Hermana Hensley: Baldwin Village Week 1

Well, as you can see by my subject - I was transferred! I'm now way up north, near the temple is a place called Baldwin Village. (I put a link to a Google map of her mission in the header of this post...Dad)

It's pretty...different...than Harbor City. Well, a lot different than Harbor City. For one thing, we are up near the visitor's center and so we teach lessons there sometimes. We spend part of our P-day there and we do our email and everything. It's kind of strange because I have been using the public library my whole mission. Also, since we are near the VC (Visitor Center) we are near all of the VC sisters, which means I am in a zone/district with a lot of sister missionaries! This is cool, but kind of bizarre at the same time.

And my new companion is....drum roll. . . SISTER DESKINS!!!! She was my companion in the MTC. Yeah?! It's pretty crazy, isn't it? I just can't seem to get away from any of my companions haha (maybe that means that Sister Snyder and I will be reunited one day too...) But it's been an adjustment. I know I will grow to love all of the people there, and it will become my new home. The Lord definitely needs me here, or else he wouldn't have moved me. One must have faith!

Good news, we had a baptism yesterday! yeah! His name is Dxxxxxx and he's 14 and super solid.

He really loves the Gospel and the Church. I'm still getting to know him, but in the two lessons that we've had together he has such a fire for the Gospel. He calls for his own rides to church, and when he can't find one - he takes the bus. He also keeps a notebook by his Book of Mormon and writes in it while he is reading, this is a really good thing to do. He is at scouts every week. His mother and sister are investigating too and so hopefully soon they will all be baptized and able to support each other in the Gospel. It was a really great experience for me, even though I'd only been in the area for about 4 days. It's always wonderful to see people making those covenants with Heavenly Father.

On another baptism note, Sister Snyder called me this week and told me that Markus is being baptised this Saturday at 6pm!! Yeah!! So I received permission from President Baker to attend. It's very exciting for me. Words just cannot describe...

Writing on the Monday after transfers in a new area is really difficult because my week has just been a blur...holy cow...

Size 7?

Something cool that we were able to do is that we got to participate in a special service project as a zone on Saturday. There's a giant religious organization here called "The Fame" and they have a really good relationship with our church. Every year they host a back to school free giveaway where they give shoes, backpacks, school supplies, etc. to school aged children in the LA area.

Some missionaries have a snack of 4 honey buns and a candy bar.

I don't know how you qualify or what to do it, but it's pretty awesome. So us missionaries were invited to participate - not only was it service, but it was PR too! Haha (in fact...you may see us on lds.org sometime...that's the rumor anyway). We helped out with the shoe giveaway - and these were NICE shoes! Vans, ecko unlimited, sketchers, everything pretty much. It was very well organized and they had it all worked out. My job was to hand the appropriate shoes to the runners who were fitting the shoes on the kids. My sizes were 7 & 7.5. It was pretty cool. There are pictures! yay!