From 14 dollar houses to 14 million dollar houses

Guess what?!

I'm getting transferred, finally, out of Pueblo zone up to Parker where I was last week for team-ups. Interesting how this happened. Before I was transferred to Mesa, I had teamups there a week before and then it happens again with Parker. Every area I've been transferred to, I've flushed-meaning that me and my companion are new to the area. My new companion is Sister Baker from Orem, Utah and she goes home in December. She served there last year so she is not really new to the area. In Parker, I'll be in my first singles ward (weird...) and all we'll teach is YSA investigators, meaning everyone between the ages of 18-30. We'll be living with members, so that should be a new experience. But I'm super excited and ready for a change. I'll miss my Aussie companion though, we had a lot of fun together.
So some fun things happened this week. One morning, we had planned on seeing a few potentials (people who said they would be interested for us to come back) and some members but they all fell through so we went to tracting. About the last house, right before we headed into lunch, we tracted into this lady who answered the door and said, "Sisters, I've been waiting for you." What?! No one ever says that to us. She goes on to say that the sisters in that area last year said someone would come and stop by. She went to church last year and loved it and she wants to come again because she wants her little girl to be involved. We talked to her for about 30 minutes and she was really open and excited about church. Later on that day we went through the area book and she was no where in the area book. Miracle that God led us too. Also, she is crazy busy with work and school that she is hardly ever home but we caught her at home, another miracle.
Later on that day, we decided to go and see a less-active that hasn't been to church for decades. We walk up to his house and he's outside working on the garden. He is about 70 years old and we were bracing ourselves because usually old people aren't excited to see us. But man, he sure was. We talked to him for a good half an hour and after our conversation he told us that we made his day. We volunteered to help with his massive garden and he said that we could come back in a couple of weeks. We asked if there was anything we could do for him at that moment. He thought about it for a second and then gave the cutest face and said, "How 'bout a hug?!" It was so dang cute that we couldn't resist hugging this cute old man.
Well, nothing else to report. But just remember that the church is true and will always be true no matter what we do. The only thing that will matter in this life is what we did with the gospel. The worth of souls is great in the sight of God and that means every soul.

Love, Sister Sumsion