Hey Mom and Dad,
Good to hear about all the people returning and going on missions. Serving a mission is a great thing.
Yes, I am still in Blagoevgrad. I find out this Saturday what will happen for transfers. Vili is doing great! She is still wanting to serve a mission. She taught us a lesson this week and also was a member-present in one of our lessons. She is amazing. She told the young women in our branch that she wants to serve a mission and they smiled so big! They were so excited and gave her hugs. Vili is a great example for these younger girls!
Finally our investigators Martin and Evgeni got back from their long break. They are back here to study. We were able to have a great lesson with them. We caught up on where they are at. This whole break they have been reading out of the Book of Mormon and have been praying. It made me so happy to hear that they have been doing these things. Also, Martin had been meeting with some Elders in the city (pazerjik) where he is from. He knew so much! They are both 20 years old and are students at the same university as Vili.
On Saturday we had the opportunity of going to Stara Zagora for a baptism. Two people that Sister Frame taught were getting baptized. It was pretty exciting! Getting there was pretty crazy. We left Blagoevgrad at 6:30 am to Sofia. Then we needed to catch a bus from Sofia to Stara Zagora that left at 8am. Normally it takes around 2 hrs... a little less to get to Sofia from Blagoevgrad... so we were a little nervous but had faith that we would make it. Also we had called the bus station the night before and said they only had a bus at either 8am or 10am. This was a problem because it takes around 3 hrs to get to Stara Zagora from Sofia and the baptism started at 12pm.
Well we got to the bus station in Sofia right at 8 am. We saw the 8am Stara Zagora bus leaving and we ran after it! We stood in front of the bus asking to get in and they said no because it was full. So we went inside the bus station asking almost every teller if they had a bus at 9. They all said no, only at 10 am! Then I went to this random teller and asked and they said that they had one at 9am!!! The only thing is that it would drop us off a little outside the city. It was the best we had so we bought the tickets! We had the missionaries in Stara Zagora stall the baptism as long as they could... we got there late but walked in right as they were singing the opening hymn! We only could stay for a little over an hour before we had to catch a bus back to Sofia and then to Blagoevgrad. We did it and it was amazing! (Ok, so it doesn't sound very intense when I write it out, but it was!)
Church! We had 3 investigators at church yesterday!!! I couldn't believe it! The Elders had 3 also. We had a total of 6 investigators at church! I was so happy! Martin and Evgeni stayed for all 3 hours! It was a great Sunday.
Tomorrow we will be in Sofia for our Zone Leader Training meeting. That should be fun.
Well I hope you all have a great week!! Thanks for all you do. I love you all very much!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
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