So this has been another wonderful week!
I love your emails and I thank you for them so much, I have such a great
family and so much wonderful support I love you all very much!
So yes we will be having two baptisms this Friday! And on Sunday it will be
Sis T's and mine 7 month, crazy time does fly, 7 months sounds like a long time
but this all hasn't even felt like 7 weeks. But having two of our investigators
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost on our 7 month sounds fine by me!!
So this week has been amazing!!! Conference was amazing I LOVED it
conference is literally like way better than the Oscars ever were as a
missionary! I loved Saturday conference session! Uchtdorfs talk was amazing and
sooo applicable for so many people we are teaching right now! I feel like an
idiot I forgot my notebook from conference session and wrote down a whole bunch
of talks that I loved that I wanted to share and talk about today! hmmmm :<
well next week I will have to do that I am writing that down in my planner right
now! Elder Ballard's talk was amazing, Elder Giff Neilson (I met him he toured
with Elder Holland in April) was wonderful of course, and of course Uchtdorf’s!
But there was so many more and my memory is drawing blank! NEXT WEEK
SO we were able to have 5 investigators come to conference this weekend!
And 2 non members I of which is a referral from a member who she brought to
church and we will be teaching this week!
We had a wonderful week we picked up a investigator! She is prepared and is
on date for Nov 8th we started teaching her on tuesday. She is my age and is a
recovering Narcartic addict, she has a 3 yr old and gave her up for adoption to
her aunt. Just a horrible horrible life she had, she has so much
guilty feelings from her past and I feel I am here to teach her, we had a
tearful first spiritual lesson where the Spirit was so strong. She understands
that she has lot of changes to be made but the atonement is real. She actually
came to church yr a go and knows the addictions recovery couple really well.
She will be baptised I know it! My heart is just so full thinking of her! She
reads the BOM a ton and loves it!
Erika haha I love her! We are teaching her more and will be fasting with
her tomorrow and then having dinner with her and breaking her fast. Her and
Matt just love the Book of Mormon, yesterday we went to her house between
sessions. We showed up there at 4:15 and said we are going to conference and
you are coming, she said she couldn't because her boys were out and she had no
makeup on and keagan and isaac hadn't eaten yet. So we told her to go get ready
and that we would take care of her boys. So we went to search for them in the
neighbourhood we drove around the neighbourhood two times, could not find then
anywhere then said a prayer. We then felt the need to drive once more then I
spotted a bike on a drive way so we got out walked in the backyard of the house
that had the bike BOOM we found the boys told them to race us back to home, so
Sis T and I and Keagan a 6yr old and Isaac a 12 yr old all raced home, ran in
their house, we fed them cereal for dinner and BOOM by the time it was 4:45 we
all left to conference soundly and she was able to watch it and enjoyed it!
Afterward we had a lesson with them and they did the nightly ritual where Keagan
says the opening prayer then Erika reads from the children's BOM with them then
Isaac says a prayer, then keagan then Erika did then I did then Sister T. It was
amazing most Spirit filled thing on my mission. Power of Prayer is amazing.
Hearing a 6 yr olds prayer is amazing Keagan said " and I miss you very much" in
his prayer so amazing a 6 yr old understands that he once lived with his Father
in Heaven- the gospel is SO TRUE the Book is blue brothers and
sisters!!
So Baileys baptismal interview was a success on Friday! He is a stud and
understands everything perfectly very bright boy and has a strong knowledge of
the gospel through our lessons, reads the BOM and enjoys it. Hope will be having
her interview tonight she was origanlly on Friday but she had a horrible health
day and could not leave her bed. Some days her Parkinsons disease is horrible
where she has to take 21 pills to help it. She received a priesthood blessing
yesterday and is feeling great today and ready for her interview tonight at 7!
I love her so much and she calls Sis T and I the daughters she never has
had!
Working with the Elders has been wonderful we actually made a goal during
our Friday planning session that as a whole in Kentville ward we feel we can
have 15 baptisms from now until the new year, its a stretch but we have alot of
legit investigators 9 of which we feel that will forsure be baptized which leaves
6 more (3 per companionship) that we feel Heavenly Father has prepared at this
time for baptism, we just have to find and teach them! We have faith and a day
after we set that goal President Leavitt informed us how he set a goal of 50
baptisms as a whole mission before the new year so our plans were inspired and
right on track with PL.
We really are working on effective goal setting and planning and it has
completely changed our area!! Our Keys our solid number where each key indicator
literally represents a soul! It is amazing and I know that much success will
come from the change of planning.
Sis T and I were able to pick up 3 new gators, I hope for more this week
and have faith we will! I love this work so much, we are finding much success
here we are blessed to be able to surpass the mission standard of excellence at
this moment. The ward is trusting us more and more, and we will be able to teach
our investigators in members homes this week and hopefully be introduced to two
separate people to teach from members in the ward! The Work is at a uproar there
is so many prepared. Take part everyone in this great work it is amazing and
don't miss out in the blessings that await you as you partake in missionary
work!
Sorry if this was a weak email. This week really was amazing, so much
happening, but writing in an email doesn't explain a tiny bit of how wonderful
life is as a missionary. Sis T and I love serving with one another, we have so
much fun and she has drastically changed as a missionary - I felt as though I
trained her:) haha. She loves the work so much. I don't think we will be serving
with one another after this transfer, opportunity to train is quite high, I
really hope I am staying here, there are so many people that we are teaching
that I feel I am here specifically to teach, we just connect! I can't imagine my
life without all these people I am meeting on my mission, its crazy, I love
everyone I am meeting here and they are impacting my life immensely!
Building friendships for eternity!
I love you all, hold your armour of righteousness and be obedient to the
prophet and apostles council ! Exactly obedient don't just pick and choose what
you want to follow!
There was so much said that can apply to us all!
Tell Nana I was thinking of her and Grandpa this weekend! During President
Monson's talk I though about her as he expressed his love for his wife, I am
sure it brought nana to tears thinking of our dearly beloved grandpa bill. I
always feel so close to him and his presence!
I love you all!!
xoxox have a great week!
Love Sister Pizzey
p.s: I got my hair done today and it looks great!!! actually turned out
good for once :)
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