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The Lord works in mysterious ways and Sister Benson and I are both staying in Newcastle Emlyn for our 5th transfer!  By the time this one is over I will have spent 7 months with Sis.Benson.  At first we were both a bit disheartened because not a lot has been happening in our area and we would both like to see change happen.  But we had a long talk on Monday night after we got the news and we have decided that there must be something that the Lord wants the two of us to do in this area and we need to start working harder to find out what.  We have both prayed a lot and have come to the answer that we need to strengthen the ward.  We haven't had a lot of success in finding people on our own, and Preach My Gospel says that finding through members is one of the most effective ways to do the work.  So we spent time talking to the Bishop and the Relief Society pres. and the ward mission leader and they all agree that the ward is struggling and needs some...

Hello there!   We just had a beautiful sunny week and it was awesome!  Last P-Day we went to the beach and it was the best!  It was killing me not to be able to go swimming, but I survived and I figure that someday I'll be able to go to swimming in the ocean again. Picture 1: This week we had Heather from Aberystwyth come be a missionary with us for 3 days.  I thought it was going to be awkward in a threesome, but I actually loved it.  It was nice to have a new person to liven up the work and to talk to.  She was baptized back in April and is deciding if she wants to serve or not in a year.  We got a lot of work done and taught a lot of people so it was really good and she enjoyed it. We haven't seen Sarah, Brad, or Emily this week.  Man, investigators are difficult.  They're great, but not consistent.  But we did meet some really good potentials this week.  We found 2 families on the same street!  And the...

Hello, my name is Sister LeFevre!   Our investigator Emily is teaching us Welsh!  It is a lot fun because she gets to play teacher as well and it is something she enjoys.  So she is teaching us how to say missionary phrases and how to bear our testiomines.  The hardest part is the pronunciations because you can't sound out words the way they look.  God is spelled Dduw, but you say it they-oo .  Weird stuff, but it's fun.   It is really good for Emily because she gives us homework and we give her homework and she is able to see how it feels when someone does what you have invited them to do.  She is super intelligent for an 11 yr old, but still a little girl at heart.  We were able to talk to her about testimonies and why we need to have them and then she taught us a few new phrases in Welsh.  We gave her a BoM reading chart and she gave us homework sheets that she had typed up.  (:  Emily is doing well, but sch...

Howdy ho!  I like saying that to people. ha ha! It is really fun being an American sometimes because the younger people will actually stop and talk to us and think we're cool.  Most people here want to go to America someday just like most Americans dream of visiting here.  They all think that the hot desert of Arizona sounds like an awesome place to go.  They just have no concept of what dry,brown, country looks like.   S o today is a bank holiday; therefore, the library and everything else is closed = emailing from an ipad.  This is the last bank holiday until Christmas so that'll be nice to have reliable sources for a few more months.   T his past week has gone fairly well, but I'm excited for a new week to work even harder.  Zone meeting went really well and we talked a lot about ways that we can help our investigators.  We were able to get new ideas and we set a zone transfer visio...

Good morning!  Even though it is afternoon here.  We've had a better week here in Newcastle Emlyn.  We still had a lot of investigators cancel appointments for variouss reasons, but we were still able to teach Sarah Morgan.  She is really struggling with pain and coping without smoking.  But she is still awesome and wants to gain a strong testimony so bad.  I think she already knows that all of this is true, she's just waiting for some big confirmation.  She believes that she will receive it as she reads and prays every day.  So we just pray that Heavenly Father will answer her prayers according to her faith. We're also teaching an 11 yr old girl whose parents are less-actives.  We teach her more because her mom wants her to be taught.  Her name is Emily Stanton and she is a very bright 11 yr old.  We're not quite sure how to best teach her yet since she has been to church many times and knows a lot, but at the same time does...

Howdy ho!  Man, that is so crazy that school is already starting again! Time is really flying by and it's weird because it sounds like so much is happening back home.  I probably won't recognize it in a year.  I'll also probably be color blind from looking at so much green stuff over here.  So this past week was alright.  I've been kind of sick so I've been trying to get a lot of sleep in where I can.  But today is the start of a new transfer and I am excited to work hard to make it the best one.  We have some good appointments set up already with a couple of our investigators and members so I'm excited about that.  We still have 10 investigators in our pool right now, but only about 3 or 4 will set up regular visits.  Our most progressing is Sarah Morgan.  She is way awesome!  She gave up smoking, drinking, drugs, coffee, and tea last sunday and she prays and reads every day.  This is something that she genuinely wan...

So Monday night we were waiting anxiously to find out the transfer dodge.  The whole district thought I would be leaving Wales.  But guess what?  I'm staying! And so is Sis.Benson!  We have another 6 weeks together in Newcastle Emlyn.  It'll be good because we get along better each week and I am used to how she teaches so it is nice because we can rely on each other.  I am only bummed that I don't get to learn from a new companion. After going on exchanges with other sisters, I have realized that there are many ways to do missionary work and it would be fun to change things up and learn new things.  But the Lord wants us together here longer.  In the end I will have been here 5.5 months with Sister Benson.  I haven't heard of anyone going 5 transfers togther so this will most likely be our last.  There are only 19 sisters in the mission and I know all of them.  There haven't been any new sisters since I came out so it's fun to k...