OHMYGOODNESS

Helllllo! It's a big week!! You'll NEVER believe where I'm being transferred to... 

Haha. Back to CONNECTICUT!!!!!! Oh my goodness I LOVE CONNECTICUT. What a dream come truuuuueeeee!!!!! I kid you not I have wished my whole mission that I could go back to Connecticut again!!! It's beautiful. And I will be there for THE FALL again. Those Connecticut falls man.... I'm so blessed. I'm so blessed. I'm so blessed. I'm so blessed. I have been in the best areas my whole mission. WOWEEEEEEE. The Stamford zone. The best. I'm so happy. Oooooooooo. I will be in ANOTHER YSA Ward hahaha. And another family Ward. And I will still be training a new missionary. (I just can't quite get away from training new missionaries...) ha! Her name is Sister Taylor. She seems cute! My area is GIANT. Just to name a few of my favorite places there: Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, Weston, Westport, New Canaan, and much more.... HAPPY. Oh my goodness. I can't wait to go back and see some of my favorite people. YES CONNECTICUT. I love. Oh!!! And my cutey baby companion Sister Sam will be training a brand new missionary too!! I'm so proud of her. Good things coming. 

It is unreal that I was able to pack everything. HA. My suitcases are well over 50 pounds. Looks like something's gotta change there before I make my way back on an airplane hahaha. (I still got time folks. I still got time.)

Okay okay okay but not to forget such an AMAZING last week in my lovely Central MANHATTAN Zone. I probably sound pretty dramatic in some of my emails but oh my goodness I want you to really know how I am feeling. I AM GOING TO MISS THE PEOPLE HERE SO MUCH!!!! 

Ahhhhhhhh. My heart has never been so full of love. I feel like I'm being torn away from some of my people. It's so sad you guys. We have so many baptisms coming up. I'm devastated that I won't be here. But it's going to be okay. The new missionary coming is so so so lucky. As I said goodbye to our investigators I just wanted to cry. But you know what's so great? ITS NOT goodbye. I will see them again I know it. New York can't keep me away. 

My lovely people Claver and Alaza and Marie and Saidou and Deshawn and Moddestine and Mike and Laraine and Natasha and EVERYONE. 

Oh my heavens it really has been sad leaving this favorite city of mine. I love New York City and you all know that. New York City is my home. One of them :) I'm so happy I got to serve there for almost a year!!! #blessed.

We ate dinner with some of my favorite members. (They're French) from France. Um coolest people you'll ever meet in you life. Literally everything about them is so French and I could cry of how much I want to be like them. We ate in their dreamy French style apartment and ate a Jerusalem dinner and had poached pears with melted chocolate for dinner. Heaven. Mai oui. J'étais heureux.

I feel so blessed. Oh dear.

Something I LOVED last week, (and I thought of my sista sista Ellie girl,) was when I went on exchanges with ma CHINATOWN sistas. I love them so much. We were having way too much fun. I have learned too much Chinese. I love it. I am probably so annoying now as I walk around speaking Chinese all the time. (Chow how shiow) that is how you say HILARIOUS. Haha Ellie correct me if I'm wrong. Oh goodness. I'm having so much fun speaking Chinese. The Chinese sisters were amazed at all the Chinese I already knew from my little sister Ellie! They were dying when I counted to 100 in Chinese. I loved it hahaha. Woo woo go China!! (Wo jiow du je me) I don't know. I think I just said I'm Sister Dunford. I love Chinese.

Sunday we got to go to the world wide broadcast of the YSA ces devotional. Elder Witney L. Clayton from the seventy spoke. He came up to Sister Sam and I before it started and started talking to us. Shook our hands. Was way way way nice. Asked us how the work was. So that was cool. The devotional was great but I liked the sacrament meeting before the devotional way better. It was all 3 YSA wards in Manhattan at the Manhattan temple/chapel. So cool. The spirit was amazing as the sacrament was passed to SO MANY people. It was silent. Awesomeness. 

HAHA oh my goodness. After the devotional there was a YSA member (he is not so normal) that's sounds rude but I don't mean that rude... Anyways. When he found out I was being transferred he told me he loved me. I will leave out the details. But it's probs a good thing I'm being transferred away. HAHAHAHAH. Too many Sister Dunford lovers. (I don't want that to sound cocky either Hahahaha) I honestly have just died at the amount of people that have confessed their love to me. ITS INSANE. Sister missionaries are not supposed to be loved like that. Ha ha ha. Ah. So funny.

I have felt this overwhelming feeling of love as I have been saying goodbye to my people here. OH my heavens. I'm so grateful. My heart is filled with gratitude. How happy I am that I got to come to this part of the world and meet people that I was ALWAYS supposed to meet. God was preparing me my whole life for these people and these experiences. I love Heavenly Father. I'm just happy. I love the gospel. I can't explain. I love my parents. Mom, dad, thank you so much for raising me in the gospel. I love it so much. I love you both. 

So now for a short closing thought. 

I LOVED when Elder Witney L Clayton spoke in sacrament meeting. He talked about being still. He told of when he went to the Manhattan temple for his first time and was amazed at the silence inside those walls. He said there are people here in NY that have never even heard the absence of sound like there is inside the temple walls. People that are born and raised in NY never hear complete silence. There's always a siren in the distance, or always traffic, people talking, loudness all around. He likened the temple to US. He said, we MUST learn to BE STILL inside of ourselves even with all the noises of the world outside of us. When we are "still" inside, we can receive revelation and build faith. When we build faith it starts the cycle of the doctrine of Christ. And we are being perfected more and more each day. We need to live the doctrine. We MUST "be still and know that He is God." D&C 101:17.

We should be wise enough to "be still." 

Be STILL. I love you. I love this whole situation that I'm in. I love Christ. I love God! I love. 

Love abba