Letter #23

Sent:	Mon 7/29/13 5:18 PM

Hi mom!!!!! I don't have much time today. We just got back from going to the Oregon Caves! President Watts took the whole zone and it was so fun! So this week was absolutely incredible!! The lady we met last week, Roberta, is amazing!! We met with her on Wednesday and also Saturday and we were able to set a baptismal date with her for the 10th of August only after knowing her for a week!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so so SOOO excited for her! The first time we met her she told us, "now you mormons don't drink coffee, now do you?" We said no and she said, " Well i've got to have my cup of coffee everyday. So after the first time meeting with her we knew that she would have a challenge with the Word of Wisdom.... Saturday we taught her about it and why it's so important. She told us that she only had about a teaspoon left of creamer left so she went and poured out the rest of her coffee and said, " okay, no more!!!!! :D She is seriously SO golden! She also told us that the day before we invited her to be baptized she woke up at 3 in the morning with a question about baptism and that she stayed awake studying the book of mormon and the other material that we left her. She told us that since she's been meeting with us and reading from the Book of Mormon, that her anger towards her stepson is starting to disappear and that she feels that what we've been teaching her is filling in the pieces that she didn't know were missing. The whole lesson was very spirit filled and I couldn't help but hold back the tears. Heavenly Father truly is preparing people to hear the gospel and I absolutely love being an instrument in his hand. I have never been so happy in my life. I love this gospel with all my heart and I feel so very blessed to be apart of it. I can't explain the love I have towards the people that I am teaching and for my Savior.

OH! We totally met Moses this week!!! Well not really but he looked like him! Haha he had a white turban and long beard with a huge staff! We talked to him on the side of the road for about 45 minutes and he even started talking in Hebrew! It was pretty awesome! We asked where he was going and he told us that he was going to work which was to milk goats... Lol! Only in Oregon! :) I'm sure you've heard, but there has been crazy fires all over and the smoke is insane here! Most of the time we can't see the mountains and it's been snowing ash. The sun was like blood red one of the days and Sister Marble and are were freakin out! It was so cool!! We have interviews with President Young tomorrow and I am so excited to see him!! It seems like it's been forever and he just always makes my day! Transfers are also coming up soon on the 12th. I'm really hoping that Sister Marble and I will both stay here in Grants Pass but she has been here for almost 6 months so there's a big chance she could be leaving :( We've become like bestfriends! Anyway, I hope that everything is going well back home. I didn't have time to read any e-mails today so I will print them out and read them when I get time! I love you so much!!!

Love,

Sister Hall :)