Leah's January 14th email - Transfers!

Well transfers happened, and I got moved! I'm now in West Valley with a new companion - Sister Gatewood. She's really great, and I know we're going to get along splendidly.
It was really sad leaving South Salt Lake. I came to really love the people there and the area. I think it might always be my favorite part of my mission, because Sister Hagemann said it had been her favorite area and she's already been all over the place. It was a good way to start out my mission, but I guess I was getting too comfortable or something!
This little Nepali lady named Dilpa that we taught was crying when we said goodbye. She doesn't understand or speak much English, but she kept saying "I love you" and then the number "two" pointing to both of us.
We had a little tougher of a transfer last transfer, but I am so sad to leave some of the people we were teaching and are getting baptized.
On our last day (Tuesday) we took a girl named Cherry who is from the Philippines (she's 25 and her husband is quite a bit older) to see the Joseph Smith movie on Temple Square. We happened to run into Elder Ballard, so she was able to meet him too! I may have told you about another Filipina who was baptized, but this is a different girl. Anyway, her fellow shipper and the sister who introduced us to her is really crazy and strange, but really nice. They took us out for Chinese/ pho before the film, so that was really nice. We also went into the Asian market for a few minutes and I bought myself some hello pandas! Cherry bought me two two Asian pears which were SO yummy!
Another quick story, about the lady that we taught who is black and very "praise the Lord" all the time and got baptized the day after Christmas. Anyway, I had forgotten about this, but my companion reminded me of this the other day...Her husband is a semi recent convert. He was baptized a few years ago, became less active, and then has since become active again. This past Stake conference he was able to receive the Melchizedek priesthood. So that was really neat because we knew he would be able to baptize and confirm her. So we were waiting for them to get dressed in their jumpsuits and everyone was waiting to take pictures and things. My companion went to check on them and I was standing in the hall. She heard some laughing and then called out Rosa's name because she wondered where the laughing was coming from. She found them in the font already! They thought they were already supposed to get in. So we had to find fresh dry suits for them to change into. No one else even found out what happened. It was really funny. I guess she was that excited to get baptized that she just couldn't wait. Either that or she wanted to get it over with! She told us "black people just don't like getting their hair wet!"
Anyway, I'm doing great and doing my best to stay warm!
Lots of love,
Sister Morris