Hi everyone!! I first and foremost want to congratulate Ash and Brian on sweet Amelia Dawn!! She looks adorable and I cannot wait to meet her :) she looks a ton like Lilly so I am really excited to see how much they will look like each other. I hope you are feeling well Ash and Amelia is doing well also!!! :) We got transfer news this week that Sister Herpich and I are both moving. I am going back to Oregon in Gresham and my new companion is a sister I just love! This will be so much fun :) a ton of missionaries I am close with are flying home tomorrow, it's crazy! And McKay is flying in tomorrow morning. I am stoked to find out who his trainer is :) and I will for sure see him on Wednesday. Cray cray :) Here is a break down of my week :)
Monday: we ran all over the place during P-day, so that was fun. We went out to dinner with our ward mission leader, his wife, and his mother in law. It was so fun! We went to this nummy Italian restaurant :) we taught Josh with an awesome member who we just adore! Josh is as awesome as ever! Tuesday: we had district meeting. I love my district! Actually, my whole zone is way tight. We all get along so well and it is a blast!! :) we met with a less active member and talked with her about family history work. She is catching the bug. I am excited to do family history work when I get home it seems so fun! :) especially because I am endowed it makes me want to live up to my covenants more because I want to go to the temple worthily for my ancestors. I want The Lord to know he can depend on me to do the work for those who have passed on. I can't wait to be searching and searching for a name, and finally find them and help them along the path back to Heavenly Father. It's the best hobby I can think of :) we taught our new friend who I just adore! She introduced us to one of her friends and we all talked for a long time. They both loved our discussion and want to meet with us more :) sadly we are getting transferred :( we had dinner with an amazing couple who have the coolest "how you met" story I have ever heard! We walked around for a while contacting people and making visits. We visited sweet Sister Johnson to wish her a happy birthday. I sure do love her :) Wednesday: this day was good, nothing super out of the ordinary though :) Thursday: Sister Herpich made 15 bags of candy and wrote "sweet is the peace the gospel brings" on them and we delivered them to members and doorbell ditched them :) we helped clean one of our friends garages. We had lunch with a member and a sweet woman we met on Easter Sunday. We ate on this ladies patio and her yard is gorgeous!! It was so fun :) the rest of the evening we had visits and meetings back to back so it was a good day :) Friday: I got a little sick that morning so we stayed in for an hour or two then I felt pretty good :) we found out news about transfers and we are both way sad because we love this ward a ton!! We do have peace though so we know this is what The Lord needs to have happen at this time. Again we had a bunch of visits and we were busy busy. Saturday: I love Mama Hobbs!!! She took us to the temple!! :) oh my, I absolutely love the temple! It was such an amazing morning! I will never forget her :) we had appointments throughout the day and we had dinner with another amazing couple! This ward is just chuck full of amazing members :) Sunday: Sister Herpich and I were both asked to bare our testimonies during sacrament to bid our farewells. It was bitter sweet. I will definitely come back and visit this ward, I love the members so, so very much!! One of our friends decided he wants to be baptized! :) it will either be this weekend or the next and we are very excited about that! We spend some time with some amazing people and it was a wonderful evening :) The Lord has blessed me so very much on my mission! It is miraculous. I am truly so grateful to him for these experiences and for the people I have met. There is no other way I would have met all of these wonderful people that have changed me than serving a mission. It has been by far the best thing for my life :) Love you alls!! Sister Birch :)
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