Today Is The Day - February 3rd, 2014

It has been an AWESOME WEEK! Seriously. Why?

#1. We got a NEW car. 2014 Toyota Corolla. Red. I love it. It had 90 miles on it when we got it. We are so spoiled. 

#2. SHERRY IS QUITTING SMOKING TODAY! :D She had set a date to stop smoking on March 8th, but had a very strong prompting to move it to today. She got a blessing from the Bishop last night, and we're fasting today for her. Everyone say a prayer for Sherry today! She turns 59 today, smoked since she was 11, and last time, she tried to quite, she literally had a mini heart attack. She is so powerful already, and will be even more so very soon. 

We made her spiritual cigarettes. We wrote motivating scriptures and quotes on paper and rolled them up and made them look like cigarettes for when she has the urge to smoke. She said it is the best gift she has ever received. When we left, she gave us her last pack of cigarettes. SHE CAN DO IT! 

#3. Sidney, the over enthusiastic 18 yr old came to church and he's now ON DATE for baptism for the 15 of March. He's awesome. We think he might have aspergers or something similar, but he's awesome and has a strong desire to follow God and Jesus Christ. 

#4. Today I read the Story in Alma 24 about where the Lamanites bury their weapons of war. It's my new favorite story. For right now. It's so inspiring, and of course, i thought of Sherry. Because she knows this Church is true, she is willing to give up something she is so completely dependent on, it literally endangered her life last time she tried to stop. What weapons of war do we have that are keeping us from being closer to God? 

#5. I'm a missionary! It's AWESOME! It makes it all the hard times worth it when I get to hear things like Sherry testifying of how she knows God will help her through this, or Sidney being so excited he can't contain himself, or looking back and seeing how much I myself have changed and improved. THIS IS GOD'S WORK!

love you all. Have a great week!

Devil Cats and Hill Billy Chili 2/3/14

Hello Everyone!

This last week is all kind of a blur.. It's been a pretty good week, not quite as productive as last week, BUT this coming week will be AMAZING. I can feel it. 

We had a ward party a "Hill billy chili cook off." I participated in the pig squealing contest. I didn't win though. :/  ha. 

Sherry, our lovely investigator CAME TO CHURCH! Now all she needs is to stop smoking. Pray for her. She's great. 

We had mission wide winter Olympics today! It was awesome! My competitiveness has not calmed down any.. ha. 

We also had New missionary training that I took  my trainee to! We got to proselyte on OSU campus! It was awesome! :) I did a musical number at the training and sang "I need Thee every Hour." and my companion played the violin. It was great! :) I LOVE it when people ask me to sing. Even if it's the night before. 

Picture #5: 3 generations! My "Mom" and my "Daughter." Yes, everyone. I am a mom now. She's about a month old now. So cute, huh? And.. not sure why my hair looks such a weird color in this picture. I miss sister Hunger SOOoooo bad. 

Picture #4: So... I don't know what it is, but ALL animals here LOVE me. Not my companions, always me. And those who know me know that.. I do NOT like cats. Well we knocked on this door, and had only been inside for a minute or two when this cat CRAWLED up my body and perched itself on my shoulders. It would walk back and forth and of course, I'm super ticklish and we were trying to teach about the gospel. ha. It was hilarious!! Brother Satterfield did always say that cats are from Satan. Now I see why. They distract me from teaching lessons. hahaha. 

Sorry for the short letter! I'm almost out of time! Have a great week!

 These are from The Great Ohio Columbus mission facebook page. Sister Carter is standing next to her mission president. He owns all of the Cafe Rios.

 At a training.

 Getting to sing "I need thee every hour" at the training while her companion plays her violin.

 Cats like her. She doesn't like cats.

 

Her new companion Sister Larsen, Sister Carter, her old companion Sister Hunger