How many different way can I say that this was an A.W.E.S.O.M.E week?

Hi! Hi! Hi!

Happy Monday everyone :) One thing that I love about being a missionary is that Monday is a happy day!

This past week has just been wonderful. We are all feeling a lot better. All of my pain and soreness is gone. Sister DeCoster is still a little sore, but she is looking a lot better. All the members here are telling us that we have the light back in our eyes now. They make it sound like we were Zombie Missionaries! Ahhhhhhh!  The missionary medical sent us all to an orthopedic specialist so that he could examine our necks and backs. He said that everything looked good. WHAT A RELIEF!!!! He was afraid that Sister DeCoster had a fracture on her spine but he checked twice and everything looks fine! That was probably the craziest drama of the week...just waiting to hear what the doctor had to say. He was super nice and a lot of his nurses were members in my last area! They told me of all the success that is happening there!!!! We are also seeing tons of miracles here. Other than that trip, we had so many great things happen this week. We decided that if we were going to have to rest and still see our investigators then we would need to do missionary work smarter. It worked! We still had 14 lesson and we saw "Meet the Mormons" twice! It was such a spectacular week. :) :) :) (How many different ways did I say how great our week was???? a lot)

Here is some awesome news: THIS SATURDAY BECKY, ALISSA, AND BOB ARE ALL GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! BEST DAY EVER! I am so stoked about going back to my old area to see the Perez Family!!!! I love them all so so so much! I have been  praying that they would continure to progress in the gospel. And BOB.......that sly guy decided that he wanted to get baptized earlier than November! What a blessing :) My heart is just so full of excitement that telling you about it doesn't even begin to describe how I feel. I have felt the spirit a lot as I have taught these people. I love teaching the gospel! It literally brings me so much joy. And when I see that joy cross over to other people it just explodes!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

Ray and Bob are both investigators in different wards that are in there 70's or 80's (when people get that old i don't really know how old they are...it all looks the same)! Sister DeCoster and I have so much fun teaching them! They have lots of experiences and they tell some crazy stories. Ray is planning on getting baptized next weekend if all goes well :) He is really looking forward to becoming a member. He has tons of old people friends in the ward. One of the best parts of this last week was teaching Ray and Bob the Law of Chastity. Hahahah! They are both so old and so funny! Ray is living with his wife (I say wife because they have been together so long that they call each other husband and wife). Ray was kind of upset about the lesson. He knew it was coming. He spent the whole week before the lesson trying to find somewhere in the Book of Mormon where it says that he doesn't have to get married :) At least he is looking for answers in the right place! We teach our investigators well :)

I got the great opportunity to speak in church yesterday with a return missionary giving her homecoming talk. (Lucky for me it was the same topic my last ward asked me to speak on! ahahahah!!!) She did a great job, but before her talk her family all got up together and did a musical number. It made me chuckle a lot because I was thinking of how funny it would be to have my family do a musical number together....it would make people's ears bleed! Don't worry family and home ward, I won't put you through that!

Well I am almost done with the Book of Mormon!!!! I love reading it everyday. It brings me so much peace!

I LOVE YOU ALL!

LOVE,

Sister Tucker

P.S. I can't email pictures from this computer!  Next week!