St Marys!

Picture 1: Sister Scott and I
Picture 2: Sister Scott turned onto this road and said, um . . . "I don't think this is the right one." As we almost ran into the trees. . .

HI! Everyone! How are yall?

I am back in Georgia. I am in Saint Marys, Georgia the second oldest city in the united states. I am so blessed! :D I have been here before on trade-offs, but I will be getting to know that area a lot better. My new companion is Sister Scott, she has just finished training and she has been doing so well. We are working with a wonderful lady named Kathy who is in her seventies and she is getting baptized on Thursday! We are so excited. this area is doing very well on finding people and getting the converts, but there are so many that they have to be careful not to lose them.

I have been getting use to the new area, I still feel lost on the places, but I will get the hang of it, at least I'm not driving, then we really would all be lost.

I am so excited to Halloween! Sister Scott and I are planning on doing a Mormon.org Trunk for the Trunk or Treat! We will be giving out pass along cards!

Oh and we are teaching a woman who reads Hindi so we gave her a book of Mormon and she reads it and we read ours, then we talk about it. she is scheduled to be baptized on the 27th!

I wonder what will happen????

Love you!!

Conference!!

Picture 1: Our 18 year old Ward mission leader

Picture 2: Watching Sunday Morning Session with the girls!

 

When the announcement came Sat. Morning we were sitting right in front of our 18 year old ward mission leader who was called two weeks ago. We turned around and he was in shock! He left the room and called his mom, then the bishop. He was in too much shock for the rest of the session! He started his papers on Sunday!

This changed the world forever. I have seen FB posts (since my comp. is a FB missionary) of girls who say, "Sorry boys, I'm going on a mission!

 

I have noticed that after conference, I have been calmer in lessons and I have felt more power as we teach. There is such a great spirit in missionary work right now and we are all a part of it!

 

This week is transfers and that is why I am writing on Tuesday, every time transfers is here President moves the preparation day to Tuesday.

 

I am being transferred. Sister Knickerbocker is staying here and a sister from the Temple Square mission is coming!!!

 

I have come to notice that there are a lot of things that we as a people do that don't really make a lot of sense to people who are not Mormon, an investigator walked out of the Sunday evening session after hearing the talk about doing work for the dead, she didn't have a full understanding of it, but she said that she knew that people would not get a chance to hear about God, but we all have our chance in this life and, "I believe in a loving God."

 

What she said goes right with the doctrine behind baptisms for the dead, but she couldn't see the connection. I invited her to read and pray about 1 Cor. 15. I wonder what she will think and feel about it . . .

 

There is so much that We know that They don't know, is the thought that Elder Carden of the first quorum of the seventy said to us in Zone Meeting. We are here in the places that Heavenly Father puts us to share the good news!

 

I love it! And I love all of you so much! Thank you for your prayers and support!

GENERAL CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK OCT 6th AND 7th :)

Picture: this is the last district meeting for the transfer

 

This week has been interesting, Ricky blessed the bread!! Then he went to the singles ward. So, he is all in right now!! And he could serve a mission in a year or so!!

I have been so blessed to be in this ward! There are many people who are working on missionary work and there is a girl who came to church with a member and she has asked her mother if she can take the discussions!! So great!! I have been so blessed to see the ward grow while I have been here, but more importantly I feel like I have come to better understand how to work with a ward. :D

 

We have a new ward mission leader!!! Spencer  will be learning a lot before his mission next year. So exciting!!

May the Lord continue to guide me to stay true and faithful!!

 

Transfers will be on the 10th of Oct. and everyone is thinking that I will be going, so I have been running around like crazy to get pictures of people, but we'll see if I get them all. (because general conference next week people won't be at church.)

 

Oh, and can I just say, I loved the Relief Societ Broadcast!! It was so amazing and powerful, this new presidency is going to do great things! And their talks on the atonement were amazingly power packed!!

 

SOOO excited for conference!

11 Days and a few hours until GENERAL CONFERENCE!!! :)

Picture 1: Like my new Bangs!! J/K I think it is cute though. . .

 

Picture 2: Trade off in Atlantic Beaches with Sister Heckle and Sister Reik!! I love them!

 

Hi, so I go no emails this week, but Melz sent me a letter!!! So happy.

 

This week has been crazy all full of trade-offs and then we had the first Sister conference I have ever been to, I didn't even know that they existed!

 

This Sunday was also super cute because it was the primary program and in this ward there are three children in primary that sign so all the children learned some songs in sign so that they would all be able to sing together and one of the songs every one was silent and all that was happening was signing. So powerful! I love children!

 

Oh, and Ricky received the Priesthood! He came to church in a suit and everything! He said that it was from prom. :D I loved it!

 

Sadly Sandy will not be getting baptized any time soon, she is going down hill in her health and she isn't remembering things and so she will have to get the opportunity later. . .

 

This week I have been able to see all the Sisters in the mission! There are 18 younger sister missionaries and they are all wonderful and I'm so happy to be serving in this part of the vineyard with them!

Zone Conference and Trade-offs!!

Picture 1: Yes, that is a Mormon artist's picture on the back of the sign for Corpus Christi a Catholic church :)

Picture 2: Sister Crowton, me, Sister Knickerbocker, and Sister Paton

 

This week was so great, but it was full of things that took us out of our area for hours and hours. . . We had Elder and Sister Cardon come, he is a member for the 1st quorum of the seventy and they spoke with us for zone conference. We/the sisters did a musical number and it was nice, but the best part of it was learning different things. The Spirit was great!!

 

Sandwiching the zone conference was a trade off to Gainsville FL and then Sister Crowton came and we did a trade off here.

 

There is also something else that my companion and I have had to deal with, something that I had never imagined I would have to deal with at least while I was on my mission. FINDING A PLACE TO LIVE!!!! I was so surprised when the office called and let us know that the Landlord wanted to talk to us, the lease it up and we are moving, we have been looking for two weeks and we have only two options, neither of which feel right, oh well . . . STRESS!!!

 

It was a great week though and Ricky was able to be confirmed this last week and the Secretary called him out of class and when he got back he said, "I'm getting the priesthood next Sunday!!" I was so happy for him! He will be able to go to the temple after that!!

 

Sometimes I wonder why missionaries are not allow to go in this mission, no matter what!! :'(

 

Well, I will keep working!! And as "Elder Sheffer" always writes Wise Woman Still Seek Him!!

 

Love yall!

Ricky!

SO Exciting!!

We had a Baptism!!!!! Ricky was so great! And is so great! What an amazing thing to see, someone who really does want to come to Christ! I hope tha the will contunie to get the help that he needs in his life always! We are also still working with another investigator who has a baptism date, Sandy who is 79 years old. I love her!

We are also working on trying to talk to more people and just inviting everyone to act and do what they already know is right. I want to make sure that I teach them all that they need to know!

Okay, so we had a member come up to us and tell us that she has been having missionary experiences and we had challanged the family to write down one missionary experience they had in the next week. She ended following up with us after Ricky's baptism! She had had two and she said, "I was careful to record them down so I wouldn't for get." then she explained about how she was going to continue to work with a family!! I was so happy!!

We also had two trade-offs I have learned a lot from other sisters. I really think I need to start communicating better, that is something I need to work on. . .

 

I love all of you thank you for all you do for me!!

Fwd: Diciple NOW and FOREVER! Sorry for got to blog it last week. . .

All, but two of the sisters serving in the Florida Jacksonville Mission

 

This week was transfers, I wasn't transferred, but Sister Mathis went home and Sister K is a Sister leader so we went to the leadership meeting afterwards. There were twenty new missionaries coming in! It was good to go, I always feel strange though when the departing missionaries give their departing speeches, it makes me feel like I might be up there one day, but Sister K and I have decided that we are never going home, that way we don't have to think about those things, here in the FJM they talk about how we are disciples NOW and FOREVER so we will never stop being missionaries, we will only be transferred. I like that.

 

I have been working on focusing on trying to talk to everyone, we were also told that tracking works in this area, but every door that we were going to was not happy to see us, until I was walking and thinking, Heavenly Father if this is what you want us to be doing right now I need to have something happy happen, and the next house we went to was super nice and she gave us three referrals! I know that I am out here to help people see the Lord's influence in their lives. The Lord is drawing us to him as stated in 3 Nephi and the only why for us not to be drawn is to fight it, we are always inviting people, but those who are willing are the only ones who will come. I got the feeling this week that as a full time missionary I am here to teach those who are looking. I know the Lord will help inspire the members here and help us to be lead to those elect.

 

Ricky is still working to be baptised on 9/9/12 and we have another working for the 9/23/12! This ward is also fabulous! So exciting! I love it!!

 

I love you all too!!!

 

Stay amazing! :D