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Out on a WIM #24

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Alright Family! How are you all? It sounds like you are doing oh so great!

OH WOW!!!! Lot’s of people are having babies!!! Wah. I have been a little bit baby hungry the last couple of days. Hahaha but no worries it’s nothing serious! Just a slight craving.. It will pass. Tell everyone congrats for me!

Tanks for the quotes! I love the ones you send 🙂

Ok so as for this week…. WOW it was probably the most crazy week EVER. I literally was so stressed that I could hardly function. We had Zone Conference this week. And for our interviews with President M. we were to memorize ten verses of a chapter in the BOM. The senior couple had to go home early because her sister died… 🙁 So the ZL’s and I are in charge of the finances and basically everything that the senior couple does….

Alright so Zone Conf. on Friday was SO GOOD. I felt the spirit so strong. And everything they shared was exactly what I needed. President and Sister M. are amazing.

The AP’s decided to come out teaching with us on Saturday and my brain was just fried from all of the stress… Plus it was crazy having them come out with us. I WAS FLIPPIN’ OUT! So anyway we took them to a lesson and it went AWFUL. Well so I thought at the time.. I am thinking welp I am an awful teacher and I can’t handle this stress I am having.. I was getting physically ill from it all.

Anyway so I just cried that night and prayed like crazy. Heavenly Father helps me out so much and Sister W. the Sister Trainer Leader called me and just let me tell her everything. I felt better a little bit.

So Sunday I was still feeling sick and just sad and like I am just not good enough…. And church everything just fell into place. The things I learned and heard helped me so much. I then could see the good things in life like I normally can. So I went back over our time with the APs in my mind but looking in a different light and realized that there are so many tender mercies that are happening around me. And so many things I needed to learn from that lesson. I am so grateful for this week and for the struggles I have. I have learned a lot about myself and really felt of a love from my Father in Heaven. I know everything will fall into place when we trust in the Lord.

I need to slow down and stop stressing myself out. Let go of things I cannot change and take life one baby step at a time. What about Bob!! Hahahah who knew right? I have been saying baby step doing this and that! It helps!

Um… as for training it is going about as good as it possibly can. I am taking it slow by slow, line upon line and doing my very best. I love my companion and have seen her grow so much already I am excited to continually see this change!

There is a lot that happened this week! But L. is now confirmed a member of the church! Yeeha!

But just so you know I am mostly back to myself! I feel so much better. I am extremely blessed.

Mom: (the letter at the top is usually mostly for you) Thanks for sending the package! Hopefully I get it tomorrow. You are the best. Keep being you and having your beautiful big heart! I love you an awful lot. Don’t ever worry about me, I am having the time of my life and am in good hands, (Heavenly Fathers hands).

Dad: Hahaha you and your documentaries 😉 You are so great. But it is true we should have that kind of faith in our Father in Heaven. Keep being awesome and serving your heart out. I love you daddy.

Moral of this week: Take it easay.

Scripture of the week: Ether 12:27 Our weaknesses help us to be humble and we can learn and grow and help our weaknesses become strengths! Especially through our Savior Jesus Christ and his gospel.

The church is true of course! I know 🙂 I will hopefully send pictures next week! I love you all. Remember who you are and what you stand for. God bless!

Out on a WIM #23

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Mommy: I sure did love my package. Specifics: The clothes fit great. Thank you for the notes and everything that was in my package it made me so happy! Yes I would appreciate my meds soon if you could do that 🙂 I am indeed having a lot of fun with Sister H.! She was so shy… But she is opening up. We have a lot of fun and a lot of laughs. I am just trying to continue showing her the ropes of missionary work! It is oh so great.

This week has been crazy!!!!!!! First of all I had my second baptism yesterday 🙂 It was L. She was so ready and everything went well. She got up to bear her testimony and started to tell this random twenty minute long story about nothing. Then I realized that I never explained to her how to bear a testimony….. Woah. This’ll never happen again. Ya live and ya learn right?? Hahahahahaha it was pretty bad. L. likes to talk…….. A LOT. Well so does everyone here but she is…… yeah. Anyway she is great and sure do love her!

Another cool thing that happened this week is: E. (the one who said she hated Heavenly Father and Jesus a long time back) said a prayer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The most heart felt prayer. It was beautiful I started to tear up! She has come A LONG WAY from where she was and she still has a long way to go. But I know that we met her for a reason and cannot give up on her.

Also this week my favorite old lady from the mission field… The one that is ninety years old? Yeah she passed away this week. It was very sad. But I know she is in a better place but I will miss her a lot. The members all called me to let me know because they knew I loved her so much.

This week is Zone Conference coming up! I am deeply excited!

Hmmmm… There is a lot more but not too much time! Heavenly Father is so great. The scripture that has been sticking out to me this week is the one talking about how God shows us our weaknesses so that they can become strengths and everything like that! I feel that this week. There are lots of strengths and weaknesses I have. But I want to be better everyday.

Mama thanks for all you do again. I know you can’t hear it enough… So I will keep telling you. I love you tons and tons.

Anyway Happy Hunger Games and may the odds be ever in your favor. I am still loving being a missionary. I have a heart full of love for my Savior and his gospel and each and every one of you. I know the church is true. It is such a blessing to me. Have a great week, remember to read the scriptures and pray all the time! Remember, “Life is good”. Always!

Love always, Sister Emily 🙂

Out on a WIM #22

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Good afternoon my brothers and sisters, my fellow saints! Hahaha (this is something one of the members in our branch says whenever he stands up to give a talk, bear testimony or conduct a meeting)

 My week has been most excellent.
Yes I did get the package! THANK YOU. It was basically the best day of my life. Better than any Christmas I’ve had. Oh….. this is awk…. it’s not even Christmas time… Hahaha I honestly have no idea what season it is at all. Yeah hopefully my meds will get here because I don’t want my face to go ham or anything like that..
SO. My new companion……. Well where to begin? She is adorable. She is nineteen but she looks like she is sixteen! I am so excited to have her. She is pretty dang shy. She is starting to open up more now. We get along well. Of course I still miss Sister T., she was my sister. Every once in a while I get a tear and then move on and work hard 🙂 So far for training I have been placed in a relatively hard position but I know Heavenly Father will help me in carrying out my duties and I know that I am with Sister H. for a reason and that I have things to learn from her and a big heart that can love her until she dies from love. She is not even sure why she is so great but she is! She just needs to realize her strengths. She doesn’t give herself enough credit. I have been trying to help her to see how fun missionary work can be and rewarding. Anyway I have enjoyed my time with her so far and know that we will have a good couple of transfers!
So this last week:
Monday and Tuesday we went around and Sister T. said bye to everyone! It was really sad. We only bawled our faces off. Tuesday night we had a sleepover with all of the sisters because we were taking them to the airport the next day and picking up the sisters.
Wednesday we went and picked up the new missionaries! It was insane! They looked so scared.
The rest of the week we have been getting the area back in line… It got all messed up when I got sick and everything.. I have been showing Sister H. around and teaching by myself a lot. Which is alright! I actually am so grateful to be in this spot because I feel like I am growing in a different way. There were times where I wouldn’t say things or take a lesson a certain way because I was afraid to make my last comp upset… Which is awful I know.. But anyway I feel like I am growing in many ways and it is great. And not to mention Heavenly Father has been such a huge part in my life. This is His work. I am grateful to have this small part in His work 🙂
On Friday I actually just needed some advice so I had an interview with Sister W. and she helped me to have hope and told me that she knew that Heavenly Father had placed Sister H. in my care because He knew that I was one of few who could handle it and stuff… It made me feel a lot better and everything. Not that I was struggling but I did need those words!
We actually have another baptism on this coming Sunday 🙂 I am so excited and little stressed because there is still more to teach her… Oh well everything will be great! L. is progressing well and was so prepared. I know I have told you about her. She is an inspiration! I will let you know how everything goes with that next week!
I love you all! I hope you all have a great week. Remember who you are and what you stand for. Heavenly Father loves you. The church is true!
We have been reading in Alma in the BOM and I love to hear about Ammon and his brethrens. They are wonderful! Go and read it again!
P.S. Did you get my little notes in the mail mom and dad??
Love, Sister Emily XoxO

Out on a WIM #21

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Hello my most wonderful family! It sounds like you are all doing just wonderful!

Ok let me jump into some crazy news from this week:

– This week I got super sick on Wednesday and we thought that I had Dengue (I don’t know how to spell that) It is an illness that is contracted from mosquitoes…. It can be deadly…. BUT surprise!!!!! This Sister is alive and well. I literally slept for like 20 hours on Wednesday then we went to one appointment and Coordination… Then Thursday we went out all day and I was miserable and just crashed afterwards… So Friday we staying home all day and I seriously slept the whole day. It was crazy. This mission doctor thought I had strep so he gave me meds.

-Next item of business………………….…………….. We got our transfer calls and Sister T. and I are being split up!!!! Wah. Just kidding.. She is going, and I am staying here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And *drum roll please* I am training a cute Sister named Sister H. 🙂 Oh man I cannot believe I am training. But I am wildly excited.

So cool story having to do with both of these: After I got my transfer call I was thinking “OH gosh I can’t train when I am feeling this way. This is poopy. So I prayed to my wonderful Father in Heaven and told him how I really would appreciate it if I could feel better so I can train properly and work hard as a missionary and what do ya know????!!!!??? The next day I felt as good as new. Literally all pains left my body and I felt WAY better. Awwwwww….. God is good.

We are trying to help L. (our member referral) progress towards baptism very quickly. She is doing very well. She was not able to make it to General Conference and she started to cry because she couldn’t be there. She is an inspiration. We talked to her about the Word of Wisdom and she said she’d stop drinking tea and do whatever it takes to make Heavenly Father happy.

With Sister T. leaving we’ve been saying some goodbyes and it’s very sad! I want to cry because I am going to miss her but I am really excited.

I am so grateful for the time that I have had with her. She has helped me to see things differently and has taught me to be patient.. I thought I was patient before… There are so many things that she helped me with and I love her. She is literally like a sister to me… She knows everything about me and she has seen my weaknesses probably more than anyone. I never realized how many things there are to work on before my mission. I will miss her dearly and will never forget her.

On the other hand I can not wait to be a trainer and to stay here 🙂 I feel like I do better and learn in a different way when I am in charge so it’ll be a great learning experience and will help me with many things 🙂 I will tell you about Sister H. next week after I meet her.

I asked one of the elder’s on the phone what he could tell me about her and he said “All I know is she is not as happy and energetic as you” and I said, “Why??” He said, “Because no one is.”….. Hahaha that may or may not be true…

Speaking of energetic people…. HOW ABOUT GENERAL CONFERENCE???????? Oh gosh I loved it so much. I have never taken better notes in all my life. I was so grateful for all the speakers and talks. Exclamation point 😉 That was super funny! President Uchtdorf’s talk was wonderful talking about the gospel of Jesus Christ and Elder Hollands, Elder Bednars, D Todd Chirstopherson. All of the speakers really talked a lot about enduring to the end and I think that was good for us all to hear 🙂 I liked the story about the shoes that the missionary had and they were worn out like crazy. That’s how I want my shoes to be, worn out in service. I want to serve the Lord and give him every minute of my time now. I am devoted and I love the gospel so much. This Conference really helped me a lot. I heard things that I knew I needed to hear and things I didn’t quite know that I needed to hear.

ANYWAY.

Well it’s been yet another crazy week here on the WIM. Thanks for all the support 🙂 I love you all dearly! I am grateful to be a missionary and have this time to be strengthened by the Lord! I know this church is true and I am grateful for the happiness that it bring to me. Ah it burns like a fire in my heart. With so much love, Sister Em dog Billionare! 😉

Out on a WIM #20

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Hello my oh so beautiful fam!
Hey it sounds like everything is going wonderfully. Tell Lex that I love her with all my heart and that she’s going to great! Yes I did watch the Relief Society Broadcast! It was great. I can not wait for General Conference. I have never been so excited in all my life. Thank you for the package! You are a doll. WHAT’S IN IT???????????????????????????????????????????????????? Yeah I am really not that excited 😉 Just kidding I AM!!!!
Anyway our recent convert is doing GREAT!!!!!!!! He loves the branch they all do well at welcoming him into the family. He actually blessed the sacrament yesterday for the first time. He did so good!!!!!!!!!!!! I just cried in the congregation like a proud mother :,) He is such a gem. He is actually about to finish reading the Book of Mormon as well! He is oh so awesome.
We has a really fantastic week.
Last Monday we did a family home evening with the branch. It was a lot of fun we were teaching the members about the work of salvation and trying to push the work along. 🙂
We had been looking for a Nursing home to go and do some service and we had been looking forever and we were out tracting one day and FOUND ONE!!!!!!! YAYY for old people 🙂
I went on exchange with Sister W. this week and it was fun to be in a new area for a day! We went and saw K. the one from the picture and he taught us a lesson on being humble! It was great and humbling!
As for big news this week. This lady (Member referral) who we have been teaching for a long time came to church! STORY TIME: SO this lady L. we started teaching her quite a while ago…. BUT she did not seem interested she seemed very closed off and really likes to talk…. like everyone else here…. And so we were maybe going to give her a drop lesson and one day we went back and she just had a change of heart and wanted to read the BOM and learn more. So we continued teaching her. We wanted her to come to church and maybe set a baptismal date but she was like talking about how she didn’t want to rush into things or be “pushed” into things… So we kept working slowly with her. She is in Mosiah in the BOM now. She has a strong testimony of it. SHE LOVES THE BOM!!! At church she felt very excepted and felt the spirit a lot. And so we met with her last night and she told us that she wants to be baptized. So we asked her when thinking she wanted some time… NO WAY! She said she wanted to be baptized in 3 WEEKS!!!!!!!!! AWWWWWWWW……..
Man the Lord is blessing us and we are finding people who are just so prepared.
As for me I am just trying to keep up with them. I am def not the best teacher but I try my best. I have a lot to work on but I’ll continue on having faith that Heavenly Father will help me to help these people who need the gospel. Oh man the church is true.
Anyway sorry I am almost out of time since I sent pictures today! But I love you all.
I want you to all know that I have a burning testimony of this gospel. Everyday I feel more and more blessed to have the opportunity to share it and to have it in my life continually. And I am so very grateful for my Savior Jesus Christ and My Heavenly Father they keep me going. Thanks for all of the support back home. I love and kinda miss you all!
Have an ever so wonderful week! Choose the right. Read your scriptures. Pray. Look for blessings they are all over the place. LOVE YOU ALL!! I’ll talk to you in another short week.
All of the love in the world, Sister Emily.

Out on a WIM #19

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Hello family…. and stuff…. Hahaha!
AWWWW….. Yes Lex and I email occasionally and I just wrote her a letter! Tell her that I love her and I am so proud of her. She is going to do wonders I tell you. Tell Liz congrats and that I love her and Linds too!!!!!!!! Ah!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so exciting!!!! Give Tan and Gray mood a hug for muh.
In a package I would not mind if you sent me maybe a Mormon Tabernacle CD would be nice! Also in the next letter you send will you print off the talk by Jefferey R. Holland from the 2012 October Conference about Peter and The Savior!!!?? That talk I used to listen to all the time? I have been craving that! ALSO I wouldn’t mind if you sent a little bit of clothes! If there is room… If not then I can buy like five dollar undershirts here that I bought one of. I am going to buy a couple today so I’ll be taking some money out of the account. It has been exceedingly hot here and so I have been not wanting to layer things and that is basically all I have! And if you wanted to you could send me my TOMS but that is optional! Whatever works for you mama. Thank you ever so much. How can I ever repay you?
I seriously love that quote you sent. It is true I feel like we grow so much and learn so much from the trials we face and it all comes down to how we endure them. I am grateful for my trials as a missionary they have helped me to grow into a better person even just this long. And I have a lot more learning to do.
This is the quote I sent Emily: “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”-Orson F. Whitney
Ok so cool things that happened this week:
We were out contacting and we met this couple R. and N.! And they own pigs… That’s right PIGS!!!!!!! I love pigs. So we went back to meet the pigs and they was one named oinkie…. IT WAS THE SIZE OF A HIPPO! I am not even kidding. When we go back to visit I will take a picture and send it home to you.
Brother K. has now received the Priesthood!!!!!!!! Awwwwwww…. He is the best. If he was the only success out of my mission that’d be good enough for me. BUT I have lot more to do out here. It’s wonderful 🙂
We met this man E. and he is a rosta man! AND he had hair down to his thigh!!!!! It was insane. He said at one point his hair was down to his feet. Needless to say I asked him for hair growing tips.
On Saturday we had this service project called “clean up B.” and we all went the missionaries and members and had a section of B. to clean. It was great!
There is a lot more but I am going to send pictures so I got to keep this a little short! I hope everything goes well this week and I am looking forward to getting the package.
Anyway life is great! This transfer is flying by. We are just working hard and saving lives. That’s all. No big deal. 😉
Dad: You are wonderful! I am sure you did great on your testimony. Sounds like life is going good still. I sure do love you!
Thanks one and all for the support and prayers! God speed!
Love with my heart, Sister Emily 🙂

Out on a WIM #18

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Hello! How are you my vacationing familia?!

Mom: I am glad you enjoyed the picture! I sent a program from his baptism to you and the fam! It’s in a letter that I sent to Kels. Hey I am so glad to hear that you all had a blast at Lake Powell. I am weirdly not jealous at all! 🙂 Awww… tell the kids I say hello and that I love them very much. I got your letter where the daycare kids drew me pictures! It made me tear up. They are so cute and you said exactly what I needed to hear in that letter and that great quote you sent me.

Awww… The puppy sounds so cute! I hope you have fun at the Scouts Banquet!

Thanks Mom I sure do love you a lot! I am being safe and I am loving my companion! She says hello.

Dad: It sounds like you had loads of fun this week! You better be careful not to hurt yourself old mang 😉 Have a great week. I love you! I wear that braided bracelet you made for my to give me strength and it reminds me of you and the fam!

OK SO. This week was wild. Some fun things that happened are:

Saturday we went to visit a Seventh Day Adventist church! It was very interesting. One of our investigators P. goes to that church and he invited us so we went. It was very lively and they spoke and sang about “love”. One lady got up and sang a worldy song and one lady quoted some wordly songs it was different then what I am used to. It was a good experience. The people were very nice! I hope it helps P. to see that we care about him and want to help him find the truth.

This week I went on exchange with Sister C. the sister trainer leader! It was very fun. We had a successful day and she helped me to learn more teaching techniques! She gave me lots of compliments and said very nice things so that helped me to feel confident and know that I am doing good as a missionary! Sometimes I don’t feel like I am all that great but it helps me to realize I have a lot to improve upon and it is all good learning 🙂

When Sister T. and I were at the lady that is our investigator’s house. E., I told you about her a while ago. She is the one who said she hated Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ! She had come A LONG WAY. She was telling us that she felt bad because she didn’t think about God for a few days. She is a completely different person and we are working slowly with her 🙂 Anyway so we were at her house and talking about a lot of things. The spirit was very strong and we usually sing hymns with people at the end of our lessons and so I had thought that we should sing “Sweet Hour of Prayer” Hymn 142 and I saw Sister T. was looking for a hymn as well and so I decided to wait and see which one she picked and SHE PICKED THE SAME ONE. Unity I tell you… It’s a wonderful thing 🙂 The spirit is great!

Brother K. was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday 🙂 AWWWWWWW….. It was a wonderful experience! He keeps talking about how when these things happen to him he wants to cry! We have to explain to him that it is a good kind of crying.

We are doing the puppet show again and we were practicing on Saturday and Sister T. and I wanted to practice so we took our puppets home and practiced. It’s pretty darn funny! We performed ” You Raise Me Up” by Josh Groban with me singing as Josh Groban of course and Sister T. as the back up black girl singer and we did it with the puppets it was super funny!

Anyway sorry this email is all over the place! Life as a missionary is so great! I love being a missionary here So much 🙂 I am grateful for every single one of you and your support! I miss you all but honestly no offense I rarely think about home! Which is wonderful 🙂 You all have a magnificent week. I LOVE ALL OF YOU!

Out on a WIM #17

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Ramses how are you???? (nacho moment) Hello my most beautiful family! How are you all? It sounds like you’re doing fantastic! I am so very glad to hear that!

Well. THIS WEEK HAS BEEN GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Honestly the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. When I say that I don’t mean that I am struggling. I know you all worry about that but I really am not struggling for the most part! There are times of struggle and times of success. It’s all learning and growing but life is great 🙂

ALRIGHT. So to begin! I know you are all dying to hear how my baptism went……………………..…………………………………………………………….. Well. It was great!!!!!!!!!!!! We had a few little scares because it was both ours first baptism! But we got it all figured out 🙂 So I will send you a copy of the program in a letter. But we had a few speakers and one of the Elders here has a uke! So he played that while we sang the primary song “When I am baptized” it sounded great and Brother K. started tearing up. And his daughter (who’s never shown an interest in the church) came to church!!!!!!!!!! So we had his baptism and I just cried because I was so happy. Brother K. wanted to bear his testimony and it was the most fervent, simple, beautiful testimony. He talked about how he was so lost when we found him but that he knows why he is here and thanked us for all we did for him. But to be completely honest, it was all between him and the Lord we were just blessed enough to be a part of it and help him to understand things. He’s really blessed our lives immensely. So yeah! It all went very well. It was the best first baptism that I could have asked for.

Ummmm… oh I got a letter from Kels and she sounded so worried that I was struggling and said she could tell from my emails. Oh man sorry if I’ve been a negative Nancy!!!! SO I wanted to tell you all that things that I am grateful to have and all of the great things about being it here!

1. It is so bright and sunshiney here. Yeah we sweat our guts out but I am grateful for the warm weather and the sun.

2. I am grateful for the people that i work with here. They are the very best. I honestly feel at home here and the people are almost always very kind 🙂

3. I love my companion. Sister T. is the bomb.com. She has been there for me all the way. Yeah there are times where everything doesn’t go smooth and we are bugged by each other. She is the kindest person in the world and very service oriented. She wants to serve everyone and she knows how to teach simply and help people to understand on their level. We have been through A LOT together and we have had lots of time to learn and grow as a companionship.

4. I love the branch that I serve in. The members are so strong, I don’t know how they do it.

I literally could go on forever. So for all who are within the sound of my voice. Sister Emily is a very happy girl and is not sad! I am alright. Yes a mission is tough. But so am I! So I am going to keep fighting strong. I know I have a lot to improve on and it’s hard to be patient with myself sometimes but I love this work so much!

Don’t worry about a thing…. CAUSE EVERY LITTLE THING IS GONNA BE ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody loves Bob Marley 😉
Have fun in Lake Powell family!!!!! Don’t have too much fun 😉

Out on a WIM #16

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Hello family! How are you all? It sounds like you are all doing very well. SO AM I. I am so glad to hear that you are doing so great, staying busy and having fun!

This week has been so great. I don’t even know where to begin. So I will start with Monday. We had a great p-day and we had a FHE at one of our members house! It was great we invited investigators and answered questions and things like that! It was great! The spirit was “tick”.
We had transfers and Sister T. and I are so happy we are staying together! We have lots of new and very fun missionaries. I really do miss the ones that have left but they are always replaced by someone just as great!
Crazy Stories from this week:
So we were at one of our investigators, she remains anonymous. And we had one of our members there. This member has just become CANCER FREE!!!!! Ah we are so happy. Anyway so her foot has this whole in it from the cancer and while our investigator was saying the closing prayer she like started to ‘bless” Sister C.’s foot and squeeze it and get all up on touching it! And then started to take her dress “cloth” and to cleanse and heal her wound!!!!! It was wild. So needless to say I tackled her so she’d stop. JUST KIDDING! I just told her to be careful. Next lesson we’ll talk on priesthood authority! 😉
WE MET THE CUTEST OLD LADY IN THE WORLD! Well besides L. 🙂 Her name is Sister H. and we go sing hymns through her window.
Anyway we are meeting such fun people. They are very nice and we have lots of investigators it’s just very tricky with all the religions here. But there is always hope.
“It’s not the thing you fling it’s the fling itself…….”
DRUM ROLL PLEASE! Brother K., our hard core progressing investigator IS GETTING BAPTIZED IN LESS THAN A WEEK, ON SUNDAY!!!!!!! On September 8th will be my very first baptism. He is so ready. Brother K. they found contacting a few weeks before I got here. He started out not super interested. But something changed in him. He progressively started to pray and read the Book of Mormon and he’s been coming to church for months! He literally is wonderful. Yesterday at church this is the conversation we had.
Me: Brother K.! How is your Book of Mormon reading going?
Brother K.: It is going great. I only got to read five chapters last night.
Me: HOLY CATS BROTHER K.! That is great! You are awesome.
Brother K.: Well thanks…. I was fasting so i didn’t really have anything else to do….. (Can you say “awesome”?????) (Brother K. also participated in the mission wide fast for this push on member missionary work.
Brother K. loves the Book of Mormon and Bible! He reads at least three chapters everyday from the Book of Mormon! He is so excited to be baptized. And we are so excited as well!
Ya know what? Life is great! (sorry this email is all over the place) I honestly love the people i work with here SO MUCH. They are my family (for now at least). I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to be a missionary. And I am so grateful for the gospel in my life and the happiness that it brings! I get to share that with people! How blessed am I? I have learned so much and am continuing to learn everyday. I love it. In all honesty I would not want to be anywhere else right now. I know this is where I am supposed to be. I am grateful also for my savior Jesus Christ and for my Heavenly Father. I have gotten so close by speaking to my Heavenly Father and counseling with Him on how to be better and how to help these wonderful people!
Spiritual Experience ( I have them everyday): But one for this week was while we were having weekly planning we decided to have a goal of only saying and doing things that Jesus Christ would do. It is difficult. We were reading from 3 Nephi when Christ appears to the Nephites and how he takes time for each person and goes to them one by one and we talked about how we needed to really help each person individually and be patient. It was an eye opening experience!
We were reading in 1 Nephi ch. 15 today and I loved verse 8. It is so simple. “And I said unto them: Have ye inquired of the Lord?’ I love this because how often to do we just not inquire of the Lord and rely on our own knowledge. Nephi is showing his brothers that they know not of the things which his Father does because they have not prayed to Heavenly Father to know. There cannot be conversion without prayer.
Anyway I will move on!
Mahm: Thank you for fasting with my mission that was very nice of you! I am hoping that it will push the work forward! I liked your spider story and the dog jumping on the tramp story oh and your primary story. The best part was me picturing you doing both of those 😉 Good job on your missionary work! I have a new perspective of that. I will be a much better missionary when I get home then I was before I left. Have a great week. I love you a lot.
Daddy: Sounds like you had a lot of fun being active as usual 🙂 I love you.
I can’t remember if I am leaving anything out. I will probs remember stuff to tell you after I am done emailing…. Happens every week.
I will let you know how Brother K.’s baptism goes 🙂 All of you have a great week. Remember who you are! I luff you.

Out on a WIM #15

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Elders and Sisters doing a puppet show for a school.

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Hello my beautiful fam! It sounds like you all are doing great!! This week is transfer week………….. AND I am leaving……. Or should I say I am never leaving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeeeeeee!!!! I am staying here with Sister T.:) I was so happy when I heard that! It was very very unexpected!! We were sure that she would be leaving. She has been here for four transfers!

I am so glad Lex is doing good 🙂 I have not heard from her hardly at all! AWWWWW… I am so excited to meet the adorable dog we now have.
1-Describe a typical day?
1. (read about in the white handbook) Just kidding! We wake up at six thirty. Work out and stuff. Shower and get ready. Eat breakfast. Eight we do personal study. Nine we do comp study. Ten we are supposed to train but half the time that gets messed up! I am actually done training now! I never hardly felt like I was training 🙂 At eleven we usually eat lunch and then go out to our appointments at twelve! And then come home at around nine and eat dinner and plan! This rarely goes perfectly like that though! Like the other day we did a puppet show for some cute kids at this school!
2-If we send a package, what is the best thing we could send?
2. Maybe send some colorful pens! Maybe a missionary skirt or dress!
3-How often do you go on exchanges? 
3. We go on exchange with the Sister trainer leader once a transfer. But so does my companion so technically twice a transfer!
4-Do you use you planner?
4. DO I USE MY PLANNER??????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that thing is my life. I know nothing without it. I would die without it. I. I. I. Yeah let me stop being dramatic. But seriously my life is contained in those little pages!
5-How many active members are in your branch?
5. Prolly around thirty! Maybe less… It is very small! We have visitors sometimes! There was a cute couple visiting from Africa the last two sundays!! There is a lot of work to be done here 🙂 We are working on it. Brother K. (our main fantastic investigators baptism is in two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6-What is a typical response from people, when contacting?
6. People are typically very friendly. (Typically) We have great conversations with people. There are at least a hundred churches here. So they usually tell us they are from another religion. Some are open! But most people are already going to a different church. People here are very Christian but that almost makes it harder!! We do our best but often times these people have been in that religion for centuries and their whole lives! It is very difficult. But we still find great people. The Lord blesses us so.
7-Favorite scripture of the week? 
7. Oh man I have really been loving 2 Nephi 9:51 “Let your soul delight in fatness” Just kidding but really. I love all of the scriptures. I seriously am learning so much more about them. I know nothing!!!! It is awful! I love the scripture in 2 Nephi 33:1-3 this explains my life. (Elder Bednar did a talk on this) It talks about how the Holy Spirit has to carry the message into their hearts. You can teach all you want but if the spirit is not there he cannot carry the message into their hearts. We bring it unto and the spirit takes it into but only if they have a soft heart and are willing to listen and act the message. And in verse 3 Nephi talks about how he cries for them and prays for them continually and that is how I feel about everyone we work with. I think about them ALL of the time. Our Recent Converts, Less actives and our investigators. Oh gracious! I love the scriptures so.
I love that scripture that you shared mom! It’s great. The Savior did so much for us 🙂 We need to be positive and be grateful and apply the atonement in our lives and continue to try and do better and be better.
Mommy: I am sure you did so good on your talk. Of course you did! Keep being a missionary. That is wonderful! Tell the Elders serving in our area hello for me! I want to see the pictures from Ri and Janny’s wedding!!!!!!! Gosh mom I sure love being a missionary. I have so many things to work on and improve upon! But it is great! I will be having my first baptism in two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeee!!!! Anyway I sure do love you and appreciate all you do for me and your example to me. I would be nothing without you and pops! Really though. Tell everyone I am doing great and hello for me! Have a great week. Keep working hard.
Dad: It sounds like you are doing great! Have fun at Lagoon for me 🙂 Keep taking care of Murph! Ahhhh… Be grateful for having temples all around. I miss the temple. There are none anywhere near where I am. Or the people here. They have to plan a huge trip to go to the temple and most do not have money to do so. I love you lots! Have a great week 🙂
Welp! I love you all dearly. There are the cutest old people here! I love them 🙂 Gosh I hope this is enough details! Have a great week.