Sunday, October 4, 2015

Week 51: Charles Town!

Okay this week was crazy! On Monday and Tuesday we said goodbye to so many people! Oftentimes you don't realize how much you love an area until you are leaving it. I held it together until the end of the night on Tuesday when we went to visit a dearly loved family in the Woodstock Ward and the elders happened to be there (crying haha) and after a long day of saying goodbye to lots of loved people I lost it haha! I sure do miss Woodstock!

BUT! Charles Town is AMAZING! The people here are so nice and my companion, Sister Feinga, is so awesome! She is from Tonga and we all know that Tongans are some of the nicest people ever! I love her so much! She is such an amazing teacher and has such a powerful testimony of the gospel.

Very quickly, this week we started teaching a girl named Ashley (haha it's fun teaching someone with your sister's name). She is so cool! She was given to us as a referral twice by two different sets of missionaries. It's obvious that Heavenly Father is preparing her and wants her to learn about the restored gospel. She was raised going to church with her grandma and has an amazing understanding of the Bible. When we taught her about the Restoration, it made so much sense to her and she totally accepted Joseph Smith as a prophet. She is reading from and praying about the Book of Mormon and this weekend she is so excited to hear from the living prophet in general conference! She is planning to be baptized on October 24!

Speaking of general conference, I would like to encourage everyone to invite a friend to watch it with them! It is going to be amazing and what a wonderful opportunity that we have to witness 3 new apostles called and sustained. The Spirit will surely be there!

This weekend, Sister Feinga and I were able to go down to the Washington DC Temple Visitors Center for Sister Feinga to perform at a Polynesian Culture Celebration. She did a Tongan dance! It was awesome! I got to see the Haka (spelling?) performed and the hula and many other Polynesian dances! A less-active member of our ward came and loved it! It was awesome!

I love you all and thank you for your prayers and love!

Love,

Sister Lewis

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