Week 45 New Zones! 7/20/20

Little mini update!!

Well first, I talked to my parents and they never fail to motivate me to become a better missionary by their examples when they were missionaries. 

Also one of the most amazing Sisters I know, Sister Fulkerson, is returning home and just wanted to tell you Sister Fulkerson that you literally inspire me so much!!!

Last week of the transfer and me and Sister Romney worked our hardest!! We found 4 new people to teach! One we have to transfer to another area, but she's so prepared so we are super excited for her to meet the missionaries over there!! Actually, we found out we have to transfer 4 of our friends which is sad, BUT one Lord, one vineyard. We're all serving the Lord here, and I know the Lord will help us found those prepared for this area. Very excited.

Transfers! Not much changed. I still get to be with the amazing Sister Romney (I'm not kidding guys. She is SO AWESOME). And now we will not just be over Chinese zone but get to be over another zone, Inglewood zone, now too! We are soooo excited to work with more amazing zone leaders and more amazing sisters that will teach us so much! They have an english district and a spanish district. Woohoo for Chinese and Inglewood zone!! Also! Our mission president said me and Sister Romney could learn spanish (Sister Romney's already super good at it #trilingual) and attend the beginner's spanish class. I was so stoked when President said we could do that!!!

There's the short update, but next week I will type out some good stories, but I love you all!! And so does God!!

Also made a timelapse of a Jesus wall if you want to watch that. I'll put that in this link too. Well, haha we put it up and we filmed a timelapse but the shot didn't catch the wall so you know me, I took it all back down and redid it to refilm a timelapse haha

https://photos.app.goo.gl/o3A7C8NNCVcoFKgm8

Week 44 Lots of miraclessss🎶🎵 7/13/2020

Hello friends!!!

First a companion spotlight: Sister Romney is awesome and this week she was able to invite one of her friends back home to meet with the missionaries. She's the best!!

Ah this week was just SO AMAZING. So Monday night after pday had ended, we met with this guy that who had been referred by his cousins in different states. He asked if we could meet with us in his friend's house. When we went, we invited his friend to join us, along with another friend that was there. THEY BOTH JOINED and all 3 kept asking questions and were so interested. Back to the man who had originally been referred. He is one of the most prepared people I've ever met. God really just gives us the best miracles. He is so awesome and I just love him with all my heart!!! Just him hearing about the gospel and telling us that he wants to change his life makes me so happy. The other day we were on the phone and he even told us that he also feels like he's so prepared to hear the gospel. It has been so amazing. We are meeting with him again on Wednesday!! We could so use everyone's prayers for this person!!!

That night, we were walking back to our apartment after the lesson. One of our neighbors were up on their balcony. When we got back to our door, Sister Romney was like, "darn it, I got a prompting to say hi, but I didn't." So we went back. Sister Romney said hi and he didn't say anything (haha he actually just walked back inside) but we were like, okay we followed through anyways. Well, we didn't want to be awkward and just turn around, so we kept walking a little more and were going to make a loop. Then get this. Sister Romney (guys she's so awesome) waved hi to this random guy. We were like, "hey how are you doing?" We introduced ourselves and told him we were the missionaries. Turns out he was doing food delivery in our complex. We got his number and he was like, "well I don't believe in organized religion, but yeah I'm down to talk with you guys. " so we set up a phone lesson and it was SO AWESOME!! In that lesson, we just shared simple truths, and every time he would be like, "actually that makes so much sense. I completely agree with that." At the end, he told us, "I don't believe in organized religion, but if I did, it would be this one." We're going to talk again(: could really use everyone's prayers for this guy too!!

THEN. (The miracles don't stop there). We had called a guy who had gone to the family history center before. He's only been taught 1 lesson. We talked about family history and right in the middle he was like, sorry I have to go. So we didn't set up a time to meet. Then he texted us one night and asked to meet up!!!?!??! That is miracle right there friends.

Lastly, there has been a family who one member of their family members isn't a member of our church. We brought them brownies this week and the said we could come back and spend time with their family (don't worry, we can meet at parks, chapels, and homes of friends if they invite us in) next week which will be tomorrow!!! 

I thought I was excited about missionary work before but now I am literally just ahhh no words can describe it. The work is just so alive here. There are so many prepared people here. Every day is filled with new exciting things!!!

Hope all of you are doing good. Remember to open up your scriptures (specifically the Book of Mormon) every single day!! It is God's word and testifies of Christ!!

Also embarrassing but hilarious. Not sure about everyone else, but everyone still wears masks in LA area. Mask tan lines are real. I was literally in the sun for maybe 30 min *sigh* just being super real with everyone me and Sister Romney though it was so funny hahaha 

Love you all byeeee

Week (42) 43 The best gift, the best miracle 7/6/2020

This week was literally the BEST week ever!!!!! Ahhhhhh okay first

You guys Sister Romney is just so awesome. She just makes me want to learn and she loves learning herself. And she just loves our friends ALSO she writes songs and every pday she plays me songs she wrote before. She has a list and she always lets me pick. She is so talented. I am #blessed when it comes to companions. Literally from day one at the MTC (shootout sister Hoe) companions have just been a huge blessing on my mission!

So miracles! On Wednesday we had SO. MANY. MIRACLES.

-called a lady and she told us she didn't want anything to do with her church but then we talked to her and asked her if she or anyone she knew needed help with anything. And she was so cute at the end of the call she was like, I might have to change my mind about church

-we found 3 NEW PEOPLE TO TEACH that day. One of them we posted a Bible study in the community page and someone reached out to us and we met with them that day! 1 was someone we taught in the past, and we got a real referral!!! No idea what we did to deserve such amazing blessings but wow God really just has so many prepared here.

-that day we reached out to a member and a missionary who served here in the past asked us to reach out to them and we were like okay! We just reached out to him a couple hours ago but we can do it again. We ended up calling this member and they said they actually needed help with something. True miracle.

The work is just amazing here in LA. God really has a plan for His children and is just constantly putting miracles and people to help in me and Sister Romney's lives.

Also everyone, I have grown to love Torrance ward SO MUCH. They are filled with the most amazing people. Also, update, they took us out of the YSA ward last week and even though I've never met these people in real life, it was so hard to say bye)): I love them, but I love Torrance ward too so I'm glad I at least get to stay here.

Spiritual thought: a friend told me that the best gift you can receive is the Holy Ghost. It just got me thinking, what would I do if I didn't have the Holy Ghost? If I did have the Holy Ghost, all the greatest moments of my life wouldn't exist and the guidance and protection I receive would be nonexistent. I'm just so grateful for this gift and when we live worthy of it, we can receive all that the Holy Ghost has to offer. 

Okay love you all!!!