"7 days without prayer makes one weak"

Buenas!!!!!!!!!!

So, I just got through reading Brayden's email and pretty much counted my blessings that I am here in Alabama. I can't imagine having to do missionary work the way you are bud. No cell phone? We practically do missionary work from our cell phones. Not gonna lie, it took me a minute to realize that China was actually a part of Mexico. I thought you had legit been sent to China. Mini freak out, but it's all good :)

So this week has been interesting. Can I just say that I absolutely love this branch. Words cannot even express how much I love it. I am going to cry my eyes out when I get transferred. We got to spend some of this week with the members. We had FHE with a single mom and her kids. She must have really enjoyed it because she invited us back for tonight... but we cant go :( We are helping the zone leaders with on of their investigators. Then we had a little get together after church on Sunday at Presidents house. It was great :)

President has been calling us trying to figure out what to do with all of the missionaries since we are getting about 30 plus more this coming week for transfers and he doesn't know the missionaries as well as he would like to. He called and asked me who could be sister training leader since apparently some of us are going to be released this transfer. He basically told me over the phone that as of now, he thinks he is going to send me to a new area to open it for Spanish sisters, and I will be training. He said he wants to put someone there he can trust... I'm not quite sure how I feel about that yet. I love being sister training leader, but it does come with a lot of responsibility. For instance, I have to drive someone down to Birmingham on Wednesday because she is being sent home... no fun at all. But on the other hand, I love the sisters and I learn so much from each and every one of them. I'm not going to get worked up about it though, because I have been changed to new things very last minute so I know how it goes. We shall see what happens next week :) Then he had us go through and rate all of the spanish sisters on their ability to speak spanish, so this transfer should be an intense one. So sad though. I really don't want to leave this branch.

We had zone conference this week! It was so nice to just get to sit there and not have to train on anything and just be edified by president. He is pretty amazing. Our assistants are as well. We are so blessed on this mission :) There was so much information loaded in that my brain felt like it was going to explode. He is really cracking the whip on us finding people. We have some great ideas this week, which I am super excited to do. We are going to have a free lemonade stand and just talk to people when they come up and we are doing a chalk drawing of the plan of salvation sometime this week too. It shall be fun. I will take pictures! 

We are having some issues with our investigators. None of them are coming to church and our numbers seem to just be going down hill. It's crazy because the other sisters in Huntsville are kicking missionary work in the butt. They had 3 investigators at church yesterday and have tons of new investigators. We just told them they could take our job :) They both are newer in this area and haven't been out too long, so maybe that's the trick. Maybe it will be good if I get transferred to get some new missionary blood in me. Some of these sisters make me feel so inadequate. They are amazing and they could do the job so much better than I can. 

Sounds like life is good at home! I bet things are exciting with school starting and everything. I can't believe summer is already over! Thank you for all of the prayers, letters, love, and support. It is appreciated. Love you all MUCHO!!!!

Love, Hermana Masey Decker