Week 72 Faith comes through miracles! 1/25/2021

 Hello everyone!! This week was soooooooo good. So first of all I got midcycled on Thursday. Complete surprise. That was on Wednesday, and so I packed my bags and got transferred on Thursday morning. So me, Sister Snow, and Sister Boyden drove up to the temple. I cried. I love those girls. And then I was off with Sister Westover. Haha still an STL though lols. 

We were driving and getting on the freeway and then we went NORTH. I have NEVER gone north my whole entire mission, and even though I was sad to leave but I was SO EXCITED to be in a new place!!!! I saw the mountains with no houses on them, and I am in the valley now!! I am in an area called Northridge, and my zone is called Canoga park. Okay the FUNNEST FACT. My dad served in the Ventura mission and they kind of changed the boundaries so that some of my mission was in his. AND HE SERVED HERE!!!! Like in Northridge. And I talked to him today and he told me some amazing stories about this area. I am so so excited. 

These first couple of days were 🔥🔥🔥. We started doing exchanges thr 2nd day I was here hahaha. They were so fun. I went to the ASL sisters' area and they were signing all day it was so fun!!

And I also have 2 stories. The first is about one of our recent converts. He hasn't been to church recently because he plays baseball on Sundays. But he was like, well, if it rains though I'll be there because we can't play if it rains. Me and Sister Westover looked at each other after the lesson and we were like, it is going to rain. We checked the forecast, it said sunny, but I just knew in my heart it was going to rain. Well that was on Thursday. On Friday, we it started sprinkling, and we were like YESSS. And then on Saturday, it was POURING!!! And we were just cheering!! And then on Sunday it was sunny, and our recent convert didn't come to church. BUT. That was blessing enough for me. I know God just gave us a blessing one day earlier. Also, my mission president told us something I LOVE. He says, God doesn't delay blessings, He just gives them to you in the very moment when you most need them. And so I know the blessings will come for our recent convert!!!

Second story. We were calling people who had been taught in the past. The day before no one answered. And so me and Sister Westover were like, okay what if every single person answers today. And we were like, it's going to happen!! The first 3 people answered!!! And usually they don't!! And we set a return appointment!!!

The Lord blesses when we have faith. Miracles happen because of faith. And they will come exactly when we need them to. So. Faith works. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. I love you all!!! I just love being a missionary!!!!

Week 71 .... 1/18/2021

 

Week 70 Hello Friends! 1/11/2021

 Hello everyone!! This week has been really good!!

So this week we moved back into an apartment I've been in before. If you all remember Sister Boyden, she is literally my bestie for the resties!! She is so cute, we both are so happy to be back together. Can't even tell you how joyous our reunion was! And then transfers and me and Sister Snow are staying!!!!! Good times. 

This week we had an amazing lesson with one of our friends, Hoon. We were doing a pass off lesson with some missionaries in Illinois, (shout out to you Sister Maloy and all the missionaries in your zone) and the Lord really gave us a true miracle. Me and Sister snow are so bad when it comes to time differences so we thought the lesson was at 7pm. The elders called us at 2:55pm and were like, so what is the lesson plan? The lesson is in 5 min. And both me and Sister snow were like, oh no!! We knew that we wanted to talk about our life on earth and had picked out a couple scriptures but hadn't really talked too much about it. So we were relying in the doctrinal sequence so much. We were teaching about his purpose and then the elders taught SO powerfully about repentance. Then I could tell all 4 of us felt prompted to invite him to be baptized. We turned to a scripture on 2 Nephi and talked about how to enter in the gate, we have to repent and be baptized, and that we'll receive a remission of our sins. That we'll be forgiven. The elders asked if that was something Hoon wanted and he said yes! I pulled up my calendar and we were thinking Feb 13 to help him prepare for that date, and then one of the elders (who is fire! He's only been out for 2 months, and the other elder has only been out for 6!) Invited him to be baptized on Feb 13! The spirit was so strong we were all sooooo happy. That was a true miracle. It was amazing and we were all just so happy!!

Then one more experience. We have this sweet friend Sheryle, and we taught her about the restoration and how these restored truths can apply to her. We taught her the plan of Salvation yesterday and the spirit was just so strong!! 

I just love my mission so much! Other highlights include:

-our zone leaders. Ah we call them almost every day and just encourage each other. We seriously LOVE them!! I will include some pictures.

-an amazing lesson with our friend Ryan. The spirit was also so strong in that lesson

-we've been teaching free Chinese class and we made a new friend from that! 

-one of our friends we made last week is really progressing! 

Anyways, it was a good week. 

The only pictures I have of this week is our zone leaders. We all say Elder Carson looks like Mall Cop 

Week 69 ... 1/4/2021