tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88131607137168800512024-03-13T22:59:08.075-07:00Sister Alana WongMontana Billings Mission || August 2015-February 2017Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05535289521872251959noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813160713716880051.post-62344205806313388042017-02-27T18:40:00.003-08:002017-02-27T18:43:27.364-08:00February 27 How Great is Our Calling!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Is it possible for my heart to feel so full? At this point.. I don't think so. The amount of love and support I have received in just this past week has been amazing. But when I think about the past 18 months, it is impossible to put into words my gratitude for each of you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will glory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice, for our joy is full; yea, we will praise our God forever. Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">That is how I feel.</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">In companionship study every morning we recite our purpose as missionaries, which is, "To invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through Faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end." About 9 months into my mission, my companion and I decided to add "How Great is our calling!" To the end of it, and I have said it that way ever since. My calling as a full time missionary has been so great, and I'm loving every minute of it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Of course, it has been another fun-filled, crazy, awesome week as a missionary. We have been SO busy, the days are just flying by! Between exchanges, zone conference, interviews, stake Conference and trying to keep up with our own investigators, it has been quite the week, but I wouldn't have it any other way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Last Monday we made the 2.5 hour drive up to Kalispell to go on exchanges with Sister Russon and Sister Wagstaff who serve in Columbia Falls! I got to see Flathead lake for the first time and it was just such a pretty drive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We were in Columbia Falls from </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_424304157" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday</span></span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> till </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_424304158" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> and I was with Sister Russon! We had such a fun exchange and saw lots of miracles from being out and about in the freezing weather. One of my favorites was probably trying this one house at about </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_424304159" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:50 pm</span></span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> in the middle of the woods. It was this group of girls who were in Montana running a Christian church! They ended up not being interested, but we had a great conversation about Christ and how important it is to share His light with others. We also got to volunteer at a thrift store, which is something I've always wanted to do on my mission, so yay!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">I also had my final interview with President Wadsworth after Zone Conference. He is such a good man and I feel so blessed to have been able to learn from him the past 18 months. I know I was suppose to be here at this time to learn from both President and Sister Wadsworth. I received so much good counsel in my interview about going home and remembering the things I've learned. </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">I went on exchanges in Frenchtown with Sister Timothy at the end of the week and we had such a blast! Their area is so spread out, so we were literally out in the middle of nowhere, going down all these crazy dirt roads trying to contact potentials, less actives, and all that fun stuff. It was so great #lovefrenchtown my boots got extra muddy and it smelled like cows...gotta love Montana! There were lots of people home though, and we saw so many miracles! It was a great exchange!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We had a wonderful Stake Conference this weekend, and of course, the talks spoke directly to my heart. Elder Cornish of the Seventy was presiding and our area authority was there as well because a new stake was created! The Frenchtown Montana stake was created and it was powerful to hear the testimonies of 3 stake presidents along with President and Sister Wadsworth, the Spokane Temple President and his wife, and Elder Cornish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Well, I guess all I can say is LIFE IS SO GOOD. I can't believe these 18 months have gone by... I have learned a lot. Most importantly, as I have built my relationship with Christ, He has built me. I love my Savior. What a blessing and a privilege it has been to serve him here in the Montana Billings Mission. My mission has become holy ground to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">In the words of my zone leaders, "Some transfers are really long... like an 8 hour plane ride to Hawaii.." So, I guess I'm getting transferred to Hawaii. I'm excited to see your smiling faces in just a few short days. I love you! I will forever be grateful for this time I've had to be a missionary. </span><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">My heart is SO full as I reflect on the many miracles I've seen this past week..and the past 18 months. Heavenly Father knows each of His children so well, He knows me so well. It is such a blessing to serve Him! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Last night we were able to witness the baptisms of T and T, who are outstanding youth! It was a very special baptismal service and most of the youth from the Ward were there to support them. We had such a great turnout and the spirit was so strong as we watched them enter into covenants with their Heavenly Father! They were confirmed at the baptismal service because next week is Stake Conference, so it was neat to see them receive both of those ordinances. I accompanied Sister Styer as she sang this song called "Healing Water" and the lyrics really touched me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Italic"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: italic;">And like healing water on my skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Italic"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: italic;">Rushing rivers crashing in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Italic"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: italic;">To start a brand new life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Italic"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: italic;">And I feel the sunlight shining down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Italic"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: italic;">I was lost but now I’m found and I can see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText-Italic"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: italic;">’Cause I’m clean</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I also went to Hamilton, which is about an hour outside of Missoula and went on exchanges with Sister Shupe. She is so incredible and I had SO much fun! We did lots of finding and had a powerful lesson on the atonement with one of their investigators who really wants to make some changes in his life. Also, while we were trying to find this investigator, we saw a bunch of chickens in a tree! So obviously, we decided to take pictures with them. It was so hilarious</span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> our dinner appointment that evening ended up canceling, so we went to this place called "Naps" which is one of the "must eat" places in the town, and it was so fun! It was a burger place and they had license plates all over the walls, and I found a Hawaii one! So fun! </span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We also had a really great lesson in Saturday with our investigator, K! We taught him the plan of salvation in a member's home and it was SO neat because he already had a testimony of it! He shared some personal experiences from his life and how he knows the plan of salvation is true, it was so cool. He hasn't committed to baptism yet, but I know he'll come around! </span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">What a blessing it is to be serving as a full-time missionary. At the baptism last night we sang "Families Can Be Together Forever" and it brought me back to 18 months ago, singing that song in sacrament meeting with my sisters. I remember at the time I was SO excited to serve a mission, but pretty positive it would be an eternity till I was reunited with my family. I could have never imagined then, the experiences I would have and the way my life would change in 18 short months. I'm glad it's not over yet, but I sure am excited to see all your smiling faces. Thank you for being the best family ever, I love each of you SO much</span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="❤" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="2764" goomoji="2764" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/2764" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" />️</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Okay family, I am SO sorry, but I've run out of time to send a weekly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">email.... so I'll try and send two next week :) but life is going</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">great and I love you all SO SO much❤️</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Have a happy Valentine's Day, and just know that I love you!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">xoxo Sister Wong</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Here is a picture of us eating ice cream today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I hope you're all enjoying the warm sun for me. It's been warming up, but there has been SO much snow. Apparently it's been one of the craziest winters in the past 40 yrs. I feel pretty blessed to be experiencing a "true Montana winter"</span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="😉" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f609" goomoji="1f609" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f609" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We have been keeping extra busy and the first full week of the transfer always seems to be the craziest. There were so many good things that happened this week and so many miracles, I love being a missionary! We ended up driving down to Helena on Monday night for MLC because there was a big snow storm coming in over night, so we didn't want to get stuck driving in a blizzard in the dark... but we made it safe and We got to spend the night with Sister Unutoa and Sister Wood, so that was a huge tender mercy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">MLC was so great. We discussed the new missionary schedule and how we are implementing it into our mission. The focus, however, was on helping investigators make and keep commitments and finding people to teach. Ultimately, to help people repent. I have gained a strong testimony of repentance and change on my mission, it is such a blessing to teach Repentance. At MLC I also gave my departing testimony and it was pretty weird. I was just standing in front of everyone... and then the tears came.. and they wouldn't stop... but it's fine... haha I'm glad I made it through. It was just a really humbling experience and I feel so grateful for the experiences I've had and the growth I've seen in myself and my testimony. There were four of us who came out together at MLC, so it was so nice to hear their testimonies as well. I also got to see SO many people I love at MLC, the Bairds (who have worked in the office the past 18 months) went home this past week and I was so glad I got to see them before they left. I saw so many past companions, past District and zone leaders.. it was just a nice tender mercy to see so many people I love. President Bingham (the Helena Stake president) also came for a bit, so it was so fun seeing him as well!!</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We also had interviews with President Wadsworth. He always gives the best counsel. This transfer he asked me to focus on how "sacrifice brings for the blessings of Heaven." And to teach that doctrine on exchanges with the sisters and so forth. I definitely have a testimony that when we sacrifice things for the Lord, he blesses us more than we can comprehend. He also asked me if I'm excited to go to the beach... but then he said, "never mind, I don't want to make you trunky"</span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> President is just the best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We had our zone Training on Friday and we did it in a little different format, but I think it went really well! We did smaller group discussions, break out sessions and role plays. There was a really special spirit there and I feel so grateful to be serving in the Missoula zone! We found out on Sunday that they will be creating a new stake in about 2 weeks here, so that was crazy, but so awesome! Elder Cornish and someone else will be coming to organize the stake, so everyone is anxious and excited to see what happens. Not to mention, Sister Styer hit her year mark on Friday! And I hit my 1 month mark on Saturday, so we celebrated with fro yo (it's never too cold for fro yo..) and Carmel apples haha. It was so fun! </span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I got the happiest pictures on Sunday morning from the L family in Helena! They sent me pictures of their son, J, who was baptized on Saturday. It made me SO happy, they are just an incredible family and it has been such a blessing to be able to get to know them and teach them about the gospel. They are loving their new calling as building and cleaning coordinators and have just embraced the gospel.</span></div>
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<span class="m_-6392141134256252618s1">What an incredible week it has been! I am loving Missoula, it is so different from any area I've served before. I think that's something I love about missions, you are placed in a new community, with a new companion and you have absolutely NO idea where anything is, but it is SO FUN! Sister Styer and I have just been having a blast. Lots of laughing, awkward moments, and good memories. Life is so good. By the way, they call Missoula 'Zoo Town.' <span class="m_-6392141134256252618Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6392141134256252618s1">It was pretty sad saying goodbye to some of my favorite people in a Helena, but so bitter sweet because there is all this great missionary work going on there and I miss it! But I know I'm in Missoula for a reason! First off, J had is baptismal interview on Monday and he is going to be baptized on February 4th in Helena by his step dad, E, who was baptized in December! I am just so happy for their family, they are incredible! E received the priesthood this past Sunday.<span class="m_-6392141134256252618Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6392141134256252618s1">I also taught J and her family one last time in Helena, which was so fun! One of her boys, A, started coloring this picture for me and said he would mail it to me when he finished it. It was so sweet! J and her family all came to church last Sunday and they are progressing so well.<span class="m_-6392141134256252618Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6392141134256252618s1">On Tuesday night we said goodbye to the Millers, the wonderful family we lived with. They bought a cake and we all had cake around their table and talked about favorite missionary memories. Brother Miller even brought out his mission photo album and showed us some pictures. It was so fun. I felt so conflicted as I went to sleep, because I was so sad to be leaving, but I knew it was time.</span></div>
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<span class="m_-6392141134256252618s1">Transfers happened on Wednesday. Packing was the absolute worst and I ended up with 3 jam packed suitcases, a backpack, a big box, and my laundry basket.. all full of stuff. It was craziness. Not going to lie, I'm a little concerned how to get all this stuff back to Hawaii <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_424304096" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in 6 weeks</span></span>, if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears :)<span class="m_-6392141134256252618Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6392141134256252618s1">On Friday we watched the worldwide missionary broadcast where they focused on Teaching Repentance and baptizing converts. It was such a good broadcast and I learned so much. They also introduced the new missionary schedule and key indicators. It was pretty crazy, but I'm excited, Sister Styer and I have already implemented the changes into our schedule.<span class="m_-6392141134256252618Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-6392141134256252618s1">On Friday we got a text saying, "T needs to get baptized" and it turns out there is a young man in our Ward who hasn't been baptized and he wants to get baptized. It's a little weird because he isn't sure if he's been baptized or not... so he will either be getting baptized or receiving the priesthood, depending on which ordinances he needs. But that was pretty cool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I just feel very blessed to be a missionary in the Montana Billings Mission. I know Heavenly Father loves me and is aware of my needs. I know the gospel is true. It is seriously SO FUN being a missionary. I hope you all have the best week ever and I love you!!</span><span class="m_-6392141134256252618Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span class="m_-6392141134256252618s1"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I've been reflecting a lot on a thought that was shared in one of the Ward councils I attended this past week. The sister sharing the spiritual thought focused on the statement "Be a more prepared servant of Christ." I have been thinking about what I can do to be a more prepared servant of Christ. I have a testimony of daily scripture study and daily prayer. Creating that habit has changed my life and my testimony of it has grown so much on my mission. I know I need to continue to prepare myself DAILY to serve. It is a blessing and a privilege to be a full-time missionary. This doesn't really feel real, but here's to the next 6 weeks of the best calling ever. I love being a missionary. I love serving my Savior. I am grateful for each of you. The prayers and support. It means the world to me. I'm just grateful for every moment I have left! :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week has been so amazing, and so long, and so freezing and so good. I feel like it was just Monday, but so many things have happened since I've written you! Let's see..apparently it's been a record cold with 28 consecutive days with temperatures below 27 degrees, or something life that. So in other words, it's been super cold! But I love it because I know I'm experiencing a "true Montana winter" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We had a zone conference in Butte on Tuesday and it was such a blast! The focus was on teaching repentance, and it was so great. President Wadsworth trained us and one of my favorite things he said was, "Repentance changes the way you view God, the way you view yourself, the way you view the world." And it has been neat to see that as we've emphasized repentance while teaching our investigators. Sister Fredrickson and I sang a medley of Savior Redeemer of my Soul and Called to Serve as he special musical number for the conference with two elders and it went pretty well. She is such a great vocalist and it brought me back to the MTC days</span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="😊" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f60a" goomoji="1f60a" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f60a" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> President also called me up to bear my testimony of the Book of Mormon, which was SO fun! I've never been called up impromptu to bear my testimony in a zone conference before, and I thought I was going to get out of it, because I don't have too many zone conferences left, but it was really special to share some of my thoughts and experiences. My life has been SO blessed by the Book of Mormon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wednesday we helped with a youth Activity in the 3rd Ward and it was such a great experience! We had our investigator, J, come for the first time and he made so many friends and met lots of people! There was also a less active youth who came and brought her friend, and they are going to meet with us sometime this week! For the Activity we taught all the youth how to play podball, and it was CRAZY! There were 40+ youth, running around, playing podball, and it was SO FUN! They all loved it and everyone got way into it. We saw President Bingham later that evening and he asked us to give a short training at stake Missionary Correlation the next night, but we thought he was joking because it didn't seem like a super formal invitation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">So the best thing happened this week... I went back to PORTAGE WARD</span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="❤" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="2764" goomoji="2764" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/2764" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" />️</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> oh my, it was the craziest thing to be back! They still have sticky notes up in the apartment that Sister Anderson and I wrote, it was so great! I got to see some of my favorite people, we had a great time talking with everyone, doing some tracking, teaching some solid lessons and teaching repentance. It was so great! Also, Sister Medley, the sister missionary I was on exchanges with, is such a stellar sister, so Great Falls is in great hands and it makes me so so happy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We exchanged back on Saturday and I forgot my suitcase in the Portage sisters car, and it was devastating because I didn't realize I forgot it till we were back in Helena. I had a minor freak out, but everything worked out because a lady we are working with was in Great Falls for the weekend, so she brought my suitcase back to me :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Life is so good. We have two more exchanges this week then the transfer ends! Time has just flown by. I might get transferred, so I'm trying to prepare myself for that haha. I feel so blessed for this time I have to be serving, it's the best! I love you all and hope you have the best week ever :) </span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">There were so many great things going on this week, but the highlight had to be T's baptism! It was the sweetest thing ever and there was so much support from her Ward family and immediate/extended family. The baptism went so smoothly and their family had a luncheon afterwards at their home. There were lots of Ward members and non-members that came and we had the most delicious Gumbo! Like oh my. I haven't had very much gumbo in my life, but this was just amazing! So yummy! Not to mention, they sent us home with all these left overs and the biggest piece of chocolate cake ever. It was hilarious and so kind of them. I love being a missionary! After T's baptism we asked her if she felt any different and she said, "Yeah! I feel all clean and happy inside" it was so sweet. She was confirmed in sacrament meeting on Sunday and we are just so thrilled for her! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We also had quite the adventure on Wednesday after district meeting. The Millers had asked us to let their dogs out while we were home for lunch (which is a very easy task). Also, the dogs were in the garage because it was too cold for them to be outside. So we got home, let the dogs out and get them back in in probably less than 7 minutes, so we were making great time! Then.. I turned around to open the garage door to go back into the house, and it was locked. We tried the front door, but that was locked too. We tried virtually every door, but they were ALL LOCKED. And what was locked inside the house? Our car keys, our phone, our iPads, basically everything except for the coats we were wearing. We were stuck. So stuck. We had no way of contacting anyone and no phone numbers memorized. So we strategize and determined the best thing to do would be to set out and look for help in the -5 degree weather. The Millers live up in the woods in a pretty secluded area, so we made our way up long, steep, snowy driveways until we finally found someone who was at home! They let us in and let us use their phone, so we tried calling the other sister missionaries in Helena, but they didn't pick up... so eventually the neighbors found Brother Miller's phone number and called him at work (and we were REALLY trying to avoid interrupting his work day) but it had to be done. It was also hilarious because brother Miller was going to tell us where the spare key was in the garage... but we had closed the garage door when we went out looking for help... so we had no way of getting in the garage</span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> so this kind neighbor drove us down to Brother Miller's dentist office and we got the spare key from him... then 3 hours from the initial time we let the dogs out, we got back inside. It was quite the adventure. We definitely felt SO bad about it, but the Millers are so awesome and kept reassuring us that it happens to everyone and there was nothing to be worried about. And now we know where the spare key is. Haha. And don't worry, we only got minor frostbite<img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /> (jk) we are completely fine, but obviously I was very worried! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We had one of the most AMAZING lessons with the L's on Monday and Friday! On Monday their 11 yr old son, J, sat in on the lesson and we taught the plan of salvation. He seemed to just soak it in and it was so neat to see B and E (who were baptized less than a month ago) teach it to their son and share their testimonies with him! On Friday we went back and J accepted the invitation to be baptized on February 4th! It was really neat because one of his friends from football is in our Ward and both him and his mom came to the lesson, which added a really special spirit! B is so excited for him and J mentioned how he wants to go to the temple to be baptized for his grandfather. It was such a tender experience! J stayed for all 3 hours of church yesterday and B and E got sustained in their new calling! It was so great to see how excited they are! Our other investigator family in 3rd Ward also came to church and they are progressing so well! It's been harder to meet with them because J just got a new job and is trying to figure out her schedule, but I know it will all work out :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I feel like each week as I reflect on all the amazing things that happened, my heart is SO full of gratitude. I had the opportunity to bear my testimony in sacrament meeting yesterday and I felt the spirit so strongly as I testified of our Savior's love for each of us and the importance of trusting Him. I know Heavenly Father has such a unique plan for each of us, it isn't always what we want it to be, but it is ALWAYS the best plan. I am grateful for repentance that allows me to change and become better and I am grateful that my Heavenly Father allows me to struggle and go through hard things so I can learn and become more like Him. I love this gospel and I am SO grateful for each of you. I hope you have the best week ever :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I am so full of gratitude for the kind citizens of Montana, who I absolutely love! This past week has been so good, this past year has been so good. I just am so full of gratitude. God is good. All the time. Also, YOU'RE THE BEST FAMILY EVER AND I LOVE YOU! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm feeling much better than I was last week, after pumping my system full of vitamins, medicine, and getting about 13 hours of sleep, all is well! I'm feeling better and ready to take on the world! It was really awesome how despite me not feeling super well, Heavenly Father placed the most amazing people in our path as we went out to work! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">As I have been reflecting on the past year, it has been such a blessing to be in the service of my God each and every day. There have definitely been some tough days, but it's funny how you don't remember those very well. I have the best memories from 2016 and I've learned so much about the love my Savior has for me and for all of us. He was there to help me overcome every trial, every setback, every triumph, He is always there. Wow, life is just so good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One of the coolest things happened this week! We were driving to our lesson and I decided to turn around so I could park on the other side of the street.. well, we got stuck. So here we are, stuck in the snow, I'm trying to reverse and just get unstuck, but nothing was working! Sister Miller was attempting to back me and then to push the car forward, but we were very very stuck. Before you know it, this small older woman runs out of her trailer and yells, "I'll help you push!" So she runs through the snow and starts pushing us. Well, we still got nowhere. So she runs to her neighbor in the next trailer over and he comes out with a shovel and starts digging us out! He was so nice and we made a little bit of progress, but I was still stuck. As he was digging us out, a truck pulls up with a young family and the dad driving gets out to assess the situation. He said, "Well, I couldn't just drive past ya! I have a chain in my truck, I'll hook you up and get you outta there!" So they hooked the chain up to the hitch on the back of our Jeep and pulled us right out of the snow. It was a miracle! I was just SO impressed with the kindness these random strangers had showed me, willing to run out in the freezing cold to help these two stranded missionaries. Literally the whole time I was thinking about how they were Lighting the World, without them even knowing! So moral of the story, sometimes it's okay to get stuck in the snow, because kind citizens of Montana will help you get unstuck! We went by the trailer park again on New Year's Eve and dropped off some homemade cookies to each of their families. It was so much fun and a perfect way to end the year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Some other great things that happened this week included T having her baptismal interview, so she is all set to be baptized this Saturday! We were out Finding in this trailer court and we saw a man out on his porch, so we went and talked to him. Long story short, we left with some mountain lion sausage and fudge. It was great haha. J came to church this Sunday, which was so great! She hadn't slept much the night before, but she was determined to make it, and she did! This week we taught her about the word of wisdom and when we first showed up she was really hesitant and had a lot of questions, but as we taught it to her, the spirit really worked on her heart and she accepted it! She and her two sons have also accepted a baptismal date of February 18th! So we are super excited for them :) B and E are doing absolutely amazing! They have been coming for all 3 hours, having family home evening, reading the scriptures and it is awesome! Our last lesson with them E mentioned how he has started reading Genesis again because he was reading the Pearl of Great Price and it mentioned that Moses wrote Genesis, and he didn't know that, so he decided to go back and read it again and it is making so much more sense to him! It has been so special to see how they have just embraced the gospel. We are teaching them again tonight, so I'm looking forward to that :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oh also, my last meal of 2016 was CAFE RIO, so I guess you could say it's been a pretty great year! We had lunch in Great Falls after our exchange with the Shelby Sisters and it was such a blast! We got together with the other sisters serving in Great Falls and it was great seeing them since we literally only see them on exchanges. Good times!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Everyone is just so kind and it's been great to see how we can apply the #LIGHTtheWORLD principles to our everyday lives. I know our Savior lives. He is the Light of the world. What a blessing it is to serve him. I love you all so much and I hope you have a wonderful week! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It was SO good seeing your faces yesterday. You are all just so amazing and I love you so much! It has turned out to be a week FULL of blessings and miracles. I've been pondering a lot on the past 7 days.. and the past year.. and the phrase at the forefront of my mind is "SO Blessed." That basically sums up how I feel and how I've been feeling a lot lately. We were so busy this week that it hadn't really hit me that it was Christmas, but while sitting in Sacrament meeting yesterday the words to the sacrament prayers really touched my heart, knowing that because of the Savior, I am able to repent and change. I am able to progress, be forgiven, help others find that same joy, be here on a mission! It just all hit me and my heart was so full of gratitude. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Well, where do I even begin?! We had our new transfer meeting with the stake president, two exchanges this week, interviews with President Wadsworth, zone training, and Christmas festivities! MLC got canceled because the weather was so bad they didn't want anyone driving, so that was a bummer, but it all worked out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">On Christmas Eve we had lot of different appointments and we finished out our evening driving by the Live Nativity at the stake center! The development around the stake center is known for their Christmas lights and lots of people drive around to see them each year, and the stake puts on a live Nativity! We went to go help, but they ended up not needing our help, so we just drove by to check it out before heading home. The Caldwell's (a family in 3rd Ward) also had us over for their Christmas Eve party! He made these delicious smoked ribs or something, it was way fun! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> It was so sweet because before we went upstairs to start planning Sister Miller got out a bunch of medicine and tissues and things for me to take up to the room since she knew I had been sick the past few days, it was so nice of her! So I'm definitely on the mend, just waiting for my body to get feeling better. But all in all, I FEEL SO BLESSED! Like every day, because life is so good and I feel so grateful to be here. I am so happy serving as a full-time missionary and I know I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you all, so THANK YOU. You are the best ever. Thanks for always reading my long emails, even though I'm pretty sure I just ramble on most of the time. But I love you so much and I hope you have the most amazing week ever! LOVE YOU</span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="❤" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="2764" goomoji="2764" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/2764" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" />️</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So this week I was in a trio with Sister Unutoa and Sister Timothy for the first few days till transfers on Wednesday and we had such a blast! Last preparation day we found this cute General mercantile store downtown and had delicious hot chocolate! We also got BUCKETS AND BUCKETS of snow. It was so fun! It snowed for like 2 days strait, so we spent quite a bit of time brushing snow off our car and trudging through fresh powder. It was pretty much a blast. We saw lots of miracles between the two areas and balanced everything pretty well with the help of the Savior. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">On Wednesday we had transfers, so Sister Miller came to town! It was so freezing that day and there was a bit of a mix up with cars, so we ended up driving some of the sisters to their area in Missoula (which is about 2 hrs away..) so we had the Missoula sister training leaders with us and it ended up being a huge tender mercy because I got to go to a Cafe Rio, but more importantly, I got to surprise SISTER NEZ! Since I wasn't planning on being in Missoula that day, she had NO IDEA I was going to be there, so the other sisters called her and told her to meet them for lunch at Cafe Rio. And it was the best surprise ever (we both cried haha) but after not seeing her for 9 months, it was a very joyous reunion. </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We came home on Saturday night to the Millers decorating Christmas cookies! They saved some for us to decorate and we had such a fun time. I love living with members, especially during the holiday season. And the Millers are absolutely incredible! We had two snow days this week which was the struggle, they asked us to stay inside if we didn't have set appointments, but luckily by the second day we had lots of appointments! It was pretty freezing this week, but we made the most of it. It's so crazy how the frost REALLY BITES your skin. We would walk from our car to the door and my fingers would already be frozen #goodtimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">This past week has been full of SO many ups and downs, but at the end of the day, God is good. All the time. I absolutely love Helena and I feel so blessed to be serving here. We got transfer calls and I will be staying in Helena and my new companion will be Sister Miller! She is such a sweet heart and I actually went on exchanges with her a few weeks back, she is a new sister training leader so I'm excited and I know we are going to have so much fun together!! Sister Unutoa will also be staying in the district (which I am SO SO SO happy about) and she will be training a new missionary!! There were lots of changes this transfer, but they will be so good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Oh, I almost forgot! We had exchanges at the beginning of the week with the Great Falls sisters and it was so much fun! They are both so sweet and I was with Sister Christiansen, who is training! It was -2 degrees all day and we saw some sweet miracles! We got this referral from a less active and we went to contact her and she was so sweet! Not a ton of religion in her life, but super open to learning more! So we are excited to go back and teach her this coming week. Also, A (our 10 yr old investigator) is getting baptized this week, so that is a huge miracle too!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Today it's 10 degrees, and in honor of the warm weather, I decided to not wear tights, haha. You know you're in Montana when 10 degrees starts feeling warm... good times. Anyways, I just love my life. It is such a huge blessing to be here and there are so many amazing things going on in the work. I feel so blessed that Heavenly Father is willing to work through me, despite my many imperfections and flaws. I know He is so aware of everything going on in our lives and as we put our faith in him, He will guide us! </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Well, it finally happened!! IT SNOWED!! It started last night when we got home and it is still going strong! It is finally starting to feel like winter. I have absolutely loved participating in the #LIGHTtheWORLD initiative this past week. It has been such a fun reminder each day of ways to serve as Christ served. I hope you have been enjoying it as well!! </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Missions are weird because SO much happens each week, but by the time Monday rolls around, I feel like I've forgotten everything! This week was a little insane with 3 exchanges and Christmas zone conference, but it was so much fun!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Monday night we taught a lesson to this super sweet young mom and we taught her in our stake president's home, which was so awesome! The spirit was so strong and we are excited to keep teaching her! We started off the week with exchanges with the Deerlodge sisters, so sister Miller came to Helena with me and we had a blast! We saw some pretty sweet miracles. One of them was at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_518785517" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:45pm</span></span>, we decided to try this referral we had received the day before and I was a little nervous because it was this confusing housing complex thing in a sketchy part of town, but we felt that we should try it, so we did! We drove into the complex and it was the FIRST house we saw! That was miracle number one, then we went up and knocked on the door probably 3 times before he answered, but he answered! We taught him a little about the plan of salvation and he had a lot of questions about where we go after this life. It was neat to see how Heavenly Father is continually directing us to His children that are seeking for peace in this life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So all in all, life is so good!!! Thanks for all your love, support, emails, pictures, etc. thanks for being the best family ever! I loved the letter from all of you that I got at Christmas conference, thank you so much!!! I love you all lots :) </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I hope you all had a beautiful thanksgiving week! It has been so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">beautiful here in Helena, I just love it! Still no snow.. it's pretty</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The week started off great with a fun exchange with the Dillon</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this former investigator who we had received their teaching record</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">from the 5th ward elders. When we showed up the former investigator no</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">before. So we leave and it was awesome! Then about 10 minutes later we</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">understand the atonement, the greater our desire will be to share it,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I know that is true! I know we can be grateful in any circumstance and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a way we can show our gratitude is by sharing what we know to be true.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It is such a great work to be a part of!</span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">All in all, life is good. We see so many miracles each and every day.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I am SO excited for the #LIGHTtheWORLD initiative and I'm excited to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hear about the experiences you have with it and the people you are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">able to share it with! As for the Worldwide day of service to kick off</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">December, I'm not too sure what we are going to do, we have our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christmas zone conference that day, but I will keep you all posted!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And I want to hear what you all decide to do too! Anyways, I love you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lots and I hope you have the best week ever :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love, Sister Wong</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288205788638425667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813160713716880051.post-28611234703239337352017-02-27T11:57:00.000-08:002017-02-27T18:43:27.343-08:00November 21 Happy (almost) Thanksgiving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">First off, I'M SUPER THANKFUL FOR YOU! Thanks for being the best family ever.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It has been another great week, and life is good in the hood of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Helena! We had two exchanges this week and that kept things extra busy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for us, but it is always so much fun. I started off the week in Butte</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with Sister Fronk! We served together in Billings, so it was so fun to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">see her again :) it was also my first time in Butte and I absolutely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">loved it!! They have some great work going on and it is such a fun</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">town. It is an old mining town or something and they have this giant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">statue of Mary on the side of the mountain (there are quite a few</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Catholics there) and it was just such an interesting place. We woke up</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the next morning to drive back from the exchange and our car doors</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were all frozen shut, so we scraped the windshield and it started</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hailing on us! So we are just standing in the hail, with a frozen car,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">trying to get back to Helena. It was pretty hilarious. But it all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">worked out and our car got unfrozen and we made it back safe.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Surprisingly it is still super warm in Helena and there is no snow to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">be found! It feels like September... So we'll see what happens this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It is always so fun coming back to my area after an exchange! We were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">able to teach S, our 9 yr old investigator and he is doing so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">great! He even made it to church this Sunday for the primary program!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It is neat to see how he just soaks everything in and wants to learn!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">B and E are a couple we are working with and they are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">doing so well! They came to regional conference a few weeks back and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they came to sacrament meeting this Sunday as well! E has a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really strong background in the bible which is awesome because he has</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a firm testimony of Christ. He has a lot of questions about the Book</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of Mormon, but they seem to be resolved as he is reading the Book of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mormon and praying. B is just so sweet and is already being a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">great missionary to her family! In our lesson with them last night she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">shared how her mom was asking her about the church and she shared what</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she had been learning and has been inviting her mom to come to church</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with them!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">P is another awesome lady we are working with. In our lesson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with her this week we were focusing on the Book of Mormon and how</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">important it is to be reading it! As we started teaching her she asked</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">where the gold plates came from, so we explained the Joseph Smith</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">story again and ended up reading the testimony of the prophet Joseph</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Smith with her. We explained that he was guided to find the plates in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">upstate New York and that he translated them. She paused and then told</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us how she had been praying to know which bible or church was true</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">because there are so many out there, and she kept having the thought</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"New York" but she couldn't figure out what it meant. She was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">considering taking a trip there or moving there and trying to figure</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">things out, but when we explained the Joseph Smith story, she felt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that it was an answer to her prayers, it was such a cool experience!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Highlights of the week! :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. I finally got to attend my new wards!! Since we had stake</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">conference the past two weeks in a row, it has been quite challenging</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for me to meet people, but needless to say, the members in the Helena</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1st and 3rd Ward are absolutely amazing and I love serving here!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Tracting into a reverend who was so sweet and welcomed us right in,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she has studied all sorts of religions and has her own congregation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but when she found out I was from Hawaii she gave me a scarf to keep</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">me warm😊 that is what I love about being a missionary, you meet the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">most genuinely kind people, who are just trying their best to be like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3. I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22!!! Just kidding, I'm not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feeling 22, but Sister Linney is!!! We celebrated her birthday on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thursday and it was just so much fun!! The Millers took us out to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lunch at this place called Karmedillos and it was delicious. Also, I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sang 22 to her all day and we already designed a plan to convert</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">t-swift #skypelesson? :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">4. Annabelle: the Millers cute pug dog got dressed up in a little</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">onesie this past week and it was by far one of the cutest things I've</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Later in the week I found myself back in Craig, Montana! We had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">exchanges with the Great Falls Portage sisters!!! Sister Adamson came</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to Helena with me and it was so fun to hear about how the area and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people are doing. I have such a special place in my heart for that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">area and the wonderful people I served with while I was there. It made</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">me so happy to hear about how everyone was doing and it also made me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feel really old since its been a year since I was serving there! But</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Adamson and I had a great exchange in Helena and saw lots of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">miracles from talking with everyone! We have been introducing a lot of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people to the 25 days of service calendar for the month of December</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and have seen a lot of success through that!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Missionary work is the best. We had a correlation meeting this past</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sunday with the stake, and I gave the spiritual thought and I want to</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Oct, 2015 first Presidency message!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He said, "It’s human nature to stumble, fail, and sometimes want to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">drop out of the race. But as disciples of Jesus Christ, we have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">committed not only to begin the race but also to finish it--and finish</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it with our torch still burning brightly. The Savior promised His</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">disciples, “He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">saved” (Matthew 24:13). Let me paraphrase what the Savior has promised</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in our day: If we keep His commandments and finish with our torch</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">still lit, we will have eternal life, which is the greatest of all the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">gifts of God."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I know that we are all disciples of Christ and as we continue to keep</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our torches lit by doing the small and simple things, we will continue</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to grow our testimonies of Christ! I love this gospel and I love being</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a part of this great work :) thank you for your continued prayers on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my behalf. I love you guys so much and I hope you have the best</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">thanksgiving week EVER!! :) just remember, IM THANKFUL FOR YOU!! I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have so much to be thankful for, I can't even put it in words!! But, I</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Oh what a week it has been! I feel like my head is still spinning,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">trying to get my life in order! I love Helena, it is absolutely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">beautiful here. It has been fairly warm all week, there is sunshine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and it has been in the 50s-60s during the day, so I have nothing to</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a dinner last night with a family of six kids, the oldest comes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">out and I introduce myself. The dialogue went</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like this, Me: "Hi, I'm Sister Wong!" Their 14yr old looks at me and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">says, "Oh, Wong. Asian. Let me guess. China?" And I explain how I'm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">actually from Hawaii, then as she is walking back to get her brothers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and sisters she turns to them and says, "But she speaks English</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">too"😂😂😂 it was pretty hilarious.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was FULL of meetings.. So many meetings... We had MLC on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tuesday morning and it was SO nice because I didn't even have to wake</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">up early to get there on time! We woke up at 6:23am, went running, got</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ready for the day, then headed to the stake center. We had a wonderful</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meeting and received lots of training on various topics. Something</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that really impressed me was the power of the Book of Mormon in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">conversion. We literally hold the convincing evidence of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">restoration in our hands, and we need to be sharing that with people!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Linney and I have been evaluating how we can better use the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Book of Mormon with those we are working with. We also talked a lot</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about desire, what our desire is as a mission and as individual</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionaries. President Wadsworth introduced us to the new Christmas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Initiative that the church will be releasing on November 25th, 2016.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It is called #LIGHTtheWORLD and I am so excited for it, I know it is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">inspired and it is the message our Father in Heaven wants us to be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sharing with others! We got to see the video at MLC and it is just</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Helena 6 Sisters! I was with Sister Stewart and she is such a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sweetheart! She is in her 2nd transfer and is from Windowrock, AZ! She</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is Navajo and reminds me so much of Sister Nez. We were working in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">their area and by the end of the day we hadn't seen too much success,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but we felt prompted to try this family who they had a tough time</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">getting in and teaching. We got there at about 8:15pm and they let us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">right in to teach them! We shared the message of the restoration and I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">couldn't help but feel SO much gratitude in my heart for the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">opportunity to enter into a strangers home and share a message full of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">joy, specifically for them, and feel a small part of the love that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Heavenly Father has for them. It is such a blessing and a privilege to</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of the zone leaders gave a discussion on Desire, Sister Linney and I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">both gave a discussion on the Book of Mormon, and we concluded with a</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love zone trainings because it gives each missionary an opportunity</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to share insights and receive revelation for their area and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">companionship! After zone training we started our second exchange of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the week! So I have to preface this by saying, dreams really do come</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">true!! It only took 14 months, but Sister Unutoa and I were FINALLY</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">companions!! It was such a fun exchange and I learned so much from</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her. She has such a way of emulating the Savior's love to everyone she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meets. We were able to help one of our recent converts paint her shed,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">find some great people and have a fun day of proselyting. It was such</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President and Sister Wadsworth! We had interviews with him on Saturday</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">morning and it was great. I always love talking with President because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he has such great insights to share. He shared that often times we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">think that "Sister Wong + More =Christlike" but the reality is that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"Sister Wong + Christ = More". I've been pondering on that a lot</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lately, I have a testimony that Christ makes all the difference, He is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the difference. It is so easy to get caught up in the craziness of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">world, to judge ourselves based on what the world thinks of us, but it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is SO important that we always remember our true source of strength,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which is Christ. We had a wonderful stake conference and Elder Stacey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of the seventy was able to visit with us. I am so grateful for the</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I left stake conference feeling very edified. This past week has been</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">somewhat of a challenge due to my health, but I know Heavenly Father</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">will continue to help me! I was super nervous because we are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">constantly on the go, and basically I don't have time to be sick,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">haha. But the Lord continues to strengthen me and I know I will get</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feeling better soon. I got sick on Tuesday towards the end of MLC and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it just hit me like a ton of bricks, I'm still not feeling very well,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. We showed up to our lesson yesterday with our 9 yr old investigator,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">K, and he had made us these cute little fruit bowls in these fancy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dishes. He was so excited about giving us food and it was one of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sweetest things! We also had a great lesson on faith.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I am very grateful for all the experiences I'm having on my mission, I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feel so humbled and grateful to my Heavenly Father for this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">opportunity to serve! We have a busy week coming up, but I'm excited</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for it and I hope you all have a wonderful week, too! Thank you for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">your prayers and letters of encouragement. I love you all so much!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It has been a crazy insane week, but full of lots of miracles! It</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feels weird to be back in Montana, but I love it! Helena is a lot more</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">beautiful than I remembered! We currently live in this cabin up in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the mountains, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so far it has been great! I spent a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lot of time packing </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and getting ready to be transferred, it was a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">struggle.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We went to Billings on Tuesday night and it was fun to see</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some past companions!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I got to Helena on Wednesday morning and it was instant craziness, but</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so good! We had to sing at a funeral that day and we had two extra</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sisters staying with us while they were waiting for their new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">companions to come up on Thursday (all the new missionaries come up on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thursday instead of the regular transfer day) so that was fun! I got</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to meet a bunch of the awesome people we are working with and it was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so great! On Thursday we got to meet all the new sisters and went out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to lunch with them before they continued up to Missoula. It's fun</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">because Helena is one of the main stops for the transfer vans, so we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">get to help out with that. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thursday we weekly planned and that really </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">helped me to feel a greater </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sense of purpose in the area, knowing we have </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">goals that we're working </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">towards! We set some sweet transfer goals and I'm </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">SO pumped about it!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My companion is absolutely amazing! Her name is Sister Linney and this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is her last transfer. She served in the same Ward I did in Great</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Falls, so it has been fun hearing the updates on everyone in that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">area. We get along super well and she is just so sweet. We live in a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mansion cabin in the woods with the Miller family, who is absolutely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">incredible! Helena is pretty big so I am trying to get use to that!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Luckily, Sister Linney knows where she is going all the time! Our area</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">encompasses downtown Helena and out into the forest mountain area!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Friday and Saturday were basically a blur, but I know it was good! On</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sunday day we had a regional broadcast and Elder Rasband, Elder</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Soares, Brother Durrantt and Sister Bingham all spoke to us, it was so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">incredible! Elder Rasband talked about how God uses others to be an</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">instrument in His hand, he asked us questions about our testimony and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">invited us to really take time to evaluate how we are progressing back</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to our Heavenly Father. I loved how Elder Soares talked about setting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">goals and making plans to get to the temple! He shared a story about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">how when he was dating his wife they made it a goal to go to the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">temple every week together and that really set the tone for the rest</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of their marriage. It was really sweet.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Highlights/ Random things of the week:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. Singing in Stake Conference! The whole Helena zone was asked to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sing the EFY medley in stake conference before the regional broadcast</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and it went super well!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Getting attacked by kids: this week a kid spit in my face (good</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">times) and was climbing all over me while I was trying to teach the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">restoration... It was a struggle haha</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3. Annabelle the dog! The members we live with have a cute little</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bulldog named Annabelle and she is HILARIOUS.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Okay also it has been SO fun because I get to see Sister Unutoa like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">almost every day!! We are in the same district and she is also serving</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in downtown, so it is the best!!! President Wadsworth is so nice</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">putting us together :) we probably have too much fun together, but we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love it!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well, that is my life in a nutshell! I will try to write more next</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week after I've started to figure life in Helena out. I love you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">guys so much and I hope you have the best week ever!!! And happy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">birthday littleTiff!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love, Sister Wong</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288205788638425667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813160713716880051.post-909336348289905942017-02-11T21:32:00.000-08:002017-02-11T21:32:04.342-08:00October 31 Mountain Heir, Clean and Pure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello Family!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">WYOMING HAS A TEMPLE!!! We watched the cultural celebration on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Saturday evening and the theme was "Mountain Heir, Clean and Pure" and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I thought that was so fitting! It was seriously one of the most</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">amazing weeks ever, but also full of craziness. The highlight of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week was L's BAPTISM!!! The low point was finding out I'm getting</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">transferred on Tuesday. Just kidding, it wasn't a low point, but.. I'm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">getting transferred!! Not sure how I feel about it, a lot of mixed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">emotions, but I'm going to Helena!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So today I'm packing, which is craziness, but we also have zone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">preparation day in Gillette! It's pretty exciting stuff. Okay, I guess</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I will expound more on what we did this week!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had exchanges at the beginning of the week with the Worland sisters</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which was so much fun! I was with Sister Clegg and we were able to see</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some pretty cool miracles! We had L's baptismal interview on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tuesday night and it went so so well!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The highlight of the week had to be L's baptism! We met with her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everyday leading up to the baptism and it was such a special</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">experience!! Her non-member family came and also had a great</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">experience. L bore her testimony at the end of the meeting and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she asked Sister Hodgson and I to sing I am a Child of God because</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that is one of her favorite hymns! There was a great turn out from the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ward and the spirit was so strong!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The temple dedication was Sunday and we were able to attend all 3</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sessions! It was so neat to have L sitting on one side of us and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">B and W (recent converts) on the other side of us, what a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">special and sacred experience! All of the talks were so good, but I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">loved Elder Wilford Andersons talk on trusting in the Lord's plan for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us and serving in whatever way, in any place, he asks us to. That helped</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">me a lot, especially during the transfers! Elder Bednar dedicated the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">temple and other highlights included hearing Sister Bednar bear her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">testimony and Sister Perry also bore her testimony! It was so awesome!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It's going to be a crazy week, but I'm excited for it! I love you guys</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and I hope you have the best week ever and a Happy Halloween! We had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our ward trunk or treat on Friday and Sister Hodgson and I threw</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">together a last minute "Lamanites vs Nephites costume hah! We thought we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were pretty creative :) Sorry this is so short! I will try to write</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">more next week! Love you so much!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love, Sister Wong</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288205788638425667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813160713716880051.post-51927058356876658372017-02-11T21:19:00.000-08:002017-02-11T21:20:36.350-08:00October 24 Get Ready for a Novel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dear Family,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm pretty sure I start each email by saying it was a crazy awesome</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week.., but seriously, it was a CRAZY awesome week!!!! I feel like a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">million things have happened since I've written last, I'm excited to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tell you all about it! 😊</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Oh my, we had the best exchange this week with the Burlington sisters!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">They are both such great sisters and we saw SO many miracles! Monday</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">evening I was with Sister Taylor and we felt inspired to work on this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">specific street, so we drove over there and found a new investigator</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and a few solid potentials! We had the goal to talk with everyone and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it was neat to see how Heavenly Father placed so many amazing people</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in our path! On Tuesday I was with Sister Seamons and we taught one of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our new investigators, M, who is a young mom and wants to bring God in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her home. She doesn't have too much of a religious background but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wants to find God and raise her son with religion. We taught her the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">restoration and the spirit was so strong. She asked great questions</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and really had a desire to learn and find truth. During our initial</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">contact with her we invited her to read the restoration pamphlet and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the intro of the Book of Mormon. When we came back for the lesson she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was already on 1 Nephi 3, had read through the pamphlet and had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">questions for us! It was so cool! When we invited her to be baptized</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she was super excited about it! We are super excited to teach her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">more!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Random things we did this Week! :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. Flu Shots: we were obedient and got vaccinated! Sister Seamons</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hates shots.. And so does sister Hodgson.. But it all worked out! Side</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">note: sister Hodgson and I got flu shots together last year in great</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">falls!</span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a great district meeting and I gave a discussion on "Going</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about doing good" from Ch. 9 of Preach my Gospel. I always love</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">district meeting because it is one of our spiritual highlights of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week. We are able to be edified and strengthened by the testimonies of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">other missionaries and I always come away feeling great! It was also</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">super fun because Elder Hendricks came! He was my district leader for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">4.5 months in Great Falls and is now my zone leader in Gillette!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Hodgson and I were reminiscing on last year when we were all in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the same district in Great Falls... It feels like just yesterday!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had the Fall Branch Party on Thursday evening and it was so fun! I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">absolutely love serving in a branch. The members are all so great and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it felt like a family party! We decorated cookies, ate baked potatoes,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">played Halloween games and had a fun time. One of our investigators</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">came too, so that was so great!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We went on an exchange in Lovell from Thursday night till Saturday and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that was an adventure as well! Luckily the roads over the mountain</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pass were nice and clear, so we got there without any problems! We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">showed up to daily plan with them at 9 pm and they informed us that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they were having a baptism the next day! We were so surprised (since</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">usually we know about the baptisms the sisters are having, and we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">don't usually have exchanges if there is a baptism) but it was a super</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">last minute thing where the lady had been taught for like 15 yrs and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">decided she was going to get baptized that weekend because her family</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was in town! So Friday we attended the baptism of a sweet old lady and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it was held at the community pool because they needed the chair lift</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to get her In The water. It was probably the most unique baptism I've</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">been to, but it all worked out and it was a great day! We had a nice</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">exchange and were able to talk with lots of people and bike around in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the freezing cold winter air.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We got back into town on Saturday morning and got a text from the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">branch presidency asking us to speak the next day because there was a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mix up and they didn't have anyone to speak. Of course we happily</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">agreed, however we had zero time to prepare any talks.. And we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the only speakers haha. Heavenly Father definitely helped us because</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">usually if I have to talk for 25 minutes, I need a LOT of time to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">prepare, but it all worked out. I spoke on when the Savior visited the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Nephites- His teachings and focused on how He taught them His</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">doctrine. Sister Hodgson focused on the Character of Christ and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">overall I think it went pretty well!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Now, you've made it this far in the email, so I am going to tell you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about the COOLEST thing that happened this week! After Ranchester</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sacrament meeting we went into Sheridan for Ward council and the block</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meetings (because Sheridan 1st Ward starts at 1pm) L came to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church and it was great to see her as always. We had a great sacrament</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meeting about the difference between being converted to the church and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">being converted to Christ and His teachings, the spirit was definitely</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there and it really touched L. After the meeting L was in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tears, so we went to make sure she was doing okay. She had a lot of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">emotions and decided she just wanted to go home, so we walked her out</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to the car and had a good talk with her. We discussed her desire to be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptized as well as the things that are holding her back. We talked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about how the Lord can and will deliver her out of bondage, but she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">has to put her trust and faith in Him. We have the Star Valley Temple</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dedication next week (woohoo!!) and obviously you need to be a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptized member to attend the dedications. The spirit prompted me to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tell her that it isn't too late to be able to attend the dedication. I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was super nervous to tell her that because I honestly didn't know if</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it was too late or if the bishop and everyone would be okay with it,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but the spirit prompted me to say it, so I did. We explained to her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that she could get baptized this week and be able to attend the temple</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dedication next week. All of a sudden her countenance changed, she had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a different light about her, a brighter light! She said, "Well then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">let's go back inside and figure this thing out!" Sister Hodgson and I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were both in shock, but we walked her right into the Bishop's office</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and met with him. That was a spiritual experience as well, and I felt</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the spirit testify to me that God is in charge and He does know all of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">His children by name. I had wanted L to be baptized at the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">beginning of October (actually, the end of August haha) but the Lord</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">knows the right timing. L has decided to be baptized this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thursday at 6:30pm and I can't even put into words my excitement and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">joy!! Please continue to keep her in your prayers. I feel so blessed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to be here for it and I am so excited!!! We announced it at the end of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church and the Ward is super excited as well, since everyone basically</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">knows her already :) it is just the best!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So that was my week for you, it was insane and crazy and exhausting</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and funny and spiritual and just everything in between. I wish I could</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">put into words the experiences I'm having, but it's pretty much</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">indescribable. We see miracles everyday and experience opposition</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everyday, but without opposition, we wouldn't grow! I am grateful for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the trials I've been given because I know they are tailored perfectly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for me. I love this gospel more than anything and I know that my</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Savior lives and loves each of us!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I so appreciate all the emails and letters and notes I receive from</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you each week. I love you guys and I feel so blessed to be a part of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our family!! I hope you all have a fabulous Halloween week and just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">know that I'm praying for you and I love you :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love, Sister Wong</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288205788638425667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813160713716880051.post-37626579898352010642017-02-11T21:04:00.000-08:002017-02-11T21:20:29.568-08:00October 17 An Elk<br />
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Dear Family,<br />
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Last night we were trying this potential investigator and we had the<br />
following conversation<br />
Me: Are you searching for anything in your life?" Him: "An Elk." Haha<br />
gotta love hunting season in WY.<br />
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What a week it has been!! So many miracles, lots of laughs, I got sick<br />
(lol) but I'm feeling much better, crazy weather, and everything else<br />
in between!<br />
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So last preparation day we went CAVING! It was so so fun, we went with<br />
our district and it was the first time I've been craving since Great<br />
Falls over a year ago! It was up Tongue River canyon and it was such a<br />
pretty drive! Lots of fall colors and pretty scenery. It was probably<br />
about half a mile to the cave and it was funny because I didn't think<br />
we were actually going inside the cave, so I didn't bring any flash<br />
lights.. Luckily the Elders were more prepared than us! It was a fun<br />
cave, we hiked probably about a mile in and we were about 100 ft.<br />
underground! There were a few parts where we literally had to army<br />
crawl because the openings were so small, but after a while my arms<br />
and legs were too sore, so I just started rolling and it was pretty<br />
effective!! Anyways, it was way fun.<br />
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We had our first district meeting of the transfer! It was great, we<br />
had a great training on these new active member lessons we are doing<br />
as a zone, we talked about becoming a consecrated missionary and<br />
shared lots of miracles! On Monday evening we had appointments set up<br />
for each hour of the day, but they ALL fell through, so we were trying<br />
this potential(who wasn't home) and saw this other lady outside, so we<br />
went and talked with her! She invited us right in and we taught her<br />
and her daughter an array of different gospel principles. The mom had<br />
investigated the church almost 20 hrs ago but had never joined, we are<br />
super excited to go back and teach them this week!<br />
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We drove over to Cody, WY on Tuesday night... Which was a little<br />
crazy.. So when we left Sheridan it was snowing, and by the time we<br />
got to the mountain pass it was dark, snowy and a little icy. Not to<br />
mention, I was pretty tired. But, we made it safe and I know Heavenly<br />
Father was looking out for us! The drive took about 4 hours (it<br />
usually only takes about 3) and we got into Cody at 10pm, I was so<br />
tired and went right to sleep haha.<br />
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We had a great exchange with Sister Felemi and Sister Brown! They are<br />
so sweet and have some great work going on in their area. We attended<br />
their district meeting and all of the sisters went out to lunch after,<br />
so it was nice to see some other sisters!<br />
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On Saturday we had a relief society activity in the morning and found<br />
some really cool new investigators! I am always so grateful that<br />
Heavenly Father places such amazing people in our path. We spent a lot<br />
of time out of our area with exchanges and meetings, and I have seen<br />
how He really makes up for that lost time and helps us to do what we<br />
need to when we are in our area!<br />
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We had some fun preparation day plans, but they are going to be put on<br />
hold because it's raining today haha, but that means we get to play<br />
podball! We have the sisters from Burlington are here for exchanges and<br />
then we have one more exchange later this week, so we will be keeping<br />
busy, but it's the best!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello Family!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In Fast and testimony meeting yesterday, a little boy named James got</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">up and bore his sweet and powerful testimony. He is about 5 yrs old.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He talked about why he loves the gospel and closed with, "The gospel</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">keeps on going like a river in your heart." It was so precious!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It has been a great week, the weather has been a little insane, but it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">has been good! We woke up early Tuesday morning to drive over the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mountain for a zone conference, only to find that the mountain pass we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were going to drive over was completely covered in snow and apparently</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you could only drive through if you had chains on your wheels. SO at</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">6am Sister Hodgson and I headed to the church to figure out an</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">alternate way to get around the mountain and wait for the rest of our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">zone to drive up to Sheridan (because originally we were going to meet</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in Buffalo which is about 45 minutes away). We ended up going through</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a different mountain pass and it took an extra hour, so we were an</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hour late to our zone conference in Worland, but we all got there</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">safely and luckily there were only a few icy spots on the road! Also,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I forgot what it's like to drive in bad road conditions, this past</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">summer has really spoiled me haha.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a wonderful zone conference. President and Sister Wadsworth</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were there and shared some really great messages. Sister Wadsworth</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talked about the children's story of "The Little Train Who Thought He</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Could" and related it to us as missionaries. We need to have the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">attitude and mentality that we can do hard things, with the help of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the Lord! A lot of times as humans we give ourselves limits and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">doubts, but I love that with Christ we can accomplish anything. We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">received training on lots of other things, but the main focus seemed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to be progression. It was very fitting because I have been seeking</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">guidance as to how I can continue to progress and not plateau. It was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a very edifying meeting. It was also SO fun to see all of the sister</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionaries in the Wyoming West Zone! Since Sister Hodgson and I are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the only sisters in our zone now, it was way fun to see all the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sisters that we are serving.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">After the zone conference we headed to Lovell to go on exchanges with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Robertson and Sister Brooks! Exchanges are always fun, we did</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some training with them and just went to work. The first evening we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">did a super exchange where I went with Sister Davis and Sister Jones</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(another set of sisters serving in Lovell) and we biked all around</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">town, freezing, but happy😊 I spent all day Wednesday with Sister</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Robertson which was so fun, and then Thursday morning we headed back</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to Sheridan.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On Thursday we went to the the homeless shelter to serve dinner and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">L came to volunteer with us! It was so fun having her. Then on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Friday she invited us to go have lunch with her! She made us a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">delicious salad and salmon... Fun times! She messaged us Sunday at</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about noon and said she wasn't going to be able to make it to church</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">because she felt really sick, the. We walked into the chapel after</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ward council and she was sitting in her usual seat! Turns out she was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fasting for the first time and it made her really sick, so she ate a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">little food and was able to come to church! She is just an amazing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lady. We love her a lot!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Highlights of the week! :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. Slim Jims: after being out of town for about 3 days, we showed up</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to our apartment and found a little note with some slim Jims left by</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our apartment door! We don't know who left them, but it was a great</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">little surprise!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Cupcakes: While in Lovell, Sister Robertson didn't have a dinner</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appointment so we ate at their house, but we decided to bake cupcakes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for a less actives birthday! We made them so pretty, frosted them and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we're all ready to go. While sister Robertson was walking out to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">car (carrying the three plates of cupcakes, because she wanted to do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it herself) she looked back to say something to me and dropped ALL THE</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">CUPCAKES. Like they literally all started falling in slow motion. It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was one of the funniest things I've ever seen! Luckily there were a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">few that were saved, so we still had some cupcakes to give to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">woman for her birthday, but it was so so so funny😂there was literally</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">rainbow chip frosting EVERYWHERE.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3. Summertime weather: we spent all day Saturday biking around</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sheridan and it was SO beautiful! There were so many people out and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about that we were able to talk with! We even found a lady named K</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who's dad is from Hawaii and her grandpa worked at Kamehameha Schools!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It was cool, hopefully we can go back and teach her soon!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">All in all it was a great week. We saw lots of miracles and we're</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">definitely blessed. I never cease to be amazed and how wonderful this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">work is! Everyday is full of new and unique challenges, miracles,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tender mercies, struggles, and everything in between! I am very</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">grateful to be serving in the Montana Billings Mission, I know I'm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bias, but I think it's the best! 😊 thanks you for all your letters</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and emails, you're the best and I love you so much!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love, Sister Wong</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288205788638425667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813160713716880051.post-72878818411801482002017-02-11T20:37:00.000-08:002017-02-11T21:20:19.137-08:00October 3 Be Ambitious for Christ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello Family!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What a week it has been! Wasn't General Conference amazing?! There was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so much and I definitely came away feeling spiritually fed. I have so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">many talks I am excited to study and review further.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Conference Take-A-Ways:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. The Doctrine of Christ: I loved how many talked focused on Faith in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jesus Christ, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of the Holy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ghost and Enduring to the End. These basic principles and ordinances</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">make up our core beliefs, it was great to receive further knowledge on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">how I can better apply it in my life, as well as teach others about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Missionary work! Of course, I absolutely LOVED the Saturday</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">afternoon session of conference, I loved seeing that wonderful choir</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of full-time missionaries, I loved standing and singing "Called to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Serve" and feeling the spirit testify to me, once again, that I am</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">exactly where the Lord needs and wants me to be. I also felt so united</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with all the members of the church, knowing that we are all working</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">together for the same cause! "How great is our calling!"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3. Desire: A few of the questions I brought to conference had to do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with desire, how to increase my desire to serve, how to submit my will</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to Gods, and my questions were all answered. I still have a lot of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pondering, prayer and studying to do, but I know that God answers our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">questions through conference!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">4. Also, I loved the talk about the prophet Joseph smith, as well as</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Nelsons talk on Joy! That really spoke to my heart.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Okay so basically I loved all of conference. It was all so so so good!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And okay, can I just say, they literally sang all my favorite hymns! I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just LOVED it!!! It made me so happy every time I got to stand up and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sing along with the choir, or even just hearing the choir sing, it was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">amazing and definitely brought the spirit. I always learn so much from</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President Monson, his words and his actions reflect the years of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dedicated service to the Lord. It is a blessing and a privilege to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sustain him as a Prophet, seer, and revelator. I just love this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">gospel!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well, as for my week, it was a good one! We traveled a lot. We also</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had a ton of meetings. We drove to Billings on Monday evening,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">practiced our song for MLC (the one we all sang for President and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Wadsworth, it actually all came together and turned out very</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">nice!) then Tuesday morning we woke up at 3:25am, drove to Helena, had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">an AWESOME Mission Leadership Council, then drove back to Billings,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ate cafe rio, and went to bed. It was a long day. Also at cafe rio we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">started talking to this couple (because, talk with everyone!) and he</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was super nice at first, then proceeded to tell us we needed to google</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our religion to find out what we truly believe. Haha. I always think</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it's so funny when people tell us to trust google or YouTube over God</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and answers to prayers. Anyways, I know God loves him.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On Friday we went down to Gillette for our Zone Training. It went</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">well, it is weird being the only sisters in the zone.. But it's okay</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">haha. We were in Gillette for most of the day and then traveled back</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to Ranchester to proselyte for the rest of the evening. On Saturday</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and Sunday we watched General Conference at the Taylors home!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President Taylor is the YSA Branch president, so they had quite a few</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ysa there and L, our investigator came to ALL 4 SESSIONS, AND SHE</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">LOVED IT! It was pretty cool. She was taking notes the whole time in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the little general conference notebook we got her and she definitely</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">felt the spirit, it was awesome! Our Ward mission leaders daughter</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">also got baptized on Sunday, so L came to that as well, she is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just so amazing!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Life is good, it is rainy today and starting to get a little chilly,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but it's good! I know the Lord is definitely helping me and giving me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">strength. There are hard days, but the good always out weights the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bad. I am eternally grateful for my Savior and the Atonement. I am so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">imperfect, but I know that through the atonement I can change and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">become better, that is the good news! I am full of gratitude for the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">opportunity I have to "be ambitious for Christ" and to serve a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">full-time mission. I know that won't end after 18 months, it is an</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">eternal pursuit! I am grateful for all your love and support. I love</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you all so much and I hope you have the most amazing week ever!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love, Sister Wong</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288205788638425667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813160713716880051.post-38431167729944486552017-02-11T20:25:00.000-08:002017-02-11T21:20:13.865-08:00September 26 Build & Bear Your Testimony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You know the saying "When it rains it pours"? Well, that is exactly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">what it did this week. It poured blessings, trials, and actual rain.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about everything, but</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">overall I am just grateful that the Savior has been where I've been</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and everything will work out, it always does!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The week started off great! We had a few really great lessons with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">L in a membe'rs home and it is just SO neat to see her embracing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the gospel. We were sitting around the dinner table and she noticed my</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">YW medallion I was wearing and said, "I've noticed that nobody at your</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church wears crosses, so I stopped wearing mine. But why don't you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wear them?" The member we were having dinner with talked about how we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">know that Christ lives and that is how we remember Him, and she said</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that it made so much sense! She just has such an open heart and is SO</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">willing to learn and make changes in her life to bring her closer to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christ, it is awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had such an awesome Relief Society activity this week called "The</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Straightway Mall" and it was a bunch of little workshops set up like a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mall! There was one about "The Colors of God" and it was all about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">coloring and God's creations. Another one was called "Build and Bear</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">your Testimony" (like Build-a-Bear Workshop) and she shared how</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">different bears represented different times in her life and how her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">testimony has grown. It was so cute and so clever! Also, we got</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">chocolate covered cinnamon bears at the end and I started laughing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">because I literally thought BYU was the only place you could get</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that.. Apparently BYU didn't come up with chocolate covered cinnamon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bears.. Who would have thought? :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I loved ALL the talks from Women's conference, but I loved what</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President Uchtdorf said about Faith. He mentioned that faith will</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">never take away the agency of others or change the will of God,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">however, faith empowers us to do the will of God. I also loved Sister</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Oscarson's call to all women to rise up and fulfill our divine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">potential! I thought it was so powerful and I'm so excited to go back</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. Swig Cookies: at the "Straightway Mall" relief society they had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">swig cookies which were so so so yummy and made me miss Provo a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">little!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Footsie Pajamas: Sister Hodgson and I had a pretty rough day on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Saturday, so we spent from 9:30-10:30pm in footsie pajamas, listening</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to LDS.org youth music and just talking on the couch. It was a great</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">little bonding experience #companionshipunity</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">L, who was on date to be baptized on October 8th, has decided to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">postpone her baptism till she can fully commit to live all the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">commandments. M, our investigator who was suppose to get</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptized yesterday, didn't show up to church yesterday, and then did</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">not show up to her baptism. These two experiences have caused me a lot</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to think about the will of God and the agency of others, two things</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which are out of my control. At first I felt devastated because I felt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the weight of their salvation on my shoulders, I filled my mind with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">thoughts of things I could have done, or should have done, that would</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have changed the situations. However, as I was partaking of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sacrament yesterday I pondered on the talk "Yielding our hearts to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">God" and realized that these "trials" are an opportunity to submit my</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">will to God and put my trust in Him. Despite the sadness I felt, I am</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so grateful for these trials that help me to learn and grow. I know</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">God has a plan for each of His children, including me. I feel very</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a great week here in Sheridan, we saw lots of miracles and had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some great experiences! It is transfers week, but luckily Sister</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hodgson and I will both be staying!! We are so excited and have big</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">plans for this transfer😊 It will be interesting because now we are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the only sisters in our zone and all of the sisters we serve are on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the other side of the mountain, so lots of traveling again this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">transfer, but it will be great.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had exchanges in Gillette at the beginning of the week. We had a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">zone preparation day and I forgot how fun it is to play podball with a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">big group of missionaries! I was so sore the next day hah! We also</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">went and played ultimate frisbee at a park near the church building.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It was hilarious because I haven't played ultimate frisbee since 7th</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">grade so I had no idea what I was doing. Also, it was raining and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">freezing...but so fun!</span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a great exchange with the Gillette Sisters. I spent most of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">exchange with Sister Lisberg and she is such a sweet heart! She has</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">been out for about 12 weeks, so she just finished up training. We had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a lot of fun together and she is just a champ. Also, I love sister</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Seamons so it was fun being her companion for a little while as well😊</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Highlights of the week:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. Jo-Bawbs BBQ: while in Gillette I had the best BBQ of my life. No</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">joke. I don't even know what made it so yummy, but it was amazing!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">They are competition barbecuers and we had the best pulled pork and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">brisket sandwiches... So so yummy.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Head Massager: sister Seamons had this head massager and she let us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">all try it. It felt so weird but also kind of relaxing, also it looked</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hilarious, so there is that 😂</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3. Holding a puppy! Literally it made me so so so happy. They were so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cute and I just loved them. Too bad we aren't allowed to have pets on</span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The main highlight of the week had to be stake conference. We had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Bradley Foster of the 70 come and join us. In the adult session</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">on Saturday night in Gillette we talked a lot about family councils</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and family history. I learned a lot! On Sunday they had a session in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Gillette and a session in Sheridan (because the stake is so spread out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">haha) and our investigator L came and absolutely loved it! The</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">focus of the meeting was progressing in the gospel, different ways to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">come closer to the savior. The stake theme is centered on our love for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">God and our neighbors. Elder Bradley focused in things we can do to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feel prepared for tomorrow. President and Sister Wadsworth spoke and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they are just so amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been thinking a lot about covenants lately, whether they be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptismal covenants, temple covenants, or other covenants. I was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">studying a talk by Linda K. Burton from October 2013 titled "The</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Power, Joy, and Love of Covenant Keeping" and there were a few things</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">She says, "Making and keeping covenants means choosing to bind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ourselves to our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. It is committing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to follow the Savior. It is trusting Him and desiring to show our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">gratitude for the price He paid to set us free through the infinite</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">gift of the Atonement. In that binding contract, the Lord sets the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">terms and we agree to keep them. Making and keeping our covenants is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">an expression of our commitment to become like the Savior. The ideal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is to strive for the attitude best expressed in a few phrases of a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">favorite hymn: “I’ll go where you want me to go. … I’ll say what you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">want me to say. … I’ll be what you want me to be.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We taught L about covenants this past week and it gave me an</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">opportunity to reflect on what that means to me. I love that it is a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">choice we make, however it is also a commandment to make and keep our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">covenants. We are able to express gratitude, show our faith and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">increase our testimonies as we live true to the covenants we've made.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I am so grateful for the promises I've made with God and the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">opportunity we all have to receive those blessings, as we follow our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Savior Jesus Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So all in all it was a great week. I'm excited for the start of a new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">transfer, this one flew right by! It's crazy! Also, let me quickly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tell you about how amazing my companion is. B</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">asically, she is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the best. I'm super excited to be staying here! I love this work, I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love the gospel. It is the best! Thanks for being the best family</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ever! Love you lots!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Okay where the heck did this week even go?! I feel like it was just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">preparation day yesterday haha but it has been so good! We are off to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Gillette this morning for Zone Preparation day and I'm expecting a few</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">intense games of podball, so I'm pretty excited. It will be fun</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">playing with a bigger group today (so 18 missionaries, instead of 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">haha) and we will be going on an exchange with the Gillette Spanish</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sisters after, so it will be worth the drive!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Anyways, this week really flew by. We saw lots of miracles and had a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really good time. We spent the first few days of the week proselyting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in our area and the latter part of the week proselyting in Cody, WY</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which was also fun!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tuesday we were out in Ranchester and had a nice time biking around in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the heat. We were biking to this appointment and this little kid is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">riding on his bike starts yelling at us, "STOP in the name of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">LAW!!" And it was seriously the most hilarious thing. So Sister</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hodgson and I pull over (even though we were like 5 minutes late to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our appointment..oops..haha) and we talked to this kid. He asked us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who we were and what we were doing, so we shared the gospel with him</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and it turns out his parents are less active members! Anyways, it was cool,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and hilarious haha. We also had a super awesome lesson with M</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this week and we taught her all about temples. We had the lesson in a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">member's home and it was neat to have their family there and feel the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spirit of their testimonies strengthen all of us there. It was a very</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">neat experience. I feel like we've taught so many people about temples</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and family history work this past week, my testimony has definitely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">been strengthened as we've been able to share with others the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">importance of temples!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Wednesday we had a district meeting focused on Chapter 10 of Preach My</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Gospel and I gave a little discussion on using the scriptures, which</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was actually very fitting because that is something I want to work on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and improve on! Sister Hodgson also bore her testimony on Patriarchal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Blessings and how we need to be studying them and turning to them</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">often because it is personal revelation and scripture. Also on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Wednesday we got a text from this lady we did service for a few months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">back asking us to come over so she could give us food from her garden!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So we got fresh corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and eggs. It was so awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a super fun exchange with Sister Felemi and Sister Brown in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cody! They are seriously so amazing and kept me laughing the whole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">time, despite being pretty tired haha. Sister Brown and I spent all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">day Friday together and it was so fun, she was able to take the lead</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in her area and she has only been out for about 6 weeks, she was so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">good about knowing where everything was and is just a great</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionary, so we had a lot of fun together. We did some funny</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tracting role plays that made me laugh and also she is just hilarious!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had to wake up at 5am on Saturday to drive back to Sheridan to make</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it in time to attend a baptism with L, our investigator, at 9am.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I seriously looked like a zombie, but she felt the spirit, we all felt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the spirit, and it was a great experience. L has been coming to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church regularly and has been staying for all three hours! She is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">literally so amazing, she even volunteered to come visit an elderly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">less active with us and I just see so much potential in her. She has</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">such strong faith and I love that every time we show up to teach her a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lesson she has already read through all the lesson material and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">scriptures and has questions for us and just is so prepared! I just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love L so much!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Highlights of the Week! :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1. Quotes by Sister Hodgson: We were on a doorstep on day and she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">looks at me with complete sincerity and says, "Are you more Chinese or</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Asian?" It was hilarious. Then the other morning we were getting ready</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for the day and She walks out into the living room and asks, "Did you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Crimp your hair today?" Me: "No...it was just in a braid.." Aka I was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just lazy and didn't want to do my hair haha</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Winter is coming! On our drive back from Cody there was frost in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the mountains and all this fog by the lake we drove by, it was super</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cool</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3. 5 investigators at church! It was a miracle, the Lord is seriously the best.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week I've been pondering and reflecting on my testimony of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Book of Mormon. Yesterday in the Ranchester Branch Sister Hodgson and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I gave talks on the Book of Mormon in sacrament meeting. In Chapter 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of Preach my Gospel it states, "The Book of Mormon, combined with the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Spirit, is your most powerful resource in conversion." I have always</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">loved that statement and as I was pondering it I realized that while</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we are constantly inviting people to read and study the Book of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mormon, we need to realize that the Book of Mormon combined with the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spirit is OUR most powerful resource in OUR personal conversion, that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is why it's so important that we are feasting daily upon the words of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christ. My love for the Book of Mormon has definitely grown, but it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">started long before I ever decided to serve a mission, and I know it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">will continue to grow, as long as I'm studying it, pondering it, and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">applying it to my life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Life is good, I love being a missionary and I love Wyoming! Thanks for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">all your letters, emails, prayers and support. Y'all are the best and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love you lots!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love, Sister Wong</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288205788638425667noreply@blogger.com0