Happy Mother's Day to all! I get to Skype home this week. I will doing it at about 5:00 my time which is I think 6:00 your time. If the Skype doesn't work I can still call. I'm so excited to see you all!

Ahhh! To say the least this last week has been crazy! Not gonna lie, when I find out I was sweeping into Leavenworth and we were being swept out of Wenatchee it was pretty hard. Luckily I really did not have enough time to feel sorry for myself because we have been way too busy. Tuesday I said good-bye to Sister Haws (easily one of the hardest things every! I definitely cried), and 10 minutes later met my new companion Sister Donaldson. She is older than me, from Eager, Arizona and is a Dance/Music/Theater major at BYU. I might say that we couldn't be more opposite, but so far we've worked pretty well together. I think it will definitely be a learning experience for both of us. It's funny because in a companionship it is really equal. We both are supposed to have an equal part in everything. The only difference is I have to drive and I take all the blame if anything goes wrong. Ugh. I think it has been really helpful though, because I haven't had much time to miss Wenatchee because I've been so focused on trying to get to know this area.

Leavenworth - probably the prettiest place I think I have ever been. We are literally in the mountains and most of our members live in cabins clear out in the middle of no where. I bet none of you have ever pictured missionaries out tracting to cabins on dirt roads. Well we do it. We may try to petition to get a truck instead of our pansy Chevy Malibu, but that may be wishful thinking. This is a huge tourist town and so everything is German-style. Even the Safeway and McDonalds, weird. The members are amazing here. There have been a ton of converts in the last few years so everyone is very missionary minded and supportive. They just went from being a branch to a ward last summer so we're pretty excited. They don't have a Spanish branch so we actually have to translate for the one Spanish convert. That gets pretty exciting. There really isn't a ton of Spanish up here. It's funny because I feel like in the teaching arena nothing much has changed for me here. There are a couple slightly progressing investigators, not much Spanish, and not too many potentials. But poor Sister Donaldson came from an area where they had tons of investigators, baptisms, lessons, Spanish, and not much time for tracting. I feel like we came from two totally different worlds. Even though shes been out less time than me her Spanish is much better. Her last area all she did was teach in Spanish so she got to practice a lot. It's funny because I hardly ever taught in Spanish. Oh well, it will be a good learning opportunity for both of us.

Everyone up here seems to know a Probst. Who knew I would be so famous ;) One lady actually grew up in Midway and went to school with a Eugene Probst and had a teacher that was  Probst. I was pretty excited. We still don't have a permanent place to stay yet. We lived with the Deputys in town for a few days. It really was the perfect location, pretty central to everything and he was a bike expert so he took care of our bikes for us. But now we're living with the Hendricks for a little while until they can find us a better place. The Hendricks live up in the mountains about 12 miles from town. It's a super nice log cabin with no cell phone service. It's a really nice place, but not very practical. We only are allowed to drive so many miles a month and so living so far out eats up a ton of our miles. We've actually had to ride our bikes :) Not having a phone to set up appointments becomes a little tricky as well. We are becoming very good at coordinating things early, packing, unpacking, and moving around. We still haven't totally unpacked yet because we're not sure how long we'll live there.


This week has definitely been a lesson in faith for me. I really had no idea what to expect or what to do when first coming up to Leavenworth. I truly had to learn how to totally rely on the Lord and just know that what needed to happen was going to happen and it truly has. I have seen so many miracles it's crazy. Even when we would get lost we would find someone to talk to or run into a member. Even though our Spanish isn't that good, somehow it works out. It's almost hard to believe how much work we were actually able to get done last week, but somehow it all has worked out. I love this Gospel more than anything. I definitely would not be doing what I'm doing if I didn't know it was true. I know this is true and I know that it changes lives. I know that I am nothing without the Lord and that if we turn our hearts to the Lord he will do all for us. I know that with all my heart.

I love you all very much and I am so grateful for all that you do. Continue being great :)

Love
Sister Probst