Good morning everyone!
I have had a great last week and I hope that you all did too! Happy Birthday Kristen! I hope your party went well! I am sure it did! Please send me photos :) ! This year will be a great one for you! I just know it!
I also hope that Marina is enjoying her visit and that the weather is being nice for her!
This past week was busy! We had a Sisters Conference on Friday, a Zone Conference yesterday, managed to squeeze in some tracting and teach 19 lessons! We have a for sure baptismal date with Dan now and he is doing so well. Basically it was just a very well rounded week.
It is just so great to know that when you are truly humbled and dont boast in your own strength how the blessings follow.
We had 2 great lessons with Wes last week and he came to church on Sunday. He is learning how to search the scriptures and find answers for himself which is really great. He is finally progressing and I know that Heavenly Father has guided us in how to help him get there. We also brought a member to his lesson on saturday. She was so good! Having members at lessons is so important and the members here are so willing to do what they can to help in this great work. Having her there bearing her testimony, rather than it just being us and the normal person that we have brought to all of his lessons, I think really helped him see it from another perspective and just to listen more intently.
Sisters conference was a wonderful exprience. I got to meet all of the Sisters in the mission, hear their opinions about things and learn with them. Alot of the time I feel like I know so little and I am just really greatful that we have companions that back us up. I really wish we had more study time!
Zone conference is one of my favourite things we get to do on the mission though! I wish we had one every week! There was a I think he was called at the last conference and apparantly they all have a lunch together and he got to sit at the table with President Monson! How cool is that and he said that President Monson was talking about us, missionary work and how greatful he is for the missionaries. It's still weird that I am a missionary!
Also President Cannon gave a talk and showed part of the talk that M Russell Ballard gave while I was in the MTC! It was such a powerful talk and I am glad that I had a reminder. At the end he gave the story of how Peter truly became the senior apostle. When the Saviour died they all went back to Galilee and started fishing again thinking it was over. They fished all night and caught nothing, then in the morning they saw a fire and a man on the shore. He told them to cast there nets on the other side and they did. Their nets were filled and they could barely bring the catch back into the boat. Peter knew it was the Saviour and dove into the water and swam to shore. The Saviour knowing they would be hungry, had prepared their breakfast. What a thoughtful and loving thing to do. Then the Saviour started questioning Peter.. Peter do you love me? Peter responded, yes of course and you know how the rest of it goes.. He wasnt told to follow the Saviour and feed his sheep just while he was on the Earth, but for always! That is when Peter finally understood. That is when he went out and was able to perform the miracles he did and that is how he becamse the great chief apostle.
This story can be likened to each of us. I am not just a missionary for now. We have all been born into this time for a reason and if you have a look in the bible dictionary under the Abrahamic covenant it explains this too. I found that in one of my studies one time ages ago.
Wow! Sorry for my rant but learning is fun! I really like that story!
In short, Zone conference was awesome!
I am going off to have another nerf war today so wish me luck!
I hope you are all well!
Love you lots
Sister Huckfeldt
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Happy mother's day
Hello Everyone!
Wow there are so many mothers in our family now! You all do such an amazing job!
It was sooo wonderful to be able to speak to and see most of you on Sunday! I really love you and miss you all so much! You all look so wonderful! The rain seemed to have done well for everyone!
Well I had another great week as a missionary! Last week was a little harder to get going. It seemed like both me and my companion had a 10kg weight tied to each foot but we got through it and kept going and we were able to find 2 knew investigators and about three other potential investigators! Plusssssss we have a baptismal date with Dan! It is not for about a month so we are a little worried. He is being worked on hard! He has had a few discouraging things happen and he is feeling a bit of anxiety but he is strong and has an extremely good motivation for why he is doing it so he will be ok. He has a daughter in Utah that has to fly up for his baptism so that is why it is so far ahead. So actually something really quite cool happened with Dan! We started our lesson on Saturday and I could just feel something wasnt right. We were going over the reading that we had left him... follow up.. extremely important! Well I was struggling to focus. I couldnt concentrate on what anyone was saying and I just felt so prompted that he needed a blessing. Mid conversation I just said, hang on a second, my heart was pounding and I just opened my mouth and I turned to the man that is Dan's friend who comes to every lesson and said would you mind giving Dan a blessing. Then I turned to Dan and basically just said, remember how we taught you about the priesthood.. then explained that through this you can recieve blessings of comfort and help etc. Then Dan just started explaining how some things have been really hard for him lately and how he has been having anxiety etc. Then I asked him again, Dan would you like a blessing, I know that Heavenly Father would like to help you at this time. He said yes, that he would like one if that is ok. The blessing was so amazing and basically just told him that the things that have been happening were not coming from the Lord and that he had power over them and a bunch of other things. Afterwards he said.. how did you know? I said that I didn't, I just felt it. Experiences like that and seeing the difference in him afterwards have happened a few times on my mission. My testimony of the Priesthood is undeniable, it is truly truly amazing and just shows how much heavenly Father loves us. He really loves his children and I feel so blessed that he was able to work through me in that circumstance.
So the other guy who was being kinda annoying has stopped annoying us! We got to talk to him really good and follow the Spirit to help us with effective questioning and he is meeting with us with the right motivation. We are actually really excited now cause we feel like we can move onto to teaching him commandments and it helped him really understand our purpose and his role in the lessons. So that is great news!
We just started teaching this man who is married to a less active member! I am really excited! We went over there and it all just worked out for us to be able to ask him if he would like the lessons! We somehow got on the topic of how there is a time and a season for everything and then I was prompted to say.. so is this the time for you to take the missionary lesson? He said sure!
In other news one of our investigators dropped us (the one we got from tracting). We think her husband may have put a stop to it cause he is a Catholic and she didnt want him to know. This isnt her time but hopefully she gets another chance!
Missions are fun and so rewarding! I am sooo glad I am on one!
Lots of Love
Sister Natalie Huckfeldt
Wow there are so many mothers in our family now! You all do such an amazing job!
It was sooo wonderful to be able to speak to and see most of you on Sunday! I really love you and miss you all so much! You all look so wonderful! The rain seemed to have done well for everyone!
Well I had another great week as a missionary! Last week was a little harder to get going. It seemed like both me and my companion had a 10kg weight tied to each foot but we got through it and kept going and we were able to find 2 knew investigators and about three other potential investigators! Plusssssss we have a baptismal date with Dan! It is not for about a month so we are a little worried. He is being worked on hard! He has had a few discouraging things happen and he is feeling a bit of anxiety but he is strong and has an extremely good motivation for why he is doing it so he will be ok. He has a daughter in Utah that has to fly up for his baptism so that is why it is so far ahead. So actually something really quite cool happened with Dan! We started our lesson on Saturday and I could just feel something wasnt right. We were going over the reading that we had left him... follow up.. extremely important! Well I was struggling to focus. I couldnt concentrate on what anyone was saying and I just felt so prompted that he needed a blessing. Mid conversation I just said, hang on a second, my heart was pounding and I just opened my mouth and I turned to the man that is Dan's friend who comes to every lesson and said would you mind giving Dan a blessing. Then I turned to Dan and basically just said, remember how we taught you about the priesthood.. then explained that through this you can recieve blessings of comfort and help etc. Then Dan just started explaining how some things have been really hard for him lately and how he has been having anxiety etc. Then I asked him again, Dan would you like a blessing, I know that Heavenly Father would like to help you at this time. He said yes, that he would like one if that is ok. The blessing was so amazing and basically just told him that the things that have been happening were not coming from the Lord and that he had power over them and a bunch of other things. Afterwards he said.. how did you know? I said that I didn't, I just felt it. Experiences like that and seeing the difference in him afterwards have happened a few times on my mission. My testimony of the Priesthood is undeniable, it is truly truly amazing and just shows how much heavenly Father loves us. He really loves his children and I feel so blessed that he was able to work through me in that circumstance.
So the other guy who was being kinda annoying has stopped annoying us! We got to talk to him really good and follow the Spirit to help us with effective questioning and he is meeting with us with the right motivation. We are actually really excited now cause we feel like we can move onto to teaching him commandments and it helped him really understand our purpose and his role in the lessons. So that is great news!
We just started teaching this man who is married to a less active member! I am really excited! We went over there and it all just worked out for us to be able to ask him if he would like the lessons! We somehow got on the topic of how there is a time and a season for everything and then I was prompted to say.. so is this the time for you to take the missionary lesson? He said sure!
In other news one of our investigators dropped us (the one we got from tracting). We think her husband may have put a stop to it cause he is a Catholic and she didnt want him to know. This isnt her time but hopefully she gets another chance!
Missions are fun and so rewarding! I am sooo glad I am on one!
Lots of Love
Sister Natalie Huckfeldt
Nerf Wars
Hello everyone!
I am so happy to have heard from so many of you this week! Marina should be there by now! How exciting! I hope the weather is nice for you!
We taught 17 lessons last week! We were so busy and reached 3 or 4 of our goals! We are so excited! This week hasnt started off quite as good as last week. Yesterday we had four appointments booked and all of them cancelled! We ended up teaching two appointments to different people though and all the other rescheduled so it wasnt that bad.
We are teaching this guy though that I would really like to smack! We have had the most spiritually guided, testimony building and just amazing lessons with him and he continues to be a dufus! He talks himself out of believing everytime! Stinking agency lol! We know that he knows it's true but he has alot of fears. He is in his twenties and really wants to do whats right but for some reason he is scared to pray about what we are teaching him on his own. I am just so exctied for the moment that he finally does pray and get his answer. I think it's the whole action side of things that he is wrestling with, knowing that when he gets his answer that he will have to act on it. We are hanging in there and just supporting him and doing what we can to build his faith and trust!
We are teaching this awesome guy named Dan and he is sooo amazing. He is just the way we all should be! His wife is inactive and she has had home teachers and visiting teachers come consistently! That really makes a difference! Any way so all through out the years he said that he was always like... why arent they wanting to see/speak to me..? And then he made friends with a member who set up for us to start teaching him and he is just Golden? He always keeps his commitments, prays and his motivation is that he is wanting to be sealed to his wife! He doesnt fully understand that yet but we are slowly teaching him (expect becuase he keeps all of his committments he progresses quickly). He has come to church consistently, asked if he can pay tithing already, is keeping the word of wisdom and just so excited! He gets anxious if we arent there on time! He is so childlike! It is great. Saturday we finished teaching him the 3rd lesson or the Gospel of Jesus Christ- Faith, repentance, Baptism, recieving the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End. We had time to start teaching him the commandments and he is jsut so excited to change! We asked him about baptism on Saturday and he said that he is just waiting for us to tell him when he is ready! We said that he is but there are still commandments that we need to teach him but that he can probably be baptised by the end of the month! I am so excited that we are teaching him. It is just so refreshing when they really really want it. He just wants to be ready, so we dont want to rush him into it!
Last week I think I told you about our P-day activity... I am not sure but we did nerf wars! We set up the cultural hall in a war zone and then attacked each other in teams! You just use a pipe and nerfs and your lungs! It is sooo fun! I got shot in the arm though by a poly elder and I got a welt! Well anyway the point of me telling you this is that the Elders brought them to our district meeting too and we used them in our skill check! I am getting really good at aiming! Well I guess there really is no point in me telling you this, just that I seriously need to get some of them when I get home!
As it is mothers day this coming weekend, I hope that you can all get together somewhere at about 12 on Sunday your time as I will be calling Saturday night my time and I would really like to be able to speak to you all! my comp will call the night before to check out the arrangements.. But just to prewarn you!
I love you all and miss you! I am so excited to talk to you this weekend!
Love Sister Huckfeldt
I am so happy to have heard from so many of you this week! Marina should be there by now! How exciting! I hope the weather is nice for you!
We taught 17 lessons last week! We were so busy and reached 3 or 4 of our goals! We are so excited! This week hasnt started off quite as good as last week. Yesterday we had four appointments booked and all of them cancelled! We ended up teaching two appointments to different people though and all the other rescheduled so it wasnt that bad.
We are teaching this guy though that I would really like to smack! We have had the most spiritually guided, testimony building and just amazing lessons with him and he continues to be a dufus! He talks himself out of believing everytime! Stinking agency lol! We know that he knows it's true but he has alot of fears. He is in his twenties and really wants to do whats right but for some reason he is scared to pray about what we are teaching him on his own. I am just so exctied for the moment that he finally does pray and get his answer. I think it's the whole action side of things that he is wrestling with, knowing that when he gets his answer that he will have to act on it. We are hanging in there and just supporting him and doing what we can to build his faith and trust!
We are teaching this awesome guy named Dan and he is sooo amazing. He is just the way we all should be! His wife is inactive and she has had home teachers and visiting teachers come consistently! That really makes a difference! Any way so all through out the years he said that he was always like... why arent they wanting to see/speak to me..? And then he made friends with a member who set up for us to start teaching him and he is just Golden? He always keeps his commitments, prays and his motivation is that he is wanting to be sealed to his wife! He doesnt fully understand that yet but we are slowly teaching him (expect becuase he keeps all of his committments he progresses quickly). He has come to church consistently, asked if he can pay tithing already, is keeping the word of wisdom and just so excited! He gets anxious if we arent there on time! He is so childlike! It is great. Saturday we finished teaching him the 3rd lesson or the Gospel of Jesus Christ- Faith, repentance, Baptism, recieving the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End. We had time to start teaching him the commandments and he is jsut so excited to change! We asked him about baptism on Saturday and he said that he is just waiting for us to tell him when he is ready! We said that he is but there are still commandments that we need to teach him but that he can probably be baptised by the end of the month! I am so excited that we are teaching him. It is just so refreshing when they really really want it. He just wants to be ready, so we dont want to rush him into it!
Last week I think I told you about our P-day activity... I am not sure but we did nerf wars! We set up the cultural hall in a war zone and then attacked each other in teams! You just use a pipe and nerfs and your lungs! It is sooo fun! I got shot in the arm though by a poly elder and I got a welt! Well anyway the point of me telling you this is that the Elders brought them to our district meeting too and we used them in our skill check! I am getting really good at aiming! Well I guess there really is no point in me telling you this, just that I seriously need to get some of them when I get home!
As it is mothers day this coming weekend, I hope that you can all get together somewhere at about 12 on Sunday your time as I will be calling Saturday night my time and I would really like to be able to speak to you all! my comp will call the night before to check out the arrangements.. But just to prewarn you!
I love you all and miss you! I am so excited to talk to you this weekend!
Love Sister Huckfeldt
A truly wonderful week
How the Lord truly loves his people! We had a wonderful week! This area is not quit as busy as Twin Falls was. We are in the process of building it up and it has alot of potential. We got 3 new investigators in the last week and one through tracting. It was so awesome.
Easter was great but was kinda a normal day except for the fact that it was very thought provoking. The Saviours sacrifice was such an amazing thing for each of us. He truly cars for and knows each one of us.
We had a late lunch/ dinner at some ones house and then we went out and worked. We had an appointment with this great family who always have wonderful questions.
So last week on Friday or Wed or thursday we decided to go tracting and we had the most wonderful experience. We had pulled into the church parking lot and prayed and cause I was new to the area sister Westover asked me to ponder the map. I wrote on a peice of paper, 8 streets that stood out to me, then I handed the list to her. Then a street popped into my head. I was just like... hmmm. I asked for the paper back and wrote it down.. 2nd street. Then we both made smaller lists of three streets from this smaller list that stood out to us(this is the process for tracting). We compared our list and we had both written 2nd street and then sister Westover said... this is weird but we only just tracted this street not long ago but no one was home.. weird but we went.
We tracted the street and alot of people were home and really nice but they didnt want to make an app with us.... untill we came to the last house on the street. A young lady answered the door and was just like, yes I would really like to learn from you. We set a time to come back and that was for yesterday.
The appointment went so well and she is truly searching for a church and the truth. This lesson went the smoothest ever.. it was very mtc but the Spirit was truly there. We are going back tomorrow so I will let you know how it goes!
Me and Sister Westover really discussed how this all happened and just how our faith was involved, the Lords timing and truly his love for his people that he would send us back there! He really does work in marvelous and misterious ways.
Yesterday was an amazing day. They normally have hardly any appointments on Monday and yesterday we taught 5!! I have faith in Mondays! I was feeling really burnt out last week but it just shows that if you keep persisting even when you are tired and fall asleep during church lol the Lord will bless you! We just kept going, kept working and yesterday made it all worth it. I am excited to tract more now and I am jsut so happy that even in such a small town the Lord is preparing people.
We always offer to serve where ever we go and I think we will have 2 opportunities to do this coming up so I am excited! To pick asparagus and paint! Should be fun
Easter was great but was kinda a normal day except for the fact that it was very thought provoking. The Saviours sacrifice was such an amazing thing for each of us. He truly cars for and knows each one of us.
We had a late lunch/ dinner at some ones house and then we went out and worked. We had an appointment with this great family who always have wonderful questions.
So last week on Friday or Wed or thursday we decided to go tracting and we had the most wonderful experience. We had pulled into the church parking lot and prayed and cause I was new to the area sister Westover asked me to ponder the map. I wrote on a peice of paper, 8 streets that stood out to me, then I handed the list to her. Then a street popped into my head. I was just like... hmmm. I asked for the paper back and wrote it down.. 2nd street. Then we both made smaller lists of three streets from this smaller list that stood out to us(this is the process for tracting). We compared our list and we had both written 2nd street and then sister Westover said... this is weird but we only just tracted this street not long ago but no one was home.. weird but we went.
We tracted the street and alot of people were home and really nice but they didnt want to make an app with us.... untill we came to the last house on the street. A young lady answered the door and was just like, yes I would really like to learn from you. We set a time to come back and that was for yesterday.
The appointment went so well and she is truly searching for a church and the truth. This lesson went the smoothest ever.. it was very mtc but the Spirit was truly there. We are going back tomorrow so I will let you know how it goes!
Me and Sister Westover really discussed how this all happened and just how our faith was involved, the Lords timing and truly his love for his people that he would send us back there! He really does work in marvelous and misterious ways.
Yesterday was an amazing day. They normally have hardly any appointments on Monday and yesterday we taught 5!! I have faith in Mondays! I was feeling really burnt out last week but it just shows that if you keep persisting even when you are tired and fall asleep during church lol the Lord will bless you! We just kept going, kept working and yesterday made it all worth it. I am excited to tract more now and I am jsut so happy that even in such a small town the Lord is preparing people.
We always offer to serve where ever we go and I think we will have 2 opportunities to do this coming up so I am excited! To pick asparagus and paint! Should be fun
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