It's been a really great week! We spent a lot of time on campus and had some great short little lessons with some students. We were talking to this one girl and we mentioned the Book of Mormon and she got so excited because she had always wanted to know what it was about. So we started to teach her about it, she didn't want to meet with us so we could teach her even more, but it was a great experience nonetheless. It's finals week and so a lot of people will be leaving soon from the branch which makes me so sad, but it's an awesome branch and hopefully we can continue to find new people that are taking summer classes or something. A girl in our branch, Kristy, just received her mission call to Utah Salt Lake City South Mission. She is going to love in Utah, I just know it. She leaves in August and she is going to be an amazing missionary!!!!

The weather finally straightned up for a couple of days so we did a lot of service outside this weekend. We dug weeds for Sister Leonard, and then we went and cleaned up another lady's yard, and then the branch got together and cleaned the church yard up. It was so nice to wear pants, I'm like I have legs!!! Then of course it started pouring again yesterday when we were out PCing so that was lovely to go to church completely soaked but oh well. We taught the gospel principles class yesterday and I'll be honest it was super awkward, it was on the law of chastity and I've taught that tons of times and it's never been weird but for some reason yesterday it was just uncomfortable for everyone apparently, oh it was funny!!!!!

Hillary is doing awesome and we had the best lesson with her the other night. We asked her to bear her testimony to us and it was beautiful, she is so solid. She is getting baptized on May 7 and so Sister Summers and I have a lot to do this week putting it together, but I know it will work out. Hopefully we will get a lot of branch support. We taught her about fasting and she is going to fast today that all will go well, oh she is just so awesome and just gets it and knows that this gospel is bringing her happiness and she is starting to see her potential.

We have just had some great lessons this week with the coolest people!!! We met with Lindsey and she is doing so much better and is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. We met with her outside cuz it was such a beautiful day and her little boy who is 18 months was so excited to be outside but then he got upset and started throwing a tantrum and threw himself on the ground, it was so dramatic and funny. We just let him cry it out:) Last night we watched a conference talk with Carolynn and she loved it so much that she sent it to her dad. It was Quentin L. Cook's talk about the role of women. We each got something different out of it and I think she is seeing how she is a daughter of God. Then Sister Summers and I went to go PC on the canal and we saw this lady sitting down and we went to talk to her and she just started crying. She told everything that was going on in her life and promised her that God has a plan for her. We talked to her for about 45 minutes and she was so sweet and she started to light up again and wasn't sad. We went to visit her the other day and we are going to have the elders in her area start teaching her because I know that will help her so much.

Love,
Sister Erica Lamb