So I survived my first transfer and now I'm going to Libby, Montana! Woohoo! Who knew it's English speaking! I'll be back in Montana and with Sister Bethany Maxfield! I'm super excited! Just kidding I get to stay here hehe with Sister Haws. Montana and Canada are Elders areas only. Apparently cows are very dangerous to the sisters ;) We're excited it's going to be great!

This is a pretty long letter, sorry. So last week was the craziest week yet. Which pretty much ended the transfer the perfect way because it was a crazy transfer. Sister Haws said she has never had a transfer as hard or as crazy. So last Monday I got to have dinner with my Uncle Buck. That was pretty awesome. We talked about a river trip he took me on when I was 8. He doesn't seem as wild now as he was back then ;) He was super nice, I like him :)

After that the world fell apart again :( Maria, one of our investigators that we had that amazing lesson with, moved out of her apartment because of her husband's drinking problems. She called us in tears and wanted us to come over. We went over to her mom's where she was staying and talked to her about how because she's trying to do what is right Satan is going to work really hard on her. Then her husband walked in. Slightly awkward. Luckily he wasn't completely drunk yet. She's having such a hard time, but she's still pressing forward and she actually came to church yesterday. Yes! On our way back across the river we found out that one of the leaders in one of our wards got offended and isn't going to come to church anymore. That was crushing. We work a lot with him and he's done so much to help us. It was a really hard blow to overcome. I don't know how things are going to work if he leaves :( We'll find out on Tuesday if he'll come back or not. So Monday kind of started out the week pretty rough. But luckily I got a letter from Nozer and everything felt better ;)

Wednesday we had District Meeting and our numbers were really bad. We didn't have any progressing investigators, nobody at church, and no new investigators. We were pretty discouraged. That night we were pretty stressed out, but then we had an epiphany. We realized that every single one of our investigators has a very extreme situation they are living in. They're all very high maintenance and require lots of support. That made us feel a lot better because the people we're working with are not typical investigators. We also realized that even though we may have no baptisms we can be seed-planters. Our new motto is we are seed-planters. We're are preparing many many people to receive the Gospel even if they won't do it now we know they'll do it later. It was a real testimony builder for us to realize how important every contact someone has with the church is. We can't think that we're just spinning our wheels because we do expose a lot of people to the Church.

One of our dinners with a member also brought along a Doug Arnold. Has anybody heard of him? Apparently he's pretty famous, wrote a book about rifles, and was CEO and President of several very prosperous companies. Someday I'll have to google him. He was super impressed with the feeling he had when we talked to him and what we were like. He said he probably wouldn't have let us in if we had knocked on his door, but because he got to know us better he would welcome the opportunity. Member-investigator relationships are crucial!

Friday we started running for exercise. Ugh. Hopefully someday I'll like it and won't be sore from it. All the snow is melting now and it's been in the 40s a lot so we can go outside. It is gorgeous to see the sun rise though. And Dad, we never get to sleep in even on P-days. We're up at 6:30 or earlier every single day. Brother Barrett one of our ward mission leaders made us each a little plaque. A few weeks ago in correlation meeting Sister Barrett was sharing a missionary moment with us. I kept saying Bien Hecho which means well done. She thought I was saying "Be an Angel" so she liked it. Finally we were telling about our week and she said "wait, I've got this one B-N-H-L, no B-N-H-T, no B-N-H-O" we were all dying of laughter because I never thought that it really does sound like BNHO. Now it's an inside joke and Brother Barrett made us little plaques that say BNHO - be an angel. It was very sweet and funny.

Saturday I woke up to half of my face swollen the size of Texas! I had gottena spider bite the day before on my cheek! Eww! To think that a spider was crawling around on my face in the night still gives me chills. And then my face swelled all up so it looked like I had a black eye because apparently it got infected. That was pretty exciting and disgusting. Apparently you don't have to go to a foreign country to have interesting experiences with bugs. Luckily the swelling has all gone down now, but I'm still taking the anti-biotics. Gross!

This week was truly a testament of how truth is truly stranger than fiction. We met this inactive member who has really experienced and seen everything. She told us some pretty intense stories about her life and how she came to have 8 almost 10 kids. The amazing thing is that even though she spent most of her life on drugs, smoking, and drinking and swearing like a sailor almost all of her kids have turned out amazing. Several even served missions even though she never went to church with them. Some things I just really can't figure out, but need to trust in the Lord for. The best part was we went to a ward party right after to meet a few less actives and we stank of cigarette smoke. Oops. It has become a regular occurance now so we're getting used to it but that's okay because as President Palmer says the church is not a retirement home for the members, but a hospital for the sick. The best smell in a church building is of cigarette smoke because it means we are bringing in the sick.

We still don't have any baptism dates yet, but we do have one new investigator so that's exciting. We are the seed planters ;)

Grandpa Probst - apparently I say a lot of things you say. "Don't bug me pigmy," and "duh Ralph" are the most popular ones I say to my companion. So now she has started to say "Okay Gwampa." Just thought you'd like to know that. And some of your jokes she does the same to. Who knew I'd be quoting those ;)

I love getting pictures, but I can't view videos. So you can email me pictures, but I can't watch the videos :(

By the way this is a pretty momentous week for me. I have now survived one year of being gall-bladderless (Alexis I had to add that for you), 4 years since my car wreck that ruined my college basketball career forever ;), and 3 years (Feb 10) since becoming a Probst! The last one is my favorite. Happy birthday to me :)

Well I better sign off. I hope all is well with everyone. I love you all very much and am so grateful for all you do. Thanks for letting me know what's going on and how ya'll are doing ;)

I love you and I love this Gospel!

Sister Lizer