Shoot Brother! I already left! I am in New York right now! I only have 5 minutes to email so I will email the rest of the family a longer letter later. I have been assigned to work in Westchester. Our branch has about 45 members that regularly attend. I have only known my companion for a few hours but I can already tell that Sister Awerkamp is so awesome! She has only been out for 12 weeks and she is training me! She seems way awesome,down to earth and ready to work. I am excited to be with her. My P-days are on Wednesday (Today) so if I don't get a chance to email the family tomorrow then you won't hear from me til next Wednesday. I already got to hear about a few of our investigators. I am excited to teach them! We only have 2 investigators right now so we will be doing a lot of contacting. My companion has only been contacting 7 times. There are lessons that she hasn't even taught before (I only have practice teaching the first lesson) so we are really learning and figuring this out together as we go. So with us both together we don't have very much experience but I think she is a really hard worker so I am happy :)
So the other people haven't showed up to kick us off the computer yet so I am just gonna keep typing til they get here. So I LOVE my Mission President and his wife. (President Morgan and Sister Morgan) they are such wonderful people. They are both easy going, loving and easy to talk to and joke with. President has such great insights. He encouraged us to have faith as we teach and to be obedient. He got emotional for a bit looking out at all the new missionaries. We had 30 new missionaries in this transfer. Apparently that is the second largest incoming group of missionaries to a mission in the entire nation. The largest (of 41 missionaries) was last transfer and it was also in our mission! There are now 274 missionaries and 64 of them are sister missionaries. So there has been a ton of growth in our mission! We just opened 10 new areas because of all of the new arrivals. The South Manhattan area opened up for sister missionaries for the first time in years! They have been asking for sister missionaries and now they are finally going to get them! It is so amazing to see all the growth that is taking place. You can really see "the hastening of the work" . It is exciting! Well I got to go! Forward this on to mom and dad if you can! Love you!
Sister Lounsbury
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