Dear family and friends,

What a crazy week! I have learned so much and I wish I could tell you all I've learned but that would take a long time!  I'm starting to love Lake Placid and I never want to leave, I will be happy if I stay here my whole mission, it's just awesome!

This week we got to go to an all sister's conference at the mission home with all the 48 sisters in the mission, it was way fun, and it was really great to be around other missionaries and to feel the spirit so strongly, and we learned a lot.  

I had my first exchange with Sister Lambert this weekend, and she taught me so much!  She is a great missionary!  I've learned that just as important as having faith in Christ is having faith in people.  You have to have faith in your investigators.  Read the talk "See others as they may become" by Thomas S. Monson, it will blow your mind!  Have faith in the power of the Atonement, and know that it can change people.  There are so many converts here that talk about how much the gospel has blessed their life and changed them for the better.  It's not even that they are happier, but they are also more motivated, and they have more self-esteem.  This gospel can make you eternally happy if you will not only believe in it, but also if you will LIVE IT!  I love this gospel and I know that it is true, without a shadow of a doubt.  I know that God loves each of us so much and He wants us to be happy.

I've also learned about aligning our will with God's will, it is the only thing that will bring you true happiness.  You can align your will with His in your prayers.  Instead of asking Him for things the way that you want them, ask for the strength to deal with the trials that he has seen fit to give you like Alma in 31:30-38.  And God WANTS you to pray to Him!  Read the bible dictionary definition of prayer.  God is our Heavenly Father, when we really figure out what that means, that He is our Father, than we will want to pray all the time.

Anyways!  We had two investigators come to church on Sunday which was really exciting!!  We are still working on trying to find people to teach.   We went to visit this one woman we found while we were doing OYM like my second day here (open your mouth, which is where you walk around and talk to people you see) and she had her door open when we walked by to see if she was there and she came out and talked to us and said we could come by any time :D  fingers crossed :)  We are still getting a family history class together, and we are going to volunteer at the soup kitchen this week! 

The Lord knows what He's doing.  We taught our investigator Mike, but we didn't get a real chance to teach him because the member present talked the whole time and we aren't very good at interrupting people haha, but we watched "Finding Faith in Christ" (which he had watched already) with him and all week I just felt like we failed and was frustrated that we didn't really teach Him and felt like He wasn't going to progress at all.  So I felt really sheepish and humbled when we went to teach another lesson and he said that something had hit him while he was watching the video.  The spirit is working with people when we aren't there! You never know when something you say or do will effect someone.

I love you all!

-love, Sister Hunting

Sister Hunting loves these three Italian women and wants to bring them home with her!

Sister Hunting at the lake with members. I'm not sure which lake, but will ask her soon..