Miracle Sunday

May 27

WE HAVE A BAPTISMAL DATE!!!!!!!!! I am really excited! I will tell you more about it but today I wanted to tell you another story. Well a few so we will see how far I get. First is about a less active. A few weeks ago we went to look for a potential from a few years ago. When we were over at this house we found that the guy we were looking for wasn't living there BUT we were applying the talk to everyone principle and started talking to the girls that lived there. We found out that she was a member but hasn't been to church for a few years. Ever since her Father passed away. We taught her about Family History and she was really excited. She was a little hesitant to come to church on Sunday but came! We were so happy! I love helping members come back to church! She told us that she really feels that her Dad sent us to them. I will say I agree. Especially since we have been focusing so much on Family History! We are going to go teach her again. I love her! She is going to be my friend forever.

My next story. We received a referral from the bike Hermanas. We didn't know that it wasn't a Spanish Speaking person when we went so we will have to refer her to the English Elders but she is so great! Seriously! I am so grateful we didn't know. Anyway she is a mom with two kids. I could feel the spirit so strong. I think my best spirit filled lesson yet. We taught her about the Book Of Mormon and Joseph Smith. She had some really great questions! I learned some new things! I was really happy. We are going to teach her again but I am dreading passing her to the Elders. Not that I don't trust them because I totally do but I just love her. I definitely will be in contact with her. We were able to set a date for her and her daughter to be baptized on the same day. We know that Heavenly Father will give her all the help and support she needs. Ah I just love her!

Well I have to go the Libraries are closed and the Elders need the computers but I love you! Keep us in your prayers.

My emails are getting lame!

May 20

Hey! We had a Stake Conference yesterday. It was really great. We were able to hear from President Hall and one the temple Presidency. Their words were so inspiring. I am excited to continue moving forward and helping the missionary work move forward. Not just on this side of our life but for those that have gone.

I went on my first exchange with Hermana H. We are really excited to go with the Hermanas and learn from them. We have another one this Tuesday Hermana D will be coming to me. She just came out to the mission. She has a lot of energy so I know we will have a fun day.

I will say that I am slightly freaking out a little because I just realized that I am starting week 3. Isn't that crazy! This is SO NOT COOL!!! I know that each week is going to go by faster and faster. Especially because we have exchanges one this week and two next week. How do I stop this? I can't do anything but enjoy my time here. I am definitely enjoying it! I am loving every minute of this! The mission is the best thing that I could be doing!

We were able to teach one of our investigators this week and it was wonderful. She is really excited. She came to church last week and really liked it. She wasn't able to come last week but next week for sure. We are hoping to get her family there. Keep us in your prayers. I am running out of time but I did want to send some pictures. I hope you enjoy. I love you all!

-Hermana Fish

Happy Mother's Day!

May 13

For those of you I didn't talk to yesterday (I had to make a few phone calls to track down grandma since she was missing in action) I love you all! As well as those I talked to of course! It was so great to talk to the family! I actually forgot it was so soon! I didn't tell my family what time I was calling. Oops! It was great though to hear all the familiar voices.

Remember my to be continued from last week? Well I was called to be a Sister Training leader. It is a new calling. I will be super busy this transfer. I have my companion that I am training Hermana S and then I have my.... well we will call her my "Companion in Crime" Hermana H (not the Hermana H I was with (she went home) but another Hermana H). She is great! She fits right into my heart for many reasons but one of which is her red hair! For those of you who don't know I have a red head family that I love so so much! So I feel like Hermana H will just fit right in. We did go on exchanges together once in the Valley and we have always wanted to be companions from that moment on. So even though we are serving in different areas we are companions. Meaning we are in charge of going on exchanges with 5 Hermanas and we have to report back to President. It is really great because the Sister Missionaries have someone that they go on exchanges with now. Since the Elders have Zone leaders and district leaders. I am really distracted because there is a lot of talking in the background in the computer lab so sorry if this doesn't make sense.

We had a meeting for our new calling this last week. I was thinking that I would be going on exchanges 2 times but after the meeting Hermana Hansen and I were talking to the Assistants to the President and they said that we should take advantage of our small group and go on as many as possible. Which means we will be super busy.  I know this transfer will fly by and I really don't want it to. We will be doing a lot of training to these 4 Hermanas. I have a lot to learn before I can teach anything. We had a huge planning session this last week and I am a little worried that I have to help them areas that I am struggling to learn how to do it myself! The training was really good. Normally the Sister Training Leaders are supposed to be in a companionship but since so many Hermanas are training we are still training but going on exchanges as well. There are two companionship that are together one in the valley for Spanish and one up here for English. There are 8 of us total.

I think that pretty much explains it all but I was super distracted with all the talk tin the background. I am sorry. If you don't understand you can email me and I will answer you next week.

This week I have been studying a lot about Faith in Jesus Christ. I am really loving what I am learning. It is amazing because Faith in Jesus Christ is the first principle and to me what starts everything else. It just shows me how important it is to have Faith first. Without it we wouldn't want to Repent, Go to Chruch, Have the Holy Ghost or forget about Enduring to the End. Faith in Jesus Christ is really why we do EVERYTHING! Isn't that interesting?

Well I will definitely keep you posted on all the things I am learning. AND ALL the exchanges that we are going on. I have one tomorrow with Hermana H and this week is interviews with President Hall so I am not sure how many more we will be getting to. Anyway Have a great week! Love you all!

Miracle Sunday

May 26

WE HAVE A BAPTISMAL DATE!!!!!!!!! I am really excited! I will tell you more about it but today I wanted to tell you another story. Well a few so we will see how far I get. First is about a less active. A few weeks ago we went to look for a potential from a few years ago. When we were over at this house we found that the guy we were looking for wasn't living there BUT we were applying the talk to everyone principle and started talking to the girls that lived there. We found out that she was a member but hasn't been to church for a few years. Ever since her Father passed away. We taught her about Family History and she was really excited. She was a little hesitant to come to church on Sunday but came! We were so happy! I love helping members come back to church! She told us that she really feels that her Dad sent us to them. I will say I agree. Especially since we have been focusing so much on Family History! We are going to go teach her again. I love her! She is going to be my friend forever.

My next story. We received a referral from the bike Hermanas. We didn't know that it wasn't a Spanish Speaking person when we went so we will have to refer her to the English Elders but she is so great! Seriously! I am so grateful we didn't know. Anyway she is a mom with two kids. I could feel the spirit so strong. I think my best spirit filled lesson yet. We taught her about the Book Of Mormon and Joseph Smith. She had some really great questions! I learned some new things! I was really happy. We are going to teach her again but I am dreading passing her to the Elders. Not that I don't trust them because I totally do but I just love her. I definitely will be in contact with her. We were able to set a date for her and her daughter to be baptized on the same day. We know that Heavenly Father will give her all the help and support she needs. Ah I just love her!

Well I have to go the Libraries are closed and the Elders need the computers but I love you! Keep us in your prayers.

To be continued...

Family!!!! I never thought I would get to this point in my mission so quickly! I am at my last transfer. My last 6 weeks. What happened? Where did my mission go. My companion and I are staying together but.... Well I will tell you more next week about the but part.... It is exciting but you will have to stay tuned. I would tell you but I actually don't know what it all means yet so we will save it as a surprise.

I did something drastic yesterday! I am SOOOO TIRED of no one coming to church, of no one reading the scriptures or any other commitment we leave that doesn't get completed. SO I (in my mind) threw all of our investigators out. All of them! This week we are starting completely over. There is a few people that my companion and I will still work with but this week is completely focused on finding. We need a family. We need someone who wants to change and that we can help come closer to Christ. Anyway I will need lots of prayers this week! I want to go out with a bang! This is the last 6 weeks and I want to make it the best!

We had about an hour before dinner this week and I had a feeling that we should go to this one area. We went there and tried to find this lady that we met a few days ago but she wasn't home! We walked to this other person to see if they still lived there. While we were walking around this lady was watching us. I have to tell the truth but sometimes I am not in tune with the spirit or I forget to follow the "talk to everyone" spirit. As we were walking she asked if we were Jehovah Witness's which sometimes I want to SHOUT "NOOOO!!! I am not!" haha jk it gets people talking. we stopped and talked to her for awhile and gave her a Book of Mormon. She already knows or has a small testimony growing that it is true. She is going to read it beginning to end. She was actually really sweet. She told me something that I needed to hear. She said that we had lights and that she wanted. I wondered sometimes if people can actual see we are representatives of Jesus Christ. I was grateful to hear her kind words. She wasn't ready to have the missionaries come over but we will get her there.

I better go but I love you! TALK TO YOU NEXT WEEK!!!!

-Hermana Fish