Good day, Readers!

This last week, we set a baptismal date with Latisha, the investigator
who was referred to us by the Green Hills sisters. Latisha is
awesome. She has a very strong testimony and faith in God. She
recently moved from Washington to here, by herself. She was
originally going to be in the Green Hills ward, but when she arrived,
her apartment arrangements fell through and because of a myriad of
other things, she ended up living her car for a week and a half.
Thankfully, she was finally able to find an apartment but it happened
to be in Bellevue, so she will be in our ward! We helped her move in
last week, and we had lessons with her on Tuesday and Thursday with
her. On Thursday, Sister Andersen came out on splits with us and it
was fantastic. Prior to that lesson, we'd gone out to lunch with
Sister Andersen and the Green Hills Sisters. That was an absolute
blast! But back to Latisha! It was amazing to see how she came out
from her trials stronger and greatly blessed, because she didn't give
up or lose faith. She already wants to go to the temple! I am so
happy for her and I'm looking forward to helping her progress.

In addition to Latisha, the Elders have two other baptisms lined up
for this May. We are all so excited for Bellevue! Three baptisms in
the month of May, and they'll be the first convert baptisms Bellevue's
had in years!

Also last week, I gave my first training, during district meeting,
about Teaching Repentance. Since I haven't actually taught anyone
repentance yet, I felt very inexperienced and unqualified to give the
training, but somehow, with a lot of help from God, Preach My Gospel,
and the other missionaries participating, it turned out not that bad!
I also went on exchanges with Sister Gillespie, to the Green Hills
area, last week. Sister Gillespie and I have a lot in common and we
tracted into a bishop of another church, who was happy to speak with
us and invited us to come back! It was cool because he told us he
talks to his congregation about Jehova's Witnesses and Mormon
missionaries and uses us as good examples of going out to spread the
word.

I hope y'all had a great Mother's Day. I was able to skype my family
and it was awesome. I love all y'all! As Sister Andersen said, "This
is the Lord's work and we can't mess it up!"

Best regards,
Sister Ririe