May 8, 2013

Dear Family,

It's been beautiful weather here. The sky has been blue, the trees are green and everything is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Transfers happened and nothing changed in the White House. Another party transfer for all of us! :) Ha ha it's been a really crazy beginning of the week because of all the beginning of the transfer stuff Sister Madsen and I had to do. We had to do two weeks schedules on Monday, which took a while because we were waiting for transfer calls, then we had to make one for the next week too.

Tuesday was an awesome day in our area though. We didn't have a lot of time (only about 3.5 hours in our area because of all the site training sutff) but within those three hours we got so much done and talked to so many people! As we were going from house to house I just kept thinking, "This is EXACTLY where I need to be right now." And it's true. At the beginning of my mission, I was SO SCARED to talk to random people on the street, now the Spirit helps me talk to anyone and everyone.

There was a fire in Palmyra on Friday right across from the Grandin building. It is actually really devastating. It took out Mark's pizza (my favorite!) and a couple of other stores and apartments that were above the stores. Five buildings burned down and some of the store owners didn't have insurance. So sad! They had to shut down the Grandin that day because of the amount of smoke and they have to have a crew come in on Monday and clean all the artifacts from the smoke damage.
 

I seriously can't even express how much my testimony has grown. I KNOW Heavenly father is so aware of each of us. Don't ever ever ever lose faith, ok?

Love and miss you all so much!

Love,

Sister Butters