Ohhhh...hiii...ohhh

So transfers were this past week and I am still in Marion Ohio, which is good because I really want to see Tim and Vicki baptized. They are fantastic people and we had a special fast to get people to set a date for baptism because we had no one with a baptismal date in this entire zone. So, this Thursday is the goal to have Tim and Vicki set a specific date to be baptized.
Anyways, at transfers, we got another Sister! I'm co-training her to help Sister Shelley out. So one day Sister Shelley is training, the next day I'm training. It's fun. Her name is Sister Bergloff, she is from Highlands Ranch, CO and she is here in Ohio waiting for her visa to go to Brazil. Funny, right?
It's nice having another sister cause we can go into any house we want to and it's a lot easier to go on splits with sisters in the ward. We actually went on splits this past Saturday. Sister Shelley took Sister Bergloff and I went with this super sweet sister from our branch, Sister Vought. Sister Vought and I visited Melva and June (the two super old ladies in pink from last time) and we taught a lot about baptism and the importance of prayer and I again invited them to be baptized and asked them to pray about it and this time I asked June. She said she didn't think she could pray out because she couldn't think of all the words and felt embarrassed. I promised her that as soon as she said the words "Heavenly Father", the words would just come and she prayed and it was beautiful. I then asked them to be baptized June 15 and they said....YES!  So those two have a set date for baptism but they apparently don't count as being 'on date' according to our zone leaders because they haven't been to church yet. But they're old and dying and I don't know how on earth they'll make it to church! June actually prayed for their health to come back so she and Melva could come to church with us. I'm excited about that.
We went to the zoo today for a Zone P-day activity and that was a lot of fun. Our branch mission leader and his wife, Brother and Sister Sutter, were so kind to take us down all the way and then drive us back. They are a wonderful couple and we're very blessed to have them .
Let's see, not much else has happened since this past Wednesday.
We had stake conference yesterday and it was this special broadcast from Salt Lake for some of the Eastern Stakes. That was neat. Elder Hales and President Uchtdorf spoke and that was a treat. Here are some things I took away from it:
It doesn't matter where we serve (in the church or on missions) but that we serve.
Our testimonies grow stronger when we share it with others.
We need to be converted to the Lord and there are three things we can do to make sure we're converted:
1. CTR stands for choose the right and also, Current Temple Recommend. Always be worthy to hold a temple recommend.
2. Study the scriptures regularly
3. Talk to your Father in Heaven daily. He is your Father and He loves you and wants to hear from you.
Also, I found an awesome Ensign article from 2006 that was about Denmark and there was this great quote from President Andersen that I really liked: "Missionary work is a natural result of our own conversion" We all need to work on being more fully converted because missionary work does not yet come naturally for a lot of people (it certainly hasn't for me). So work on your personal conversion and missionary work will just come to you.

I love you all so much!
Sister Diana Briscoe