Goodbye Short Hills!

Do we count as clergy?

Dear Family,
It has struck again! As you might have guessed from the title, I am being DOUBLED OUT this transfer! :(
This will be my 2nd time being doubled out on my mission and it's pretty CRAZY! Don't really like it--it means you spend a lot of time in the apartment planning. Yuck. On the plus side, we left a seriously awesome letter for the new sisters that are coming in. I am really proud of it.
We got Maria and Leslie to go to church again! IT was really sad to leave them--they were the people we found and they are sad to see us go!!! But I really think they are going to be baptized one day. Hopefully this next transfer! They taught me to make tortillas yesterday. They thought it was really funny how awfully bad I am at making tortillas. Honestly, it doesn't matter how many times I go to Latin American countries--I come back JUST AS BAD at making tortillas :)
Sister Jarman went on all her departing trips this week and it was crazy because it was like I was going on two extra exchanges because all of us leftover companions just hung out together. It was pretty fun though. Finding people in the rain all day? That's my idea of a good time ;)
To finish off, I will make my "things I will miss from Short Hills" list:
~The trees (and the leaves)
~Maria and Orbelina and Leslie

Maria, Leslie, Orbelina!

~Parking spaces
~Seltzer water
~Sister Jarman
~Our great branch :)
~The cheats food you will ever find
~Fruit ninja
~INTENSE frisbee every Saturday!!!
~Familia Aquino's baby!!! SO CUTE
~Mauricio's ridiculous stories (every lesson: Us: "Well...no idea how to connect THAT back to the gospel.")

Mauricio!

Things I will NOT miss:
~Our ridiculously humid apartment
IT is sad to go :( But I do like change and God knows that! As long as I don't think about anyone I am leaving I am fine! (yep cheesy but true)

The whole fam!

Love you all!!! I know that this Gospel is true! Thanks so much for your support love :) Remember to choose the right and know what you stand for.
Love,
Hermana Reed

The Secret Life of the Trunky Missionary's Companion

Dear Family,
To start off I will clarify that my companion isn't THAT trunky. She's just more trunky than any of my other companions have ever been, because I've never been a dying missionary's companion before. Still, I'm thinking of things like school, boyfriends, work. I do not enjoy it. I like procrastinating the day of making decisions :)
This week was awesome. I'll start off with the higgling because it was just so great:
Highlight of the Week: WE GOT FOUR INVESTIGATORS TO CHURCH!!! WHOOO A FAMILY!
It was so great! They walked in and our Branch President's jaw dropped. We haven't gotten investigators to church for months, so it was nice to see it pick up again.
I feel like I learned a lot from the couple of transfers where I had no investigators. I think I'll just quote the letter I wrote to my mom:
"It only takes two months and THEN you can have investigators :) . I think, though, that I learned a lot from those two months with nothing. I learned how to be closer to God because I had to depend on Him in order to make it. I learned who He was."
Isn't knowing God the most important thing of all? I think so. So even if I didn't like it all that much at the time, I learned much more from it. Missions are hard. But also worth it.
Other Highlights of the Week:
~Went to Ellis Island again! That's always fun.
~Had three exchanges! WHOO that was a blast! Now I just need a nap. I now know Morristown VERY well...I went on an exchange there in English and Spanish this week.
Last week of the transfer! New transfer time...here we go again! Love you all! Choose the right and know what you stand for!
Hna Reed