Hey Yall!
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Sis. Walker, Williams, Pres. & Sis Mansell,
Sis. Lewis, Kresge |
This is transfer 2 in Noble and I am so excited to be
staying here. This place is special and so amazing and I’m just so happy to be
here. Sis. Kresge and I are staying together! Another transfer together, we are
so excited. We have so many good things happening here. Also the OU Sisters are
staying so the 4 of us are going to rock this transfer. We’re so excited!
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| Sisters & Ruth |
So
the other day we were going to a less active’s home and we knocked on the door
and waited there a pretty good minute, just waiting there and waiting
there.
And all of a sudden their son
answered the door super quick and he goes, “oh, hold on a second.” He closes the
door and we wait another little bit. Next thing we hear is Brother Borchers
(their dad) exclaim, “Oh the mothers are here!” He said his son just came up to
him and said, “Dad the mothers are here.” What??? “Oh I meant the Sisters.” So
we are the mothers now, Mother Walker and Mother Kresge. That will explain the title
of this email this week.
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| Stephanie & her girls, Chelsea & Nevaeh |
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Twining!! with our investigators
daughter, Hailey! |
Our investigators are doing real well right now. Some
exciting news…Marilyn is engaged.
We are
so pumped. One Sunday it was all about God answering prayers, and this question
has been on her mind for awhile and it’s been whether to get married to her
son’s father or not.
They finally
decided to get married and we actually saw her with a ring on and she also has
a new baptism date and it is going to be Dec 30, 2017. We are so excited for
her. She is glowing and she wants it so bad. She is even sharing the gospel at work
and has someone for us to teach. Stephanie’s also doing fabulous. We have been
teaching her more. She has her date set for the 6
th still and she’s
so excited to be baptized. We are also starting to teach her daughter the
lessons so she’s going to be able to be baptized on that day too. Lazara is
also doing so great.
Today she met our
mission president. This is fun because our Mission Pres is super fun and
expressive and so is Lazara. She told him that she needed to get these lessons
done before we left because she doesn’t want us to leave. She’s on board saying
she needed to have more lessons, so that’s what we’re going to do. She loves
learning and grasps the information so well and progresses amazingly, it’s so
cool. She’s awesome.
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When its 30 degrees and your comp is
Feeling a Pina Colada Milkshake:) |
So yesterday we had our ward Christmas party and were trying
to invite as many less active and investigators as we could. We got 3
investigators there and one was a part member family, the Underwood family, and
they’re so amazing. We were really struggling with them because they wouldn’t
come to church, and that’s something that has to happen in order to show that
they’re progressing. So we had a prompting and felt strongly we needed to invite
them at that moment. Sister Underwood later called us to find out what she
needed to bring to the party and the only thing that was holding them back was
their kids are super crazy. Crazy awesome!
So they were really scared to bring them to the church thinking they would
be disruptive the whole time, but they did come to the Christmas party. We were
really hoping they would come to church this morning and they didn’t. But we
got this text from Bro. Underwood (the member) saying they had gotten ready for
church, were ready to get in the car, and then everything just fell apart. His
wife, Tonya, used to be with a group in the Pentecostal church and suggested
that they just go there. Bro. Underwood wouldn’t hear of it saying they needed
to go to his church, the LDS church. She was insistent and went to the
Pentecostal church and gets home and tells her husband it didn’t feel right. It
didn’t feel the same. He told us in a text that she’s paying attention to the
lessons and is grasping things and that we needed to keep teaching them because
they were going to come to church next week. This just made us so happy. It was
such a miracle and we are so excited to see them next week.
What is really cool is that the ward has
adopted them into the ward. They are like family now and there are so many people
talking to them. Tonya has lots of friends and we’re getting closer to their
kids too and it’s really cool to see a family progress like that.
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| We made 3 pans! #lighttheworld |
I want to know what you guys have been doing to Light the
World.
Isn’t it amazing?
(apparently amazing is in my vocabulary today
cuz everything is amazing) …Sis Kresge and I have been trying to figure out
what we can do to light the world. So the last week we’ve made three pans of
brownies and a batch of cookies and we’re on a sugar high. It’s crazy. We’ve
been making so many brownies and taking them to people. We made brownies for
this Christmas concert that happened tonight and it’s just been awesome.
I want to know what you have been doing to
Light the World and I want to know the miracles you have seen. Because it’s the holiday season I want you to
continue the challenge from last week and do the weekly challenges.
Do them because they really strengthen your
testimony of the Savior because the Savior served and we need to be serving
just like He served. Come up with awesome ideas, there’s ideas on Mormon.org.
You all are so creative, and I know you can
figure out amazing things to do and I want to hear about all of them. Let me
know, email me, cause Sis. Kresge and I need some fresh ideas, and I want to
hear the miracles you’ve seen from doing this Light the World challenge.
I love you all and I am so grateful for you and the love and
support you have for the missionaries. We really do appreciate your prayers and
they help us so much. Because we’re out here, and sometimes on our hard days
and you have no idea how much it means when we know that we’re getting prayers,
because our investigators need it, and all the people in our ward as well. You
guys are just amazing and I hope you have a fabulous week and see lots of
miracles.
Love you,
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