Hello, hello family!!
This email is going to be short because today is just crazy and we
have so much to do today, so I'm sorry in advance!! First, kellie, I
emailed you already but I love your dress!!! It is gorgeous and you look
beautiful in it!!! I am so excited to see it in person!!! AHHH!! Mom- I
was just joking about you being a slacker of sunday school. The way it was worded made it sound like you didn't go. I'm
sorry!! Please forgive me!! :) Kylie Moore is getting married?!?! That's
a new one!! Pictures? :P Tell Sister Scharffs hello for me! And your
going to Grandma's too?! I'm jealous! Why are you going on christmas day
though? That seems weird. Thanks for telling me the times so we can figure out a time that I should call.
So, dad, you owe me a frosty when I get home and I'm holding you to it!!! :) (He bet Jenna a frosty that she was getting transferred to the southern part of her mission). We got the call on Saturday
night and I am staying here in Bridgeport for another transfer!!!
hahaha Crazy!! Mom and dad, you guys were both wrong! I have never been
in an area for longer than three transfers so it should be fun!! Then we got a
call from President on monday
night and we were freaking out because we didn't want anything to
change. He talked to us and said that we would both be staying in
Bridgeport together and that both of us with be Sister Training Leaders
(STL)!!!!! WHAT!?!?! Holy moly, I was so excited but nervous!! I had
thought that I wouldn't be an STL on my mission because there are so
many sisters better qualified than I am and I just didn't see it. It was
when I least expected it that it happened, but i am so excited for this
transfer and for this opportunity!! I am going to do all I can to help
the sisters that I am over and to be a better companion for Sister
Richards!! President is wanting to eventually try and put a
companionship of STL's in each zone (like zone leaders) but right now we
don't have that. I guess in some zones there will be a companionship of
STL sisters so that we have experience with it and then we can spread
out to more zones in a transfer or two. So, these last two transfers
(AHHHH!!!!) will be crazy, but awesome!! It's still weird to me to say
that I am a sister trainer leader and that now I have to be a good
example to the other sisters! :P I am so excited about it but also very
grateful and humbled by it too! I am grateful that Heavenly Father
trusts me enough to have me serve in this calling and to do what I can!
He always knows what is best for us and knows exactly when things need
to happen in our lives that will help us to bring the most good
about and so that we can reach our full potential! I know Heavenly
Father loves me!! :D Anyways, on wednesday
we are going to have a big STL meeting and then all the sisters will
come after that and we will have a meeting together down in Charleston!!
I am so excited for that and to learn more about how I can help the
sisters and how I can do my best in this calling! Have I mentioned how
excited I am though to be staying here in Bridgeport with Sister
Richards as an STL!!!! It's going to be awesome!!! I feel like the Lord
is blessing me so much and I feel like I need to work even harder now to
try and pay Him back a little!! It just amazes me how much He blesses
us everyday and how He is so aware of us. He blesses us everyday but
we have to be looking for it- big and small!!
Since I am staying here that will mean I will be here through the
holidays and I am so excited about that!! We are having a turkey bowl
next week and we are going to dominate! :) There are lots of really cool
things that are going to happen around here for the holidays and I am
excited to be able to be here for it and to be able to go out and share
the gospel with everyone! Sister Richards has a blow up Christmas tree
from her mom so we are going to try to put that up today! Yay!
Let's see, yesterday we played basketball at the church (aka Sister
Higgins did and Sister Richards decided not to because it was too
compeititve so she watched! :p ). It was so much fun and it was a great
way to end the night! I had some really great baskets too and some
awesome steals!! I was proud of myself!! :) Tonight we are
playing volleyball and it is going to be so much fun and a great way to
end the transfer!
We have seen so many miracles lately and have found so many people
who are interested in learning about the gospel. It has just been
blowing my mind because they are popping up everywhere and we have
experiences where you know that you needed to be in that spot at that
exact time to help someone feel the love of their Savior and to teach
them more! It gets me everytime and it just makes me so happy, grateful,
and humbled to know that Heavenly Father is using me to be an
instrument in His hand to help His struggling children. I love
it!!!!! You can definitely tell that the Lord is hastening His work and
that the time to really find the elect and to spread the gospel even
more is now!! It really is the work of salvation and we need to do all
we can to help it because we were saved for this time because the Lord
knew that He could trust us to be successful in this work. He knew that
we could be used by Him if we submit to His will and then try to help
those around us. I hope that you all recognize how important this work
is and that we all need to be a part of it whether big or small. We all
make the differnence!! So, one quick miracle that happened yesterday. We
went out farther in our area to a town called Flemington cause we had
some appointments, referals to contact, and we just wanted to work in
that area more. We went out there and our first appointment the woman
didn't answer. We walked and found our referal to contact and she
was fairly nice but wouldn't let us in and didn't really want to talk to
us. We still had two hours before our next appointment (investigators
who love us and who would've let us come early but they weren't home
yet.). Then we realized the great missionaries we are because we
had forgotten our area book and ward roster so we couldn't find any
formers or less actives!! So, it was 37 degrees, we didn't know the area
that much, and we had two hours to tract and find someone. We started
praying really hard cause I already couldn't feel my feet or nose. The
first door we knocked on the woman was on the phone and couldn't talk
but was begging us to come back another day though. That was cool! The
next trailer had lots of ferocious looking dogs that were barking their
heads off and looked like they wanted to eat us...we skipped that house.
The next trailer had a sun room so we knocked on that but had no
answer. I felt like we needed to go in and knock on the inside door so
we knocked and a woman came to the door on the phone. She told the
person on the phone she had company, hung up, and let us in. We then
were able to talk for an hour with her and give her a book of mormon to
read. She also broke down crying and said that her nephew had died that
morning from pancreatic cancer and she was feeling so down, depressed,
sad, and hadn't known what to do. We came by and she said she
immediantly felt better and by the time we left she was laughing,
smiling, and was so happy. She said that we will never know how much we
brightened her day and how we cheered her up because she was feeling so
bad. She said to come back anytime and that she will be waiting for us
to come because she loves us! Miracle #1. We were walking back to the
car which was parked across from our first appointment and as we got
there we looked over and saw our investigator outside with her dog. She
said we could come in and we then had an hour long lesson with her which
went super well. She loved everything we said and said it all makes
sense and she really likes it!!! Miracle #2. By the time we finished it
was time to go to our next appointment which was good too. It's just
amazing though how the Lord knew exactly where we were and is so in the
details!! He knew we needed to talk to this woman and help her feel
loved and uplifted and then talk to our investigator and everything
worked out, so we were able to. The Lord really is there and knows that
we need to be in specific places at specific times for things
to happen!
Well, I hope that you all are doing just wonderful and that you have a wonderful week!! I love you all and will talk to you on monday again!! Thank you for all of the support and love that you give me!! It truly helps!! Love you!!
P.S. Happy 42 Birthday Daddy!!! :) (nice joke from Jenna - he's not really 42!)
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