I am IN LOVE with Baltimore. No
joke. End of story. I'm in love and never leaving.
A lot happened this week and I
literally have no time to tell you all of it. I'm sorry. But I'm going to give
you just a little run down. I said goodbye to all of my eternal friends in
Odenton. Theresa and her family even bought cake and we had a party on my last
night. I'm going to miss that place SO much, but I'll come visit. I promise
:)
I got to meet my new ward.
Chesapeake is where it's at! My new companion, Sister Bindrup, is amazing.
We're doing a lot of work here just trying to clean things up and find new
people to teach! It's a HUGE ward with lots of potential! We even found a new
investigator last Friday... speaking of last Friday... I've officially been a
missionary for an entire YEAR now. 365 days (plus some). Wow. That's weird and
a million things are going through my mind just thinking about it. Time flies
by so fast. But, to celebrate, we went to downtown Baltimore, found a dirty and
sketchy alley, and threw some glitter to leave some sparkle. Don't worry, I
have lots of pictures for y'all this week. It'll be picture overload. Can't
celebrate without any glitter!
Then, on Saturday, it was, like, the
best day of my life! AMETHYST GOT BAPTIZED!!! I got to go back to Odenton for
her baptism and it was amazing!!! I'M JUST SO HAPPY FOR HER! I will be there
the day she goes through the temple, and she'll be getting a mission call one
day, I just know it! I'm pumped. I love it. Seeing lives change, especially
hers, has been the most rewarding thing on my mission. It's a miracle. She is
amazing. I love her. And I can't wait to hear more and more about her journey
:)
Sunday was great! We had an awesome
meeting with Bishop and his family. The work in this ward is HASTENING! Today
we got to meet with our investigator Sandra (even though it's P-day), and got
to teach her the Law of Chastity. She just got everything and she's already
making those changes in her life to be baptized! I'm so excited for her, too!
Oh, and fun fact, this ward is the most diverse ward EVER. There's Brazilians, Africans,
Slovenians... just people from ALL over! It's great :)
Another fun fact: my district
leader, Elder Clark, totally went to high school with me... I didn't know him,
though. So shout out to Weber High!
Oh boy, Baltimore is amazing. I love
it here. I just feel like I'm go go go all the time and that's the best! I love
just working! And it's so much fun here! I'm always laughing. It's seriously
the greatest!
Well, enjoy all of these pictures
this week. Life is amazing. People are changing their lives and Christ is changing
their hearts. God is so good.
Love,
Sister Humphrey
