Letter of 8/10/10 Mom & Dad I miss you so much

It's been a tough week here in Washington! Not alot happening but we are working hard & doing alot of Doctrine of Christ lessons which is getting members involved in missionary work by talking and reaching out to people they know and inviting them to missionary lessons. So far it's going good. We just started so no success from it right now! But I know that this program is inspired and we will see success just not anytime soon and I'm ok with that.
So we have a baptism on Saturday and We are excited. It's going to be our 1st offical one because we started teaching him first and committed to be baptized whereas the older couple that got baptized were already wanting to be baptized. They just needed the lessons done and we did it in a week. It was still a really great experiance.
We have a baptism goal this month of 3. It's high for us but we know as we exercise faith and trust in the Lord he'll put the children in our pathway. And we need to work really hard.
So a cool experiance--We were trying to decide on the number of baptisms to set as our goal for the month. Sister Dewitt said," I'm thinking 2. I thought 3. So I suggested that we pray about what the goal # should be according to the Lord's will,2or 3 or more whatever it may be. We sat and pondered and I continued to feel like we should have a goal of 3 baptisms this month. It's amazing how fast the spirit tells us what we should do, but usually only when we are seeking for the inspiration. PRAYER is the key all the time. Oh how I wish that I had prayed alot more throughout the day before my mission. The strength and shield (of prayer) gives me the power against Satan & his temptation.
I got to recite the Young Womens theme for the 1st time in like 4 yrs, I still remember It! Oh, how I miss YW. Relief Society is awesome but the theme is so cool! we should recite it in Relief Society more!

We had a good dinner tonight with members. She cooked ham. It was actually really yummy. We really appriciate member dinners! I hope I remember my experiances here (on my mission) when I come home because there are so many and you (may not even remember ) 1/3 of them. It's so hard not to be able to share all my experiances with you guys. It's amazing how many I have. (Although),there are nights when I am so tired that I can't even remember what I did that day!
I love what Elder Wirthlin says,"If we approach adversities wisely our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness. The first thing we can do to help get us through the tough times of testting and trial is to learn to laugh. Sister Dewitt & I are great at that. Seriously we laugh all the time. She teaches me by example to laugh and we just laugh and laugh til we cry! It's going to be so hard not to be companions any more. Elder Wirthlin continues," Jesus Christ will strengthen us in our time of weakness and fortify us in our hour of distress. He will make weak things become strong. Come what may and love it." Sister Lauren Kimball