So Transfers update drum roll please!!!....
Well mom you will be happy to hear and well the subject to this email
pretty well explains it I am staying here in the Wolfville in Kentville ward!!!
I am taking on a leadership position as the "STL" so Sister Training Leader for
the Nova Scotia South zone (my zone). Which consists of the Halifax sisters the
Halifax family ward sisters and the Halifax YSA ward sisters. Those Sisters are;
Sister Lee (I was in the MTC with) and her new from MTC companion and Sister
Laxton (who I served with for 4 days in a trio) and her MTC new companion. And I
as well will be training a new missionary coming from the MTC as well!! AND I
CAN'T WAIT TO TRAIN!! Bring on the greeny fire!! I love greeny fire and I hope I
still have it and if not I will repent and keep this mtc trainee's fire with me-
she better be ready to have no meal breaks cause that is what I have done my
whole mission!!
SO STL requires me travelling and visiting their area for 24hrs once a
transfer and training them, calling once a week speaking to sisters together and
separately and helping and training them but also growing together as I will be
learning just as much as them if not more! Then as well Elder Prince informed me
that every Sunday evening there is a conference call where it consists of the
zone leaders, district leaders in the zone and me... the STL, I laughed I was
like okay so whole bunch of elders on the phone, then me!
Elder Sloan is leaving to Moncton, New Brunswick as he has been here for 7
months, Sister Thompson is going to Amherst Nova Scotia where she will be
completing the last 6 weeks of 12 week training for a missionary. So there is a
new zone leader in our zone serving with Elder Prince that is coming from
Newfoundland-Elder Becker. SO there is your transfer update!
I am very excited for this and I know this goal will require me to stretch
and grow and raise the bar; I am grateful for this and I am going to do
everything in my power to train my new comp. to the best of my ability and
welcome her into the best 18 months of her life the very best way possible!!!
And as well train these other sisters. Its nerve racking and well I know that as
I stay humble and pray always and do my very best the Lord will qualify me and
these new sisters coming into the mission field as there will be 7 new sisters
this transfer.
This morning we had a wonderful meeting over Skype with President and
Sister Leavitt, the 7 sisters that will be training and the assistants. It was
great I am looking forward to what lies ahead! A few words that were shared from
President and Sister Leavitt that I wanted to take the time to share- they just
gave me goose bumps!! Sister Leavitt mentioned on how, from their Mission
President training that they attended in Philadelphia it was talked about from
Elder Nelson (Quorum of the 12) that this time, RIGHT NOW with the surge of
missionaries, this is a crucial critical, memorable time of Church History
almost as important as the First Vision. The church is drastically changing as
more and more missionaries are out all over the world serving the Lord, bringing
forth the truth and that the Lord has truly prepared us in the pre-existance for
THIS TIME right now. There is a reason and how we are very special to the Lord
because he sent us and prepared us to be missionaries at this time. President
Leavitt added to her comment and said "yes”! And just how Oliver Cowdry said
many times in the Doctrine and Covenants referring to the days when he and
Joseph Smith were translating the BOM that "these are the days that will never
be forgotten" and that this is the very same for us missionaries right now that
THESE are the days that will never be forgotten!"
.... That just gave me chills during the meeting. Just reflecting back on
my past 5 yrs, I just cannot grasp it, but to think how I was really planned to
be here right now. It truly is a miraculous thing and I feel so blessed that
the Lord is so merciful! ... I owe everything to Him for this.
So this week was amazing; we picked up 8 new investigators, but by the end
of the week - 2 of the 4 dropped us but its okay we have two solid investigators
that are on date, totalling a 3 of investigators including our stellar
investigator Kate!!
So let me go day by day again:
So Monday night we had Dinner with the Burgan's with Kate that turned out
great!! They were able to share their conversion story and we watched Pres.
Uchtdorf’s Sat. morning conference talk. Then we went to teach a potencial
lesson from a door we knocked into but they weren't home, so we continued to
knock the area. We came across a lady whose 38 yrs old, her name is Sally. She
was crying when she answered the door, her father is dieing from cancer so we
testified to her and so forth , we actually helped her take her garbage out and
then we went inside and talked with her. She is a single parent of 11 yr old
named Jane and it turns out Sally's parents and herself were baptized into our
church when she was 13 yrs but they were only active for 6 months. So we
testified to her and had a great spiritual lesson, she is quite hard in heart at
the moment but I have faith as we continue to meet with her it will soften. But
crazy thing is at that very same time - the Elders by fluke received her mother
(Terry) as a referral from a member. Sister Horton a member met her at the
laundry mat a couple weeks ago and they have become friends. Sister Horton
understood that Terry's husband was dieing, little did she know that Terry
actually is a LA member from years ago and niether did the Elders know until we
called them that night! It truly was a "intervention" from God to that family...
basically him yelling at them for what they need aka : HIS CHURCH! So we will be
working with them; crazy things have happened more with them with us bumping
into Terry later on this week as we were prompted to just stop by Sis Hortons
house one day as well.
Tuesday: We had district meeting in Bridgewater which was good then we went
into Windsor it was nuts!! Windsor is our sketchy area to serve where just alot
of low quality of lives there; and as we have set our goal of 9 baptisms we are
just finding so much more potential! We were able to find 6 potentials that
actually all weren't the "typical Windsor person" and find more success in our
day there than ever before for us. We felt prompted to knock into Nancy and we
actually put her on date, she lived in Taber and had nothing but good things to
say about the church, but unfortunately she ended up dropping us end of the week
over phone. We had a wonderful lesson with her but the adversary got to her and
well agency.
Then Wednesday I cut Tanya and her daughter Lilya's hair (Elders
Investigator who will be baptized Nov 1) She’s amazing, she has a two year old.
She just got out of a bad marriage and moved to Kentville to get away. We
actually went to a lesson with the elders one day, couple weeks ago and we were
all standing outside the house waiting to get let in and Tanya walked by and
Elder Prince was behind me and I looked at him and said Elder you should go talk
to her, he ran down the stairs and talked to her and BOOM she is totally
prepared and can't wait to be baptized this gospel truly is changing her life.
The lesson that day that we all were there for actually cancelled and I feel we
really were just there to run into Tanya.
Thursday we started teaching Tracey (Burgans member in the ward friend) we
had a wonderful lesson with her and we actually put her on date the next day for
Nov 30th! She can't wait and is loving learning about the gospel!! She is 30
yrs old and is awesome! We taught Patrick and John as well with a family that
came and taught with us- it went great. Patrick wants to attend church and
continue learning from missionaries in Jamaica he will actually be leaving this
Friday home and I am excited for him! We will be teaching him and John once last
time before they go this week!
Friday we actually ended up moving the Whalens (Erica and Matt) So they are
now living in Cole Harbor :( but it is what is best for them, they have met with
the elders there and things are going well. I will be able to go visit them when
i go on visits with the sisters in Halifax. We passed Brandon over to the
Elders, that lesson went great and things will go great with Brandon. We did the
Stop Smoking Program with Kate Friday afternoon at Sister Hortons house! It was
amazing she is devoted and has quite smoking so far! Kate actually has a "this
is a non smoking environment" on her front door of her house it is absolutely
fantastic!!!
Then Saturday we were so blessed to have a completely jambed pack busy day
because there was an University party weekend event. Where literally drunk
partying 18 yrs olds and 20 yrs olds from 10 am till dusk all day.... hahah Sis
T and I laughed and were like well that is the great and spacious building and
we are holding to the iron rod! University here is like the Univeristy in a
Hollywood USA movie university haha its CRAZY. But we started teaching the most
humble guy named Jesse he is from China. We met him street contacting and I
asked him if we believed in God and he said " No, but I really feel like there
is a God I just don't know about him" We just smiled and were like well Jesse we
can help you with that!! So we taught him about through Christ we can be
cleansed from sins, faith repentance, baptism holyghost sacrament- not the usual
first lesson but it was great he was all over it!! We commited him to be
baptized fro Nov 22 and he can't wait to "be apart of Gods family" he said. He
came to church on Sunday and he said he can not wait for next Sunday! A member
will be having us and him over for dinner Nov 3! We will be teaching Jesse again
tonight at 8!
We also met a Chinese guy named Di Saturday and we had a great brief lesson
with him. He has been a die hard christian for a while surprisingly, and we
shared with him the BOM he was so STOKED! WE had to run because we had the
adult session of stake conference to go to that evening but he pretty well asked
to come so he followed us there and was loving it!! He is really into praising
God to the point where he pulled out this Jewish robe in the beginning of the
conference where it wrapped all around his body, arms ,neck everything!! hahaha
omg I was dying and of course he goes to sit down at the very front of the
congregation. Sis T sat with Kate and things were going great then all of the
sudden Di pulls out this Jewish robe thing where he stood up and wrapped it
around, everyone was like whaaaa??? I was dying inside/trying not to
laugh/freaking out that he would stand up start yelling like weird Pentecostal
stuff. Thank goodness he didn't but it was a good thing to look back on and
laugh at. We passed him over to the Elders as well as we felt that would be
best. But things are going quite well with him.
It truly has been a wonderful week, we see miracles daily!! I love the
gospel I love the scriptures and I am so grateful to be a missionary!
I want to stay motivated and doing my very best as the week continues and
transfers arise I will. I know through faith and obedience and prayer I can and
that is only through the grace of God.
There is so much to work on and improve but so much to look forward to and
be grateful!!
Every member is a missionary- and as you can see family missionary work is
changing my life, but just because I wear a tag doesn't mean it can not do the
same for you! Open you mouths and don't procrastinate the day of being a
missionary because I can promise you great blessings are instore for you as you
step out of the box!
I LOVE YOU ALL
xoxo
xoxo
Love Sister Pizzey
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