tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20573304388977691712024-03-19T02:34:34.243-07:00Called to Serve HimSister Janelle Burner ||
Utah St. George Mission ||
November 2012 ~ May 2014Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2057330438897769171.post-38517367114555351582014-04-13T15:14:00.001-07:002014-04-13T15:14:07.997-07:00
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What an amazing General Conference weekend!! I just can't seem to
get enough of it. They spoke on everything that our investigators need to hear
right now! I love how inspired Conference is. How amazing is it that twice a
year we get to hear our modern day prophet and the 12 apostles speak?! Men
called directly by the Lord to teach to the needs of the world as it is <i>right
now</i>. It blows my mind! My favorite talks were by Elder Neil Anderson and
President Uchtdorf (as per usual), but they were all incredible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sister So....s' birthday was this week! Thank you Mom and Dad for
sending her a birthday package; she didn't get anything from her family, so it
was nice that she still felt some family love on her birthday, even if it
wasn't from <i>her</i> family. It was so fun all week just showering her with
love and seeing members reach out and do nice things for her as well. I think
that she really needed all of that :) She is an amazing missionary and an
incredible daughter of God, overcoming a past that is far more difficult than
what most people have.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We had an amazing lesson on the Law of Chastity this last week! We
were a little bit nervous because it was with Ch....e (less active) and her
boyfriend Ja....s, who have been living together for a while now. But it turned out really good! We
taught by the Spirit and asked Ja....s to bear his testimony on Chastity. It was
really neat and inspired...I think that some RM's just need to be reminded of
what they preached on their missions, so they can have the boost and motivation
they need to get back on track. Kindle the flame :) It's sad how many RM's I
have met on my mission who are not living the things that they taught and saw
miracles from on their missions. I don't understand it, and I hope and pray
that I never understand that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Wednesday we had
Mission Leadership Council (MLC). It's a six hour meeting held at the Mission
Home. All of the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders throughout the
mission come down for it, and we receive training to present to our
missionaries in Zone Training Meeting a couple of days later. It was neat to
see a lot of the missionaries that I have known during my mission! At the end
all of the missionaries who are there for the last time bear their testimonies,
which was a little nerve wracking but it was neat :)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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short! I love you all :)<br />
Love,<br />
Sister Burner</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hola familia y amigos!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ju...e finally got baptized!!
WAHOO!! She went to Dr. Pi.....n over a month ago (2 months?) for drinking and
she was successful with that, but she put off quitting smoking up until 2 weeks
ago, and even for a week after going to Pi.....n she still smoked a cigarette
or two every day (which is a miracle after what she was doing before, but
still!). Anyways, she finally quit and got baptized on Saturday!! I was so
excited! It has been a long, hard road for her but the Lord has blessed her so
much. She asked me to give the talk on baptism, so I got to go and see her be
baptized. It was really neat :) A long time ago (in December?) I had made her
promise me that she would get baptized before I left, and I had forgotten about
that--but I guess she hadn't because when I went up to congratulate her after
the baptism, she mentioned that to me. The Lord works through small and simple
things! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More updates on Leeds
investigators--Ju....l is getting baptized this weekend!! I can't believe that
one either! His wife thought it wouldn't ever happen, but have miracles ceased?
I say unto you, Nay! Also, S....e got a letter back from the First Presidency
saying that he can get baptized!! He had an interview with President Ce...r
again yesterday, and everything looks good for the week after next! And Jo...
will be baptized the week after that!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wish that my area now was
exploding like Leeds is, but we are on the "building up" stage.
That's alright though--I feel like that has been the story of my mission, but I
have been blessed to stay close enough that I can go back and see the people I
have taught get baptized. Tender mercy :) They don't count for my numbers, but
they count for the Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just love, love, love being a
missionary! I am so grateful that Conference is coming up this weekend. What an
amazing way to finish my mission, getting spiritual insights for my post
mission life through the words of men that I sustain as prophets, seers and
revelators. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hope that everyone is doing well! I love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Love,<br />
Sister Burner</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
had a baptism this last weekend!! It was for this kid named Sh...n, who is 12.
His family situation is super confusing, but basically his mom was a member but
she died in childbirth and his dad is not a member, but he lives with his step
brother (who is 9) at step brother's grandma's house, and she is an active
member, so he has been coming to church for a while now. His dad comes to his
lessons to "hear what his kid is learning," but he has slowly been
being converted as well :) He doesn't live in our stake though, so we haven't
been pursuing teaching him until we can find out who the missionaries who cover
his area are. Sh...n is <i>super</i> intelligent. Way too much so actually! His
dad didn't know much about the Gospel beforehand as we were teaching them, and
Sh...n would go off about outer darkness or the second coming or who knows what
all! Haha but it has been great teaching them. His dad wasn't there for this
last lesson that we had before the baptism, so he had grandma ask us if he
could reschedule with us so that he could get the last lesson as well (he is SO
interested!! And not just on his son's behalf!). Milagros!! At the baptism,
An...y (the dad) gave the closing prayer, but before doing so he took a moment
to tell Sh...n how proud he was of him, and how he knows that Sh...n is doing
the right thing and is on his way to becoming a very good man. An...y's prayer
was <i>amazing</i>. He didn't use all of the thee/thou/thine's, but his prayer
was definitely the prayer of someone who has been/is being converted to the
Gospel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sh...n's
ward was the ward where Sister So...s and I spoke about the Restoration and
sang a musical number, which I was really excited about because there were
several less actives and nonmembers there supporting Sh...n. And, I just love
any opportunity I get to testify of the Restoration of the Gospel!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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am growing to really love the members here in this area. They are all so sweet
and supportive! Especially the St....n family. He is our ward mission leader
in Sh...n's ward, and the whole family is just so great! We have FHE over at
his house on Mondays and he invites all of the less active and nonmember
families that we are working with in his ward. They have a daughter on a
mission in Florida, and their 16 year old daughter, Co...y, is the one that
sang with me on Sunday. They are just the neatest family! OH, and another one
of our ward mission leaders, Bro Mc...an, had us over this week for their
daughter's mission call opening. They are a great family as well :) This area
is just overflowing with amazing people! Did I mention that we ate dinner the
other day with a lady who asked me, "Hey, since you are from Chico...do
you know a lady that goes by Grandma Donna?" Boy did that stun me for a
second! "Um, that's my grandma. How do you know her?!" Small world! I
guess their daughter is a good friend of Me...a. What are the chances of that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt;">Can you believe that it is already week 4 of
this transfer?! Craziness. I feel like I haven't been with Sister So...s that
long...although I guess I haven't really, because we have been going on tons of
exchanges! We haven't decided for sure, but I think that I will be going back
into Washington East (Leeds!) tonight and tomorrow, and then we'll be
exchanging with Livirkin on Wednesday and Snow Canyon on Friday. And then
exchanges should be done for the transfer :) Wahoo! It will be nice to stay put
for the last two weeks of the transfer.<br />
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Well I love you all and I am so grateful for each of you! Have an amazing week!<br />
Love,<br />
Sister Burner<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I got to go on exchanges with my babies this
week! After Zone Conference on Tuesday, I went back to Kaibab with Sister He....
We spent the night in Cain Beds, and then spent Wednesday working in Colorado
City. It was intense! We stopped at Craigos Pizza for lunch, and the workers
were these women that were wearing polygamist dresses (they look Amish) with
aprons over them. I felt like I was back in the 1800's! Cool and sad at the
same time. We had a couple of really neat lessons though! They aren't allowed
to teach practicing polygamists, but they can teach the ones that aren't
practicing.<br />
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Wednesday afternoon I came back and then Wednesday night we went on exchanges
with Sister Ph.....h and Sister Bie..., so I got to spend Thursday back in Coral
Canyon! It was really fun. We had a lesson with Le..., who we had taught when I
was there but then since I left they have only been able to meet with her
twice. Sad deal. She and her mom were both super excited to see me and in the
opening prayer Le... said, "thank you that Miss Burner can be here
again" cute right! And I realized that my hair was covering my tag, so she
had just remembered my name! Adorable :) Also, we went to see Sister Smi... and
she wasn't there so we went to contact a referral across the street. They
pulled up to their house as we were knocking on the door, and their little girl
(Al...e, who has special disabilities) said, "Mom, look, Sister Burner is
back!" Ahhh I just feel so loved! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tomorrow I will be going on my first exchange
where I stay in my area, so I am a bit nervous! We cover 11 wards, and the
people that we work with are pretty spread out all over the stake, so that is a
lot of streets to navigate! But it should be good :) I'll be with Sister
Don....n, and she will be patient with me. She's a sweetheart. I wish I knew
my area better, but it's hard not being there all of the time. Sister So...s
quizzed me on our maps the other day and I did really well, so at least I have
made progress. I can get around within wards pretty well, but it's the getting
to a specific ward part that is kind of a challenge. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Overall things have been going well! Just adjusting to my new area,
my new companion and my new calling. I love it all so far though!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have
a fantastic week!<br />
Love,<br />
Sister Burner<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Week one of this transfer went so great! It was sad to say goodbye
to Sister Da..la when she left on Tuesday. <i>But</i>, I was super excited to
take her place being companions with Sister Sor...s! Sister Ri...a's new
companion wasn't getting here until 6 on Tuesday so we were a trio for part of
the day, which was fun! Sister Sor...s and I have been getting down to business
pretty fast. We went to two ward council meetings on Sunday in addition to
church and coordination meeting. As we've gone around to meet the Bishops, I've
managed to get us two speaking assignments for March 23rd (I hope that Sister
Sor...s doesn't hate me!). We also already went on an exchange--Friday night to
Saturday night I went to Kanab with Sister Cisn...s, who is waiting for her
visa to Brazil, and Sister Chi...n came to Washington Fields with Sister Sor...s.
These first couple of exchanges I'm going to the other areas because I still
don't know where things are in Washington Fields lol. I'm getting to know the
area pretty fast though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm really excited to get to know the sisters that we work with.
We mostly just have the sisters in our zone, but we have two companionships
from nearby zones as well. The other day one of our sisters texted us because
she was having a really hard time with serving in the Visitors Center. She is
Spanish speaking, so she didn't come down to the Visitors Center until her 6th
transfer (same as me!) and she hasn't adjusted to it very smoothly. We went
over and talked with her for a while (and took her ice cream) and I think that
she is feeling better now. Poor thing! It feels really nice to be able to help
sisters come to love missionary work more :) I just feel like I have all of
this experience, and I have learned so much on my mission, and I want to use it
to help other sisters! So basically I am just really grateful that I can be an
STL for my last transfer. I just want to be able to do all the good possible
while I am still here! I want to help everyone in every way I can, and make a
positive difference in the lives of everyone around me. I wish there were about
five more hours in a day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tomorrow is Zone Conference!! I am way excited. Afterwards I am
going to Kaibab with Sister He...! Colorado City here we come! Not going to lie,
I am a little bit excited to see all of the polygamists. No worries though, if
Sister He... hasn't gotten stolen yet, I won't either ;) And I am also excited to
have one more day with my mission daughter! I <i>really</i> wish that my camera
was working!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all have an amazing week! Remember that I love you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hola familia y amigos!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This last week was so great! Sister Ri...a and I
had tons of appointments, and many of them actually didn't cancel! Haha. It was
fun being busy and running around from appointment to appointment. It makes us
feel productive as missionaries. Tuesday we went and did a service project
cleaning the temple (and they gave us lunch and let us go up in the top of the
tower :) ), on Thursday we had Zone Training Meeting, and on Friday we went
to Cedar City for a Spanish Zone Conference. Saturday we went to a
baptism for the Coral Canyon sisters (Al...n and Pha...h). It was a man that
both Sister Ri...a and I had taught while we were in that area, so it was really
neat. <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here is a quote that I liked from Spanish Zone
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Introverts recharge their batteries by
being alone. Extroverts recharge their batteries by being around people. Saints
recharge their batteries by doing service." Isn't that so true? I've
noticed lately that every time we get to do service--yard work mainly lately--I
come away feeling so refreshed. I have found myself saying, "Sister Ri...a,
wouldn't it be so great to go on a mission where all you do is go around
serving people, all day?" She always tells me that that <i>is</i> what we
do, but I mean like physical service :) But it's nice that she reminds me of
that. I just want to make people smile though, and most of the day we get
frowns from the people that we are serving spiritually, not smiles. But a
couple of times a day we get a smile, which is nice :) Smiles from spiritual
service are about a million times better than smiles we get from physical
service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We had been getting a lot of dinner
appointments, so all Sister Ri...a and I got for food this last pday was things
for nachos and sandwiches (we had a picnic with Sisters Ni...ls, Fro..t, Da...la
and H..e after ZTM so that's why we got sandwich stuff...I still don't like
gluten!) but then a lot of our dinner appointments didn't work out this last
week, and we didn't have food to eat! Kind of unfortunate. So I had a muffin
for dinner the last two nights but I only had time to eat a little one cuz they
took a while to bake. So, moral of the story is--today we are going to make
sure to actually buy enough food, just in case! Haha :)<br />
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I love you all so much! Please pray that everything goes well for me this next
transfer--I am super excited, but it will probably also be pretty hard. <br />
Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week went by <i>so</i> fast, I have no idea
where it even went! And I know that this week will go even faster--our planners
are already almost bursting with appointments for this week. It is going to be
really good, I can feel it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We spoke in Washington Fields 6th ward yesterday
on the Plan of Salvation. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy! I've had lots and lots of
practice on that one! Sister Ri...a and I broke it up so that she taught the
first half (pre earth, creation, earth life, Atonement) and I taught the second
half (death, spirit world, resurrection, 3 kingdoms). By the way, during weekly planning
on Friday I noticed that I was coming close to the end of the Book of Mormon,
so I set a goal to finish it before the end of the transfer but then after
today I only have 11 pages left...so I think I'm going to finish it way before
the end of the transfer! Haha I guess I can get back to the New Testament after
that. I'm almost done with that, and then I'm half way through the
D&C...haven't really touched the Old Testament too much, but <i>maybe</i> I
can finish the NT and D&C before my mission is up :) Happiness!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We had a neat lesson with La...y the other day.
We planned to teach him the Law of Chastity (especially since he has a new
online girlfriend...oyy) and then when we got there and followed up with him on
his reading, he reminded us that we had given him a reading assignment for
Baptism and Confirmation, which is what we had originally been planning to
teach him the next time. OOPS! I had completely forgotten that--I have no idea
how that just completely was gone from my mind. Well, actually I have an idea
of how. Anyways, we told him that we would go over that next time, but this
time we wanted to talk to him about the Law of Chastity. I've become pretty blunt
with teaching that--we had a very spiritual yet bold lesson and it went great!
At the end I asked him what he thought of the Law of Chastity, and he said,
"You know, it's neat that you wanted to talk about that today. I've been
thinking about that all week, and I think this is just what I needed to
hear." Beautiful! Thank you, inspiration!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cr...g is still doing great! He is on Mosiah 9
now--he has listened on audio up to Mosiah 26, but he is going back after he
listens to it (he listens to it while driving ...he works for a towing company)
and reading/studying it over. He is so great! He is <i>also</i> reading from
the beginning with his wife, Ma..y, and trying to get her caught up. She is only
on 1 Nephi 14 though. It's hard for her. We are praying that one of these days
the same thing will snap in place for her that did for Cr...g! She has yet to
come to church. Cr...g has dropped from smoking 3 packs a day to smoking 1 pack
every 3 days. Not perfect, but getting there! I don't know if Mar..y has made any
real progress with quitting. They weren't there when we stopped by one time
this week, so I left a note (attached in the pic) on their porch table where
they have their cigarettes. Cute? I</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>noticed
the next time that they had put the note up on their fridge where they can see
it :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We just learned this trick to teach faith...they have to have faith that this isn't going to burn their hand! The paper floats away before it burns you : )</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Khmer UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">February 18, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Khmer UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hola familia y amigos!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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fantastic lessons, a baptism, Valentine’s day, all kinds of fun stuff :) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Khmer UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">S.....e had an interview with the mission president to
see if he can get baptized, so now we are just waiting on hearing back from the
First Presidency. Hopefully all will go okay with that, but whatever happens I
am sure will be what is meant </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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taught the Plan of Salvation, which I thought he would have had a lot of
questions about, since he has had a slightly "devil's advocate" kind
of attitude in the past. But he loved every bit of it, we were able to answer
the very few questions he had, and President Pr....e (the last branch president)
was there and was saying all of the right things at the right moments
(sometimes you worry a lot about what fellowshippers will say!). Jo.... even
brought his fancy camera so that he could take a picture with his missionaries
:) I think that is a good sign! We are meeting him at the Visitors Center
tonight, which I am really excited about. It is going to be really good, I can
feel it!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Khmer UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cr....g is doing fantastic. He is beyond reactivated. He has his
sights set firmly on going to the temple, and it's like he can't get enough of
reading the scriptures, going to church, and meeting with us! He is the only
person who shows up for Priesthood with the entire lesson read through and
thoroughly annotated. When we went to his house on Wednesday for our
appointment, he was outside waiting for us--almost jumping up and down because
he was so excited to tell us the news that he was asked to be a home teacher!
He ran into the house to show us his home teaching assignment list. He is so
great! We asked him to help us fellowship one of our investigators, La....y, who
hasn't been able to find any friends at church. You would have thought we had
asked him to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, he was so honored! I'm excited :)
This will be good for both him <i>and</i> La....y!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Khmer UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ju....e is on day 12 of
being sober! She is doing so great. Now she just needs to stop smoking...which
hopefully will happen really, really soon! Sister Ri....a went over to her house
while she was at work on Valentine’s Day and worked on clearing the leaves and
sticks and whatnot from her front garden area for about an hour, but I'm not
sure if she noticed it or not because she didn't mention it. But at least <i>we</i>
know that we did something nice for her, so when she goes to clear it out (she
mentioned needing to do that the other day) it won't be as big of a job.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Salvation lesson with Ju...l! He reacted about the same as Jo....--he had a hard
time getting into the Restoration lesson, but he just loved the Plan of
Salvation! Apparently for their anniversary last week, he and Do...a went out to
dinner and he gave her a card that said something like, "I want to be with
you forever" so his wife turns to him and says, "Well, if you want to
be with me forever, you need to get baptized first." He responded,
"Yeah I know...but I just like coffee too much." to which the
brilliant woman says, "Which is more important to you? Me, or
coffee?" Hahaha isn't that so great? He said, "Uh...I hadn't thought
of it that way before." So maybe that was why our lesson when so well a
couple days later! I hope that he continues to progress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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10th branch (they are a retirement branch, so only 65 and older or something
like that) invited us to their Valentines Dinner. I figured it wouldn't be as
weird as a normal ward Valentine’s Day thing, because they would all be too old
to be overly romantic, which was true, except that they had this guy singing
old love songs accompanied on his guitar. I felt SO awkward! The man sitting
across from us said, "Not exactly your kind of music is it?" When I
responded with, "Yeah, I'd rather listen to hymns" he had a surprised
expression, so I think he was thinking more along the lines of Justin Bieber or
something. But I'm a <i>missionary</i>, not just some youngster! haha. It was
kinda funny because we were thinking entirely different things! We excused
ourselves after the first song or two because I just couldn't handle it, I felt
so awkward!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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all had a beautiful and less-awkward-than-mine Valentine’s Day!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Milagros, milagros, milagros! Last Monday night we had a lesson
with Pey....n (the ten year old girl we are teaching). We asked her to be
baptized a couple weeks before, and each time we met she would say that she
hadn't gotten her answer yet. But Monday before we went in we prayed that we
would see <i>un milagro.</i> We even went ahead and brought a baptism program
with us for her to fill out. After teaching the lesson (I can't remember what
it was), I said, "Sooo...February 15th?" She kinda laughed and said,
"yeah." Sister Ri...ra says, "Will you be baptized on February
15th?" And again she says, "Yes." Wahooo! So we showed her the
baptism program and how to fill it out and I think she was just about bursting
because finally she said, "<i>By the way,</i> I got my answer." Haha
:) She is so cute! She told us that after we had left the time before (when we
had conveniently had a lesson on how to recognize the Spirit) she had felt so
happy and good inside that she almost cried, and she knew that that was her
answer. Cute! So, we are going to have a Valentines baptism this weekend!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, it has been worse than pulling teeth trying to get our
investigators to go see Dr. Pi....ton! Finally Ju...e went on Thursday to be
cured for drinking. She has been an alcoholic for 6 years, and couldn't go a
matter of hours without a drink. She went in to the doctor with a craving, came
out without one, and hasn't had a sip of alcohol in 4 days :) She felt so good
when she woke up that one morning she got up and drained all of her alcohol
into the sink and threw away the bottles! Wahoo! She is going to go back in
soon to quit smoking, and then one week after that she can be baptized! Now,
why is it so hard to get people to go in and get cured?! Sister Ri..ra and I
decided that it is just like the people of Moses with the fiery serpents:
"He sent fiery flying serpents among them; and after they were bitten he
prepared a way that they might be healed; and the labor which they had to
perform was to look; and because of the simpleness of the way, or the easiness
of it, there were many who perished." 1 Nephi 17: 41. Craziness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of note:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
"Satan is a loser and he will give up, but Jesus won't." --<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brother Ba..d</b>, our new Ward Mission
Leader...he is way cool. Bad-kid-gone-good type of guy. Super funny!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Me:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> "Why do you think it is important to write things down when
you study the scriptures?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pey..n:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> "So that you can remember the things you feel."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, I hope that you all have a great week!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Valentine’s Day! I love you!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hola familia y amigos!<br />
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I took some notes this last week, so hopefully I will be able to remember an
adequate amount of things to write to you all this week!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pey..n, our ten year old investigator, is so cute! We meet with
her twice a week. On Monday, we asked her to pray about being baptized on
February 15th. Then when we met with her again on Wednesday, we asked her how
it went and she told us that she had prayed about it twice since we saw her but
that she hadn't gotten her answer yet. But she really wants to be baptized :)
Also, we had shown her how we mark our scriptures with different colors to mean
different things, and then when we went back the second time she showed us how
she had made a little color coding system in the front of her Book of Mormon,
and she was super excited to show us that she had already marked two
scriptures! Haha it was SO cute! I really hope that everything works out for
her to be baptized the day after Valentines. That would be adorable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have been teaching a less active couple, Cr.... and Ma... (I
think I told you last time about her having a seizure while we were there)
since way back when I was in Leeds with Sister Pha....h. But they have never
gotten up the courage to go to church! It has been driving us slightly crazy
because we have tried <i>everything</i> we can to get them to church. They love
meeting with us, and tell us that they really want to get back to church.
Anyways, Cr.... finally went to church yesterday!! Ma... didn't go yet, but we
were practically jumping up and down when we found out that Cr.... had gone! I
consider that a huge success in my book :) He stayed for all 3 hours and
apparently had a good time. We weren't able to go to his ward, but our Ward
Mission Leader gave us an update at Coordination meeting. We also had 3
investigators attend that ward yesterday! Wahoo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cr.... and Ma... have been doing a lot better with reading the
scriptures, but their comprehension isn't as great yet so we have been going
over and reading with them every once in a while. This last week when we went
Cr.... got off on a tangent about how we know that the Church must be true,
he ended up saying something to the effect of, "There are only two true
churches, Ma... Either you are Catholic, or you are LDS." Ummm I think we
have a little more work to do!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The other day we had a lesson with Ju... in the middle of the day,
but she called saying that she was too busy at work (we usually meet her at her
work office during the day to have lessons), so we rescheduled to do it that
evening at her house. When we got there she was somewhat of an emotional
mess--work had been challenging that day. She runs a machine repair shop, which
she took over when her husband passed away a few months ago. So when we went to
see her, she was crying and said that that day had been one of those days that
she just wished that her husband was there to show her how to do things. I have
no idea how she figures out how to fix all kinds of machines--she is a tough woman!
Anyways, she asked us if we could make our meeting short that night. We just
read a chapter with her, but the Spirit worked miracles that night because by
the time we left we had her laughing and smiling, looking completely peaceful
and content, opposite from the state she was in when we came. God watches over
His children! I'm glad that we could help her to feel better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our talks in 3rd ward yesterday went alright. Sometimes I just
find it super distracting when it's so noisy in there! I feel like no one is
listening. But the Spirit is always there, regardless of how many children are
screaming. We spoke on "the Godhead," and of course I tied a little
bit of missionary work in there, too. :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sister Burner</span><br />
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tell about this week! BUT, I also have a semi-lame keyboard, so this will be an
experiment to see how much patience I have :) So if my sentences seem abrupt,
that is why!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Browallia New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a less-active lady
that we have been visiting lately, named Je..n. Her daughter, Ta...ya, is not
baptized--so we were hoping that as we meet with Je..n, eventually her daughter
will be home and join us. Anyways, we scheduled to share a Christmas message
with her on Christmas Eve, and then this last week we scheduled an appointment
to meet with her again. We planned to introduce the Book of Mormon and talk
about prayer--our standard first lesson that we have with the people we teach.
Her daughter wasn't there, as usual, but oh well. We started talking and she
brought up how neither of her kids were baptized, and then she says "In
fact, I don't think that I was ever baptized, either." WHAT? We had been
counting her as less active lessons, when really they were other lessons! And
we had been thinking of involving her with fellowshipping La...y--it's a good
thing that we didn't! Haha. Anyways, it became clear during the lesson that,
although she loves us, she isn't the biggest fan of Mormonism. She pulled every
complaint in the book--"Why do you need another book?" "Why
can't everyone go in the temple?" "I think that this is a cult"
etc. But she just wouldn't really listen to our answers, so
eventually I just bluntly said, "Je...n, I think that your problem with the
church is deeper than any of this. Has someone in the church offended
you?" And of course, someone had. So she told us the story
(I've grown sooo insensitive to those...honestly!). <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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"I'm sorry, but I just don't believe in your Book of Mormon." I think
that my response shocked her a bit--I said, "Well, of course you don't! I
wouldn't either, if I had never even opened the cover or prayed about it."
Definitely not what she was expecting. Needless to say, we committed her to
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planning, we got a text from one of the Bishops in Leeds saying that he had
someone that needed to be baptized on Saturday. No big deal. WHAT?! It turned
out to be this 11 year old, Ca.......n, who had had missionaries for a long time
but his dad wouldn't let him get baptized until the dad was worthy enough to
perform the baptism. The kids all go to church with their mom, but getting Dad
worthy has been a problem. Anyways, the family was moving Sunday morning to
another state, and I guess the dad decided that it was finally time--so he
called the Bishop and told him that he was finally ready (the Bishop has been
working with him for quite some time). Anyways, we hadn't taught him all the
lessons yet--Sister Ri....a had taught the Restoration, but that was it (sisters
before us had taught them) We went over on Saturday morning and within 40 minutes
taught him the Plan of Salvation, Gospel of Jesus Christ, Word of Wisdom,
Chastity, Sabbath Day, and reviewed all of the baptismal interview questions.
Good thing they already knew pretty much everything from going to church. After
the lesson we all went over to the church and met our District Leader (Elder
He.......t) for the interview. He and his brother Ca....on (who is 8 so he didn't
need the lessons) were both baptized and confirmed that night. Craziness!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Corbel","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hola familia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Corbel","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week was
pretty slow with teaching. In fact, when we did our weekly planning on Friday,
we hadn't been able to teach <i>any</i> of the lessons that we had planned.
Everyone was out of town for Christmas, or cancelled for some reason or other
:( Sad day! But we were able to pic up a new investigator, Larry, and teach him
a few times! Yay! And we have seen a couple of our investigators since Friday.
We are really praying that this next week will be a lot better and that
everyone will be back in town!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Larry--it was actually a set of elders in our district that found them! Elder
Da...y and Elder Le...e came to our Zone Activity on Christmas super excited about
a new investigator that they were going to have a lesson with that night at the
VC. But, that night we got a call from them and they told us, "Hey, so
that new investigator that we got...actually lives in your area. Would it be
okay with you if we taught him?" As you can guess, they got a big NO on
that one. Poor guys. It went something like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Corbel","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Them:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Corbel","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> "Hey, so
that new investigator that we got...actually lives in your area. Would it be
okay with you if we taught him?"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Corbel","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Me:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Corbel","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> "Well, seeing as you have only met with him once
he most likely has no critical emotional attachment to you. So I see no need
for you to teach him. I strongly believe that we have been placed in this area
for a reason, and we are the ones who are supposed to teach those who live
within our area. But we will let you know if we have a problem that
necessitates your teaching. What was his address?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Corbel","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Haha those poor
elders! Sister Ri...a was trying to practice saying what I had said after we
hung up the phone. I have no idea where all of this boldness comes from. I'm
definitely not as passive as I was before my mission!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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La...y the next day, and set up an appointment for the following day, which went
great! And we had a member that lives nearby give him a ride to church on
Sunday. Next appointment is for tonight! I am excited to see this man progress
and change his life as he strives to center himself on Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Corbel","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic New Years!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hola familia y amigos! Feliz navidad a todos, espero que tengan
felicidad y amor por todo esta semana :)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This has been an amazing week! B..n's baptism was yesterday and it
was incredible. By far the most spiritual baptism I have been to. This kid
is...amazing. He has so much potential! Tons of people from his
"school" came, as well as people from the ward. You probably remember
the situation--Bishop Ah.....n owns this facility for troubled youth, and he
noticed a spark in B...n. B..n would always talk to the returned missionaries that
were on the staff about the Gospel. So then we started teaching him, and he
fell in love with the Book of Mormon. I'm pretty sure he finished the whole
thing in a matter of 8 weeks or less. Each week he would tell us in animated
detail about where he was in his reading.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The baptism was performed by Bishop Ah....n. As the two of them
stood there in the water and Bishop Ah....n got ready to say the prayer, he
paused for a second because he couldn't speak. Tears were coming down both of
their faces, and I'm sure many faces of those watching. After a minute, he
baptized B..n. As they were getting ready to come back out, we sung "I Know
that My Redeemer Lives" and "I Believe in Christ" to keep the
Spirit there. Afterwards, B..n got up and bore his testimony. He is such an
incredible young man; I know that he will do great things! He is planning on
leaving on a mission as soon as he can.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The other day as I was getting ready for bed I was thinking about
Christmas coming up, and I had this realization that I am slightly embarrassed
hasn't occurred to me before. I was thinking about how, yeah, the birth of
Christ is great, but the Atonement is what is most important. But then I
realized that what we celebrate at Christmas has slightly more to do with our
Heavenly Father than it does with Jesus Christ; "For God so loved the
world, that He gave is only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him be saved."
(John 3:16-17). God knew perfectly well what He was sending His Son to do here
on Earth; He knew everything that He would suffer, and the sacrifice that He
would make. I guess we could liken it to a mother sending her son off to
war--the hardest part is the good-bye. At Christmas time, celebrating the
Savior's Birth, we are celebrating the sacrifice that God made in sending His
Son to the world. Or at least, that's what I would like to think :)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And just as I said last Christmas, I feel blessed that as I
celebrate God's greatest gift to us this year, I can be giving others the
second greatest gift that I have power to give.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On a lighter note, last night we had our Missionary Christmas
Program! I was super excited to be in St. George area this year so that I could
participate. All the missionaries in Washington County met at the Tabernacle
and sang. The Tabernacle was pretty much full! It was really neat. I took
pictures, which I will send to you :)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After the Christmas program, I was out in the audience saying
goodbye to a couple of the other sisters before heading out, and this little 9
or 10 year old girl ran up and gave me a huge hug and said, "I found
you!" I was slightly confused how I knew this girl, but it was really
cute! Her mom was a little confused as well, so she asked her, "How do you
know her?" And she replied, "The primary activity!" I guess that
she was one of the 1000 primary kids that came through the Visitors Center a
few weeks ago, and she was in one of the groups that I did--amazing that she
remembers me! How sweet is that?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Know that I love you all so much, and I am
excited to get to speak to some of you in two days!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sister Burner<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I have an
interesting story for you! When I was in Bloomington Hills, I was talking to
someone about my gluten allergy and they suggested that I should go to this
doctor, Dr. Pi......n because his specialty is curing allergies. They gave me a
card and everything, but I just disregarded it. Anyways, so when I came to
Coral Canyon I noticed that one of our bishops' names was Bishop Pi.....on, so I
kinda wondered about that...and then after this transfer started, Sister Ri....a
told me about how she had gone to Dr. Pi.....on, who was that bishop, and he had
cured her of a meat allergy. So she pushed me into making an appointment with
him today. Anyways, so we went this morning and it was one of the neatest
experiences I have had in a while! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of study is so interesting. He studied under some research scientist about
electromagnetic fields, which science has known for about 100 years has existed
around each being. But he said that Joseph Smith knew before that--the electromagnetic
field that science has discovered is evidence of how everything is created <i>spiritually
</i>before it is <i>physically</i>. Anyways, so his work is kinda like
magnets--he works with allergies in the body to make them like a positive to a
negative magnet, instead of being like two positives facing each other, which
creates repulsion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is what the
body does to reject an allergen. Anyways, so he had me lie down on my back with
a vial of a substance in one fist, and then raise the other hand above my head
facing away from me. He would push on that hand and I would resist, but if I
was allergic to the substance in my other hand, my arm would become weak and I
wouldn't be able to resist. Anyways, he did it with a few different substances,
telling me what they were afterwards. I was able to resist Calcium, Vitamin C,
citrus, and chicken/eggs/feathers, but when he put the gluten one in my hand
and pushed my outstretched arm down, it shot down like a rock. I was like,
"Wait! I don't know what just happened!" Haha he tried it one more
time, and again I couldn't resist <i>at all</i>. It was super trippy! Anyways,
he's trying to cure it now so he did something to adjust my electromagnetic
field...it's hard to explain, but I had to have the gluten vial touching my
fingertips, and then he ran a pulse thing down my spine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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though, he said that when he was researching and studying from the
neuroscientist lady, he asked her why it had to be touching the fingertips, and
she said that all energy is conducted through the fingertips. <i>Like the
Spirit working through the laying on of hands...it is done by touching the
fingertips to the person's head.</i> Also, after sending the pulses down the
spine, he had to put this vibration thing against certain pressure points in the
body: middle arm, between the thumb and pointer finger, between the first two
toes, and the ankle. But the scientist explained to him that it doesn't need to
be done to children under eight because for some reason their magnetic energy
is already in balance...<i>I wonder why it changes at age eight.</i> Anyways,
it's hard to explain everything, but it was so fascinating! Basically, all
truth comes from our Heavenly Father, so it all connects. Science just more and
more proves things that God has already told us. After this life we are
probably all going to look back and marvel at how infant our knowledge was in
comparison to God's knowledge!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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vial of gluten taped on my shoulder that he said needs to be there for 24
hours, and then next time we will test out gluten. I'm a little scared of that,
but he is a bishop so I know I can trust him, <i>plus</i> he has a doctorate in
this stuff and has cured all kinds of allergies, not to mention that he is has
cured gluten allergies hundreds of times. : )</span></div>
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am so excited! I hope that everything goes well with it...we are going to
invite our investigators to it as well :) Wahoo! <br />
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I am looooving being full-proselyting! My companion is so great, we have full
study time each day, we get to go to the wards we cover for church <i>every
Sunday</i>, we live in our area, we don't have to worry about appointments
clashing with time that we are in the Visitors Center...everything is just so
great! I am loving it. And we are working hard to set up lots of appointments
so that we keep ourselves busy. Especially since there is still tons of snow
outside! I am hoping that that will go away soon.<br />
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I can't wait to see/hear you all next week! Ahhh can you believe that Christmas
is so close? And that it is my <i>second</i> Christmas on my mission?! Weird,
right?<br />
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has been pretty crazy! Starting Saturday it snowed like crazy, and now there is
tons of it everywhere. Whoever said that it never snows in St. George, or that
it is hot all year, is officially fired. But I am grateful that thus far all of
the missionaries have been safe! <br />
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Saturday night it was pretty scary on the road, so after we went to a Ward
Christmas Party at 6:30, we headed home, giving ourselves about an hour leeway
because we needed to stop at the gas station to tank up. I drove super
slow--about 20 miles per hour tops, and even that was kinda sketchy so I only
did that on the most clear roads. And I took the back roads instead of going on
the freeway. When we got to the gas station we started to pull in behind
another car, but stopped because it was a bit uphill into the gas station and
the other car started to spin out. For a couple of minutes there I was
seriously afraid that we were going to get hit because it was spinning towards
us and the wheels had <i>zero</i> traction. It all seemed to be in slow motion.
Sister P..... asked if she should hurry and get out to back me up (mission
rules, we cannot back the car unless there is a missionary outside to back us)
but I was afraid that if she got out, the car would hit her, so I told her to stay
there. The car was heading towards her side of the car, and there was one point
where I almost told her to jump into the back behind me. But then the car
stopped spinning and was able to come to a stop and pull forward into a parking
space. All of that happened within probably 30 seconds. I am completely sure
that there were angels there protecting us.<br />
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After that, I was scared to pull into the gas station but two YSA guys stopped
next to us and pushed our car up, then went on their way. I am SO grateful that
God sent those young men to us--I don't know what I would have done! And as our
car was filling up with gas, we were able to return the favor and help push
someone else out of the gas station. But the drama continued--two people parked
in front of us as we were filling up, so the only way to get out was for Sister
P..... to back me down the hill that we had gone up. I went as slow as
possible, but the car wouldn't move unless I gassed it. Thank goodness when I
did that it only moved a little bit at a time. Poor Sister P...... was so
afraid that she would slip on the ice and the car would run her over. But again
we were protected by those not within our sight :) There haven't been very many
times in my life when I have prayed so fervently in gratitude for being alive
as I did when we were pulling away from the gas station and heading home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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note, I am so excited for this upcoming transfer! I am going to the other half
of the Washington East stake, with Sister Ri..... Sister Po..ter just finished
training her there, and guess where Sister Po..ter is headed? Huntington!
Anyways, so I already know and love my new companion :) I think that I have
unfinished business in Leeds--I felt like that even when they switched us to
Coral Canyon, so I am grateful that I get to go back there now! Sister P......
is staying in Washington East 2 and getting Sister Al.... as her companion. And
Sister He..... is headed out to Kaibab! That stake covers Colorado City, so she is
pretty scared of seeing so many polygamists. But she will do great! And she is
going to be in my zone so I will see her at ZTM! Happiness :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are allowed to do at least 2 hours of service each week, so yesterday we went
to a rest home in Coral Canyon and visited with the residents. Everyone was so
friendly and excited to have visitors! And the nonmembers were just as excited
to see us as the members. It just felt nice to have people so excited to see us
because lately we haven't been meeting very many friendly people!
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George in the fall! Every once in a while wind will stir up and a lot of the
leaves will fall off of the trees at once. It looks like it is raining leaves
outside. For the first second I'm always sad that the trees are losing their
leaves, but then I get caught up in how magical it feels to have leaves all
around me in the air! And I just love seeing colorful leaves everywhere. It
makes me want to have a leaf fight or make a big pile and jump in it. But then
I remember that I am a missionary and probably shouldn't do that! But still,
the feeling here is so neat. Especially since we have our Christmas decorations
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happened a few days ago about 10-15 minutes before we were going to close the
Visitors Center. I noticed a man and his young adult son sitting on the chairs
right next to the door. They looked like they had stopped in just as an
afterthought. I went over and sat next to them, and had a nice conversation
getting to know them a bit. I found out that they had just moved here after
their family had broken apart in Florida. They used to be members, but had
fallen into inactivity. They told me that they believed that Jesus Christ
existed as a person, but weren't quite sure about His divine role, or how that
even applied to them now. They said that they couldn't imagine how someone who
lived 2000 years ago would still be relevant, since they didn't have proof of
Him. I had the opportunity to testify to them about modern revelation--although
Christ lived thousands of years ago, what makes Him relevant now is that we can
continue to come to know Him as our Savior through prayer and receiving answers
through the Holy Ghost. They couldn't argue with that :) I hope that left them
with something to think about.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Also a few days ago, my companion and I got a
call during lunch time from an elder who had gotten transferred to SUU in Cedar
this last transfer (or was it the transfer before? I don't remember). He told
me that he had an investigator coming to the Visitors Center that day, and
asked if I would watch for her and give her a tour. I said okay, and didn't
think much of it. But after I got to the Visitors Center, I was talking to
Elder Cam..... for a minute (he is one of the assistants to the president) and
he mentioned Elder L...... (the elder that called me) wanting me to do his tour.
So then it finally clicked that Elder L....... must have called the VC to find out
who was on shift, and then called all the way up to the Assistants to get
permission to call me, and then he called his last companion, Elder Da....s, who
called Sister He.... to get my phone number and then got it back to Elder
L....... ..so basically he must really have wanted me to give his tour! That made
me feel really good. Anyways,
when the investigator came, she found me and asked, "Are you Sister
Burner? Elder L..... told me to find you." And then when her fellowshipper
came in, he said "Short, red hair. You must be Sister Burner. Elder L......
said that you are the best." How nice is that?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Another memorable moment was Monday morning. It
was super slow at the Visitors Center, so I was in the big middle room playing
the piano. Another sister who was on Pday but there waiting for her companion
to come out of a meeting came in and sat down to listen to me play. After a
bit, in walks Am....--I don't know if you remember me mentioning her, but she is
the lady that Sister P...... and I helped pack up her apartment so that she
could move. As soon as she saw that it was me, she burst into tears. She told
us everything that she was going through, and that again she felt that God had
sent her to me (well, I guess last time it was me to her). The sister who was there
with me happened to be going through a couple of the same things, so between
the three of us (me, the other sister, and the Spirit) we were able to help Am.....
to have a spiritual experience. We showed her Lifting Burdens (a really good
Mormon Message) and by the time that she left, she was smiling. God is so good!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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great! Friday night I found out that I was speaking in the adult session of
Stake Conference the next day. Yikes. But it was just for a few minutes, so it
was fine! No worries. They just had the senior companions of each set in our stake
speak. And we also got to go to stake conference the next day, which was a
broadcast from Salt Lake with Elders Oaks and Scott, as well as Sister Stephens
from the General RS Presidency. It was all amazingly done, the talks where
inspired, and much of it focused on missionary work which of course I like :) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The last two days we have had representatives
from Salt Lake come to do early morning trainings with the Visitors Center
sisters. We got special permission to wake up at 6:00 instead of 6:30 because
the meeting started at 7am, but I'm not entirely sure I'm happy that we got
permission for that. Just kidding! The trainings were great. It got me thinking
more about working harder to help members who come into the Center to have
spiritual, converting experiences as well as the nonmembers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There is this man who often comes into the
Visitors Center who is a member and I guess he must live nearby. I don't know
exactly what his medical problem is, but he can't walk so he has a scooter that
he drives around. He has some movement in each of his limbs, but it looks
really hard to move any part of his body. So it is really hard for him to
speak. Usually I just say hi and ask him how his day is going, but not much
more than that because I could tell that it is hard for him to speak. He is
always really happy when I speak to him even just for a minute, though. He
always smiles as big as he can, and his eyes light up. I don't know why it took
so long to dawn on me, but yesterday I finally realized that he must be pretty
lonely because everyone must think the same way that I did about talking to
him. Please understand that it wasn't that I didn't want to talk to him, it was
just that I knew it was hard for him. Anyways, yesterday I decided that I was
just going to spend some time talking to him, so we had a conversation for
about 20-30 minutes, up until it was my turn to go in for dinner. We talked
about missionary work, the gift of tongues, and how he has been trying for a
long time to learn Russian (often he asks sisters to play the Christus in
Russian for him). When I had to leave for dinner, he took great effort to tell me
"Thank you for being patient with me." It nearly made me cry. I feel
so bad that I hadn't just taken time to speak with him before. I guess I learned
an important lesson yesterday. It's funny how you can go along thinking that
you are being nice, but then if you just think about the situation
differently--you pause to really put yourself in their shoes--you gain an
entirely different perspective. I'm grateful that God gave me that realization
and the opportunity to speak to that man while I am still here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this last week so that I would remember everything that I need to tell you
about! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Our mission had the same rule as the elders in Chico had; we all had to be in
our apartments at 6pm. BUT, I was on shift at the Visitors Center that night,
so we got to stay there and watch Ephraim's Rescue!! It was so fun! I didn't
cry as much as I did with 17 Miracles, but it was still way good. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Funny moment of the
week: Daylight Savings Time. Saturday night we got a text from the STL's saying
something like, "Enjoy your extra hour of sleep tonight! Remember before
you go to bed to reset your clocks!" Sister P..... read that and
apparently they don't have Daylight Savings in Gu......, so she was a little
confused. I tried to explain simply that the time goes back an hour, but we
didn't need to change the cell phone because it automatically changes. We just
needed to change the clocks. Anyways, the next morning I woke up to the door
bell ringing and pounding on the door, which turned out to be Sister Du.....
needing to get the keys since it was her turn to have the car. I looked at the
clock and it was 7:07. So of course I had a mini spasm getting out of bed and
running to start getting ready. I was super confused why our alarm hadn't gone
off though, so I checked the alarm on our phone and it had changed to 7:30
instead of 6:30. Still confused, I tried to think through it out loud to Sister
P....., saying that maybe the phone had changed time but the alarms hadn't
changed with the time or something...which didn't make any sense. Finally
Sister P...... says, "I changed the alarm last night. The STL's said that
we got an extra hour to sleep last night". Oh
goodness...!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Miracle for the
week: This last weekend, I had TWO baptisms!! Neither one for our current area,
but Hay... from Leeds got baptized, as well as ANN....... from Bloomington Hills!!
AHHHH! It was the greatest thing ever! We got permission to go to both of them,
and we just went from one straight to the other. Ann......'s was first. I loved
seeing her in white!! And we were a bit surprised when President Center, his
wife, <i>and</i> the assistants showed up for the baptism. Especially me
because I was supposed to give the talk on the Holy Ghost, and I was planning
on kinda winging it (since we weren't for sure that the baptism was going to
happen until the night before). But it turned out really nice :) Hay....'s
baptism was great too. I played the piano for that one. She is so cute!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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told us that we need to get some baptisms for <i>our</i> area soon...but hey!
I'm trying, but they keep switching me before the baptisms happen! I'm grateful
that at least I still get to go to them :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tomorrow is my year mark! Crazy, right? One year ago today I was
getting ready to go to the MTC! It really doesn't feel like it has been that
long. A lot of things have happened since then but at the same time calling it
a year seems funny. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sister Burner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Funny moments
this week...I got out of the shower one night and Sister P...... told me that
the STL's texted to tell us our study topic for the next week and that they
love us, so she texted back that we love them too. I thought it was a little
weird that the STL's would tell us what to study, so I checked the phone and
saw that it was a mass text from the <i>zone leaders,</i> not the STL's. Easily
confused, since we have a zone leader named Elder Larson and an STL named
Sister Larson. Nonetheless, I realized that Sister P..... had just sent a
message to the zone leaders telling them that she loves them! Oh gosh!! I
started laughing, but then I realized that they could have thought that that
was from either one of us...which made it not quite as funny, but still funny.</span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The other day
when we were on shift at the Visitors Center, I went by the annex looking for
another sister and right as I was about to head back I noticed that there were
a couple of middle aged Hispanic women looking at the pictures and reading the
Spanish descriptions. I went to talk to them, and we ended up having an amazing
tour. I took them around to look at the pictures from inside the temple, and
the Spirit was just amazing. We were all tearing up, and she asked me if there
was somewhere where she could get a Book of Mormon in Spanish. Of course I said
that I could just give her one :) Anyways, so I take them to the front to see
the Christus, and they just about fainted. I've never seen the Spirit hit
anyone like that. They were just overwhelmed, especially when they sat in front
of the Christus and I shared my testimony about the Savior. They both took BoMs
and gave me their information so that I can keep in touch with them. It is
amazing how the Spirit works with people who are prepared!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We find out our transfers this Saturday! For sure they need two
new STL's and two more VCT's, as well as 5 trainers. So things will be changed
up a bit! Not necessarily for us because we are training, but it should be
dramatic nonetheless. We will see!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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love you all so much and hope that you have a great week!</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Love,<br />
Sister Burner<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hola familia y amigos!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lame so hopefully I don't give up part way through. If sentences are rather
short, that is why!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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with some strawberries, bananas and this super healthy orange juice that I had
found at the store the day before (it had like 12 different vitamins in it!
Awesome!) so that started the day off perfectly! We had DTM and my district
leader, Elder Ch......, wrote "Happy Birthday Sister Burner" across the
top of the chalk board. And I got to play the piano :) In our area, we talked
to this less active couple and they asked us to teach them because they really
want to come back to church. And we left a cute post it with a sweet message on
it on a lady's door who had been all grumpy with us the day before...kill them
with kindness! Haha I felt kinda sneaky. We had VC in the evening which was
perfect because there are always more people there in the evenings! Aaand I was
standing right at the front desk when in walks Br....... P......... with his
adorable little brother and sister, one of which was holding a bag with mint
chip ice cream and the other was holding a birthday cake that had a note on it
that said, "Gluten free." How cute is that! Haha Br....... told me that
my mom had said I wouldn't eat the cake unless it had a note on it saying that
it was gluten free. My mom knows me very well :) It was just a fantastic day
overall! Plus I got a package from Aunt Lisa in the mail that day, as well as a
few birthday cards from members of our ward back in Chico. Beautiful!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sister Dav.... for a day! It was super fun, especially since she speaks Spanish.
Not to mention that she is super nice and just a fun person to be around! We
had an amazing first lesson with this teenage girl named Han...... We read 2
Nephi 31 and had an amazing conversation about how Han...... has felt the spirit
in the past, especially when she went to Girls Camp. Wahoo! We were supposed to
have another lesson with her last night, but she wasn't feeling good and had
already gone to bed (it was at 8). But we gave a Gospel of Jesus Christ
pamphlet to her mom to give to her, which I am hoping her mom might end up
reading as well!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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can't remember if I have already told you how we met him...but a couple weeks
ago we passed each other on the sidewalk, and I turned around and started a
conversation with him about Joseph Smith as we walked him up to his house. We
have been trying to catch him ever since, with little success. Until Friday!!
He invited us in and we had a nice chat, which ended up turning into us teaching
him the Restoration. We invited him to church on Sunday and set up an
appointment for yesterday. Well, guess what!! He was at church! <i>And </i>we
had our lesson with him last night and it went <i>amazing</i>. We recapped the
Restoration and taught him the first half of the Plan of Salvation, after which
I brought up baptism and invited him to be baptized on November 9th. He said
Yes!! He also said that he believes that God sent us to him. How sweet :)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We agreed to do it since it's still in our stake and some of the members are in
Leeds, so it would be good to get them all excited about doing missionary work
up there. Anyways, of course we had the whole program to ourselves. So Sister
Pha...... was a little nervous. But I helped her prepare her talk, and had her go
first so I could just fill in whatever time was left. Well, when we got there
we learned that they didn't have a pianist there that day, so I ended up
filling in for that...prelude, opening hymn, sacrament hymn, rest hymn, closing
hymn, and postlude. Oy. It turned out okay :) Kinda crazy going straight from
the piano playing the rest hymn to the pulpit to speak! But it worked out.
Passing the sacrament ended by 1:15 and my companion spoke for 12 minutes, so I
ended up giving a 35 minute talk. Thank goodness for the Spirit!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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.....Yesterday was kind of crazy.... I had accidentally assigned rides/dinners to both wards for next Monday, and neither for yesterday! So Sunday we called some of the people and had them move the date up. It all went smoothly : ) But then about 10 minutes before our shift at the Visitors Center ended yesterday morning (it ends at 3, and our ride was picking us up at 3:30), Sister Cen....... (the mp's wife) texted us and asked if she could go out with us that night. So we called our ride again for that night and canceled with her.</div>
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We didn't have much time in our area before dinner but we got to contact two people before we had to start walking over to our dinner appointment (our ride dropped us off in Leeds so we went from there by foot). Guess what our dinner had?! Gluten free Domino's pizza with pepperoni and olives! I seriously thought for a second that they must have called and asked someone I know what to feed us. It was so yummy! And they had Canadian bacon/pineapple normal pizza, which Sister Pha...... happens to like. So it just was enjoyable overall!</div>
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After dinner, Sister Cen..... picked us up and we had an appointment with Hay..... Which was aaamazing! We taught her the Plan Of Salvation, and we covered the 10 Commandments as well, during "earth life." We couldn't have had a better lesson--we followed up on her commitment, used How to Begin Teaching points from PMG, gave an overview, had a prayer, used visuals for PoS and the hand signals for 10 Commandments, bore testimony and promised blessings, had great participation and asked some inspired questions, gave her an age-appropriate PoS worksheet for her commitment as well as committing her to go to church, said a kneeling closing prayer, scheduled another appointment and asked for referrals. And Sister Pha....... and I traded off pretty well on the teaching : ) It was so good! We did everything that we are supposed to do in a lesson. Perfect lesson for the mission president's wife to listen in on!</div>
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Conference was great as well; it always goes by way too fast! We got to watch most of it, although at the Visitors Center we had to take turns being out on the floor (they had conference showing in the big theater in the middle of the VC) so we missed a few talks that we'll have to catch up on later. Saturday morning session we were able to go watch with Hay....., her sister and her grandma! That was way fun. And we had a nice little lunch with them afterwards as well : )</div>
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Well, my time will soon be out--but thank you to those of you who sent me birthday letters, e-mails, and packages! You are the best!</div>
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We had several funny experiences this week, and tons of tender mercies!</div>
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One tender mercy: A man came up to me at church and asked if I liked gluten free waffles (uh, yes!) He then told me that he had bought about 50 boxes for his daughter when they were on sale but then she moved away, so he didn't know what to do with them and was wondering if I would like some. Score!! He asked me how big my freezer was and how many boxes I wanted so I just said like ten...so he runs home and brings me two grocery bags full of them. How amazing is that?! And he said to let him know when I run low because he has tons more.</div>
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The other day we had an amazing experience when we were tracting through an apartment complex that is in our area. We had met this lady and her daughter briefly before, and when we went by this time, she was in the process of boxing up everything and moving out. When we asked her if we could help, she looked a little doubtful and asked "do you really want to?" To which I said, "YES!" So she let us come in and help her box up a couple of bedrooms. While we were packing she told us that she had received a notice yesterday that she had to move out of her apartment within 3 days. Yikes. We talked to her more and she told us about how another woman was moving away from the apartments at the same time, who had moved there around the same time that she had. She felt that that lady had been brought there just to help her. She also said that there was a missionary couple who worked with an addiction program that were about to be released that she felt were placed there just for her as well-- and then now with us showing up to help her just when she needed it, she felt overwhelmed with how perfect timing all of these things had. I shared with her how I, too, had experienced times in my life where I felt that God was really watching over me, and setting things in my path to help me just when I needed them most. It was a truly amazing experience, and more than one tear was shed and testimony shared.</div>
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On a lighter note, one night my companion and I had a few minutes before heading to dinner so we decided to knock a few random doors. Background info, my companion is terrified of dogs and cats. So I generally distract the dogs/cats while we talk to people. Anyways, we walked up this driveway and were trying to figure out where the front door was when this big, mean dog runs around the corner, barking at us like crazy. For half a second I contemplated whether I should stay and protect my companion, but quickly I decided that a better course of action would be to turn around and, well, get outta there! So I turn and run like crazy, and my companion was just absolutely petrified so she was clenching on to my arm as I turned to run and took another half second before her wits came to her and she started running like mad out of there too! We just ran around the corner into the street, and when we stopped I started cracking up. It was just so funny! Oh gosh. That will be a story for her to tell later-- "One day, this huge man-killing dog came to attack me, and my trainer just turned and booked it, leaving me to fend for myself!" Haha not really, she was only a second behind me. But you know what they say: there is no need to fear dogs on your mission, as long as you know that you can run faster than your companion!</div>
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Another slightly less funny experience we had just yesterday--we had a lady come pick us up from our dinner appointment and drive us around for the rest of the night, then drop us off at the vc afterward (we didn't have the car yesterday). I guess it all started when I called her earlier in the day to confirm with her. I told her that we had an appointment at 6, and then after that we were just going to contact some referrals. She offered that if we needed to we could come back to her house to contact the referrals, but I told her that we were doing visits, not calls. Anyways, so she picks us up and we had an amazing lesson with Ha..... (we taught her the Restoration and put her on date for Nov. 2nd!). The contacting went great; two of the people were home who we hadn't been able to catch yet!</div>
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Anyways, when we were done she said, "Well would you like to come to my house before we head back?" I just figured that maybe she needed to pick something up to take down to St. George with her, so I said it was okay if we did that. As we headed to her house I started to realize the real purpose for stopping by there. She started rambling about how she had two sons still living at home--one was 25 with down syndrome, and the other one was 39 who had never found the right woman to marry. Oh gosh.</div>
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So we get to the house and go in, and she tells us that we can wait there in the living room while she goes to get her family to come out and meet us. While she was gone her 39 year old son, A...., comes in from the backyard and starts talking to us. She came back and saw he was there, and then somehow disappeared again... after about 10 minutes she comes back with a family calendar so that we could "see pictures of the family," after which I said that we probably needed to be heading back. Before we headed out, she turned to A..... and said, "A........, would you like to accompany us to St. George?" To his credit, he looked a little confused and ended up saying he could just stay home with his brother. Oh gosh! This lady was totally trying to set us up with her son! Oh gosh! One, we are sister missionaries. Two, he is almost twice our age. Three, we are sister missionaries!</div>
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Anyways, I am grateful that there have been lots of tender mercies and funny experiences lately. </div>
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