hello everyone....
Well, "I'm leaving Sanford, ME... don't know when I'll be back again." I'm getting transferred tomorrow morning. I am SO bummed. Loral is getting baptized this Friday at 6 pm.... missed it by a couple of days. :( I'm really going to miss the Sanford ward, our investigators, my district, and Sister Brovont. We had so much fun these last 2 weeks. Lot's of singing and making up songs. So last Monday for district p-day, we went down to the Elders building. We played ultimate Frisbee and football, 2 hand touch football (kind of... Sister Brovont and I had to guard each other, and the Elders couldn't touch us... we didn't play that one for long). Then we played baseball in the gym.... Our district leader, Elder Beard, was running and went to "slide" into the base, but because their gym is carpet, his knee didn't move. Needless to say he got hurt pretty bad. His knee got all swollen and he couldn't walk on it for a few days. So after he got injured we stopped playing baseball, and played speed instead. I beat the elders in the first game, and took 2nd in the 2nd game. it was so much fun!!!! Then we just sat around and talked. It was such a fun day.... a well needed day too. This week our lesson with Loral was so good. We were going over her baptism program, and as she was picking out the songs, she got so overwhelmed with the spirit. She picked the song "Scatter Sunshine", because she said the words described how she was feeling. :) That was so exciting to see!!!!!
Then on Thursday we taught Elizabeth Earl. The spirit is so strong with her. After the first vision we asked her how she felt. She said she knows it's true, and that Joseph Smith is a prophet!!! :) Then we extended a baptism date. She accepted Nov. 12th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was so excited, We were so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm so sad that I'm going to be leaving her too)
I got the package, thank you mom! I loved it!!!
So we made up a lot of songs this week, and sang the Elders the one's we had already made. They loved them. They told us that they wish we could put them on a CD so that they could listen to them all the time. haha, that made us feel good. Last night when we told them I was leaving, they were all sad. They were like, "What are we going to do with out our Brovont and Rankin duo??" We have become so close. It's so fun. WE made up a song to the tune of "I hope they call me on a mission", it is called "I hope we don't leave Rochester District." We talked about each missionary in our district. It was fun, the Elders thought it was so funny...... I'm worried that my new companion won't like to make up songs........ That is what helps me get through the long rough days. Singing the songs we have made up, and making up new ones. We counted this week, and Sister Brovont and I have made up like 15 songs. A few we never wrote down, but we sang them all the time. A lot of them we did write down, and also sang them all the time. Oh, we also found out that the Elders had forwarded our messages to our zone leaders and the assistants. haha, everyone loves our songs. Too bad I can't sing, because it won't sound the same with out Sister Brovont. haha.
We also asked the Elders to describe us in a few words. (to help with our song) They said I was: joyously captivating, witty, motherly, and predictably unpredictable. hahahahhaha. It was funny.
Well I am sad to leave Sanford, but I know that where every I go, it is because the Lord needs me there. I will let you know next week were I end up!!!
Love you all! :)
Love, Sister Rankin
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