All Hallows WEEK!

So here comes Halloween and I love it!

It doesn't really feel like Halloween time because it doesn't look like fall here, but oh well.

Oh and we found out that on Halloween we have to go to a members house at 6 for the rest of the evening because it's too dangerous out in the world for us. Apparently some people dress up like missionaries for Halloween and yeah...

This week was a good week to be a missionary. We started teaching the sister who decided to come back to the church and found out a little bit more about her situation. So what will happen is that she has to write a letter, the bishop has to write a letter and fill out a request for her to be re-baptized which will have to go straight to the first presidency of the church. The whole process will take about 6 months, and she doesn't count as an investigator, but oh well :)

She is coming back after all, that is just as good as a baptism.

We had our first lesson on Tuesday then she shared something with everyone in Relief Society.

She began to cry and told everyone how touched she was just from the one time we met with her. I started to tear up. I knew she felt more of Heavenly Fathers love for her, it's those moments that I feel so close to God, I feel how happy he is that his children know they are loved. I love being a missionary!

We met a new investigator this past week and are going to meet with her and her friend tonight. She lives in the apartment of one of our less actives, when she opened the door I just began to teach her about the restoration, and she listened, after she told us that she has not found a church since she started school here, that she really needed what we said, and that she is looking for more in life. AAHHHH!!! She's it, the Golden investigator. Unfortunately because she  is ysa age we would have to hand her over to the ysa sisters, but hey same team! :)

One day we were out tracting, we talked to two men who were sitting on their front porch and they referred us to a lady named Kathy. We fallowed there directions as to which house she lived in, or so we thought. We knocked on this door, the lady opened up and we told her that "the bossy twins" (that's what they told us to call them) had sent us. She had no idea who that was but agreed to let us in! We went in and began to talk with her. We quickly found out she was not interested in learning more about our church, but the Lord lead and guided our conversation to the point where we began to talk about family history. She asked about our family History library and resources and of course we told her all that we knew. We then told her a bit more about how we do work as proxies for the dead, and even told her about sealings. I am not sure why I was lead to tell her about those things but she said that was very interesting and she had never heard it described that way before.
She then told us about how one of her ex sister in laws (a sister-in-law from her previous marriage) was a Mormon and was married in the temple but she never really understood. 

We hope to stop by sometime this week and check in on her. :)

Oh so I guess now I should tell you about our lovely Saturday.

We began by going to the Fall Festival. We dressed up as Elders :) We both wore white button up shirts and created little elder stickers to cover our sister on our name tags. We slicked our hair back and had a grand old time. Everyone thought we were really clever. There was a costume parade for the primary and people made us walk across the stage too. It was awesome. 

We had an investigator come to the fall Festival. She is the 14 yr old girl we have been teaching for a little while now. After the fall festival we watched Joseph Smith prophet of the restoration at a members house and then went to a baptism. After the guy was baptized they opened it up for a testimony meeting and I felt like my investigator really needed to hear my testimony, so I got up and bore it. After she began to really open up to us and told us that before she was not really sure if she was completely open to the possibility of our church being true. She then told us that she could'nt join our church because she was afraid of loosing her friends at her church. We talked about how she just needs to trust in God. We created a plan with her where she will read a chapter of the Book of Mormon everyday for 2 weeks and pray every night, asking Heavenly Father if it is true, then on the 9th of November at noon (she had a weird thing with having it be an alliteration) she is going to tell us whether or not she will be baptized on the 16th! I'm so excited for her to receive answers. Oh she also came to church on Sunday and we helped her make friends :)

Today we carved pumpkins!! :) Me and sister Fenn had a joint effort because if ya'll know me well enough ya know I can't carve a pumpkin in one sitting. :)

Tonight we have 3 lessons!! :)

Can't wait!!

Hopefully by the end of tonight we will have a few baptism dates too!

God is Good!!!

I love it!

I Love you!

Love,

Sister Chambers

Sister Chambers would love to hear from you if you would like to drop her a line here is her address 
1505 Fort Clark Blvd
Apt 16-203
Gainesville Fl 32606

                                               Sister Chambers first companion Sister Atkinson

Sister Chamber an her new Companion Sister blatter