"Kraft Dinner" here!!
Monday, November 18, 2013
November 18 2013
Good Morning!
I feel like I just logged off the computer last week and now I’m
on it again. Time is crazy fast here on the mission this next Saturday is
transfer calls. I can’t believe my first transfer in the mission field is
almost already finished! There is a really good chance that I will not be
transferred because our mission president likes to keep the new missionary with
his/her trainer for their first two transfers. This will also be Sister Houde’s
last transfer so that makes it very good odds will both be staying here. I am
very happy for that though everyone told me when I was leaving the mission home
when I first got here that Dows lake Ottawa ward is the milk and honey of our
mission and I will be very spoiled there. I have come to realize this these
past few weeks. We teach so much and all these young people are so willing to
listen. I truly believe that the church is blossoming with the youth and I get
to be apart of that! At the start of the week we were struggling a little bit
because sometimes it’s hard to know if certain people you are teaching are
serious or not about wanting to know more. On Tuesday we decided that we would
go contacting a lot to hopefully find people that are really serious. Heavenly
father heard our need and now this next week is packed full of new people we
found to teach. In the next two days we have 6 new potential people that are
very interested. We are very excited and eager to teach them.
Wednesday was such a special day. It was mission conference
so General Authority Elder Piper of the Seventy came and talked to us. We
got to ask him any question we want and he was so great with answering them and
the spirit was so strong in the room there was no doubt in any of us that he
wasn’t a general authority from our heavenly father! One of the greatest things
he said was when we don’t obey certain commandments it’s because we don’t
understand that commandment. The more we come to understand that commandment we
come to see how important it is and why we need to obey it. He taught us how we
should be teaching our investigators by teaching us things that we need instead
of teaching us things that he wants to tell us! After the meeting President
Patrick stood up and told us that Elder Piper would have time to interview ten
missionaries before he left. The first name he called out was SISTER DICK. I
thought I was hearing things and then everyone looked at me and said good
luck!! I was scared to death, but he is just like any other Idaho Farm
boy. Elder Piper was a very carrying and
sincere man, he asked me about my family and how I was doing on the
mission. You could tell he really cared.
He told me to say hello to my family and he is going to be looking for me in
the newspaper when I get home for rodeo!
This Saturday we had a baptism for the Elders in our ward
investigator. Her name is Van and She is the cutest thing in the world and
what she says is "she loves Hugs!" she is so pure and a sweet girl it
was so great to see someone taking that first step with baptism! On Sunday she
received the Holy Ghost at church and it was so amazing we had 6 investigators
show up to church and for them to be able to see her receive the Holy Ghost was
so great for them!!! Van is so shy when they walked off the stand she clung to
one of the missionaries arm so tight and walked down the isle. You should of
seen that elders face it was so bright red as she clung to him because she was
so scared I know all he was thinking was "O no, a girl is touching me and
I’m in front of the whole congregation"! We were all just laughing
and smiling at the sight.
After church we were invited to a Chinese potluck the Chinese
elders were putting on. I was so scared to eat half the food at it because
there were some interesting fish products and who even knows what I ate, but it
was so great to see how many Chinese members we are getting. They are so close
to getting their own branch!
I’m really excited for this next week of lots of teaching there
is nothing better then explaining to people about this true gospel! Have a
great week!
Love,
Sister
Dick
Monday, November 11, 2013
November 11, 2013
Hello!
It is very difficult to find computers in this city
to write emails on and today is Remembrance Day so here I write my email
on a iPad in an Apple store. Needless to say it is quit difficult! This week
was of course another great one! We had a lot of lessons with people.
Unfortunately I had my first drop this week which means a person were teaching
doesn't want to take our lessons anymore. She was so great and I hope she
realizes how amazing this gospel is and comes back. It's been starting to snow
here these past few days a lot so that's been a lot of fun! On Friday we had a
guy come up to us asking us if we knew where a church was because he was
looking for one. With a big smile on our faces we said we sure do! It was kind
of weird having someone come up to us talking about church because it's
always the other way around! He came to church with us wearing his full African
tribal suite it was awesome. He said he really enjoyed church and wants
lessons. We had a lot of investigators come to church this week and I decided
when so many come you feel like a proud mom or something. You know that you must of done something
right in the lessons with them for them to want to come to
church. This week I have realized how much my testimony of the Book of Mormon
has grown already on my mission. A member from our ward was telling us that
through studying the Book of Mormon he had found 38 things in it about the
atonement of Jesus Christ that is clarified or never said in the bible. That
right there is so cool the Book of Mormon gives us such a better testimony on
our savior Jesus Christ and that should drive us to obey his commandments so we
can be more like him everyday! I love being a missionary so much I have learned
things that I can't imagine going through the rest of my life without knowing
them! Have a great week I love you all so much!!!!
Sincerely,
Sister
Dick
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
November 4, 2013
Hello everyone!
This week I hit my two-month mark in the mish! I cant believe
how fast time goes by its so crazy when you are so busy! This week we did a lot
of service projects, which was a good change and a lot of fun. One of them is
helping this big garlic farm put water hoses on the garlic, which was really
cool and felt more at home for me. We also did our normal service project at Ottawa
mission the place where we feed the homeless. It was on Halloween so I went as
Sister Houde and she went as me, but It wasn’t very easy trying to do her French
accent the whole time ha-ha. This week I had my interview with my mission
president. All the missionaries have them every three months. He told Sister
Houde that he was really surprised how well I’m doing in this new missionary
life, but I tried to explain to him that I’m a really easygoing person! He gave
me advice on how I can better myself at street contacting and not be so afraid
of it. I’m trying these tactics so will see how it goes. We had zone meeting
the next day and it was really neat. Our zone is so big since the new missionary
changed happened. The Ottawa zone use to be 14 missionaries and now there is
40! Our zone is pretty big because our mission is so big some of the
missionaries had to travel seven hours to make it to zone conference because
they live so far away. The zone meeting was a lot on less active members and
how we should make it a big importance to help them, so this week we did just
that. We went with the senior missionary couple in there car because we don’t
have one and we tried to go to a lot of less actives home to visit them.
It went pretty well except for the dad that yelled at me and said he was going
to chew me up and spit me out Sister Houde was very confused because with her
small English vocabulary she didn’t get what he meant.
One of the bigger miracles we saw this week was when we were
contacting one night we met an older man who said he had met missionaries
before but didn’t seem to interested to meet with us. He gave us his number
anyways and we called and made an appointment with him. He showed up and we
were talking for a while and we asked him when he met the missionaries before
he told us in 2003 and he went on with his story and then says he got baptized
and then goes on to a different story. We had to stop him and have him repeat
himself we said you got baptized in this church! And he said well yes.
Apparently he hasn’t been back to church in awhile because he moved, but after
we met with him he was so pumped and ready to be back he told us we had renewed
his faith that he had forgotten. He came to church on Sunday and thanked us again
for finding him! It was so cool to see that just from street contacting the
thing I have a hard time with we can make miracles!!
We have been teaching lots of French lessons lately because we
teach so many Africans that would rather hear the gospel in French. Its been
helping me speak French a lot. If I don’t speak to Sister Houde in French she
tells me she doesn’t understand ha-ha. It’s frustrating sometimes but my French
has increased a ton!
I’m getting well fed here because Sister Houde is like this
amazing French chef or something. She is always cooking us something that I
have never heard of, but it’s always delicious! The bad thing is I go outside
and shiver it off one-day I’m going to get use to this cold weather ha ha! I
hope everyone has a fabulous week!
Beacoup d'amour!
Sincerely,
Sister
Dick
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