Wow. I just am so happy to be hearing all this good news
from everyone!! First of all, are prayers answered or what?! I had been praying
for rain for you guys, and look what happened!! I had been praying for Toni to
find a place, and look what happened!! At least there are miracles happening
over in Utah! I am still waiting on them over here haha! I guess we are both
the lands of WET now! I am always wet. Sweat from about noon-4. Then rain
during the late afternoon! Man it's so fun. My quote for the week is one that
was on our fridge when we moved in to our new apartment, and it is helping me
so much! :)
"The challenges ahead of you are not nearly as great as
the power behind you." -J. Reuben Clark
How comforting is that? It kinda goes along with my favorite scripture, D&C 84:88 :)
Ah! Where do I start?! Well, first off. Saying goodbye to
everyone in Cocoa on Monday was like so sad. Almost as sad as leaving home
haha! They were like my new family! And that is the first place we are going
back to visit when we come back to Florida! I am sending some pictures on my
flash drive today, but I said goodbye to Steve, Eric, Grace, Nick and Kelly,
the Bishop and ward mission leaders’ families. Man, it was rough. But I just
had done all I needed to there, and the Lord needed me in Waterford Lakes! :)
Which brings us to Tuesday! We had transfers in Orlando, and
we got our trainees!! :) I absolutely LOVE Sister Rogers! Ok, we are like best
friends. We have so many things in common! It's so weird but so great! She is
such an example to me! She loves to work, and she stays so positive! What we
have been doing (tracting and street contacting) is not what she expected
missionary work to be like at all, but she doesn't get discouraged or negative
ever! I am just so impressed with her. I don't even feel like I'm training; I
just feel like she is another companion!
And the area! It is super nice here! Not even close to
Cocoa/Titusville! That was like a little more ghetto, and this area (Waterford
Lakes) is like all gated communities. Yeah. Ask me. So we have to like sneak in
through the gate on our bikes or ask members for the codes to their
neighborhoods! It's like very eastern Orlando, so actually not far from Cocoa.
It's beautiful. Lots of trees and lakes and pretty houses. We have been on
bikes all week because we share a car with the Elders who we split the area with.
So we got to know the area pretty well. But my butt hurts soooo bad. BUT! I'm
losing weight!! :) Yay! :) And, Sister Rogers did cross country, so we run
every morning! :) The Elders just barely baptized all their investigators
before we got here, so we are basically starting from scratch! Which means a
lot of knocking on doors! Which has not been very successful, but we are just
being obedient and doing all we can. We know the Lord will eventually
compensate for our efforts if we keep working hard!
Oh, the apartment was gross when we got here. The Elders
said it was clean. But obviously our definitions of "clean" are quite
different. So we cleaned and unpacked and that was about it! Wednesday we got
to meet some members of the ward and hang out with the young women after our
coordination meeting with the ward mission leader. This ward is really great!
But it's like all youth and kids! Complete opposite of Cocoa! So that is kinda
cool! The Elders drive me a little insane... :) Well, mostly the district leader.
He is just so uptight! I told him to loosen the freak up and stop stressing so
much! He is getting there haha :)
Thursday and Friday and Saturday we basically biked our
whole area, which was a lot of miles. I would say we have biked close to 80 miles
in the past week. We met a cute little family who we prayed with on the
doorstep. The little girl did gymnastics and I told her that I did too! Then I
got to teach her how to pray, so that was a cool experience :) We are going
over there tonight to teach them! :) We get bugs splattered all over our faces
a lot. And we got caught in a rainstorm the other night. Basically everything
in my backpack got wet. :(
Anyway, I'm just loving it! We got like no mail this week,
but I got a ton of emails! So thank you all for that! I'm just gonna finish up
so I can reply to some of you! :) Best of luck with school and work
preparations! I miss and love you all so much! :) xoxo
Love,
Sister Lowry 
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