June!

I was able to go to George Town GA this last week! And I got to see Kim! It was so amazing and strange to see all the places I had spent months in. Because Sister Mathis is a Sister Leader we were able to go!

 

We also had a sister leader come to visit us and it was amazing! After one day we had three new investigators and we had two more later that week from what we did durning tradeoffs! I love it. We have really been working on getting out and talking to everyone! We have been counting it and reporting it.

 

I don't have much time because we went to the doctors this morning, don't worry everything is fine and I hope you are all doing well.

 

Oh, side note. I drank from the fountain of youth! I will live forever! (through Christ--after I die) :)

 

I <3 you all!

 

Sorry no pictures this week, I forgot my camera, but this is from my comp's camera!

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Rain

The sign is as you leave a parking lot of a Baptist Chruch. So great!

 

I think it has been rainy everyday out here since the tropical storm. (my shoes are always wet from the rain.) It might start out nice one day and then it will start to poring down. The work here has been moving slowly and I feel like I need to learn a lot here because I am having a hard time.

 

I like to think of a song when it rains, "at the end of the storm is a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark." Yesterday it stopped raining just as the sun was setting and there was a beautiful double rainbow. It was so perfect. I have so much that I will come to understand and it is through the scriptures and the gospel.

 

I guess all I can do sometimes is to just keep swimming.

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June week 1

I have been able to meet with many wonderful people this week and we have been able to see many members that we had hope to meet with.

 

Oh, Transfers are Wed. and I will be staying with Sister Mathis, this is her second to last transfer. Sister Fitu will be heading home. So strange!

 

My area is right next to the Ocean so, it is pretty cool (weather wise).

 

We have been talking to a lot of different people this week and it is so intersting to listen to them. So many different stories. We were even able to listen to an after death experiences. (I love those they are so amazing!)

 

I have so much more to learn when it comes to missionary work and how we can bless people's lives! I have been working on my finding. :D 

 

We have an investigator, Mimi, who lived in the forest of Hawaii for a year by herself. She said it brought her really close to God and she realized that we really don't need all the things that we have in our lives. She is so amazing and she was like, "Oh, so the Book of Mormon tells of how the Native American's learned about God." I love it!

 

I love ya'll and I hope you are doing very well!

 

 

Picture 2: this is the fortune that a woman in our ward got. She laughed. (She is from Germany) :)

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We missed you

How are you doing?  We think of you often.  Drop me an email and let me know whats going on.  Are you getting the newsletter.  If not let me know.

Love you all lots. GMA

St. Augustine downtown

This last Monday close to the end of P-Day we went to downtown and it was wonderful. So old and it made me feel like I was in a very old town (which is true I guess because it claims to be the oldest town in the US)

 

This is the first week that I have been able to actually stay in my area all week. It was interesting, then we got a text from President asking if we would come to the priesthood leadership meeting, it was my first priesthood meeting ever and the brothers kept asking if we were lost. It was interesting. President wanted us to be there because he wanted to do role plays--or real plays as he likes to call them--with all the leaders to help them understand the power. He always says, "It is like that saying, when the student is ready the teacher will appear, I like to do it the other way as well, then the teacher is ready the student will appear." It was fun, I only wish there were more leaders from our ward to role play with.

 

I think I need to become more of a teacher so that more students will appear, but we are building our teaching pool and I know there are many things that we can continue to work on here.

 

A member passed away recently. He was a recent convert and I was just able to meet him before he passed. He will be missed.

 

There have been many struggles and many things to work for, but there have been happy times and joyous times as well. Mission life is so strange.

 

I love ya'll and I pray for you! Stay amazing! Oh, Katie, thank you so much for emailing me those amazing pictures I love them soo much. (I took a picture of them with my camera so I will always have them with me!)

 

picture 1: The Bridge of Lions is behind me (I'm trying to point to it, but it looks like thumbs up. . .)

pic 2: Yes. That is a pirate ship. They also have a fort that was built to defend against pirates. The University and light house are also very close. So amazing, yet just out of my area so we can only go on P-days 

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wedding and baptism

I was emergency tranfserred on thrusday to Saint Augustine FL. I was there for three days and on Sunday there was a baptism and Wedding. Carla was able to join the church and marry Taylor (who is a member). It was amazing!

 

I have been so blessed to beable to see my family yesterday. I wish that the viedo feed had worked better, but it was so amazing to see Eiden walking and to see how big he was and to see how everyone has changed in the past six months or so! There is so much light in this world and it is always nice to know that I do have people who are behind me.

 

I have been so blessed to be here and I continue to hope that I can do my best!

 

I wish there was more to write, I'm just getting to know this area. I remember the night before I went to St. Augustine I looked at the board in Orange Park and said, "Hey I actually know all of the people on the board."

 

Hopefully I will learn quickly all of the people here. The ward was recently split so there are not as many people as there use to be. It will still be some time though and I hope to help as best I can.

I love ya'll and don't forget, I love Pictures!

 

 

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Fwd: Amy

Amy is a wonderful person who was meeting with the sisters before I arrived. When we were taking the picture with all the sisters who had worked with Amy sister Fitu said, "it's a family picture!" I loved it!

I'm still not use to doing trade offs with ward members whenever the other sisters are needing to quickly go and get something. I'm also still getting use to the area from the back seat. ;) I do love this area and the people that I have met and worked with. The testimony meeting was full of testimonies on missionary work and the importance of opening our mouths. I loved it! I also was able to introduce myself to the ward with my testimony. The spirit of missionary work is strong here.

okay another thing. . . in GA we were not close enough to meet as a district all the time, but here in OP FL there is a zone P-day every week! It is so strange. it is nice though.

Also this week I noticed that one of my investigators reminds me of Alan, his name is Kevin and he is doing really good and making many changes in his life! I'll have to take a picture of him and send it home one day. I showed him a picture of Alan and he laughed and agreed. ;)

i love ya'll! God Bless!!

pic: Me, Sister Waldman, Amy, Sister Fitu, and Sister Delaplane

Brother and Sister Bowen, ferret and Me (Sister Bowen reminds me of Esther)

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