TRANSFERS. TRANSFERS

Hello! Drum roll please....I am being transferred. I am going to Medicine Lake with Sister Kekauoh (people are going to have lots of fun getting our last names down!) She came out with me and she is AWESOME and she is brown!  I'm excited and nervous and SO glad to not be training. There are so many transfers taking place so President did them by email. Sister Edstrom is training here in St. Cloud again. There are 31 new missionaries coming on Wednesday. I do not do well with change but all is well. I'm so glad that Jamie is doing well and that the drop off went well. I pray for her really hard all day every day. Drew way to go on the LAX awards you are a baller! I hope you get feeling better (I know you are just trying to miss as much school as possible!) That is so funny that you guys sent me the picture of the front yard. The rocks look great. It is funny because last week a woman referred her self on mormon.org because she remembered Elders helping her dad on the farm when she was little and so we helped her shovel dirt and it brought back memories from digging out the front yard. This week was a slow one and it was a hard one. I wish I could kick Satan in the nuts but I just work harder and show him whose boss! Brother Otis, our ward mission leader gave us blessings and it was a BIG turning point for me, not just for the week but a turning point for my mission. He touched on several things that I had been praying about so it was an awesome testimony builder. I love the preisthood and I am so grateful for it, especially to be raised with a father who holds it. The church is true people.

St. Cloud Recap:
Transfers 1 & 2

Trainer: Sister Edstrom
Baptisms: 6

Randy

Kate 

Darren 

Kaleb 

Logan

Tiffany 

People I love and never want to forget:

Marius Pain, Hunter Otis, Kate N, and Elder Westbroek :)

I love you all very much! Thanks for all the prayers and letters, they are much appreciated.

I am excited to share my future Medicine Lake adventures with you.

Peace and blessings.

Love, The COOLER, Sister Szabo

District: Sister Broom, Sister Hansen, Elder Barker, Elder Westbroek, Elder Olsen, Elder Green, Sister Edstrom

 Brother Pain

 Quincy got married!

Hello Family!

Hello Family! Oh how I wish I could have been there for Jamie's farewell. But I will be at her homecoming! This week seemed quite long. We have days where no one cancels on us and then we have days where EVERYONE cancels on us. I can't believe transfers are next week. AHHHHHH! Everyone pray real hard that I won't have to train. I think it may be a long summer. It has been really rainy and the air is starting to get sticky. When I comment that it is humid people look at me and say "oh sweetie, this isn't humid this is spring, just you wait." Oh BOY! We met with a man named Brian last night, his wife is a member and he has been taught by missionaries numerous times. We had a really really spiritual lesson and Sister Edstrom kept commenting to him that we weren't meeting with him because we wanted to meet our quota for baptisms but that we were meeting with him because Heavenly Father loves him. Turns out he was going to cancel on us because he has felt in the past that missionaries were just teaching him to get their numbers up and that he didn't want to be anyone's quota. So he knew God was talking to him when Sister Edstrom said that about quotas. He committed to be baptized next month! Thank you Holy Ghost! Well I've got to go find me a rain coat and we are playing district volleyball today! I hate cigarettes. I love Jesus Christ. Have a blessed day.  Love, Sister Szabo

Sooooo great to see your faces.

Hello there! It was SOOOO SO SO SO SO great to see your faces last night. It went by way to fast. I enjoyed every minute of it. Homesickness hit me like a brick wall afterwards but thankfully it was bedtime and today is P-day so I can get my head back in the game. Jamie, I can't believe you leave so soon. Crazy! You are going to do great! Tell Grandma I love her very much and that I loved talking to her. I will now proceed to send you PICTURES lots and lots of pictures. It only lets me send a couple in each email so sorry in advance for all the emails you will have to open. You are all great and I love you all very very much. Thanks for all the prayers. Until next week...PEACE. love, Sister Szabo

Exchanges in Shingle Creek, Sister Hartley & Hermana Crosby

 Sister Edstrom sick=me bored taking pictures in front of the huge mountain range mural in our apartment.

 Darren's baptism. 

Daren (on right), Brother Pain (on left, recent convert who baptized Darren.)

 Me, Brother Pain, Darren, Sister Edstrom

Exchanges:Sister Hansen, Sister Broom, Sister Edstrom, Me! 

Kaleb, Logan, Tiffany and her two children

 Me, Kaleb, Logan, Tiffany, Sister Edstrom

Brother Otis (ward mission leader), Me, Brother Pain (Brother Otis taught and baptized Brother Pain in California.  Brother Otis is married and he has a baby due in September.  BEST WARD MISSION LEADER EVER!

 Zone Conference: Me, Sister Edstrom, Sister Owens, Sister Key'oloki (I just made that up ...I don't know how to spell her last name.}

 Kate (recent convert) Windy, Windy Day!

Mother's day flowers at church!

SO excited

I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited to see your faces in less then a week! Will 6:00 pm your time work to Skype? Well too bad if it doesn't :) We are thinking we will call you earlier on Sunday to set it up but we will see. But just plan on 6! This letter is going to be very short as we have a lot to do and we have to share a computer today. Sister Edstrom was sick again last week. We are waiting back on test results. Mono? D***  was baptized! I will send a butt load of pictures next week because I have some good ones. Exchanges in the cities were AMAZING! We have three baptisms this Saturday! I will share more with you about everything on Sunday!  Thank you for the package. You are GREAT and I love you and I get to talk to you on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! I love you. short and sweet. Love Sister Szabo