Weekly email update

 

Me, Elder Schofield and Elder Hoyt on Pday (on Sister Nelsons iPad, seriously can't leave them unattended or you get selfies...)

 

 Love this picture and quote from Relief society yesterday.

 Trip to New York :)

 Our car ride Elder Cahoon, Sister Nelson, me, Elder Schofield

Fireside :) love these sisters!

 Apparently Lucille Ball is from Jamestown NY! We even passed the cemetery she is buried in.

 Same order as the other picture.. Wendy's :)

Us being sad Elder Hoyt is gone.

Well this week has been a weird one! I hit 15 months this week!!! Crazy! We started out last Monday with Pday, spent the day up in Cranberry with our district. After we had a lesson with our investigator Bryan! He didn't seem too interested in what we had to teach until about a month ago when we showed him Family History! Ever since then he has shown a greater desire to learn. In our lesson we talked about CPR (church, prayer, reading) and he said that he would read from the Book of Mormon everyday! So we followed up with him a few days later, and he had been reading! It's the little tender mercies :) We also found out that evening that an Elder from our ward was going home on Wednesday, so we got a new Elder in the ward, and let me tell you, they are TOTAL opposites! 

This week we got to do quite a bit of service. To quote Sister Jarvis (one of my former companions) Service softens hearts. I am pretty sure the heart that was softened the most though was mine. I have seriously just felt so much LOVE from my Heavenly Father! I'll be honest, it was a weird, kinda hard week, it is that love that truly does get me through any hard time! So we got to organize the baptismal font closets at the church, help someone move, fill up the font, Goodwill, etc.. I really do love service so much!

Our investigator Olivia is seriously just so great! This week we got to meet her family (husband and kids) and have dinner with them, such a cute family! It is so cool to see how She has opened up so much and is comfortable asking the questions she has, and has truly become a great friend! We also had a lesson with her and talked about faith. We asked how her faith has grown as we have been meeting with her, she said "Oh well I would have to say it has grown TREMENDOUSLY!" This is another thing that I LOvE about being a missionary! Having the opportunity to see so many people strengthen their faith as they come closer to Christ!

One of the people this week that we helped move was Cheri. She is seriously so great. James and Nicole our investigators are living at her house. But we were able to talk to her a few times this week, her house is a great place to just feel peace :) she was feeling really stressed though as we went over to help her move, and it was cool to see that weight be lifted as we shared a message with her! The gospel really can bring so much peace, and happiness! I had an experience with that this morning. I was really having an off morning, I really just wanted to go back to bed, but as I sat down and read my scriptures I felt so much peace, love, and happiness. I was able to feel the comforter (love that name for the Holy Ghost!)

So on Wednesday we got a call from the Assistants saying that we would have the opportunity to go to a "Why I Believe" fireside Sunday! Us and the Elders got to ride up to Jamestown, NY with the Clarksons (a really awesome senior missionary couple from London England). I had never been to New York so that was pretty cool! Looks a lot like PA. But the best part was definitely the spirit felt as I was there! Again, an amazing opportunity to sing in a missionary choir. I love the spirit that is present every time we sing! It just about brings me to tears every single time! A feeling of that Love! I love my Father in Heaven and I know that he loves me! I am grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ!

My week :)‏

Last Pday we were playing would you rather, Elder Hoyt ended up standing in this pose for 2 minutes so of course we had to take pictures

 Sister McDonald and I on Seldom Seen Rd. On exchanges :) she is so great!

 BEAUTIFUL SUNSET!

 Sister Nelson and I wish our Sheetz frozen Hot Chocolate after giving out a BOM

 They call speed bumps speed humps here.

 Weekly planning :)

 I convinced Sister Nelson to put crazyglue on her fingers :)

Another great week, can't believe it's already Monday again!

Tuesday we went on exchanges! I always love exchanges, having the opportunity for 24 hours to get to know another Sister and learn from her ways of doing missionary work. I stayed in Wexford this time with Sister McDonald, and Sister Nelson went on her very first exchange to Pitt 3 with Sister Roberts! Sister McDonald is such an awesome sister, a great example, so funny, easy to get along with, but also an amazing missionary, so good at loving everyone! It was a great exchange! 

We have been able to see James and Nicole a few times this week! I seriously just love feeling of their spirits and seeing their excitement to dedicate their lives to the Lord. Sadly they are moving up to Cranberry though, so we are gunna have to pass them over:(.

Thursday we saw our investigator Olivia. She is the sweetest lady ever! She invited us to have dinner with them next week! She has a lot of really good questions, and I am learning SO much from studying to help answer her questions.

On Saturday it was Sister Nelson's one-month mark of being a missionary! Hooray! So to celebrate we decided to go and get some frozen hot chocolate from Sheetz (an awesome gas station). With the 3-a-day challenge we hadn't given out a Book of Mormon yet that day so we decided that we would give one out at Sheetz. I didn't have a Book of Mormon in my bag so I told Sister Nelson that she got to give this one out. As she looked around the gas station she decided Who she wanted to give it to. We awkwardly stood there for about 10 minutes waiting for this lady to get done with her order, when she was done Sister Nelson went up to give her the book and she said no. So we decided to keep trying until we gave one out. We walked around the gas station for at least another 10 minutes and the book of Mormon was not given away, So We were going back out to the car and Sister Nelson was going to give it away out there, so as she was backing me I sat in the car for a couple of minutes allowing her time to go and give it to the lady at a gas pump, sadly that lady also said no. BUT I saw the guy from the car next to us coming back out to his car so I invited her to go and give it to him, she did and he took it! I learned a few great this from this experience, 1, I've got an awesome daughter, so willing to try even when it is scary!, 2. Sometimes we just have to jump out of our comfort zones, this has been something I have had to do many many many times over the course of my mission and though rejection is still hard, it has become much easier to talk to people, and share the gospel! 3. Persistence, we could have given up after the first one, but that man and his family could be eternally blesses because of that persistence! 

I gave a talk on Sunday on the Gifts of the Spirit. Gifts given by the spirit to help us and to help us help others. Probably one of the shorter talks I have given, but I was the "youth speaker" so it only had to be 5 minutes :) I will share the last little bit of my talk: Moroni 10:18 says "And I would exhort you, my beloved brethren, that ye remember that every good gift cometh of Christ." I know that through Christ all things are possible. I know that he lives and loves us. I know that through the power of the Holy Ghost we can receive gifts of the spirit.

Thank you all for your prayers, love and support! I love you, but more importantly our Heavenly Father loves you!!!

2-22-16

This week was great! It just zoomed right by so I hope I am able to express some of the wonderful things that happened! On Tuesday we had a lesson with the Bourquin family, we taught them about temples. We showed them a Mormon Message that talked about setting our sights on the temple. After the video Sister Bourquin was in tears, she asked when we decided to share that message with them. We told her that we had planned the lesson the week before, but picked that video to share that day. She said "You girls are just great missionaries.. You definitely follow the spirit, I needed that today." As she is working toward making it to the temple, our Heavenly Father knows her needs as she was feeling very discouraged that day. He knows us all personally, and I am so grateful that I am able to be someone he can work through as I strive to always remain worthy of the gift of the Holy Ghost! I thank our Heavenly Father for the guidance and direction that he gives us as we turn to Him! 

On Thursday we had the opportunity to attend a memorial service for Sister Sadie Wells. It was a truly inspiring, uplifting service. We as a missionary choir were able to sing "As Sisters In Zion/Armies of Helaman" and the sisters sang a medley of "I Stand All Amazed/ He Sent His Son" a powerful line from that song, which was one often quoted by Sister Wells is "Have Faith, Have Hope, live like His son, help others on their way". The whole room was filled with the spirit and I don't think there was a single dry eye. There were messages shared on the great influence that Sister Wells was, as well as on the Plan of Salvation, my testimony of the Plan of Happiness has grown so much over the past 2 weeks as I have pondered and prayed, and as I felt the spirit during this wonderful memorial. I am grateful for a loving mission president and his wife who care so much about every single one of us, and that love was evident at this service. I am grateful for the wonderful example that Sister Wells was to each one of us and I know that she continues to proclaim the gospel on the other side! A few months back the mission did a 3-a-day challenge to 1. Read a chapter of the Book of Mormon every day 2. Have an investigator of less active member read a chapter, and 3. Give out a copy of the Book of Mormon. Well our zone leaders decided to bring this back in our zone this transfer! Sister Nelson and I were excited to start this challenge, day 1 I had read, we were able to read with an investigator, it was about 7 and we hadn't give out a Book of Mormon yet so we tracked a nearby neighborhood and were able to give out a Book of Mormon, and when we got home Sister Nelson was sure to read her chapter :). Day 2 we were doing our weekly planning, but because the weather was BEAUTIfUL that day we decided to go for a walk to give out a Book of Mormon, as we were walking we saw a lady running up a hill towards us, we said "oh hey maybe she wants a Book of Mormon!" Turns out it was the bishops wife, but we didn't have a dinner appointment that day so we were able to go out to eat with them :) We did give out a Book of Mormon though! I'm grateful for the inspired challenge from our zone leaders, it really is so wonderful to refocus on the importance of the Book of Mormon as it truly is the keystone of our religion. I know that we can grow closer to Jesus Christ by reading it!

Training is great. Sister Nelson is awesome. We have a lot in common and we get along really well! She is willing to learn and try new things, I'm excited to continue seeing her growth! I love being a missionary :) I love Jesus Christ and His Gospel and being able to dedicate 18 months to sharing my testimony with the people of Pennsylvania:)

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Sister Wells loved crazy socks. Her parents are so amazing, and the got socks for all of the missionaries in the mission to remember her! They really are such great people, probably the most forgiving and loving people ever.

 Sister Nelson and I in our socks :)

 Sister Nelson reading the Book of Mormon on day 1 of the 3-a-day challenge.

 Had to try on Sister Nelsons glasses too. :)

2-15-16

Sister Nelson and I :)

 Our car ride to Pittsburgh.

 Well the snow came! Me making snow angels.

So this week we had transfers! Tuesday morning we had to drive down to Pittsburgh for a trainer/trainee meeting. After the training by our mission president informing us that if we didn't do a good job we could potentially ruin this persons life(no pressure), we had lunch, and then we found out our companions! My trainee is Sister Nelson!  

So your trainer is your mom, your trainee is your daughter.. It's like mission family history. My trainer was super happy about having some posterity. But I am a proud mama! sister Nelson is awesome! She definitely hit the ground running and jumped right into teaching and was able to invite someone to baptism in her first lesson! We had plans to invite 2 of our investigators to baptism this week and the training manual says the new missionary takes he lead in doing so, after I wouldn't let her our of it in the middle of both lessons she did it! She is so willing to try new things, it's great :)  

This past week there was a tragic accident involving 4 sister missionaries serving in my mission. Sister Sadie Wells passed away, and the other 3 sisters are injured, but on the road to recovery. Though I did not know Sister Wells very well, From the few times I did talk to her I know that she was truly an amazing sister, beautiful inside and out. I know that she is sharing the gospel with just as much diligence to those people on the other side! It has been extremely hard for many, please keep these sisters and their families, and any others struggling in your prayers!  

So yesterday during my personal study I was studying on the Atonement for gospel principles and as I was also thinking about the fact that it was Valentine's Day I realized that the Atonement truly is the greatest expression of love. Christ didn't have to do it, and I and nobody else is really worthy of it, but he did it out of love, because he wants all of us to return to our Heavenly Father. That is the love that I want to share with the people here in PA!  

Thank you for all of your love, support, and prayers! I am truly grateful for the Restored gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ!

My Week!

The Cranberry District

 

 

  

We made some Red Velvet cake for sister Maya on her 2 year mark :)

2 candles for 2 years! We had to light them on the stove though cause we had no matches...

Wow, this week has been full of events. We started out the week with sister Maya's two year anniversary of being a member of the church last P-day. Then it was groundhogs day, which fun fact of the day the groundhog is in my mission(he also didn't see his shadow, so spring! The weather has actually been GREAT! Like we have barely had a winter at all!)! The next day I hit my 14 month mark being a missionary, boy does time fly! Then the rest of the week was just a bunch of nerves waiting to hear about transfers. I got a call Saturday morning from my mission president telling me that I am going to be training! I am super excited but super nervous!! This is Sister Maya's first area so she is really sad to be leaving, but she gets to go to "the sweetest place on earth" (Hershey, PA) and be in a trio there. I have loved being companions with Sister Maya, I have learned a lot during our time together! Transfers are tomorrow so I will let you know next week who my new companion is!

This week we decided to make some cookies for our neighbors, most of them know who we are, but we have a new neighbor who we dropped the cookies off and he wanted to know what we do so we were able to talk with him about what we believe and give him a Book of Mormon!

One thing that I have learned this week is that attitude is a choice. We went to a dinner appointment the other day and everyone was just not in a great mood there, and it just made me so sad! I realized that yeah, sometimes things will be tough in life, but I hate being angry or annoyed or frustrated, and it's my choice when I am! I know that I like to be around people the most when they are happy! It's much better to just be happy in every situation! So that's definitely one of my goals, CHOOSE to be happy!

Speaking of being happy, I can honestly say that I am the most happy when I am focusing on others! This week we went to see our investigators James and Nicole, they were really struggling, so rather than going on with the planned lesson of the Law of Chastity (no I wasn't just trying to avoid teaching that lesson), after saying a kneeling prayer together, we read from the Book of Mormon and the spirit was able to fill the room and there was so much more peace! I am grateful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost to help us to discern the needs of these people! They were also able to receive blessings from the Elders so it all ended well, much happier :)

So we also able to have a lesson with our new investigator, Olivia! Oh My gosh! It was so great! So last time we left her with a Restoration pamphlet and invited her to review it. WELL, there are some questions in the back of that pamphlet and she had gone through all of those, marking and color coding with sticky notes the attached scriptures! She also had some great questions, which we had an awesome team up, Sister Lubin, who was a great member present to answer some of these questions with us! She also said she wants to come to church with us! We can really see her desire to learn truth, and it's awesome!

We also had a few more lessons this week with some less active members, and visited quite a few people from the ward for sister Maya to say goodbye.  Change is HARD, but I am grateful for the growth and the opportunities to learn from those changes. I am especially grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ which allows me to have peace and comfort and move forward with Faith!

My Week

So sister Maya had NEVER made cookies before! so I had the pleasure of teaching her how!

 These are the Elders in our ward... They like to take selfies on our iPads when we leave them for 2 seconds. There were at least 100 more....

We got a bit of snow so we built a snow man! The next day it was gone! The weather has been so great these last few days! It feels like spring! It was in the 50-60's yesterday!

I am so grateful to be a part of the Lords work. It's so great! It is so amazing to see the Lord work through us as missionaries. I know that there is NO way that I would be able to do any of this without Him, we just have to do our very best and he will make up for the rest! 

This week we were able to pick up a new investigator named Olivia! She is so sweet, and has such an open mind and heart which is great! She was a Bible media referral, we were able to contact her that day we got it, and she was just so thankful and surprised by how fast we got it to her! We were able to set up a return appointment, and then Thursday we were able to teach her the Restoration and set up another return appointment for next week!

We weren't able to see our investigators James and Nicole for a few days, they were dealing with a lot, and when we were finally able to see them they were able to see the difference between those few days they weren't studying the scriptures and how those days were terrible, but Nicole said she felt so refreshed when we were able to teach them again! It was so cool to see her recognize hat difference! We were also able to reset Nicole with a baptism date for February 20! We also got called 30 minutes before leaving to church to teach Gospel Principles yesterday, I am so grateful to have the set time to study each day, because without increasing that knowledge ever day there would have been no way we could teach that lesson. I love studying and learning more and more every single day! There is no way I would have been able to do that before my mission!

So my companion Sister Maya, she has been a member of the church for 2 years today, she really is such a great example! Tis the season to be stressed about transfers, I don't know what's going to happen. But I do know the Lord knows what he is doing, and so does my mission president. Transfer calls are on Saturday, and there is the possibility of a transfer here! Will let you know next week! I am so grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ! I love him! I know he loves every one of us!

This week

Sister Maya and I

 o also his week my AreaBook wasn't syncing because it needed to be updated, and it came up with this message when I tried to do that, so I had to delete the app and it wouldn't redownload, so I didn't have an Area Book for a day, waiting for the technical support to get back. And of course it was when we were trying to weekly plan. Fun times..
So Sister Maya has a new thing, she keeps making this goat noise. Over and over and over.

We made snow angels, also No, no we did not get all of the snow. Other parts of our mission did, my last area, a lot of the East side of our mission got a few feet, but we barely got the storm, we got maybe 3-4 inches.

So about a month ago we had a Zone Conference, at this zone conference the fleet coordinator was inspecting all of the cars. After doing so he came in and told us all that our cars were all super dirty, and he was sick of it, so he was going to do something about it. Well after about a month I figured we were safe... Apparently I was very wrong. So last week we got a call from our fleet coordinator telling us that ours was one of those cars that was really dirty, and that we needed to park our car for 4 days. SO Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week we couldn't drive our car. I learned a lot from this experience, one being the obvious, CLEAN YOUR CAR! Another being, the members are really great in this ward and were SO willing to drive us around. But probably the biggest one was how important it is to get members to the lessons that we are teaching! We are just two 20 year old girls, sharing what we know to be true, which yes can have a great impact on people's lives as long as we are teaching by the spirit, but it's so great when we are able to find people who can relate to these people, who can be their friends even after we go! One cool experience with that, on Tuesday we has a set appointment for 4pm, we had found a team up but she had to cancel, so we were frantically looking for another person because she lives about 5 miles from where we live and there was no way we could walk there in the hour we had! Our awesome Relief society president was able to give us a list of some people to try, and we were able to get Sister Fike to come! There was some serious Divine intervention here, because Sister Fike had just been studying for her primary class in the Book of Mormon where our investigator, Jana, had been reading! She was able to answer some of her questions better than we could! It was so awesome! This week we were also able to watch a Worldwide Broadcast for ALL missionaries! The theme of the broadcast was "Teach repentance, and baptize converts" there was a lot of focus on the basics found in Preach My Gospel such as Teaching by the spirit, leaving commitments, and teaching people not lessons. One thing that really stuck out to me was the importance of always testifying of Jesus Christ!!! We should "always have His name on our lips"! This is His church, His gospel, and we are here to share that. Another thing was how the Holy Ghost is the main teacher, we are just the tools used. It was really amazing, I am so grateful for the inspired words of church leaders! We have also been able to see our investigators, James and Nicole, quite a bit this week! They are doing so well and progressing in the gospel so quickly! One of the best this about being a missionary is to see the change that the gospel can have on SO MANY lives! But the spirit is just so strong every time we teach them, I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have to see how the Lord truly does prepare people to receive the gospel! There were a lot of other things as well that happened this week, we went to the Family History center with an Investigator, a Less active member told us he wanted to work on receiving the priesthood, we did service cleaning out someone's storage room and at Goodwill(which we do every week), went to a Relief society activity, made snow angels, heard goat noises from sister Maya, got to partake of the Sacrament, it has been a really good week!

Weekly update!

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Sister Huffaker and I (she is in my district) last Pday :)

 Yup, these are the Elders...

 Sister Maya and I

 Sister Roberts and I on exchanges :) SNOW is here!

 Pitt North zone :)

Cranberry district! 

This week was pretty great! Not to many super exciting things happened, and I was actually sick (yes again) for a few days, but to be honest, the last 2 weeks were kinda rough, so I'm grateful for just a good week :) So last Monday as we were at the store to get groceries there was a member from our ward there at the store who happens to see us as we were checking out and came and bought our groceries for us! So nice! We also went on exchanges this week! I love exchanges! I stayed here in Wexford with Sister Roberts, and Sister Maya and Sister Johnson went to Pittsburgh 3rd. So the one day we are on exchanges there is like a blizzard! Our car is terrible in snow I have discovered. I got stuck 3 times! There are a ton of hills, and they don't plow the roads very well. I'm just grateful my companion from Arizona, who has never experienced snow, wasn't driving. We have an investigator named Melanie who I hadn't actually been able to teach at all in the 9 weeks that I have been in this area, BUT we had a very cold 10 minute lesson with her this week on her porch! We also had zone training this week on planning! I've always loved planning, because I have seen the different between a week were we plan really well, and a week that we have not, quite a difference! But it was great to gain that motivation again to make sure that we are planning well, not only during our weekly planning on Friday, but going through those same steps every day during nightly planning! We also had a zone activity where we were able to bear our testimonies, and I am just so grateful to have a knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! So the Elders were teaching this couple, James and Nicole, and then they moved to our area, so now we are teaching them! They are so great and so prepared! We try to see them as often as we can, and it has been great to see their progress just over this little while we have been teaching them! Nicole, the whole time we have been teaching has known that she wants to get baptized and that this is true. But this week in the middle of our lesson, James said "Well I have been praying about this whole thing, and everything you have been teaching, and the whole thing with Joseph Smith, and I got my answer, it's true!" AHHH! So great! I'm just so excited for those 2! But besides that, some other exciting news, I have another nephew! His name is Jeffery and he is super adorable in the pictures that I have seen :) Hope you all have a wonderful week, don't forget to Pray and Ponder, seek and find! (We also had Ward conference this week and that was the theme!)

Weekly Update

Some pics of our newly cleaned apartment :) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I left for 2 seconds.. This is Elder Hoyt and Rackham

One thing that I hear my mission president say quite often is that he want all of his missionaries to leave with a rock solid testimony. I love that, and I can see that this can truly happen here as we forget ourselves and get to work. I have thought a lot about how far I have come and As I look at what I still lack, and I can honestly say that though I have a long way to go, I know that this Church is true, and that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us more than we can comprehend. I know that he answers prayers. We have a Savior, Jesus Christ who Atoned for us, and for that I will be eternally grateful. I know that by keeping the commandments we can grow closer to the Lord, and be truly happy. I am happier now than I have ever been, even through the trials. We had interviews this week with our mission president and he gave me some advice during interviews, to not coast to the end, but to work even harder, because now I have more of the ability to do so, and I am grateful for that advice! I want everyone around to know of this rock solid testimony that I am continually gaining, that they can also have! (It was a really weird moment when he was telling me that I don't have much longer! I still have 5 months though don't even worry!) This week we were able to see quite a few little miracles! We were out to dinner with a member and Larissa (a waitress) comes up because she saw our name tags and said she wanted to go out with us sometime to teach people about Jesus, so we exchanged information, and when she texted us later, we texted back inviting her to church, and she came!!! The elders also have some super solid investigators, James and Nicole, they just want to dedicate their lives to the Lord, and they moved into our area! There is also a guy named Gene who we tracted into, he was super nice and said we could come back, so we went back his week and found out that he had been baptized when he was like 12, but he wasn't on our records, so we were able to find a lost LA, and he also said he wanted to read the Book of Mormon cover to cover, because he never did! We also had a lesson with an investigator we haven't seen for a while and he is super excited to do some family history!  So it was a pretty good week!

Happy New Year!

Me and Raina :)

 Me and Ashlynn (my mini me)

 Cute New Years at the Bourquins.

Happy New Year 2016!!

This week there was a transfer, but it didn't affect us so Sister Maya and I are both staying in Wexford for another transfer! We were actually able to see some people this week, it was great! A few weeks ago while tracting we met a guy named Jim. He was just about to leave so we told him we would try back, so this week we did! It was pretty cool, as we were testifying of the Book of Mormon he told us "I already know that it testifies of Jesus Christ" so he told us he would read it and pray about it!

We were also finally able to see our investigator Jana! She has a lot of really good questions, I am just so grateful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost! We were able to answer the questions that she had and she also said she would read and pray about the Book of Mormon! There is a lady in our ward who is not able to come to church due to medical conditions, so we go and visit her, but we usually end up just talking to her husband Bill, who is not a member of the church, because she is sleeping. When I first got here to this area he was totally against us sharing anything about the gospel with him, but his heart is being softened! This week we were able to share a video with him which sparked him asking us questions, which ended in him telling us he would read the Boom of Mormon! He said "I promise, and I always keep my promises." The Book of Mormon is so important! As we read in the introduction of the Book of Mormon, we are able to know if Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, if Joseph Smith was really a prophet, and if this, The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is Christ church restored again! Just by knowing that the Book of Mormon is true! So it's so important to gain that witness for ourselves! This week we also were planning to go to the Bourquins for lunch and as we were calling to confirm she told us the wanted to go out with us after! So Thursday she came out with us, and at the end she gave us a referral, and brought us to her friend who she had just referred and we were able to have a lesson with her, which I'm sure we wouldn't have been able to have had we just gone over ourselves! This week for New Years we got to deep clean out apartment! They wanted all the missionaries in by 5:30, so now our whole mission has some really clean apartments!

I also have a great testimony of fasting. I know that I wouldn't be here on my mission had I not gotten an answer through prayer and fasting to come, and I am so grateful every month as I have the opportunity to fast, yesterday as I fasted I was fasting for someone who was really struggling, and I can already see the rewards of that fast! I also hit 13 months on Sunday! Woah! 

Happy New Year!!! Hope you all have a great week, and I love you!!!