Thanksgiving!!

My new companion is Sister Richards and she was one of the first sisters I met when I came to Florida because I stayed at her apartment when I was waiting to see where I would be going for my first area, which means I was there around this time last year and now we are companions! I love it! Oh, and she was my sister leader too! So we are doing a lot of good work here. She was in her last area for 7 months and she is missing all of those wonderful people, but she let me know that she will be back to visit before to long. :D I think it is so wonderful that we can make so many good friends while we are doing the Lords work.

This week was a wonderful day for Thanks giving! We were invited to come to two dinners--well we were invited to a lot more, but we only went to three of them. We had so much fun and so much yummy food! We have been working with a family that is part member and the 15 year old and the 12 year old set a date to be baptized last night! I am super happy! I can't wait! Oh, I also can't believe that the month is almost over. . .

As a missionary it is so easy to stay in the routine of doing things because there is nothing else that I have to be doing between 6-10 am and 9:30-10:30 then the day starts again. :) If I'm doing all of that right then I will be more ready to teach and testify and that will bring more people to Heavenly Father. The people here are so good and each on has their own talents and thoughts of good. I hope I will be able to learn well from them and help them learn from the Spirit. I have so many blessings.

I love you all and I want you to know that I am thankful for your example to me.

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http://mormon.org/Christmas

So we got calls last night, Sister Scott will be heading to a new area and another Sister will be here. Sister Scott will be missed, but I will be getting a new friend soon. :D

This week we had our last district meeting before our district leader and one of our zone leaders headed home, it will be so strange when we get the new leaders.

We have been working on talking to new people, but now that Sister Scott is heading out I feel like I need to get to know people better. She is super great at talking to everyone, I have to work on that--but I am good at listening!

Okay, so I really wanted to tell everyone that there is a really great campaign going on right now at http://mormon.org/Christmas !! This is something that the church started doing last Easter and it is a page for everyone to just talk about what this holiday season means to them. I love it!! There are so many e-gifts on it too! If I were a facebook missionary I would have a hay day!
Check it out if your get a chance, it will be up until Dec 26th! I am so happy that there is so much good that can come from technology!!

Oh, I also wanted to say that this area is so great! I met a sister who is Japanese and the Elders had gone over there and they said that it didn't go so well, but when we went over there I said a few things in Japanese and asked her how to say different phrases and she invited us over to dinner! I am so happy that I have been able to meet people. Who would have ever guessed that I would be here to share the gospel with so many different people?

There has been a lot of colder here I am a little surprised.

Okay so the next transfer will be on Jan 2nd so I will have p-day on Monday until Jan. 1st. :D

I love yall!!! Stay amazing and let me know if there is something I can do for you!

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SO HAPPY!

The Daughter of a recent convert was baptized this last Sunday and it was there that another one of their friends said that they would like be baptized as well! I love this family. This is an amazing area. I am so happy to be here. And to see all the amazing miracles. This week has been full of a lot of member present lessons. The power of member missionary work is unmessured, I am happy to be able to teach the children of the Lord knowing that they already have friends ready to answer or look up any of the questions that they have when we are not around.

 

We are well taken care of here when ever we have need of food or anything else they are always looking out for us. We are so blessed.

 

We are also looking forward to Thanksgiving! It will be so great!!

 

I love yall!!

Beautiful Days!

This week was super great! I have had a cold the entire time, but we still were able to have a baptism and there are a lot of people that we are working with. This area has a lot of great members I know that I say that every week, but every week I get surprised again at how great they are and how much they think of others. 

When we were at the baptism the daughter was watching really closely, so after the baptism when I heard the bishop tell her, "9, you are out of my jurisdiction you need to talk to the sisters." I knew what she was going to ask before she opened her mouth. Her date is set for Nov. 11th.

I am so excited for all the great things that we have been doing here and that will continue to happen here because of the faith and work of the members here!!

So, for Halloween, we really didn't do much, but we got to pass out candy, we were visiting a sister in our ward and she let us go and get the door whenever people came. It was fun to see all the different kinds of people! We were also thinking of swapping name tags, but since my companion already gets called by her last companions name we decided we shouldn't :D

Well, I hope all is well with all of you, I've been praying for yall!

Oh, and it has been super cold here because of Sandy, but I think that it is starting to warm up again. We were so close to that storm. . .

Love, Sister Sheffer (2)