TRANSFERRING!

Hey all, I feel super bad about not keeping Brynn's blog updated. Graduation plus an internship kept me pretty busy for the past six months, but you don't want to hear about that! So here's the latest with Sister Carlson!

She had her first baptism last month. Below is a pic of her with Cathie and Velba, who are sisters. Brynn said they were both so happy, crying, and the spirit was so strong at their baptism.
In a meeting with her mission president, he told her that he was "the most proud" of her, that she was growing so much and that she is baptizing in Peru and "no one baptizes in Peru" because it is a hard area.
And for some really BIG news, she's transferring! And training! By now she's already in her new location, as she told us in her weekly email on Monday and was leaving Peru the next day. She didn't say where she was going and probably didn't know herself, so we won't know until she writes us again next P-Day (Monday). Here's the info from Sister Carlson herself:

"So I am getting transferred...!! and I am follow up training. which is crazy. so I will be in a new area and I will finish up training a new missionary! can you believe it?! I am sooo nervous and scared but I know that everything will be alright. it always is. But I trust in president and I am glad that he thinks I am good enough and ready to help train a new missionary. ahhh but please pray for me! I will let you know what my new address is next week when I email you.

I will miss peru, my first area. and hah I will try to take some pics today of Peru... but I have so much to do! I have to pack all my dang stuff! that will be fun. I will miss my investigators that I am teaching and the members too. esp Jannie. she really helped and took care of me here. and she is kinda less active and we have been helping her become active again by asking her to come out to lessons with us and by just being a good example for her. I will really miss her. But yeah I hope things with Mike will be going still good and that he will get baptized. he is just under a lot of stress right now with their financial problems and such but I just hope that wont get in the way of progressing for him. I don't think it will cause he is strong. but the advisary could just mess with him by saying your to stressed out an blah blah. but I wish the best luck for him! and I will miss all my other investigators!

man, I am so nervous mom. and I am anxious to see what these six weeks have in store for me.... I hope that i will do well and that I will be a good trainer. I know that I will learn a lot from it. It will be interesting!" 

We also got to talk to her on Mother's Day, which was so great! That was before we found out she was transferring, but it felt so good to hear her voice — and we could tell that she has grown so much in her calling as a missionary. Here's a pic we got of her right after she got off the phone with us, all smiley! 

We know she will miss Peru and all of her investigators she has put forth so much faith to find, but also know that she will take what she has learned in her first area to her next one! We will post her new address once we know what it is ourselves.

In the meantime, here are some more pics of her mission thus far:

Back before Christmas in the snow and with her first companion, Sister Lewis:

And a pic with her most recent companion, Sister Ashby (who also happens to be a redhead — all her companions so far have been fellow redheads), at their stake's social media day, where the members learned how to share the gospel via social media. 

We're looking forward to hearing where she has ended up and who her new companion is, etc.! Until we know her address, send her love through email! Her email address is brynn[dot]carlson[at]myldsmail[dot]net! 

-S