"hi fam! well i know you've already heard, but we got transfer calls on saturday and found out we're both staying in maple valley!! the big surprise came last night when Pres Moffat called to tell us we need to go to transfer meeting today to pick up another sister! we're going to be in a threesome!! it was mixed emotions . . . we are kinda sad just because it won't be QUITE the same. we've had so much fun just the two of us. BUT we are excited because we know that this is what the Lord wants :) . . . we spent this morning cleaning our apt and getting it ready for a third occupant. we both know sis sawyer from doing exchanges and she's great so it will be fun! our ward will all be surprised too because they know we're staying but they're not expecting a third!! everyone's been so sweet to us in this ward. a couple members called us just to see if we are staying or not. a member of the bishopric was so sweet . . . he said they talked about us in bishopric meeting and how they would trust us teaching any of their friends so they wanted the ward to get to work getting us referrals!
"we had 3 lessons with member families last night, so basically we had 3 FHE's which means 3 rounds of treats haha. we're going to get fat if we keep that up. BUT we've gotten up to 2 miles in the morning! we actually feel like we're becoming runners and starting to enjoy it (it's not 57 miles/week pops but 2 miles about 4 times a week ain't bad huh?).
"the other bit of news from this week is we put [*] on date to be baptized june 27th!! [*] is not interested . . . YET . . . we think she's softening :) so yeah, two baptisms this month if everything goes as planned! [*] and [*]. pray for them! we want them to strengthen their testimonies before then.
ok couple stories from the week: a member of the primary presidency (sis collings) asked us to do part of sharing time this sunday! we had done this thing in her home that she wanted us to do for everyone: we have a rat trap, and we tell the story of nephi and his bros going to get the brass plates. because they tried twice and it didn't work (i trigger the rat trap with a pass along card, it's super loud and pretty intense) but nephi doesn't give up and has the faith to try a THIRD time (i take the springs off the trap but make it look like it's set) and we have one of the kids come touch the fake cheese and they don't get hurt! (they're a little nervous, but we give them a pep talk about having faith and then they do it) anyway maybe you have to see it. but the kids just love it and they all thought we were way cool :) the funniest part though is when we did it for the collings family, i had the set rat trap in my hand, and i was going to put it on the table, but one of the little kids bumped me and triggered the trap! (scary!!!) we made the kids back away (we don't want to break any fingers . . . i don't think that'd be good for getting the members respect and trust eh?) and it was all fine. BUT what the collings family didn't see was that the trap had barely caught the inside of my hand and the tip of my thumb and i was bleeding all over the rat trap haha. sis bush didn't notice either. i was trying to hide it so i didn't freak anybody out. so now our rat trap has my blood all over it haha. maybe you had to be there but it was great. no worries mom, i'm fine. it was kind of a miracle though. if my finger had been in there it would be broken now. the Lord is watching out for us!
"i thought i had another funny story but it's not coming to me. we have to run pick up our new companion!! i'm doing great, loving the work and just chuggin' away :) LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!"
* Liz has asked me not to use the names of her investigators.
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