First things first... We got transfer calls last night and I'll be staying in Harrisonburg and getting a new companion, Sister Zwang. It's been really cold here. Last week we tracted in 7 degree weather and yesterday it was snowing and raining "ice" all day. That's wasn't very fun to be in all day. But that's ok! The missionary work is great no matter what! We got in a car wreck on Saturday which was a bummer. The weather was fine and all but we were pulling into an apartment complex and a guy backed into the front of our car and messed up the front of our car. We drive a 2008 Malibu so it was a bummer. No one was hurt though so no big deal. The week has been a little slow. We had a lot of people cancel our appointments but that gave us the opportunity to go tracting and try to find more people to teach. We're hoping to set a few people for baptism in the next week or two. We had 7 investigators come to church which was great. I've also been teaching the gospel principle class the last few weeks as well. I love to teach! It's so much fun!
We've been tracting into so pretty... interesting lets say... People. It makes for great stories. We've found one new person to teach, Angie, but other then that, we have yet to find the elect. But I know we will soon. I can feel it :) Not too much more has gone on this week. The work is great as always! I LOVE MY MISSION! It's going by fast! Thank you all for all your love and support. It's great to get letters from all of you. Keep it up :) The church is true, the book is blue, and Jesus is a Mormon :)
-Sister Spark Plug
Thursday, January 29, 2009
January 21st 2009
What a great week! We finally are starting to have some great success. On Thursday we got to attend the institue class and they're studying the 2nd half of the New Testament! Good stuff! We are still working with Monica and Jairo and they attended all 3 blocks of church on Sunday and really enjoyed it. They are such a great family! Monica said the nicest thing to me the other day. She said that she absolutely LOVES hearing me talk because I have that voice that just draws people in. OK, it may not sound like that great of a thing, but it meant a lot to me because I really admire that about other people.
We found another family tracting and will be teaching them at 4 this afternoon. They have 2 kids and are looking for a church to attend. I gave him a pass along card earlier that day then ended up tracting into his wife later on. The Lord is amazing!
We are also teaching the new member lessons to Josh McConchie who was baptized during the school break. He's solid! He knows everything and has GREAT friends that support him. They all get together every night and have a study session! How great is that? I dont' even know why we're teaching him :) His friends got it covered! They were all their when we were teaching him on Saturday. It was a really fun lesson. We taught him about Eternal Marriage, Temples, and Family History! I love teaching!
The Demastus family is still tuggin along. Bro Demastus got a bad infection in his left long and had to go to the hospital. It was pretty scary. He's diabetic so he had a REALLY bad reaction. We had a lesson with them last night and he seems to be doing a little better. I care so much for them and it makes me so sad to see how inactive they are. I'm doing all that I can to help. I think us just showing them we love them and listen to what's bothering them really helps them out. We're working on strengthening their testimony's and forgivness. They are really great though! I love them!
Transfers are coming up next week! Tuesday night we'll be getting the call. I'm almost POSITIVE I'll be staying here in Harrisonburg. I actually think I'll be here a good chunk of my mission. People tend to stay here a long time. Sister Hopoate will get transfered I'm sure. She's been here for 6 months and is way too comfortable. Our mission President doesn't like his missinonaries to be comfortable. One of our Zone Leaders are going home so I think someone from New Port News will come up here with Elder Gubler or Gubler will be training another missionary to be a Zone Leader. Yorktown will stay the same and I think my district leader will stay here with his Greenie Elder McEntire. We'll see though. I'm usually wrong :)
Well, as far as studying goes, I absolutely love is still! I'm in Alma 10 and moving right a long through the BOM. I have a lot of goals I want to accomplish before I leave and I only have a year! I wanted to read all the standard works, do ALL the activities in PMG, read all of the Bible, memorize 3 scriptures for each of the principles in PMG, read all of the missionary library, baptize monthly, and always be myself. I hear that a lot of missionaries tend to forget who they really are. God has prepared us for the past 19-21 years for our missions. We need to rely on the person he made us to begin with and just improve. We had a district meeting yesterday and that was talked about a lot. The Lord called us to where we're are serving for a reason because our personalities are what the people need out here. I LOVE MY MISSION! It's going by so fast and I'm loving every second of it. The "hard times" just help us grow and develope into the people God wants and needs us to be. They Church IS TRUE! I love you all so much! Keep on helping to spread the gospel to everyone you come in contact with. They need it just as much as we do!
-Sister Fluffy
or
Sister Spark Plug
or
Sister Orawiec
Whatever you prefer! I love this work!
p.s. Let me know if there's anything I can do for anyone!
We found another family tracting and will be teaching them at 4 this afternoon. They have 2 kids and are looking for a church to attend. I gave him a pass along card earlier that day then ended up tracting into his wife later on. The Lord is amazing!
We are also teaching the new member lessons to Josh McConchie who was baptized during the school break. He's solid! He knows everything and has GREAT friends that support him. They all get together every night and have a study session! How great is that? I dont' even know why we're teaching him :) His friends got it covered! They were all their when we were teaching him on Saturday. It was a really fun lesson. We taught him about Eternal Marriage, Temples, and Family History! I love teaching!
The Demastus family is still tuggin along. Bro Demastus got a bad infection in his left long and had to go to the hospital. It was pretty scary. He's diabetic so he had a REALLY bad reaction. We had a lesson with them last night and he seems to be doing a little better. I care so much for them and it makes me so sad to see how inactive they are. I'm doing all that I can to help. I think us just showing them we love them and listen to what's bothering them really helps them out. We're working on strengthening their testimony's and forgivness. They are really great though! I love them!
Transfers are coming up next week! Tuesday night we'll be getting the call. I'm almost POSITIVE I'll be staying here in Harrisonburg. I actually think I'll be here a good chunk of my mission. People tend to stay here a long time. Sister Hopoate will get transfered I'm sure. She's been here for 6 months and is way too comfortable. Our mission President doesn't like his missinonaries to be comfortable. One of our Zone Leaders are going home so I think someone from New Port News will come up here with Elder Gubler or Gubler will be training another missionary to be a Zone Leader. Yorktown will stay the same and I think my district leader will stay here with his Greenie Elder McEntire. We'll see though. I'm usually wrong :)
Well, as far as studying goes, I absolutely love is still! I'm in Alma 10 and moving right a long through the BOM. I have a lot of goals I want to accomplish before I leave and I only have a year! I wanted to read all the standard works, do ALL the activities in PMG, read all of the Bible, memorize 3 scriptures for each of the principles in PMG, read all of the missionary library, baptize monthly, and always be myself. I hear that a lot of missionaries tend to forget who they really are. God has prepared us for the past 19-21 years for our missions. We need to rely on the person he made us to begin with and just improve. We had a district meeting yesterday and that was talked about a lot. The Lord called us to where we're are serving for a reason because our personalities are what the people need out here. I LOVE MY MISSION! It's going by so fast and I'm loving every second of it. The "hard times" just help us grow and develope into the people God wants and needs us to be. They Church IS TRUE! I love you all so much! Keep on helping to spread the gospel to everyone you come in contact with. They need it just as much as we do!
-Sister Fluffy
or
Sister Spark Plug
or
Sister Orawiec
Whatever you prefer! I love this work!
p.s. Let me know if there's anything I can do for anyone!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
January 14th 2009
So I was almost done writing the bulk e-mail and I erased it!!! BLAH so I'll try to hurry and re-write it.
We got a call Thursday night and were asked to speak on Sunday. We were pretty worried about it because we had NO time to prepare for it. But we of course accepted it. I wrote my talk that morning and I was suprised at how well it turned out. I was asked to speak on testimony, how I gained mine, and why I am on a mission. So I spent 15 minutes talking about that. The spirit was very strong! Good thing the Lord can guide our words.
Monday we had a great lesson with the family that Sister Abbott and I tracted into. Monica and Jairo. They had some great questions. They had a lot of concerns about the Book of Mormon (of course) because they had a bad experience with some Elders that had taught them in the past. But we resolved their concerns and they are so excited to learn more! They are so amazing and I have high hopes for them!
Funny story... Later on Monday night we went home for dinner before our next appointment with a less active family, The Boyers. Sister H was boiling her some eggs. We left to our appointment and began teaching them. About 20 minutes into the lesson Sister H looks over at me with a look like someone just died and she said "THE EGGS!" I was like "What...?" She said "I left the eggs cooking on the stove, on high!" So these eggs had been cooking all through dinner time and the 25 minute we had been gone. My thoughts were that it'll be ok because there wasn't anything around them to catch them on fire. So we stayed another 15 minute and rushed home. As we walked up to our apartment the fire alarm was going crazy! We opened the door and a hug gush of wind blew out and we could barely see in our apartment. It smelt SO INCREDIBLY BAD! We still can't get our place to smell nice. So that's the story of Sister H almost burning our apartment down.
We had a district meeting yesterday which was great! I was in charge of the game :) We played a little game I like to call "Crush My Concern." Where I ask a question that an investigator might ask and you have to answer with a scripture. It was a lot of fun. There was great training given to us by the district and zone leaders about why it's important to talk to EVERYONE! It was some good modivation.
Well my time is about up. I hope all is well! I love you all and miss you like crazy! Keep up your missionary work and help build God's kingdom!
Until next week
-Sister Orawiec
We got a call Thursday night and were asked to speak on Sunday. We were pretty worried about it because we had NO time to prepare for it. But we of course accepted it. I wrote my talk that morning and I was suprised at how well it turned out. I was asked to speak on testimony, how I gained mine, and why I am on a mission. So I spent 15 minutes talking about that. The spirit was very strong! Good thing the Lord can guide our words.
Monday we had a great lesson with the family that Sister Abbott and I tracted into. Monica and Jairo. They had some great questions. They had a lot of concerns about the Book of Mormon (of course) because they had a bad experience with some Elders that had taught them in the past. But we resolved their concerns and they are so excited to learn more! They are so amazing and I have high hopes for them!
Funny story... Later on Monday night we went home for dinner before our next appointment with a less active family, The Boyers. Sister H was boiling her some eggs. We left to our appointment and began teaching them. About 20 minutes into the lesson Sister H looks over at me with a look like someone just died and she said "THE EGGS!" I was like "What...?" She said "I left the eggs cooking on the stove, on high!" So these eggs had been cooking all through dinner time and the 25 minute we had been gone. My thoughts were that it'll be ok because there wasn't anything around them to catch them on fire. So we stayed another 15 minute and rushed home. As we walked up to our apartment the fire alarm was going crazy! We opened the door and a hug gush of wind blew out and we could barely see in our apartment. It smelt SO INCREDIBLY BAD! We still can't get our place to smell nice. So that's the story of Sister H almost burning our apartment down.
We had a district meeting yesterday which was great! I was in charge of the game :) We played a little game I like to call "Crush My Concern." Where I ask a question that an investigator might ask and you have to answer with a scripture. It was a lot of fun. There was great training given to us by the district and zone leaders about why it's important to talk to EVERYONE! It was some good modivation.
Well my time is about up. I hope all is well! I love you all and miss you like crazy! Keep up your missionary work and help build God's kingdom!
Until next week
-Sister Orawiec
Sunday, January 11, 2009
The Holidays
Every missionary needs a Christmas Tree.... Every girl needs a PINK one!
Opening gifts from family and friends! Gotta love getting the packages!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
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