Fall Fell

21 September 2015

Good thing it's 30 degrees every morning. But I'll tell you what,
Alaska pulls of the most BEAUTIFUL 30 degrees you've never seen.
(Cause most of you have never been hear at precisely this time).
Picture: snow dust dark framed spiked peaks, wearing a scarves of fall
colors around their necks, with a cyan blue sky and zero pollution to
dim it. Then picture me shivering without a coat trying to acclimate
myself for winter. Then you've got my life.

Just when I was about to die because of lack of sunshine, it finally
stopped raining. Just watch me get called to go to Juneau next
transfer.

This week we got teaching a fantastically prepared girl, she's half
black, half native, her name is Audrey, and she is the spunkiest,
funnest friend. Good thing we had to pass her off to YSA.
But hey I am not bitter.

As for our other sweet investigators: they have got to be the most
COMPLICATED cases I have ever seen. 99% of the time I am just at a
loss as to what to do with them. But Eve, though we weren't able to
meet with her last week, came to all three hours of church. We also
had one of the young women bring her catholic friend. I was praying
that sacrament would be something simple, like faith, that would be
easily understood by her (she's Buddhist and Thai if you've forgotten)
and so of course Heavenly Father tried my faith, By giving us a whole
sacrament meeting about the law of common consent, as pertaining to
sustaining church leaders, spoken by a very eloquent and intellectual
high councilman. You win some, you lose some.
But then (by sneaky request) we had a last minute lesson on baptism in
gospel principles. So it turned out alright.

Ooh.  Tender mercy: when I went to the temple, my Ward from Fairbanks
was there on a youth trip! It's the only area I've served in that I
haven't been able to go back to visit (probably because it's 500 miles
away) and it was so cool to see bishop, and a few other people. It's
been almost a year since I left there, and they still remember me. :)

Another cool thing. We've been working a lot with a less active, part
member family named the heckels. We go caroling as a district every
Saturday night and sing "nearer my God to thee" to people in our
different areas, and this week we went to the heckels. After we
finished, sister Heckel just broke down and it was one of the coolest
things, to hear her talk about how the lord had been reaching out to
her lately.

It's been a very up and down week, but so it goes! I love you!


Sister Galli

P.s.  We have been doing a lot of practices with the Book of Mormon
with members. How would you describe your favorite food to someone
who'd never tried it? Now try describing the Book of Mormon with the
same zeal, and don't be apologetic. :) it's a great old time. Now
carry a Book of Mormon with you wherever you go for the next week. Now
you are prepped to have a missionary moment!