Update

Hello Family,

How are you all doing? I hope that you are well. I am doing just
great! I can't believe that I have been out in the mission field for 3
weeks! It is so crazy! I feel like I have been here for so long
because of how many people I have met and the relationships that I
have already built.
I am so glad that you sent Aleta's email to me. It was great to hear
how she is doing. Do you know when she is getting home? I can't
remember. I think I am going to send a letter to her house the week
before she comes home so that she has something from me to open when
she gets home. Anyway, just let me know. And I am glad that you got to
go to Utah and had fun while you were there. Maressa, keep working
hard on the snowboarding. I'm sure that you will get it in no time.
And mom, with a little more practice, I am sure that you will get back
into the groove of things again. :)
I hope that things get worked out for a new realtor and that the house
will sell quickly so that you can move to Utah soon after. And I hope
that you don't get sick mom. I actually got sick this last week on
Tuesday. It came out of nowhere and I felt like my stomach was doing
somersaults. I started feeling achy all over and I just had to lay
down. So we went to meet up with the Elders in the next area and they
gave me a blessing and then we went home. I laid down for the rest of
the night and also the next morning and then I was determined to go
out and work even though I still wasn't quite up to par. I got better
though as I was out and we met a lot of wonderful people that day.
So my companion Sister Swallow actually leaves on April 3rd. She only
has one transfer left and hopefully she will still be training me up
until she leaves. We will see in 3 weeks what will happen. She is so
amazing and we get along so well!
So we have another baptism lined up. His name is Miguel and Sister
Swallow and Sister Pilimai (the sister here before me) had been
teaching him but then they lost contact with him because he wasn't
answering phone calls, text messages, or wasn't home when they would
stop by. But we met with him on Saturday night and we recommitted him
to be baptized. He will be baptized on February 25th and we are so
excited for him! Also, we met with Mat who is our investigator
being baptized on February 11th and he committed to stop smoking and
we fasted with him yesterday to help him to stop smoking. We hope that
it helped. He didn't come to church and didn't answer our calls or
texts yesterday. We just hope that he is doing well. Tara is still
doing well and is progressing toward her baptism date and she is
getting so excited and making plans for it. And we contacted into 3
people on Saturday. Kayla who is 19 and Jivan who is 14 are friends
from Maine who just moved here and were interested in knowing more.
They were thinking about coming to FHE tonight and we hope that they
will call us to set something up. Who knows? Also, we ran into a guy
named Marcus, who actually had talked to some other sister
missionaries a week before and they had given him a pass-along card
for mormon.org. So we set up a return appointment for Wednesday and we
are so excited! We hope that it will go well.
Anyways, I hope that you are all doing well and I can't wait to hear
from you all! Love you all so much!
Love,
Sister Melissa Chord