tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637572482923965092024-03-14T02:17:15.644-07:00Nana goes to IndianaSister missionary in the Indiana Indianapolis MissionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-29740704085655774562015-04-28T16:36:00.001-07:002015-04-28T16:36:17.134-07:00My Homecoming Talk; Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today I'd like to speak to you about eternal life through Jesus Christ, and of course, my mission. When I was first given the topic, I had no idea how I was going to relate the two. I was nervous and coming home was still very raw, I was almost hoping there would be a random opening for surgery yesterday and I wouldn't have to speak. Luckily, surgery is still in a couple weeks, and after going to the temple about a month ago, I gained many ideas of what to speak about.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With such a demanding schedule of icing, elevating, taking Tylenol, and not getting out of the house, my knees could only handle the temple long enough to do initiatories or even just sit in the waiting room a few minutes. One day I was getting ready for a doctor's appointment that I needed my knees to be really aggravated for, so I decided to go all out and do a session. It was my first session since I went to the Chicago temple on my mission, and reflecting on the months between made me think of the plan God had for me in those short months. It also made me think of His long term plan for me and each of His children. The most important part of that plan is our Savior, Jesus Christ, described in John 3:16-17; "for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that through Him they might be saved." Because He took upon Himself our sins and shortcomings, we can repent and be able to live with our Heavenly Father, again!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moses 1:39 teaches us that God allowed this because His work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. What a beautiful and hopeful plan I am so grateful to have been able to share on as many doorsteps of Indiana as I could! Although tracting was intimidating at first, it came to be one of my favorite things. I got so excited to see who we might meet and to share with them my testimony of the gospel that means everything to me, and how it could bless them. I loved when people would answer and listen, but I loved even more seeing the spirit touch them. The spirit would help them become more accepting of the fact that two strange young girls in dresses and name tags were on their porch, discussing the reality of God and Jesus Christ, and the blessings of having a relationship with them. Often, you could see their eyes get brighter, and they might even open the door wider or hold their dogs inside while they shut the door to come chat on the porch. I loved helping them realize what the spirit was and what it meant. I usually awkwardly went about this by asking how they felt, after sharing a doctrine or principle. Sometimes they'd be confused, sometimes they'd express thoughts instead of feelings, and sometimes they'd say they felt "good", or something similar. We'd then read Galations 5:22-23, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law", and explain that the spirit is how we come to know truth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By winter, my companion and I were tracting the cities of Beech Grove and Indianapolis during windows when members weren't inviting us to bake and carol with them, or teaching the recent converts who'd been baptized just before I was transferred there. My companion, Sister Peel, lived in Alabama for years before her mission, and hated the cold. She was in denial and wore her coat as little as possible, and used to smile with my persistence of continuing to talk to people even as they were shutting the door. I just had to be sure they didn't want to say a quick prayer with us, watch a quick Christmas video about the reason for the season, or if they knew anyone who'd could use an uplifting message about Jesus Christ. She had to remind me often that my knees needed breaks from the cold.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One experience that taught me a lot about eternal life through Jesus Christ was a lesson in Mishawaka with an investigator named Rob. Rob is a member's boyfriend and he'd had a rough life, growing up in the hood of Chicago. He didn't have very much religious background, and Sister Clegg and I were lucky he liked us enough to let us teach him. We were teaching him about repentance, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ pamphlet, and turned to the page with the steps of the repentance process and a painting of the savior. Looking at the painting, I asked Rob how he thought the Savior felt about him. He laughed and said "Sista Evans, why you gotta ask all the hard questions?" I had to laugh before continuing to testify how much Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ loved him, despite the sorrows and mistakes of his past. It suddenly reminded me of the story of the prodigal son, which was so fitting I can’t believe we hadn’t planned on sharing it, and began sharing the parable of the father, two brothers and their inheritance. We described to Rob how the prodigal son asked for his inheritance early, but used it up quickly in riotous living, and came back to see if his father would take him as a slave. As we next described the unconditional love and sweet excitement of the father, welcoming his son with open arms, the spirit and feelings in the room didn’t allow for any dry eyes. Through tears, Rob said, "I am that son". He was so excited to have the opportunity and blessing to repent and felt the spirit so much! Soon after we extended Rob a baptismal date, and he his reaction was to ask, "of this year??" And made us laugh again. Talking to him recently, I found that he has not been baptized yet, and hasn't been taking lessons from the new sisters, but is still reading the Book of Mormon and seeing the difference it makes in his life. I hope he continues on that path and know that eternal life is available to him. I know eternal life is possible for all through Jesus Christ. How the atonement of Jesus Christ allows ALL to attain eternal life is described in many scriptures, but one of the most simple is the third Article of faith. That is, "we believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel". I am incredibly grateful for the hope that that brings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This hope is described in Moroni 7:41, "And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise." Learning about the Atonement was one thing I loved most about my mission. I started my mission in Mishawaka, which was super north and super close to Michigan. With humidity and lake effect from the Great Lakes, it could get pretty chilly, and pretty hard on my knees. I started my mission with imperfect knees and physical therapy exercises, but promises from doctors that I would get better in a few months, or, if not, would not have a problem. This was not the case, however, and as things started getting worse, President Cleveland let me know I would not stay there through the winter, but transferred close enough to see a doctor, in what he called the “tropics” of Indiana. My last Sunday in Mishawaka, we were excited about the investigators and less actives at church, and I knew I had to bear my testimony, but my heart was so full I could hardly do it. I finally got up, and spoke about how exciting General Conference was, the week before. I talked about how grateful I was for latter day prophets and apostles, and then talked especially about my favorite talk from Elder Bednar. In Elder Bednar's talk, he talked about a little boy and band aids. The band aids were like the Atonement, and after the boy felt its healing and comfort, he wanted to give out bandaids like candy. This reminded me of our ward mission leader, who loves to say that the gospel is like a good movie or song, when you get really excited about it, you want to share it with all your friends! The same feelings were shared many times in the scriptures.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One great example is Enos. Enos was the son of a prophet, and begins telling about the beginnings of his testimony in Enos 1:3-4, “Behold, I went to hunt beasts in the forests; and the words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart. And my soul hungered; and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens”. Pondering his father’s teachings of eternal life, Enos was inspired to act; he was inspired to change. After he received forgiveness, he could hardly believe it. After God explained to Enos that his faith in Christ had made him whole, Enos describes the growth of his testimony of the Atonement, in Enos 1:9,“Now, it came to pass that when I heard these words I began to feel a desire for the welfare of my brethren, the Nephites; wherefore, I did pour out my whole soul unto God for them”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another great example of the power of the Atonement is the story of Alma the younger. With the sons of Helaman, Alma the younger caused quite a bit of trouble and led away many. After being stopped by an angel, and realizing much guilt, Alma described in Alma 36:17-19 "And it came to pass that as I was thus racked with torment, while I was harrowed up by the memory of my many sins, behold, I remembered also to have heard my father prophesy unto the people concerning the coming of one Jesus Christ, a Son of God, to atone for the sins of the world. Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death. And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more." What amazing hope the Atonement offers that allowed Alma to go from great sorrow and despair for his mistakes, to "joy as exceeding as his pain"!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After he gained strength and was able to stand, he was too excited to keep such a marvelous experience and testimony builder to himself! In Alma 36:24-25 he said "Yea, and from that time even until now, I have labored without ceasing, that I might bring souls unto repentance; that I might bring them to taste of the exceeding joy of which I did taste; that they might also be born of God, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Yea, and now behold, O my son, the Lord doth give me exceedingly great joy in the fruit of my labors". I absolutely love these verses! These verses so beautifully describe my joy in teaching about the Atonement on my mission. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preparing for my mission I gained a great love for the Atonement, as it helped me to prepare, and gave me the strength I needed to do things I couldn't have on my own. During my mission, those experiences gave me motivation to share my testimony and give my all even when I wasn't sure how it was going to work out for me. The exact hope, strength, and peace I needed, I found in the Atonement. As I, and each of us, continue on our earthly missions, the Atonement allows us to repent and become worthy of eternal life. Alma says later in verses 27-28, "I do put my trust in him, and he will still deliver me. And I know that he will raise me up at the last day, to dwell with him in glory; yea, and I will praise him forever".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eternal life through Jesus Christ is taught all throughout the Book of Mormon, as it is another testament of Jesus Christ, and an incredible teacher of the Atonement. This is shown In 2 Nephi 25:23, where Nephi explains, "For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do". As we give our all, our Savior makes up for what we cannot do on our own. I learned a lot about this my last couple of transfers in Mishawaka, after my trainer left. I felt like I didn't know the area, the people, or what I was doing, but with work, my new companion and I saw miracles. One miracle was named Orlando. One day we were looking at our map, planning how to make the most of the miles we'd be using to go to the member dinner we had, and found sticky notes for a few less actives, so we wrote their names down and went for it. Knocking on one of those doors, a young man probably only a few years older than us answered. His name was Orlando, and he told us that the brother whose name was on the ward roster hadn’t lived there for years, but was in the military and stationed in Hawaii. We learned more about Orlando, and that he was not baptized, but went to the Mormon church with his grandma, growing up. Although Orlando didn’t remember a lot of the things that he’d learned, as soon as we started teaching him we knew he was amazingly elect! On exchanges when Sister Clegg and one of our sister training leaders went to teach him, friends of his started showing up and asking questions, and participating in the lesson! It was amazing to see how by small and simple things, great things were brought to pass. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nephi continues explaining in 2 Nephi 31:19-21, the way to Eternal Life, “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save. Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life. And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen”. After faith, repentance, baptism, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, we must endure to the end. Enduring to the end is the longest and probably most difficult part. Nephi explains that to do so, we must “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men”. Our power to press forward and have hope increases as we live the gospel and grow in our faith. Nephi also instructs us to feast on the words of Christ, which is similar to John 5:39, which says “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As we continually feast on the words of Christ, and hold to the rod, they keep us on the straight and narrow, and give us power over temptation and distraction and mists of darkness.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-29890672881637288152015-03-06T17:50:00.001-08:002015-03-06T17:50:07.940-08:00February 22nd Updates!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
What a week! Monday I called President and received the verdict. As much as I didn't want going home to be the answer, that was the answer I felt fasting, and the answer my parents, and Stake President felt. The neat part about the call was a phrase President Cleveland used, saying "I guess this is the Lord's will!" which was definitely an answer. I was at the mall with a bunch of sisters when I called President and after I stopped crying long enough to tell them, Sister McMillan asked if she could take me on a walk. She said a lot of sweet things, including that she cared, another assurance of my Priesthood blessing the week before. </div>
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Tuesday we got to teach Henry who we had met on the UIndy campus! It was so exciting to teach a full restoration lesson and the spirit was amazing! We met him at the library and were whispering back and forth at a table in the back but it was one powerful experience! We invited him to baptism and to church, both of which he wasn't too sure about, but we told him we were leaving and we would let the IUPUI sisters know and they'd be able to keep teaching him. One funny part of the lesson was when we were showing him what we call apostasy cups and when we spilled them a few people looked at us! Danny, who we also met on campus, walked by and was excited to see us while we were talking to Henry! He only had a second because he was going to study but he wanted to share some sushi with us! </div>
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Wednesday we splurged on miles to see Todd and Donna Castner one last time. We brought the restoration movie hoping to stop in and share a quick message. They were excited to see us and chatted with us for quite a while, giving us lots of life advice, especially after we told them we were both going home! We invited them to baptism on April 4th but Todd wasn't too sure, and Donna didn't think she'd be ready that early. She said she really wants to belong to a church and be baptized, just maybe in the fall.</div>
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For our last District Meeting with the weird situations, we watched Prince of Egypt and made grilled cheese with Sister Banks. It was a lot of fun, and made me think a lot about the blessing being in this district has been! We've become friends even though we are all super different, and they've helped me a lot by making me laugh and joining us for lunch or ice cream runs! Sister Banks also made us laugh with her match making. </div>
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When Sister Steadman found out I was going home she called during lunch one day to tell me how proud she was of all I had done. I love her so much! She was so helpful arranging doctors visits with me and so sweet to check up on me so much! Later that week when we were in the mission home after Sister Gil's exit interview I had the sweetest chat with her about God's will and plan for us that helped me to be excited for whatever the Lord has in store for me! Things don't always work out the way we planned, but God's plan is always better than ours.</div>
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Saturday it was snowing like crazy and our cars were grounded! We decided to bite the bullet and go tracking a few streets away from our house. What an adventure! We tried helping people shovel their driveways but a few of them ignored or declined, and one of them only spoke Korean! We tried to give him a pass along card with a picture of Jesus but he didn't want one. Later that day our cars were ungrounded and we were running to the post office for some boxes when we got rear-ended. What a day!</div>
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Don't worry I did not break this chair! It was just super convenient..</div>
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Breakfast at the Lane's in Cross Roads!</div>
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This Train is Bound for Glory with Brother Lane!</div>
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"Can Elder Givens like someone else?" Sister Gil<br />
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"Elder Cathcart you left meat on the bones!" Sister Gil<br />
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"I like your necklace!" Lauren Futrell<br />
"Thanks! They call me one chain" Sister Gil<br />
"That's funny, they call me two chains" Elder Lorsch<br />
"They call me three chins!" Lauren<br />
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"You look pretty delicate, maybe you just need to go on a raw diet! Get that inflammation out!" Donna (I)<br />
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"'and strengthen the feeble knees' hey that's sister Evans!" Elder Given<br />
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"oh you don't look that old!" Sister Gil<br />
"Thanks! I might become a Mormon just because of that!" Leah's mom<br />
"Oh don't do that! You've got to pray about it!" me<br />
"I don't pray. I'm an atheist." Leah's mom<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-75646562229887306042015-03-02T11:13:00.000-08:002015-03-02T11:13:14.420-08:00February 16th Weekly UpdateSince driving to and sitting for a couple hours at Stake Conference my knees were even more swollen and hurting, so I asked for a blessing Monday. Sister Gil had suggested I get another blessing but I wasn't sure because I'd just gotten a blessing from Elder Mortensen. Elder Rasmussen, who I served with and was friends with in Mishawaka, was at the chapel that P-Day and I knew if I was going to get a blessing I wanted to ask him. I was gathering up my stuff and ran into him in the kitchen after we'd both been busy, and knew I had to ask. One of the parts that stood out to me most was when I was blessed to know that many people cared. Right after, one of the elders asked me why I didn't play soccer with them that day, and I said I went to the mall with some other sisters because my knees were hurting, and he said they missed me on their team.<br />
We also went to the UIndy campus with the elders and taught 6 lessons and found 2 new investigators! One kid we talked to was walking with his girlfriend, so we were trying to talk to both of them, when they saw a friend who wanted to come see what we were doing, and then another friend, and then another, until there were 4 students with super different religious beliefs talking to us! What a lesson! One of them was named Jeff, and he said he knew the Bishop of the Plainfield ward I just served in, had been studying the church for two years, and had a Book of Mormon! That was way exciting!<br />
For lunch one day we went to Sister Bank's for pizza with the elders, but didn't think she'd be home. Before the elders got there Sister Banks came in! We were pretty surprised because we thought she was helping at her friends Linda and Raymond's, but it turned out she was having a pretty rough day and having the missionaries there, who she calls her kids, was so good for her! Later that week we brought her roses for Valentines Day and she was on cloud nine, it was the sweetest! She sure loves her missionaries, and we sure love her!<br />
Wednesday we had a March Madness Zone Conference that was pretty exciting! While I was icing Elder Smithhart asked if he could wear my tennis shoes, and was so excited to get in on the basketball clinic! It was really sweet how many people reached out to me that day to see how I was doing. Afterward I talked to President because I was nervous about training with my knees bothering me so much. That night we had dinner with the Restivo family who had prepared a message for us about God's love, including a video from President Uchtdorf, who is one of my favorites! It was incredibly overwhelming. Getting ready to go, Sister Restive gave me a hug and asked how my knees were doing. She expressed her love, concern, and how much she was praying for me! That night another evidence of God's love was my district leader giving me a call. Elder Diaz asked how I was doing and I told him I was great and asked how he was doing, but he said he knew I'd had a rough day and he was sorry there was nothing he could say to make it hurt less, but he wanted to let me know that he cared.<br />
Waiting for President Cleveland to call and talk to my parents and stake President about how much pain I was in was pretty difficult. I prayed and studied so much about it, and by Friday, reading my Patriarchal blessing, I felt like I should pray more specifically if going home would be best, rather than what to do. The peace that then came over me was amazing! Sunday I fasted that I, and those who were involved in my decision, would be able to know God's will, and that I would be able to accept that will.<br />
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"I like you! Can you come back?" Molly Tomlinson (PI)<br />
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"Today we met a kid named Jeff at UIndy that knows the Simpsons and has been studying the church for two years! Crazy!" Me<br />
"What the...get baptized! Haha" Sister Lowry<br />
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"and please bless the haters..." Elder Borsch prayer request<br />
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"I was gonna scare you because I saw you first but I thought you might scream so I decided to scare Sister Gil" Elder Diaz<br />
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"I'd be like 'um ya, I can help you with those pillows!" me and moving<br />
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"God was smart sending His pretty daughters to find and teach His sons!" Kat (I)<br />
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"and I visit teach Sister Comeau" Sister Tait<br />
"Oh no, she hates us!" me<br />
"She hates you? Can she have visiting teachers?" Sister Tait<br />
"Ya, she likes other people, she just called the cops on us!" me<br />
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"If you could marry any fictional character who would it be and why?" Sister Williams<br />
"I'm racking my brain for fictional characters...the only one I can think of is Harry Potter and he's not exactly my first choice" me<br />
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"We had dinner with the Ronalds who were gracious enough to feed us two triple cheeseburgers...each!" Elder Lorsch, referring to them having McDonald's for dinner<br />
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"Should we go check on Elder Bair?" me<br />
"Oh he's fine" Elder Lorsch<br />
Don't worry about it mother Evans" Elder GivenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-34544330858736942962015-02-27T07:38:00.002-08:002015-02-27T07:38:15.246-08:00February 9th Weekly Update<br />
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Highlights of the week! Wednesday we stopped by to see Donna because she hadn't been answering our texts, and she was not only home, but her husband, Todd, was home too! He came home from the hospital and had been there for just a few days. They were huge chatter boxes and we were there for so long I had to go to the bathroom part way through, but we taught them the restoration! It was sweet, and Donna thought it was so cool! We don't have a solid return appointment but they said we can stop by again soon! <div>
We also found A NEW INVESTIGATOR!! Our first feat was to find a neighborhood that we could tract in because so many are no soliciting! We were walking around and we saw this guy out playing with his kids so we walked over and talked to him. He was super cool and his family was so sweet! We are going back to teach him Tuesday and are so excited! After we finally found another street we could tract we met this cute couple, the Vanlous, whose daughter and son in law were Mormon! Their son used to be Mormon, they said, and went on a mission, but had a lot of doubts after and decided not to keep going. They were pretty strong in their own religion but we talked to them about Family History and exchanged numbers so maybe we'll be able to go by again and show them more! We'll see.</div>
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We went by the Vasquez family this week as well and they had a lot of non member visitors there! One of them even said he saw us earlier that week at a restaurant called Papa Roux's we went to as a district after district meeting! Another sweet thing that happened this week was when we were eating with the Sanders after we said the closing prayer Brother Sanders asked if he could add to the prayer, and prayed that we would be able to find new investigators. What a sweet, humble family!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-61425716576530917502015-02-27T07:37:00.004-08:002015-02-27T07:37:40.127-08:00February 2nd Weekly Update and Pictures<br />
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On Wednesday after District meeting the elders asked us to come PC campus with them because Sister Gil served on another campus for a few months and we were not finding any new investigators tracting our neighborhood. The three of us mostly watched Sister Gil for a minute but then hopped in and tried, ourselves! It was pretty crazy and we met some pretty cool people! One of them was named Colton and he struck up a conversation with us while we were inside warming up for a minute. He talked about how he was researching cancer because his grandma was going through cancer for the second time, and we told him about the Book of Mormon. He was excited to read it and wants to learn more! He's super busy with going to work and school from home in Avon, but we're going to keep trying!</div>
The other day we were trying Less Actives again and were referred by one less active (Sister Myers) to another (Dorthea), and got to share a scripture with her (Dorthea) and a friend (Amy)! They said they work a lot so it's going to be hard to see them again, but it was super cool they both happened to be there when we stopped by! Yesterday we went to meet her mom and brother (the Goodners) and found a nonmember there! His name was Mike and after we shared a scripture with Dagon (Goodner) Mike asked if we could pray for his daughter who had just passed away. We shared a little bit of the restoration with Mike and tried to give him a Book of Mormon but the print was too small for him to read. Nonetheless he is excited to learn more when we go back to see Sister Goodner on Tuesday! Wahoo for new investigators!!</div>
Yesterday was an intense day at church! Ricky Taylor (returning less active) got called to be a gospel doctrine teacher, which he is perfect for him! and Jenny Taylor (recent convert) was so excited to be called as a visiting teacher she spit all over me telling me about it, which was pretty funny! Testimony meeting was AMAZING because Sister Durtschi, the Relief Society President, who's been trying to get over pnemonia so they can do surgery on a tumor behind her optic nerve they just found, was there and bore her testimony. Everyone was so glad to see her and has been praying so much for her family! The Sanders also bore their testimonies because Brother Sanders spent a lot of last week in the hospital with heart failure. Brother Durtschi sat behind Sister Durtschi as she was bearing her testimony and put his arm around her to walk back to their bench, it was so sweet! Then Sister Marks was bearing her testimony and said how sweet it was to watch two of the Durtschi kids watch their mom and dad walk up there and the boy just put his arm around the other and hugged them. I'm pretty there were no dry eyes there! Even better, Tyneka's daughter, Akaiah, went to church with the Sperry girls and Sister Pitcher was called as the seminary teacher! </div>
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This week we worked with Relief Society a lot on finding and contacting less actives, but were rejected by most of them! Monday one of them called the cops on us because we left a note in their door and they thought we were trying to break in. We were trying a few in the same neighborhood and had already gone to the next house, were parked in front and mid prayer, when we realized there were flashing lights behind us. We turned the car back on so we could roll down the window and they asked if we'd been on a street called Ithica way. We were like "oh ya, we actually were!" and they said someone called them because they heard their doorknob jiggling and they thought someone was trying to break in. Sister Gil promptly told them we were from their church and just wanting to visit them, "we're missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! Also known as Mormons!" I almost thought she was going to ask if they'd heard of it before or had a faith in Jesus Christ! They asked our names and I said "Sister Evans and Sister Gil!" And Sister Gil said "Nicole Gil and--" and I said "Amanda Evans!" and they said "ok, and you left a note in their door?" and then he said something to another officer on the other side of us we noticed just then, and got back in their cars and left. That was definitely the first time I'd been pulled over! We knocked on the door we were stopped at, left a note, and went home real quick! The next day the elders were also having a rough one so we had pizza at Sister Banks, and milkshakes the next night! The crazy thing is we had tons of less actives at church, yesterday!</div>
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We did get to meet with a part member family yesterday who just found out the husband has cancer. They were super humbled and excited for a message and help from the Relief Society! They chatted with us for a couple hours and it was so great! We watched the video "Mountains to Climb" with them and all cried. </div>
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This week one of the highlights was teaching Donna Castner! Todd Castner was a former investigator, whose record sister Peel and I found and wanted to contact. We went by and met his wife, Donna, who greeted us by asking if we could give Priesthood blessings. We told her we couldn't, but could find someone who could for her, and she gave us her number to set up an appointment. We called and called but she didn't answer, until the elders received a referral for her, probably from her aunt serving a senior mission. They were able to give him a blessing for his MS, and the elders set up a return appointment for us to meet her because they live in our area. Sister Gil and I were looking for her house when sister Gil said she thought it was the one with a sign on the door, but by the time we got turned around to park the sign was gone. We walked to the door and she said she was nervous to talk to us because of how emotional she was about the situation with her husband's health, but decided to take it down. It was taken down as we drove by! We got to know her much better and she will be hopefully calling soon to set up another appointment when she is ready.<br />
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Yesterday was a crazy day, we saw more progress from our investigators in one day than we have in like 3 months! We stopped by the Riveras and showed them "The Hope of God's Light" and part way through when it was talking about addictions Will said it was so weird because the day before he'd been thinking about stopping drinking! They also prayed as a family the night before!! This man wasn't even sure he believed in God the first time Sister Peel contacted him!! They loved the video and agreed to read Alma 32 for real before we take them on a church tour next Thursday! At the end he asked if he could pray for Sister Peel before she left. OH MY it was amazing!! The Jones hadn't been taught the restoration yet but have been to church, and love us coming over but hardly give us time to even talk about the gospel! They read the restoration pamphlet and we showed them the restoration video yesterday, and let us talk about it! We asked how they felt and Laura said she felt nothing, it was just logical. We kept talking further and she finally said she kinda felt content! We explained that that was the spirit and tried to get them on a church tour but they are moving this week and will be crazy until after. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-7026455851783099472015-02-27T07:35:00.001-08:002015-02-27T07:35:36.354-08:00January 5th Weekly Update<br />
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Hello! This week was pretty exciting! Tuesday Sister Richardson came to Beech Grove for exchanges and we were going to start the day by going to see a less active, Allen Skaggs, and tracting around his house, but when we knocked, this girl, Sylvia, answered the door. Turns out I was looking at an old ward roster and now the Vasquezes live there, who are related to him in some way that I don't remember. The Vasquezes are a part member family and Sylvia was living with them, but I didn't know if she'd been taught by missionaries before. It was super awkward, I had no idea what to do! We just talked to her and then I was about to share a scripture with her and asked if she knew much about the Book of Mormon when she said she'd been taught by missionaries before. Sister Richardson asked why she stopped, and she said it was because she went to college and lost touch, but had been thinking about coming back to church! We got her address and referred the missionaries from her campus to her and invited her to church! It was so cool! Then when we were tracting we met Stephanie, a mom who was looking for a church for her kids! </div>
Wednesday Sister Peel and I had like no miles left, so we tracted the rest of the neighborhood for a few hours! It was super cold and people kept shutting the door on us but I kept asking questions as they were shutting the door, to see if they knew anyone we could share a message with or if we could say a prayer with them, especially because we're working a lot on referrals! One guy was shutting the door and when I asked him, he was like "oh, and we watch BYUTV!" after saying he was too busy to talk to us. Finally at the end of the day when we were with investigator family, the Jones, we asked for a referral and they gave us a way solid one! We saw her the other day and there were so many things going on in her life that she needed the gospel for so much but she wasn't quite ready. We're going to give her a little time and go back! </div>
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One night all our appointments were falling through so we tried making cookies with our Indiana cookie cutter and they did not turn out! They looked a little bit like really obese Indianas!</div>
Also, during weekly planning the toilet in our appartment broke so we were like dying for a few hours until after lunch we ran to target on our way to see a recent convert, and laughed about our missionary problems!<br /></div>
"I need to live in a bubble, but I'd probably suffocate in it or something" Tyneka, who is always hurting herself!<br /></div>
"My wife and I used to go to the temple every week and I'd fight with her everytime saying we'd just gone last week and after every time she didn't say anything but I knew that she knew that I knew she was right" Brother Kistemann<br /></div>
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On the 23rd Sister Peel received a prompting to go see a former investigator, Mr. Jameson, who she had seen with her previous companion, Sister Vidmar, but he was taking care of his wife with cancer and trying to help her through the holidays. He came out as we were pulling up to tell us it was not a good time, because his wife had passed away a few hours earlier. It was so sad! We shared Alma 7:11-13 with him about the atonement and cried most of the way home that Heavenly Father trusted us to go take care of him. Later in the week we went to see another former, Todd, with MS. His wife answered the door, and asked if we could give blessings. We told her we couldn't, but could find someone who could for her, and she was excited. She said her husband's aunt was serving a senior mission for our church and kept telling him he should get a blessing. We got her number and said we'd call to set up a time for the blessing, it was so cool! We talked to some members pretty close to them about going to give him a blessing and be a friend to their family. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-91834444119888950342014-12-22T05:37:00.000-08:002014-12-25T05:39:50.030-08:00December 22 Weekly Update and PicturesThis week was crazy and amazing, with Investigator dinners, Christmas
Conference, and new investigators! Wednesday we had dinner with the
Riveras, our miracle of church attendance last Sunday! Before we had
been thinking of teaching them the plan of Salvation, but once we
started eating they had lots of questions about Joseph Smith, so we went
instead to the Restoration! Their little girl, Lily, sang "Let It Go"
to me for part of it, had me pouring tons of ranch on her plate for
another, and then was listening to music on her mom's phone super loud!
When we went to share the first vision, though, the music stopped and it
was really quiet for a minute, which we were praying for! We are
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the doctor again for my knees and I started shock therapy , which made
the muscles go crazy! In the morning on our way to Christmas Conference
they were hurting and I was nervous to be sitting all day! The spirit
was so strong during our meeting, though, that it calmed me down so much
that my knees didn't hurt as much! It was so cool! Missionaries were
sharing miracles from their mission, and Sister Clegg talked about one
miracle of her mission being her companions. It was so sweet and so good
to talk to her and catch up with each other and things we heard from
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people to teach, and yesterday we planned to go to an apartment building
down the street from us and tract. For days we prayed to have the faith
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tracting, I was so excited to go, and after we found so many people who
listened to a Christmas message I got in the car and could hardly
contain myself I was so excited! One lady we found was named Adrian and
she was such a hoot! They had had a few deaths in the family over the
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Jacquelinnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515698188637177334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-8641042872497478092014-12-15T05:36:00.000-08:002014-12-25T05:36:54.080-08:00Dec 15 Weekly Update and Pictures<div>
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had a "Why I Believe" meeting yesterday, and it was amazing! They are
my favorite, the spirit is always SO STRONG! I love it!! We almost had a
recent convert, Jenny Taylor, speak, but she wasn't feeling up to it.
We were pretty bummed, but we helped the Elders' convert, Brizeida calm
down so she could speak and she did so well! Emory also spoke, who was
baptized in Plainfield, last week. Ed spoke in Mishawaka at their "Why I
Believe" and is going to send me his testimony since I couldn't be
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Saturday I got to go to a
baptism in Plainfield, which is only 25 minutes away from Beech Grove!
The baptism was for Adam Nicholas, who was baptized by his brother,
Zach, who got the Priesthood that morning! It was super neat and their
whole family was there! Timothy had his baptismal interview and will be
getting baptized this Saturday or the next, depending on his dad's work
schedule! Sister Ostler and Elder Twitchell are great trainers and the
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cool miracle, yesterday! We hadn't been able to meet with our
progressing investigator, last week, and he wasn't going to be able to
go to church so we were kinda bummed, but we got a call Monday morning
from Sister Vidmar, who finished her mission in Beech Grove with Sister
Peel last transfer, telling us that an investigator family she was
friends with on facebook wanted to come to church but had lost our
information! We called them really quick and let them know when and
where it was, and they came! It was awesome, and the ward was so
welcoming! This family we stopped by the other day and they invited us
over for dinner but they haven't even been taught the restoration, yet!
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brownies and watch movies" neighbor of Sister Williams, talking to us
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"It's ok, we all have to learn!" Sister Restivo, throwing away my first batch of cookie dough<br /></div>
"Taste this and tell me you're better at cleaning than cooking!" Sister Restivo feeding me cookies while I was washing dishes<br /></div>
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getting some, but I like them better on you" Beverly, a less active's
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Jacquelinnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515698188637177334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-57677669576722321632014-12-08T05:34:00.000-08:002014-12-25T05:34:34.668-08:00Dec 8 Weekly Update and PicturesHello from Beech Grove!<br />
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This week was pretty crazy and pretty great!
At transfer meeting President Cleveland talked about setting goals as
new companionships, which my new companion, Sister Peel, and I did part
way through my unpacking. We were super excited to set expectations and
goals to make this transfer a rocking one! Sister Peel is from Alabama,
has been out a transfer less than me, has been in Beech Grove the whole
time, and is a very driven missionary!</div>
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This week I met and we
taught Sister Burtzo several times, who was baptized a year ago and
recently went through the temple. She is super amazing! Her son's best
friend, Randy, is living with them and progressing toward a baptismal
date of <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1308473740" tabindex="0">January 3rd</span>! They are sweet and Sister Burtzo is always feeding us! </div>
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Friday
was the ward Christmas party, which is crazy because just 6 weeks ago I
started out in Plainfield with a ward Halloween party! It's much easier
to remember names and faces without costumes:). I got to meet a bunch
of members this week, one of them being the Sanders. They are such a
sweet family and are so humble and generous! We went over to help set up
Christmas decorations with them, but they couldn't find any lights for
their tree, so we ran to the store with them real quick. It was raining
and crazy and we didn't find lights for like three stores, but in one of
them we ran into a less active that's not on our records! Her name is
Ina, and Sister Peel and her trainer had been trying to get in contact
with her for a few months! We got her number and stopped by Saturday! We
talked to her about family and prayer and fasting, which was so led by
the spirit it was amazing! That was definitely a grace this week!</div>
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Sister Peel and I making cupcakes for little Ricky Taylor's
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"We're so glad you're cool! We get really nervous every time we get a new missionary!" Jenny Taylor, Recent convert</div>
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"You're going to get a sweet new companion! Wait--let me check...ya, she's sweet!" President Cleveland</div>
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"Really? Who is it?" Sister Peel</div>
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"Is she short, tall?" Sister Vidmar</div>
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"Oh, she's tall!" President Cleveland</div>
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"Cut bandaid!" Jonathan, Sister Burtzo's grandson</div>
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"Everybody loves me!" SIster Peel</div>
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"Nuh-uh! Only me and Jesus!" Jonathan</div>
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"I know it's the sabbath and all but could we listen to some music?" Elder Diaz</div>
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"This is Elder Holland." me</div>
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"Wow!...Sister Evans I feel like you're super nice but you could totally hulk someone." Elder Mortenson</div>
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"What makes Sister Evans mad? Like what irks you?" Elder Mortenson</div>
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"This
doesn't really make me mad, but the other day I realized dogs licking
bones really grosses me out, like when they chomp on them it's so
gross!...Does that count?" me</div>
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Jacquelinnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515698188637177334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-58824792541047823322014-12-01T05:31:00.000-08:002014-12-25T05:32:12.562-08:00Dec 1 Weekly Update and Pictures<div>
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This week was full of a lot, including surprises, and
miracles! To start, Sister Ostler and I were looking for a less active
we met going to lunch the other day, but couldn't remember her last name
or find her from her first name, she was no where to be found on the
directory! Friday sister Ostler wasn't feeling well so she laid down for
a nap and I was updating the area book when I found a super old
teaching record for her! I was showing Sister Ostler after she woke up
when she told me that she'd dreamed that we went back to talk to her and
she gave her a sticky note with her address but it was blank! We ended
up finding her address and going to see her that night, it was so neat!<br /></div>
Another
amazing part of this week was the launching of the "He is the Gift"
video initiative! We've already found two new investigators and received
a member referral and it's only been a few days! One's name is Brian
and he has quite the story! He is the neighbor of Brother and Sister
Chapman, who just left to Florida for the winter, but went to go meet
him with us a couple three weeks ago or something. When he first met us
he was pretty excited to show and tell about some anti things he had and
other things he'd learned, and was pretty intense! He was telling us
how he'd had a mormon girlfriend try to convert him and set him up with
missionaries and he would have none of it! At the end Sister Ostler bore
her testimony, and he told her of anyone, she came the closest to
converting him than anyone had! We had to hurry to dinner, but that
Sunday the Chapmans were super excited to tell us what happened after
that! About 30 minutes later, Brian went over to the Chapmans and
apologized for being rude, and said he wanted to talk more about our
beliefs, which he did very civilly. They then had dinner, talking about
home teaching and addiction recovery classes, which intrigued him. They
invited him to church but he wasn't sure he'd feel welcome, being a
Catholic. The other day we went back to see him and he apologized for
being rude, was super nice, and we had a great visit with him! He said
he felt bad about how closed off he'd been and was praying for God to
show him what he should do! He was super chatty, telling us about
government conspiracies and churches he had been to in the past, even
acting out some pentecostal church scenes in his yard and his neighbors
were all staring, oh my, we were dying!! We told him about the Christmas
video and set up another appointment with him! Sister Ostler is so
going to baptize him! <br /></div>
So the biggest surprise this week
was transfer calls! Sister Ostler and I were expecting to both stay, and
just get a text Sunday night. We were at Bishop's Saturday night for a
ward council party when the elders got a call from President Cleveland,
and they told us they were doing transfer calls early, and we should pay
attention to our phone! We laughed because we were sure we'd both be
staying, but we pulled the phone out and had a missed call from
President! We hurried and went in a quiet room to sit down and called
him back. He said Sister Ostler was staying and training a new
missionary, and I would be leaving but staying close to Physical
Therapy! We were blown away! Luckily I'll probably be able to come back
for our baptisms coming up!<br />
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Thanksgiving at Tori's grandma's house!</div>
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"That
was probably part of Satan's plan!" Sister Ostler, referring to
confusing patterns in last names, while doing family history<br /></div>
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"I
am patient! I'm just trying to teach him how to drive!" Brother Brown
to Sister Brown as they were driving us home from physical therapy<br /></div>
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"I pick the sisters" Tori picking teams for "Bigger Better Best" at mutual</div>
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"Ok! Can we go to the bathroom now?" me<br /></div>
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"Hoping you had a peaceful day" me, reading a text from Brenda</div>
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"A feasible day?" Sister Ostler</div>
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"No, a peaceful day!" me</div>
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"That's 2 days before my birthday!" Sister Ostler</div>
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"We better get your birthday shopping done early, then!" me<br /></div>
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"I love you, sister Evans, even your low 5s are peppy!" Sister Ostler<br /></div>
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"Hope you had a feasible day!" Tori<br /></div>
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<a href="http://christmas.mormon.org/" target="_blank">christmas.mormon.org</a>!!</div>
<br />Jacquelinnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515698188637177334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-41285039082516551592014-11-17T05:30:00.000-08:002014-12-25T05:30:27.100-08:00November 17 Weekly Update and Pictures<div>
Hello again! It's been quite the week! <br /></div>
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This week
we received and taught a referral from the White River Elders named
Antonio who is amazing!! His friend was living in Indy, where the Elders
found and were teaching him. The friend moved to Georgia, and he
actually lives in our area, so that's some of the back story. He is
super chatty, and Brother Baumgartner who we brought with us could
hardly stop talking to him! It was a Hoosier lesson! He was already
reading the Book of Mormon, though, and when we invited him to baptism
he was so excited! He called his friend to tell her he was getting
baptized soon and would let her know when he was put on a date! AHH he
is so ready!! <br /></div>
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Adam, Zach's brother, got approval from
his parents for his baptism to be December 13th!! We are still working
with Timothy but are so excited about how excited Timothy is! We also
were able to get a Book of Mormon to an investigator that is super hard
to get a hold of and have finally been able to set up appointments with
her! I think she is going to progress really quick!<br /></div>
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I
got to call Ed this week and we were so excited! He is doing so well! He
told me about how he had born his testimony in church and even wrote
President Cleveland about how much the gospel and Sister Clegg and I
meant to him, he is amazing! When we had interviews this week with
President I told him about it and he was so excited to read the letter!
Interviews were so great, I am so grateful for President Cleveland! Him
being my mission president was definitely inspired! <br /></div>
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One
tender mercy we saw this week was one day Sister Ostler got a migraine
that was much worse than most that she gets, and was having a hard time
driving, but our dinner that night was with a member who is a nurse, and
she let us come over early so Sister Ostler got to lay down and get
feeling a little better. We also had a member drop us off a bunch of
cuties and a card when we were feeling a little overwhelmed, and it made
our day! Also, today I went to Physical Therapy which was pretty
exciting! Hopefully I'll be in and out in 4 weeks!<br /></div>
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One of my favorite scriptures this week is 3 Nephi <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1308473730" tabindex="0">13:24</span>
because all we need to do is take life one day at a time and trust in
our Heavenly Father! He is so caring and loving he takes care of what we
cannot!</div>
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The first snow that stuck (and first snowball fight!)<br /></div>
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"Baptize nations with this!" Elder Buchanon during a training in Zone Meeting</div>
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"I wanna baptize the President!" Sister Ostler</div>
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"President Cleveland is already baptized!...oh wait..." me<br /></div>
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"How old are you, Sister Evans?" Elder Mills</div>
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"5 Months!" me</div>
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"Oh...19" me<br /></div>
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"Oh life saving day! There are ear muffs in here!" Sister Ostler<br /></div>
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"It looks so warm but feels so cold it's like so facade-ish!" Sister Ostler</div>
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Jacquelinnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515698188637177334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-10043362263372568122014-11-10T05:25:00.000-08:002014-12-25T05:28:02.130-08:00November 10 Weekly Update and Pictures<div>
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First
off, we had a baptism!! His name is Zach and he is 17, and his parents
were converted and baptized years ago. He is a senior and now preparing
for a mission, and is so excited about the gospel! There were tons of
people there to see his parents who haven't been to church in a while,
and it was great! Zach's brothers, Adam and Timothy, are a hoot! We went
by last night for the parents to sign the baptismal record and they
talked our legs off, we barely got out in an hour! We talked about
finding answers through fasting and prayer, camping, trick or treating,
and many other things, and it was a great time. <br /></div>
We taught
JoAnn again, who we found before District Meeting last week and she
already knows the Book of Mormon is true! She is 85 and Methodist,
though, and before we could invite her to baptism told us she doesn't
want to change. Hopefully we're taking her on a church tour today and
the spirit will keep working on her--along with us and the members, of
course:) <br /></div>
We had a pretty exciting experience the other day
when we were short on miles and getting rides from a ward missionary,
Sister Chapman! We were at her house looking for addresses of less
actives we were going to visit when her husband came home and was
telling us about their neighbor, Brian, who was very religious. He said
we should go talk to him, before deciding he wanted to go with us right
then! We went over to Brian's house, and when he saw we were Mormons had
a lot to say about how he felt about our beliefs! He went on and on and
we were starting to freeze, but we listened and waited until we could
bare our testimonies. After we did, he said we'd come closest to
converting him than anyone ever had. <br />On Sunday the Chapmans were
very excited to update us! They said a half hour later, Brian ran over
to their house to talk to them about their beliefs, and did so in a very
civil way, until Brother Chapman said he needed to get going to do some
Home Teaching, which Brian was curious about. They talked about home
teaching, and how he taught the addiction recovery class and Brian
thought it was so cool! He ended up having dinner with them and they
invited him to church! He was worried he wouldn't be allowed to come in
as a Catholic, but we invited him on a church tour which we'll hopefully
be taking him on today! Crazy story, right??<br /></div>
Last week I
also went to the doctor, which I was pretty nervous for! We were in the
waiting room and I was getting more and more nervous when I got the
prompting to just read until I was called back. I only got to read a
couple verses about the Nephites being taxed by the Lamanites, but the
spirit was overwhelming and so comforting! It strengthened my testimony
of the Book of Mormon so much! After a blessing of a visit we found out I
have Patella Femoral Syndrome, IT Band Syndrome, and Patella
Tendonitis, which we will be treating with Physical Therapy. The spirit
stayed with me the rest of the day and continued bringing comfort, and
hope, which was amazing! I sure love the gospel!<br />
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Sister Olsen, Sister Ostler's previous companion and my
MTC companion got to come to the baptism! Here we are with her and Tori,
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<br />Favorite Quotes!</div>
"I like your jacket--it's pretty and awkward" Tori<br /></div>
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"I think we should give frozen hot chocolate to girls that wear short skirts and Uggs" Elder Clark</div>
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<br />"They just need me, the spider whisperer--I just whisper before tours and they leave the font" Sister Ostler<br /></div>
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Hello! Crazy week report time!<br /><br />One highlight of
this week was going to see an investigator named Chris. We were getting
ready to leave the apartment and Sister Ostler asked how the Halloween
cookies looked that we were gifted, and they were a little sad and
crumbly, but she kept looking. She was looking around at our treats,
asking if we could take some of my muffins to her, and I was so confused
what was going on. We put together a bag of candy and left. When we
knocked on her door she said she hadn't been feeling well and was living
on Gatorade, when we gave her the bag of candy she was so excited! I
was so excited about the lesson plan we'd made for her and inviting her
to baptism, but because she was sick I felt like we could at least share
a scripture with her, though I wasn't even sure which one until I
opened up to Mosiah. We shared one about the atonement and invited her
to baptism. ON HER PORCH WHILE SHE WAS SICK. It was crazy, but the
spirit was amazing! She was telling us about how she had been baptized
and received the holy ghost before, when we were talking about it she
practically quoted scripture when she was saying how she thought it was
so silly everyone debates about how to be baptized, "Just do it like
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this week! One we found trying to find the house of a less active, and
they had dinner burning and kids running around like crazy but we shared
like a five second message about modern day prophets and the anchor
that they can provide families in such a changing world and they seemed
really interested! Once we found the less active she said she'd be
having a barbecue and inviting them over, soon! On another door we
knocked we talked to this 14 year old girl who said her family had been
looking for a church and kept making this face like she couldn't believe
we were there when they were looking for a church, which was way cool!
We got to try them the next day when she said her parents would be home,
but talked to another sister who was going to college and super busy.
We shared a scripture with her about continually reading and enduring to
the end and it was so sweet she said she was excited for her mom and
sisters to learn more about our message, because of the great experience
they were about to have. She said that!! <br /></div>
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taught Adam and Timothy the restoration with their dad who works on
Sundays but was baptized years ago. The first vision was amazing with
them, they all felt the spirit so strongly, and the dad was in tears! We
invited them to baptism, and Adam said yes, and wanted to meet every
day until he learned all the lessons to be baptized. Timothy was more
hesitant, but we helped resolve some concerns in our lesson after
church, yesterday. Since then they've been to church, scouts, and
reading the Book of Mormon! Hopefully their parents will agree on a
baptismal date of December 13th!<br /></div>
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fireside called "Why I Believe" last night, which was amazing! Tori, who
was baptized maybe a month ago, was one of the speakers and did so
well, we were so proud! There was an amazing spirit there with so many
recent converts and missionaries super excited about the gospel! It was
also fun to see some missionaries I have worked with before.</div>
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"I'm really sore here!" Sister Ostler<br />"Maybe too many high fives?" me<br />"But I never high five with this hand!" Sister Ostler<br /><br />"I see you put Jesus on your car" Tori, after we taped Mormon.org cards in our window<br /><br />"Good luck with your harvest!" me<br /></div>
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<br />Jacquelinnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515698188637177334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-43768032624388699212014-10-27T05:23:00.000-07:002014-12-25T05:23:23.835-08:00October 27 Weekly Update and PicturesWhat a week! I probably say that too much, but it was a pretty wild week!<br />
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teach Tyler and Ashlynn and got to teach another granddaughter, Mckenna!
Her mom, Tabitha Lynn, is less active and dating a nonmember. We took
them on a church tour but they weren't too interested, and didn't want
to talk to us much. She came in but was fine letting us teach her
daughter! Hopefully the new sisters will be able to keep the momentum
going and have a few baptisms! Dennis was pretty sad we were being
double transfered and took us to dinner with his daughter, which was
super fun! She ended up liking us more than Dennis thought she would,
which was great! He said he's still working on his testimony so he can
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Sister Ostler, who is from Preston, Idaho, and even made a celebrity
debut in Napoleon Dynamite! She's been out for 6 months, and was just
companions with Sister Olsen, my MTC companion! We have so many things
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experience we had was tracting before district meeting--we had just a
few minutes but we wanted to go! We stopped on one street and prayed,
but both felt like trying a different street, and ended up both feeling
like we should stop at the one next to it. We were getting out of the
car when we saw a lady in one house looking at us so we went and taught
her. She was a sweet little old lady named JoAnn who we shared the Book
of Mormon story with and she loved it! I thought her eyes were going to
pop out when we showed her the painting of Christ visiting the Americas
and told her about 1 Nephi 11. It was so neat, and we have a return
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24 hour exchange with a 17 year old recent convert of 2 weeks, which was
way cool! Her name is Tori and she reminds me of Nora, she is so great!
We took her tracting and she was so excited she wants to go on a
mission like right now! She bore testimony with us and it was such a
unique and fun experience! At the end of the day she was saying how she
was struggling with her family but being able to serve made her feel so
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less active family, the Hacklers, who are originally from Utah, and we
finally figured out Sister Hackler, formerly Sister Betten, were both in
the North Salt Lake Parkway Stake and went to girls camp together! We
reminisced of faith walks, the siren alarms, crafts in the lodge, and
other fun things, it was so fun! We became great friends, it was so
great and it made me so excited to build relationships with all the ward
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Sister Ostler and me! Yes, I did cut my hair again, but I had some
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JoAnn's son came in part way through the lesson and didn't want to hear
about the Book of Mormon--luckily she still did and even stuck up for
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"Tori you should go invite him to church!" Sister Ostler</div>
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"and then the gospel was restored, just like your car!" me</div>
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Last week in Mishawaka! AHH!<br /></div>
This
week we had more amazing experiences, as usual! We were trying to set
up an appointment with Dan who is still recuperating from the funeral of
his grandma that he took care of, but he was super busy and short with
us on the phone, which was unusual for him. During weekly planning we
felt impressed to text him a scripture because we were worried about him
and he gave us a call that we were super afraid was going to be a drop
call! He thanked us for the scripture and after we talked for a bit set
up a better day to call and set up a time, and he didn't drop us! It was
a little miracle but meant a lot to us.</div>
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week we were coming back from Margy's when we drove by Patricia Ann's
whose house was super dark and it was getting later but I told Sister
Clegg to stop so we could see her. She ended up being home and let us
in! She was struggling because the next day was the funeral for her
niece, who was one of her best friends. We taught her a little bit about
the Plan of Salvation and prayed with her and assured her that we were
still looking out for her! It was so sweet and it was amazing that we
caught her at home!</div>
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definitely Ed's baptism!! He is so elect and was so prepared! The night
before we watched Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration with him, and
he cried through so much of it that we were crying too! At the baptism
he bore his testimony of the Book of Mormon and the spirit he felt the
first time outside the Las Vegas temple, and it was the sweetest thing.
After he was confirmed yesterday he was already fellowshipping our
investigators and being a missionary!<br /></div>
We were super sad Rob
didn't come to the baptism but he did go to church yesterday and ended
up loving it! Rob and Laura got an apartment in the city of Mishawaka
but the South Bend ward, and we were so sad! We went by to see him last
night because he was super sad it was almost transfers and he already
knew and trusted us, and we read a chapter in the Book of Mormon with
him. He loved it and even though he had a hard time with the wording,
got into it and downloaded it on his phone so he could keep up in
Priesthood the next week! Please pray he will do well with the
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transfer, Sister Clegg is leaving and going Sister Training Leader, a
trainer and trainee will come in behind us, Elder Rasmussen is going
Zone Leader, and Elder Nyman is training! What a blessing it's been
serving with amazing missionaries and in such a great ward with such
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"Sister Evans is leaving? Geez!...Tell her she can't go!" Jessica</div>
"I know, I've been telling her that and she's not listening!" Sister Clegg<br /></div>
"He's getting so old he peed in the house the other day right in front of me!" Greg Forsythe, talking about their dog</div>
"Poor Peppy!" me</div>
"Poor Peppy? Poor me! I had to clean it up!" Greg<br /></div>
"Tell her to come over for gumbo and we'll talk about the gospel!" Sister Mullins, one of the best member missionaries ever!<br /></div>
"all you need is the Priesthood and Melaluka!" Tara Ciesiolka, advice for being sick/prepared for anything.<br />
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Breakfast with Monica, Alaina (members), and Jessica (Investigator)</div>
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about the restoration to Paula, the wife of Jim who we met on exchanges
the other week, and she not only felt and understood the spirit and was
excited about how much it made sense, but couldn't get over how bright
our eyes were--she could see the light of Christ! We also had an awesome
lesson with a less active and her non member husband, Kelly and Kaushik
Roy. We had the prompting to show them the "The Hope of God's Light"
Mormon Message and they were both so touched by the spirit! We also got
to see Nora who came home for fall break and she is doing so well! She
is in a family ward at school because the singles ward is 40 minutes
away and is still so strong! She even taught Ed with us after church on
Sunday and we were so proud! ED IS GETTING BAPTIZED THIS SATURDAY!! He
took us out to lunch on Saturday while Sister Shoff was out of town, and
he also finished the Book of Mormon, which we were so excited about! He
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faith and repentance. They are in quite a situation with housing but
have been so faithful and strong! Our lesson about repentance was one I
will never forget! Rob had a rough beginning, growing up in Chicago and
already told us there were a lot of things he was going to need to
change in his life. We went into it wanting him to see the hope of
repentance, and what happened was totally by the spirit! We got to the
page in the pamphlet with the picture of the Savior and I asked him how
he thought the Savior felt about him. He laughed and said "Sister Evans
why you gotta always ask the hard questions??" but then we shared the
story of the Prodigal Son and how much he was loved and even he was
crying! Laura said it was the second time she had ever seen him cry in
his life! We invited him to church and he wasn't actually able to come
but was so excited and so grateful for "his sisters" that kept him
going! He looks like a big, tough, African American guy but he's really
just a big teddy bear that loves so much! What a blessing it has been
teaching their family!<br /></div>
Testimony Meeting yesterday...oh my!
How can I even describe it? Dennis came to the Mishawaka ward, and
skipped his Nappanese Church Saturday and Sunday! Transfers are not this
Wednesday but the next and knowing I'm probably leaving, I knew I had
to bear my testimony. Finally I got up the nerve, and stood up, at the
same time Sister Clegg did! We stood up at the same time in our
unintentionally matching polka dots. We have uncanny comp unity. I
shared my testimony of the prophet and apostles, and talked about how
much I loved Elder Bednar's talk about the power of the Atonement and
our desire to share it. I related that that was the reason I was on a
mission, because even with my struggling knees I knew the Atonement was
strong and I couldn't keep the blessing of that knowledge to myself.
Luckily I was almost done before I was in tears! After I sat back down
by Dennis who just squeezed my hand, thanked me for sharing, and told me
what a good job I did. The testimonies were perfect for Dennis and he
felt the spirit so strongly! After he said he didn't know I struggled
with my knees and was worried about when I'd be leaving, and when I said
it wasn't until next Wednesday he was relieved that we'd have a few
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"The missionaries" Dennis</div>
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"Ok. Tell them hi" Dana<br /></div>
"And I was like 'don't give me sass, woman!'" Nora, when her roommate didn't understand temple sealings<br /></div>
"Hi! This is Sister Evans from the Indiana Indianapolis mission!" me</div>
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This
week we got to serve Val Williams, from the ward. She asked us to help
her change the air vent in her basement that she couldn't get to very
well. We were struggling pretty badly because the parts weren't fitting
right so I asked if we could pray and try it again. I got to say it, and
it was so humbling! Heavenly Father showed me how he saw her and how
many prayers she needed for her family and health problems and house, it
was amazing! Then Val got an idea, and asked me to climb up and try it.
It took me a while to figure out what she wanted me to do, bless her
heart, but I figured it out finally and we got it! We shared a message
after about how much Heavenly Father loves us, knows us, and cares about
us, to our smallest cares like air vents! </div>
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teach a less active's husband, Steve Breen, which was amazing! He was
so prepared, and there was such a spirit there! His wife and mother in
law and half their family were in the kitchen canning apples and being
super loud but Sister Clegg was praying for the spirit to be there at
least for the first vision and as soon as we began sharing it, it was
super quiet! At the end he committed to being baptized and said the
prayer, and we were so humbled! He had found the path he was looking for
and we were and are so excited!</div>
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Laura Smith's boyfriend, who committed to baptism, as well! When we
extended the date to him he said "OF THIS YEAR??" but said he would do
his best! They have to get married first but he wants to change so much!</div>
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week we went out for ice cream with a member and her daughter. Sister
Braley had had a rough week and it was Brittany's birthday the day
before or so, so we took them out and oh my, what a hoot it was! The guy
working came over and asked if we had just come from a function,
confused why Sister Clegg and I were all dressed up. We told him we were
missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
Sister Braley told him she'd had a rough week so we were taking her out,
and he was just getting more confused as we went haha! I mentioned we
were also celebrating a birthday for Brittany and then he got really
excited and ran to the back! He came back with a birthday hat for her
and made her stand up on a chair while he sang to her, she was so
embarrassed! She was such a good sport and is luckily still talking to
me! They were doing ribbons for breast cancer awareness and said we
could write ANYTHING encouraging, so we of course were looking up the
best quotes from conference and writing scriptures on them:). </div>
Conference
was AMAZING and I could write an entire email about it but I will try
to spare you all! We watched two sessions at the church, one of them
with Ed and Dennis, which was great! Ed was so excited to meet Dennis
and was telling him about how he needed to come to his baptism on the
18th, it was so great! We also watched a session with the Ward Mission
leader, Brother Petras's family, and the Bishop's family, the Lees,
which was so much fun! Before going to the Lee's yesterday we were
tracting in their neighborhood and ran into a lady, well,stalked into
her garage as she was coming home (the spirit told us to, don't worry),
and found out she knew Sister Lee and was thinking about checking out
our church! She was so elect and we are so excited we are trying not to
be too much! </div>
Favorite Quotes!</div>
"you two are like bags of fertilizer" Dennis, giving us a very serious and sincere compliment which we had to laugh about later</div>
"and we're grateful for dramatic children" Sister Caplinger as her granddaughter cried through the prayer</div>
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not missionaries, we're date crashers! We're the worst!!" Sister Clegg,
trying to coordinate church keys with Bishop and Brother Smith, who
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teaching others of how to feel it! Last Monday at the library we were
emailing and the man at the computer next to me was struggling with the
mouse and internet and technology in general so I talked to him and
helped him and he talked to me for a bit before finding out I was a
missionary. After he found out we were missionaries we had a sweet
gospel conversation and he asked us to pray for his friend. His name is
Brother Marshall and he's from South Bend but the South Bend Sisters
were with us so we quickly referred him and they set up an appointment!
After he was done emailing we went in a corner and prayed, all 6 of us
from that table he told us he was so blessed to sit on, which was crazy!
The Sisters taught him last week on exchanges and already have another
appointment with him! <br />Wednesday we were tracting and got a referral
from a guy who thought it was great we were missionaries but told us
that as long as you're serving God, it doesn't matter what church you go
to, which we get a lot in Mishawaka! We went over to see her and she
was so sweet! Her name was Christina and she was going through a
divorce, so a message helped so much! We gave her a five minute
restoration lesson which we have been practicing a lot in the mission,
when we asked if she had five minutes we could tell her more about our
message after the initial contact and she said yes, just like we'd role
played I could hardly believe it I was so excited! By the end of the
lesson she had a great big smile and you could tell it was by the
spirit! After sharing the first vision we asked how she felt and she
said humbled, and good, and we taught her about the spirit, prompted by
our learnings from mission conference! Since then we have been teaching
about the spirit a lot and it is helping so many people! She wasn't
feeling well when we saw her last but we will be trying back, soon!</div>
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on exchanges we PCed into the nicest old man, Jim. After we began
teaching him about the gospel we asked how he was feeling, and taught
about the Holy Ghost. It's amazing because the spirit is so essential in
conversion and a lot of times people feel it but don't appreciate or
understand it! That's something we've been blessed by focusing on this
week!<br /></div>
Updates on Ed, Pat, and Dennis:</div>
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progressing so well and makes us cry every lesson he is so prepared and
sweet! We taught him about temples last week with Sister Shoff who
travels a lot for work and fun, and he told her he'd be her temple buddy
once he got to go through. Oh boy, we love them so much!</div>
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is continuing to progress, slowly but surely. We are still working on
his testimony of the restoration, but he is learning more about the
spirit and how to really study the Book of Mormon. We're bringing him to
a member dinner tonight and will be teaching him about the Priesthood
so we're excited! He's going through a divorce and is getting lonely, he
offered to take us out for pizza sometime. We pray for him often.
Yesterday he went to his normal church in the morning during our ward,
and went to the Notre Dame ward with us after. They were having the
Primary Program, which Dennis ended up loving! Before he was a little
annoyed with the kids in Sacrament meeting, but once he appreciated they
were there to learn as well, his heart was softened and it was so
sweet! </div>
Pat almost dropped us yesterday, but thankfully Sister
Clegg had the prompting to go visit, even when we were super low on
miles! We talked about her stress over her baptismal date and dropped
the date but she agreed to continue having lessons. Oh boy, Satan's
already working hard on her!<br /></div>
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and Alma 26:24, where others who were converted next sought to teach
others. What a neat pattern, when we study the Atonement and gain a
greater testimony of it, we are more desirous to share it with others!<br /></div>
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"That guy needs the gospel and a ride!" Sister Cutler</div>
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meet you at the rendezvous" Ed, after picking up pizza for dinner (AKA
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"and Sister Evans if you feel prompted to walk, don't do it! I mean--" Mishawaka Elders, trying to help me with my knees.<br />
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Last
week we tried to meet with Dan but his grandmother passed away and
things with his family were super busy! We were so sad, but can
hopefully stop by and set up another appointment with him. We had a
member, Sister Hogue, lined up and there by the time we found out he
didn't want to meet because the grandmother had died earlier that day,
but we got to share a message with her in her car as it poured outside.
Despite the lack of preparation, the spirit was so strong and we were
able to share a scripture and few things that she appreciated so much!
We even remembered to ask for a referral, which is something we've been
working on! </div>
One night we didn't have much time left to work
and it was too dark to tract, so we decided to stop by the Bryces. We
scared them at first because it was getting later, but had a great mini
lesson with their family! The kids were super excited to see us, the
parents were surprised we were still serving in the area, which I think
means they weren't as excited that we were there! We talked about
praying, though, and they said they had been praying as a family.
Jocelyn said the closing prayer and it was so good, we knew they really
had been praying together, and faithfully! Hopefully we can use the
excitement from the kids to keep brother and sister Bryce going!</div>
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weekend we had the rare opportunity to go to Westfield for the baptism
of an investigator named Tim, that Sister Clegg taught. His wife was a
member and daughters baptized, which makes me want to baptize a part
member family so much! They drove 2.5 hours to get us, fed us, and we
got to stay at their house! They were so sweet and it was so fun getting
to know them! Even after just 24 hours together, Sister Dellinger had
my email and address and everything, determined to be lifelong friends! </div>
Yesterday
we had zone conference with Elder Perkins from the 70, which was
amazing! He and his wife were so sweet and so inspired, we learned so
much!! We learned about the doctrine of families because our goal is to
baptize families, how to live the wisdom more fully on our missions, how
to teach the restoration more simply, and even had a sister group hug!
We think we'll stay in our own area for a while:) By the time we got
back in the car to drive home from Lafeyette, also
2.5 hours away, we all felt like casting ourselves on our beds like
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"Eat more food, sister Clegg!" Elder Nyman<br /></div>
"I'm from Salina, Utah, made famous by Ephraim's Rescue!" Elder Rasmussen<br /></div>
"Mishawaka...you know, waka flocka flame..." Elder Nyman<br /></div>
"What time is it?" me</div>
"Time to get some wings!" Sister Clegg<br /></div>
"Lost?" Mishawaka Elders</div>
"but now am found!" me<br /></div>
"I've heard everything" Doug</div>
"Well you haven't heard my testimony!" me</div>
"and I don't want to" Doug</div>
"wait what?" me<br /></div>
"At the wedding I threatened the camera lady, I told her do not take my picture, I'm wanted by the police!" Patricia Ann<br /></div>
"You didn't yawn, that means you're 50% psychopath" Brittany Braley, to sister Clegg</div>
"No, it means there's a 50% chance you're a sociopath! I took psychology!" Adrian Braley<br /></div>
"sight and sound, sight and sound--Marco! Marco!" Elder Nyman</div>
"Polo, YOLO!" Elder Rasmussen<br /></div>
"Boy scouts...once you're in, you never get out" Chris Sammons</div>
"It's like the mafia" Brother Smith<br /></div>
"Oh we try until we're very very sure people don't like us!" me</div>
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Good afternoon, brothers and sisters! I'm Nora and this is my FIRST
TALK EVER! I'm from Mishawaka. I am a freshman at Elmhurst College
studying speech pathology and moved into this ward 3 and a half weeks
ago. I was baptized on August 9th, and first I'd like to talk a little
about that.</span><br />
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I was introduced to the church by my best friend Camden, who is now
serving his mission in Bogota, Colombia.. He kind of tricked me into
having my first missionary lesson. At first i was a little upset at his
sneakiness, but now I know he was just excited to share this gospel with
me. And of course, once I had my first lesson, I couldn't help but
agree to meet with the missionaries every week. Everything they taught
me made sense. It was all reasonable enough and I loved learning with
them. For some reason, though, i didn't feel ready to be baptized for a
long time. I think it had something to do with my uncertainty about
several other aspects of my future: what to study in school, if i even
chose the right school to go to, and whether or not I had a chance with
Camden in two years (people laughed here). I wanted all these answers to
come to me somehow. So I prayed about it. I prayed a lot about whether
or not I should be baptized, and no answers came at the start. I thought
i was doing everything I had to, coming forth with a broken heart and
contrite spirit and asking honestly what I should do. However, i found
out i was missing a piece in my prayers when I read about Joseph Smith
in Ensign. In a talk called "If Ye Lack Wisdom" by Elder Marcos A.
Aidukaitis of the seventy, the actions of Joseph Smith are discussed
when he was seeking wisdom. He, too, asked in faith and with an honest
heart. However, Elder Aidukaitis says, he also <span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; line-height: 18px;"> "was ready to act upon the answer he would receive, even before he prayed."</span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; line-height: 18px;">
Before Joseph Smith went into the grove of trees and prayed to the
Lord, he knew that he would act on anything that the Lord prepared for
him. That is what I lacked when it came to my baptism. I wanted all the
answers which God could provide, but I wasn't ready to ACT on them. Once
I prayed and I was ready to act on any answer that Heavenly Father
offered me, He revealed that THIS was the way I'm supposed to live the
rest of my life. In THIS church. Living THIS gospel. So I was baptized!
The rest of the answers that I desired from Heavenly Father would be
revealed to me later in my life, and I was perfectly fine knowing that.
None of those things mattered if I had this Gospel as my foundation.</span></span></div>
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This brings me to my next point, which is living the Gospel. Living the
gospel means to live as Heavenly Father would have us live. It means to
have regular prayer and meaningful scripture study, give dutiful
service, and be an example to family and friends. President Gordon B.
Hinckley stated at General conference that living the Gospel applies to
everything we do, and this is true. It applies to work, school, family,
and other responsibilities. Living the Gospel is the formula we need to
endure to the end and return to our Father in Heaven. It might not
always be easy to follow these teachings on a daily basis. But something
that comforts me is Romans 12:1, which says, </span></span></div>
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beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, <i>which is</i> your reasonable service.</span></blockquote>
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that always stands out to me in this scripture is that it says
REASONABLE service; Heavenly Father wouldn't ask us to anything we
weren't capable of. Furthermore, when we consider the sacrifice that
Jesus Christ made for us, any sacrifice we have to make by living the
Gospel is, by comparison, quite reasonable. It helps to keep that in
mind as we live the Gospel more fully.</span></div>
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we diligently read our scriptures, pray, and live by the standards that
we're supposed to, we are infinitely blessed by Heavenly Father. I have
experienced this firsthand with my baptism and with my obedience in the
covenants I've made with Christ. Brothers and sisters, I encourage you
to be as Joseph Smith was, and to be ready to ACT on whatever Heavenly
Father puts on your path. I can testify that He will give you answers to
your questions once you are ready to act on them. You will receive
answers in His perfect timing when He knows that in your heart you are
ready. I can also testify that living the Gospel will prepare you and
help you be ready to act with complete trust in the Lord. And I say
these things in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.</span></span></div>
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On
Monday we took a tour of Notre Dame with a YSA that goes there and met a
nun who took a picture with us! It was so great, I'll have to send the
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Wednesday we found a super sweet new
investigator! We were tracting before dinner at the Smith's and found
this sweet man who was Catholic, going through a divorce, and super
receptive! We set up an appointment and taught him, and he was so
receptive we probably taught too much, but we were so excited about how
receptive he is and how close he is to the Smith's who will be awesome
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Thursday the member that was going to go with
us to teach Dan fell through barely before we went to teach him, so we
had a bit of an exciting dinner hour calling half the ward to find
someone to teach with us! Like 30 minutes before our appointment we
found a YSA to go with us which was a huge blessing! The spirit, as
always, was super strong with Dan! He is amazing, it is so humbling to
be able to teach him! </div>
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home so we got to have dinner with them and a lesson! They've both been
through some tough times but have amazing faith! I don't know how I got
so lucky to be able to be part of such an amazing thing, teaching them!
They offered to adopt Sister Clegg and I, which we basically accepted. <br /></div>
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we had Pat and Ed in church with us, and we went to a later ward with
Dennis. We asked Dennis how things were going without coffee and if he
had tried the pretend coffee we gave him from the bishop. He made a
little gagging face but thanked us for being so kind to bring it, which
he said several times. He likes to pretend to be a big tough guy but
he's really pretty sweet! We also taught Pat later that night, which was
amazing! We found her in the garage when she was smoking but she let us
in to teach her the plan of salvation. She knows the gospel is true, we
are just working with her through the lessons, a couple of questions,
and quitting. She has a hard time sleeping a lot so some weeks she can't
make it to church, but it was so sweet, she told us she was so upset
she couldn't make it to fast and testimony meeting last week because she
wanted to bear her testimony of missionaries because of the answers and
comfort we brought her! She also committed to November 9th to be
baptized instead of March, with her granddaughter! Hopefully Sister
Clegg and I will still be here, pray for my knees to make it a little
longer in the North! Another quick highlight was a church tour with Rob,
a member, Laura Smith's, boyfriend. We had a super chatty member from
another ward come along, which made the tour an hour and a half instead
of a half hour! It was a little stressfull and very late, but on our way
out Sister Clegg told him not to worry about all the new information,
that we'd help him, and he gave her a high five and said he knew it
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Favorite quotes!</div>
"Wait, why is Carol here? Oh ya, it's a party!" me<br /></div>
"I hate it! It's like between a tickle and a stabbing pain!" Dan, when his foot fell asleep during a lesson<br /></div>
"So...you're wearing a skirt and you're wearing sweats..." Elder Rassmussen</div>
"Ya, we went tracting like this" Sister Clegg, during our lunch break</div>
later..."It's good to see you in a skirt! Don't take that the wrong way...I'm gonna go..." Elder Rasmussen<br /></div>
"We didn't get volunteered, we got volun-told!" Elder Nyman<br /></div>
"And your eyes are blue" Hunter, and why I was patriotic in 9/11<br /></div>
"I'm like the whitest white girl you'll ever meet--" Sister Clegg</div>
"I like that!! I'm gonna write that down and use it!" Dennis<br /></div>
"I love you girls, and Jesus loves you!" Joseph, cute old man<br /></div>
"Are you writing me down?" Sister Clegg, as I write in my quote book<br /></div>
"Kaushik--say that 5 times fast and you'll probably swear!" Sister Clegg<br /></div>
"What did they feed me? I'm kinda hyper!" Sister Clegg<br /></div>
"The party don't start till Brother Petras (the ward mission leader) walk in" Elder Rasmussen</div>
"let's not say that ever again" me<br /></div>
"You think conference is good, then you get on your mission and it's like Christmas! On steroids!" Sister Clegg</div>
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Sister Ruth and I live on the corner of Esther and Ellen, so the other day I decided to read more about Esther. I learned that she was a missionary in a way, too! She was super awesome and so courageous! I have learned a lot about being courageous this week. Sister Ruth already knows everyone so well, they know her so well, and she has so much more experience teaching that it was hard to get in a few words edgewise. I've been working on it am most often able to testify, rather than teach, but am getting better. She has been an awesome trainer. Yesterday we got to teach Jessica who is almost a month clean from smoking and she was pretty excited to see us. Her mom was also getting into the lesson, and it was so great! Their enthusiasm about the gospel was so exciting and we practically left high fiving. It felt like the MTC and was such a boost! Since then our lessons have been getting better and better. Tonight we are teaching Dennis and having another member dinner. We have so many investigators it's hard to keep them straight! It definitely keeps us busy and on our toes. Yesterday Sister Ruth was feeling very stressed so we asked the elders to give us blessings and they were amazing! Our blessings were so similar which made me realize how similar Sister Ruth and I are and how much we need each other as companions! </div>
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On Saturday we were going to help the Bryces with a garage sell, but they canceled it and took us to breakfast, instead. Sister Ruth and Sister Bryce knew each other fairly well so they were pretty chatty and I was being a little quiet when Brother Bryce suddenly started telling us all these stories from his mission when he was super outgoing and talked to everyone, telling me I needed to talk more. I tried to hop in the conversation, but he just kept talking! He started talking about placing Books of Mormon so I asked quickly if they read it as a family, which allowed us to teach them about reading as a family. They said they did for a while when things were really rough, but stopped after things got better, and even threw in the fact that they had a puppy, now. I'm not sure why that was also included, puppies are lovely but not as good as the Book of Mormon! We committed them to read and scheduled an appointment with them while their daughter is at girls camp. She is very interested in the church and we are hoping that she has a great experience and helps her family to be more motivated to work to getting back into the gospel, for the dad, and getting the rest of the family in the gospel. She also told us that there was a huge sale at Bed Bath and Beyond, and we were barely able to say that that place was great when she offered to go get us a bunch of stuff, which they dropped off at our house that night. She was such a sweet lady, we couldn't believe all the things they got for us! We saw Jocelynn, their daughter, at church yesterday, and she said her mom had loved us. This made sister Ruth super excited because she said missionaries had tried to teach her before but she didn't like them very much because they didn't explain things super well where she didn't have much of a religious background. </div>
Jeanettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03980275839001045734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1163757248292396509.post-17556338389676899362014-09-08T05:06:00.000-07:002014-12-25T05:06:52.831-08:00Sept 8 Weekly Update and Pictures<div>
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Weekly Highlights!</div>
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Wednesday night we had ward correlation with an emphasis on active
member lessons, and Sister Clegg and I both felt like visiting the
Bryces, so we hurried over to talk to them really quick before curfew.
We were catching up with Brother Bryce when the spirit took over and
just started teaching him, it was so neat! We were hoping to set up an
appointment but instead taught him, and hopefully helped! He wasn't at
church, Sunday, but hope it helped our relationship with his family!</div>
Thursday
we ran from a Relief Society activity to a lesson with Dan, who we
introduced to the Book of Mormon with the pictures in front. He is
taking care of his grandma nights and working days and keeping his
family and their friends going without hardly any sleep! He is an
amazingly humble man! We texted him the other day and he has already
followed through with our reading assignment and read a few chapters! We
are so excited to meet with him again, tonight! Earlier that night we
taught Dennis, who has a baptismal date for the 27th, about the Word of
Wisdom, as he drank a mug of coffee. Last minute we got a member to come
with us who had struggles with the Word of Wisdom in the past, and we
had no idea! She was so sweet and perfect for that lesson! On Saturday
we met the Elders at the church so they could give Dennis a lesson,
which was so powerful! They asked why he wanted a blessing and he told
them about how he wanted some help figuring out if this church was right
for him and help quitting coffee. The spirit during that blessing was
amazing and he even admitted that he appreciated Sister Clegg and I
texting him at 4 in the morning to help him not drink coffee before
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Friday, oh my, it was so exciting! We had dinner with a
member, Tara, and shared verses from Mosiah 18 about the blessing of the
companionship of the Holy Ghost we receive after baptism, and she was
so excited she asked if we could read more verses after because they
were some of her favorites! She said after we left last time we had
dinner with her she was on such a spiritual high she ran in her room and
read her scriptures, which made us smile! We were taking some trash out
for her and her mom who is elderly and living with her when it started
pouring! Our next appointments were all falling through and no one would
answer their door so we ran around in the rain doing the best we could
to find those searching for the gospel! At one door we couldn't avoid
puddles any longer and broke down laughing so hard! We decided to stop
by a recent convert, Brother Sandsmarck, and his family who kindly let
us in to share a message. The spirit helped us know what their needs
were and how we could share something to help them, which was pretty
humbling and so neat to be a part of!</div>
Saturday we went tracting
around the Dave and Becky Smith's before dinner and met Bob who was so
ready for the gospel! He climbing on a latter while we were knocking on
some other doors but once he got down we talked to him about how he was
Catholic but not totally sold on it. We asked what he looked for in a
church, which he said was fellowship, and we set up a return appointment
with him! It fell through because he was sick, but we have another for
Wednesday! We also met the daughter of a former investigator, Lynn Day,
which was pretty crazy! We called Lynn who didn't answer, but will keep
trying. That family must need the gospel!</div>
Favorite Quotes</div>
"I used to save lots of those!" Sister Petras</div>
"Cats??" Brother Petras</div>
"No! Pamphlets!" Sister Petras</div>
"Someone published our number under a moving company so this is our new number!" Elder Rasmussen</div>
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"You curled your bangs!" Sister Petras</div>
"She chopped her hair!" Sister Clegg</div>
"Pat, how did you feel when you were reading those pamphlets?" me</div>
"Peaceful. You're sitting on it." Pat</div>
"Oh I'm so sorry! Let me get that!" me</div>
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ok, I was a little worried about it, though" Pat (we switched seats
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"I have a bunny...his name is Chester...he hops around" Sister Hogue</div>
"Don't think, just eat" Sister Clegg</div>
"No, my cat's name really is cookies oreo Mckendrick!" Sister Mckendrick</div>
"Awkward things happen and I just lose my skeleton!" Sister Clegg</div>
"Is that a pretend alligator?" me</div>
"No, that's a real alligator" Sister Clegg</div>
"Did you just say brain freeze or grape freeze??" me</div>
"Ooh, what fun, colorful cups!" me</div>
"Is it my turn to pray? No, I think it's your turn. Ya, it's your turn, Sister Clegg" me</div>
"Great, anything else you'd like to say to yourself, sister Evans?" Sister Clegg</div>
"What's that word that means you just keep coming back?" Sister Johnson</div>
"Persistant?" me</div>
"Ya! Ya! You two are sure persistant!" Sister Johnson</div>
"Ya, we get that a lot" Sister Clegg<br />
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