Week 64... 11/30/2020

  

Week 63 #GiveThanks 11/26/2020

 Happy Thanksgiving everyone(: our pday this week is on Thanksgiving!!

Transfers happened, I'm with a Sister named Sister Snow and I LOVE HER. I already knew her before and oh my goodness you guys she is an absolute angel and so cute. We get to be STLs in PV and this is only her 3rd transfer! How awesome is she??? I know, I got so blessed.

We've been going over to a member in the Chinese branch to read the Book of Mormon with them and one of the little girls always wants our tags and so we made her one((:

We made 4 new friends this last week too! We met this sweet Chinese man and taught him how to pray. And after we taught him he was still unsure, so he asked us to pray and he would repeat after us at first. It was so tender. And that is all I wanted to say about my week *awkward laugh*.....

BUT spiritual thought. I was studying about "Our Life on Earth" this week and something I love is that "Our purpose in life is to find peace and happiness WITH OUR FAMILIES." I was thinking about my family this week, and wow. I love them, and how nice is it that God made my purpose in life to find peace and happiness with my family? I wanted to share a quick experience. Right before my mission, I was sitting down in Hong Kong with my mom and she was talking to me about my mission and I felt really discouraged about it. And I was crying and crying (haha in public #embarrasing) and I just remember my mom hugging me and talking to me and supporting me. Like how lucky am I to spend eternity with a family like this? To find happiness with them here? So incredibly blessed.

Happy Thanksgiving(: I really love all of you so much. Truly and sincerely. Happy holidays everyone! Also if you didn't get to watch the prophet's message please do so!!! It is GOLDEN!  

Week 62 *ping* 11/16/2020

 Another quickie. 

Soooo remember that friend who was on date a while back but then we had to take him off date? Well it's been a little bit but we FINALLY got in contact with him. And he was like, "I want to meet. Tonight." Me and Sister Hill were overjoyed!! We quickly called a member who we had thought of previously to join a lesson and he joined and just emphasized with EVERYTHING with our friend SO WELL. Well, that week we asked the member to invite our friend to church and so he did. On Sunday when our zoom church was rolling, our friend hadn't hopped on. There was a Brother who was talking about prayer and praying out loud and he told a story about how there was this one time when the result was just immediate. And so our member (he later told us this story) said that he felt inspired and was like okay. I'm going to pray out loud. And so he prayed out loud for our friend and right as he ended he heard a ping from his computer and our friend had messaged him and told him that he just woke up. Long story short our friend joined at the end. What a miracle!! After talking to this member he told us he just felt so motivated and excited right now. And then we right away called the family that spoke and told them this experience and they were so excited too. I just LOVE the mission and seeing members get excited about missionary work. And so that is my story for the week! Everything is good here, I'm kinda just really happy so yay and hope everyone has a good week!🌟💛🐤

Week 61 Watching the district to pump us up 11/9/2020

 Remember that friend I talked about last week? We set a baptismal date with him for December 19th! He said he's going to prepare! It's amazing just to see his change. He came to church again yesterday and really liked it and he told us that this was the path he wanted to pursue. While we were teaching him, the spirit literally "brought all things to our remembrance" because I have no idea how I remembered all the things I studied. Sooo in short, God is good and He loves His children!!!! Me and Sister Hill had prayed about a date for him and we felt right (and then we watched some of The District to pump us up don't judge us pls hahaha) and so we invited him and he said YES!! Such a miracle and I just felt so much love from God. Okay we are so excited!! 

And we were able to find a girl through Facebook. She loves Jesus SO MUCH but wants to hear our message! 

I just really love this gospel and being a missionary!! This week I was studying about humility and something I love is "humility is not thinking less of ourselves but less about ourselves." I've tried to find scripture stories about how people show humility, and I've just been amazed by how much humility entails. Anyways there is a quick thought I will get better about sharing things I learn from the scriptures but I love you all and hope you all have a great week!! 

Week 60 The Joy of Change 11/2/2020

 A quick one.

One of the friends we've been teaching has been progressing! We started out and he really just had no religious background or seemed like he wanted it in his life, but he kept meeting with is because we were nice people. Last week when we met, he was like, "you both always talk about how prayer and reading this Book of Mormon gives you this peace and fulfillment. I mean, that's the theme that I'm getting. I feel like I have that already from other things." And so we discussed with him how even though we get that in life from other things, the fulfillment we get from getting closer to God is so much more. This last lesson we had, he was like "I don't know how to describe it. I just feel like praying and reading the scriptures, I'm starting to feel what you two feel I think." We were so excited!!! As missionaries, we invite people to change, we bring the spirit, but only the people we teach can choose to change and bring that spirit into their hearts. I can't describe the joy that I feel when I see these people change. That's my little story for the week! Hope you all have a great one!