Birthday Party and Lots of Visits (Week 38)



At Tammy's birthday party for me!



Hey everyone,

First off , you need to know transfer doctrine.  Sister Fricke is leaving me!  How rude.  She is abandoning me tomorrow.  Anyway, we have had so much fun together.  This last week was amazing.  Sister Fricke is awesome, and she will do great good in her new area.

 



Sister Fricke's birthday sign for me!



Sister Fricke made this sign for me.  She made it without me knowing and then put it up the night before my birthday.  I didn't see it until my birthday.  She is so awesome.

Sister Fricke befriends a lucky local cat!

On Saturday Elder L. Tom Perry, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, passed away.  He was one of Sister Fricke's favorite apostles.  She named her stuffed unicorn Perry after him.  It is sad to see him go, but I know it is his time.  The Lord has a plan, which is perfect.  I bet Elder Perry is needed on the other side.

 

We met Haplo, who is super awesome.  He has heard about the church in New York with all the advertising, but has never meet a member until us.  He wants to learn more, but is going back to New York tomorrow. 

 

He is getting everything ready, so he can move down here to stay to be with his family.  When we told him about Joseph Smith, it really touched him that it was in Palmyra, New York.  I would never have thought that that part of the story would matter to anyone.

Haplo cared because he was in Palmyra when he found God.

My birthday party!

Thank you all for your birthday wishes.  I had a wonderful day.  Now I am officially 20.  We had a really great day.  Tammy invited us over for dinner.  She also invited over Sister Xar.  She wanted us to invite someone, so we asked Trian to come.  She came and loved it.  We were able to teach the first lesson to her.

All the attendees at the party (except cameraman Fricke)

The first part of it went terrible!  Trian was so distracted.  She went into the bathroom to fix her makeup.  We both said a silent prayer asking for the spirit to come.  After she came back, we taught her about Joseph Smith and the first vision.  The spirit was so strong.  Trian asked us not to make her cry, because then she would have to fix her makeup again.  She said she knew what we said was true.  We explained that she was feeling the spirit.  It was awesome.

Grandma Tammy and Sister Fricke

The spirit changes everything in the lesson.  Also, after the spirit was there, Trian was calm, which is weird for her.

Samah and her family

These two transfers with Sister Fricke have been amazing.  We ended it with a fantastic week.  I think this has been one of my best.

Dalton and me

Miracle: At the end of church, we ate lunch and then went to fill up our water bottles, near the bishop's office.  Brother Vasu (second counselor in bishopric) was talking with someone.  He called us over, and we started talking with Limbeck.  He had a lot of good questions.

Essix is still confined to bed, but she's happy -- and we're happy to be with her!

We were able to answer them and teach him the first lesson.  He wants to learn more, but didn't set up a time to meet.  He said he would come to church next Sunday.  He and his wife moved to Florida three weeks ago.  He said his wife is a member, and he wanted to come check it out.

✨Sister Aurora Pack



My last district meeting with Sister Fricke

P.S. There was an Elder who found a picture of Elder Ashworth, who is one of our Zone Leaders.  He convinced all the other Elders to set the picture as their background.  At the end of district meeting they showed Elder Ashworth.  They told him if only they could be as good as him.

The Ashcroft Phone incident