Letter #24

Sent:	Mon 8/05/13 12:51 PM

Hello Mom! GUESS WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Roberta is getting baptized this Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't explain how excited I am for her!! She is the cutest little old lady I've ever met!! (Except for my grandma's of course!) I can't even tell you how amazing she is! She truly has been prepared by our Father in Heaven. It's so incredible to think that we only met her 4 weeks ago this Thursday and she's already getting baptized!! I love this work so much and I can't wait for her to experience all the blessings and joy that this gospel holds! Since she has Polio and has no function in her legs, one of the Elders that will be baptizing her will have to carry her down into the font and then she'll sit in a chair and when she's emerged, they'll just tip her back. I really just can't wait to see her in her white jumpsuit! :D Another amazing thing happened this week! We were told by one of the Young Women's leaders that McKenna and Bryce both want to be baptized!! I don't remember if I told you about them but their mom was recently baptized in February and when we met with them yesterday, McKenna said in her prayer that she's excited to be baptized and to be able to go to the temple! They are such great kids and so polite! We also met with a couple last week and they took us out to breakfast. They're pretty great too! There names are Amy and Jerry and they've got 4 kids all above the age of 8!! They were a referral from a member in the ward, and told us that they are very interested in learning more about the gospel. Amy is an animal adoption caretaker so she has like 34 cats at her house and 13 dogs... I don't know how people can live with that many pets. Haha! Anyway, i'm sure you've heard about the fires that are going on right now. I think they said there's 5 or 6 of them and Grants Pass is getting all the smoke from them. People have been telling us that we are now in the "Hazardously Unhealthy" stage of smoke so we're supposed to be wearing face masks...They look silly but make us feel like we're in some horror movie so that makes it fun! We met Tim again on the street this week, this time with his big black friend Ray! They are hilarious!!!!!!! They're moving though so we probably won't see them around anymore :/ but they gave us their information and told us to make sure we write them. Transfers are coming up on Monday, so if you send anything, send it to the mission office address just to be safe. I have a feeling that Sister Marble might be getting transferred. She's been her almost 6 months and at interviews President said something about it.. I really hope we both stay though!! We are like best friends and I just love her! Oh! Another thing that's happening, we are going to be getting 2 Elders in the ward so there will be 4 of us serving in the Redwood ward now. I'm not really sure how it will all work but it will be nice because our area is so huge! We haven't even been to all of our area just because it's so big. Interviews with President went great!! I love that man so much! He is seriously THE BEST!!! We mostly talked about Trevor and how he's doing and pretty much just how amazing he is! ;) It sounds like he is doing wonderful and that makes me so happy and so proud! I am so blessed. Thank you for always being there for me mom. And for always supporting me in all I do. I truly appreciate all that you have taught me and for the way that you have raised me. I am so grateful for our family and for the relationships that we have. Thank you for everything mom! I love you so so so much! I hope you have a great week, with less stress and busy-ness!

I love you!

Love, Sister Hall :)