Sister Brianne Watson: 🔪❓🔪❓ 🔪❓

Welcome everybody to my LAST WEEK IN BETHEL! We've made it! I can't believe I've been here since November...it feels like I just got here, but yet I feel like I've never been anywhere else in my entire life. Buy-bye Bethel..

For those of you that didn't read my entire email last week, I'm not
really going to be a Spanish speaking missionary. That was all a joke.
Happy early April Fools Day.

This past week has been great! We've been able to stay busy and productive considering the slow work and the small teaching pool we have. Things truly do work out :) "things work out" has become my new motto out here...I feel like I say it 47 times a day just to remind myself..

OH MY GOSH you'll never believe this. So on Saturday we planned on going to Norway which is 45 minutes away to work and visit with members. When we got into our car to take off, the dash started saying "tire low" so I stopped and Sister Black got out of the car to check our tires. Lo and behold, two of our tires were completely flat and had big gashes in it. SOMEONE SLASHED OUR TIRES! What!! Sister missionaries are making enemies out here apparently... Nice.

So we called Bishop Lilly who had JUST enough time to jack up our car and take the tires off. He was on his way to drop off his wife and son at the airport but since he was passing through Norway, he was able to drop the tires off at Brother Young's. Brother Young for some reason didn't have work that day and was able to take the tires to the VIP shop to get us new tires and then drive them down to Bethel to us. He then put the new tires on our car and we were good to head to another VIP shop in Rumford which is 30 minutes away.

We didn't think they were going to be open since it was then around 5:00 but since we needed safe transportation to church the next day, we trusted the Lord and headed out to Rumford anyway. (Our mission vehicle coordinator wanted the new tires up front and for the tires to be balanced and the air pressure checked). Sure enough, the VIP was open and stayed open for all 3 trips we ended up having to take that night since it kept saying something was wrong on my dash. Moral of the story: we were so watched over and so blessed with all the help and availability of those who helped us :)

oh yeah, and while we were waiting for our tires earlier that day from Brother Young, we decided to go to visit Sister McLaren. It was perfect timing that we went over there because she was having a hard day and was pretty emotional due to the procedure she had done earlier this week. She hasn't been able to get up and clean her house, and her husband wasn't going to do it, so she felt overwhelmed and frustrated having a dirty house. Sister missionaries to the rescue!!! We deep cleaned that baby until it was sparkling. Sister McLaren has never been so happy :) we are convinced that an angel came to slash the tires in order to make us stay here for sister mclaren and not spend the day in Norway. Things work out.

It's funny because the night before that crazy day, sister black and I were in terrible moods and we weren't really getting along and I was stressed and annoyed with the area and let's just say I spent quite some time venting to Heavenly Father. Then the next morning, we wake up with slashed tires which we couldn't stop laughing at and we totally weren't expecting it and it really lightened the mood! He works in such mysterious ways!

The weather has been AMAZING this past week! On Wednesday we stopped at our church on the way home from District Meeting to do our studies and we were able to lay out blankets that Vivian made us and lay out in the sun outside...Quick reminder that last year at this time in Maine they were covered in several feet of snow while fighting the negative degree wind chills. #BLESSED.

Since we are moving next week, we have been mainly focusing on serving those around us and serving the ward the most we can. On Tuesday, we were driving down the road to get to our apartment and we passed the Lilly's long driveway and Sister Lilly was sitting in her car alone at the end of it. We both had a strong feeling to go back and see if she was okay or if she needed anything so we turned around and went to ask her. Apparently she had so much on her plate and such little time to do it all, so again...sister missionaries to the rescue!! We were able to take quite a few tasks and do them all for her. She was SO relieved and it felt so good to be able to help her :)

I love being a missionary so much. It's been so cool to see all those types of service opportunities pop up once we decided to only focus on that for the last two weeks of living here in Bethel! There has been at least one every single day this week! The Sister Lilly and the Sister McLaren being two of many. The Oxford ward is having an Easter party this weekend and since we live so far away from everyone, we decided to write everyone a letter/invitation to invite them to come. We ended up inviting 21 people!! That is so good for us! Half less-actives, half potential investigators. We really hope there is a good turnout! :) That's about all I have for you all this week..

LOVE YOU ALL.