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Letters can be mailed to:

Sister Melanie Renee Girvin

219 High Ave E Apt 1

Oskaloosa, IA 52577

Emails can be sent to: melanie.girvin@myldsmail.net

Monday, October 8, 2018

Our little Mountain

Hey everyone! This week was full of the fun of a missionary, as usual!
On Monday, we had pday! And for once, there were no outstanding injuries! Yay!
Tuesday is always pretty busy for us... we went and saw Grandma Jean in the morning, and then a recent concert named Sister Davis, and had some lunch. She is a vegan, and she made some interesting vegan chili... we get to try some weird new things LOL!
Then we went and saw Barb! As I mentioned last week, she agreed to move her date up! And on Tuesday, we talked to her about personal revelation! Then we demonstrated by reading some of the Book of Mormon, and then praying. After we said the prayer, we asked her what she felt. Her answer was, 'I think we should move my baptism up more!' We were ecstatic! We talked for a while, and decided to keep it the 20th, and we told her to continue to read and pray. 
On Wednesday, we had our last district council in the Pontiac District! Yes, it is only the beginning of the transfer, but President Badger realized that we had to drive 45 minutes to get to our meeting, while there was one 15 minutes away, so he made the switch! It was a lot of fun. 
On Thursday, we did the classic missionary work, and we found Ruth! She is so sweet! She usually fosters about 5-10 kids at a time, and is very over stressed. We are excited to work with her more!
On Friday, we found... A MOUNTAIN! Okay, not really a mountain, but pretty close! So we hiked up it and had a party!!
And this weekend was General Conference! My favorite talk was by Shayne Bowen, who talked about missionary work! It was anticipated that a lot of changes were going to be made regarding missionary work, and maybe it will still happen! Its exciting! I love watching the work move forward!
Love y'all!