surprise of the week!

HI FAMILY!!!!!! good to hear from EVERYONE this week :) those are the best weeks. the big news from maple valley is that sis sawyer was emergency transferred back to puyallup! a sister went home on saturday for medical reasons and sis graf needed a companion! it was a shock and we miss sis sawyer like crazy (she was so great) but i have to admit i was SO relieved that sis bush and i stayed in glacier park!! now we have REAL transfers a week from tomorrow. it's gone by so fast! i'm nervous for saturday night because i don't think we'll both stay here. we're getting a brand new english sister so i think sis bush will probably train her :( well before the news here are some pics!! these 3 are actually from just this morning after our FOUR MILE RUN! we were so proud! we ran with two women in the ward: sis allen and sis moulton (we wish we'd had our camera when we were with them). they're so cute! they just ran a half marathon and they've been motivating us :)

ok so these are out of order, but the one where i'm in a pink cardigan is after we got back from the temple! (we we were dumb and didn't take any pics AT the temple . . . ) but it was such a great day! the seattle temple is beautiful. President gave the whole mission a packet to study about the temple leading up to it, so it was cool to feel prepared and realize the power that truly comes from our temple covenants. we need all the help we can get out here :) the pic when i'm in my blue dress was our last pic as a threesome in the church parking lot where we met sis graf to transfer. and the other one was to capture our excitement after we FINALLY found a 4XL baptismal suit for last saturday :)

random ones of me and sister bush being goofy and/or holding up fingers because we reached our goals for the day.

ok i have to run soon cuz we don't have lots of time today but here's a list of all the miracles for the week:

**sarah's dad came to sacrament meeting AGAIN and told his wife he thought he should get a suit!! AMAZING! and he stayed for sunday school. miraculous. he says we're very persuasive :) i love their family so much. dan is HILARIOUS. such a big tease. you all need to meet them some day

**we got a referral!! always a miracle for us :) she is a widow from Germany (near dusseldorf popsy!). her husband took the missionary lessons in a care center and considered himself mormon but died before he was baptized. she's super nice and we're scheduled to teach her tomorrow!

**so there's this less active in the ward who NO ONE has been able to get a hold of or get in her house for a LONG time. we knocked on her door a couple weeks ago and she was so nice! she's the coolest lady. she made a pound cake for john and rosemary's baptism (a miracle in itself). anyway this week she calls us out of the blue and asks for bishop's phone number!! she said she thought it was time to have a good chat with him. she also said she thinks it's good for us to be coming over :) her new husband isn't a member so maybe we can TEACH him!!

**we've been teaching member lessons like crazy trying to get them to invite their friends to meet with us. Pres Moffat really feels that's the future of our mission, almost everything from member referrals. anyway we've been tons of member homes but no referrals had come of it yet, until sunday!! this awesome member family set up a meeting at their house to teach a mom and her two kids, a 9 year old and 17 year old!!!

we're being so blessed and i REALLY want to stay here, but of course I'll do whatever the Lord calls me to do :) I know wherever I go it will be happy.