Wednesday,
December 5, 2012
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY TO MY SUPER AWESOME SIBLINGS ASHLEIGH AND DAVID!!! smASH! sorry I
can't be there for that cruz you wanted to go on, but if you want to go next
year - i'll do my best to be your interpreter ;D ...B-man! You're a teacher
now! and you are all in 8th grade and stuff and you get to play more football
and wow - you've got an awesome life! I LOVE YOU BOTH SO MUCH! and ps - a
present (very small present) is on the way for both of you...I'm a poor
missionary but I love you both!
before i forget - Kaity, i met a guy from you mission the other day in the VC. I cannot remember his name...or where i put i wrote it down, but he was from Guatemala or Peru (i think) and he just got back in like July! Super cool guy - we talked in Spanish..haha, i speak Spanish, pretty sweet! anywho that is all :D
Well back to missionary life. The Festival of Lights has begun! and it has been so awesome! The lighting ceremony was on Wednesday and Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles came to the VC with his wife and some family who live in the area. I was at the VC that night and it was our embassador night - so all the people that decide if we can go to their countries and share the Gospel there. HOW COOL?? Well i loved it! We had a good time - and the featured embassador was from the Ukraine - did you know we have a temple there in Kiev?? HOW COOL!!? He was super sweet and just shared how he can't wait to continue to work with the church and have a country of continual peace. I would say the best part was Elder Nelson - side note, i got to shake his hand and i froze like a popsicle. He was super nice and just reached out to shake my hand...then Sister Lin (one of our missionaries from Taiwan was there) and he told her "nice to meet you" IN CHINESE!!! WHAT? He is amazing! truly blessed of the Lord to know various languages....back to His talk/speech. He talked about how we all need to let the light of Christ into our lives and the true meaning of Christmas. Well - the view i had was a side view, where two spotlights were on him and the two in the other direction were on the Christus in the Main Lobby of the VC.It was so amazing to feel the Spirit in that room and that moment in time. He truly is a living apostle of the Lord.
Other cool things - festival is awesome! I got a new investigator (over the phone teaching at the VC) who I have trying to get sister missionaries to here for a while. She was referred by her fiance who is a member and she is of the Muslim faith but wants to learn because of his background...but she feels more secure with learning from a women...but there are no sisters in her area. Well, while i was talking to her, i understood that that is because I should be the one teaching her. So I offered that I could do that over the phone and teach her that way. she said YES! so awesome! so now i have a new investigator and she is awesome! and I'm super excited!
And our investigators in our area are doing SO WELL! the family that we are teaching came to church again this Sunday (and brought the son of the dad)...This kid is the best! He was talking to me in Sacrament meeting about Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father and how sometimes he can't tell them apart because they look so much a like :) Well, I then proceeded to show him the picture of the First Vision and he told me who the people in the air were, but then i asked which was which and he pointed straight to Jesus and then to Heavenly Father! How amazing is that! He truly knows his Savior and his Father in Heaven and he's only 7 years old! We're friends. then their whole family porceeded to come to the VC that night for the Festival of lights and had one amazing experience with the Spirit. They have a daughter who is disabled and we love her to pieces! Well, one of the Senior sisters started talking to her (because she used to do speech therapy a long time ago). It was super special, this sister told me that it was like she was talking to a pure spirit child of our Father in Heaven. It's true, I know she was.
Well, that's what i have for this week. I know that this is true. I know we have a living prophet on the earth today and twelve apostles. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and does not take anything away from the Gospel. It only helps us know more of what Heavenly Father expects us to do so that we can return to him. I bare witness of these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
this week, i challenge you all to share your testimony! It is such a wonderful experience on both ends. You are giving God's children the chance to be his children once again :) Share it. Share the love he has for all his children!
Con todo mi amor!
-Hermana Word (2)
5607- KAITY - here's my blowup for your wedding :D you thought i was joking...
5611 - Hna.Tuft, Hna. Finlay, and Me! before the embassador's arrived
5613 - Sister Bullock and I! She's awesome!
before i forget - Kaity, i met a guy from you mission the other day in the VC. I cannot remember his name...or where i put i wrote it down, but he was from Guatemala or Peru (i think) and he just got back in like July! Super cool guy - we talked in Spanish..haha, i speak Spanish, pretty sweet! anywho that is all :D
Well back to missionary life. The Festival of Lights has begun! and it has been so awesome! The lighting ceremony was on Wednesday and Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles came to the VC with his wife and some family who live in the area. I was at the VC that night and it was our embassador night - so all the people that decide if we can go to their countries and share the Gospel there. HOW COOL?? Well i loved it! We had a good time - and the featured embassador was from the Ukraine - did you know we have a temple there in Kiev?? HOW COOL!!? He was super sweet and just shared how he can't wait to continue to work with the church and have a country of continual peace. I would say the best part was Elder Nelson - side note, i got to shake his hand and i froze like a popsicle. He was super nice and just reached out to shake my hand...then Sister Lin (one of our missionaries from Taiwan was there) and he told her "nice to meet you" IN CHINESE!!! WHAT? He is amazing! truly blessed of the Lord to know various languages....back to His talk/speech. He talked about how we all need to let the light of Christ into our lives and the true meaning of Christmas. Well - the view i had was a side view, where two spotlights were on him and the two in the other direction were on the Christus in the Main Lobby of the VC.It was so amazing to feel the Spirit in that room and that moment in time. He truly is a living apostle of the Lord.
Other cool things - festival is awesome! I got a new investigator (over the phone teaching at the VC) who I have trying to get sister missionaries to here for a while. She was referred by her fiance who is a member and she is of the Muslim faith but wants to learn because of his background...but she feels more secure with learning from a women...but there are no sisters in her area. Well, while i was talking to her, i understood that that is because I should be the one teaching her. So I offered that I could do that over the phone and teach her that way. she said YES! so awesome! so now i have a new investigator and she is awesome! and I'm super excited!
And our investigators in our area are doing SO WELL! the family that we are teaching came to church again this Sunday (and brought the son of the dad)...This kid is the best! He was talking to me in Sacrament meeting about Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father and how sometimes he can't tell them apart because they look so much a like :) Well, I then proceeded to show him the picture of the First Vision and he told me who the people in the air were, but then i asked which was which and he pointed straight to Jesus and then to Heavenly Father! How amazing is that! He truly knows his Savior and his Father in Heaven and he's only 7 years old! We're friends. then their whole family porceeded to come to the VC that night for the Festival of lights and had one amazing experience with the Spirit. They have a daughter who is disabled and we love her to pieces! Well, one of the Senior sisters started talking to her (because she used to do speech therapy a long time ago). It was super special, this sister told me that it was like she was talking to a pure spirit child of our Father in Heaven. It's true, I know she was.
Well, that's what i have for this week. I know that this is true. I know we have a living prophet on the earth today and twelve apostles. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and does not take anything away from the Gospel. It only helps us know more of what Heavenly Father expects us to do so that we can return to him. I bare witness of these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
this week, i challenge you all to share your testimony! It is such a wonderful experience on both ends. You are giving God's children the chance to be his children once again :) Share it. Share the love he has for all his children!
Con todo mi amor!
-Hermana Word (2)
5607- KAITY - here's my blowup for your wedding :D you thought i was joking...
5611 - Hna.Tuft, Hna. Finlay, and Me! before the embassador's arrived
5613 - Sister Bullock and I! She's awesome!
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