May 29

Oh Hi there,

I am officially NOT a greenie anymore:) I pass. I am done with 12 weeks of training! Happy are we! I actually got done with the program about 4 weeks ago, but now it's official! I get my TIWI card really soon which is my license to drive a mission vehicle. I don't even know if I know how to drive a car anymore, but I a getting really good at backing the driver, no accidents yet :)

It is sooo HOT and HUMID here. Oh my I felt like I was going to melt the other day...I don't think I have been properly dry since last Tuesday! It makes tracting really fun, we don't see a lot of success on those days, turns out people don't like to talk to sweaty missionaries who look like they just got done running a marathon, but whatever we still try!

This week has been a crazy one! Meetings like crazy, and the VC is getting busier everyday, we gave 4 tours yesterday, keep in mind they are about 2 hours long, and we closed at 6 because of the holiday! Our largest group was 18 people, but we are starting to get the tour buses coming! Hello Summer! We gave a tour to a non member family, who accepted the invitation to meet with missionaries, at the end the mom was asking us questions about things we said through out the tour, and how the Book of Mormon came to be. After we explained she said that it really did make sense to her and she liked the scriptures that she read from it!  The Book of Mormon is true, and it changes lives, yes it does!

Last night we had a memorial day celebration for the Sorensen's, we had a little skit and ate some delicious food, then we presented our gift to them. We each signed a square for a quilt and then the senior sisters sewed it together! It turned out beautiful! It will be so sad to see them go, but we pray for the new mission president and he will lead us with the same dedication as President Sorenson!

Our area is blossoming, there is soo much work to do. I have a feeling they are going to keep me in Mayfield for a while, they like to keep missionaries there for more than 6 months, turns out you have to have some thick skin, or a stubborn attitude to serve in Mayfield,we get the door slammed in our face a lot, it can sometimes be a damper on your day, but we know that our message is true and we are merely planting seeds, there will always be next time! The other day we were out contacting in a Jewish neighborhood, and we stopped and talked to this grandma that was watching her grandkids play in the sprinkler. At first she wouldn't take anything from us, she asked if we were Jehovah Witnesses, which we're not. We told her we were Mormons, to which she replied "Oh ya'll know Romney? He is my man!" (all said with a nice southern accent). Turns out she is baptist, we gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon and she told us she was going to learn what Mitt Romney believed because she LOVED him, and was going to read the book every night! It is so funny to see how people are reacting to the campaign, we got her number so we could follow up with her!

 Brother Marx is doing well, he gets the priesthood soon, so that will be good he can baptize sister Marx when she finally realizes this is what she wants to do! She knows the gospel is true, just lacks her self assurance and faith. She loves reading the Book of Mormon and loves coming to church. Right now we are teachign a family of five and 2 other individually, we are hoping to pick up a family of 2(mother and daughter) and then 1 former. We were teaching a family of 9 and a part member family, but with the dissolving of the Mayfield ward are area got cut in half, and we had to transfer those investigators over to the Willowick Sisters!


Love ya lots,

Sister Hillman