Letters & Nametags: There is Hope Smiling Brightly before us!

Well, this week has been full of adventures as always. We have been so

very busy! It has been wonderful though :)

We have been blessed to be able to teach so many people about prophets

and apostles in preparation for conference. It is such a huge blessing!!

I am so grateful for the knowledge that we have that there truly is a

prophet on the earth today. We are not left here alone. God is

communicating with us and he is blessing us with the words we need for eternal life.

We have had so many incredible miracles this week! It really has been

almost too good to be true. This week we got to teach the Soto family

about the Story of Enos and about prayer. We truly love them so much.

Their family has been so prepared to hear the the Good News that we

have to share. The lesson was wonderful and the spirit was great. We

invited them to attend conference and they said they would. This week

Sister Soto came to Women's Conference! She loved it!

Even better was that Sister Rogers, a member of our ward, gave all of

us a ride there. Her and Sister Soto hit it off and Sister Rogers is

taking such good care of them. Sister Rogers is taking Sister Soto,

and 2 other investigators along with Sister Kagle, a less active, to

Los Angeles in October to go to see the temple and go to the visitors

center there! Members are so great!! We LOVE them!

Also this week we got to go and see Sister Kagle. We continued helping

her clean her home and got her excited for conference. She doesn't

come to church because she works on Sundays, but we are hoping that

changes soon and so is she! She is so wonderful! I am so grateful to

have been able to meet her! :)

I have been really bad about telling you about all of the exchanges I

have been on this transfer, but its okay. :) This week I was on

exchanges with Sister Buswell. She serves in this ward as well, so it

was very fun! :) While we were together we went to do some service--

and by service I mean pick up trash on the streets of Fontana-- and we

came upon the most friendly man! His name is Bishop Davis. He is the

Bishop of a local Christian church. He was so sweet. He was very

excited to meet us and even offered to have us over for dinner as a

welcome to Fontana! So fun! I love kind people! They are so wonderful!

I cannot believe how many of them I have been blessed to meet in the

last 6 weeks.

With that its time for....... TRANSFERS!!

You would think with me only having been here for 6 weeks, and Sister

Young having been here for 7 and 1/2 months that I would be staying

and she would be heading out to another new adventure, but nope! I am

packing my bags again! Its time to move out! We found out Yesterday

that I will be moving to the other side of Fontana, to the Alder ward,

and that I will be with Sister Rogerson! I am so excited! Sister Young

and I have had a ton of fun though. We have decided it has been a

companionship worth a wedding invitation ;) Also, since I am in the

same stake and zone we will see each other a lot in the next few

weeks! We have general conference this weekend, the stake activity-- a

fiesta!-- in a couple of weeks, hopefully the Soto family baptism,

Elder Evans from the Quorem of the Seventy on the 16 of October, a

temple trip, and any other exciting events that may be happening in

the next 6 weeks!

In other news I am also very excited to go be with Sister Rogerson!

She was in my Zone in Redlands, and we drove to Fontana together. We

also went on exchanges with each other a couple of weeks ago. She is

wonderful, and we are going to have so much fun! She is from either

North or South Carolina, so that will be fun as well! We found out

transfers from President and Sister Van Cott yesterday because they

spoke in the sacrament meeting before ours. Sister Van Cott said she

was jealous for the rest of the sisters because this transfer was

going to be a blast for sister Rogerson and I. I hope so! I am so

excited to go meet everyone in the Alder ward and serve them!

One more thing. A nice scripture thought :)

In Alma 26 Ammon glories in the Lord and shares his testimony of the

Gospel of Jesus Christ, particularly repentance.

In verses 21-22 he says:

"And now behold, my brethren, what natural man is there that knoweth

these things? I say unto you, there is none that knoweth these things,

save it be the penitent.

"Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth forth good

works, and prayeth continually without ceasing-- unto such is given to

know the mysteries of God; yea, unto such it shall be given to reveal

things which never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto

such to bring thousands of souls to repentance, even as it has been

given to us to bring these our brethren to repentance."

Cling to the promises in the scriptures.

I love you all! Have a good week and remember to go into conference

with a question in you heart! God speaks to us and "He revealeth His

secrets unto His servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7) If you want to know

the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, listen to the men who know :)

Sister Hope :)

PS: Shoot! I completely forgot for a minute! This week we also got to
watch a sneak preview of "Meet the Mormons" !!! It was so great! Take
all of your friends!
(Unless you are a mom of a missionary, then you will just cry)

Somos las misioneras para La Iglesia de JesuCristo de los Santos de
los Ultimos Dias! :)
Camera:Sister Buswell Left to Right, Hermana Deroche, Sister Young, Sister Davis, Sister
Hope, Hermana Stevensen