Chelsee Update August 23

Sister Walker makes me smile! Boulder City seems to be doing great! Chelsee has only served there for about 4 weeks and when she and Sis. Little arrived, there were no investigators and no dates of baptisms. Just read on to see what's happening now.
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When Chelsee heard the news that her younger brother's mission papers were turned in she replied:

• I AM SO EXCITED FOR TYSON!!!!!! I can’t wait to find out who the lucky people are that get to be taught by him! I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW! Oh my Goodness!
  Chelsee refers to a sign in front of a Church in Las Vegas:
  Warning! Exposure to the Son my prevent Burning! (that subject line was on a sign at a church and it made me giggle!!!!!)

Special trip to Hoover Dam:

• We went on an exclusive tour of Hoover Dam today. By exclusive I mean, EXCLUSIVE. Usually you have to be the President of some country or a famous movie star to get the tour that we got. It was a blast and the best part was that it was free because it was a member who works there that took us! A lot of the movie Transformers was filmed there…

When referencing her work in Boulder City Chelsee writes:

• Boulder City is on FIRE! It is amazing down here! I am so blessed to be serving here along side Sister Little! We have a LOT of new investigators in the Lakeview ward. I don’t know exactly who is praying for the missionary work there (besides us) but they sure are faithful in their praying and their prayers are being answered.

From Chelsee's most recent letter:

• Please sing the following to the tune of Popcorn Popping: I look out the window and what do I see? Invest-i-ga-tors all around me. Boulder has brought me such a nice surprise, investigators popping out before my eyes. I could take a planner full and make a date, a baptismal that would be so great. It I-S really so and it seems to be, that the Lord is blessing Boulder Cit-y.I LOVE SERVING IN BOULDER CITY!!!!!!!!!!!
• Oh my goodness, there is SO much amazing work going on right now. Let me just take a second to introduce you and update you on a few of the investigators in this area!
• ~Lindsey- is engaged to a less active member who comes from and extremely active family. We have been teaching Lindsey for about 3 weeks now. Right now she has been smoke free for 6 days as she is preparing to be baptized in the near future. We haven’t set a date yet because she is getting married in September and is a bit focused on that. SHE is 100% AMAZING!!!! We didn’t even get a chance to teach the second lesson before she started talking about her baptism. She is so ready to make a change in her life. Her Fiancé is being very supportive and is actually becoming active again!
• ~Daniel- is probably the most spiritually in-tune 17 year old I have ever met. He is so in gear and knows just what he wants for his life. He is already talking about going on a mission and we haven’t even set a date with him either. Sheesh, what’s with all of these “golden” people!!!! I LOVE IT!!!
• ~DeLoris- is praying about being baptized on September 12th. She already told us that that date would work but we want her to pray about it first. She has become my newest Grandma and has a very special place in my heart. We have taught her 3 of the lessons and plan on having her set for baptism on Sunday evening. She is too cute!
• ~Damon- have been taken under the wings of the ward members unlike anyone I have ever seen. They are being cared for so well. Their little family is still living in their 20 foot trailer but they have been moved up to a member’s property where they don’t have to pay 600 a month for their spot in the campground. I can’t even imagine being a parent and having to live in such a small space with 4 little kids. They have so much faith that things will work out and that they will be able to find an apartment or a house soon. The ward is looking for a place for them to move soon. Damon has changed a lot since we started teaching him 3 weeks ago. He looks forward to the day that he can take his family to the temple and be sealed to them for eternity. We’ve just got to work on getting him smoke free so he can be baptized!!!
• ~Angelique- is Damon’s 8 year old daughter who we just started teaching last week. She turns 9 in a couple of weeks and wants be baptized. We have had a great time teaching her and getting her prepared for baptism!
• ~Donna and Craig- are doing fantastic. We took some members to their last lesson and it was like peanut butter and jelly. They went together SO WELL!!! The members that we took are converts to the church and they were so perfect because they had been through a lot of the same things that Donna and Craig are struggling with right now. Craig is so excited that he can be together forever with his beautiful wife!
• ~Jake- loves learning about the gospel and is embracing it very well. The members who are fellowshipping him are such a great support and they have been so helpful in helping him understand the gospel!
• ~Tony- has been getting into a lot of anti stuff because we are only able to see him once a week. He is so hungry to learn but has been eating all the wrong foods. He needs a diet. We set him strait every time we go to teach him. He has come a long way since we first met him.
• ~Pickering Family- is a new family that we are teaching. The wife took the lessons about 9 years ago and she is so excited about getting back into the church. She loves to learn about the gospel. She and her husband stayed up really late the other night watching the Restoration DVD and reading through the pamphlets and the intro to the Book of Mormon. I love teaching them!
• These are our most solid investigators right now!!! We have 3 new investigators so far this week and I think they are pretty solid! The Lord LOVES Boulder City too!
• I can’t believe I have already been here for 4 weeks. Time is flying by so fast here. I still haven’t figured out how to slow it down! YIKES! I am loving every single second of being here! I cant wait for our very white, wet September that is coming up!!!!!!!!!
  

And I couldn't finish this update without sharing one of Chelsee's famous closings to her letters:
I love you all so very, very much!!! Make good choices, don’t do drugs, be happy and remember that Jesus loves you!!!!LOVE, ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!