Exchanges

So we went on exchanges this week. I went to Beaverlake and we had the member dinner with the Sansings!! It was really exciting.  Brother Sansing said that I couldn't say it was weird going back to my old area, so I'm not going to say it :)  Exchanges went good. We found a new investigator for them, so that was exciting. But, I also got eaten alive by bugs. But the bug bites are now disappearing.

So, after exchanges Sister Mcclain and I had a lesson with A______ and he wants to be baptized on Augest 2nd!! :D He even came to church!! We are super excited. He's super awesome. And yeah...that's about it for this week.

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

Small World

This week has been a fun week of TRACTING!!! woot! :D and everyone is on vacation so we become best friends with the door knockers! XP haha.

But we have a miracle. J____ C_____ is a part member family.  J_____ was a convert and went less active immediately and he came to church for his first time since he was 10 years old!!! His wife couldn't make it :( but A_____ showed up for the last 15 minutes of priesthood. He said he was in the area and had a feeling to stop by, so he did. And we have an appointment to meet with him this week!!! woot!!!

I also met Sister Fotheringham's sister-in-law at church.  That was really cool.

There's this spot on Cougar Mountain where you can see Seattle on your left and downtown Bellevue on your right. It's so cool. I'm going to take a picture of it :D  The Church is true and the Book is Blue!

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

Another Transfer

Well, hello everyone. I just got transferred in zone to Cougar Mountain.  My companion is Sister Mcclain.  It's going to be a good transfer. This last week in Snoqualmie Falls, we did a lot of tracting and our investigator Margi has read to 2nd Nephi in the Book of Mormon and is loving it!! :D She also came to church. She's going to do awesome this transfer.

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

Service

So this week was good. We did LOTS of service. We helped people move and such but the most exciting part was that a less active/part member family texted us out of the blue!! :D we've been trying to get into her house FOREVER!!! she asked us to come help her move furniture around. It was great.
  
We've been in EXTREME finding mode. That's all we've basically done this week. but today we went to xxx (Triple x burger). The burgers were HUGE. XXX is the missionary hot spot. All of the missionaries go there. So I finally got to go!!! It was so yummy and fun!!! I attached some pictures of that.

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

Dayton's Legs

So, to start off this week has been good. We've been doing TONS of finding. We found this girl named Sarah. She used to meet with missionaries and she now wants to meet with us again. And she wants to come to the Relief Society Activity this week. We're super excited about her.

This week we had to stay in for one day. And we found this Mormon Message called "Dayton's Legs". It's so good!! I love it so much. we also found a bonus video called "Reach and Share" and how because of this video this family joined the church. We started sharing it with our members to help them to see different ways to do missionary work.

Here's a link to Dayton's Legs:

https://www.lds.org/youth/video/daytons-legs?lang=eng&cid=NEMar14

That's really all for this week. Love you all!
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сестра стаффр (That's my name in Russian! :D)
May the Spirit be with you

Cats, horses, mowed lawns, oh my...

So, this week has been good. We went on exchanges. It was slightly weird because I went to BeaverLake with Sister Eaton. so being in an old area with an old companion was a little weird. But it was kinda nice. But I just felt really weird the whole time. I felt kinda out of place. But the exchange went well.

Then we went and saw Carrie who is a less active. She is an awesome less active. She is from England. she works for Microsoft and is a crazy cat lady. She has 6 cats. There's Mr. McHenry (he's her favorite), Daisy (She hates everyone), Zebedee (is scared of everything; but I think he's starting to warm up to us), Doogle (he's my favorite one and he loves shoes; it's really funny), Flourance (she's very nurturing; kind of like mother cat), and Penelope (she loves to suck her thumb; it's really cute). we never leave without TONS of cat hair on us. We mowed her lawn this week. Yes, I mowed my first lawn. And it looks pretty good. I must say myself.

Then Sunday. Sunday was just awesome. So this ward is like HUGE into Family History and the talks were on Family History and then doing the work in the temple.

Anyways, after church we went and saw a former investigator named Margi. She's Catholic and has horses (which automatically makes her super cool) and she feels the need to get baptized again because she doesn't agree with infant baptism. And her priest won't let her get baptized again. so we asked her what's her problem with our church? what's holding her back. And she said "I've been Catholic my whole life. How could I change?"  she's just scared to change. But we committed her to pretend to be a 'Mormon' for a month. And if she liked it, we'd help her get baptized. So were going to start working with her again and she's going to come to church next week.

So, after we saw her we went to her fellowshipper's house and told them the news and when we finished. they gave us 2 referrals!! They sound pretty awesome! I'm super excited about them.

Then after that, we went and saw another family that we had been meaning to go and see for like the last 3 weeks. And after we finished visiting with them and we were heading out, their daughter who is in 8th grade walked out with us an said "I have a really strong impression that you need to meet my friend." So she walked with us over to the friends house and told us how she has come to church once and she really liked it. And she also told us how she's been weaving the gospel into their conversations. But it was really late so we didn't knock the door (in fact, it was WAY late....past curfew, within that time, our district leader had called 3 times XP hehehe..oops)  But we are working on the best way to introduce us to her friend. I'm really excited. It was just an AWESOME day.

So we had ward coordnation this week and one of the ward missionaries did Kendall's favorite scripture.  1 Nephi 2:15 "and my father dwelt in a tent." Lets just say I just about died of laughter when he shared that.

And the next 3 p-days will be on Tuesday cuz we're going to the temple and transfers.

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

Persistence

This week was good. We taught Dana this week.We tracted into her last week and she told us to come back Wednesday at 10:30 and that we'd have 30 minutes to teach her. So we went back with Sister Wadsworth and found out the whole reason why she let us back was because missionaries have come to her door a lot and they've always been very nice and she wants to know why they keep coming
and why they're so nice and such. so we taught her the restoration. It was so powerful. She looked like she was going to cry and the only question she had when we finished was "How did Joseph Smith share this with others?" That was the easiest question I think I have ever answered on my whole mission. And she wants us to come back. And she said she's going to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. We're so excited about her!! We can't wait till we meet again and follow up! :DD

As for the rest of this week, we were in the finding stages so we've been doing a lot of finding (aka tracting and contacting, etc....) but were having fun with the spirit while were at it! ^_^

Here are some pictures of us at Snoqualmie Falls. We took them this morning.

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