Letter From Whitney- June 24,2013

HI! So I got transferred this week and it feels like it was forever ago! So I am in El Camino Real, Canoga Park. Its really close to Calabasses if thats how you spell it. Its really pretty and really different. I am on bike still and its been really hot but really fun. My companion is Hermana Higley! She is from Wendover and is so cute and is a Family Consumer Science major which means that she makes me the best food ever and taught me how to make beans and horchata and Jamaica! We lived together my first transfer in North Hollywood and we are good friends so we were so stoked when we got put togther! It was crazy because we were together in the temple when we were talking to our Mission President and he was telling us how he had finished transfer assignments and that he was feeling really good about it. We didn't know then that we were going to be companions but we decided that it must have been a confirmation when we were together in the temple. Its been great because we have been having a ton of success! We got 10 new investigators which has been the most ever in both of our missions.

Yay its so cool and crazy I love it. My last area was so ghetto and this one is so clean and pretty and the people are great. I am so excited to have the support of my ward too! I speak next week in Church and get to share all of my new insights since the broadcast yesterday. It was amazing! What did you think of it?

New letter from Whitney 6/10/2013

Wow what I cool trip and experience. Those places and things are so important to me and must have been so cool to experience first hand. I have been reading in the Book of Mormon about how God said the people that would come to this promised land would be lead by His hand here and have felt so blessed to be a citizen of the country. You should ask my companions I have so much American pride its annoying ha ha. It is so beautiful and am so glad you got to enjoy those things because you deserve it! So I was so expecting my visa to come this week but it turns out that I will finish another transfer here unless it comes this week. I do believe it will come soon though. We had some amazing miracles this week. One was that we recieved a referral from elders in our district and we looked forever for this mans address and gave up and decided to go knock on a door of someone we had contacted before. They weren't home but then we were handing out cards and just outside we asked this mans name and it was the same man we had been looking for and couldn't find! We taught him this week and set a baptismal date with him and he told us that he had given a fake address and number to the Elders and that God really wanted us to teach him because we found him! That was so cool! Then the next day my companion ran over a staple and got a flat tire and we were so annoyed because we had been in the bike shop earlier that week. While we were standing there trying to figure out what to do this woman came up and told us she was a member and that she hasn't been able to come to Church because she has really bad health issues. She told us that she would like us to read some scriptures to us because she can't read and told us that in the morning she had prayed to have some happiness in her day and that we were the answer to her prayers. I just felt so blessed to be guided by the Spirit and to know that Heavenly Father has so many details in His plans ... even flat tires. It was so cool! We also got to take out the youth and do splits and go contacting. It was really fun for me to watch a young woman share her testimony and truly be like my companion! I hope the youth at home can have a chance to do that. Also we have a funny companionship. Its been a great week. We also had a lesson in the park with one of my investigators and he bought me Elote! So good! I will send pics! Anyway that was my week and I know that Heavenly Father needed me to stay here for this week!