Email 4/28/14

Hello there ones and all! This week we received our transfer
letters...and I will be leaving my beloved Portlandia:(. Not too
excited for that, but I will be going to a companion that I have known
for quite sometime. I am headed over to Gresham, just on the outskirts
of Portland, so I won't be too far away. Transfers are on Wednesday,
so I am going to live it up while I am here in Portland for the last
two days and try to talk to almost everyone that we see!

The rest of this week was another big growing experience for me. It
seems that when we try our hardest, Satan comes in the most
interesting of ways and really tries to hit us where it really counts.
Some of the people that we have been seeing have seem to have just
stalled and don't want to progress; they want us to come over, but
they didn't want to do anything. I have a bad habit of becoming upset
when things like this happen, but then I realized something that Elder
Holland said when he was here: "We are God's investigators." When this
thought came to me I realized what I had been missing this whole time!
I was getting content with the work that I had been doing and the
results that we have been seeing. I saw in myself a spiritual plateau,
which as we all know in the gospel is always a sign of regressing.
What a spiritual slap in the face that was! Now the challenge to
continually change for the better is the task that I am in, and I know
that as I start to change again, others will also. Funny how that
works huh?

Anyway, everyone here is doing great! The one guy, Erick, that we took
on the temple trip is super excited to be baptized! His fiancé won't
be here until the beginning of June, so I won't be here for his
baptism. But we have a set of Sisters in our ward who had a baptism
this past week and the man that they had baptized asked Erick to give
the closing prayer. He was a little nervous, but handled better than I
have seen any of our other investigators pray before. It is a true
miracle to see how prepared everyone is!

I love you all and had to Skype you all soon!

Love,