Best Week Ever?

    OH MY LANTA! I don't even know where to begin. The last week has been the most amazing week of my life.
    I've gotten to help the Sisters teach several times and it was awesome! I've been teaming-up with the Sisters daily since last Friday and just wow! Last Friday and Sunday I got to help teach investigators, Saturday I got to help teach a less active and I felt the Spirit at all of the lessons. As I spoke in the lessons, I could feel the Spirit confirming that what I was sharing was true. It was just a further confirmation that what I have been learning about the Gospel is His truth.
     Monday and Tuesday, Sister Robley was really sick and had almost no voice, so I really had to help more with the teaching since she couldn't talk. Tuesday was so neat. I literally spent the whole day with the Sisters. I got to their apartment at 8 am and we did personal study and then companionship study. I learned so much about the Spirit Realm during our companionship study, then we went to a new convert’s house that afternoon and I was able to help Sister Brown teach about the Spirit Realm. What I had learned was new to me, but with the Spirit I was able to testify that I KNEW it was true. It has been so awesome being "Sister Cook" for these last few days.
     Wednesday was also an all day team-up! I love companionship study!! We had Elder and Sister Callister, the mission's Master Teachers (they are called to teach the missionaries how to teach), over for lunch. Sister Brown made everything from scratch and it was all so delicious. During lunch I mentioned to the Callister's that I am planning on serving a mission once I've lost the necessary weight. Sister Callister then gave me a list of 82 scriptures to memorize (if you want it let me know and I can email it to you). She said if I memorize those and where they can be found (before I go on my mission) that I will be ahead of the curve when I get to the MTC! :) I have already started trying to memorize the first one. She also said I need to work on my language, "cool" and "awesome" are not allowed. :( So Wednesday and Thursday I tried to avoid using those words while out with the Sisters. Wednesday afternoon, we had had plans to go teach 2 people we met while we were tracting Sunday, but neither of them answered their doors when we went and knocked.
      Oh my lanta! I almost forgot! Wednesday before the lunch, I was able to attend District Meeting with the Sisters. It felt kind of weird being there (especially with my wards Elders (Olson and Osiemo) sitting across the aisle), but I learned a lot. I hadn't planned on talking at all during the meeting, but Elder Nkambule (District Leader) asked for someone to read something and Sister Brown kept poking me, lol, and then volunteered me to read. It was so great getting to see how missionaries help each other at the meetings, sharing ideas for how to help invite the Spirit into their lessons and ideas on how to help get families more engaged in the Gospel!
    Yesterday was wonderful too! I got to take the Hermanas (Schroeppel and Stevens) to an early lunch. We were talking during lunch and Sister Schroeppel mentioned she had been talking to Sister Brown about me and Sister Brown said that I was a great teacher and that I taught like a missionary (this made me smile) and not like a member. I told the Hermanas that I had been trying really hard to follow what it says in Preach My Gospel. To pray for my companions while they were teaching and to pay attention so that when I was prompted to speak, the Spirit would guide my words! Such an amazing experience!
    Then I got to take the Sisters (Brown and Robley) to lunch. We talked a lot about the experiences of this past week. We had a planned lesson, but had to reschedule because there was a tornado watch and President Holzapfel told all the missionaries to go back to their apartments and stay there for the rest of the night. At the apartment I got to listen into a mission-wide conference call that the President held, on which he taught about the Gospel of Mark and how the part in 3rd Nephi where Christ appears is really like a 5th Gospel (in additional to the 4 most Christians know, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and pointed out how most people wish we knew more about Christ's life. He tied so many things together between the New Testament Gospel's and the Book of Mormon. He is such a great teacher!
    Fortunately about an hour after the conference call, we received a text message indicating the tornado-spawning storm had moved on and we were clear to leave the apartment. So we all hurriedly switched back into skirts (Can you believe I've been in a skirt daily for the last 7 days?) since we'd all changed into jeans/shorts when the order came to stay home for the night. Then we went to the Reid's house (my friend Ashley's family) and taught a lesson about reading the Book of Mormon. Sister Brown had made them a reading chart to read 3 pages a day. She got all of the family to commit to read! How exciting!
    Which brings me to today, today I got to take Hermana Coleman and her new companion, Hermana Nyland, out to lunch. I hadn't seen Hermana Coleman since she was transferred the day before Valentines. I was so super excited to see her and tell her all about my growth in the Gospel. I could see that she and her companion were both very happy with the progress I have made since she was transferred in February. After lunch I took them back to their apartment and was getting ready to leave when I noticed they were getting ready to ride and asked if I could give them and their bikes a ride. They weren't sure that we could get the bikes into the car, but I was able to teach them how to remove the front tires of their bikes and with the help of some men working nearby we were able to fit both bikes into the car (though poor Hermana Nyland was a bit squished in the back seat.) When we got to the library (where they were headed) I dropped them off and then taught them how to put the tires back on and test the brakes to make sure they were properly attached. I was grateful for the opportunity to be of service and I know they were grateful to not have to bike those miles (speaking of miles I know I have saved the English Sisters so many!).
    I tell you, this last week has made me so happy doing missionary work (though it was more like missionary fun!). I am looking forward, even more now, to that day when I receive MY call to serve and can labor in the Lord's Vineyard full time for a season to help others come to know the peace and happiness that has been mine. 
    Lol, one last thing before I go. The Sisters know I plan to serve when I become eligible and Sister Robley's family lives in Utah. She invited me to come stay with them in Utah for a few days before I report to the MTC when that day comes. Sister Brown heard her and said she wants me to visit her in Arizona before I go in. I happened to mention this to Sister Schroeppel over lunch and she said I better visit her too and that Sister Robley better not monopolize me while I'm in Utah. I teased her about having first dibs and she was like "Yeah of course, I've known you the longest!" It will be so neat to spend a few days seeing Arizona and Utah before I report to the MTC for my own mission! But that's a ways away. For now I am continuing to study the scriptures and Preach My Gospel, so that I will be as deeply grounded in the Gospel as possible when my call to serve comes!