WEEK 22- SINGLES WARD

God is still good and I am still a Virginia missionary! I moved just hot 40 minutes away and am serving in the Blacksburg YSA (young single adults) ward with Sister Stoker! Earlier this week was so stinking busy. I was finishing up my time in the great Salem and we were just packed with lessons and meals and gosh. The best kind of busy but we were super tired by the end of it all. Monday I mostly packed all my crap. Even as a missionary I'm still a clothing hoarder so that was a challenge. We had brunch with the Vaassens and dinner with the Harvey family so we were stuffed. Tuesday was the best. We said goodbye to all of my ladies at the clothing closet where we volunteer. Sweet ladies gosh. Then we had lunch with the Millers. Sister Miller, what a hoot. Love that family. Then on our way to our appointment with our Honduran family....a miracle happened. It's my favorite miracle so far on my mission. So one of my favorite people from Salem, they aren't a member of the church, but they called me up and were like "Hey my Baptism date is going to be April 6th. I guess I have to take the missionary classes or whatever before then so can we start those." I almost peed my pants. I literally asked this person if they were pranking me, cause they tease us alot. But he was not joking. And amazingly enough we were already headed in the direction fo their house so we stopped by and had the first lesson that day! Wow. I can already see the change in this family and am so excited for them to experience everything Heavenly Father has in store for them! Also it makes it harder for me to leave because I'm so selfish and want to be part of all that. Uggg. Later we had dinner with the Browns and a lesson with John and Melissa. I'm going to miss that awesome family. Later we had planned to go teach a part member family who haven't been to church in a very long time. They are a young family with 4 little kids so we were super excited to get a lesson set with them. Anyway we drive out there and the dad answers and tells us they decided against coming back to church and stuff. For some reason I was shook and kinda just froze. Like I wanted so bad to try and convince him otherwise. I had a distinct prompting to share a scripture with him from the Book of Mormon, but I didn't know exactly which one and my mind was blank. So we told him thank you for his time and to have a good night and we left. Driving home I just felt like garbage. I kept thinking about how I've been asking Heavenly Father to help guide me and help me recognize when the Holy Ghost is talking to me. He literally gave me exactly what I asked for and what did I do?! I ignored it! Gosh I'm the worst. Such a brat. So I told sister Peacock about it and said I felt like we should go back. We pulled over said a prayer. We both just randomly opened our scriptures to start looking for something we could share with him and we turned to the same page the first time. So we got our scripture and turned right around. I walked right up to the door confidently because yes it was weird thing to do to go back to someone's house after they told you to go away, but I didn't care one bit. Because I was getting transferred and leaving the next day so no regrets! I'm not sure if he got anything out of the scripture or if he even listened but I felt so much better knowing that I shared with him something that God wanted him to know. Also in this whole process I got like 3 check your speeds and an aggressive driving violation (from our dang car monitor thing), so sorry President, but hey at least I followed a prompting! Wednesday we went to lunch with sister Minter and got to help some members clean up their house they are selling. We then got to go have a lesson with my girls. It was so sad to say goodbye to them. Although I'm sure they didn't mind because they got alot of clothes that didnt fit in my suitcase:) We also got to hang out and try to find some people with Sister Guy. Then we went and met with some members. Brother Furgason gave me some sweet bear claws, still fresh. And then we got to fill in to teach the adult institute class! It was so fun and it made me realize I actually kind of miss teaching gospel doctrine. I also had to say goodbye to Sister Soto, Eddie, and Anna. That was such a hard goodbye. Lots of tears. I mean poor sister peacock cause I was a basket case all week. I miss the Soto/Reyes fam so much already ahhhhh. They are the best ever. Thursday we had to be at the church at 5:30 am to leave for my new area. I met up with Sister Stoker and did some service and got aquatined with the area a bit. We are serving in blacksburg and are over the singles ward here which is right off of the Virginia tech campus. We both really didnt know anyone because she was only here for winter break and no one was here. So it's new for both of us and we are learning together, but I'm so grateful to be here. Campus is so beautiful and it's way cool to be around people my own age. We've already had a few lessons with some really awesome people. They are so willing learn and are very curious and open minded. Like last night we had a random guy call us and was like "Hey I want to know when your church services are and want to learn more about your church because I'm having some questions and my church doctrine isn't providing the answers." How cool. Hopefully we can get in touch with him this week! Sister Stoker is great! When I first pulled up she was wearing a pink overall dress that I actually have. That's when I knew we were going to be good friends. We actually have a few dresses that are identical! Shes great though. She reminds me so much of Baylie and Justine (my pals). She looks like Justine but she has the qualities of Baylie and its tripping me out. But in a good way because I miss them. And she has only been out one transfer longer than me so we are both still fresh and ready to go. This week I've just learned so much about following spiritual promptings and trusting in Gods plan. That experience I had earlier was very humbling. It made me realize that I feel the Holy Ghost directing me more than I think I do. The minute I decided not to listen, I felt it. I felt the Spirit leave me and it was the worst. Actual garbage. The Spirit is very sensitive and when we decide to go against the Holy Ghost or make choices that offend it, we will lose the blessing of its constant companionship. Uggg I hated it. I am so grateful that when we are baptized we can then receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. We are given the promise that as long as we do our best and strive to follow Christ we will always have his spirit to be with us. You guys, that's so cool! What a miracle. I know that as we follow the guidance of the Holy Ghost God's plan for us will be clearly laid out in front of us. I am so thankful to be in Backsburg YSA and can't wait to get to work here. Thanks so much for all the letters, emails, prayers and love. Have the best week! Kloveyoubye, Sister Fisher