HELLO FAMILY!!!
Sister Abbott was transferred up to Sheridan, Wilimina area and the sister serving there just traded her place. Sister Longhurst is the new comp and she is awesome!!! She got hear on Tuesday night and we have been working so hard. I have been exhausted physically and spiritually since she has gotten here. We feel like the area in Central Point is just going to BOOM, as we would call it, in missionary work. Wow and this week has proven that! Last Sunday Bernice Bailey came to church. She is a 60 year old Native American. She is moving in a couple weeks and had expressed some interest in baptism. So we had an appointment with her on Friday and the spirit was wonderful! Wow the lesson was powerful. We committed her to be baptized on July 24th.... THIS SATURDAY. Wow she was so prepared and ready. The Lord answered our prayers. We have since had 2 other discussions, a chapel tour, she came to all 3 hours at church and we are meeting with her almost everyday this week before the baptism. The ward has fellowshipped her and really taken her in. She has a disease that is slowly killing her, so she is moving to Montana to be with some family and to die where her husband died. She is an amazing person, so full of love and I love her so much. What a wonderful lady that just knew that this was good and right. She recognized the spirit right off the bat, and didn't want that feeling to ever go away. Rewind a couple days... On Thursday we have our weekly planning. It usually takes about 3 hours or so and we make goals and set plans for how many lessons to investigators, recent converts, baptisms, that sort of thing. Well Sister Longhurst and I decided that we wanted to plan in the Medford Temple. So we totally planned in the temple!!!! Well in the Lobby, but still, we were able to feel the spirit and it was powerful! I loved being there and to feel the spirit. I knew that the goals we set where what Heavenly Father wanted us to help him do. Wow it was nuts!!! Alright rewind to Wednesday night... sorry this is all out of order, but you hopefully will see all the amazing things that happened :) So Wednesday night we always go to the Milhoans to have the NML with there son Mathew,16, who was baptized in November. So we were teaching the last lesson and we decided to do it through the talk, Never, Never, Never give up. I had this overwhelming feeling and knew that we needed to invite there family to have missionaries over to there house so we could teach a new family or person...... Well it just so happens that Tony, the middle son of the Milhoans who is 21 has a gf Kayla. I knew that we needed to invite this girl to take the lessons. So we prayed all day that she would be softened to the message. When we got the house, Kayla and Tony said they would come in for the lesson. The spirit was very present and I invited her to learn more. Her eyes lit up and she felt good about it. Wow it was cool. So we set up a time on Saturday.... This brings us to Friday... so after the whole appointment with Bernice, we head over to Vicky Longans house, she is a less active so we thought a fellowshipper would be perfect for her... we invited Sister Milhoan. Anyways the lesson was on Tithing and Fasting. Sister Milhoan expressed to Vicky how fasting was something she had a testimony about. She expressed to us that her and her husband had been fasting for Kayla since November, that her heart would be open and that she would be invited to take the lessons and accept. I had no idea that this happened and that Sister Milhoan was able to receive an answer to her prayers through us. Cool. So Saturday we had our appointment with Kayla at the Milhoans. We had a lesson on the Restoration, Gods Love, The Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. i can't even express how amazing the lesson was. The whole Milhoan family, Kayla, I and Sister Longhurst were all in tears. The spirit all touched our hearts and Kayla recognized the peace and happiness that the gospel brings. We invited her to be baptized on August 7th and she accepted!!! We are continuing to pray for her, and I know that this girl is ready. She knows that this is good and right. To complicate things, her mom and dad are alcoholics and her dad pulled out a gun on her that night. The Milhoans took in her younger brother, mom and Kayla. Anyways...... they are safe and getting help. No one was hurt, but she is just not in a good situation. Satan is going to push on her more than ever. Pray for her!!!
The work is going to skyrocket. We are asking EVERYONE for referrals and we have gotten many since we have been doing that. Our lessons have been lead by the spirit and we are constantly planning. We had the opportunity to have a lesson with Buddy from the Philippeans. It jsut so happens that Bro. Marre in the ward went to the Philippeans on his mission and told us about Buddy and so Sister Abbott and I tried to contact him a couple times, but never got a hold of him. Sister Longhurst and I met him and we set up an appointment, he canceled on us so we went over to his house on Saturday night. Brother Marre told us to come over if we got ahold of his so he could translate from Togalac to English. Buddy was home, we brought him over to the Marres, and we had a lesson about the Book of Mormon. Buddy said he would read, pray, study and then get back to us. We didn't let him get away that easy, the Marre's are out of town for a week so they told us that they would schedule a time with him to come over and ask him how his experience worked out. Cool stuff. We also tracted into a lady, Mary a couple weeks back. She had talked to missionaries before, well we were looking at the former investigators and decided that this Mary would be a good one to go to, it was cool though cause the address was completely different, she moved and we found her!!! We went over to the house again and talked with her husband, he said to come back on Sunday. We went last night and it was awesome! We told them about the restoration, book of mormon and invited them to church, the baptism and the ward pioneer day party on Saturday. they were excited. WE are going back to there house on Wednesday.
Anyways that was a lot of info, but the work is amazing here!!! It feels right, good happy and just awesome!! I love Sister Longhurst, she has taught me SOOOO much. she is so cheery and happy and makes me happy and it is just fun. We work hard, make plans and set our goals high that help us stretch. i am so happy right now, I am out of that rut that I was in for a while. I love being a missionary. The feeling of bringing others unto Christ is amazing. My prayers have been answered so many times this last week and are continuing to be answered. Know that I love you all!! I hope that you can find the tape recorder!!!! I feel so good being here, so sorry if I was negative in the tape, know that I love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week!!!!!!!
XOXXOO Love, Sister Glasgow
Monday, July 19, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
July 12th
We had Zone Conference on Tuesday and it was awesome!! The assistants talked about goal setting and how we can set more achievable goals that can make us stretch... President also talked about this and the miracles that we are able to see each day when we are specific and look for those experiences. The spirit filled the room and we all committed to looking for those miracles in our lives each day. President told us that an APOSTLE is coming to the mission for zone conference in September!! i am so excited! He told us that they know who it is, but it changes from time to time, so up until a couple weeks before the conference we won't know. He told us to read the conference talks and be ready to hear a voice of an apostle. President told Sister Abbott that she is definetly getting transferred on Wednesday morning. My new comp- Sister Longhurst will be here tomorrow night at about 7pm!!! I am so excited to meet her... I don't know anything about her, so next week I will fill you in on all the details. Thanks mom for my atm card... mine was going to expire. Thank you for the letter and pics you sent. i hung the pics on my wall to remind me of all of you back home and to give me strength as I study and get ready for the day. I love you all so much!! I finished the tape so I am going to send home a package in the mail today. I have gotten soooo many stamps from all of you so thank you so much!! I love writing letters when i can ;)!! Oh and I finally got to eat sugar... wow it was so good. Dad- i had one of your favortite little desserts when i ate it for the first time-- scotcheroos!! it was so yummy. Although it made my stomach hurt and I felt sick cause of all the sugar. Going without sugar for 6 weeks was hard, but so worth it. I felt tons better about the kind of food I was eating!! My ankle has been super stiff this week so I asked the Elders to give me a blessing. Almost immedietly the pain started to go away. We played dodgeball today and I hurt it again-- it's my own fault, I guess I will just gimp a little while longer! This week I have been trying to be more specific in my prayers. My prayers were answered and I got to witness a miracle. Bernice Baily is a non-member who came to the bishop looking for some help and he invited her to come to church. She requested a Book of Mormon and then told them that she would attend all 3 hours. I guess she had been to a ward about 5 years ago, and had a good experience. She slipped through the cracks and never thought a whole lot about it. Well she is living here for the next couple weeks and decided that she wanted to try it out again. We met her and she basically asked us how long it takes to get baptised... say what??!!! Wow we told her that it could take about 2 weeks since she came to church today. Her living situation is a little rough right now, so we don't have a time for an appointment this week, but she told us she would call to schedule, and we got her number to follow up. No way is she going to slip through the cracks this time!!! The other miracle part of this story is that the McFarlands came to the Gospel Principles class. They NEVER come to that class and for some reason they were there. They both bore powerful testimonies of their conversion stories and we all could feel the power in there words. The lesson was the on the Holy Ghost.. what a perfect time and lesson for Bernice to hear this. It was so cool!!!
Well I don't have much time cause S. Abbott is going to get a perm, but I love you all so much!! I hope to hear from you all soon!!
Love Sister Glasgow :)
Well I don't have much time cause S. Abbott is going to get a perm, but I love you all so much!! I hope to hear from you all soon!!
Love Sister Glasgow :)
Monday, July 5, 2010
Hello from Central Point, Oregon! Man is it hot over here! I feel like I am in AZ!! This week was alright. Man the mission has highs and lows and this week was kinda in the middle... :) Sister Abbott is getting transferred to a new area next Tuesday or so, so I have a week to learn all I can from her before she leaves. I started to panic this week about her leaving and broke down and just wanted to cry. I love her a lot, even though we have our differences. We have had some great times together and I just wish her the best when she leaves. My district leader, Elder Peterson and one of the zone leaders are also getting transferred.... Everyone is leaving me!!! ahhh!! I know that the Lord will bless me, he never stops blessing us.
I was able to get a little taste of how it would be without S. Abbott here on Monday night till Tuesday cause we went on exchanges. Sister Thain from White City and Eagle point came down to stay with me while S. Abbott went to her area. I was so nervous the whole day before she came. I just prayed that the Lord would guide me to people to teach and words to say. We didn't find any new investigators, but I was able to have a clear mind and people that we needed to visit just worked out well. Sister Thain is REALLY shy, so I totally had to step it up and get her kinda out of her comfort zone a little bit. That reminds me... S. Abbott showed me a picture of the word Comfort zone and drew a circle around it. Outside of the comfort zone she wrote miracle all surrounding in it. We truly learn to step out of our comfort zones and then we can see all the miracles that come.
Miranda and Mondo had to cancel there appointment this week so we didn't get to see them. Lehenekr is doing great. The ward is going to get a fellowshipper to do the new member lessons with her. She has just totally changed. I love being able to see her and feel the spirit she carries with her. She is still being really sneaky and has us write down scriptures to study to help her roommate Vicky come back to church. Randy and Charlene Nelson invited us over for dinner on Thursday night. They talked to us about missionary work and left US with a challenge. They told us to ask the people we knock on doors about what there favorite passage of scripture is... I thought that was so cool that they would issue that challenge to us!!
Zone Conference is tomorrow!!!! I can't wait for it! S. Abbott and i are gonna show up in our stunna shades and shirts we made so we can show president.
Today we went to the natural bridge. Wow it was so beautiful!!! The Holbrooks took us there and we loved watching the water flow out and see all the beautiful trees. It is so relaxing to sit and listen to rushing water!!! We also went over to Laura Randalls house. She made us steak.. I haven't really been a fan of that, probably cause the time that aunt Michelle choked and spit it in my cup while she was visiting us in utah... don't deny it Michelle!! ahhaah. The steak was actually pretty tasty. I was SOOOOO glad that it was cooked ALL THE WAY... it wasn't mooing like I know some of you like it like that... Chase, Cannon, Crew :)
BTW... A little boy that sat in front of us at church yesterday totally was reading an Astrix comic book... hahaha the good old days of watching that movie!! It made me laugh.
This week at District Meeting S. Abbott challenged each of us to pick a day to be happy ALL DAY. I chose to do this the past couple days actually... wow what a difference it makes. I was suprised how good it made me feel and helped me not feel so overwelmed, selfish, negative....etc.
Last night we sat on the balcony above our apartment and watched the fireworks while we drank cream soda and wrote our weekly letter to pres. Wow we are living the life here!! We even got to see lots of fireworks... crazy how last year we were at Lego Land in teh parking lot watching fireworks.... plus Morgan and Colten got engaged taht day too!!!!
Anyways this week we tracted over 12 hours and we haven't added any to our teaching pool. It is discouraging to not have many investegators, but I know that the Lord is preparing people and if anything I am growing from the trials and everyday things that happen on the mission.
This week I felt like Enos when his "soul hungered." I felt a huge need to pray more sincere and earnest. I know that the Lord answers prayers. Here is an experience I had. I had an off day this week and when we came home to have lunch I found a letter from Gramma Glasgow on our doorstep. She gave me words of encouragement and that was just what I needed. I had been praying for some comfort or good feelings to lift me up out of the gloom. Then later that day we stopped by a sisters house in the ward, who totally reminds me of Gramma Glasgow, to use the restroom. She asked me if I ever felt discouraged. i thought it funny that she would ask me on that very day that I had felt discouraged. She told me to keep moving forward... basically the same things that the letter had said too. I just felt like the Lord knew exactly what to help me with and I saw my prayers answered through people. I truly know that people are a way that we can feel the love of our Heavenly Father. I am grateful that I can be an extension of that for people here. I know that we are being blessed and watched over. I hope you all have a fantastic week!!! I love you all!!
Love Sister Glasgow
Monday, June 28, 2010
First Baptism!
Wow were do I even begin!!! Lehenekr Lechtnear was baptized on Saturday! Wow it was so awesome! Lehenekr has really bad knees (she is 61) and so we were nervous that she wouldn't be able to bend down. We thought about putting a chair in the font, or having her bend forward and push the back down into the water. But we prayed and I just kept praying that she would be able to just sit down in the water and have Brother Vitus take care of the rest. Brother Vitus is the Ward Mission Leader in the Goldhill Ward, he baptized her. Well Lehenekr got into the water down the steps and sat there and almost started to start sitting down without Brother Vitus saying the prayer.... haha she is so cute! She was like "Oh sorry, I will wait." We were also nervous cause the font didn't have that much water, so I just prayed that she would be fine. Everything worked out perfectly!!!! The spirit was so strong and I could see a change in her as soon as she came up out of the water. I can't remember the last time that I attended a baptism so this was great for me to see again. She was so happy and excited to be a member of the church!! The program was awesome! Two ward members gave the baptism and holy ghost talk. Sister Abbott played her ukulele while I sang Teach me to walk in the light. Lehenekr loves it when she plays and I sing so we thought this would be something special for her! I was filled with so much love and peace that day. These last couple weeks have been kind of rough. My comp hasn't been too positive and I tend to get down, but I was filled with the spirit that day and felt the confirmation again of why I am on a mission. I KNOW that I am needed here in Oregon. I was grateful to experience the joy of missionary work through a baptism. Don't get me wrong, every lesson, door knocked and people I talk to is definitely rewarding, but the baptism was just too cool!!!! I loved it so much! I have been pumped about finding new people! We have been teaching Miranda and Mondo Archuletta--- not related to David Archuleta though.... different spelling of the last names. They are 13 and 11 and are foster children to the Hibbards in the Central Point 1st ward. They started living with them about a month ago. Miranda had some questions about the church and so we had 2 appt with them last week and will see them again on Thursday. They are really shy, but starting to open up to us. We had Mondo read Amos 3:7 and we asked him what he thought that meant. Some people have a hard time comprehending the scriptures, but Mondo just gets it. He said "God calls prophets to speak to the people." Wow Sister Abbott and I were floored!! They are progressing well and I hope they will make the decision to get baptized. We told them to read the BOM and pray about Joseph Smith. The Hibbbards said that if they wanted to get baptized they could, so that was great news!!!
We had district meeting on Friday and it was cool, but different. The Elders were all so restless or something, but we all had a good time. Elder Peterson asked us to make swords out of paper so that we could write a message on them. We talked about Ammon and the people who buried there weapons of war. We did that too... kinda! We wrote down things that we wanted to get rid of, bad habits, negative thoughts or feelings. So then we marched into the gym and there was a little bowl full of dirt, so we all took our turns burying our little swords. We all got a laugh out of that! haha!
We went tracting this week and some guy flat out told us that we couldn't talk to him because he was "too drunk." I was grateful that he was so honest, most people beat around the bush and come up with lame excuses. hahah. Anyways tracting this week was alright. Lots of rejection and the weather is really hot! It is in the upper 90's. Everyone tells me that I should be used to it, but it is so darn humid here. It is totally different than the dry heat that I am used to.
Today we got to get pedicures. A lady in our ward works at the beauty school so we got them for free!! We also made shirts today that say Bite= Baptism... pictures will come next week of them!! Making them was a flashback from when I made them for Zickz Phlagz!!
I love you all and miss you! This week was great and I am looking forward to this week! I know that this is the Lords church. Wow my testimony has been strengthened by the baptism and i was grateful to be apart of it :) I know that baptism is the first step to be received into the highest kingdom. I am grateful that I can live with my family forever. I love talking about my family to people, and bear testimony that they can also receive the joy that comes from the living the gospel!! I hope you all have a wonderful week! I am praying for you all and thanks for all the letters and love!!!!
Love Sister Glasgow
1. Lehenekr, Sister Abbott and I after the baptism
2. Lehenekr and I after the baptism.... isn't my headband soooo cute!! We went to a yard sale and they had fabric so got some and made this cute flower for the baptism :)
3. Elder Peterson and Elder Leverton being funny at District Meeting, about to bury there weapons of war!! haha
ENJOY THE PICS!!!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Everyone in Mesa!
Alright so this week was great! We taugh Lehenekr 4 times and got through almost all the lessons in order to be baptized. We had a little rough patch when her roomate yelled at us for talking to her about baptism, but everything was quickly smoothed out and it is all better! We went tracting this week and knocked on an 80 year old womans house. She told us that we were going to hell. Wow I was not expecting that at all. it was so rude and shocking that I thought she was joking. It threw us for a loop. We told her that we were sorry that she felt like that and we went on our way. She just stood outside her door and told us to leave! We knocked on the next houses and found a lady that wanted a book of mormon. We had a good talk with her and invited her to read and pray to know for herself. She is going to take the challenge and we are following up with her in the next couple weeks. I am so gratful for the times that someone gets mad or is rude and then we have good experiences on top of the bad ones. I know that heavenly father lets us feel a little bit of sorrow and sadness. Salvation is not a cheap price. The savior suffered pains and afflictions of everykind, so why would we even think for a second that we wouldn't have to feel any of that. Through the Savior we can be healed and comforted, but it is necessary for us to go through trials. They strengthen us and makes us appreciative! I am learning this a lot and have thought about this this week. Why do we go through trials. There is a great talk in the conference issue about Trials... Everything will work out for our good I think it is called. Anywyas I encourange you all to read it! I am so excited for this week and get to start of fresh and new and happy! I am glad that I get to be apart of the baptism on saturday and it will be a great experience! I love you all and miss you! Keep sending the love and support!!! Be happy and stay smiling always! Spread the good news wiht everyone! Don't let the good and bad moments pass you by! Faith in Jesus Christ is KEY!!! Have a great week and fun summer!! i love you all :)!! Enjoy these sweet pics of the beautiful sights in Oregon!!!!
Love Sister Glasgow XOXOXOXO
me at Crater Lake, Crater Lake scenery, me mucking stalls, drinking lithia water= blood + sprite. Oh wow it is so gross!!!!, Lithia park, me and Sister Abbott, Lithia park.... The Longans and my comp and i at Lithia park, THey are so awesome!! Mt. Shasta from teh top of Mt Ashland!! ENJOY THESE PICS!!
Monday, June 14, 2010
Cleaning the Inner Vessel
Alright so we had combined district meeting this week. The whole focus was on "cleaning the inner vessel." Basically we are trying to inventory how our missionary work is doing and how we can improve. I started to compare myself and was getting down listening to all the awesome stories about the success of other missionaries. It was hard to sit there and feel the spirit. At the end of the meeting, the zone leaders opened up a time for us to express what we felt and what we are going to do different because of the meeting. I seriously was just feeling horrible and felt like I was a horrible missionary. But some of the Elders bore there testimony and I just felt this peace come over me and I knew that I was doing good. I just prayed and prayed for peace and comfort to know that I was doing good. I felt the need to humble myself and really focus on the things that I am trying to do on my own and ask for the Lords help. The last couple days have been awesome!!! I have been much more happy and not so down and hard on myself. I know that we haven't had any solid investigators while I have been here, but our pool is slowly increasing! We taught Lehenekr this week and she came to church on Sunday!!! She is progressing so much it is so cool to see the change in her! She is so funny-- we were reviewing the plan of salvation with her and we asked her why we were sent to the earth? She said well we were sent here and then everyone started going nuts!! haha we still have a long way with her, but we continue to pray for her! Her baptism is on June 26th!! It will be my first baptism so I am super stoked!!
We also tracted into a family, Kristen, Jed and little Emma, on Tuesday night. We felt like we needed to knock some doors at about 8pm.... usually we try not to tract that late cause people are in bed (crazy i know!!) but we decided to go anyways. We knocked on there house and they let us in. They just moved about 4 months ago and felt like this was the place to be for a while. They met with Elders once before briefly, but they just kept asking us so many questions. The spirit was felt in there and I knew they could feel it. We didn't set up another time to go over, but we plan on going back this week. We haven't felt good about going back over just yet, but hope soon!! They need the gospel soooooo bad!!
We had our finding activity with 24 missionaries and 24 members! It was so cool to see everyone so excited for missionary work and finding people. The night went well. We still have a lot of follow up visits, so we are excited to get to see lots of people this week! I know that we will be able to add to our teaching pool because of this!
I got to muck stalls this week, you know clean up all the horse poo in the stalls!! Oh wow that was discusting!! Randy and Charlene asked if we could help them. I had a good time doing it. Wow it was really hard work. We shoved probably 30 or more loads of crap into the wheelbarrow's. I have been sore the last few days because of it!
So last week we hiked Tablerock Mountain. It was so beautiful on top!! Holy cow it is so green here! I will send a video of the view.... Dad you will enjoy it knowing you and the videos that you take :) I am taking after you!! Today we are going to Mt. Ashland and Lithia park. I am going to drink Lithia water, I guess it is this natural water that all the hippies drink :), I hear it is pretty gross, but it is something you have to do if you live in Oregon! Gosh the members just love us and take us all over the place! I am so grateful for all the wonderful people that take good care of us! A lady in our Goldhill ward is giving me a haircut today! I need it so bad!
Well this is a shout out to all the dads!! Happy Fathers Day on Sunday!! Dad I love you so much and I hope you have a wonderful, relaxed, chill, fun, happy, stress-free day!!!!!
Thanks for all the love and support, I need it so much!! I am glad that I get to do this work in Oregon! I love being able to bear testimony of the gospel over and over to people who need it so badly in there lives! This is a wonderful work and I am grateful that I get to be apart of it!!! :) Be happy and take care!! Until next week.......
Love Sister Glasgow!!!
xoxoxo
We also tracted into a family, Kristen, Jed and little Emma, on Tuesday night. We felt like we needed to knock some doors at about 8pm.... usually we try not to tract that late cause people are in bed (crazy i know!!) but we decided to go anyways. We knocked on there house and they let us in. They just moved about 4 months ago and felt like this was the place to be for a while. They met with Elders once before briefly, but they just kept asking us so many questions. The spirit was felt in there and I knew they could feel it. We didn't set up another time to go over, but we plan on going back this week. We haven't felt good about going back over just yet, but hope soon!! They need the gospel soooooo bad!!
We had our finding activity with 24 missionaries and 24 members! It was so cool to see everyone so excited for missionary work and finding people. The night went well. We still have a lot of follow up visits, so we are excited to get to see lots of people this week! I know that we will be able to add to our teaching pool because of this!
I got to muck stalls this week, you know clean up all the horse poo in the stalls!! Oh wow that was discusting!! Randy and Charlene asked if we could help them. I had a good time doing it. Wow it was really hard work. We shoved probably 30 or more loads of crap into the wheelbarrow's. I have been sore the last few days because of it!
So last week we hiked Tablerock Mountain. It was so beautiful on top!! Holy cow it is so green here! I will send a video of the view.... Dad you will enjoy it knowing you and the videos that you take :) I am taking after you!! Today we are going to Mt. Ashland and Lithia park. I am going to drink Lithia water, I guess it is this natural water that all the hippies drink :), I hear it is pretty gross, but it is something you have to do if you live in Oregon! Gosh the members just love us and take us all over the place! I am so grateful for all the wonderful people that take good care of us! A lady in our Goldhill ward is giving me a haircut today! I need it so bad!
Well this is a shout out to all the dads!! Happy Fathers Day on Sunday!! Dad I love you so much and I hope you have a wonderful, relaxed, chill, fun, happy, stress-free day!!!!!
Thanks for all the love and support, I need it so much!! I am glad that I get to do this work in Oregon! I love being able to bear testimony of the gospel over and over to people who need it so badly in there lives! This is a wonderful work and I am grateful that I get to be apart of it!!! :) Be happy and take care!! Until next week.......
Love Sister Glasgow!!!
xoxoxo
Monday, June 7, 2010
Pray for us!
Hey all!!
Well this week has been alright. We are having a finding activity on Thursday night and i am so pumped! The whole zone is going to come to our area for 2 hours that night and visit less actives, members and former investigators. We are just gonna hit it hard. There will be 24 missionaries coming and they all have a member to go on splits with. I am so grateful for all the missionaries to help us find new investigators. I am just praying that we can find people to teach. I like teaching the lessons to the members in the ward, but I know that we need these investigators! Pray for our area this week that we will find people that are open and ready for the message! We went knocking on doors this week and actually sang to a man at his doorstep. It was really powerful. A lot of times people feel the spirit and they feel a little uncomfortable cause they don't know what the feeling is and they back away.... It is hard to express to them the way that that is the truth telling them to accept the message, it gets frustrating. I was struggling this week with not feeling like my words were touching the hearts of anyone I spoke with. It was an off week for me. President called me and chatted with me for a few minutes. He told me that I won't know everything over night (that is how I wish it would work) but I need to strive to learn each day. Take it one day at a time. He assured me that things will get better and that I just need to keep going. That is what I am doing. Last night I got a call from our district leader- Elder Peterson, and he asked me if he could give me a blessing. I didn't even think about that. I was so grateful that he was inspired to ask me that. I know that the Lord wants to help me, so I am working on humbling myself and asking in faith for things to happen. I want to help everyone I meet but I feel like I can't unless I have a better attitude and outlook on things. I know that I am being blessed and protected. Things will get better, I know they will!
So onto a more positive note and funny story. Elder Peterson and I are having a challenge. No sugar for this transfer---- 6 weeks! We started a week ago and i am not going to lose. If I lose I have to buy him and his companion lunch. Plus at zone conference in front of all the missionaries I have to tell them that i lost and tell them all the good things about him. I am not going to lose this bet!!! He is pretty determined too, so we will see how it goes. I am so glad I am doing this cause I used to have dessert almost everynight! So not good for my waist line!! Funny story-- We were tracting and we came to a house with a gate and I usually am very cautious cause most people have dogs when they have gates around there house. So I started to look around and Sister Abbott looks at me and says "How desperate are you?" (She knows how much I hate dogs so she was kinda laughing at me cause I was nervous to go in the gate) My reply "I will take a bite for an investigator.... No, a bite for a baptism!!!" haha we had a good laugh. Too bad i didn't get a bite, investigator or baptism. We are desperate so we are trying to switch things up a bit. We are going to bring Sister Abbott's ukulele with us to tract and we are going to challenge everyone to baptism. We are promising ourselves success this transfer. I want to make this the best transfer of my mission!!!
Well my time is running low, but I just want to everyone that has written me and been praying for me! I love hearing from all of you, it lifts me up on the good and bad days :)!!! I am doing great, no worrying about me. Just keep doing what you are doing!
We get to hike to the top of Table Rock this afternoon. Some Young Women in our ward want to take us so that will be awesome! I hear that the view is beautiful so I will send pics next week. It is a regular p-day next Monday so I will write again in a week!! I love you all!!!!!!
Sister Glasgow!! XOXOXOXO
Well this week has been alright. We are having a finding activity on Thursday night and i am so pumped! The whole zone is going to come to our area for 2 hours that night and visit less actives, members and former investigators. We are just gonna hit it hard. There will be 24 missionaries coming and they all have a member to go on splits with. I am so grateful for all the missionaries to help us find new investigators. I am just praying that we can find people to teach. I like teaching the lessons to the members in the ward, but I know that we need these investigators! Pray for our area this week that we will find people that are open and ready for the message! We went knocking on doors this week and actually sang to a man at his doorstep. It was really powerful. A lot of times people feel the spirit and they feel a little uncomfortable cause they don't know what the feeling is and they back away.... It is hard to express to them the way that that is the truth telling them to accept the message, it gets frustrating. I was struggling this week with not feeling like my words were touching the hearts of anyone I spoke with. It was an off week for me. President called me and chatted with me for a few minutes. He told me that I won't know everything over night (that is how I wish it would work) but I need to strive to learn each day. Take it one day at a time. He assured me that things will get better and that I just need to keep going. That is what I am doing. Last night I got a call from our district leader- Elder Peterson, and he asked me if he could give me a blessing. I didn't even think about that. I was so grateful that he was inspired to ask me that. I know that the Lord wants to help me, so I am working on humbling myself and asking in faith for things to happen. I want to help everyone I meet but I feel like I can't unless I have a better attitude and outlook on things. I know that I am being blessed and protected. Things will get better, I know they will!
So onto a more positive note and funny story. Elder Peterson and I are having a challenge. No sugar for this transfer---- 6 weeks! We started a week ago and i am not going to lose. If I lose I have to buy him and his companion lunch. Plus at zone conference in front of all the missionaries I have to tell them that i lost and tell them all the good things about him. I am not going to lose this bet!!! He is pretty determined too, so we will see how it goes. I am so glad I am doing this cause I used to have dessert almost everynight! So not good for my waist line!! Funny story-- We were tracting and we came to a house with a gate and I usually am very cautious cause most people have dogs when they have gates around there house. So I started to look around and Sister Abbott looks at me and says "How desperate are you?" (She knows how much I hate dogs so she was kinda laughing at me cause I was nervous to go in the gate) My reply "I will take a bite for an investigator.... No, a bite for a baptism!!!" haha we had a good laugh. Too bad i didn't get a bite, investigator or baptism. We are desperate so we are trying to switch things up a bit. We are going to bring Sister Abbott's ukulele with us to tract and we are going to challenge everyone to baptism. We are promising ourselves success this transfer. I want to make this the best transfer of my mission!!!
Well my time is running low, but I just want to everyone that has written me and been praying for me! I love hearing from all of you, it lifts me up on the good and bad days :)!!! I am doing great, no worrying about me. Just keep doing what you are doing!
We get to hike to the top of Table Rock this afternoon. Some Young Women in our ward want to take us so that will be awesome! I hear that the view is beautiful so I will send pics next week. It is a regular p-day next Monday so I will write again in a week!! I love you all!!!!!!
Sister Glasgow!! XOXOXOXO
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