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
Sunday, August 21, 2011
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
Time flies
Another week has passed by! Sheesh they go quick!
Well this last week held its trails some that I didnt do that well in and some that I did ok. But there were miracles!!!!
We went and visited the Martinez family last Thursday and it was just amazing. I didnt do that good of a job of teaching them but I really think it all happened as it was meant to be. The three little girls are really starting to listen to me and the lesson helped them see how important the Gospel is to their family. We talked about the Atonement and watched finding faith in Christ and that was important for Larry the Dad. They all came to an activity at their new ward had on Saturday (it was Pioneer day here which is a huge deal and I had no idea it was a holiday that even existed). They got to know alot of people and everyone but the dad came to church on Sunday as he was working. He feels alot more comfortable about coming though and he plans to arrange his work schedule so that he can make it cause he really wants it.
So another miracle. We met with Anthony on Friday. It was awesome! We had to ward members come. One he knew and the others he didn't. The spirit was so strong. It was crazy. So he is a diabetic and for weeks I have been feeling like he should fast but keep being like.. what thats weird. What a weird thing to teach a diabetic about. Well any way we taught him that! Plus the conversation progressed to more about the Priesthood and having a blessing. The people we invited to come were definately the right ones. They were very guided in what they said too. He fasted on Sunday, had a priesthood blessing and we set a baptismal date. He is praying this week about that and about how to tell his family which is what he is most nervous about! We will meet with him tonight so we will find out how that is going and we are watching the movie about Thomas S Monson again which talks all about following the Spirit and stuff so that should be good for him at this time.
Ok Coooooollest thing of the week!! This one surely shows us how Heavenly Father prepares people and us missionaries to be there at the right time. I dont know if you will remember or if I have told you about the guy that just died 2 weeks ago here? So sad! We went to the Funeral last week and it was beautiful but it was just super sad but hopeful at the same time. Our funerals are so interesting to me. Any way so we had been working with his wife. Just getting to know her. Going and working with her on her farm and we talked to her at the 4th of July celebration that they had at her parents in Laws house. Well Sunday we prayed if we should go see her and we felt a distinct no! Then last night we were thinking about tracting because that is a requirement of a new missionary is that they go tracting and we had free time. But sitting in the car we went over a few people.. Her name stood out to me and I said the prayer and asked if we should see her or tract or see one other person. Her name was impressed into my mind and into sister Krauss' very obviously for both of us! I had to use the bathroom though so we did that real quick though. Then we drove to her house. Guess who was driving right behind us! Marci. Heavenly Father even knew I had to pee haha! It was perfect timing. She parked her car and walked over to me. Neither of us said anything but we hugged and she cried on my shoulder. From there on I had the most amazing conversation of my mission! She wants to be sealed to him. She wants to be baptised and she asked a million questions that three months ago I would not have been able to answer as well as I did, with Heavenly Fathers help of course. He prepared me. He prepared her. It was so amazing! She is going through alot though obviously but just hearing of the experiences she has been having and everyone else in his family... sheesh! This is what missionary work is all about. These moments. Seeing Heavenly Fathers hand in everything. He times everything perfectly and prepares people perfectly so that he can give them the blessings he wants them to have.
Well nothing else can top that right now but I love you all and I think of you often! Miss you
Love Sister Huckfeldt
Well this last week held its trails some that I didnt do that well in and some that I did ok. But there were miracles!!!!
We went and visited the Martinez family last Thursday and it was just amazing. I didnt do that good of a job of teaching them but I really think it all happened as it was meant to be. The three little girls are really starting to listen to me and the lesson helped them see how important the Gospel is to their family. We talked about the Atonement and watched finding faith in Christ and that was important for Larry the Dad. They all came to an activity at their new ward had on Saturday (it was Pioneer day here which is a huge deal and I had no idea it was a holiday that even existed). They got to know alot of people and everyone but the dad came to church on Sunday as he was working. He feels alot more comfortable about coming though and he plans to arrange his work schedule so that he can make it cause he really wants it.
So another miracle. We met with Anthony on Friday. It was awesome! We had to ward members come. One he knew and the others he didn't. The spirit was so strong. It was crazy. So he is a diabetic and for weeks I have been feeling like he should fast but keep being like.. what thats weird. What a weird thing to teach a diabetic about. Well any way we taught him that! Plus the conversation progressed to more about the Priesthood and having a blessing. The people we invited to come were definately the right ones. They were very guided in what they said too. He fasted on Sunday, had a priesthood blessing and we set a baptismal date. He is praying this week about that and about how to tell his family which is what he is most nervous about! We will meet with him tonight so we will find out how that is going and we are watching the movie about Thomas S Monson again which talks all about following the Spirit and stuff so that should be good for him at this time.
Ok Coooooollest thing of the week!! This one surely shows us how Heavenly Father prepares people and us missionaries to be there at the right time. I dont know if you will remember or if I have told you about the guy that just died 2 weeks ago here? So sad! We went to the Funeral last week and it was beautiful but it was just super sad but hopeful at the same time. Our funerals are so interesting to me. Any way so we had been working with his wife. Just getting to know her. Going and working with her on her farm and we talked to her at the 4th of July celebration that they had at her parents in Laws house. Well Sunday we prayed if we should go see her and we felt a distinct no! Then last night we were thinking about tracting because that is a requirement of a new missionary is that they go tracting and we had free time. But sitting in the car we went over a few people.. Her name stood out to me and I said the prayer and asked if we should see her or tract or see one other person. Her name was impressed into my mind and into sister Krauss' very obviously for both of us! I had to use the bathroom though so we did that real quick though. Then we drove to her house. Guess who was driving right behind us! Marci. Heavenly Father even knew I had to pee haha! It was perfect timing. She parked her car and walked over to me. Neither of us said anything but we hugged and she cried on my shoulder. From there on I had the most amazing conversation of my mission! She wants to be sealed to him. She wants to be baptised and she asked a million questions that three months ago I would not have been able to answer as well as I did, with Heavenly Fathers help of course. He prepared me. He prepared her. It was so amazing! She is going through alot though obviously but just hearing of the experiences she has been having and everyone else in his family... sheesh! This is what missionary work is all about. These moments. Seeing Heavenly Fathers hand in everything. He times everything perfectly and prepares people perfectly so that he can give them the blessings he wants them to have.
Well nothing else can top that right now but I love you all and I think of you often! Miss you
Love Sister Huckfeldt
A crazy week
Thankyou for your emails! I went down the list in replying and I needed to start this one but hopefully I will have time to get back to all that wrote me!
What a crazy week last week was! I was stressed out of my mind but so much of it was for a good reason! Between Wednesday and Sunday we taught 15 lessons!!! Plus on the new training system we have to study untill 11am so that was an hour less each day... plus i pretty much have to do everything myself as my trainee needs a little extra help in training... like phone calls etc. Plus we had a bunch to do for the baptism!! The baptism was amazing!!! Happy!!! Romiro and Michael were so excited and the Spirit was really there! Ahhh it just makes me so happy! It is amazing being able to be there from the beginning and just see their conversion process! There really is no greater joy! Like in the story of King Lamoni's father. He was willing to give up half of his kingdom for his life and then for the joy that comes from the gospel he was willing to give up everything! Ahhh ok any way Sister Westover came back for it and it went so well! We organised food for after it too so everyone got to mingle for a little bit!
After the Baptism we had an appointment with Anthony and we were running late.. I had prewarned him earlier that day that we might be so that was ok. Normally we meet at a members house.. one of his friends houses cause he has a ton of friends that are members and he will normally set it up unless we already have.. anyway neither of us had told the people whose house we thought we were meeting at about it so he got there and they had a whole ton of family there.. woops awkward! So I frantically (while still trying to pack up after the baptism) started calling people! To add to the stress of that jam packed crazy day no one was answering! Then sister Westover suggested sister Hulbert... she was someone we had had dinner with and she has shared her amazing conversion story! I called her and she answered straight away! She said she would be there in 20 minutes! Wow!
She was sooo amazing..That was definately meant to be. He could relate so well becuase he is going through a similar process like she did. He said in that lesson too that every time that he thinks about what happened to Joseph Smith it makes more sense. He is getting so close and Heavenly Father is really showing him that! I really am excited for the moment he knows he needs to get baptised. He is praying! I really hope he figures out that he already knows.
Ok so being a trainer is hard! But I actually have it a little harder. Sister Krauss is very special and requires a lot more. At the moment we are working on interpersonal skills..eg how she should sit in lessons and church, how she should act in public so that she can effectively show that she is a representative of Christ, what she should wear, how she should talk eg slowly and softly so that she and the investigator have time to feel the Spirit. I am also helping her learn the lessons. I got her to go through and write down dot points of things that stand out to her in each principle of the first lesson. This morning I had her read me the dot point and bare her testimony of it in a way that it would make sense to the investigator and so that she can see that she can do that in the lesson when I teach a principle.. she can pick out the key principle I have taught and bare her testimony. Some she had to repractice a few times but she is really getting there. Plus I asked her practice how she should sit and talk as she is doing it so that she can get the hang of it. We are just taking things really slowly. One day at a time. It is hard but I am just trying to follow the spirit and use PMG but break it down so that she can understand. I am telling her the positive things that she is doing and she is improving!
At the moment I am mostly teaching by myself and that is stressful, hoping I havent missed something or that they can understand it. I am excited for when i can let her start stepping in but that is a little way off. Things are good there though. I am just trying to stay positive and I am thankful that I had a blessing. It really helped be able to remember that this is for a reason and that God is helping with my decisions in this process. I am greatful that I can trust him because I dont know if I could do it alone.
I love you all and I dont have time to write back so I will put on the top of the list for next week.
Love Sister Huckfeldt
What a crazy week last week was! I was stressed out of my mind but so much of it was for a good reason! Between Wednesday and Sunday we taught 15 lessons!!! Plus on the new training system we have to study untill 11am so that was an hour less each day... plus i pretty much have to do everything myself as my trainee needs a little extra help in training... like phone calls etc. Plus we had a bunch to do for the baptism!! The baptism was amazing!!! Happy!!! Romiro and Michael were so excited and the Spirit was really there! Ahhh it just makes me so happy! It is amazing being able to be there from the beginning and just see their conversion process! There really is no greater joy! Like in the story of King Lamoni's father. He was willing to give up half of his kingdom for his life and then for the joy that comes from the gospel he was willing to give up everything! Ahhh ok any way Sister Westover came back for it and it went so well! We organised food for after it too so everyone got to mingle for a little bit!
After the Baptism we had an appointment with Anthony and we were running late.. I had prewarned him earlier that day that we might be so that was ok. Normally we meet at a members house.. one of his friends houses cause he has a ton of friends that are members and he will normally set it up unless we already have.. anyway neither of us had told the people whose house we thought we were meeting at about it so he got there and they had a whole ton of family there.. woops awkward! So I frantically (while still trying to pack up after the baptism) started calling people! To add to the stress of that jam packed crazy day no one was answering! Then sister Westover suggested sister Hulbert... she was someone we had had dinner with and she has shared her amazing conversion story! I called her and she answered straight away! She said she would be there in 20 minutes! Wow!
She was sooo amazing..That was definately meant to be. He could relate so well becuase he is going through a similar process like she did. He said in that lesson too that every time that he thinks about what happened to Joseph Smith it makes more sense. He is getting so close and Heavenly Father is really showing him that! I really am excited for the moment he knows he needs to get baptised. He is praying! I really hope he figures out that he already knows.
Ok so being a trainer is hard! But I actually have it a little harder. Sister Krauss is very special and requires a lot more. At the moment we are working on interpersonal skills..eg how she should sit in lessons and church, how she should act in public so that she can effectively show that she is a representative of Christ, what she should wear, how she should talk eg slowly and softly so that she and the investigator have time to feel the Spirit. I am also helping her learn the lessons. I got her to go through and write down dot points of things that stand out to her in each principle of the first lesson. This morning I had her read me the dot point and bare her testimony of it in a way that it would make sense to the investigator and so that she can see that she can do that in the lesson when I teach a principle.. she can pick out the key principle I have taught and bare her testimony. Some she had to repractice a few times but she is really getting there. Plus I asked her practice how she should sit and talk as she is doing it so that she can get the hang of it. We are just taking things really slowly. One day at a time. It is hard but I am just trying to follow the spirit and use PMG but break it down so that she can understand. I am telling her the positive things that she is doing and she is improving!
At the moment I am mostly teaching by myself and that is stressful, hoping I havent missed something or that they can understand it. I am excited for when i can let her start stepping in but that is a little way off. Things are good there though. I am just trying to stay positive and I am thankful that I had a blessing. It really helped be able to remember that this is for a reason and that God is helping with my decisions in this process. I am greatful that I can trust him because I dont know if I could do it alone.
I love you all and I dont have time to write back so I will put on the top of the list for next week.
Love Sister Huckfeldt
Success
Hello everyone!
Sorry for not emailing yesterday! I was in Boise picking up my new Greeny or baby as they call it out here! No wonder why I was feeling sick! Yep I am training a new missionary! Weird and intimidating and slightly annoying cause now I will always be a senior companion! Now if things go wrong it is my fault! MAN!!!
But we are beginning under a new training system where we have companion study for 2 hours rather than 1. We have a program of what to study and I really have to teach her alot! It is going to be fun in that way. Lots of learning for both of us I am sure though.
We got transfer calls on Friday and I almost died! I was like what! No way! But I had been feeling earlier in the transfer like I was going to train but brushed it off becuase there are people who have been out longer than me that haven't trained yet. So when we got home that night and I prayed and I was asking for HF to help me love her and be a great trainer to her, I had the impression come to my mind that this will be a challenge but it is what will help me develop qualities that Heavenly Father wants me to develop. Some qualities that I was told that I have in my Patriarchal blessing. Because of this I was very nervous picking her up and wasnt as excited as most people are becuase of the nerves and it was quickly evident to me how this will be a challenge. But it is right and she is a wonderful sweet spirit. I am excited to serve with her.
Sister Krauss comes from a small town called Waterton New York and her dad is in the Army so she calls herself an army bratt. It turns out that I had bought this random picture of someone in an army outfit kneeling with their hands clasped in prayer with an angel or the saviour with his hands on her shoulder. It was just a little 50cent photo but I thought of it last night and I wrote a card thanking Sister Krauss for being my companion and that she isnt just an army bratt but now she is my missionary bratt hehe! She really liked it and said the photo has a deeper meaning cause she said that her brother had died when he was 2 and her mum had always said he is watching out for her.
So back to last week. The baptism went really well and President and Sister Cannon came! I was so glad we set the room up super nice and were really organised for this one hehe! Wesley is the cutest 10 year old ever and really seemed to have got what he was doing. He was really appreciative and just CUTE!
Romiro is getting baptised this Saturday! It is confirmed and he is excited! His little brother Michael who is autistic is getting baptised too even though he doesnt really need to. That is all coming together now. I am so happy for him because teaching him and his family really has been one of the most uplifting and rewarding experiences. I have alot to learn from him!
Sorry that I havent been able to get any letters to the people that I have promised them too. I havent had time to finish my letters or send any of them for about a month so now they are all out of date any way! I stink! But I should be able to get there now that we arent going to the temple all day and having to cut our P-days short for other things.
Last Thursday and Friday we went to the Youth conference here! It was so fun! We got to be the filmographer people.. however you spell that! So we walked around taking videos of people and asking them questions. We took some of Jericho Rd too! They are the coolest people... well except for the one that is single and hit on me even though I am a missionary! Ew! He was gross! I got them to sign my CD which was fun! They are super good live.
Sad story though.. some kids driving home had a huge crash on Thursday night and 3 of them died and the other is still in a critical condition. I am hoping that we got them on our video!
Well I had better get to work!
I love you all and hope you are well!
Sister Huckfeldt
Sorry for not emailing yesterday! I was in Boise picking up my new Greeny or baby as they call it out here! No wonder why I was feeling sick! Yep I am training a new missionary! Weird and intimidating and slightly annoying cause now I will always be a senior companion! Now if things go wrong it is my fault! MAN!!!
But we are beginning under a new training system where we have companion study for 2 hours rather than 1. We have a program of what to study and I really have to teach her alot! It is going to be fun in that way. Lots of learning for both of us I am sure though.
We got transfer calls on Friday and I almost died! I was like what! No way! But I had been feeling earlier in the transfer like I was going to train but brushed it off becuase there are people who have been out longer than me that haven't trained yet. So when we got home that night and I prayed and I was asking for HF to help me love her and be a great trainer to her, I had the impression come to my mind that this will be a challenge but it is what will help me develop qualities that Heavenly Father wants me to develop. Some qualities that I was told that I have in my Patriarchal blessing. Because of this I was very nervous picking her up and wasnt as excited as most people are becuase of the nerves and it was quickly evident to me how this will be a challenge. But it is right and she is a wonderful sweet spirit. I am excited to serve with her.
Sister Krauss comes from a small town called Waterton New York and her dad is in the Army so she calls herself an army bratt. It turns out that I had bought this random picture of someone in an army outfit kneeling with their hands clasped in prayer with an angel or the saviour with his hands on her shoulder. It was just a little 50cent photo but I thought of it last night and I wrote a card thanking Sister Krauss for being my companion and that she isnt just an army bratt but now she is my missionary bratt hehe! She really liked it and said the photo has a deeper meaning cause she said that her brother had died when he was 2 and her mum had always said he is watching out for her.
So back to last week. The baptism went really well and President and Sister Cannon came! I was so glad we set the room up super nice and were really organised for this one hehe! Wesley is the cutest 10 year old ever and really seemed to have got what he was doing. He was really appreciative and just CUTE!
Romiro is getting baptised this Saturday! It is confirmed and he is excited! His little brother Michael who is autistic is getting baptised too even though he doesnt really need to. That is all coming together now. I am so happy for him because teaching him and his family really has been one of the most uplifting and rewarding experiences. I have alot to learn from him!
Sorry that I havent been able to get any letters to the people that I have promised them too. I havent had time to finish my letters or send any of them for about a month so now they are all out of date any way! I stink! But I should be able to get there now that we arent going to the temple all day and having to cut our P-days short for other things.
Last Thursday and Friday we went to the Youth conference here! It was so fun! We got to be the filmographer people.. however you spell that! So we walked around taking videos of people and asking them questions. We took some of Jericho Rd too! They are the coolest people... well except for the one that is single and hit on me even though I am a missionary! Ew! He was gross! I got them to sign my CD which was fun! They are super good live.
Sad story though.. some kids driving home had a huge crash on Thursday night and 3 of them died and the other is still in a critical condition. I am hoping that we got them on our video!
Well I had better get to work!
I love you all and hope you are well!
Sister Huckfeldt
6 months!
Hello everyone!
How are you all? I miss you all alot! Thank you for the emails!!! I really really love hearing how things are going! I wish it was christmas so that I could talk to you all again!! So many great things are happening there!
Well! We are busy! This week we are going to be helping out a multi-stake youth conference filming everyone and doing other things that they are wanting us to do! Guess who will be there!!! Jericho Road!! I am sure that atleast a few of you know who they are?? if not google them. One of them grew up here in one of the wards we cover! So that should be fun! Plus we have to work in all of our normal appointments and things that we do and this is the last week of the Transfer and Sister Westover will probably be transferred so we will have to do extra visits! Wew! I love being busy!
So yesterday was the 4th of July and it was my 6 month mark! Can you believe it has been that long? I can't!
Yesterday was sooo fun! Here is how it went!
Woke up went straight to the town of Adrian's breakfast celebration- saw some investigators and less actives and had fun laughing!
Then we went back to Nyssa and taught the young boy that has his baptism this weekend! He is so stinking cute though, I love teaching kids 12 and under cause they give the best responses!
Then we went home for some study time and lunch and I learnt some super cool stuff from Alma chapter 8 I think it was, just how awesome it is to have been brought up in a family that has started the Gospel traditions and kept them going! I am so glad I am not a jerk like the Ammonihahs who fell away and became really hard hearted, which is also like alot of the less actives we meet out here! Plus we all have experiences like Alma just not to that scale! Even Alma found transfers hard. Being transferred stinks hehe!
Ok enough of that. Then we went to Vale!! It was sooo fun! They had a small town parade and we went over to one of our favourite persons in the whole world's house named Sister Jacob! She is an absolute crack up! She had a water fight with her husband and whole family while we were there and they "accidently got me" as we were trying to leave haha.
There were all these people dressed up riding horses, driving old cars.. I took a couple of photos of them for you dad, an old fire engine, the school did a float and they super soaked people while they went by, tons of the shops in town did something and they threw out lollies and gave people flowers and stuff. It was an awesome experience! My first float parade! Plus we got a referral!
Then after that we had to go home so that I could get changed!
Then we went to one of the biggest families in Nyssa's celebration for dinner and I only ate salad! They did this whole show thing with their family and sang american songs and did this bell ringing thing etc... plus we spent time with one of there family members that isnt a member but that we have been trying to work with.
The we had strict orders to be home by 9pm even though it doesnt get dark here till about 9:30 so we missed their fireworks but thats ok.
Last week we went through the Temple with someone who had been inactive for ages! We went with her again this morning! She was crying and just loved it. She was so ready and prepared!
Plus we went to the Owhyee ward on Sunday and a less active we have been working with finally brought his family to church and they loved it! They want to come back. There is a long story behind him but we seem to have a special bond cause he was adopted out of an Australian family. We have been having great discussions and are just getting along great there!
I really wish I could just give you a day by day recount because too much happens in a week but I dont have enough time!!! Things are going some much better out here now! It is really exciting but we are still doing all we can to find people and progress the work further!
I have also been learning alot about Spirit world lately and how important it is that we forgive one another! Its really really important!
Ok I need to go! Sorry this is such a rush but we have to end our P-day early today!
Love you all!
Sister Huckfeldt
How are you all? I miss you all alot! Thank you for the emails!!! I really really love hearing how things are going! I wish it was christmas so that I could talk to you all again!! So many great things are happening there!
Well! We are busy! This week we are going to be helping out a multi-stake youth conference filming everyone and doing other things that they are wanting us to do! Guess who will be there!!! Jericho Road!! I am sure that atleast a few of you know who they are?? if not google them. One of them grew up here in one of the wards we cover! So that should be fun! Plus we have to work in all of our normal appointments and things that we do and this is the last week of the Transfer and Sister Westover will probably be transferred so we will have to do extra visits! Wew! I love being busy!
So yesterday was the 4th of July and it was my 6 month mark! Can you believe it has been that long? I can't!
Yesterday was sooo fun! Here is how it went!
Woke up went straight to the town of Adrian's breakfast celebration- saw some investigators and less actives and had fun laughing!
Then we went back to Nyssa and taught the young boy that has his baptism this weekend! He is so stinking cute though, I love teaching kids 12 and under cause they give the best responses!
Then we went home for some study time and lunch and I learnt some super cool stuff from Alma chapter 8 I think it was, just how awesome it is to have been brought up in a family that has started the Gospel traditions and kept them going! I am so glad I am not a jerk like the Ammonihahs who fell away and became really hard hearted, which is also like alot of the less actives we meet out here! Plus we all have experiences like Alma just not to that scale! Even Alma found transfers hard. Being transferred stinks hehe!
Ok enough of that. Then we went to Vale!! It was sooo fun! They had a small town parade and we went over to one of our favourite persons in the whole world's house named Sister Jacob! She is an absolute crack up! She had a water fight with her husband and whole family while we were there and they "accidently got me" as we were trying to leave haha.
There were all these people dressed up riding horses, driving old cars.. I took a couple of photos of them for you dad, an old fire engine, the school did a float and they super soaked people while they went by, tons of the shops in town did something and they threw out lollies and gave people flowers and stuff. It was an awesome experience! My first float parade! Plus we got a referral!
Then after that we had to go home so that I could get changed!
Then we went to one of the biggest families in Nyssa's celebration for dinner and I only ate salad! They did this whole show thing with their family and sang american songs and did this bell ringing thing etc... plus we spent time with one of there family members that isnt a member but that we have been trying to work with.
The we had strict orders to be home by 9pm even though it doesnt get dark here till about 9:30 so we missed their fireworks but thats ok.
Last week we went through the Temple with someone who had been inactive for ages! We went with her again this morning! She was crying and just loved it. She was so ready and prepared!
Plus we went to the Owhyee ward on Sunday and a less active we have been working with finally brought his family to church and they loved it! They want to come back. There is a long story behind him but we seem to have a special bond cause he was adopted out of an Australian family. We have been having great discussions and are just getting along great there!
I really wish I could just give you a day by day recount because too much happens in a week but I dont have enough time!!! Things are going some much better out here now! It is really exciting but we are still doing all we can to find people and progress the work further!
I have also been learning alot about Spirit world lately and how important it is that we forgive one another! Its really really important!
Ok I need to go! Sorry this is such a rush but we have to end our P-day early today!
Love you all!
Sister Huckfeldt
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