Oh holy moley guacomoley... I LOVE VIRGINIA. Hahah it is seriously the best!:) First off, our area is HUGE. It is 519 sqaure miles. We only have 1,000 miles on the car this month which means we park our car and walk a ton but I love it:) We are right on the border of Northern Virginia so we border West Virginia. Woodstock used to be a branch a couple years ago so the building is the smallest chapel but I love the ward members so much:)
The ward is called Woodstock but it consists of Strasburg, Woodstock, Tomsbrook, Maurytown, Edinburg, Mount Jackson, New Market, Startannery, and Fort Valley. (I spelled some of those wrong haha) A lot of people live in the country but theses are some cute towns with main streets and little shops. They remind me of the Christmas movies:) Also I found out that Virginia is the bug capital of the entire US :( There are spiders everywhere. I freaked Sister Olsen out in the car the other day because this spider looking thing with 2 legs almost fell on my leg haha. Oh man I hate bugs so much.
Sister Olsen is the cutest. She is from a small town outside of Preston, Idaho! So her high school was the one where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed haha. She is so happy and loving despite the trials she has had with heart surgery and makes everyone feel loved. Even though she is in "training" I feel like she has been out months and I am learning so much from her:)
President Wright is the one who sent mom the picture! Haha. He is the one who wrote the book, "The Christmas Jar" if you remember reading that to us dad? He's also written a lot of other books too. He is in the Stake Presidency here. I'm in the Winchester stake which stretches far and wide.
We have 3 investigators right now:) There are a lot of part-member families which we are trying to work with. Our ward mission leader is brother Gagnon. He met his wife because they were in a Lord of the Rings fan club and their house is decked out with all things American. So... they are the coolest people I've met thus far haha.
Oh man i just love the people here. I love em with my whole heart. My favorite quote of the week goes to a sister who told us, "Ya fart here and they tax it!" Hahaha.
I love you guys and I am so grateful to be out here. I pray for you all the time and I am so happy that you are happy:) Elder Holland said something in a talk that I have been thinking a lot about lately...
"If you have not yet learned that it is more important to help someone else succeed than it is to focus on your own success, then please start learning that divine lesson now."
Have a great week!:) Xo, Sister Stolworthy
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