Monday, September 30, 2013

Van Buren!

Hey! Write me!
The Mission home is:
3640 South New Haven Ave
Suite OTM
Tulsa Oklahoma 74135
 
orrr Straight to me for the next 5 weeks at:
222 Rena Valley Way
#7
Van Buren, Arkansas 72956
 
So, I'm in a trio again. with Sister Breaux and Sister Boll. They are great, we are having a lot of fun and staying SOOO busy.
 
We have Spanish Elders in our area and English Elders in Fort Smith. We all go to church together, and let me tell you. It's a party. 
We also play soccer on Saturdays. My skills are lacking, but it's so much fun. Seven missionaries and whoever else wants to join us, it's a blast.
 
There's so much to do here, I feel like this transfer will probably fly by!
 
Leaving Anderson Missiouri was ROUGH. But I was definitley ready for a change. I learned a lot last trasfer even with it being so difficult.
 
My companios are the best! Did I mention that? haha. Sister Boll is from Seattle Washington and Sister Breaux is from Idaho. It makes me so happy that none of us are from Utah! haha.
 
There is a LOT going on out here and I'm excited to be part of it.
 
Conference is this weekend!! Watch it! :D
 
 
 



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Monday, September 23, 2013

Transfers!!!

I'm headed to Van Bueren Arkansas!
I am SO sad to be leaving this area. It was a complete shock when the ZL told us that Anderson was getting Shotgunned (aka White washed ...aka...we're all leaving!) Usually that only happens when nothing is happening in an area..but we have SO MUCH TO DO HERE. It's going to be really hard to leave it all behind. I really do love the people here so much.
I get transferred on Thursday, so we just have a few more PACKED days left here in Anderson before we head out! Should be exciting!
President said that Van Bueren has only been open for 3 months and we have Elders and Sisters there! It should be pretty fun, I'll be helping to build up the area there! And I'll be in a trio again...soooo hopefully that works out well!

anyway. Have a great week!



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Monday, September 16, 2013

First Break Up. Last Hot Pink Envelope.

Disclaimer: NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS!

But you have to admit, I got you for a second, didn't I? Muahahahaha :P

Firstly: Check out these awesome statistics.
The OTM (Oklahoma Tulsa Mission) Is #1 in the United States for Member Present Lessons. BOO-YAH. Eat that...every other mission in the United States....eat.it.
Our area is #1 in the Zone for number of lessons. nbd.
and our ward/area is also #2 in the stake for Baptisms this year.

BOOM.

So there's this guy who's like .... SO close to being an investigator and DEFINITELY potential Stake President material. His name is Tom. We went to see him the other day and he said something WAY cool. Randomly he asks us, "Do you guys get turned down a lot?" we say yes..obviously..haha. He says, "Well every time someone opens the door and you tell them who you are and who you represent- even if they say, 'I'm not interested' or slam the door in your face- you have still put the thought and the words of God into their hearts and minds. I guarantee that they still think about that and they probably talk about it too. You're in a win-win situation here- you didn't fail because they said no and shut the door. Don't be discouraged when that happens- because for the split second that the door was open, you invited God into their lives."

Ok, alone, that's pretty awesome to hear.
but from a NON-member? Seriously.

He said, "I don't know why I said that, it just came into my heart and I had to let it out!"

We told him how we had had a HORRIBLE day of tracting just the day before and that we ALL needed so badly to hear that. It was amazing.

In other news, I taught the Law of Chastity for the first time this week to an islander. haha. That's the best lesson. Gotta love it!

On Tuesday and Wednesday we had exchanges, Sister Gilbert, Sister Sister Stoker and I were asked to sing at this memorial for a woman who died that week in the ward, she was like...mid thirties. It was pretty heart-breaking. We sang "Be Still My Soul". So amazing.

So about this break-up I mentioned. It was with an investigator. The Carpenter family. We first met them out on the street while we were tracting...Steve, the dad, was like, "I've been to so many other churches and nothing seems right, they all have little bits and pieces everywhere but I know I haven't found it yet." SOOO open. We thought he/they were golden. We gave them a thing on the Restoration and asked them to read it. 2 weeks later we came back.. He had so many bizzare questions. "Why do I need a prophet when I have the bible?" "Why do I need another book of scripture when I'm already following God's word?" He contradicted himself SO many times with ...everything. It was weird, but we set up another appointment....This time we went in and Steve was the most closed off person I have ever met.  He went from warm and friendly and understanding, with an open heart and mind, to total.complete.lockdown.

what.the.heck.

So I did it. I asked "Is your heart even open to learning new things right now? To asking God if they're even true?" he said no. "We've loved getting to know you and talking with you but, we cant teach someone who doesn't want to be taught, it's a waste of your time and of our time." We had a closing prayer and that was that. It killed me.

The only thing I can think of happening is that he saw some anti CRAP on the internet -__-
A guy who's worried about being led 'astray' by false prophets goes to MAN aka blatantly obvious false prophets aka google to get his answer to THE.most.important.thing anyone can have on the earth instead of PRAYYYIIINGGG and asking God. Real smart....you're super cool Steve..suuuperrr cool.

Just run a bulldozer over my heart why dont'cha?!

We bought Ice Cream...that made it a little better.

haha.

Well. this week also marked a MONUMENTAL occasion....at least I think it is.
Remember how Leisha bought a MILLION AND A HALF hot pink envelopes before Wayne left on his mission? Well.....I finally sent the last one the other day!

The hot pink envelope era has ended.

Just thought you all should know. haha.

ok. one more random story from this week:

We were driving to Goodman, a town like 10 minutes away, when we realize that EVERYONE is driving on this one road, TONS of people in front and behind us....Sister GIlbert says "I feel like we're in a funeral procession or something!" we all laugh...then we pass the cemetery.... we totally were...hahahah. it was awkward. One of the islanders passed away a couple weeks ago...soooo that pretty much meant that the whole population of Anderson/Goodman was at this funeral. TONS of islanders, it was pretty cool to see the support they all had for each other.

ALSO: On the way back from exchanges we got a ride from a couple in the ward where we were staying. I didn't know until the ride was over, but the Husband is blind, and the Wife doesn't walk...she uses a wheelchair. He is her legs, and she is his eyes. HOW PRECIOUS IS THAT!?  kills me. so cute.

annndd lastly.. We went caving today! It.was.intense. WAY fun. we had to army crawl and duck walk like THE whole time. My quads are KILLLINNG me and my knees are swollen sooooo bad. Totally worth it though. It felt like snowboarding..but worse, because I could actually feel it. haha! we got ULTRA muddy. so fun.

Well, I hope you have a great week...PRAY HARD that my visa comes soon!

Love you!
-Sister Huskey #2



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Monday, September 9, 2013

BIG NEWS

I HAVE A WATCH TAN!!!!


Believe it!



I also have zero time.



Also, Tyler gets home on the 25th!


Seriously, I might die.

I love you all!



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Monday, September 2, 2013

Melinda got Baptized!

This week has been....meh. Pretty good.

Yesterday (Sunday) was Melinda's Baptism! I also realized this morning that it's been 12 years since I've been baptized!Pretty crazy, huh?

Well, the baptism was great. Melinda's son Wexy was the only family member that came to see her, but we had 54 members of the ward there to support her! That was amazing. We were definitely not anticipating that kind of a turn out. It was really cool. 

On Wednesday we had a Zone Conference, Elder Ellis came to speak to us!

Be jealous.

He was once the Mission President of the Sao Paulo North Mission! Now he is in the 70. There's a girl from the MTC who got reassigned to this mission too thats going to my mission in Brazil with me. We both got a chance to talk with him and his wife about it and I told him how Grace will be going to Sao Paulo North too!

It was a fun day.

I feel like it's all been pretty uneventful lately. Not much to report.

Saturday I did get suuuper sick, I woke up with a fever- had chills all night, so I stayed at a members house and slept it off there all day. It sucked. I feel a LOT better now, but still recovering!


These are the cute kids that live next door to us!


Hopefully one day my life will be more exciting! haha.



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