We have two baptisms scheduled for this Saturday and

We had more rain this week. It made me really grateful for a car. (Gee, that was boring. ;) )

The Searles sent me the cutest V-day package. It was filled with goodies. I sent them a thank you note this morning. Oh, and the primary sent me a bunch of notes and pictures. I sent them a TY note too. I'll be hanging their pics on the wall with all my other stuff. I'll have to take a picture of that wall. It is almost covered with stuff now. :)

We have two baptisms scheduled for this Saturday and yesterday I committed four more people to be baptized. So cool. They will be baptized in March. The 27th I believe.
Oh, I bought a crochet hook today so I can make myself a bag out of the million plastic bags that we have in the apt. I need something less bulky than my backpack to carry around on p-day. I don't carry my scriptures on p-day so I don't need the backpack, but still have enough things that I will want a bag of some sort.

We had another fireside on Sunday and I was able to see Elder Leonard again! He is awesome and I just love him to peices. You know that his trainer got transferred, right? And that now he (his trainer, Elder Schwarze) is my zone leader. Anyway, I was even going to be able to sit with E Leonard, but I ended up sitting on the stand and playing the piano for almost every song. That's a lot because we always do at least half a dozen special musical numbers. I am very grateful for my talent on the piano (most of the time;) ). And we were able, finally, to get a picture of us and our trainers. I am so excited that I get to see him so often. We also saw Hna Voigt at the fireside. That was nice too.

We had some things to give to Hna Voigt that she had left down here. So we made up a bag of that stuff and brought it into the church. However, Hna Ghan through her stuff in there. So, they almost left with our car keys, but we caught them before that. And we got all the way home before we realized that Hna Ghan's planner was also in the bag. Now you have to understand that our whole lives are in our planners. A missionary without his planner cannot function. We keep addresses, phone numbers, and appointments and shopping lists, etc. in there. So, needless to say, Hna Ghan freaked out. Her life was on its way to Payson! And Hna Voigt didn't answer her phone.

And I have one minute left so I will finish the story in my written letter. I hope the suspense doesn't kill you. :)
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Ella

[Here is the rest of the story from a letter written the same day; 23 FEB 10...
So I hope the suspense didn’t kill you. :) I don’t really remember exactly where I was in the story because it was hours ago, so I hope that you get the whole thing. I think I was about…

We figured out that Hna Ghan’s planner had ended up in Payson with Hna Voigt. Well Han Voigt called at about 6:40 the next morning after having received our message. And Han Ghan proceeded to get all of the info, that she had and I didn’t. We then walked out of the house for our morning exercise. Hna Gahn was still on the phone and walked out first. In the panic attack the night before, we had forgotten to lock the door. Hna Gahn discovered this on her way out first and I followed. As soon as the door latched I knew something was wrong. Yes, we locked ourselves out. Luckily we had the phone so we were able to call someone for help. However, the man with the keys lives 45 minutes away. And it started raining. So we sat in our car, which we had also forgotten to lock, luckily. We have learned our lesson and are much more careful. :) We also gave a spare key to the Zone Leaders who live about a four minute stroll away. They live across from the Visitor’s Center.]