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!
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