Oct 7th

A lot happened this past week, so I'll try to be quick - but starting from Thursday we went to Wallochet with the Sister Training Leaders which was a different, and fun exchange! Different because we went up in the morning, and instead of having a companionship work here in Tacoma, we had two companionships in their area, so it was more like a day off for us in doing English work in their area. It was a lot of fun as we went on Fox Island, and went to a nursing home where we visited those with dementia and chatted with others who don't get a lot of visitors. I got tons of pictures this time of Gig Harbor and wish I could send some, but I actually forgot my camera cord this time...... next week though!

One of the highlights of Friday was a tracting experience we had. We weren't having much luck as we went house to house, but this one lady walked by and as I said hello, she stopped, saw our nametags and said "You're mormons, aren't you?" As it turns out she was a less-active member who remembers growing up in the church, but for reasons she didn't explain, left and is currently working her way out of circumstances she found herself in due to desperation. She talked to us for a bit, and asked if we had a Book of Mormon. We didn't have one with us, so we walked to the car with her to give her one. Although we have no idea if she was able to get the help she needs (she wasn't Cambodian, so we gave her the number to the missionaries in her area), it's always inspiring to meet people who have struggled through life and turn back to God to seek that source of strength that some people believe doesn't even exist.

Conference was awesome! I wrote down some questions which were answered, and overall it was very inspiring. Unfortunately we didn't have any investigators watch it with us, but we had a couple less-actives express interest in seeing it, so we're going to wait for it to come out in Cambodian to watch it with them that way.

Some news-breaking developments - we're now two companionships!! Our new sister, Sister Humphreys just came in today from the MTC! What's funny is that we called President Saturdayafter we didn't get any expected transfer calls, and he said he hadn't even thought of putting us into companionships as he assumed we would just work together. We said it would be nice to work as a very flexible companionship, but that someone should still be designated to train Sister Humphreys. So after some interviews I was designated to be her trainer, but we can do "exchanges" without permission, and we'll report our numbers as one, instead of two companionships. So it's going to be different from our previous two companionships even, but exciting!

Love you!

Sister Dunster