Week 2

Note from Emily Gold:

I officially suck at this. I can't remember where I created the first blog so I'm starting a new one. I'm so sorry to all of you who are not on her email list. You can send a facebook message to me or Rebekah and I will give it to you if I know you and ask Rebekah if I can give it to you if I don't know you. Again sorry these are soo late. 

Rebekah's Email from week 2:

Dear Family,

I got to drive a mission car today! There was an emergency with some other sisters and only my comp and I could drive, so I took the sisters' car over to the shop with one of them. So exciting right?

This work has been difficult, but it is going really well. My companion and I--Sister Allen--were sent to open a new area where sisters haven't been for a while. Our Mission President has challenged every companionship in the mission to have one baptism in the month of October, so we were really excited for that. Then on Thursday night, the night we arrived in Chilliwack, our zone leaders challenged us to have a baptismal date by Sunday night. We had no investigators or really heads or tails of where to start, but we had faith that the Lord inspired our zone leaders and would help us find those that were ready to hear our message. This kind of thing only happens with exact obedience and luckily, Sister Allen is sooo obedient. I was so happy to have her and she seriously strives to be exactly obedient.

This morning I actually didn't feel discouraged when we didn't have that baptsimal date! And what made me feel even better about it is that we had to drive a sister back to Richmond to catch a flight and while we were there President Tilleman interview my comp and I. He said that he wants us to focus on opening the area and setting the ground work, so two baptisms for Nov and Dec instead. BUT we worked really hard this week and the Lord has blessed us! We have three new investigators! (In four days)

Sorry if this is super vague. It's really hard to write an email knowing this is going out to everyone. But I'll get more used to it..

My mission president is the most incredible man I have ever met. I cannot tell you how lucky I felt to even be in the same office with him.

The work is working!

Sister Thomson

PS. Read Elder Ballards talk again! President Tilleman wants us (the missionaries) to make sure every member in our area has a hard copy of it.

PPS. What was everyone's favorite parts of conference?

PPPS. Funny story I forgot to mention. When I met my comp and we were headed out to Chilliwack, we got a call saying the people in our area thought we were coming a week later so our apt. was empty. We were both really excited to sleep on the floor (no sarcasm here--we really were excited) but a member called and told us she had set up some things. We still don't have any knives and used shampoo for dish soap so I'm really happy it's p-day!! We can get the things we need!!

PPPPS. Groceries are so expensive here. I feel defeated somehow. The cheapest price I've seen for cereal is $4--average being around 5.50. Eggs are like 5 and I almost had a breakdown looking at chicken today. Not really, but I had no idea how to proceed. Who pays $10 for TWO chicken breasts?? Candada. At least the chocolate here is good. But I really do love it here. It's the most beautiful place I've ever been. A bag of marshmellows was on sale for five dollars. Hahahaaha