October 14, 2013

Dear Family,

In case you didn't see on the letter I sent, my companion got her visa!!! I'm so excited for her! She got the call from President Francis last Monday. We had seen on Facebook a bunch of other visa waiters posting that they had gotten their visas earlier in the day, so we figured last week wasn't the week. We were at the church writing letters and playing basketball and stuff when she got the call. She was so surprised and so happy! I've never seen her as happy as when she found out she was actually going to get to go to Brazil!

 

It will be interesting to see what happens with transfers! We are losing a ton of our visa waiters, with no word of getting more as well as no sisters being sent to this mission either. Some think we won't get more since we are headed into winter and they would have to have coats with them, which obviously none of them would have since they are going to South America! So I have no clue what's going to happen.
 

Anyway, I'm excited for another week here in Brockport. I know Satan will keep fighting harder to make sure good things don't happen. I just want to be on fire these last 7 weeks. Sister Gillespie taught me the hymn "The Time is Far Spent" in the MTC (I hadn't ever heard it before). We sang it in church yesterday and I realized, yes, my time as a missionary is far spent. There isn't a whole lot of time yet, but I just want to be able to leave saying, "I did what I came here to do." I just have to give all and expect nothing.

Thank you so much for all the prayers! Keep praying for my investigators, they need it more than I do!

Love you and miss you all times a billion!

Love,

Sister Butters