Hello all. Before I forget I will not be emailing on Monday next week, but on Tuesday. We get to go to the Temple!!!! I'm so excited! I haven't been since January. It's a 4 hour drive to get there, but it will be well worth it. We're so spoiled to have a temple in our mission and actually be able to go to it.

So this week was good. We made some realizations about our investigators. Most of them are not really progressing. Some are doing their reading assignments, but nothing else. They're making little changes in their lives, but not true repentance. So we'll probably be giving them some time to ponder for themselves. It could be a rough week.

We had a zone conference on Friday and it was in Wenatchee. Yay! My favorite part was listening to our stake president. He's so missionary minded and is really an amazing leader. I have learned so much from him and am so grateful to be able to serve with him. He talked to us about how one of his favorite parts of his job is setting apart and releasing missionaries. He said he has yet to release a missionary that did not weep when they took off their badge. He said that this is the only time we'll be able to be here doing this. Our jobs are so precious and our time so short, we need to cherish every moment. It made all of us tear up a little at even the thought of having to put down our badges. I don't think a single person in the room of 50 missionaries does not love their mission. It definitely gave us greater drive to find the elect because they are out there. We have to make the most of every single moment. We're on the Lord's time.

We had exchanges with the Moses Lake sisters. I stayed in Leavenworth and got to serve with a visa waiter to Argentina, Sister Cahoon. It's always so fun to serve with the younger missionaries and just see their excitement and nervousness. She was so genuine and natural it was like she had been out here forever.

Chris is doing great. I feel like every day he has some new realization of something that can help him get closer to baptism. We had fasted with him last Sunday and we were teaching him Tuesday and he said that after the fast he felt the most overwhelming peaceful feeling he has ever felt. We were jumping with joy (inside of course) and told him that this was his answer! This was God answering his question of should I be baptized. He said he recognized that and that he also wants to be a part of the church. Apparently his major set back is he knows he'll be making a promise with the Lord and he does not want to mess up after he has done that. He feels like he has yet be able to control one of his passions perfectly. We shared with him about the Atonement and how all of us are sinners and that's why we have the sacrament so we can repent. He's so close! He knows it's true and he is now texting us Book of Mormon scriptures that talk about faith and how it always precedes the miracles. We keep expecting that any day he will call us saying he wants to be baptized. So close!

Another miracle was that one of our less-actives that we've been trying to work with lost our number, called the bishopric and said he hoped we hadn't been transferred yet because he wants to meet with us and he wants to do it with all the rules attached. We were literally bouncing up and down. He's the one that I had the amazing experience with and could feel Heavenly Father's love for him so strongly. He's going to come back to church I just know it!

This gospel is truly the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love it with my whole soul! I don't feel like my mortal body can even contain all the joy I have!

I love you all so much! Love the Lord!

Love
Sister Probst