Happy Birthday Morgan

Do you know how cold it is here?? Like it hasn't stopped snowing in 3 days.. My toes have yet to thaw out since Nov.. Except one day last week it was in the 60's. Ohio is so strange!!!!!

So I don't know if I told you about my chat experience with D.. She is a convert and her son never wanted anything to do with the gospel for years. I guess one day in Dec he decided to see what it was all about and met with the missionaries a few times. After the holidays he moved to WA so D came online to see how to get in contact with the missionaries in his son's area. She gave us all of his info and we called the bishop and he didn't answer. So I left a message and called D to update her. I guess he wanted to meet with them that night and if they didn't show up then he was going to give up.. I tried to explain that there wasn't a lot I could do from Ohio so I ended up giving her the bishop's number and then remembered I could get her the mission office's number. So after that she was super friendly and we talked about my mission and how awesome it is and how she wants to go on a senior sister mission.... I told her that I would call her in a week to see how things were progressing and we hung up. I called her a week later and she said that she called the mission office and the elders were able to meet with her son. In that week he had met with them a few times and something the elder said really struck him and he knew it was true! The next morning he read the Book of Mormon and new it was true! Then he called his mom and he said he didn't want to meet with missionaries anymore... Grrrr. So I told her  I would pray for him and call her back in a week to see what happened. When I called her she seemed really frazzled but she was so excited because HE WAS GETTING BAPTIZEDDD!!!! Hahaha It was so cool! And I am so excited for them because his poor mom had prayed for years that he would accpet the gospel and finally his heart was fully prepared. Now, I had very little to do in all of this. But D was so sweet and just kept telling me how much she appreciated me and I tried to explain that I just called and left a message for the Bishop, but she told me that she was led to chat and she was desparate and I was able to help her and it's so cool. I love working on chat. I actually very rarely see amazing things come from it but I know that they do. And phone calls as well.. They're harder but we are able to share the gospel with everybody around the world!! It's SO COOL!!!!!!

Transfers were AW-FUL. I was fine until we pulled into the church parking lot and I lost it. For the rest of the day. Hahaha. Pathetic. But I am now with Sister J who is amazing! She is such a good missionary and I have a lot to learn from her. Seriously.. She's amazing. We have already seen a lot of miracles this week and we will continue to see a gazillion more this transfer. I am looking forward to it :] I feel like my faith has grown a lot just in the last week. Pshhhhhh. She's exactly who I and the area need right now. Heavenly Father totally knows what He's doing. 

It is so cold here. I can't get over it. I'm really trying to. Hand/toe warmers are the biggest blessing here. If we didn't have those then tracting would be a nightmare. And it's been snowing like crazy. And I'm driving this transfer. We left at 630 Friday morning to get to Kirtland. It usually takes about an hour but I had to drive in a white out on hilly roads and it definitely took us 2 hours hahahaha. I was following this truck for most of it and felt very comfortable behind him. He seemed to know what he was doing. But then we had to split up and as he came to this stop light he started to swerve a little and of course, I have no idea what to do when I swerve so I started yelling at everybody to pray really hard that we didn't die and the car wasn't stopping like I wanted it to and it was so scary. It probably wasn't as scary as I made it out to be in the moment but what else was I supposed to do?! Hahahahah the car eventually stopped and we were fine. The car was fine... We definitely went 19 mph the rest of the way and were totally safe :] AREN'T YOU SO PROUD OF ME?! 

So Sister J doesn't like cheese.. At all. And I love cheese but I'm lactose intolerant so I can't have it anymore. So she has been praying that I will stop liking cheese. hahaa I have absolutely NO real intent to follow through with that. We'll see what Heavenly Father does about it. I have been cutting dairy out of my diet a lot though. It's so sad :[ 

The greatest suprise came to Kirtland!!!!!! H. P.!!!! She was in the Solon ward and I love her so much and it was the best. I almost cried I was so happy. Jeezzzzz. I'm so emotional. But it really was amazing to see her. I miss the Solon ward so much. Especially H. 

I'm glad Morgan had a great birthday! Crazy she's 20.. Pretty sure she's actually 15. 

It has been an awesome week. Looking forward to this one too. As long as the snow stops :]

Love you,

Sister Maynard.