My Last stateside post!

     UGGH email is frustrating! Comcast has been blocking all of my emails to my parents through my lds account, so I'm just sinning and giving my weekly update through my heathen-istic old gmail account in order to get them them my travel information before I LEAVE ON MONDAY!!!  

     I recieved travel plans on Thursday, and my visa arrived yesterday.  I emailed you a rough travel itinerary...but I will likely be calling you around 8am South Dakota time on the Monday morning of September 30th. I have no idea what Elder Colvin's travel plans are, but if we were in the Atlanta airport at the same time, that would be nuts! I am STOKED to get to Brazil! I've been working really really hard on Portuguese since I got here, and though I will likely still be incredibly overwhelmed, I've retained almost everything that they taught us in the MTC, and feel fairly comfortable speaking my limited vocabulary. (buuutttt I'm prepared for a massive culture shock haha!) A bunch of missionaries/members/investigators have asked me if I'm nervous to go to Brazil--part of me says yes, but I've anticipated this day for so long, and envisioned myself there for so long that I am fairly certain that I am ready to go! I'll work hard wherever I am, and I'm prepared to take on the challenges of serving in a different country.

      Okay, so now for a weekly update: (Also, I just realized that my camera card reader got packed already....DANGIT! I'll have to send some pictures next week!)

Chinese "take-out" now has a new meaning.

Monastary

Monday: P-day. After emailing, we got Chinese takeout for lunch, and then had diarrhea for days. It was sooo good though! There is not much privacy on a mission when it comes to bowel movements....you stop caring after some point haha. We figured we'd treat ourselves since it would be our last P-day together (minus today, but that doesn't really count). Afterwards we cleaned the apartment, got our car washed, did laundry, etc. We WERE going to go on a super cool hike, buuuttt it was raining pretty hard, so instead we went shopping for some things I wanted to get before heading down to Rio. THEN, we were able to go to the monastary (anticlimactic), and the Chapel in the Hills (AWESOME). 

Chapel on the Hill

The chapel in the hills was very charming, and we went on a lovely little "prayer walk" and were able to sit on a stone bench and watch a young doe with her fawn. I got pictures of the doe, but the fawn was hard to see. I wish I had my camera cord so I could give you a visual of the cute chapel! I bet you can google it. Fun fact: it has this outer wall with little windows that can look into the chapel, and that's where traditionally they made the lepers stay during weddings and other services. It was a charming little outing. Lesson count for the week: 0

Tuesday: Tuesday was a long day of trying to contact people and set up appointments to visit the less-active members of our ward, but unfortunately not very many people were interested/answered their phones. I think my theme song of the time here in Rapid would be a terrible rap set to a mash-up of dial tones and mechanical answering machine messages. There is this one lady we call and I don't think she's answered the phone a single time.  Her phone will ring like twice, and then her phone blurts/yells out: "RECORDYOURMESSAGENOW!" It gives you about .01 seconds to process what's going on haha! It's so scary! SB always laughs at me because it's startled me 3 or 4 times now. 
 
Anyways, we were able to teach Z and T, which was awesome. It turns out that T is a baptized Mormon convert, but has not been active for over 10 years! We had a great lesson on the importance of prayer and scripture study, and they have been praying and doing scripture study together! It's so neat! They're really digging into the Book of Mormon, and I can see that their hearts are being softened and that they have a desire to read and learn more. We were able to eat at another one of our favorite family's houses, also known as the B family. They are a younger couple with 4 little kids, and they are PRECIOUS. He's a psych guy and they both are very chill and awesome parents--kind of like my parents ;) We also visited with Vicky G, whom we've seen just about every week. She's an active member, but is a convert of about 2 years and doesn't have that many friends in the ward. We love her! Lesson count for the week: 1

Wednesday: Oh man, Wednesday was a long day. I was anticipating that I would get my visa on either Tuesday or Wednesday, so when it hadn't come I started to worry a little bit about all of the things that could go wrong (and that often do for the Colvin family haha!). We were called into the office at 9:30 to answer phones and do filing and other paperwork, and then we were asked to come back in the afternoon to help package the Ensigns for all of the missionaries. It was a long time to be in the office and to not be doing missionary work, but I really love the Senior missionaries--the

M, R, and K--so it's not too bad. We were able to contact some former investigators, and teach M and G. They are Native American and G is a less-active mother who wants her daughter to grow up with the values that the church teaches. M is only 8 years old, but she has a really great attention span, and we've been able to teach her the first three lessons. Now she just needs to come to church, and she can be baptized soon! Side note: it's super hard to teach little kids! They teach us how to teach simply in the MTC but with an 8 year old it's even more simplified! It's hard, but a good challenge. Sister B is really really good at teaching kids. We were also able to visit with the young women at mutual, and set up an appointment to teach A. She is a friend of Lacy M., a 15 year old in the ward, and I guess that she's been coming to young women's for about 7 months, and would like to be baptized, but she has a really rough family situation. I don't think they're super anti-Mormon, but they are just kind of absent. She's a sweet girl though! More on her later! We visited with P, who is an older lady in our ward who has just recently been coming back to church. She's never been married and so is a little bit tender when it comes to our emphasis on families and whatnot. We were hopefully able to strengthen her a bit... Lesson count for the week: 2

Thursday: uuuggghhhh Thursdays are always really really long. We had two hours of study, then an hour and a half at the assisted living center (I'm working on learning to love old people that smell like poop....), then we visited a member of another ward who just had brain surgery, came home for lunch, did 3 1/2 hours of weekly planning, had our dinner appointment, contacted a referral, and came home and studied for two more hours.....long day. The good news: I got my travel plans to Brazil! We also were able to do a lot of service, which hopefully helped those people feel better. Lesson count for the week: 2

 Friday: Luckily Fridays are not nearly as slow as Thursdays! We were able to have 3 member present lessons, 1 less-active, contact a referral, and have a new investigator! Yesterday was awesome! We taught L. G. at 11:30 with Sister R. We had given L. an Ensign with an article marked, and she ended up reading the whole thing and saying that it was "pretty spot on." She's also been comparing the Bible with the Book of Mormon, and she says that she's found a lot of parallels between the two. She's a very smart, very headstrong and independent lady, and so I think she's really going to have to search things out for herself and receive a definite testimony, but she's getting there. I invited her to be baptized, and she got very defensive, thinking that we were trying to convert her, or that we were saying that what she was doing right now in her religion was wrong. We explained our purpose again, and how all we want is to share the joy and light that we feel through the restored gospel by inviting others to ask and seek out answers about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.  She felt a lot more comfortable and committed to searching those things out. I love her--we love her! She explained to Sister Rice that she thinks of us as her "daughters she never had," and feels as though the times that we have stopped by have been inspired, and that she feels a different spirit when she is around us. I'm hoping and praying that she receives an answer confirming the truth that we've shared. She has an incredible love and relationship with the Savior, and know that the Lord has been preparing her for a long time!

We were also able to teach Z and T again. We were originally planning on talking about the prophet since General Conference was coming up, but we felt prompted to focus on T. and the law of tithing. She had actively paid tithing 10 years ago, and we helped her realize the blessings that came from it. Right now she is facing losing her house & not being able to pay bills, but we testified that the Lord will pour out his blessings upon us if we exercise faith and pay tithing.

We also visited J. H. again--she is great! She has such a bright desire to come back to church, and after attending church with Sister Auger on Sunday, she had some really great questions prepared for us. She's been reading through the BoM and is now in Mosiah 4! We taught her about the Plan of Salvation, and helped her realize that it is outlined in the Bible and the Book of Mormon, and helped her use the footnotes as a resource to see additional scriptures that discuss the points of the Plan.

THEN, we were able to have dinner with another one of our favorite families, the As. (The picture of me with a little girl from a few weeks ago is with the daughter, M., who was recently baptized). They are a PM family who have had us over for dinner almost every week that we've been here! Several of the children have autism, but both SB and I have some experience with asberger's and autism, so we get along with their family just fine :)

THEN, we were able to teach A. in the home of the Armstrongs! (Lacy's mom and step-dad--who is our ward elder's quorum president). Lessons are always awesome when you have a family that is fellow-shipping the investigator. We had a great lesson on the Restoration, and A. asked some really good deep questions. We're teaching her again tomorrow, so hopefully we can invite her to be baptized! Anyways, yesterday was an awesome day! Lesson count for the week: 6

We were also able to teach a lesson this morning, and have another one planned in about 30 minutes, so we're going to meet our goal for having 8 lessons this week! It may not seem like a lot, but for this area, it's pretty darned good. Some areas in this mission are lucky to get 4 lessons a week.....it's rough.  Sister B and I were reflecting on the work that we've done in the past 6 weeks. Amidst the stress of day-to-day life, it really doesn't feel like we're doing much, but when we look back we've realized that we have 6 investigators, an awesome updated area book, a detailed and color-coordinated ward list and map, have visited many less-actives, have given 4-8 hours of service every week, and have helped members to feel comfortable having missionary opportunities. Sometimes it's hard to understand why we're in an area, but I know that if we trust in the Lord and work our very hardest, the Lord provides. This area has been discouraging at times, but I love it. I love the people that I've met and the ward that I've served. I'm very very excited to serve in Rio, but I'm also a little sad to leave SDRCM! Missions are the Lord's work, no matter where you are.

Alrighty, I need to get some things printed before we have to leave!

Amo voces! Muito obrigada por seu trabalho com minha vista! Estou muito animado para ir a Brazil en a segunda-fera!!!

Sister Colvin 

Me standing awkwardly close to Bishop M

Our Rapid City bishopric

Sister Colvin and the awesome APs

Getting Chilly in Rapid City...

Fashion Queen!

Holy smokes! I only have 25 minutes left to update you! This will be a list of bullet points because I actually made a list of things to share with you this week!

The weather is changing here, dramatically!  I am grateful for generous ward members who let me borrow a coat so I wouldn't freeze.  I have had to make some interesting fashion choices with my tropical weight clothing:

HOLY VISA UPDATE! I just about peed my pants when I saw the picture of my actual visa today! AAAHHHH it's SO exciting.  I'm really really really excited to go!  It's definitely a lot easier to work happily in a really hard mission when you have the hope/knowledge that you're leaving soon....is that terrible to say?! Provalamente, maaaassssss tudo bem haha.

Sister B and I have now made it through all 214-ish people in our area, and have updated the ward list....we have 13.2% activity in our area...and MANY of the less-actives realllllly don't want to have ANYTHING to do with the church. So yeah, that's been fun. To put it in perspective: we made 43 phone calls on Thursday. 3 of them answered, yelled at us, and told us to take their names off of the records, and 40 of them did not answer, nor have they called us back. I think if I were to record a specific sound to sum up this mission, it would either be an endless dialing tone, or be that terrible beeping noise right before you leave a message. So yeah, that's been fun! haha..........

Our investigators L and Z...well. They're keeping their appointments and commitments, other than coming to church. The whole church thing is really frustrating because it's such an essential part of conversion! Cool story: Sister B and I were traveling through L's area on Saturday, and I got a strong prompting that we needed to stop in and see her, even though we hadn't called and made an appointment. She answered the door in her PJs, and was suffering from allergies, but she was happy to see us, and expressed how she had been feeling incredibly lonely and she had prayed to Heavenly Father for some comfort--she tells us that we have been an answer to her prayers on multiple accounts. She's such a cool lady, and I can really see her starting to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon--often we'll be reading together, she'll whip out a highlighter, stare at a scripture that had profound impact on her, and start to weep as she marks it in her scriptures. I hope and pray that she recognizes the Spiritual answer she is receiving, and that she acts on that answer in order to express her faith and follow the example of Jesus Christ to be baptized.

Another cool story: last week we had a deaf woman named L approach us after church. Sister P translated for us, and told us that L wants to be baptized! (I think I may have shared this with you before?) Anyways, L has a heart of gold, and we are teaching her for the first time on Thursday! It will be very interesting to teach through an interpreter, but SB and I are really excited :)

Scary story: soooo. I guess some missionaries don't tell their moms about sketchy things, but I'm pretty sure that our family is all about being open and sharing gross/weird/sometimes scary things haha. SO, we were trying to contact a referral a few nights ago, and it was one of those 920 1/2 type addresses where they live in the basement of 920, so you have to walk around the house and down some stairs in order to knock on their door. It was about 8ish, so it was dark, and as SB and I walked around a sketchy dark house and approached the unfamiliar door, we saw a streak of coagulated blood on the wall of the stairs. AAAAHHHH. The person didn't answer the door, so we're pretty convinced that she's dead. Just kidding. But really. Blood. On the wall. It's gross. BUT, there have been a few times where we've gotten out of the car, and we're like, "well. Do you feel like we need to leave, because I feel like we need to leave." And then we do. The Spirit is looking out for us, and giving us fair warning for dangerous situations.

We'll go where you want us to go......

10 minutes left.....

We've had the opportunity to work with J, who is a less-active (actually, inactive for many years) who is just starting to come back to church. She's making amazing changes in her life, and is really self-motivated to make sure that she stays on this new path! Sister A (seriously the best, well second-best, shout out to Sister S, relief society president ever) has been an incredible fellow-shipper for J, and helped her feel comfortable with attending all 3 hours of church this past week!

The amazing B.  Family

-The B family continues to be really awesome. I think I'm going to invite them to my wedding haha. They're so cool! Sister B fixed my green skirt's weird pockets and sewed some eyelet lace onto SB's skirts. She's neat. I love them. Actually, there are a lot of members of the RC ward that I love a lot, and I feel like we know most of the ward now! I'll be sad to leave the members in a week or so.

-Dad, your cookies are amazing. I definitely have eaten waaaay too many of them, but they're seriously delicious.

-PACKAGES! Holy packages! They're so awesome! The CDs have been a huge blessing--especially the "Lead, Kindly Light" CD. Actually nope, they're all awesome. Thanks so much! The gospel books are super helpful (esp because we've been teaching an 8 year old), the CD player is great, and BECKY S. IS THE COOLEST MOTHER-IN-LAW OF MY SISTER EVER. Seriously. Her packages make my heart smile. Please tell her that I LOVE the post-it notes and pens and all of the random things she's sent so far :)

-Okay, my last thought--I'll probably write a note this week as well. I love love love the scriptures. I've never felt so connected to them before, and it's so interesting to feel and experience the different personality types of the Book of Mormon prophets. I'm re-reading the BoM right now, and I'm in Jacob 5....but I just love the last few chapters of 2 Nephi. He felt every emotion so deeply, and every time I read it I think of Levi! haha! SO, LEVI, make good choices! Continue to feel things deeply! You're going to be an awesome missionary--mark the crap out of your scriptures, and really dig into PMG before you go, and you'll be leaps and bounds ahead of a lot of elders. Prepare now!

Favorite Nephi scripture of the week:
"For I pray for them by day, and mine eyes water my pillow by night." - 2 Nephi 33:3

It's okay to feel disappointment, and it's okay to weep for those you love! This is hard, it will always be hard....but, a favorite new quote:

Life is full of problems,
it's full of "ifs" and "buts,"
and the man that's grinning all the time
must be completely nuts!
-quoted by M. Russell Ballard

I love you all a lot. Thank you so much for the packages and love that you've sent this way! I can't wait for Brazil, and I can't wait to talk with you on the phone again!!! AAAAHHH!!!

Sister Colvin 

Something is up there???

I bet I don't see this in Rio.

PS. Below are pictures taken at an outdoor educational facility in Rapid City.  I had a great time!

Beautiful P-day!

All of the Sister Missionaries from this area
-Sister P (Sister Training Leader) & Sister T (from the island off of Figi)
-Sister D & Sister R, and Sisters Colvin and SB

Sister B - always learning!

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Doe eyes

Fake Zip-lining

South Dakota contemporary art!

Mud pies - just like Mom makes!

Reading Diversion on P-day!

More Presidents

This week was...slow

Where to go?

Well.

Rough.

Missionary work is hard.

I think regardless of where you are as a missionary, the work presents unique and difficult challenges. Unfortunately, a lot of the time here, the challenges circulate around many factors that are out of your control--like how people are just flat out rude to missionaries. It's hard not to take things personally, and I don't really have any advice, because I am in the midst of these challenges right now, and am struggling to maintain hope and positivity. 

Rio de Janeiro - Christ Redeemer Statue

Pray for Patience

But on the bright side,  I can't believe that the visa situation is going to be over so soon! (we received notice that both Colvin missionary visas are complete - we are anticipating departure for Brazil in the next few weeks.) I am sure there have been countless miracles and hard work behind the scenes. Thank you so much everyone who helped this to happen! I long to be in Brazil...I know I'm here to learn something, but sometimes I just really really want to utilize Portuguese, and to be in my original mission call. Visa waiting is a lot harder than I anticipated... Patience......uggh. Such a hard Christlike Attribute for me. I am fairly certain Heavenly Father sent me to RCSDM purely to teach me a lesson in patience.  

I suppose one thing that has always brought me peace is knowing that I am working hard--even if "by the book" or "by the numbers" that work is not reflected, my companion and I are striving to fulfill our missionary purpose. Part of this effort is making sure that we do our FOUR hours of study every day (personal, companion, language, and training). I love this study time, as I find myself a lot more calm after personally meditating on the scriptures and other things. "Daily Bread" is definitely an important part of maintaining hope (and sanity). 

I am so grateful for Sister B, and the fact that we are very much in the same boat. We both want to work really, really hard, and so are discouraged when things go so poorly, but we try to brush ourselves off, and resolve to have positive attitudes.

Some fun things this week:

1. Our best contact of the week was.....a horse.

Give a little love to a horse......

...Get a lot more love back!

2. We do service at an assisted living center, and oh my goodness, old people are so funny. K, so there is this one paralyzed lady who is mostly silent. We've been doing craft days with them for the past 3 weeks or so, but unfortunately during this time I have to do a group conference training call (called "bridge calls"). It usually works out pretty well because I can just sit in the corner of the room while SB does crafts with the ladies....but this one day, we had another woman joining us. who does not get along with the paralyzed woman. Despite being silent for 3 weeks, she started loudly exclaiming, "I haaaaattteeee huuuuuurrrrrrr!!!! I HAAAAATTEE HUUUUURRRRR!" hahahaha oh man. AND THEN, the other lady starts yelling back! haha! This little senial old lady getting into a screaming fit with a quadripeligic. The activities director then wheeled the elderly lady out (much to her destain), and gave a firm talking to the other lady, we do NOT yell at people." She just kind of rolled her eyes and pretended to ignore her. I had a hard time not cracking up, and I'm sure the people on my conference call were wondering what the heck was going on haha!


3. I get to go on daily walks with Sister B in a nearby park....a great stress reliever!

4. We got called and asked to work in the office 2 hours a week, which will actually be nice so that we will at least have something other than cancelled appointments to do!

Quad-Zone Meeting with Elder Snow

5. We had a ginormous quad-zone meeting on Thursday with Elder Snow. It was awesome! He is a great teacher, and had a really relaxed, but strictly obedient teaching style. I've come to look forward to meetings like that.
 

Someone our own size!

6. Our musical number ended up not working out (one of the ladies got bronchitis), so I played "All Creatures of our God and King" by Josh Wright yesterday. It went very well, and the ward seemed really appreciative.
 
7. Elder O turned 21! He is getting ready to go home in two weeks and has been a great elder/leader/assistant to the president/co-missionary in our ward.  Sister B and I did our best to bake him a birthday cake.

8. We also learned how to make a new dish thanks to a sister in the ward who gave us this recipe for puttanesca:

I don't have too much more to update you on. It's been a really slow week, but I'm sure it will get better, and hey.....I'm going to RIO! SOON! AAAAHHHHHHHH THERE IS FINALLY HOPE! That's all for now! I love you a LOT.

Com amor,
Sister Colvin

The reason why I am doing this ...

As a member of The Church of Latter-Day Saints, and as a Mormon Missionary, my purpose in the next 18 months, as well as throughout my life is to invite people to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. The reason why I feel such a great importance on missionary work is because I know how much love and peace the restored gospel of Jesus Christ can bring people. It relieves feelings of inadequacy, guilt, or shame, and it bestows a renewed purpose to our lives, as we realize how important we are to our Heavenly Father. We have infinite worth! As a representative of Christ, I strive every day to help others feel of this immense love and value that I know our Father has for each and every one of us

In a world that is increasingly crazy, the Lord has not left us alone. The gospel that Jesus Christ organized in His short Earthly ministry is restored once again. http://mormon.org/beliefs/restoration
The family is continuing to be torn apart, but through the simple principles of the gospel (faith, repentance, and baptism by immersion by someone holding the priesthood authority, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end), families are strengthened. I've seen this in my own family--through struggles with children and trials in life, we've always been united through our love for the Lord, and His love for us.

I could outline the principles of the gospel, testify of what I know to be truth, and spout off the benefits of being a member of this church until I'm blue in the face, but no one can come to knowledge unless they discover it for themselves. Academically, this is simple--you study the text, often a concrete, universal "truth." But spiritually, this tends to be an area of conflict and tension for many. My challenge for you, faithful blog readers, is that you seek out answers directly from our Heavenly Father. As you ask questions about what is true, the Holy Spirit will manifest truth unto you, often through feelings of peace, calm, warmth, and comfort.
 
I extend challenges to people every day to pray, read scriptures, go to church, etc, because I know that these things help us to become closer to our Father in Heaven....but many are not willing "even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith" (Alma 32: 27). I can't force people to do anything, and sometimes it's just really hard to be trying to help people and to know of the strength that comes from the guidance I feel in my life, but have person after person reject you. I suppose it is no different than any of the ancient prophets and disciples, or even Jesus Christ himself, but I love these people, and I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ can help anyone and everyone.

This is a hard mission. There are not very many people to teach, and people in general are not very accepting. Though missionaries strive to be upbeat, in general, I think we are all pretty frustrated. There is nothing I want more than to help people. I want to help them feel close to the Lord, to know of their worth, and to know that through Jesus Christ, we have so much hope...but that message is impossible to share if there is no one to receive it! We are teaching about 7-8 lessons a week...which means that a lot of our time is spent seeking out service opportunities, tracting (ie, getting doors shut in our face), calling less-active members (ie, leaving a lot of voicemails), and going to our few appointments (ie, driving a long ways only to knock on the door and have no one answer...). Haha! It's such slow work here!   
   
Our investigator, Z, is pretty great. We've had some really really strong lessons with her, and I feel such a huge love for her as we teach. We invited her to church and were pretty sure that she was going to come...and then she didn't. And that stunk. Especially because it was an awesome church service!

We've had some CRAZY door approaches. On Saturday we were trying to find a few people from the ward list, and we went to one lady's house....the member definitely didn't live there anymore, because this lady came charging out the door with a wild look in her eyes, exclaiming something about how the drunk man needed to shut his mouth and be quiet (no drunk man in sight or sound...), and then she started screaming about her shoes or something. Sister B and I were pretty weirded out, and she hesitantly asked if she was so and so...she wasn't...so we left haha. We then tried a former investigator's house, and after we knocked on the door they turned the music up really loud (one of the less-subtle ways of letting missionaries know you aren't interested....), we got back into the car, and I felt a strong prompting to talk to their neighbor next door...not quite sure why, since she turned out to be a drunk bible basher with needle marks in her arm, but these are all God's children, so who knows....but yeah, that was a crazy day!

M has been avoiding us for about a week, but we were finally able to get in with her yesterday! Only...it was the WEIRDEST lesson that SB and I have ever taught...she invited us in, we reviewed a scripture in 3 Nephi that talks about the Holy Ghost, and she started going off on a tangent about Ghosts, and how she'd seen some in her life.....then her friend knocked on the door and told us a tornado and thunderstorm was coming (true on both accounts, though it actually only led to minor flash-flooding), then M said that maybe we should come back another time. SB said a quick closing prayer, and then we left. We were only there about 10 minutes, and after we left we just kind of sat in our parked car for a while, and we were like, "what the heck just happened?!" It was a really really strange lesson. Hopefully we can see her this week and talk about the "Ghost" that is part of the Godhead.....

The packages have been awesome! Thanks for the cookies! Thanks for the socks!

Mom, could you send me (via snail mail maybe) some ideas for simple lessons to teach to children? Like, really good object lessons?

We've STILL had a huge problem with spiders this week...I've slain a ton.

K. This is a lame email. Maybe I'll hand write you a funny story or two haha.

Com amor,
Sister Colvin

PS~ Sister H and Elder R got emergency transfers....there goes our trio, and all hopes of speaking Portuguese while I'm here....gaaaaaahhhh this is hard! 

The forbidden tree house in our backyard.

Backing up the car (a mission rule)

Diligently searching the area map.

All the rapid city sisters!

Final trio shot as Sister H was reassigned.