Week 24- Well isn't this Grand-in!

The Grandin Print building is beautiful in the Fall--
it's the store with the flower planters out front in between the trees.

Hey everyone, so I have ANOTHER new companion! For those keeping track this is companion 5 this month--haha. We've been having lots of emergency transfers but the good news is that I GOT TO MOVE TO A NEW APARTMENT!  NO MORE KILLING SPIDERS!  It's right next to the Grandin building and is perfect besides the fact that it smells like weed--literally--it's over a pharmacy that sells CBD oil and must do their own manufacturing or what not?  But on the bright side I know what it smells like now! Haha #shelteredchild. My companion is Sister Fernandes and she's from Brazil and goes home in 2 weeks, so we're just living up her last weeks in the mission field! The sites have been picking up a lot with it being Fall and such, and the temperature has decreased a ton (besides today which is randomly 90 degrees) so we've met lots of neat people. 

Isn't my new companion, Sister Fernandes, so cute?  

We had Zone Conference last week and it was really good. We talked a lot about how to retain our friends on date and recent converts. And the key is the Book of Mormon! I've come to just love it so much on my mission. Like I thought I loved it before, but wow. Especially with all I'm learning about how it came forth. We went on splits with the Palmyra Sisters the other day, and we ran into this rude Born-again Christian lady who told us all the problems she had with our religion.  Most wasn't understandable, but then the last thing she said was "I don't believe that the Book of Mormon is the word of God." OW--sucker punch to the gut. It's so sad because the chances she's actually READ it are so slim. And it's brought so much into my life I hate that there are people who won't give it a chance. And it's so amazing how every time you read it different things stick out to you based on your circumstance! While I've been on my mission I feel like nearly every scripture can be related back to missionary work! It's so great. 

Some of my favorite senior couples:  The Becksteads went home today (boohoo!)  

Another favorite senior couple:  The Radford's

I hope you all read the Book of Mormon every day AND ARE WATCHING THE NEW VIDEOS--THEY ARE GREAT! And happy General Conference!

Love, Sister Potts

FUN FACTS: 

So I've been doing fun facts about the Smith Farm, but it's been almost 6 months and I'm only part way through the Smith Farm information, and there's so much more to tell about other places, so I've decided to switch to the Grandin information!

1.  The bookstore the Book of Mormon was first sold in was called "The Sign of the Bible."

2.  The first copies of the Book of Mormon went for sale on March 26, 1830, only 10 days before the organization of the church.

3.  The sale price was $1.75 and was lowered to $1.25 because it wasn't selling, but that still was equivalent to 2 days of wages for a grown man.

4.  The Book of Mormon is currently translated into 111 languages.

5.  The printer of the Book of Mormon was a man named Egbert Bratt Grandin.