Week 72

6-15-15

Wow, its been an amazing week!!

First off, Zack Ellis is getting baptized! I'm not sure how much I've told you about him, but he's been investigating for about 6 months and he's the kind of person that has had amazing spiritual experiences in the past that led him to God, but something was holding him back. Well now....he's made the decision!! and we are all so happy for him!

Yesterday Sister Archibald and I sang a musical number in church and holy cow it was so cool, God just synced our voices so perfectly and then it just worked. it was so cool. seriously.

We had the coolest service project the other day for something called "The World Police and Fire Games" yeah super cool, the people in charge asked President Riggs if missionaries could help out and so we helped out with set up and stuff a few days ago and we got to hang out with a bunch of missionaries and then we get to go back in a few weeks and we get to be the cheering section for random people from other countries who are coming up here. Its going to be awesome!!

We've been having Great spiritual experiences this past week. Its been amazing. Have a great week! Love you all.

 

 

Kali and Sister Archibald singing

Kali and Sister Archibald were asked to sing on the spot

Week 71

Not much to say this week! Things have been going awesomely. It was Sister Archibald's birthday this week and so we went and pulled some smooth moves and managed to do some awesome surprises with I the help of some elders in our district! It was awesome! When she woke up we silly stringed her, we blew up some balloons, made crepes, has a pizza party with the

District and took" men in black" photos. It was so cool. We felt really legit. 

We Saw a church that said "the Christian church" and another church right next to it said, "the first Christian church". Competitive much? I can see how much the spirit led that one.

We've been having some really spiritul experiences lately, during studies we've had some cool things happen and we've been in several lessons that the people are so prepared to be baptized, but they just aren't making the move to do it. We counted 8 people who have had all the lessons and live the Mormon lifestyle, but they just aren't committing. They will soon though! 

Any who, love you all! Have a good week! :) 

Birthday celebration for Sister Archibald

coat stealing....

Jacket swapping

Men in Black photo shoot

nap time

Birthday surprise

 

Week 70

 

Hi Everyone,

    This week has been a good one! The trio has been A BLAST! And we've been SO productive. I'd always heard really terrible things about trios, how unproductive they are, how awful it is....but holy cow we've gotten so much accomplished and we've managed to have seriously the most fun ever. it's been great. We're going to try to convince President Riggs to let me die with them! (aka finish my mission with them).

So last Monday evening we had the coolest experience. There was a community event going on and we had an event called "The Night of Hidden Talents" that we were planning. We had made it as a good place for ward members to invite nonmember friends so that its somewhere spiritual and yet a fun, entertaining environment. We also wanted to invite a ton of nonmembers. So we showed up to this community event with about 200 fliers and there were tons of people, we just started walking down the street handing out these fliers and I kid you not...they were all gone in an hour. I could count on one hand the amount of people who rejected us. Everyone wanted to come and everyone asked if they could have more fliers to give to their friends and family. it was so cool.

So Sister Archibald and I were going to be performing at the show as well. We had been struggling to find an accompanist, but somehow managed to get one 48 hours before the show. The performance went really well! Sister Donato got a video....but those don't send over email very well, sooooo i'll just show it to you in a couple months...haha

Also, we had been planning on performing in church as well....but that got cancelled and then the other ward randomly called me a day and a half before church and asked me to speak. Basically this whole week has been INSANE, but its been fun.

Anywho, theres a lot of miracles, lots of fun adventures, many great one liners and a whole ton pictures that happened this week.

Have a good upcoming week! love you all!

 

 

late night sillies

Week 69

Hello to everyone! I will be very brief today! 

I went to the temple this morning and had a blast! I went with four other people. Two sisters that go home with me, one that goes home a transfer after us and a lovely member of the ward! 

Oh yeah! I should probably explain what happened a few days ago! We got a call from president Riggs tells us that we needed to meet at the mission office at an ungodly hour of the morning. There was a sister that's been having some health issues and needed to go home immediately. Her companion was going to be our new companion and we would be covering two wards. 

Sister donato and I packed up all of our stuff, and we moved into another apartment that was bigger so that we could have more room. And so basically we've had an insane past few days trying to move stuff and figure things out since we will be covering the two wards! Ha ha so it's been quite the adventure, but it's been a wonderful adventure! My new companion is named sister archibald and she is legit! She's from Utah and has been out for about six months. We've been having a blast and she's been in many musicals as well, so we have several musical performances lined up for the next five weeks. 

There's my life in a nutshell. Have a good week! 

 

 

Week 68

 

Nothing much to share, except a few funny things people have said as well as other things that happened:

1) I was driving and out of nowhere sister Donato says, "WHY DO I HAVE CHOCOLATE IN MY MUSTACHE?!?!"

2) we invited an investigator to get ice cream with us for a ward activity at a members house, somehow we forgot to tell her that it was at someone's house and as she was driving down the road she called us and says"there's no ice cream shop on this street!" 

3) we saw a random guy walking down the street in just boxers and a tie. Classy combo

4) at transfer meeting, president Riggs was trying to demonstrate something and asked one of his assistants to come up and help him, however, he did not prep the missionary beforehand. So president Riggs was pretending to be an elder and so the assistant didn't know what president was looking for, so as president stood up with his iPad. The elder said, "elder, why do you have a picture of president Riggs daughter on your iPad !?" President Riggs just got this dumbfounded look on his face since that was jot what he was expecting to come out of his mouth and we all just burst out laughing. 

5) elder geohegan departing testimony, "elders, if your pants look like they're painted in, they're too tight. Sisters.....in the mornings. There's a treadmill in the gym. USE IT. not that I'm saying you're all fat, but just that I know that everyone gains a little bit of weight in their mission....." Hahahahaha

6) we accidentally sent a text message to a less active.....asking if she was less active. 

7) We had an investigator email us and say, "Thanks for showing me about Mormonism it has been a good experience I am going to my friends Orthodox Church tomorrow , because next week I'm getting baptized . Thanks for everything." Mind you...up to this point, she had just learned about Christianity from us...then she went crazy. 

8) at a lesson we wanted to take a picture with an investigator and the investigators sister says, "wait, step into the light I can't see my sister". (Our investigator is black) 

9) for one of our meals this week we just ate cheesecake for dinner. 

 10) I was standing in a group with three people, out of nowhere I Swear the conversation switched because they all start going in a circle each saying something like, "I'm a monkey", "well I'm a pig", " and I'm a rooster " everyone turns to me and says, "what are you?", and all I could said was, "what??". Come to find out....they had somehow jumped conversation into the years that we were born. 

11) we texted a former investigator asking her to come with us to a relief society activity. And we thought she would say no, but she agreed. And while there everyone introduced themselves and she said that she's a nonmember, but that she wants to be a member, so that was a crazy miracle. 

12) I completely butchered a closing hymn at a meeting, but it was super funny. We had run over time and so it was just one verse and for some reason my fingers weren't working and I just slaughtered it hahahahha 

13) we had another miracle with a former investigator. I'd never met her, but my co panino and I had separately felt like we needed to visit her, and then she happened to be home. 

14) at church yesterday, there was a nonmember who had shown up and we were talking to him and as he started to walk away, another member walked up and surprised, yelled, "Sisters did you see?? He had a nonmember with him?!" ......I'm pretty sure the guy heard it....

Anywho, theres my week!!! love you all!!! :)

Cheese cake for breakfast

 

Week 67

May 11th 2015

Hello! So I'm writing early today, 

Story one:
So yesterday at church I thought we were an hour ahead of where we
were, so at the munch and mingle I was panicking!! And trying to eat
the stuff fast and run to the car so we could run home and eat an
actual meal. I made my companion run all over the place with me. Ha ha
I was saying that we had five minutes to pull a meal together, and
somehow we did it and as we were running out the door (quite
literally) sister Donato goes, "what time is it?" I looked at my watch
and yelled back to her, "6:10! We've got to....oh. Wait. It's only
5:10, we still have an hour." My companion just started laughing.

We went to the visitors center to see “Meet the Mormons” that
night, we had a good group of people! A couple of Nonmembers and a
couple of members. They all really enjoyed it!

Story two:

We had an amazing day on Saturday. Seriously I don't know how it
happened. So to start off...on Friday night I was praying and I just
felt strongly that we needed to go to a particular place somewhere in
our area. It was weird because a couple days earlier I had the same
thought and we'd gone there and we'd met several awesome people, but
no one that I was thinking who would just get baptized right off the
bat...well maybe one girl. I don't know. Anywho. So I just like felt
we needed to go back and that we needed to go to a particular
apartment building.

Also as a side note...I've changed the names of the people we talked
to on this day. They’re all Muslim and it's not safe for Them right
now. In order to keep their names safe I will not put them in
writing and I won't send pictures of them home. Buuuuuut I'll show
them to you off my mission. Soooo yeah.

any who....back to the story. So we headed there and as we pulled in
we saw a bunch of people standing in a group, Probably 3 or 4 people.
So of course we walk up and start talking to them. One of them right
off the bat said that she wasn't Christian and left.

But the other girl was so cool. We'll call her Quan. She seemed really
interested and right off the bat told us some hard things that had
happened in her life. We gave her a Book of Mormon and stuff and kept
talking. The first girl came downstairs again (we'll call her Sarah).
And as we sat there talking Sarah listened. Out of nowhere from an
apartment upstairs someone started saying something and we couldn't
hear. Sarah walked over and listened and then came back.

Apparently the girl who was up on the balcony asked us to come over
and visit her as soon as we were done talking to Quan and Sarah. So
we weren't sure what to expect, but we finally headed up there.

The girl just let us straight in and started telling us how she just
really wanted to learn about Christianity. She was raised Muslim and
there's just things that don't sit right with her. She's been watching
videos about Jesus and watching movies about him. And she wants to
learn more. So we were super excited and she just told us to dive in
and start teaching her. Her name, or what she will be called here,
will be Molly.

So we just felt the spirit right from the beginning. She wanted to
learn. So we taught the restoration right from the beginning and she
just ate everything up. Seriously. The spirit was so strong. She loved
talking about Jesus Christ she wants to highlight the Book of Mormon,
she even specifically out of the blue asked us if she could come to
church with her tomorrow.

When we pulled out the Book of Mormon she goes, "whoa! I've always
wanted to learn about the Mormon’s!" Ha ha and during the lesson too
when the first vision was about to come up, I just knew that
something was going to happen in order to distract from the spirit.

So halfway through the lesson, Quan and Sarah came into the room and
seam (who wasn't interested in listening at first) sat and joined the
lesson, while quail went to the back room. Quan tried to call her to
the back room, but seam quietly said that she wanted to stay. So she
did. So as we are coming closer to the first vision and as we are
starting to preface it....someone starts yelling outside...someone
knocks on the door...all kinds of stuff, but we were able to settle
down and feel the spirit. But long story made shorter...she wants to
come to church next week and she wants to keep meeting!

(It's funny, we've actually been having a lot of legit experiences
like this happen lately)

Story three:

We had a lesson with Deaunte a couple days ago. He was super excited
to see us and wants to meet twice a week now. He's accepted everything
that we've shared and now He's now on date for baptism!! June 13th!
We're so excited!

Well, have a great week! Love you all.