The Morrill of the Story

      Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! I had a really good day. I ate dinner with the senior couple in the YSA as well as a few of the YSA members. We also we're able to meet this really sweet guy named Sam who is working on going to the temple. He said he really wants to take his family to the temple. He just had such a clear direction on where he wanted to go. It was really great to see! John is totally getting baptized this week! He was interviewed on Sunday and is all set. It's really awesome because his whole family is coming to see it and they're all non-members! I hope that they'll feel the spirit! How can they not? John is so amazing. I'm so proud of him and so grateful for this decision he is making. He's already talking about the temple so it's good that he's set his sights on that. On Friday we had a really great lesson with our Elders Quorum President. We went over to share a missionary m...

This week has had it's ups and downs, but it's all good. We did a lot of work with recent converts and less active members this week. We also saw John this week and he's still on track for his baptism on the 20th! He's really an awesome guy and has a strong testimony! Miracles we saw this week: Saturday was just a very rough day. None of our plans worked out like we hoped they would and we had a lot of people just giving us some opposition. It was 8 o clock and we couldn't think of anyone to go see. We debated just going in early, because we felt so exhausted, and planning a really good day for the next day or trying to find someone to see. We said a really great prayer and a recently returning single sister's name popped into my head. We texted her to see if we could stop by and she said she had just gotten in to town from Austin and wouldn't be home for another ten minutes, but we could come by then. So we go over and have a good con...

  Here's a picture of a pretty Lutheran church in our area.   This week has been hard. I've been struggling a lot with some personal issues. We saw a lot of miracles though and have done some great work. We were able to see a lot of people, but not much progression has happened this week. Which is okay. We haven't been able to meet with Felix but we have plans to see him on Wednesday . OH I'm also going to be staying here for another 6 weeks with Sister Larsen, we're pretty excited about that. We were able to see John this week and it was really awesome! He's just so open and it eating it all up. He loves the gospel and you can just tell he does when you talk to him and look at him. I don't think I'd ever been able to notice people's countenances before, but his has changed so much and it's truly a miracle to witness! He's going to be getting baptized on the 20th now instead of the 21st to accommodate some family is...

     Hello! Baby Goats!   This week has been really amazing and has really increased my testimony of the fact that God loves me and truly watches over me. So first. On Monday we went to the Topsey Safari again. I forgot to tell y'all that last week. It was so much fun! There was a camel there that wasn't there last time! So we had lots of fun at that. Then that evening and for the next morning I was feeling kind of bummed about things. Nothing in particular, just feeling down. Then at emails the next day I got an email from a good friend that was just basically everything I needed to hear in that moment. It was great. Next miracle was Felix! He's doing a lot better now. He's got a lot to work on, but he's actually striving to work on it! He had an "aha" moment with the atonement this week that was wonderful. We were teaching him at the YSA dinner that we have almost every Thursday here. We knew that it'd be a good...

Me and Sister Larsen   This week has been quite the week with it's share of ups and downs. Unfortunately we didn't get to see a lot people this week because we had a lot of meetings. However, we were able to see Felix and the experience we had with him was miraculous. He came to institute and the lesson was about what we need to do to strengthen our testimonies and just improve in general. In the middle of the lesson I could see him taking a lot of notes. Afterwards he showed us what he'd been writing. Essentially it was a game plan of what he needed to do to become more active in the gospel. He told us that his fire was lit and that he was pumped to do these things. It was really amazing to see. He truly was blessed with revelation for those things. Sadly we haven't even been able to see him since, but I've learned on my mission that we just have to celebrate those small victories. We had zone conference on Friday which was amazing. President ...

This week was full of spiritual moments that I am so grateful for! I feel like I've really grown in my capacity to feel and recognize the spirit and to also follow it's promptings. Because we listened to the spirit we were able to make a really good contact with a man named Martin. We were out searching for a YSA member and decided to ask Martin if he knew if the person we were looking forward lived there (Martin lives just across the street from the person we were trying to find). He told us he didn't know and then we offered him a card. He was like "Please do" so we asked if we was looking for a church and he told us that he was so I pulled out a restoration pamphlet and told him about it. He said he'd call us. Since we weren't technically in our area at the moment we had to refer him to the Elders who do cover that area. It was just so great to meet him and it really lifted our spirits that day. On Thursday we had a little dinner get...

Turkey ducks??  Whatever these are, they're pretty odd looking!     Tuesday was like miracle day! It was awesome! First we found a panda express gift card for 15 dollars in the car. That was pretty sweet. But then we were out trying to contact a former investigator but she wasn't home. As we're going to the car I realized there was a house just a few feet down where Sister Tuna and I had contacted this guy who had recently returned from Afghanistan. We'd driven past this house a couple of times and every time we drove by I thought about him and felt like we should try contacting him again, even though I felt really awkward about it. So I tell Sister Larsen about it and she's like "Yeah! Let's go contact him." As we get closer to the house we're debating on what we should say to him, because the contact had been a little while ago and we didn't want to appear to be too weird. After a couple minutes of debating we final...