Sunday, September 25, 2011
Don't transfer me!
Hello everyone!
In two weeks I have been in this area for six months! AAHHH I am scared! I don't want to leave. The people are all starting to get ready for baptism! We have 4 baptismal dates set for this coming transfer! Pray that I stay!
I am grateful again for your emails. It is so good to hear how you are all doing. It really sounds like you are all having success and that heavenly father is having a hand in all of your lives. He definately has been in mine. I am feeling different at the moment. Like I am learning more about myself and how I am being shown that I need to change. I think the experience I had with Sister Krauss last transfer has shown me a lot about myself. I am really thankful that Heavenly Father gave me that challenge. Mostly that has been my miracle this last week.. learning a lot of personal learning and growth. I would tell you all about except I don't know who is reading this.
We had to push back that Martinez girls baptism because it is the general relief society conference address this Saturday... which means it wont be till next transfer. But even if I get transferred I will have to be here for that.
Can you believe that it is conference time again? I can't! It is just crazy, but I am excited for this conference. I bought Cd's so that we could listen to the last conference in the car and I think we listened to it 3 extra times. That was a blessing.
I don't even know what to tell you! We are so busy at the moment and this area is still being blessed. Sometimes my head spins like... ahhh we have so much to do, so far to drive and so little time and miles!
We had exchanges last week and I was with Sister Chattertown from New Zealand. She is just a new missionary that came out and she grew up in Australia. She mostly lived in Sydney but also in Eight Mile Plains. We had a ton in common and it was sooo weird! It has been a long time since I have been with someone where I was like me too.. wow me too! So that was nice!
We had a cool experience together. Last week me and Sister Moss had a little time to go tracting which was fun. When we were praying I had this house pop into my mind but we both felt like we needed to go another street. We found some people on that street that were interested but they spoke Spanish so we referred them to the Spanish Elders. Then on Wednesday me and Sister Chatterton had some time and that house had been lingering in my head since that first day. We went to the street it was on and parked a few houses down. There was a guy sitting and talking on the phone in a car near us. We walked down to the house and knocked.. no one was house so we just kept knocking on all the doors.. no one was home. But that guy was sitting in his car now and not on his phone so we walked up to the window and started to chat with him. He is looking for something in his life! Woopie! So we got all his details down and he said we can come by whenever we like!
Well I had an amazing week. Me and my companion have so much fun. I still feel like I am the staunch strict one but oh well.. someone has got be and I really feel like I can be honest and fun with her so I am happy. I am thankful for this transfer so I hope I stay for another!
I love you all
Sister Huckfeldt
In two weeks I have been in this area for six months! AAHHH I am scared! I don't want to leave. The people are all starting to get ready for baptism! We have 4 baptismal dates set for this coming transfer! Pray that I stay!
I am grateful again for your emails. It is so good to hear how you are all doing. It really sounds like you are all having success and that heavenly father is having a hand in all of your lives. He definately has been in mine. I am feeling different at the moment. Like I am learning more about myself and how I am being shown that I need to change. I think the experience I had with Sister Krauss last transfer has shown me a lot about myself. I am really thankful that Heavenly Father gave me that challenge. Mostly that has been my miracle this last week.. learning a lot of personal learning and growth. I would tell you all about except I don't know who is reading this.
We had to push back that Martinez girls baptism because it is the general relief society conference address this Saturday... which means it wont be till next transfer. But even if I get transferred I will have to be here for that.
Can you believe that it is conference time again? I can't! It is just crazy, but I am excited for this conference. I bought Cd's so that we could listen to the last conference in the car and I think we listened to it 3 extra times. That was a blessing.
I don't even know what to tell you! We are so busy at the moment and this area is still being blessed. Sometimes my head spins like... ahhh we have so much to do, so far to drive and so little time and miles!
We had exchanges last week and I was with Sister Chattertown from New Zealand. She is just a new missionary that came out and she grew up in Australia. She mostly lived in Sydney but also in Eight Mile Plains. We had a ton in common and it was sooo weird! It has been a long time since I have been with someone where I was like me too.. wow me too! So that was nice!
We had a cool experience together. Last week me and Sister Moss had a little time to go tracting which was fun. When we were praying I had this house pop into my mind but we both felt like we needed to go another street. We found some people on that street that were interested but they spoke Spanish so we referred them to the Spanish Elders. Then on Wednesday me and Sister Chatterton had some time and that house had been lingering in my head since that first day. We went to the street it was on and parked a few houses down. There was a guy sitting and talking on the phone in a car near us. We walked down to the house and knocked.. no one was house so we just kept knocking on all the doors.. no one was home. But that guy was sitting in his car now and not on his phone so we walked up to the window and started to chat with him. He is looking for something in his life! Woopie! So we got all his details down and he said we can come by whenever we like!
Well I had an amazing week. Me and my companion have so much fun. I still feel like I am the staunch strict one but oh well.. someone has got be and I really feel like I can be honest and fun with her so I am happy. I am thankful for this transfer so I hope I stay for another!
I love you all
Sister Huckfeldt
Hello
Hello!
Oh my goodness! Guess what?? Paul the 87 year old man is going to get baptised! He is so stinking cute! We have alot more to teach him but he has committed! We went to his wifes grave with him this week and he really appreciated having company there with him. We said a prayer and took photos with him. He just keeps saying that he will do everything that he can to be with her again someday. He is so with it for his age and goes out dancing at the senior citizens club on fridays hehe! I really feel like I was meant to be here for him.
We are also teaching another man named John and he has alot of Potential. He has been coming to church with his friend for a while now and is very receptive. He really has alot of faith and he has committed to praying about the Book of Mormon this week so I willlet you know how that goes.
We had another amazing lesson with Marci. We had originally gone to another persons house and we sitting out the front I just didnt feel like with should be there. We prayed and we both felt like we should go see Marci. It was a big risk going there if she wasn't home cause from where we were it was about a 25 min drive.. which is alot of miles on our mile limit. But we followed our prompting and went. She was home! She has started Chemo and is just such a strong women. Before we went into teach her yesterday we said a prayer and I just felt the spirit so strong. We were there at the right time and I knew that Heavenly Father was guiding everything that we said when we were with her. She needs his support right and I am glad that we are able to be his servants for fullfilling some of that for him.
We are teaching a women named Mercedes and it is hard! She does not believe that Jesus Christ is her Saviour and so she drives the Spirit away alot! She knows we are in her life for a reason...I just want to keep saying.. der look at our name tag there is your answer. But I only really figured that out this last lesson. She has no belief in the atonement but I know that is why we have been sent to her. This week I have been thinking alot about how to teach and so I know Heavenly Father will help me in that. Heavenly Father really loves us he is in everything that we do. He will always give us another chance and he will always allow us our agency. But bare your testimonies! Sister Moss shared an amazing, simple testimony which brought the Spirit back in for enough time for us to recieve revelation that she doesnt have faith in the Atonement. Then Mercedies started talking and chased it out again. There is power in testimony bearing! I hope you all got to do it on fast Sunday.
We have a family that the Spanish Elders are going to teach from now on that is getting married and then baptised all within the next three weeks!! We are going to be busy! We just handed them over to them last night. Turns out I accidently poached them hehe oops! It was a bit of a different situation anyway so they understood and they get to come in at the best part! One day I will tell you all the story but it is too long for me to write it now! But we have handed over 3 families to them now and it stinks! I love finding awesome investigators that commit to baptism straight away and then having to hand them over to the Spanish Elders. But they are awesome Elders so its ok, I'll quit winging!
Well I had better get going!
I love you all and miss you alot. Thank you for all the emails
Love Sister Huckfeldt
Oh my goodness! Guess what?? Paul the 87 year old man is going to get baptised! He is so stinking cute! We have alot more to teach him but he has committed! We went to his wifes grave with him this week and he really appreciated having company there with him. We said a prayer and took photos with him. He just keeps saying that he will do everything that he can to be with her again someday. He is so with it for his age and goes out dancing at the senior citizens club on fridays hehe! I really feel like I was meant to be here for him.
We are also teaching another man named John and he has alot of Potential. He has been coming to church with his friend for a while now and is very receptive. He really has alot of faith and he has committed to praying about the Book of Mormon this week so I willlet you know how that goes.
We had another amazing lesson with Marci. We had originally gone to another persons house and we sitting out the front I just didnt feel like with should be there. We prayed and we both felt like we should go see Marci. It was a big risk going there if she wasn't home cause from where we were it was about a 25 min drive.. which is alot of miles on our mile limit. But we followed our prompting and went. She was home! She has started Chemo and is just such a strong women. Before we went into teach her yesterday we said a prayer and I just felt the spirit so strong. We were there at the right time and I knew that Heavenly Father was guiding everything that we said when we were with her. She needs his support right and I am glad that we are able to be his servants for fullfilling some of that for him.
We are teaching a women named Mercedes and it is hard! She does not believe that Jesus Christ is her Saviour and so she drives the Spirit away alot! She knows we are in her life for a reason...I just want to keep saying.. der look at our name tag there is your answer. But I only really figured that out this last lesson. She has no belief in the atonement but I know that is why we have been sent to her. This week I have been thinking alot about how to teach and so I know Heavenly Father will help me in that. Heavenly Father really loves us he is in everything that we do. He will always give us another chance and he will always allow us our agency. But bare your testimonies! Sister Moss shared an amazing, simple testimony which brought the Spirit back in for enough time for us to recieve revelation that she doesnt have faith in the Atonement. Then Mercedies started talking and chased it out again. There is power in testimony bearing! I hope you all got to do it on fast Sunday.
We have a family that the Spanish Elders are going to teach from now on that is getting married and then baptised all within the next three weeks!! We are going to be busy! We just handed them over to them last night. Turns out I accidently poached them hehe oops! It was a bit of a different situation anyway so they understood and they get to come in at the best part! One day I will tell you all the story but it is too long for me to write it now! But we have handed over 3 families to them now and it stinks! I love finding awesome investigators that commit to baptism straight away and then having to hand them over to the Spanish Elders. But they are awesome Elders so its ok, I'll quit winging!
Well I had better get going!
I love you all and miss you alot. Thank you for all the emails
Love Sister Huckfeldt
Bird killer
Hello my wonderful family,
I am still working on getting back to you all! I have a little ways to go on the list! I love you still though!! I am just going on who sent them first!
Well I have had another great week as a missionary! I just love being here! I hope they never move me from this area. I have seen so many miracles personally, in the people that we are teaching, in the ward missionaries, in my companions and in the area as a whole. I just hope that there are more to come! Some baptisms would be nice but our patience is tried for reason! They have more preparation to go through before they make their important promises.
So we will now be spending Friday nights out in Vale so that we can get that area going. We have two new investigators out there already and a few more potentials! One that we started teaching on Sunday and the cute little old man Paul! We will be teaching him this week again and he loved the movie that we left him to watch. He is so cute, I wish you could all meet him! The person that we started teaching on Sunday has been a Catholic and has investigated alot of churches. He loves the community of ours but he also recognised that the other churches don't have the fullness but he thinks ours does! Our lesson actually went for like and hour and a half cause we talked about so much stuff and so indepth! Then we were super late for our next appointment! Woops! I didnt even realise that the time flew by!
But you will be happy to know that other than that one time I have been very punctual to most of our appointments! People out here like to trap us in their homes and talk for ages though so this has been really hard to finally have happen! But I love all the people and they are so interesting!
We taught Marci again last week and she went in for her first round of Chemo on Monday. She just amazes me! Our lesson.. which is more of like a question and answer time was soo spiritual. I cried alot in that lesson.. which compared to other people is not alot because it seems to take alot to get me to cry nowadays... so a tear or two is alot of crying! Any way. I know that I am here for her. The following day she took us to work with her! We went to the place that they make peppermint and spearmint oil. We had a lot of fun with her. She has been working this whole time while she been going through all of her hard times. You can just feel the spirit around her. She is definately being helped in her trials and I am so glad that she has chosen to be faithful rather than bitter.
Ooooh!!!! Guess what is so awesome! Yesterday was miracle Monday again!!!!!
We were at one of our ward mission leaders houses because we had the Martinez family go over there so that we could do family home evening togerther with them. We taught the lesson ofcourse. We taught them tithing and fasting. It was a great lesson! We bought mm's nad gave them 10 then made them give one back and then poured the blessings over them so that the mm's filled their hands. The discussion was really good too. I love the Wagstaffs. I will have to come back and visit them one day.
Ok so after the Martinez family left we were sitting around talking about the work in the area and all of a sudden sister Wagstaff saisd "hey what about the Jordans!"
Remember how like 2 months ago I told about those kids who died driving home from youth conference becuase they ran a stop sign? Well the car that they hit was the Jordans! They live in our area!
We knew that she was inspired to have thought of them. I could feel it. We went straight there and got to their house at 1 minute to 9! Hope Jordan invited us straight in and talked about how the members of the families had treated them and had apologised to them and had so much hope about them even though they were the ones who had lost someone. She said that she understands that we believe differently about after this life and that she would like us to teach her about that!!!! We will wont be able to teach them for about 2 weeks as they are going to be in and out of town because they are rodeo-ers and this is their peak season. But she gave us her number and is superly excitedly genuine about learning!! Had we gone on Thursday... which was the next time we would be in Owhyee where they live then we would have missed them. Wow. It is an amazing moment to see, know and feel that the Spirit has just worked through someone.
Well I had better get going!
I love you all!
Sister Huckfeldt
Oh and P.s... in the last two weeks I have officially killed 4 birds and a ground hog with the car!! Not on purpose but they are still dead lol!! Woops! Apparantly part of my calling write now is to end the lives of some defenceless creatures!
I am still working on getting back to you all! I have a little ways to go on the list! I love you still though!! I am just going on who sent them first!
Well I have had another great week as a missionary! I just love being here! I hope they never move me from this area. I have seen so many miracles personally, in the people that we are teaching, in the ward missionaries, in my companions and in the area as a whole. I just hope that there are more to come! Some baptisms would be nice but our patience is tried for reason! They have more preparation to go through before they make their important promises.
So we will now be spending Friday nights out in Vale so that we can get that area going. We have two new investigators out there already and a few more potentials! One that we started teaching on Sunday and the cute little old man Paul! We will be teaching him this week again and he loved the movie that we left him to watch. He is so cute, I wish you could all meet him! The person that we started teaching on Sunday has been a Catholic and has investigated alot of churches. He loves the community of ours but he also recognised that the other churches don't have the fullness but he thinks ours does! Our lesson actually went for like and hour and a half cause we talked about so much stuff and so indepth! Then we were super late for our next appointment! Woops! I didnt even realise that the time flew by!
But you will be happy to know that other than that one time I have been very punctual to most of our appointments! People out here like to trap us in their homes and talk for ages though so this has been really hard to finally have happen! But I love all the people and they are so interesting!
We taught Marci again last week and she went in for her first round of Chemo on Monday. She just amazes me! Our lesson.. which is more of like a question and answer time was soo spiritual. I cried alot in that lesson.. which compared to other people is not alot because it seems to take alot to get me to cry nowadays... so a tear or two is alot of crying! Any way. I know that I am here for her. The following day she took us to work with her! We went to the place that they make peppermint and spearmint oil. We had a lot of fun with her. She has been working this whole time while she been going through all of her hard times. You can just feel the spirit around her. She is definately being helped in her trials and I am so glad that she has chosen to be faithful rather than bitter.
Ooooh!!!! Guess what is so awesome! Yesterday was miracle Monday again!!!!!
We were at one of our ward mission leaders houses because we had the Martinez family go over there so that we could do family home evening togerther with them. We taught the lesson ofcourse. We taught them tithing and fasting. It was a great lesson! We bought mm's nad gave them 10 then made them give one back and then poured the blessings over them so that the mm's filled their hands. The discussion was really good too. I love the Wagstaffs. I will have to come back and visit them one day.
Ok so after the Martinez family left we were sitting around talking about the work in the area and all of a sudden sister Wagstaff saisd "hey what about the Jordans!"
Remember how like 2 months ago I told about those kids who died driving home from youth conference becuase they ran a stop sign? Well the car that they hit was the Jordans! They live in our area!
We knew that she was inspired to have thought of them. I could feel it. We went straight there and got to their house at 1 minute to 9! Hope Jordan invited us straight in and talked about how the members of the families had treated them and had apologised to them and had so much hope about them even though they were the ones who had lost someone. She said that she understands that we believe differently about after this life and that she would like us to teach her about that!!!! We will wont be able to teach them for about 2 weeks as they are going to be in and out of town because they are rodeo-ers and this is their peak season. But she gave us her number and is superly excitedly genuine about learning!! Had we gone on Thursday... which was the next time we would be in Owhyee where they live then we would have missed them. Wow. It is an amazing moment to see, know and feel that the Spirit has just worked through someone.
Well I had better get going!
I love you all!
Sister Huckfeldt
Oh and P.s... in the last two weeks I have officially killed 4 birds and a ground hog with the car!! Not on purpose but they are still dead lol!! Woops! Apparantly part of my calling write now is to end the lives of some defenceless creatures!
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Australian accents please!
Hello my wonderful family!
Im really missing hearing the Australian accent right now.. Weird hey but all these RRRRRss are obnoxious to my ears at the moment hehe. Well not really but I am just craving a little bit of Aussie! People here are still loving my accent. It really has been nice, well a blessing as people seem to warm up to me pretty quick. I hope I hang on to it!
Any way to the important stuff.. Last night we began teaching Paul! An 87 year old man who is sooo cute! I just love him already. He is really really lonely and misses his wife who passed away a year and a half ago. We began teaching him the Plan of Salvation and he was like... can you just skip to the part where you tell me how I will be with my wife again. Then we would be like.. well this is all important so that you understand that a little better.. then he would just keep interrupting like a little kid and Sister Krauss kept trying to keep going on the lesson. Then I was just like thats it, quit talking we are giving him what he wants (nicer obviously).. so I layed out the whole plan and described the three degress of glory. Then I explained the spirit world and told him where she is waiting for him and that he needs to help her be able to get baptised and make it to the celestial kingdom too. Then quite plainly I said" to be with your wife again you will need to get baptised for you, and then in the Temple baptised for her and them be sealed to her for time and all eternity. Then he was listening and we made progress. It was the weirdest Plan of Salvation lesson ever but the Spirit was still strong. He asked a ton of questions that I have never been asked before. We ended up explaining the war in heaven really basically, the millenium, when Satan will be bound etc and he looooved the atonement! That was a very spiritually strong part of the lesson. I got to bare testimony time and time again. It was awesome! We brought some of my most favourite people in the whole world as fellowshippers.. Brother and Sister Jacobs! They did a great job too! Plus! There was one part in the lesson that Sister Krauss listened to what he had said and found the perfect story in the book of Mormon to help him with that and then she described and applied it perfectly! I felt like screaming Hallelujah!!!! I praised her a gazillion times for that! It was what I have just spent the last two weeks trying to teach her to do! Ahhh happy.
We have been working with an excommunicated man as well and he is getting rebaptised this Saturday. It has been a really really rewarding process watching him change and build spiritual strength in this time. Everytime we have gone to his house the spirit could be felt so much stronger. He studies his scriptures for all his lessons is just super dedicated. This week I felt inspired to talk to them about the Temple. I found two talk side by side from this last conference. I forget who by now but one was the cute one from Richard G Scott about how cute he was to his wife. But we primarily used the other one. It was a teary lesson and I know that was what heavenly truly Father desires for him and his wife. They deserve it too.They have worked so hard.
We are teaching two Spanish speaking families that are so amazing! The one that we tracted into two weeks ago.. for their second lesson they got all dressed up and brought their daughter and had kept all of their committments! We have to hand them over to the Spanish Elders but I dont want too! hehe but it is the right thing to do and so I will.
Things have been going pretty good this last week. We are being richly blessed in this area and I know this will continue. I wish I could stay here forever!
I dont know if you can all tell but I am really really loving my mission. There have been some super hard times for me lately where I have just wanted to curl up in a ball and refuse to move. I can see the changes that are coming in the area and in me from these though. We truly should rejoice in our trails and I have sought to do that. I have not been perfect in that but I have truly been trying to do that. I don't think that I am the same person I was 5 weeks ago. It just makes me wonder what else God has instore. His tender mercies have flown here in abundance.
I have also been blessed with letters in this last week! Thank you so much!
Well I love you all and miss you all.
Sister Huckfeldt
Im really missing hearing the Australian accent right now.. Weird hey but all these RRRRRss are obnoxious to my ears at the moment hehe. Well not really but I am just craving a little bit of Aussie! People here are still loving my accent. It really has been nice, well a blessing as people seem to warm up to me pretty quick. I hope I hang on to it!
Any way to the important stuff.. Last night we began teaching Paul! An 87 year old man who is sooo cute! I just love him already. He is really really lonely and misses his wife who passed away a year and a half ago. We began teaching him the Plan of Salvation and he was like... can you just skip to the part where you tell me how I will be with my wife again. Then we would be like.. well this is all important so that you understand that a little better.. then he would just keep interrupting like a little kid and Sister Krauss kept trying to keep going on the lesson. Then I was just like thats it, quit talking we are giving him what he wants (nicer obviously).. so I layed out the whole plan and described the three degress of glory. Then I explained the spirit world and told him where she is waiting for him and that he needs to help her be able to get baptised and make it to the celestial kingdom too. Then quite plainly I said" to be with your wife again you will need to get baptised for you, and then in the Temple baptised for her and them be sealed to her for time and all eternity. Then he was listening and we made progress. It was the weirdest Plan of Salvation lesson ever but the Spirit was still strong. He asked a ton of questions that I have never been asked before. We ended up explaining the war in heaven really basically, the millenium, when Satan will be bound etc and he looooved the atonement! That was a very spiritually strong part of the lesson. I got to bare testimony time and time again. It was awesome! We brought some of my most favourite people in the whole world as fellowshippers.. Brother and Sister Jacobs! They did a great job too! Plus! There was one part in the lesson that Sister Krauss listened to what he had said and found the perfect story in the book of Mormon to help him with that and then she described and applied it perfectly! I felt like screaming Hallelujah!!!! I praised her a gazillion times for that! It was what I have just spent the last two weeks trying to teach her to do! Ahhh happy.
We have been working with an excommunicated man as well and he is getting rebaptised this Saturday. It has been a really really rewarding process watching him change and build spiritual strength in this time. Everytime we have gone to his house the spirit could be felt so much stronger. He studies his scriptures for all his lessons is just super dedicated. This week I felt inspired to talk to them about the Temple. I found two talk side by side from this last conference. I forget who by now but one was the cute one from Richard G Scott about how cute he was to his wife. But we primarily used the other one. It was a teary lesson and I know that was what heavenly truly Father desires for him and his wife. They deserve it too.They have worked so hard.
We are teaching two Spanish speaking families that are so amazing! The one that we tracted into two weeks ago.. for their second lesson they got all dressed up and brought their daughter and had kept all of their committments! We have to hand them over to the Spanish Elders but I dont want too! hehe but it is the right thing to do and so I will.
Things have been going pretty good this last week. We are being richly blessed in this area and I know this will continue. I wish I could stay here forever!
I dont know if you can all tell but I am really really loving my mission. There have been some super hard times for me lately where I have just wanted to curl up in a ball and refuse to move. I can see the changes that are coming in the area and in me from these though. We truly should rejoice in our trails and I have sought to do that. I have not been perfect in that but I have truly been trying to do that. I don't think that I am the same person I was 5 weeks ago. It just makes me wonder what else God has instore. His tender mercies have flown here in abundance.
I have also been blessed with letters in this last week! Thank you so much!
Well I love you all and miss you all.
Sister Huckfeldt
Blessings
Soooooo!! The blessings have been flowing!!!! In the past week we got six new investigators! 3 Yesterday! We are teaching two hispanic families now which has been really different and well kinda stressful cause of all the organising and adjusting schedules I have been having to do. We have been having to make sure that we have an interpreter there cause alot of the Gospel words are new for them and need to be explained and said in their own language. We are busy, but we can always be busier! It is so nice, I just hope that we can give all the love and support to the investigators that they need to feel important. We had miracle Monday again! Three new investigators yesterday! I can see now why I was feeling a few weeks back that there are going to be good things happening in this area. There are amazing things coming up and I just need to trust in the Lord especially now that he will help me be the missionarey that he wants me to be for his children.
Sunday we did a greatful fast where we were purely fasting to show our gratitude. I turned into a massive gumpy pants hehe!! Turns out I can't be fasting, tired, really stressed and a nice person all at the same time hehe! Something had to give! But I just went home and ate and prayed alot and things went much better the rest of the day.
I have been praying really often lately. It has been a wonderful experience feeling Heavenly Father strengthen me as I keep going. I really have felt what the people felt in Mosiah 24. He has strengthened me through my burdens so that they have seemed light. I think I have told you this but I am having a very different experience training this transfer than most people have. I am learning alot of consistency and perseverance. I am learning that Heavenly Father truly gives us trials for a reason and that we should rejoice in them because it is through our trials that he shapes us to be the person he wants us to be. Consistently faithful is something that I am trying to be also. Remembering these things. Staying possitive. Faith is like walking up an escellator going down. If we loose our faith and let fear creep in for one second then you digress. It takes work to get you back to where you were. But you will have learnt from it and hopefully you will understand the importance of being consistent more in the future. Life is for learning so lets keep moving forward!
So some awesome things of being in this area right now is that everyone is picking things from their gardens and giving them to us! We get fresh apricots, carrots, beans, beetroot, eggs, goats milk, onion, hair cuts lol, and huge zuccinis like 50cms long!!! Lucky I love Zucchini cause we have a ton of it right now. It's fun!
So this morning we went and helped sister Facer feed 3 baby goats.Then we went up the road and taught Marty Hunt cause it was the only time she had available that fitted in our schedule and I didnt have time to prepare a lesson cause it was early so I really had to rely on promptings. It went so well. I taught her the Doctrine of Christ... Faith, Repentance, Baptism, HG and Enduring to the end.
I was able to think of scriptures and experiences and ask her questions and Sister Krauss even added something that was perfect and that really doesnt happen that often! It was so awesome. Blessings of sacrifice! Heavenly Father recognises our weaknesses and makes up for them.
Oh my goodness! We had the coolest most guided lesson with the Martinez family too. I got them to stand on one side of the room and takes turns making different decisions (I gave them the scenarios and they either stepped forward or backward). A group decision was baptism. Then they had a few decisons to make after that then I read them this thing I got in twin Falls from Martha Anns mum that just basically tells you over and over again that Heavenly Father loves you and is happy when we make decisions back to him.The Holy Ghost seriously gave me that idea and it is just funny how random things, quotes and other things seem to fit into different peoples lessons. Well the girls want to be baptised and we are planning on having a lesson just with the dad so that we can teach him and talk to him a little better about how he feels! I am so happy. Hopefully that we be happening in the near future.
Well I better go. Wow that was way longer than I realised. Sorry if I bored you!!
I love you all and miss you all!!!
Sister Natalie Huckfeldt
Sunday we did a greatful fast where we were purely fasting to show our gratitude. I turned into a massive gumpy pants hehe!! Turns out I can't be fasting, tired, really stressed and a nice person all at the same time hehe! Something had to give! But I just went home and ate and prayed alot and things went much better the rest of the day.
I have been praying really often lately. It has been a wonderful experience feeling Heavenly Father strengthen me as I keep going. I really have felt what the people felt in Mosiah 24. He has strengthened me through my burdens so that they have seemed light. I think I have told you this but I am having a very different experience training this transfer than most people have. I am learning alot of consistency and perseverance. I am learning that Heavenly Father truly gives us trials for a reason and that we should rejoice in them because it is through our trials that he shapes us to be the person he wants us to be. Consistently faithful is something that I am trying to be also. Remembering these things. Staying possitive. Faith is like walking up an escellator going down. If we loose our faith and let fear creep in for one second then you digress. It takes work to get you back to where you were. But you will have learnt from it and hopefully you will understand the importance of being consistent more in the future. Life is for learning so lets keep moving forward!
So some awesome things of being in this area right now is that everyone is picking things from their gardens and giving them to us! We get fresh apricots, carrots, beans, beetroot, eggs, goats milk, onion, hair cuts lol, and huge zuccinis like 50cms long!!! Lucky I love Zucchini cause we have a ton of it right now. It's fun!
So this morning we went and helped sister Facer feed 3 baby goats.Then we went up the road and taught Marty Hunt cause it was the only time she had available that fitted in our schedule and I didnt have time to prepare a lesson cause it was early so I really had to rely on promptings. It went so well. I taught her the Doctrine of Christ... Faith, Repentance, Baptism, HG and Enduring to the end.
I was able to think of scriptures and experiences and ask her questions and Sister Krauss even added something that was perfect and that really doesnt happen that often! It was so awesome. Blessings of sacrifice! Heavenly Father recognises our weaknesses and makes up for them.
Oh my goodness! We had the coolest most guided lesson with the Martinez family too. I got them to stand on one side of the room and takes turns making different decisions (I gave them the scenarios and they either stepped forward or backward). A group decision was baptism. Then they had a few decisons to make after that then I read them this thing I got in twin Falls from Martha Anns mum that just basically tells you over and over again that Heavenly Father loves you and is happy when we make decisions back to him.The Holy Ghost seriously gave me that idea and it is just funny how random things, quotes and other things seem to fit into different peoples lessons. Well the girls want to be baptised and we are planning on having a lesson just with the dad so that we can teach him and talk to him a little better about how he feels! I am so happy. Hopefully that we be happening in the near future.
Well I better go. Wow that was way longer than I realised. Sorry if I bored you!!
I love you all and miss you all!!!
Sister Natalie Huckfeldt
Hiked up Indian Head
Hello Everyone
Marci... the one whose husband just died... well the day we were having our first teaching appointment with her, we went over and she had just got off the phone. She found out she has breast cancer. It makes me want to cry when I think about it. Its just crazy. She was like.. I have to get sealed as soon as possible because I may be going up their alot sooner than we first thought. She is handling it really well. I think she is still in shock. We are here in her life for a reason. I dont know why she is being hit with so many trials but we will just be here to help teach her how her Saviour will hold her hand through it. We hopefully will teach her this week but obviously she has alot to deal with so we are just going with what she can handle. She came to church though!
So when we were at her ward there was a young lady with her daughter their that had worked for Randi (who died). She was really impressed with the funeral and Randi's nephew invited her to church. We had a lesson with her in gospel principles time and we are teaching her again tonight. Cool Huh! I love stuff like that. The members here are amazing!
I am soooo pooped! We just went on a 5 hour long hike. It probably would have been shorter but sister Krauss had some difficulty. Thats a long time to be standing in the sun! My forhead is sunburnt hehe.
So I took Sister krauss on her first tracting adventure yesterday and it was successful! We did our normal praying for inspiration procedure that we normally do and we felt impressed to go to Curtis Street. We went there and knocked the first couple and then down the road a bit there was a house that I felt we needed to go to. When we got there I noticed that it was a house on the street that crossed it, that we had already tracted before where the man was less active and not interested so we didnt knock again. We kept going and got a lot of no's.Then we had 2 minutes before we needed to get to our appointment and we decided to knock the last door. The lady was interested and wants us to come back! Crazy! Had we not felt like we should go to that house earlier then we never would have made it to her house at all! Miracles! The Lord truly sends us to those he has prepared and humbled.
Oh last week we had a new member missionary meeting and it was soo good! I learnt so much. I have alot of improving to do out here still but we just take it one day at a time. Do a little better each day then the day before. The meeting was so spiritual and you can see how much the new missionaries have changed already!
Things are going well here. Sister Krauss is learning. We are seeing many miracles and are working hard. I am tired today hehe! I need a nap after our hike so I am going to leave it there!
I love you all! I love hearing from you all! I love you and miss you!
Sister Huckfeldt
Marci... the one whose husband just died... well the day we were having our first teaching appointment with her, we went over and she had just got off the phone. She found out she has breast cancer. It makes me want to cry when I think about it. Its just crazy. She was like.. I have to get sealed as soon as possible because I may be going up their alot sooner than we first thought. She is handling it really well. I think she is still in shock. We are here in her life for a reason. I dont know why she is being hit with so many trials but we will just be here to help teach her how her Saviour will hold her hand through it. We hopefully will teach her this week but obviously she has alot to deal with so we are just going with what she can handle. She came to church though!
So when we were at her ward there was a young lady with her daughter their that had worked for Randi (who died). She was really impressed with the funeral and Randi's nephew invited her to church. We had a lesson with her in gospel principles time and we are teaching her again tonight. Cool Huh! I love stuff like that. The members here are amazing!
I am soooo pooped! We just went on a 5 hour long hike. It probably would have been shorter but sister Krauss had some difficulty. Thats a long time to be standing in the sun! My forhead is sunburnt hehe.
So I took Sister krauss on her first tracting adventure yesterday and it was successful! We did our normal praying for inspiration procedure that we normally do and we felt impressed to go to Curtis Street. We went there and knocked the first couple and then down the road a bit there was a house that I felt we needed to go to. When we got there I noticed that it was a house on the street that crossed it, that we had already tracted before where the man was less active and not interested so we didnt knock again. We kept going and got a lot of no's.Then we had 2 minutes before we needed to get to our appointment and we decided to knock the last door. The lady was interested and wants us to come back! Crazy! Had we not felt like we should go to that house earlier then we never would have made it to her house at all! Miracles! The Lord truly sends us to those he has prepared and humbled.
Oh last week we had a new member missionary meeting and it was soo good! I learnt so much. I have alot of improving to do out here still but we just take it one day at a time. Do a little better each day then the day before. The meeting was so spiritual and you can see how much the new missionaries have changed already!
Things are going well here. Sister Krauss is learning. We are seeing many miracles and are working hard. I am tired today hehe! I need a nap after our hike so I am going to leave it there!
I love you all! I love hearing from you all! I love you and miss you!
Sister Huckfeldt
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