June 20, 2011

Something Cool though is we had a baptism last night! And it was a miracle baptism. It is so awesome. Also we have another investigator that is really excited to be baptized in July and we had three investigators at church that hadn't been to our ward before and they had a great time! ehich is awesome! there is miracles happening right now in the work of The Lord. and it is fantastic!! I love you Hannah! Thanks again I hope you have a great week.

June 13, 2011

SUmmer should be there now shouldn't it? Its already here in colorado. Its hot, too hot. Luckily we do have a car with AC though. I do miss being in a biking area though. Thank you for the update. Things are going well here. Both me and my companion are staying. so we will be together for another six weeks. I believe it will be an even better transfer than this one was. We have investigators on date and we could help several children of God make the covenants of baptism this transfer which will be really wonderful. I do really miss one of my previous companions a lot. Elder Croft, he was a boss. I do still hope I'll get to serve with him again in the future. You still need to email me those talks. I would really appreciate it if you get those to me soon please. I would really love to have them. Thank you Hannah you're prayers love and support are amazing. I've noticed on my mission that all the people I have helped and I'm helping right now have all had to deal with hard challenges in their life. And Im pretty sure they have all prayed for God to help them at one point or another. And He sent us to them. It is amazing really how much the fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ helps these children of God. I love it. I love to be apart of this. Our Mission President went with us to a lesson last week and afterwards he said "it would nice if we could teach the people in business suits and that are doing well but they won't talk to us. So we'll take those that will listen." Its true, typically those that think they are fine won't listen to us. Those that have hard times know they need help and their hearts have been softened and they have been prepared to hear our message and accept this gospel into their lives. It is so wonderful. I've been told by some of these people that they will always be affected by what God has done for them. They won't go back. It is amazing to think about. Epsecially with all of the crazy things, and really bad things that are spreading and becoming more popular. There is still good here in the world. And we do need to lay hold upon every good gift, and we do that by Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Love you Hannah and thank you for being such an awesome sister. Take care.

May 25, 2011

Some really really good things are happening in our area. We have been teaching a mother and a daughter. The mom is really awesome and loves meeting with us and she has been bothered by evil spirits b4. Not like she was taken over but they would go in her house and scare her. And so we dedicated her home and it did help. She really notices the difference when we are there. She can really feel the spirit, which feels so much better. She has agreed to be baptized and is set on date, she is just really worried about her daughter cause she isnt making the best choices with her life so we are really trying to help change with the gospel and lots and lots of prayer. I have also noticed since I've been on my mission that it seems when you are a missionary you can
become a lot more sensitive to noticing the spirit, and its absence. But also more sensitive to feeling an evil spirit neer. Dont get worried mom. I am fine. But I have noticed in a few of my areas that when people are drinking or under the influence, or are making bad choices with their lives, they dont have the spirit of god with them. I know they don't really know that they have an evil spirit with them but it is true. Another Testament
that God is on our side. I know this work is true, love you im out of time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 10, 2011

May 2, 2011

Thank you for the news. But you forgot to answer my questions that I sent in the last email. Lets see if you can answer them this time. I hope so cause I do want to know. So do you think you will get the car? Oh Elder Landon is a good guy. we have been doing really awesome lately. We have had a lot of lessons lately where the spirit was pretty strong. But unfortunately I am being transferred so I am going to get an even different companion now. And who knows maybe I'll go back to denver. we'll see. I dont like leaving areas. It has been the hardest thing for me to do I think on my mission. Cause I come to love the people, we get less actives coming bnack to church and investigators getting ready to be baptized then I get moved. I will miss the people here in the Grand junction 9th ward. I have come to love them and appreciate them. I will still pray for them. thank you hannah for all that you do! I hope you have a good week! lets try and make sure Mom has a great mother's day.

March 14, 2011

Hey did much damage happen in Oregon due to the tsunami? How about our family down in California where they all ok? No I haven't gotten the packages yet. Did you use the stories I gae you last time? Yes I am still with Elder Plunkett. Transfers are next week. I think I am now mostly used to being a zone leader. I hope I get to stay with Elder Plunket another transfer, cause he knows so much about leadership and about working with the stake, and helping the missionaries. I love to serve the Lord. And it is a little weird to think it has been a year now. But It really just makes me want to work even harder and smarter. Trusting in God more and more and seeking his guidance more and more and following the spirit more and more. With every aspect of missionary work, knowing what to do, what to say, what to pray for, what to teach, what to do to help the other missionaries, and stuff like that. we do have some awesome investigators. We meet and began teaching this guy last week named craig and he has already agreed to be baptized and we have set him with a date. Another couple we got the week before agreed to be baptized. and This lady who we already set with a date told us her daughter also wants to meet with us and learn more! There is stuff happening. I love it. I love to testify of this gospel. I love to testify of The Savior and His church, His prophet, and the Book of mormon. I love to serve. This is pretty much all I know now. I dont know who Benjamin Sherman is. I only know I love my Heavenly and my Savior and my fellow brohers and sisters. speaking of which. No my seiblings haven't been writing me much, except for Hannah. Tell Grandma and Grandpa I love them and I am sorry I never really get time to write letters anymore. The weather has been nice over here, its been spring already over here for a little while now. Its good to hear George is coming to church. how is Liz and Nikki doing? How's Jayden and Stephanie doing? Any thing new about Josh? Let me know please and thank you! I love you Mom, tell everyone I love them too and miss them. thank you so much Mom. Take care!

March 7, 2011

Hey Hannah,

Thank you for the Email. yeah we are pretty busy, I dont really have time to ever write in my journal now. Being a Zone leader is different. I love my companion, he helps me a lot. The responsibilities of a zone leader are collecting the end of the week key indicator report from the district leaders for each companionship in the Zone, then reporting it to the assistants through a fax on sunday nights. We also keep track of the car miles of the Zone( we can only drive so much a week, and we have a mileage alotment). We also collect information from the zone thursday nights about how many lessons they have so far that week, and get the updates of how the ward mission process is going in each ward/companionship (a list of 15 names from the ward auxilaries, selected, inveited, being taught, is the list updated stuff like that). we also get diamond list information on monday nights usually (Diamonds are top investigators throughout the zone) how they are doing/progressing, concersn they have etc... and on tuesday nights we report the ward mission process information and updates as well as the diamond list info to the stake (usually a high councilor in charge of missionary work, and the second councilor of the mission presidency, and sometimes the stake president) on tuesday nights. And we also sometimes present trainnings (or lessons for the missionaries) at district meetings and zone conferences. and we have conference calls on monday mornings with all the zone leaders in the mission, the mission presidency, and the assistants where we report how the zone is doing (what they are doing good at, member present lessons, investigators at church, stuff like that, and what we need to do better at as a zone, like getting and contacting more refferals, getting new investigators and investigators on baptismal dates) and President maynes rebukes us haha and gives us praise and tells us what we need to better at and to repent. It is humbling and also really good to help us be more focused on improoving. Also we go to zone leader councils. im out of time....