Onward towards Arkansas

So look how cute Carrie is with her Mission President and his wife! 

Here are her and her traveling companions with them as well. 

Here's a couple of e-mails from Carrie's first week. 

I am so greatful to be here and I love the work.  I am so spiritualy exhausted and it is awesome.  Oh and let me explain the lesbian thing.  This girls name is Erica and she lives with her mom who is also a lesbian and we are teaching all of them and they believe the joseph smith story and they know the Book of Mormon is true we are working with the Law of Chastity and their life style but I have faith that they will be baptised please pray for them.  But she was filmed by MTV because she preforms as a man in a strip bar in the bible belt and they wanted to know how people responded to her.  She told them that she was meeting with us and showed them the Book of Mormon that we gave her.  So I got a shout out on MTV how cool is that.  That gives you a reason to watch MTV right? Okay so here is my address instead of themission office and you can put it in the church bulletin etc... 108 Maplewood Dr. Hot Springs AR, 71931 Love you

She was still on-line when her Mom responded so we got another one! Yay!

yes I am in a car... I just talked to the mission mom she said that my trainer has said so many good things about me that I will probably be traning next transfer!!!!!! no pressure right haha

I just sent this to the president so I copied it to you!

I can't even explain how amazing this week has been.  I have felt the spirit so strongly.  I know this work is true and I have felt the Savior's love for every one of the people that I have come in contact with.  I have not felt awkward or uneasy about any of our appointments.  We have been prayerful and thoughtful about all of our decisions and I love it.  Sis. Warner has been a wonderful trainer and I so appreciate the time she takes to help me understand and apply the principles that we are using in the feild. We are truly teaching by the spirit and I think that has to be my favorite part.  It is when we have faith and teach by the spirit that we can really feel the Savior's love for our investigators. I struggled with having to count numbers and report numbers because I didn't want our investigators to be a number.  I know that the Lord sees their faces and knows their names.  We pray for them individualy and say their names and counting them by number was hard for me.  Sister Warener helped me with that she said that we could do it in our planner with number but then we would put up our own personal calendar with all of our investigators names on it and make sure that we remember their names and say them often and look at them on the calendar even when we are counting the numbers in our planners.  That made me feel better.  She has so much faith and we both want the people we meet to love the Lord and love the Gospel so much. We have decided together to change our attitude and our expectations.  Every person we meet WILL have a desire and they WILL WANT to be baptised.  If we are discouraged they will be too.  So we changed our baptism and confirmation goal every week to at least one we decided that it should never be 0.  I feel so happy.  I know that wonderful things WILL happen.  The Lord WILL prepared a way.  Heavenly Father loves His children and have truly felt that!!! I am so grateful to be here! We have so many people that have really been prepared by the Lord and are so ready to enter the waters of baptism! Sister Warner and I are so excited to help them come closer to the Savior! I am soooooooo excited... I want to do this forever!!!