Trials

This week, we got in contact with 2 less active members that we have been trying to get in contact with FOREVER!!! And they said we could come back this week so we're really excited about that. We also went on exchanges. Sister Crocett came here with me. We found some really good potential investigators that said we could come back next week. So that's another thing we're really excited
about.  And David (another potential investigator) actually called us back and we set an appointment with him  for Sunday!!!! I'm super excited for that. We've been trying to get an appointment with him FOREVER!!

We also had a Zone meeting this week that was really good. President Choi crashed it. (So obviously it went over) and he talked about trials and overcoming trials. He read Mosiah 24:10-15 and then told us that when a trial comes, punch it in the face and tell Heavenly Father that you just love this trial!! And ask for the strength to overcome it.  We also had a zone Breakfast as well. The food was yummy.  It's always fun to get together and be able to talk.

I've also been working really hard on my Portuguese. hehe... Yeah let's just say it's interesting. ... there's this word "Cao" and I keep saying it wrong cuz apparently it has to sound nasally but I can't make it sound nasally to save my life. XP

Transfers are next week so p-day will be on Tuesday.

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Snow

Well, to start out this week has been FREEZING!!!  It's been below 0 all week. We even got snow for 2 days. So we weren't allowed to use the cars. We had to ask members for rides to our appointments and to church. It was pretty great.

Then we had to drop ALL of our investigators. :(  And because the Seahawks won the superbowl, EVERYONE has had Seahawks fever! XP

And there was a HUGE parade they did for the Seahawks in Seattle, so no one was home that day. And the ones that were, were annoyed that we were knocking on their door.

But on Saturday it was just a glorious day for MIRACLES!!! We spent the whole day tracting. (Literally we walked all around Trossachs) and we ended up teaching 8 other lessons and found 3 solid potentials who said we can come back and teach them!!! We're pretty excited about that.

Hmmm...and yeah. That's all I have for this week..oh wait jk.  So one of the members. has this pillow that says "Stressed spelt backward is desserts." I really like that. Oh yeah, and apparently we should be getting iPads soon. And yeah...that's all I have

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Stake Conference

I'm doing good. I caught a cold this week. And I'm still trying to get over it. I've gone through so many tissues XP.

This week I helped the Mcfaddens move. I love that family. I'm sad that they moved, but hey, they only went to Northbend so that's not too far. And that's in the Mission now. So maybe one day I'll get transferred there!!

I got a picture of Belle. (Sister Mcfadden's Daughter) with ALL of her pandas. She has 5 HUGE Pandas and she loves them so much. but I forgot to bring my SD card in so I'll send the picture next week.

Then we had Zone Conference as well.  It was really good, but we also had Stake Conference  and Elder Adukaitis came. And it was all on Hastening the work of Salvation. It was amazing!!  He talked a lot about choosing faith over everything. But I think my favorite part was when he talked about to stop inviting. He said that if you have already invited and they said "No" stop. And to do assertions instead. So like say to them "I was at church and someone gave a talk on families and it made me think of you because you told me about how much you love your family." or something like that and if you keep doing that how eventually they'll just ask if they can come.
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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

2 weeks...

Alrighty, so I'm going to start with some stuff from last week that I forgot to write about. So we tracted into this couple and they are members. XP Brother and Sister Holder. Sister Holder is from Australia and Brother Holder is from New Zealand! It was great. They say they're temporarily living here so their records are in a different ward. But it was still fun. Their son is serving in Florida and he's serving where my old investiagtor is living right now! So that's pretty exciting.

Then we had Zone Breakfast as well.  It was good as always. And a bunch of fun...but I some how end up on my leaders bad side... hehehe.... so Elder Hensen is a AP and I got up to take the last Cinammon Roll at the same time he did but I snatched it before he did...and yeah..we sorta declared war...heheh... I need to be more careful...since he is an AP and everything.

Now onto this week.
So I got a dragon!!! His name is Nilus. We were at the Petries house practicing the discussions and their daughter Anna loves to crochet and she makes lots of things without patterns!! she made me a dragon. I guess somehow she just knew it was my 9 month

mark that day. We made cookies this week as well...well really they were just mini missionaries.

And now once a month we get a Zone p-day. The first one is today, that will be interesting. But I'm pretty excited for it.

And now for the random realization I had this week!!! So for those of you who have read Kingdom Keepers. You know about SBS (Sleeping Beauty Syndrome) but you see as a missionary we get CS (Cinderella syndrome) because we turn into pumpkins if we're not home on time.

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Short

Well this week I can't really remember what happened.... I left my planner in the car ...again .....hehehe ....oops. But I'm doing well and I want to say "Thank you" for all of the letters that I have gotten from everyone.

In my studies this week, I came across Mosiah 8:18 and it says:

"Thus God has provided a means that man, through faith, might work mighty miracles; therefore he becometh a great benefit to his fellow beings."

And I really liked that cuz through faith all things are possible. And even through this hard time, with faith, our burdens will be light and all will go well.

My companion is the one waiting for her visa to go to Brazil.
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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Repeats

So, this week has been good. We just had transfers and guess what!? I'm still in Beaver Lake (I swear I'm NEVER going to leave this zone) and my companion is Sister Wright again! How crazy is that!! Pretty crazy.

Sister Smalley and I had fun this last week. We had a lesson with Molly and Brother Devine came and befriended her husband Max which was great cuz Max actually came in for the lesson!! It was awesome because that never happens.

Then we spent most of our time up in Ames Lake Tolt Hill so when we're up there we eat in our car. We had decided to buy dinner at the gas station this time and they had NO warm food, but they had a pickle! (You know, like the ones that you can get at Disneyland). I was so excited, so I got one because I had been craving for one of those pickles. ...but when I ate it, it did NOT taste like a pickle at all!!! It tasted so gross!!! XP yuck.

And yeah....I can't really remember what else has happened and yeah.... I think that's all I can think of. Thank you so much for all of the prayers!!

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

The Lord is in charge.

I'm doing alright. The ward here is really helping out, but I know this is where I need to be and that there are people here I need to find.

So this week has been an interesting week. We found a new investigator named Dani. We were about to put her on date but then a meat delivery man interrupted.

Then for New Years I bought a lot of confetti and a confetti cannon. I was so excited for it! But then it didn't work, so I was thoroughly disappointed. :(

Then we also had a New Year conference that morning. We went to the Sansings to follow up with a commitment and we were talking about something and their daughter Katie suddenly said "Like Sociopaths!!" and she compared missionaries to sociopaths because she never knows what they are thinking, XP

So the day after I found out about mom, we went and saw Sister Mcfadden and she had remembered a comment I had made about a poem quote thing I really like and she found it and printed it off for me and it's called Footprints.

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the LORD. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonged to him,and the other to the LORD.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life.

This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it. "LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't Understand why when I needed you most you would leave me."

The LORD replied,"My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you during your times of trial and suffering When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you."

And I Love that. And I know right know that the LORD is Carrying me and my family. I know that the Plan of Salvation is true and that she is in a better place doing a great work.

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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you