Happy Easter!

Family and Friends!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!! The family I am staying with has an 18 year old daughter. So yesterday morning Sister Horrocks, Allison(their daughter) and I got to participate in an Easter egg hunt that the Whites had prepared for us. It was pretty intense and I lost.... by like 20... But that's okay cause what I did get I was able to keep. They hid little chocolate eggs. They also put out an Easter basket for us it was so sweet! We are so blessed to live with the Whites, they defiantly take care of us! This week has been an AMAZING week! I can defiantly see the Lords hand in my life and in what Sister Horrocks and I do. Tuesday we had an appointment that didn't show up, so as back up we did a stop by. We went to a girls house that we didn't recognize from her picture in the ward roster. Well when she answered the door we did recognize her. She is not less active like we had thought. But! As we got talking we found out that she had decided to go on a mission, but some things in her life (a boy) had come up and she wasn't sure anymore. So on Sunday she had gotten a blessing from the bishop and he told her that she would know her answer when she received it' and then we randomly showed up to her house. Her mother quizzed us to see if maybe the bishop had sent us but we had by complete accident scheduled her in as a back-up appointment thinking that she was a less active member. Anyways, her mom came up to us at the Easter Cantata (a huge music performance the stakes around here do annually) and told us that she had decided to go on a mission and that she was so much happier about her decision than she was before.

Then on Wednesday we had specialized training where we got to talk about the Atonement and watch the new bible videos! So GOOD! http://www.mormonchannel.org/bible-videos here is a link to them I strongly recommend watching them! They portrayed the Atonement in a way I had never seen it!! We also got to teach our investigator Anthony, who told us he wasn't going to get baptized before he left for basic training but that he still wants to know and find out if this is the true church. Which is awesome because he has been meeting with the missionaries for a while but he told us that in the last month or so he has gained the desire to truly seek out the truth rather than take the lessons out of pure curiosity. Sorry this letter is long! So many good things happened this week though!! So, since it was spring break and we work in a YSA ward, EVERYONE was out of town! But, that is okay! Why you ask? Because we got to go tracting!! Okay admittedly it is hard, but Saturday we went tracting with a member. For the first forever it was super hard. people didn't open their doors and when they did they were extremely rude. So Sister Horrocks and I were panicking because we wanted out member to have a good experience. Well, we knocked on a door and they guy went off about how 'Mormons are a cult and the book of Mormon is blasphemy' So we were really bummed and downhearted and out of time. So we began to head back to the car but Sister Horrocks was all 'no! We can't leave like this we need to do one more door' so that one more door turned into four more doors because no one would answer. Finally, we stood in front of the last door on the hallway, but Valarie (our member) pointed out that when we were walking up we had seen a girl leave this door. To that Sister Horrocks responded "then we will convert her husband" and knocked anyway. Well lo' and behold her husband actually answered the door and was super interested! We have a return appointment for Saturday so keep us in your prayers!! Anyways, This letter is super long so I will let you all go!!

Much love!!

Sister Bice