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Missionary Monday: Sister H. in Arizona!

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Hola everyone!
This last week was transfers. And I was transferred. I was so sad to go because I love my last area and everyone there but I felt really calm and at peace with transfers. I knew that everything would be okay.
Tuesday night I am all packed and ready to go for transfers the next day. That night I had a dream. It was a short dream but I couldn’t get it out of my head. In my dream I walked up to a man, I reached out my hand to shake his and said, “We are the missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.”…..in Spanish.
The next day Sister C. and I go to transfers and we are all sitting there listening to President speak and then he says time for transfer business. I felt so calm. Normally I am a nervous wreck but I felt so calm and at peace. He starts off with our zone. He goes through each missionary.. but he doesn’t call out Sister C.’s name. so weird. We both look at each other like what just happened, did he forget? What was running through my mind was oh my goodness did he decide to change last minute and keep us together?! but then he calls out another zone. “Sister H., SPANISH speaking with.. Sister W.”
My jaw dropped and I looked at him like, is this real? I walk over to Sister W. who I don’t know at all haha and give her hug. She asks me, “Do you speak Spanish?” And I say back, “Uhh…pequito!” All the missionaries were flippin out because I was now Spanish speaking! It was crazy! President continues with transfers and at the end we tell him uhh you didn’t call out Sister C.’s name. haha he accidentally skipped over her name. She is with another Sister, she goes home this transfer and is from Utah.
I just want to bear my testimony that God knows us! When I found out I was being transferred I was upset and sad. Why is this happening?, is what I would say. But the minute I stepped into this area it is loud and clear to me that I need to be here. I am not fluent in Spanish but I am learning and it is AMAZING how quickly I am picking it up. It doesn’t matter to me if I am here for one transfer or until September when I go home. Because right now in this very moment this is where I need to be. God knows everything and he will put me where I am needed. I am grateful for this opportunity to teach in Spanish but most especially to be a missionary. My life is forever changed because of these past 14 months! 🙂
I love you all! <3
Sister… achem.. I mean Hermana H. 🙂

Missionary Monday: Sister F. in Finland!

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June 2, 2015

This whole transfer has been super solid,

and I can’t believe we are already a month into it.

It feels like just yesterday my companion and I were dragging my bags to this area,

and now she and I are about as close and close gets.

I am super blessed to have her as my companion and every single day I am completely in awe

at just how much we learn and progress every single day.
That is something so incredible about a mission..
You learn and grow so quickly and positively.
The days are getting longer and longer,
I am in love with Finnish summers. The sun sets at about…..midnight I assume.
And when we wake up at 6:15 the sun is already risen into the blue sky with massive clouds as far as the eye can see.
Also. We sleep on the parveke every single night.
I really want a parveke at some point in my life.
It’s nice because we are surrounded by glass so it is enclosed,
but we still get fresh summer air.
And thankfully missionary work is exhausting enough that it doesn’t really matter if it is light outside or not, we still sleep deeply haha.
I am so grateful for my mission, and for how everything has gone so far.
I am thankful for the understanding and love God has given me,
and for how different of a perspective I now have on life, and happiness, and success.
And I am thankful I still have more time in Finland.
This mission is the most sacred part of my life, and I hope to able to really suck the marrow out of life for these last few months.
One thing I love about missions is they take away everything you thought you needed to be happy.
You don’t have your phone, or movies, or social media, or your friends, or anything.
Everything that seems “essential” for life nowdays….
All of it is taken from you on a mission.
And the magic of it all is that you see how much happier you are…WITHOUT all of it.
There is a quote President Uchtdorf uses from The Little Prince.
It says:
“One sees clearly only with the heart.
Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”
There is so much truth in this. I think it is one of my all-time favorite quotes.
You can’t see God’s love, or any love really.
But it is essential to life.
You can’t see the Spirit, you can’t see your testimony.
But they are essential.
I saw a blind man on the metro the other day and thought about how useless a smart phone would be to him. And then I thought..
Huh. I want to live my life physically blind.
I want to live my life in a way that the things I see don’t matter and don’t control me.
But I want to see things with my heart, more clearly.
Kuitenkin….enough with deep rants.
I love you all and hope you are doing well.
Oh and HYVÄÄ KESÄÄ!!!!
Rakkaudellani,
Sisar F.

Missionary Monday: Elder H. in Texas!

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6/1/2015

So I am loving this area!! The City is built around a university and its got lots of hills and trees. My comps name is Elder C. and he is a stud! He loves to talk to people so its nice to not always have to be the one pushing to go out and do the work. I have a great zone here! Our branch president told us that he was really concerned about a part member family that lives on the bank or the river. with all the rain the last few weeks there has been a lot of flooding in many of the areas around! and there is a wall of water coming and will get here around Friday which will raise the river another 5 to 6 feet. when we went to go see them the road was flooded with about 4 feet of water so there was no way that we could drive in. we were given a bag of potatoes and some other garden veggies and not sure what their condition was like we waded about 100 yards through 4 feet of water then walked a little over a mile to their house. the husband of the family was blown away to see us walking down the road. they have been stuck out there for 2 weeks. we did what we could to get his stuff on higher ground but there is only so much you can do with that amount of water. pray for them. they will be safe but their home and property could get washed away.

Life is good and I’m loving the work here

-Love Elder H.

Missionary Monday!

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Don’t you just love seeing the missionaries walking along the side of the road?

In this picture you will see our missionaries. They are awesome and I love them. I love all the missionaries. When you see two young men or two beautiful young ladies, working and serving in a neighborhood near you, they may be them.  If they have black name tags on, placed carefully on their left chest over their heart, that says Elder ____ , or Sister _____, that’s them for sure. You may also notice that the name tag says,

“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”

Listen to them. They are very special and have a wonderful message.

I have decided to share some of the wonderful missionary experiences that the missionaries we know, and love are having as they serve their missions…so, every Monday from now on will be

Missionary Monday!