First week in BEARbonais!

I already love Bourbonnais so much! And Sister Jagielski! This week has just been great with her here. Something cool about Bourbonnais is that it's the summer home of the Chicago Bears! It is a lot more developed here than Freeport and there is a lot less poverty. There is about the same amount of people that come to church every week and I am still in a ward. There is so much potential here though. I am so excited. There are about 2-3 hundred less actives in this area.

I am also blessed because they had been teaching this woman named Shiela and I get to slide in and be here for her baptism this Saturday! We are excited!

Something crazy happened this week though. We were out trying to catch this less-active named Madi. She is only 19 (like us) but she has two babies! We really feel we can help her but she feels judged because we are the same age but living two very different lives. But we really felt we should stop by and see her. So we knocked on her door and she wasn't home. We decided to just knock the whole complex and it was actually really cool because we gave away like 5 Book of Mormons and got some solid return appointments too! We walked down to the first floor when we were done and heard some one over by Madi's door. We walked over there and there was a man just there knocking on her door. We talked with him  and he seemed pretty shady, we'll just leave it at that. Walking away from that I knew that we had just stopped him from breaking into her appartment. Later that night however we got a call from a member saying that Madi's appartment still got broken into and we had to give a police report and such.

So prayers of safety and prayers that we can stay in Bourbonnais together would be great. I LOVE this area and I LOVE sister Jagielski. The blessing from all of this is that we were able to talk to Madi and we had just a really good conversation with her and by the end it was just like talking to a friend. She needs help and we just needed her to know that we are here for her no matter what! Because that's what missionaries do! we are here to do work for the savior to lift the brokenhearted and comfort those who stand in need of comfort.

We will see what miracles this transfer will bring! We have already seen so many this week.

I love you all!
-Sister Corbett

PICTURES
-Judy, Daya, Malichi, and Roshae. I miss them all so much already!
-Amber and I 💕