!!!!
We had an awesome week this week!!!!! The "standard of excellence" for how many lessons we teach a week is 20 and I'd never done that before. So, Sister Hatch and I were determined to do it. We just believed that it would happen and we worked to make it happen, and it happened!!! :) Now we are going to make it happen again this week, but we are going to do better with having members with us at our lessons. President Shumway wants us to have 60% member present lessons and we only had 45% this last week which isn't bad because that's 9 member present lessons, but we can do a little better. As President always says, "We're so good it's a wonder why we're not better!" He likes to say that a lot!!!! It's like his motto.
On Wednesday we had a pretty fun activity. For our district meeting/outing, we went to one of our member's houses and went on a hike. Her and her nonmember husband live in Ft. Gibson which is like 10 miles east of Muskogee. They live in the "mountains." They have a "thinking spot" that they like to hike out to and so they took us to it. We had a little spiritual message from our district leader and then we had some alone time. It was really nice just to be in the nature. It reminded me a lot of camping at Joe's Valley and girls camp. As we were getting ready, Sis. Hatch and I kept saying that we felt like we were going to girls camp! It was a lot of fun. The only downer of the trip was that even though we sprayed down with bug spray, we still got ticks. Sister Hatch had like 5 and I didn't get any. They weren't burrowed into her skin though which is good. We think that's because she sprayed. She was pretty grossed out. I'm glad that I didn't get any!!!
On Sunday, we had the first meeting in Wagoner in the new building. It was pretty sweet! I got to play the piano for Sacrament Meeting. I really think they'll get a branch there pretty soon. We're so excited for that! I'm glad that I get to be a part of the beginnings of it! Sister Hatch and I keep saying that next transfer President is going to send one of us up there with another companion to open the area to full time missionaries. That would be super nice! Whenever I think about all the people we could be teaching up there, I really just think that they need missionaries up there all the time. The area has so much potential! There is one member that lives up there that gives a referral pretty much every week! One of his referrals even came to church yesterday with his two daughters! We are going to be teaching them this week. I'm so excited about the work that is going on in the Muskogee Ward and I'm excited that I get to stay for at least another
6 weeks! :)
I know this one is kind of short but I'm going to leave it at that! :) Hope you all are doing well!!
Love you!!
See you soon then!!
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