tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61078633031305060152024-03-12T20:08:19.815-07:00Missionary in Montana!Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-81124669323550571382017-03-08T15:35:00.002-08:002017-03-08T15:35:24.785-08:00Week 80<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Heyo!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was good. On Monday, we arranged for the zone to go to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cody Mural Chapel and Museum which has a big 360 mural of the church's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">history and a first edition copy of the Book of Mormon. It was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fascinating.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On Tuesday, we had a lesson with a new investigator/ referral from our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ward mission leaders wife and sister in law. He's their cousin. So we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">taught him the Restoration (at our ward mission leaders house) and put</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him on date for baptism for </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1932974945" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 18th</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">! He was so attentive the whole</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">time and the spirit was so strong. I felt like I was in a good episode</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of the District. He asked so many great and honest questions because</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he doesn't have much of a religious background. We explained who God</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is and what a testimony is, and all the basics. He came to all three</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hours of church the Sunday before our lesson and he loved it! He</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">remembered everything he learned in all three classes! He also said</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that our sacrament talks on choice and accountability were for him. He</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">felt like we were talking right to him because he's been making some</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">big changes and choices in his life lately to be a better person. It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was awesome!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Later that day we went on exchanges with the sisters here in Worland</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and I was with Sister Dayes here in our ward and we put another lady</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">on date for baptism (for </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1932974946" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 25th</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">)! We met with her once prior and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We brought a recent convert</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with us who was awesome and could identify with her. The investigator</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is in between religions right now and seems to really grasp the idea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of the priesthood and she wants her kids to sit in on the next lesson!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">😄🙌</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We went to mutual again to build trust with the youth and we did a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">little service project and personal progress with the young women and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they gave us a referral. The young women here are so friendly!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It snowed on Thursday and covered everything up again. So the melting</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and freezing process has restarted. It's always a fun time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Jacoby later came down with something and was sick for a few</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">days, so I just studied and got some stuff done. The other Worland</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sisters went on exchanges with me so I could get out of the house on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Saturday night and proselyte. I was with Sister Stewart and Sister</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dayes stayed home with Sister Jacoby.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My last Sunday as a missionary was great. Some less active recent</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">converts that we have been trying to get to church, came! For one of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">them, it took all transfer but we did it!! What was even better was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that they both went right to the family history center for second hour</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to get family search accounts. It was awesome.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I have been studying talks and articles about being a returned</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionary. I read one from the Dec. 1978 Ensign called "When 'The</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Best Two Years Are Over'" and I found this checklist. I'm going to add</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the context too, but it says,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"Elder Hartman Rector, Jr., member of the First Quorum of the Seventy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and president of the California San Diego Mission, tells his returning</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionaries to check themselves periodically on “points of positive</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">affirmation”:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I am morally clean. I live by Doctrine & Covenants 121:41–46.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I sustain the general authorities and stake and ward leaders. I keep</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my eye on the prophet by reading what he says and then following his</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">counsel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I pay a full tithe.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I live the Word of Wisdom.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I observe the Sabbath by using the day for “uplifting, inspiring</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">activities,” and by not buying.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I am honest in my dealings with my fellow men.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I daily read, study, and ponder the scriptures.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I daily pray with earnestness. I pray for specifics, and I pray with humility.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I set worthwhile goals and actively work to achieve them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">--I hold a current temple recommend and attend the temple regularly. I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wear the temple garments with honor and reverence. I will be married</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the temple and will raise my family in the Church. I will do all in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my power to have all of my family united together in the celestial</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">kingdom.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mission presidents now give returning missionaries a card-size list of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spiritual checkpoints and encourage them to review them often. Elder</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Featherstone tells his returning missionaries to check them each fast</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sunday, and if they find themselves slipping, 'to go alone into the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mountains, or somewhere, and to meditate and pray.'"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I really like this. It reminds me of temple recommend interviews and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">how we all need to evaluate ourselves spiritually and then make plans</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to be better. I am definitely going to apply this at home and pray</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that I continue living what I learned in my mission!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So this is my last weekly email of the mission. I would love to get</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everyone's weekly emails still, so send them to </span><a href="mailto:laurenney15@gmail.com" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">laurenney15@gmail.com</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and any mail to 9277 W. Quail Track Dr. Peoria, Arizona 85383!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Lauren Ney</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Montana Billings Mission</span>Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-78256362748347678602017-02-20T11:02:00.001-08:002017-02-20T11:02:27.551-08:00Week 79<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week has been good! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1458513116" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Monday</span></span>, we were able to go to Shell Canyon to see the waterfall. It was mostly frozen but some water was flowing underneath the ice, which was cool! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are working with a TON of less actives because the active members keep referring less actives to us. So we are still contacting them all and it's so painful sometimes because a common theme among them all is laziness and being offended. I know from first hand experience what it's like to not have the blessings of the sacrament. You just have to do it! Get up in the morning and go. You won't regret going to church. You deny YOURSELF the blessings if you don't go. In Moroni 6:5-6 it says, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"5 And the church did meet together oft, to fast and to pray, and to speak one with another concerning the welfare of their souls.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6 And they did meet together oft to partake of bread and wine, in remembrance of the Lord Jesus."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Church is for <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span>. It's for the welfare of <span style="font-style: italic;">your</span> soul. Like lots of people say, it's a hospital for the sinners (which we all are), not a place for the perfect. And you show your faith, love for and desire to follow the Savior when you go willingly. Anyway, that's my rant.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yesterday I hit my 18 month mark! We were asked last minute (because the previously assigned speakers fell through) to give talks in sacrament on Choice and Accountability. A common theme for sacrament talks I've given on my mission has been agency, choices, obedience, and everything all those lines. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We also taught the Plan of Salvation in the Laurel class. I forgot how quiet you are when it comes to answering questions and stuff in church. It was kindof hard because of it but we got through it. Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anyway, it's been a good week! </span></div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-48968020151167860422017-02-14T17:27:00.002-08:002017-02-14T17:27:53.577-08:00Week 78<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello world!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had exchanges with the Burlington sisters this week because one of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the sisters was sick and Sister Wadsworth wanted us to take the other</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sister out to work. So I brought Sister Miles out to Worland while</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Jacoby stayed in Worland with her companion. Well, we were told</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">not to stay overnight with them so we met in Manderson around 8 to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">exchange back but a huge snowstorm hit right as we got into town and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it wasn't safe to drive back to our areas, so we called our district</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">leader in Greybull/ Basin and headed to the closest town where members</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lived (Basin- 10 miles away). He arranged for the four of us to stay</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">at their Relief Society president's house overnight. It was the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">longest 10 miles of my life. I was driving the truck and we couldn't</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">see anything. It was a complete whiteout and nighttime. So we could</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hardly see a foot ahead of us but we made it in one piece.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had zone conference this week and there was a huge emphasis on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">teaching the youth. It was funny because we went to mutual just the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">previous night because we wanted to get to know the youth better. I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love the idea and can see the great potential in the youth!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had interviews with President this week and while we were sitting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and waiting with Sister Wadsworth, a guy needing help with fuel money</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">came in to ask for help. We got him hooked up with the bishop and we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talked to him for a while. He has been reading the Book of Mormon and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he's from Livingston and said he'd love to meet with the sisters over</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there! So that was a miracle.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I started My Plan this week and it's an online training thing to</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the long run.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We went on exchanges with the Cody sisters and I went to Cody with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Kent. After all these exchanges and being stuck in random towns</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">because of blizzards, I'm having issues waking up and not knowing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">where I am. Haha. Exchanges were great and we got to see multiple</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people over there!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a stake Valentines day dinner and square dance this weekend. We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">didn't dance but it was SO funny watching everyone else dance! :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Craziness: There are some ice jams in the Bighorn River and the area</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">around the river has been flooding because the water is flowing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">outwards because the ice won't let it flow forwards. So the whole town</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">has been helping fill sands bags for a few days to put around the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">houses by the river to protect them. People have been evacuated from</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">their homes too.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, they had just a shortened sacrament</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meeting</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> and we all came in our work clothes and then headed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to the fairgrounds after to fill sand bags. We shoveled and filled</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bags for 8 hours </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">straight. The church provided 200-300 people to help,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and people from Worland and the outlying towns, and the National Guard</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were there. It was awesome but I'm so sore and my boots are still full</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of dirt. Haha.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It's been nuts here but it's a good time. Have a great week!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I think I always say that the week has been crazy and eventful, but I think this one takes the cake. We were in the car for a good chunk of it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sooooo we had MLC (Mission Leadership Council for zone leaders and sister training leaders) in Helena on Tuesday, so Sister Jacoby and I drove up to Billings on Monday night to stay the night because we had to meet at the mission home at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2133688304" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:30am</span></span> the next morning to carpool over to Helena.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Tuesday, a big ole snowstorm hit and that made things a lot more interesting. Sister Jacoby and I rode in a big van with 6 other missionaries from Billings and a senior couple from the office. Many hours later, we got there late but safely. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MLC was great. We talked about what we learned in the worldwide missionary broadcast last week and discussed the new schedule and made some mission- specific changes. The significant things that I learned were related to the spirit. I learned that </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-you don't need to know you are receiving revelation to receive and act on revelation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-you can know you are talking/ teaching by the spirit if you have learned from what you have said </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-have confidence in the spirit. If you allow him, he will do his job </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was an awesome discussion and I'm sad that this was my one and only MLC on the mission (because it got cancelled last transfer). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The sisters that were there that are in my departing group had to bear their testimonies too. It was hard but I hope I was able to touch a few people with what I said. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On the way back to Billings that night, the weather was still bad and when we got to the Big Timber area, the highway closed because a semi jackknifed. The alternate route was congested too, so we all said a prayer and decided to turn around. Our whole van, another van with the 2 sets of Wyoming zone leaders and the car with the assistants headed back to Bozeman and we stayed the night at a hotel. We had dinner at Perkins and had to make a Walmart run because we had nothing on us for staying overnight. We then headed back to Billings the next morning (via a longer, alternate route) and to Wyoming from there. It was quite an adventure. The car rides to and from Helena were very spiritual too. We discussed doctrine and sang hymns. It's a miracle that nothing happened to any of the mission cars that were traveling for so long a time because the whole way back to Billings, the highway was <u>lined</u> with cars and semis that slid/ rolled off the road and into ditches. There were LOTS of police cars and ambulances too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2133688305" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Friday</span></span>, we had zone training in Lovell, WY about what we learned from the broadcast. So this was round 4 of the broadcast. Sister Jacoby and I gave a 25+ minute discussion/ role play about establishing the church and we decided to focus on establishing the church among members. It's so important to build the members faith, and in turn, they will help establish the church/ be missionaries among those who are not members. Some cool scriptures that we found and shared about it were 3 Nephi 5:12-13 and Alma 4:3-4. They're worth a read. :)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Right after that, we went on exchanges with the Burlington sisters. I was with Sister Robertson and we came back to Worland. We had an awesome lesson with a 27 year old less active/ recent convert and and her less active 18 year old brother. They are still very strong in their testimonies but because of hurtful things people have said and sickness (because of winter) they haven't come lately. We read 2 Nephi 31 with them and it really struck them. I think they will progress and come back in no time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We have been really trying to get to know the members in our ward and teach them the doctrine of Christ because we know that as they gain trust in us and strengthen their own testimonies, they will think of those they interact with who are prepared for the gospel.</span></div>
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P.S. My new address is 1613 Culbertson Ave. Worland, Wyoming 82401 </div>
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Picture 1- our group that got stuck in Bozeman </div>
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2-exchanges with the Burlington sisters </div>
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3-Icicle removal service! It's so fun. (Don't worry. We did it safely)</div>
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4-heavy duty coat </div>
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5- the sisters at MLC that I came out with! </div>
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6-the nothingness that is Wyoming </div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-55701838064411160332017-02-02T18:31:00.002-08:002017-02-02T18:31:21.421-08:00Week 76<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was insanity. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So Sister Jacoby and I transferred ourselves over to Worland on Wednesday. It was really nice because we got to take our own truck and we just had to be gone by Wednesday evening, so it was pretty relaxed. The member we live with has been out of town this whole time and she might not be back until tonight, and we have to drive to Billings tonight for MLC in Helena tomorrow, so we won't meet her until Wednesday when we get back! We have a little room and bathroom. We cleaned it up and made it our own. It's weird living with members again (I haven't since I was in training) so it's an adjustment having less space.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh! And we haven't had a phone this whole time since being Worland because the one we got doesn't work, so it's been interesting getting around without one. We should be getting one today or tomorrow in Billings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We had dinner with some awesome active members and they've been giving us lots of referrals, which has been keeping us busy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We did interviews this week with the sisters we are over. We did some face-to-face ones with the set here in Worland and we skyped the other 2 sets. They are so awesome and I'm excited to work with them this transfer! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We've been out finding people in the single digits at night all week. It's so cold! People in Sheridan said Worland would be warmer, but that's far from the truth. Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We had a worldwide missionary broadcast this week from the mission department. They reiterated the theme from last year's broadcast, "Teach Repentance and Baptize Converts" and they made some serious changes to the missionary schedule and key indicators. We only have 4 key indicators now:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-investigators baptized & confirmed </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- investigators with a baptismal date</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- investigators who attended sacrament meeting</span></div>
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- new investigators </div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I will put pictures of the PowerPoint slides about the new schedule below in the email. It's crazy. So everything changes for my last transfer! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got permission from President to drive back to Ranchester in our last area for our 10 year old investigator's baptism. It was awesome! His whole family came (and went for his confirmation at church today), some other investigators came to watch, and it was wonderful. And he said that what made it so special for him was that we were able to come! Aw! If that doesn't rip your heart out, I don't know what will! It was so sad to leave AGAIN and drive back to Worland but I'm sooooo happy I got to go! I've missed too many baptisms on my mission by days because of transfers! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My thought for the week is from the talk, "Be Ambitious for Christ" from this past conference. Elder Yamashita talked about how his son had a difficult time on his mission but also came to know of the joy that comes from being a servant of the Lord. He said, "He felt as Alma did: “And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="m_7285006039860644132Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>In our lives we experience trials, but if we are ambitious for Christ, we can focus on Him and feel joy even in the midst of them."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This really struck me because, looking back, the mission was hard and is <span style="font-style: italic;">still</span> hard. There's lots of different trials you go through and you see others go through, but the joy you feel throughout it all makes it all worth it. The sorrows really help me appreciate the blessings and miracles that happen all around me. It reminds me of 2 Nephi 2:22-23.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"22 And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">23 And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If I hadn't gone on a mission, I wouldn't have been able to know what real joy is. Back at home, I don't think I really felt that lasting joy before. The joy that comes from being the Lord's hands and watching miracles happen. By teaching people how to come closer to their Father and Savior. By helping people use the gift of the atonement. By helping unite families in the gospel. This is only a taste of what the joy will be like in the celestial kingdom. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hope you all have a fabulous week! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, I have a testimony that God answers prayers. When I was younger, I prayed that I would live in Wyoming some day. But I didn't mean in the winter. :P According to the locals, its the coldest winter they've had <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_20039134" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in 10 years</span></span>. But I still love the work and people here. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">*****TRANSFER NEWS*****Sister Jacoby and I are getting doubled out and doubled into Worland 3rd ward because all of the sisters we are over are on the other side of the Big Horn mountains and it's safer for us to be over in the Big Horn Basin with them in the winter so we don't have to make the long scary drive over there to see them with bad roads. This will be my last area, and area #7.5, on my mission-unless I get mid-transferred which I PRAY doesn't happen. We leave <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_20039135" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> and we will be living with a member. So please send all mail to the mission home for now @ 1848 Rimrock Rd. Billings, Montana 59102. We do get to come back to Ranchester for our 10 year old investigator's baptism <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_20039136" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> though! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We had a few member-present lessons with our older investigator this week. We got him to make a commitment to come to church next week and we have his transportation lined up and everything! I'm so excited for him! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We served dinner at the homeless shelter again with some elders and the Relief Society from Ranchester. It was fun and they loved having us. One guy actually wanted to meet with the elders too!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We finally got in with one of our investigators in Dayton who wants to be baptized. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he had lots of deep questions but he's genuinely interested and he came to church this past <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_20039137" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span>! He kind of fell off the earth for a while and now he's up and going again! :)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Being doubled out is a great way to get in with people that you haven't seen in a while and we got to see our investigator in Sheridan who dumped all her coffee the other week. We followed up and she still hasn't touched it! She's just been drinking tons of hot chocolate! It was so great to hear! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We went to the temple this week with our bishop, his wife, and our recent convert and we did baptisms for the dead with her for the first time! She got baptized for her parents and some other people she found in her family tree! The look on her face when we drove into Billings and saw the temple in the distance was awesome. She had no words. She started getting teary-eyed and grabbed by arm and held it as she had a huge grin on her face. It was awesome. She also gave her first talk in sacrament and got her patriarchal blessing yesterday! She's moving back to Florida <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_20039138" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span> and we really think that our leaving the next day is no coincidence. Sisters needed to be here for her! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anyway, it's been a great week. I will miss Sheridan. </span></div>
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Picture 2-this is why walking is hard in the winter </div>
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Picture 3-this is why getting to people's doors is hard in the winter (the gate is frozen in ice on the ground)</div>
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Picture 4- Billings temple! </div>
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Picture 5- SCRIPTURE POWER! Keeps me safe from being eaten :)</div>
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Picture 6- Worland is getting some pretty cool sisters </div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">This week was busy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">Monday night we tried to drive to Cody, WY through Billings, MT for exchanges, so we could avoid going through the Big Horn mountains because of bad winter roads, but the trip ended up taking much longer because a snow storm hit and we got lost a few times. So we stayed in Billings overnight and I got to see Sister Shupe which was awesome! Then we headed to Cody the next morning and went on exchanges with the sisters there- Sister Clegg and Sister Kent. I was with Sister Clegg. It was way fun being with her. She's going home this transfer and she's the only sister going home, so I got to go on an exchange with the most experienced sister in the mission! We were able to have a few less active lessons and we taught a solid investigator in a member's home with 3 members present. It was sweet. Those members were great teachers and basically extended the invitations to come to church and all that for us. Haha. It was an interesting day because it dumped snow all day long and by the next day, it was about a foot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">Then we went to their district meeting and then we went on exchanges with the Burlington sisters right after. It's a town of almost 300 but there's like 3 or 4 wards and a Spanish group. The Big Horn Basin (basically that side of the mountains) is very heavily Mormon populated. I was with Sister Taylor and she was an awesome teacher. She has a lot of love for the people here and has been studying Spanish really hard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">A HUGE miracle this week was that our investigator on date in Sheridan gave us all her coffee to dump out in the dumpster and she had an already made cup of coffee that she bought from McDonalds and she dumped it out. We just followed up on the word of wisdom and she said she's been bad at the coffee part and we asked her to pick another point in the back of the word of wisdom pamphlet to work on and she said, "I just need to throw it out." And she stood up, and gave us all of it. It made me so happy! :'D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">We also did a lot of service since we've been back. We helped at the food bank, helped a family move stuff out of their storage units, and helped some members with their Sprouted Almonds company in their warehouse. We sorted and put 5500 lbs of almonds in trays to dehydrate. There were huge bins full of almonds that got washed and sucked up into this machine. It spreads them on trays and puts them on a conveyor belt and we had to sort through them all and stack the trays up. There were 10 dollies of 21-22 trays. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">There's lots of other stuff that happened but those are some highlights! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">I read an article this week in this month's New Era called "Surviving the Social Media Highlight Reel". I really liked what I read in here because, by growing up the way I did and serving here in the states where social media is still around me, I've been able to see the effect it has on me and people in general. I think being able to use Facebook in my mission has helped me develop some internal safeguards and habits that can make social media use a more positive thing in my life. This quote from the article helps explain some of what I've learned: "We can ask ourselves some questions before sharing a post. “What is my intent? Is it to exclude someone or cause jealousy?” If so, rethink your sharing. But if it’s just to share something you’re super excited about or to uplift others, go for it." Social media can be so much better if we keep this in mind. I challenge everyone to post something uplifting this week- whether it be something they learned in their scripture study, something they learned at church, or a little miracle you've had lately. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">Have a great week! </span></div>
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Picture 1-Billings with Sister Thacker and Sister Shupe </div>
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Picture 2-exchanges in Cody </div>
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Picture 3-plows are the BEST THING EVER</div>
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Picture 4-snow on our cars in Cody</div>
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Picture 5-almonds!</div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-18714988722168845122017-01-10T18:11:00.002-08:002017-01-10T18:11:45.219-08:00Week 73<div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">So the beginning of the week just consisted of me being sick and us being stuck in the apartment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">I do feel better now and we had an awesome lesson with one of our investigators on date about the word of wisdom. We were kind of nervous for the lesson because she has some word of wisdom issues but her reaction was "This is gonna suck" but she was totally willing to do it! She knows very well that it's gonna be hard but there wasn't any question that she was gonna try! She's awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">We had zone conference in Buffalo <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1740521598" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span> and interviews with President here in Sheridan <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1740521599" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span>. The conference was all about repentance again and it was really good. I like how they not only talked about teaching repentance, but how we as missionaries really need to apply it too. We will have no power in our teaching if we don't use the atonement ourselves! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">We had a lesson with our 11 year old investigator in Ranchester and we put him on date finally for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1740521600" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 28th</span></span>! He is a funny kid and wanted to be baptized on dates that are associated with tragic events in history (like the Titanic sinking or the attack on Pearl Harbor) but his parents were able to talk him out of it. It was the most chaotic and unique experience of putting someone on date I've ever had on my mission. Haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">So cool experience- the other week on exchanges, another sister and I got stuck in the snow and a nice family saw us and helped us out. Well I wanted to thank them so Sister Jacoby and I dropped off cookies last night and it turns out they are a less active/ part member family! They were nice and let us in and talked to us for a while. They're not interested right now but I think their hearts softened a little bit. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">I hope you all have a great week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">So this week I learned that Wyoming really is the least populated state in America. I kind of guessed but it's official. The population is around 500,000. I have been called to serve in the least populated state in all the 50 states of this country. Weird. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">Our exchanges to Cody was canceled on Monday because of high winds but we did have exchanges from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2088067492" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Thursday</span></span> night to <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2088067493" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> morning and the sisters serving in Worland came here. So I was with Sister Lisberg here in Sheridan and Sister Jacoby went with Sister Dayes to Ranchester. It was my first exchange ever as a sister training leader and it was realllllly rough because I got sick, a snowstorm hit that day, and we got stuck in the snow (in their Toyota Corolla) 7 times. People had to come save us 3 of those times. Some friendly neighborhood people saved us the first time, a homeless guy the second, and 4 elders the third time. Sister Lisberg was so sweet and was super understanding about my being sick but we still were out and about until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2088067494" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:30pm</span></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">I'm still sick and went to urgent care yesterday and we were shuts ins all day. I slept and we watched some church movies from the apartment. I feel bad for Sister Jacoby having to babysit me but she's so awesome and willing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">Some highlights of this week was that we were able to help teach our recent convert how to do family history and we got a huge chunk of her family tree filled in. She's super excited to take her family names to the temple. Her reaction to her discovering her ancestors was priceless. She was yelling for joy and in total astonishment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">I was also able to Skype in on my investigator's baptism in Bozeman. She was the one who came and found us while we were eating dinner at Oba. She was seriously beaming and so overwhelmed with joy afterwards. It made me so happy. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">So a major theme in our teaching that I have seen in this past week was the Plan of Salvation. We met with at least 3 people this week on a day that happened to be the anniversary of a loved one's death or someone they loved passed away that very day. I don't think its any coincidence that we happened to show up at that time and in that same situation several times throughout the week. It was so neat to see the spirit work in people and bring them peace as we testified of the truth of the Plan of Salvation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">This week, we also were invited to dinner with the YSA branch president and some prospective missionaries. Its so fun to see the excitement people have while working on their papers and preparing to go out. That ambition needs to be remembered and maintained throughout ones mission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">So I was going to put a spiritual thought from Chapter 33: Missionary Work from Brigham Young's Teachings of the Presidents book, but I ended up highlighting the whole thing. It's SO good so I challenge you all to go read it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 19pt;">I hope you all had a happy new year and made some awesome resolutions! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hope you had a great Christmas! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">So this week was fun and full of caroling. So <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_486766810" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Monday</span></span>, we were supposed to head to Billings because MLC in Helena was <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_486766811" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span> but it was cancelled because of bad weather, so we ended up going to a live nativity for 2nd ward instead and we were in it as wise men. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We went to Ranchester and Dayton <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_486766812" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span> and contacted some people over there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_486766813" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Wednesday</span></span>, we taught a recent convert and one of our investigators on date and they were so awesome. I feel so lucky to be here to meet such awesome people who are ready to learn. We also went caroling with the other missionaries in Sheridan and did some service for those we stopped by- like haul wood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_486766815" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> was a lot of traveling. We had zone training in Gillette (1.5 hours away) and it focused on repentance- how we can use it on our own lives and how to teach it to others. Then we had our ZLC, or zone leadership council, (for zone leaders, district leaders, and sister training leaders) and we Skyped in for the Wyoming West zone's ZLC after ours to discuss the needs of the sisters over there. Then from there we went to Ranchester and Dayton (2+ hours away from Gillette).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_486766816" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> was Christmas Eve and it was AWESOME. In the morning, we replaced some elders who were ringing bells in front of Walmart for the Salvation Army because they were sick. That was never something I really wanted to do, but it was kind of fun and we got quite a bit of money! Then we visited one of the nursing homes here and saw some members in there. One was sick bad enough to where we had to dress up with isolation precautions- so we had to put on medical masks, a gown, gloves, and booties. She just loved our visit. She asked us to sing for her and we didn't have our iPads in the room with us to see lyrics, so we sang the best we could from memory and while wearing masks. It was interesting. Then multiple members had us over and one older member had us carol with her to multiple different places including the homeless shelter- which was so cool! I've never thought of that before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">On Christmas, we Skyped home and had breakfast and dinner with some members. We went to sacrament in Ranchester and Sheridan and sang every Christmas hymn in the hymn book just at church alone. Then after church, we went caroling with the elders at another old folks home and it was so awesome because some residents were so happy when we came. We gave them cards and candy canes too. A snow storm hit and we got stuck in the snow (even in our truck on 4 wheel drive) and I had to shovel and push us out. All of the companionships in Sheridan got stuck at some point yesterday. So we had to hunker down indoors again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">For a spiritual thought this week, I thought this just fit perfectly. It's an excerpt from an article in last year's December Ensign called "In Tune With the Christmas Spirit" and its about caroling! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"At the beginning of our hospital visit, I had noticed that there were really only two gifted singers in our group. The rest of us did the best we could, and while we sounded decent, we were nothing spectacular. However, with each patient that we visited, the Spirit seemed to increase, and so did the quality of our voices...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="m_-6181901838807499315Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>I’m not sure why this small miracle occurred. Perhaps because we only desired the talent to make others happy, it was granted to us for a short time (see 1 Corinthians 14:1). I wasn’t the only one who noticed--another woman in our group commented on the way out, “I’m not a very good singer, but I always find that my voice improves when I do service like this.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I definitely saw this happen throughout the week as we served people through song! Especially because they were about Christ! Heavenly Father helps us when we are in His service. </span></div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-13835458499176713182016-12-20T13:05:00.003-08:002016-12-20T13:05:41.649-08:00Week 70<div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">So this week was crazy. Before I left Bozeman, we put another one of our investigators, the one from Jordan, on date. And it's SO SAD being transferred right before people's baptisms. I know the next missionaries will take good care of them though. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sister Ashcroft and I packed our luggage and our apartment and then we had transfers <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467254" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span>. It was an all day affair for me because I was getting moved to Wyoming. We got in Sheridan at night and I'm officially in Wyoming now. It's weird. I was thinking I was only going to be in Montana for my mission but guess not! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Let me tell ya, it has been COLD this past week. There was lots of wind and snow from the storm that came in <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467255" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span>. We were told by the assistants to not go outside unless we had set appointments for all of<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467256" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467257" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span>. But they forgot to send that message to my zone, so we were proselyting <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467258" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> day until we were informed that it applied to us too. Haha. It was -19 degrees and -31 with the windchill <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467259" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span>. It was so bad we had ice only in the INSIDE of our truck. Not really on the outside and it wouldn't come off. Cars aren't made to operate in this kind of weather. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We had an awesome lesson with an investigator who we put on date for baptism <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467260" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We went to our Ranchester branch for sacrament meeting yesterday and then to Sheridan 1st ward for the 3 hours. Ranchester is closer to the Montana/ Wyoming border and we actually cover some towns in Montana too. It's so weird and I can't keep the 2 states separate in my head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We are going to Billings today for MLC (Mission Leadership Council) <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467261" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span> and we won't be back into our area until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1525467262" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span>. MLC is for zone leaders, sister training leaders, and some other mission leaders. So there's lots of traveling this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe. Every person we meet is a VIP to our Heavenly Father...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> One woman who had been through years of trial and sorrow said through her tears, “I have come to realize that I am like an old 20-dollar bill--crumpled, torn, dirty, abused, and scarred. But I am still a 20-dollar bill. I am worth something. Even though I may not look like much and even though I have been battered and used, I am still worth the full 20 dollars.” (President Dieter F. Uchtdorf "You Are My Hands")</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Have a good week and stay warm! </span></div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-59267774531270732982016-12-12T15:20:00.000-08:002016-12-12T15:20:01.485-08:00Week 69<div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hello family and friends! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Transfer news: I'm going to be a sister training leader in the Wyoming East zone! That means I'm going to go on exchanges and do training with sisters in the Wyoming West zone because we are the only sisters in the Wyoming East zone. So I will be transferred to Sheridan, Wyoming <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1118950164" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span> and I'm going to be companions with Sister Jacoby, who I served with in Great Falls! I'm really nervous for this huge change but excited. I'm sooooo sad to say goodbye to the people here though. I haven't had enough time! :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***So if you send anything to me, send it to the mission home address: 1848 Rimrock Rd. Billings, Montana 59102 and they will forward it to my new address. And let me know if you have sent anything to me recently to my Bozeman address so I can tell someone who is still here in Bozeman to forward it to Wyoming if I don't get it before <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1118950165" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">So this week was nuts- in a good way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We got a new investigator while we were eating dinner with a member at a Brazilian cafe called Oba. She saw us walk by the store she works at as we were walking to Oba. She came in and basically asked to take the lessons because she wants to be baptized. So that was awesome! She's sweet and came to our ward's Christmas party/ fiesta (it was Mexican themed) and loved it. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1118950166" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Saturday</span></span>, we taught her the Restoration and she loved it. When we taught the First Vision, she got chills and we helped her identify that as the spirit. She said she's like Joseph Smith and has been looking into different religions all her life but didn't feel right about any of them. She says she feels peace when she reads the Book of Mormon. She also loves the quotes from Thomas S. Monson that she finds on Pinterest. When we invited her to be baptized, she was ecstatic and started crying. She basically has just been waiting for someone to ask her. We committed her to be baptized in <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1118950167" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">December 31st</span></span>. She said the closing prayer too and is so excited to come to church, read the Book of Mormon, and everything. She said she felt overjoyed. </span><span style="font-family: ".AppleColorEmojiUI"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="😄" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f604" goomoji="1f604" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f604" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She is the cutest thing ever and Sister Ashcroft and I were on cloud 9 after that lesson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We also had an awesome lesson on Book of Mormon with a less active this week. We originally went over to share the Christmas video with her but then as we got talking, we discovered she doesn't really have a testimony of the church anymore but still refuses to join any other religions. We asked her if she has read the Book of Mormon at all recently and she said no and that she doesn't understand it or why the people in it are significant. That turned out to be one of the most spiritual lessons I've had in this area and we committed her to read it. We testified of the truthfulness and explained some reading habits that will help her get more out of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It dumped snow and got really cold this week. It got in the negatives. The air hurts your face and my toes lose all sensation. They don't even sting. They sting then go completely numb. I have started wearing 2-3 layers at all times now. Our zone was really smart and went caroling when it was 6 degrees outside and we had to go in our cars and thaw once in a while. But we are rotating which areas we carol at so it becomes a finding activity/ blitz sort of thing. And one part member family told us to go in their teepee in their backyard and it was so cool! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oh. And plows make me happy. One of these days, I'm gonna make cards and just put them on the windshields of the cars with plows on them. They do such a wonderful service to the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Your call has eternal consequences for others and for you. In the world to come, thousands may call your name blessed, even more than the people you serve here. They will be the ancestors and the descendants of those who chose eternal life because of something you said or did, or even what you were. If someone rejects the Savior’s invitation because you did not do all you could have done, their sorrow will be yours. You see, there are no small callings to represent the Lord. Your call carries grave responsibility. But you need not fear, because with your call come great promises...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">There will be times when you will feel overwhelmed. One of the ways you will be attacked is with the feeling that you are inadequate. Well, you are inadequate to answer a call to represent God with only your own powers. But you have access to more than your natural capacities, and you do not work alone." -Henry B. Eyring ("Rise to Your Call" Oct. 2002)</span></div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-44777611464536635672016-12-10T21:17:00.003-08:002016-12-10T21:17:55.895-08:00Week 68<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello all!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was busy! We had a Christmas zone conference on Thursday in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Helena but it was only 3 zones this time- not half mission. They also</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ended early because a storm was coming into Bozeman and we had to beat</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the blizzard back home. It was fun and they showed a slideshow of all</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of the missionaries as kids on Christmas and we had some good talks on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the Book of Mormon and the Savior. We also had a nice lunch provided</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">by the Helena Relief Society sisters.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had exchanges with the Billings sisters and it went really well. I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stayed in Bozeman and I actually had a full night of lessons for the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sister training leader to come to! That is rare!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had an awesome lesson with an investigator from Jordan/ Jerusalem.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he loved it! His wife passed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">away a few months ago and it devastated him. He is a very spiritual</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">person and when we invited him to church, he said he would pray about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it and if God told him to come, he would! And he came! I was so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">excited! He stayed for Gospel Principles too! I really have high hopes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for him!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Our investigator from Guatemala also came to church and now he has</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">started contributing in Gospel Principles! It's so awesome to see him</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">progress.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had the Christmas stroll on Main Street </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1024948783" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> and it was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pretty fun. We made a #LIGHTtheWORLD poster and all of us missionaries</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in Bozeman and the Three Forks elders handed out pass along cards by</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the hundreds and service advent calendars. The elders got pretty</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">creative to get some attention.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also had a Christmas devotional broadcast </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1024948784" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> and I loved it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President Eyring is hilarious and I loved how he said to seek peace</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">through the Giver of good gifts. As human beings, we seem to always</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">seek peace through the wrong sources but Christ has promised us true</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and lasting peace if we follow him!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">After the devotional, we went caroling with the other missionaries and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">got an awesome reception! It was great to see the joy it brought to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people as we sung about the Savior.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It's getting colder and it has snowed a lot. The weather is supposed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to get in the negatives next week so that should be fun. 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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week was good. We taught a teenage returning less active (kindof recent convert) twice in a members home. He is such an awesome kid. He asks such good questions and is so respectful. He's going places in life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Our zone training was really good. We talked about Adjusting to Missionary Life and new ways to find people to teach. I'm excited to try being more creative to break up the monotony of the work some days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We tried to contact people all week but haven't had much luck. We also had a super vague referral for a duplex up the street with a white garage. That ended up describing a third of the houses in the neighborhood and we tried every single one of them to no avail. But we will keep trying! I'm determined now! Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We went to a baptism for an 8 year old in the ward and they invited several neighbor families to come and it was an awesome service! The lady who spoke on baptism basically taught the whole Restoration while she was at it and whenever speakers used "Mormon lingo", they would define it as they spoke. It was a missionary's dream. Haha. We talked to one of the neighbors after to see what he thought but it was kind of rushed. So we hope to follow up with these people here soon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Thanksgiving was good. We volunteered with some elders at the 5k called Huffing for Stuffing that morning. 4500 people came to run! </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> It was SO cold and we had like 4 layers on but it was fun. There were some interesting costumes that people ran in too! Haha. We had 3 dinners total and it almost killed us but we survived without getting too sick! We ate at 2 families houses in our ward and then a family in the 2nd ward who also had the 2nd ward elders over because no one else signed up to have us over in the evening and we were told to be with members all day. It was a fun day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Here's a cool experience from this week: So weekly planning can take the life out of you sometimes and we decided to take a break. I wanted some chocolate at this fancy French chocolate shop inside Hotel Baxter. And I guess my chocolate cravings were inspired because a recent RM from the Oregon Eugene Mission stopped us and gave us a referral of his sister and brother in law! It was awesome. Plus, he knows the two elders we know from back home who are serving in the OEM. Small world! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Another little miracle we had was when we were tracting some apartment buildings, it was getting a bit discouraging because no one was receptive but then we knocked on a door where 2 people living in humble looking circumstances answered and exclaimed that they love hearing the word of God. They were busy at the moment but begged us to come back in a week. People like them make it all worth it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We had interviews with President this week and he told me to read a talk he read recently. It's by Elder Marvin J. Ashton and one of my favorite parts is this: "On our last trip to Great Britain, I had a chance to visit with an eighteen-year-old young man who has had close association with many missionaries in the field. As I was going to speak to a large number of missionaries in the next few days, I asked this friend what he thought was the most important trait missionaries needed in order to be successful. His answer was simple. “They must know how to work. Many come on a mission never knowing how to work.” It has been my experience over the years that feeble-knees are not a by-product of work and commitment to goals." How true! I have definitely been able to see this throughout my mission. I know that through the work ethic I develop during my mission, I can be a hardworking citizen, student, mother, sister, daughter, friend, and Latter-Day Saint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We have been introducing this year's new Christmas initiative the church created. It's called #LIGHTtheWORLD. There is a great video about how we can serve this Christmas season like Christ did. And there's a 25 day advent calendar of service ideas we can do everyday leading up to Christmas! Check it out and share it with everyone! It's on </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://Christmas.mormon.org&source=gmail&ust=1480648468472000&usg=AFQjCNH6u4dqa90LRP6FBCtuwYO_d2QyzA" href="http://christmas.mormon.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Christmas.mormon.org</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We helped make turkey treats (turkeys made out of Rice Krispie treats and candy) at a nursing home and all of the old ladies were so funny. They didn't know how to make them even when we helped them and they just laughed and laughed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We also were able to help at the food bank here and it is WAY bigger than every other food bank I've served in on my mission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We had an early Thanksgiving dinner with the YSA ward on Saturday. We didn't have dinner that night and a member invited us so what the hey. It is weird being a missionary around people my own age. It's like there's a wall between us but not...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We got a referral from the Belgrade elders this week. It was an investigator they've been teaching for a while and he moved into our area. The guy is in a rough spot in his life to the point where he's now living in a motel and biking everywhere, which has softened him to the gospel. The way things worked out made it so that us and the Bozeman 1st ward elders taught him at once. We tried to make it so the guy didn't feel ganged up on but four people in name tags makes it a little weird. Haha. He was nice about it and he recognizes something different about the church! :) He came to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_182002926" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> and it was his first time going to any church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_182002927" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in 20 years</span></span>. He enjoyed it and we had a lesson afterwards and a recent RM was our member present and he was awesome. He had the pamphlet we needed, taught our investigator how to pray, and everything! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We have been able to talk to more people this week compared to last week. We found a super solid new investigator but had to turn him over to the zone leaders because he's a YSA. We were contacting a former investigator and they moved but this new guy moved in. He is like a mini Joseph Smith. He's wondering which church is true and is actively seeking the truth. We taught him on his doorstep and he soaked the Restoration in and accepted a Book of Mormon. He was so excited for a return appointment and I just wish we could teach him but he's a YSA. :( I'm glad we found him though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We were also able to get more dinners this week which was good because it helps me get to know the ward. The members are so nice here. At one dinner appointment, the couple had Sister Ashcroft play a hymn on the piano and we all sang along and I felt like I was in the 1800s or something. Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">This week has been snowy and between 20-30 degrees. I'm in denial though that winter is here and refuse to wear my coat until I absolutely need to. I'm not ready for winter round 2!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Last Monday was Halloween and we had a fun district preparation day. We played spike ball, four square, carved pumpkins, hit a piñata, etc. It was a party! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Before transfer, I said bye to lots of people in he branch and we had some good last lessons. I absolutely hate saying bye. It tears me apart but I just have to remember that it's probably just "see ya later". Shelby has been awesome and I definitely will cherish my time there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1487737828" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Wednesday</span></span>, I was transferred to Bozeman. Let me tell ya, the city is way different. Missionary work feels so strange in a city. There's lots of traffic, there's other missionaries around, and everything! I'm still adjusting. We are still trying to build the teaching pool but it's a bit hard because it feels like 80% of the population is YSA because of MSU being here, and the zone leaders are over them. So if we find YSAs, we have to refer them over to the elders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sister Ashcroft has been awesome. We've been catching up and talking about things at home- which is strange because we actually know what each other is taking about! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We had Sister Ashcroft's old companion with us until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1487737829" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> because she went home. Being in a trio was kind of fun. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">And I saw a bunch of Livingston and Ennis people there! It was a joyous reunion. I saw the Carters too, the members I lived with in Livingston! There are definitely pros to serving in the same stake 3 times. </span></div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-55533035193844225902016-11-01T19:31:00.001-07:002016-11-01T19:32:04.232-07:00Week 63<div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Lots has been going on this week. Here's the low-down:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Transfer news: Sister Smith is staying and I'm going to Bozeman! This will be my THIRD time in that zone-but I've always been in towns outside of Bozeman but this will be my first time in the city. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST TIME TO SERVE IN A BIG CITY ON MY MISSION. (Well, big for Montana). I've only served in small towns for over a year. I'm gonna be near a Walmart and a variety of places to eat out at. :') And I'm gonna be with Sister ASHCROFT from back HOME. INSANITY. We are going to be in a trio with Sister Johnson, her current companion, for a bit before she leaves for home. My mind is blown. It's sad saying bye to people here in Shelby though. It's definitely one of the hardest parts about a mission. You get so close to so many people and then you're guaranteed to have to leave at some point. :( And I'm going to miss the baptism of our investigator by a few days. :( again. But I'm still so grateful I was a part of his learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Monday, we toured a Hutterite colony with district and a member. They are such an interesting group of people. I learned a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So this weeks district meeting was pretty interesting. One elder did an activity and we all had to fight. There were different rules in each fight. He had two elders fight but one had nunchucks and the other had nothing, another was that they both had pillows but were blindfolded, another was that two elders had pillows but one had his hands tied behind his back, another was that Sister Smith and I had pillows but our mouths were full of water. I still am trying to figure out how the activity related to the lesson. But I'm not sure... Something about fighting for things? It was entertaining at least. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Later this week, our whole district plus 2 sets of zone leaders, another set of elders from the other district, a senior missionary couple, the stake presidency, and 2 high councilmen over missionary work went to Browning for their trunk-or-treat. Some other missionaries and I stood outside the little church building on the street with a huge "FREE FOOD" sign for a few hours and brought people in in droves. It was sweet. Supposedly around 100 Book of Mormons were given out and some people were actually taught the Restoration as they were eating chili and there were some return appointments made! Woo! When you get a band of missionaries going, stuff gets done! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">The next night, we had the chili cook off in Shelby. It was adults only this year so they could get a break from the kids. Sister Smith and I were the costume judges and we got some really good costumes. We had a gillie suit, Uncle Si (a girl dressed up as him), a lady with a costume that said "National Clown Hunters Service" (because of all that scary clown stuff going on), and a woman named Ariél dressed as Ariél, etc. And we played the funniest game called "Lipless" where you put that thing in your mouth that dentists give you that retract your lips and you have to say certain phrases off a card and your team has to guess what you're saying. It's SO funny. I took lots of pictures and basically have blackmail on the whole branch now. </span><span style="font-family: ".applecoloremojiui"; font-size: 17pt;"><img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> We had some less actives come that we have been dying to get fellowshipping for, so that was exciting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_389044010" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Saturday</span></span>, we did some work in Chester...and every little town around there. We basically drove up and down highway 2. Rudyard, Inverness, Joplin, Chester, Lothair, you name it. We contacted lots of less actives and got in with quite few. I saw that the common theme was the Book of Mormon. Lots of people who are struggling in their testimony or having a hard time putting their faith to action do not have a solid foundation of the Book of Mormon. It really is the KEYSTONE of our religion. If you don't read the Book of Mormon, your faith, like a seed without water, will become weak. We basically pounded that in every house. So we are going to be making a slough of phone calls here soon to follow up. We also had the branch harvest festival dinner in Chester that night and some less actives and investigators came to that too! Food does wonders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We stayed overnight and went to church in Chester yesterday. They definitely put us to work. We taught Gospel Principles and a part of combined Relief Society/ priesthood. And it was fast and testimony meeting and I bore my testimony on the Book of Mormon. I decided to finish off the week with that theme too. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Well, HAPPY HALLOWEEN! We are banned from proselyting tonight so we are going to be hanging with the branch president's family. </span></div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-64487757680416321752016-10-26T19:03:00.001-07:002016-10-26T19:03:05.312-07:00Week 62<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
Hey all!<br />This week was pretty good! Mucho miracles.<br />So do you remember the guy I mentioned last week who we tracted into in Sunburst after we tried a referral? Well- as we stared hearing more and more from him and other members, it's even more of a miracle than we thought! We had dinner with a member family he knows and works with and we brought him up in the dinner conversation. They said they have been praying for YEARS that missionaries would find him because they couldn't give out his address or invite him to take the discussions because of their rules at work. And the guy we tracted into said he was wondering about God just the previous day or that day (I don't remember) and we just "so happened" to knock on his door at that time. Coincidence? No way. And the fact we were prompted to get back out of the truck and try the area around the referral was definitely of the Spirit.<br />Another of our investigators FINALLY set a date for baptism and HE was the one to bring it up when we came for a lesson. He was like, "So are we still planning on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1660735588" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">November 5th</span></span>?" And that was what we committed him to pray about for baptism as he was on vacation and he is now on board!! <img alt="😄" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f604" goomoji="1f604" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f604" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="😭" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f62d" goomoji="1f62d" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f62d" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /> It made our whole lives. Missionaries have been trying to commit him for-ev-er. He's so ready.<br />We went on an exchange this week and I went down to Helena again. I'm gonna start counting Helena as another area of mine here soon because almost every exchange I've been on was in Helena. And I've been stranded there a few times by snow storms...so yeah. I've spent my fair share of time there. It was fun and we got to teach quite a few lessons and tract. </div>
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We had several of our less actives and investigators come to church this week. My companion, our branch mission leader, and I were so shocked when a less active father and son that we have been trying to get to church <i>actually</i> came!<br />We also taught a youth fireside about missionary work and committed them all to give someone a Book of Mormon by next month. We did a role play with them about how to do it and bear testimony along with it, so hopefully the youth start getting into missionary work! </div>
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Life has been good and this next week will be full of craziness with all of the Halloween festivities. :)</div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-3141219561158066322016-10-20T18:05:00.002-07:002016-10-20T18:05:59.095-07:00Week 61<div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week was great! I turned 21 and it was awesome. We did some fun stuff and we went out to dinner with a returning less active, an active family had us for lunch and made me a cake, I was sung to by the whole branch <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1274259237" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> at the potluck and by other missionaries on the phone (just like last year), etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We went to Great Falls last Monday for zone preparation day and for a stake missionary meeting and then we went to Helena the next day for a zone conference. The roads were a bit icy but we are alive. I'm surprised but not surprised that the whole caravan of missionaries made it without accidents during that trip. I appreciate the prayers! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One of the many things I learned this time was that the wolf we feed is the wolf that will win. It's an old story about the rivalry between a good and bad wolf. We can label all the good traits and Christlike attributes we need to strive for as the "good wolf" and the "bad wolf" with the opposites. I have seen this many times in my mission. For example, I am going to be negative when I feed that emotion. When I dwell on the annoying or not-so-good things that happened that day, I'm going to have a bad attitude and outlook. But when I focus on the good and have a grateful heart, I can be happy, have the spirit, and enjoy my mission. We cannot serve 2 masters so one wolf has to win. That's the one we feed. It's still something I'm working on but this principle is true. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Here's a miracle: We were contacting a former investigator and it said in the area book that they weren't sure if she lived there anymore. So we decided to try it and see and we found a family who listened and wants us to come back! They took a Book of Mormon, pamphlets, and everything. The dad is not that interested but he says his kids are and his wife was. Definitely have a testimony of contacting formers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We found a pretty awesome guy in Sunburst this week. We were contacting a referral who ended up not being interested and then we hopped back in the truck. But then I remembered that we should tract around the referrals house and we said another quick prayer and started knocking. It was cold and not so enjoyable but the last house we tried ended up being a guy who has a Book of Mormon a member gave him who works with him at border patrol and has been reading it! He showed us and had lots of questions and believes some of what we believe. He was more than open to us coming back next week and literally asked us what else we wanted to share with him before we left. It was awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Later that night, we had dinner and FHE with one of our investigators at a member family's home. Both members are converts so for FHE (and Sister Smith's and my training), we heard their convert stories and the investigator we brought soaked it all in. He's the one who has to wait until he's 18 to be baptized because of his parents, and one of the members had to wait as well because she was 16 when she wanted to join the church. He thanked them afterwards and said he could relate. Aw. Such a good FHE. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Well, that was a good chunk of the week! Hope you all are having a good day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Last week we went to Glacier National Park for preparation day again and it was gorgeous. We went through east and west Glacier and it's easily the prettiest place I've ever been to. I just want to live there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We had district meeting in Cutbank this week at a senior couples house because the Elder is too sick to come to district meetings in Shelby. So we all talked about our favorite talks from conference and they fed us Canadian thanksgiving! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week, my testimony of tracting around referrals grew. We had a referral in some apartments and we tracted around a found a guy named Sam who was super receptive and wanted us to come back! Woo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Little blessing: Some older LDS ladies who were traveling from Canada came and talked to us when we were having lunch at Pizza Hut and paid for the whole districts meals! :) I feel so grateful for people who are generous like that! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week has been cold. I think it's here for good now! There was fog, sleet, and now we have a couple inches of snow and it's still snowing. We've been doing lots of tracting lately so the weather always makes it an adventure. I look like I'm dressed for winter already but when you're knocking doors in the cold all day, the cold gets to your core fast so you have to hunker down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We had an awesome dinner at the branch presidents house and we had a less active, recent convert, and some investigators there and it was all thrown together that day- so that was sweet! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We met a cool guy at a former investigators house who basically asked us if he could come to church and be baptized. He was like, "So what do I do? Just show up and get baptized?" Hahaha. We wish but no. :P He unfortunately didn't come to church but we have high hopes for him! :) That was a miracle. We went to the formers house to try to pick them back up again. They're not interested but love the church and missionaries and know everything about it so they were basically teaching him along with us. So maybe through him, we can get this family going again!</span></div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-13385355127352179062016-10-20T17:55:00.001-07:002016-10-20T17:55:12.960-07:00Week 59<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello, world!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So this week we had transfers and I picked up Sister Smith. She last</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">served in the Butte zone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week has been fun. We tried whale blubber gum (which is not too</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bad)". So I can cross that off my bucket list. Hahah.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We went to Great Falls women's session of general conference!!! We had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a service project before and then dinner and the broadcast. It was so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">great! I love what President Uchtdorf said that we need to walk with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">whatever faith we have but always seeking to increase it. Sometimes we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">struggle with our faith and we just have to hold on to the bit we have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">at the time but not give up there. We should always strive to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">strengthen our testimonies along the way! I also loved how Sister</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Bonnie L. Oscarson said that we live in perilous times but also in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fullness of times. We have the tools necessary to keep is strong as we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">live in these last days! Heavenly Father trusts us to use them. I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">loved absolutely everything but that was just a few points!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Oh! And we were able to have a less active come! She drove the hour to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">come down and stayed for the whole thing! It was awesome and she took</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lots of notes during the broadcast. :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a lesson earlier on in the week with her and she was a mess.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">She has had a spiritual experience lately that has made her want to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">change her life around but she has such difficult obstacles in the way</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that makes her fear changing. But the spirit really directed us in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">knowing what to say and what scriptures to share and she's stuck with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her decision to change! She says she feels so much better about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">herself now as she's gradually getting better and obeying the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">commandments. I can even feel the difference about her. :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also went to a funeral this week and I (again) didn't even know the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">person but we went to support the members who were grieving. And we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">also were contacted BY a referral we had while we were in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cemetery. So that was the most unique referral contacted I've ever had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in my life. Haha.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Some less actives came to church yesterday and bore their testimonies</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in sacrament meeting! It was so great to see them do that. We also</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">shared some simple missionary experiences in sharing time in primary</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">as well. Little kids are so cute. They were so excited that we came</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in. :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Another miracle that happened was that we decided to talk to a lady</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that we often see walking on the streets. We were walking on the other</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">side and crossed over and just started talking. She said she was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">actually baptized into the church when she was younger but has been</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">less active for most of her life. She's not in our records here so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that was cool that we found her! We shared the Restoration pamphlet</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with her and she said we could follow up with her later.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It's been an awesome week and we are going to be traveling a lot this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">next week to Chester, Sunburst, and Great Falls.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hope you have a great week!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Lauren Ney</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Montana Billings Mission</span>Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-40114523195470185762016-10-05T20:23:00.002-07:002016-10-05T20:24:52.677-07:00Week 58<div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Hey everyone! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">This week was busy and packed with traveling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We went to Chester Monday night through <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_905976964" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> night and we were dropped off and picked up to save miles, so we were on foot-so we couldn't go very far. We tried everyone within the town of Chester who is an active member, less active, and investigator because there's not many people in the records from a town of 800. And we knocked doors too. I would say we had more success with the active members because all of our other lessons fell through and we couldn't get ahold of many others. We built some trust with the members by painting someone's deck, popping in at another's dance studio, etc. We also had dinner at our branch presidents house in Inverness with an investigating family, so that was awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">The next day, we went to Sunburst with another member to try people up there. We found a semi- active couple who owns a quilt shop. Their whole life and couple story seems like it should be straight out of a Nicholas Sparks book. They were awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">The next day, we went to Great Falls for zone training and some crazy stuff went down. The whole mission is training again! Every companionship is going to go through the first 12 weeks again and have an extra hour of the day to do it. Holy cow. I'm kindof excited because I liked getting down to the basics. We also set some zone goals to get 20 baptisms in the zone by the end of the year and we made a plan to do that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Faith:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">-100% invitations to baptism in the first lesson </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">-pray for focus investigators by name everyday in personal prayers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">-5 new OYMs a day </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Sacrifice:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">-keep dinners to 1 hour </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">-be effective until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_905976965" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9pm</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Desire: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">-give out atleast 1 Book of Mormon a day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Attitude:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">-memorize and recite Alma 37:40 every day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">And one of our zone leaders had me and 2 other elders bear our testimonies on how Jesus Christ has helped us in our lives and the spirit was SO strong after that. If anything can bring the spirit, it's testifying of the Savior. Without a doubt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Then of course there was general conference!!! My goodness, it was amazing. I especially likes when Elder Yamashita said "Be ambitious for Christ". That really stuck out to me and how he said to serve God with a joyful heart. It may be hard to do that sometimes but when we do all that we are told to do, it will be more natural and a part of who we are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">What was everyone's favorite parts and why? I would love to get responses! <a href="mailto:Lauren.ney@myldsmail.net" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Lauren.ney@myldsmail.net</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Hope you all have a great week!</span></div>
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-84501123232494598072016-09-20T18:57:00.002-07:002016-09-20T18:57:52.936-07:00Week 57<br />
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<br />Transfer news: I'm staying in Shelby and Sister Thomas is going to<br />Missoula. My new companion is going to be Sister Smith and I served in<br />the Butte zone with her a lot- so I already know her decently well. :)<br />The weather has been so weird. One day was in the 30s and had an awful<br />windchill and then the other days have been in the 70s! I don't get it<br />We had one of the best lessons ever this week with the 15 year old I<br />was talking about the past couple emails. We met with him at the<br />church and we had a sister who was his <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1916624359" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> School teacher the<br />couple of times he came to church in the past. He<br />Had the bombest lesson ever. He read the pamphlet we gave him and he<br />soaked the whole Restoration in. He believes that Joseph Smith saw<br />Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and that having prophets could really<br />help guide him and his family. He says his parents will be supportive<br />of him learning but his extended family will probably oppose. He said<br />he bought church pants to wear <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1916624360" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> bc he wants to be respectful.<br />He also wants to learn because he's investigated churches in the past<br />and he really felt the spirit here. He said it felt close to him. We<br />committed him to be baptized on my birthday-<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1916624361" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 15th</span></span>!!!!! 😄 I'M<br />SO EXCITED!<br />We also had a lesson with our media referral/ investigating couple. We<br />have permission to teach them with the elders who are teaching their<br />in-laws in Cutbank (who this couple referred) who are also<br />investigating but we are still trying to work that out. We taught the<br />Plan of Salvation and they're doing good and they came to church this<br />week!!! Our 15 year old and the investigating grandparents of the<br />recent convert 9 year old came too! It was a beautiful day. :)<br />We had testimony meeting for district meeting this week and I felt the<br />spirit so strongly just among the 6 of us. I am so blessed to work<br />among other chosen servants of the Lord who testify of Him every day.<br />This week we volunteered at the thrift store in town. I love working<br />in thrift stores. You never know what's gonna come in. Haha.<br />We went to a Hutterite farmers market this week. The Hutterites are a<br />religious group that live in colonies up here and are very self<br />sufficient. They have lots of acres of community gardens, make their<br />own clothes, raise their own animals, and so on. They have a distinct<br />wardrobe and speak German. So we got some produce from them.<br />We also helped at the primary program practice. The kids were so funny<br />and I just stood in as a teacher because they had teachers missing.<br /><br />Sister Lauren Ney<br />Montana Billings Mission<br /><br />Picture 1- we were in a trio for a little bit with a cat that followed<br />us all the way down the street<br />Picture 2- if you let us in your house, we will break your dishes.<br />Limited time offer. :)<div class="yj6qo">
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Lauren Neyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254662452859478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107863303130506015.post-56324430231593912722016-09-13T18:53:00.003-07:002016-09-13T18:53:51.154-07:00Week 56<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Heyo!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So this week was pretty great.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had our annual branch corn roast where they grill and deep fry</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Canadian corn. It was pretty good! I've had so much corn lately</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">though. I think I've had more corn within the last couple of weeks</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">than I've had in my whole life!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I learned how to can things as well- mainly apples and relish. We just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">happened upon 2 different ladies that needed help canning this week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And we made homemade apple sauce with this big contraption thing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We went to a funeral of a less active member of the branch. I never</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">met him but we went to support the people. There were maybe only 10 in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">attendance. This was the 3rd funeral I've been to on my mission and I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hardly knew all of them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had some awesome member present lessons this week. I just love when</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">members come with us. And I have found these scriptures and have been</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">thinking a lot about the benefit of THREE witnesses. In 2 Corinthians</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">13:1, it says, "This is the third time I am coming to you. In the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2 Nephi 11:3 says, "...Wherefore, by the words of three, God hath</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">said, I will establish my word. Nevertheless, God sendeth more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">witnesses, and he proveth all his words."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">When we have a member present in our lessons, the testimony of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">doctrine being taught is so much more powerful. The people who are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">learning can see that other people, besides the missionaries, have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">faith in Christ and have seen blessings come from living His word. So</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">go out with the missionaries! You will be able to participate in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">most important work- the work of salvation. :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We contacted lots of referrals because they piled up because no one</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was ever home when we tried them. We were up there in the 20s.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">For district meeting this week, we all met in Great Falls to hear a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">guy by the name of Craig S. Michelsen speak. He's currently a young</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">men's president in one of the Great Falls wards and he had written</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some books on church doctrine. He's had some other higher up callings</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the church as well. He actually spoke to our zone about the signs</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of the second coming and all of our minds were blown by the end. It's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">kindof sad though because everything he taught is in the scriptures.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We just don't study and utilize them enough to know the important</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">information that Heavenly Father has given to us. So that's something</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I need for work on. It's definitely evidence of 2 Nephi 28:30,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"...thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">them shall be taken away even that which they have." And if we don't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">read and understand the scriptures we have now- we won't be able to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">receive additional scripture Heavenly Father has for us in the future.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He actually started off with talking about the preexistence. I felt</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the spirit so strongly when he was talking about that and I started</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">crying. I don't know why. It just hit me really hard.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had an awesome miracle yesterday. We previously met this lady at a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mexican restaurant who said she wanted us to start teaching her son</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">again because missionaries in the last have tried to meet with him. So</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we went over yesterday and met him and he was so excited that his mom</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">gave approval. He didn't take the lessons before because he thought it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">would go against his parents wishes. So we just said "Yeah. Your mom</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is all for it." He asked how many lessons there are and what happens</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">when they're done (so we of course brought up baptism and church) and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he took a Book of Mormon and everything. So we have an appointment</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with him later this week and he's so cool!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hope you all are doing great!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Lauren Ney</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Montana Billings Mission</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pic 1-Making applesauce!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pic 2-Sunflowers that are taller than me!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pic 3-It's been reallll rainy this week.</span><br />
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