Hello Pinnacle Mountain

Dear Friends and Family,

Greetings from Pinnacle Mountain :) I hope everyone had a wonderful week. Mine was a little crazy but super awesome as well.

On Monday and Tuesday Sister Cooke and I ran around Conway saying goodbye to everyone. I was sad to leave Conway but I was also really excited for a change, which if you know me is not at all like me - I blame the hair cut. Anyway Wednesday morning we left for North Little Rock and I got my new companion and assignment.

My new companion is Sister Kalahiki, she is from Hawaii. She has been out almost 16 months and is just awesome. She is lots of fun, knows her stuff, and I love working with her. Pinnacle Mountain is a great place. It is beautiful here! We are living with members which is kinda awesome. We don't have to by any cleaning supplies, they have this adorable dog that we get to have as our pet but don't actually have to take care of, and I get to come home everyday and tell someone (who is not my companion) about my whole day. Oh and I'm sleeping in a queen sized bed. Life is pretty great. Pinnacle mountain is the name of my ward and area. The stake president and President Wakolo are in the ward #nopressure but the ward is awesome. Also the ward is full of doctor's so my Grey's Anatomy knowledge is coming in very handy LOL. This town is CRAZY hilly I am dreading bike week already. They also have a WhichWich, two Targets, and Chick-Fil-A so I'm pretty much set :)

Sister Kalahiki and I white washed the area which means both of us are new to Pinnacle Mountain (kinda Sister Kalahiki served here earlier in her mission). So Wednesday after transfer meeting we were given car keys, an area book, and the name of one investigator and told to get to work. AHHH!  Neither Sister Kalahiki or I had a GPS so with mapquest directions and a car full of suitcases we left for Pinnacle Mountain. I am the driver for the transfer and it was a little scary and stressful to be driving to a whole new place without much direction. Luckily we were able to make it to where we needed to be and were able to borrow a GPS from some ward members so we have been fine the rest of the week. But this situation made me think. All of us are driving through life and often life takes us to places that are new and that we don't really know. Without direction it can be really stressful and scary. Fortunately we have been given our very own GPS, God's Plan of Salvation (get it, G.P.S). Because we know what God's plan is we have direction in our lives. We know how to get where we are going and thus our journey is not as stressful or as scary. We still may face roadblocks and detours. We may take a wrong turn and need to recalculate, but because we have the knowledge of God's Plan and the Atonement we have the ability to make it through anything we find on the road back home. I am so grateful for real GPS's that make missionary work so much easy and help us not get lost and for my knowledge of God's Plan of Salvation which makes life easy and helps me not to get lost.

I am so excited to work in this new area. We have already found some very elect people and are going to find more this week.

Thanks as always for all the support and love. Hope everyone has a great Halloween!

Love

Sister Aase