tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37842400669066341652024-03-05T13:19:22.964-08:00Sister Lora Corynn FineLora Corynn Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06054314348366087406noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3784240066906634165.post-14365210965653338252013-01-02T23:44:00.001-08:002013-01-02T23:44:53.897-08:00"I Never Thought That This Day Would Come"December 31, 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Every transfer I have this pit in my stomach and this just feels like a normal transfer to me but into a new chapter of my life. Plus I get to be with my family!!!!! Im so excited to see you all and kiss you wittle cheeks!!!! I love you all so much and I am so thankful for this opportunity to serve a mission. I love myself now, I rely on the Lord more, and I see things more clearly. Also I see how important it is to do missionary work whether you are a member or a missionary. It is a team effort. Also I have made a goal. This week we went to the temple for the departing missionaries temple trip and I covenanted with God that I was going to go to often. The temple is there to teach us and keep us on the strait and narrow. I hope that my future husband loves the temple because that is a goal I want to make with him. It will be a great blessing for me, my marriage and my family I will have. I might not be able to serve another full time mission for a while, but I can set aside a few hours to the Lord to do some work. :] </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Today we went to the Hoover Dam with a member and it was awesome! I am sending you some pictures of it! When you see the big bridge behind me in one of them...then look at the picture with the penny....when I was holding the penny I was at the top and middle of that bridge throwing a penny down to make a wish. It was amazing. Also this week we had the privilege of building a fence for a member. Can you see me working with power tools?!?! SOOOOOOOOO FUN! Daddy put me to work outside when I get home! hahaha.....thats in case I can actually stand the cold weather in washington. I am a baby when it even gets to 50 here. OH MAN..............</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So I have kinda bummed that my last baptism was in October and I dont get to see one before I go home...welll....I take that back........miracles happen so I dont know yet............but anyways, the SPirit has taught me this week why we are not getting baptisms right now and he has also taught me why I am in the position I am in now. Let me explain. I have learned the power of 2 testifying about the message more than ever. When there is only one, it is not as powerful. I have had some talks with my companion (with love) about what I expect from her as my companion. She takes all of my suggestions with great humility, which has been a powerful example to me. One day, after a lesson I just shut down. I was soooooooo discouraged because the goal of teaching in unity felt so out of reach. Since we didnt have the spirit I pulled the car over and prayed. The Spirit chastised me for being so frustrated and I learned why this was happening. The Spirit spoke to me and said, "Sister Fine, cheer up your heart, you are in this companionship because though you wont have another baptism before the end of your mission, your companion will have people placed in her path in the last year of her mission. You are needed to train her and to help her with the skills that you have gained over your 18 months of service to help her become an effective advocate of the truth. Your legacy will live on through her as she serves the rest of her mission. Take hold of the opportunity at hand and move forward with faith." Mom and dad and babies, I literally felt the power of the Atonement overcome me and fill me with love and compassion for my companion. I have a clear understanding of what the Lord expects of me in the last few days of my mission. I am so thankful for the light that the Lord sheds into my heart by the Spirit. I am so thankful for the strength that he has always given me to act on the promptings of the Spirit and I am so thankful for all the confirmation I have received letting me know that what I have done is right. I love the Lord. I feel his love. I want others to feel of his grace as well. I pray that all of us will look into ourselves and what the Spirit is telling us right now. May we act upon it so the Lord can continually bless us. I love you all so much and I have prayed for you every night. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thank you so much for the prayers that you have offered for me. I literally feel them over me and blessing me. I feel more at peace about leaving the mission. The Lord has been telling me through my mind and through President that it is my time to go home and that he will take care of me. I have to tell you though, the wards I am in are not being subtle with the hints on wanting me to marry their returned missionary sons..............oh boy. Needless to say, ward counsel yesterday was all of the auxiliary leaders setting me up with all of them. I was so embarrassed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><wbr></wbr></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">!!!!! They were so naughty! I tried to change the subject but it didn't work! I am just taking it as a compliment and shrugging it off, but you'd think that they would be more respectful of my calling as a missionary. They know how much I love the mission and how much I don't want to leave.....little stinkers....</span><br />
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Lora Corynn Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06054314348366087406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3784240066906634165.post-61931134745967097552012-12-28T09:42:00.000-08:002012-12-28T09:42:18.032-08:00"I have a 3 hour layover in Salt Lake City!"<br />
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Hey Family! I love you! Did you see the temple when you flew home? Mom I have a 3 hour layover in SLC! I AM GOING TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK! Who can come visit me from SLC during that time? Hmmmmmmmm..........I guess I will just have to hand out the Book of Mormon like candy at the airport! Yea I was wondering what you were going to do for the 25th. Are all the kids okay with doing all of Christmas on Jan 4th or something? When were we going to do it? The same day I get home? Or after so we can all sleep in the same room again over night when santa comes or what is the plan? Are the kids going to be able to wait? Yes I did give in on the skype thing. We are going to skype at sister dutsons house and sister dutson should be calling you today with us there about Christmas day so we can plan it all out. Reporting to the High Counsel? Like a talk? Or what is that? hahaha. Never heard of that hahaha. Maybe Im just deaf hahaha. I want you to know that I am soooooooooo happy and excited to come home and kiss all of your faces! You are amazing and I miss you so much! Im excited to skype with you all! I would LOVE to help out with the Activity day thing. It will be so bomb! The whole tradgety this week...wow.....I didnt even hear until yesterday at church. It just shows how sheltered we are as missionaries. Had a good week this week. Better than last week for sure!</div>
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Had more lessons this week. And we got a new investigator! Jessie's sister Erica! :] When Jessie and Jeremy joined the church, Jessie's family was really against the whole thing. But they ended up coming to her baptism and seeing her confirmed on sunday in sac meeting. A few months go by and Jessie has been talking to her sister about the gospel. Erica agreed to have a lesson with us for Jessie, so that she can understand what Jessie is doing. THat is where it all starts! Erica is way more receptive than Jessie thinks she is! I know there is a little fear with sharing with your family because you dont want them to reject the gospel. You know? But Erica had great questions! It felt so good to teach again because we have just been trying to find find find. We have been doing everything we can to find people to teach. And look! We got Erica! AMazing daughter of God. After the lesson she said, "Sister Fine, when do you go home? I like you! I want to have more lessons before you leave!" That made me feel really good. SInce sister De Greef and I started the transfer, we have been really working on teaching together. It has been a little rough....but we are getting there. When we were doing something at sister dutsons house the other day, sister dutson said "sister fine, you are doing great work with sister de greef, she did a lot better this time!" I know that every area or companion has helped me a ton whether it was really difficult or not. We had a zone meeting this week and we had the Christmas party and talent show. It was nice to sit and enjoy. I was going to dance, but music selection and choreography is really hard on the mission hahaha. Also I havent danced in 18 months so.......who knows what that looks like hahaha.</div>
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We also did something cool in our area this week! We gathered up the district (5 companionships total) and divided our area up to everyone and made assignments so our area could be blitzed! 10 missionaries in one area was the BOMB! Everyone made great contacts and we are excited to followup on everything that the Elders helped us do. Awesome Possum!</div>
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Yesterday in Beverly Glen ward we had just finished hearing all the talks and then the bishop got up to close the meeting. To my suprise, this is what he said...."As all of you know, we have had Sister Fine serving in our ward for a few months now and she is going home in about three weeks. Sister Fine will you please come up and give a 5 minute talk on your mission?" So I got up there and I about had a heart attack! After I was done I didnt remember what I said but I got lots of love from the members. I love these people so much! I got really emotional at the pulpit because it seemed as though all of my mission hit me in that one moment. As I sat down next to my recent convert Jessie, I was bawling. She linked her arm with mine and said that she loved me. I was so thankful for that moment because I just love Jessie and I love all of the people that I have come into contact with. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER!!!!!! AHHHHH! But it has changed my life. I know that all of these things that I teach are true. I feel the Savior in my life every day. I feel angels surrounding me and bearing me up!</div>
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We had interviews with president this week and he said many things that really touched me. He said that he trusts me completely and that he loves me so much and is so thankful for the leadership I am in the mission and for helping others to grow around me. I thought that was really sweet. Also Sister Neider told me that she loved me so much. She looked deep into my eyes and I could really feel their love for me.</div>
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One more experience before I have to go do my laundry. Saturday night we came home at 9 to plan for the next day....and as soon as I shut the door when I came inside, I got a ton of pain in my bad knee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAdnt had that in a long time! BUt I had it for the rest of the night and it was really hard to sleep. But as soon as I got out of bed at 630 I felt nothing. It just showed me that the Lord provides for us so that we can have strength as we do his work. Amazing amazing! Love you all! and I will talk to you next monday!</div>
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Lora Corynn Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06054314348366087406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3784240066906634165.post-86526305653977766932012-12-22T10:40:00.000-08:002012-12-22T10:40:15.417-08:00"We have a new Pet in our Home"<br />
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We are Working really hard. Staying really focused. Using all of our resources. Biking all the time. Talking to everyone we see. Following up with all of our members that have potential investigator friends. Going through the purification challenge. ETC ETC. But we know in missionary work that the work ebs and flows. In sept-october we had amazing miracles and now we are down in the dumps of missionary work but that doesnt mean my effort is down in the dumps. I am working harder and harder all the time and I know that miracles will come!</div>
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This week we got the opportunity to finally go to the temple with kelsie to do baptisms! It was awesome! Out of the 6 baptisms we have had in this area we have helped 5 do their family history and go to the temple to do baptisms. The only one left is pam and she has been doing a lot of family history research! Very exciting! This week we helped set up for the Chrirstmas parties. It was a great idea! Down here in Vegas, they treat every activity like a wedding!!!!!!! THEY GO ALL OUT! And the 2 wards in our building just all set up and helped decorate and they just left all the decorations up for 2 nights so both wards could enjoy. Half the work and more AMAZING! I was also a part of the beverly glen play. I was the angel and I sang hark the herald angels sing acapella! The Frenchman Hills Party was really small but the Beverly Glen party was HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe 450 people in the cultural hall. Maybe a 1/3 of them non members! That ward is really good at getting people out to their parties!</div>
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I have been doing this purification challenge that I will show you when I get home. It is amazing and sister Monson and I did it together for 2 transfers. I just saw her at the computer lab by the way! I just love sister monson! Anyways, sister de greef didnt really want to do it with me so I have been doing it by myself. Then one morning we were going over to morning sports with the sisters and they were bearing their testimony to us about how the purification challenge is helping them and they are seeing miracles in their area. SO that day sister degreef decided to give it a shot. This was saturday, and that day that she decided, we saw so many more things happen in that day than in the whole week combined! There is POWER in the companionship unity! I pray that I can help sister De Greef as best as I can. She is very quiet and doesnt talk when we are around people, but then when we are by ourselves she is a little chatterbox hahaha. So cute! I love her, she is awesome and so loving and willing to work hard and be obedient, but it is hard to do all the talking by myself. I have lots of things to say hahahahaha but the power of both testimonies is where the power lies.</div>
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This weekend we had the missionary breakfast with the Stake President. After we ate, President Jarvis put me on the spot and asked me to bear my testimony since it was my last breakfast. I had about 10 min to wait to bear my testimony and tears just filled my eyes. Las Vegas is a home for me. A sacred ground that will always have a large piece of my heart for the rest of my life. I bore my testimony and the Spirit was with me. The influence of my mission hit me all at once and it was a powerful experience. I know that the Lord is pleased with me and my service. This is a huge changing ground for me! I will never be the same person that I once was. This has changed me. I love my mission and I am so thankful to say that I have time left to serve full time and then I can serve as a member missionary when I get home. We are going to see miracles in this next week I just know it! Love you all and miss you tons. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: red;">Please invite people who are close to this area for my departing testimony on jan 2nd 3:30 pm at 9270 S Maryland Pwky Las Vegas Nv, 89123.</span> By the way I have decided to Skype on Christmas! I will get back to you on that! Love you!!!! MISS YOU!!!!</div>
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Pday was good. We keep cutting our pday short because we want to have lessons with Jessie and Jeremy. Before that we played frisbee golf with the elders. I love playing sports with everyone! Usually we play sports in the morning with the elders and I have gotten quite good, if I do say so myself! :] my sisters and brothers will be very proud of me hahah! </div>
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We had district meeting! Got a lot of work done today! We had an investigator flake out on us which is really sad, that has been happening a lot lately....it seems. we have been biking alot lately! We ended up biking the entire day and man my skirt took a beating! I got my skirt caught in my bike SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many times! I even pinned my skirt and it still didnt work! Im telling you, biking in a skirt is an art! </div>
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We went to see Kevin in the hospital again. They found blood clots all over in his body this time. One even close to his heart. If it dislodges, Kevin will..... :(. I just feel so bad! I hope and pray that he will be okay. He is a recent convert of almost a year and he wants to serve a mission so badly. I pray that he will serve where the Lord wants him to serve.</div>
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We started to teach Jasmine. This is Bill's niece. She is so sweet and we love her so much! She will be baptized on dec 15th! So very excited for her! She has such a sweet spirit. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<wbr></wbr>ooooooo story time. On friday night I threw up and it was soooooo bad. The whole night I felt sick. Then the next day we went out for a while and came home for lunch and I was just soooooo sick! I have never stayed in for more than an hour or 2 for being sick, but this time I stayed in for most of saturday and all sunday pretty much. That is the worst feeling as a missionary to have to stay in!!!!! I never want to ever ever ever have to do that again! I FELT SO WORTHLESS!!!!!!!!!!! I got up at 630 and showered and started getting ready and then I just felt like garbage! I called sister Neider and she said "Sister Fine, you need to rest, The President and I love you and trust you to make the best decision, you are a sharp missionary and we are thankful for you!" Man That made my day that they would say that about me. :] So I said that I would go back to sleep for a little bit and then go to our second sacrament meeting and see how I felt. So I did. I fell asleep and then got up and finished getting ready at 1015ish. Then we got there and I felt like I was in a daze. I couldnt even think straight. I realized that it was my last testimony meeting in the mission field so I wanted to get up there but I couldnt. I was too sick. Then I looked at our planner and I started to cry because we had appointments every hour after church. I couldnt even sit quietly without feeling so sick, let alone run around and do everything so I started to cry during the closing prayer. At the end of the prayer, all of my beverly glen mom's came around me and gave me hugs and words of encouragement. One sister said very powerfully "sister Fine, you are a servant of the Lord, at any time you can call down the power to Heal you right now so that you can continue your work at this time. you have the faith, let him heal you." So at that moment I said in my heart, "Father, in the name of Jesus Christ and as his representative I pray that I will be healed from this sickness so that I can get back to work, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." After that, sister De Greef and I went home and I slept forever. Then sister Taylor brought us food and we ate it. Then sister Whitehead came and got me and sister taylor took sister Degreef. I went to sister Whitehead's house for the Christmas devotional and stayed there while sister degreef and sister taylor went to all our lessons for that night. I was sooooooo thankful. I know that my prayer worked because I slept through the whole night and I woke up completely fine. Now I am here emailing and I am doing good. A little nervous for the next month to come but I know that it will be a joyous day and a step into the next exciting chapter of my life! Love you all and I miss you tons! I will see you all a month from today at about 3 pm. Mwah!</div>
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Monday: Had a good pday. Sister Monson packed up all her stuff and I took a long nap. I was soooooo exhausted and I didnt know why! Little did I know I was about to get real reall sick. Im glad I had a nap or else it probably would have been worse this week. That night we went and had a lesson with Jill at the Dutson's house. Jill is going through a lot of the normal struggles that investigators have, and she doesnt want to come to church...sooooo...thats an issue but we are working on it. All we need to do is to teach her and promise her blessings that come from keeping the commandments and she will be just fine. She will progress along. We have a meeting with her tomorrow. After the lesson, Sister Monson and I presented an FHE lesson for one of the empty nesters groups out here and that was good. We had a lot of good food and we played a game. Oh my goodness I cannot wait to teach you this game when I come home. We all will die of laughing so hard. hahaha. Then the Dutsons said goodbye to sister monson and I was bawling like a baby. I love Sister Monson so much! </div>
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Tues: Transfers! In the Morning we said goodbye to everyone that sister Monson wanted to see and then we headed over to transfers. It was a really great meeting. It was REALLY REALLY weird to see some of the sisters go home that were in the MTC with me and flew out here with me on the plane. My time is coming wayyyyyy too soon. The members and everyone is reminding me how I only have about 5 weeks left. But sister De Greef and I got together and had a great first evening! Sister Cheatham finally got transferred out of Black mountain since I started training her! She is now serving in the same area sister Hanny and I opened about a year ago. WOw it has been that long since I have been there. wow. Also, sister Lio went home. Sad day. Do you know if Carly and Mike are coming to my departing testimony? Do the Bensons want to come? Will you invite anyone that is close to here to come and see me? Uncle Danny? I think he is only about an hour or 2 away from here. Anyways.....</div>
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Wed: We had district meeting. And we had a lesson with Suzanne. It was good. She is also really closed off so I have no idea how to find out her concern. Its really hard, but we are still working at it. Showing her that the Lord loves her and her family so much!</div>
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Thurs: We have been biking a ton this week! Lots of fun! Talking to lots of people! Then we went to the Dutsons for thanksgiving! We helped set everything up and it was really good to meet more of their family! Their youngest daughter just got her mission call to Santiago Chile! Cool cool! I love the Dutsons so much! SOOOOO SOOOOO Much! Then that night because no one wanted to talk to us hahahaha we handed out tons and tons of thank you cards to some of our members and investigators and such! :] fun stuff! Also I turned 17 months on thanksgiving! Pretty crazy huh! </div>
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Sat: Sat was a good day. We had a new member lesson with Jessie and Jeremy! I love them soooooooooooo much! Then we visited a member and all of a sudden she is working on 3 different people! We were like "so when were you planning on telling us that you are baptizing the world right now hahahaha." Then at night we went with our ward mission leader and his wife to deliver haloween pictures. The wards down here are GENIUS when it comes to missionary work in the activities. That is what they plan the entire event around! So for the Haloween party we had at the church, Bro Affleck painted an amazing backdrop so that people could get their pictures taken. Then we had it set up that the people would give their addresses so that we could deliver the pictures when they were done! That way we can make some contact to the non members who came and invite them to our Christmas party and see if there is any other way that we can help them! So we did that this week and I have never been so welcomed by nonmembers in my life! hahahahaha! I swear all the non members look at us here like we are going around killing innocent dogs or something. hahaha. wow. But it was really amazing!!!!!!</div>
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Sunday: CHURCHNESS! We had some really hard stuff happen about an investigator we have, but the Spanish missionaries and us were really unified in all of it and just did our best. We cant control everything, just what we do! I am really excited because we have a new sweet sweet investigator named Jasmine. We love her so much! She is BIll's niece. Very excited. And it worked out to where both the spansih elders and us are teaching her at the same time. That is what she wanted I guess so that is how we are going to do it! Jasmine is getting baptized either dec 15 or dec 22. Very excited! OH MY GOODNESS! We also got a Christmas tree!!!!! The members brought it over and helped us set it up! Made me so happy! ALso this morning to decorate it I made a long strand of popcorn. I poked myself alot but it was worth it! Very cute popcorn tree :]</div>
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Well Love you so much! That was my week! My new compy is amazing! I love her so much! When I wanted my mommy to take care of me being sick this week, sister De Greef just took over and made me soup and she was just so sweet! I was sooooo thankful! She is very humble, very sweet and caring. She is a great companion to end with! I love her so much! </div>
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We are contacting people like crazy out here. I got into this slump of not contacting people as well because there werent a lot of people to talk to on the street. But even though I get nervous sometimes I just go up to everyone I see and talk to them and words just fall out of my mouth. Its amazing. The Lord really helps us as we rely solely on him. </div>
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The weather has been getting pretty cold. I broke out the sweats and sweatshirts when it hit the 60's. 60 is FREEZING down here. I think it is because now I have las vegas blood. hahaha. Its about 50 or 60 every day. And Im just thinking about how cold Im going to be wihen I get home. I think I will die of cold when I get home. </div>
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The missionary force is getting huge! SOOOOOOOOOOOO excited! Everyone and their dog and their goldfish is getting mission calls to all over the world! Did you know that a mission opened in China finally? THey are just being hush hush about it because they want to keep their relationship with China a good one that keeps building. :] Awesome. The second coming of the Messiah is coming soon I feel! :] We must prepare! </div>
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Last thing for this week. We went on splits and did a mini mission with some laurels. It was awesome! It is amazing how miracles happen when you take the youth out with you! COntacts right and left and potential investigators right and left! Amazing! Now they are so excited to go on their missions. I love the fire behind all the youth right now! It is amazing to see! Well I love you all so much and I miss you and I want to kiss your cheeks and I just love you and love you and love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu<wbr></wbr>uuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo</div>
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So with that girl, she is not doing well. We had a very sacred experience with her this week and it made me see another reason why I am here. I have gone through experiences of seeing one that I love go through partially the same thing and so I am here to help. The key is.....she doesnt want to be helped. We found a lady who went through ALL of the same things that anna did and we set up a time to meet with all of us together and after we left I guess it went sour. She just wants to die. She is miserable in her life and she doesnt have a eating disorder in her mind....she just knows that if she starves herself she will die. And she wants to die because of all of the horrible things that have happened to her in her life. I just want the best for her but she has to want the best for her too. </div>
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Sister Dutson told me that you said that hannah is doing good. I always worry because I know that you probably dont tell me everything and my whole mission I have just hoped that she is always getting better! It sounds like she is my hannah again! She was before I left but its been so long! When sister Dutson told me that hannah was doing good and that she was using this trial to help others I put my face in my hands and just bawled happy tears! HANNAH IS SUCH A STRONG ONE! I love her so much! I am proud of all of my little babies! They are getting so big and I cant wait to see them! I cant believe I will be able to hug you and kiss all of your cheeks. </div>
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This week was great and we went to do baptisms for the dead with Jessie, Jeremy and Summer. They all did family names and it was such a sacred experience. I got cold chills as I saw all of them go into the water. Jeremy did baptisms for his own father, his grandpa and some of Jessie's ancestors. Jessie did some of her great aunts and great grandparents. Summer did a baptism for her own mother. Amazing. We all cried together! It was beautiful. We are even helping others be baptized who are on the other side of the veil. Amazing. </div>
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Kevin was in the hospital again! This was the worst time. He is 18 years old, a recent convert, wants to go on a mission so bad, and he is suffering so much! In the hospital room when we visited him I just wanted to take all of his pain away. He has a blood clot from his foot to his hip. He is still in the hospital but he has so much support from the ward. He is an amazing guy and I know that the Lord will have him serve where he is needed the most!</div>
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Saturday we went and I practiced the song that I sang on the recording. It was actually saturday that we recorded it because we wanted to take it to Kevin so he wouldnt miss it. We thought it would cheer him up too!!!! It was sister Brunner's idea to record it! Im thankful for that. I sang that song the next day in church and I really felt like my voice was guided. :]</div>
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This sunday we spoke at a baptism for a 8 year old and it turned out great! I just thought about caden and planned a talk on the holy ghost for caden because I really didnt know the kid at all. But it ended up great! Plus caden is almost 10 so hes not my little baptism boy anymore! My babies are getting so big!!!!!! </div>
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Yesterday was amazing with the zone conference with the general authority! We get to go to a fireside with him tonight and we are bringing Jill, one of our investigators. Yesterday we had a lesson with Jessie and Jeremy and they talked about how much they loved the temple and that they felt a really strong spirit there. It made me soooooooooooo happy! Then we stayed and the Dutsons invited their neighbors over for dinner who had been taught the lessons before. Sister Dutson wanted us to try again on them because the last sister missionaries that taught them were not bold at all. It is so nice to feel the trust of the members! Now that they trust us, they trust us with their closest friends and family! THeir neighbors just happen to be Bobby and Joan. Bobby was Elvis Presley's manager for a long time. And the dutsons had me sing to them last night. I felt soooooooooooo honored! We talked with them and asked if they will try the lessons again and they said yes! They are really busy right now but we are going to start lessons with them after thanksgiving. </div>
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Speaking of thanksgiving, it looks like we are going to be on our own...... :( I was spoiled last thanksgiving, members made sure that we were feeling at home. This thanksgiving...im not sure what it going to happen :( but itll be fine. Some missionaries are washing their clothes in rivers and sleeping on dirt floors so I think that I will be fine hahahaha.</div>
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Anyways.....tell my sisters that I am sorry about the soccer game! They are amazing little players! Also tell britton that his deer is SICK! Amazing job! Um I am trying to think if what else.....um....I LOVE YOU AND I WILL SEE YOU IN 8 WEEKS! MWAH!!!!!</div>
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We had a lesson with Jill this week and soft set her for baptism. She said that she hopes it is true and she wants to be baptized but she is going to wait for her son to get home. IN 2 YEARS! NO WAY! That is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy tooooooooooooooooooo long to wait for her to get all the blessings that come with it. But the Dutsons told us, dont worry, as she learns about this more and more, she will want it sooner and Ricardo will just be able to go with her in the temple for the first time. I think that sounds amazing. So we are working on that! </div>
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This week we taught summer's dad. We planned a family home evening with summer, her less active stepmom, and her non member brother and father but they all forgot we were coming. So we sat and talked to Summer and Janelle for a while and then Summer's dad came in. We talked about the blessings of the gospel that have come into their lives The spirit was there. But he said that he didnt feel like it was his time yet. His faith in Jesus Christ has led him to this point in his life. We could tell because he opened up to us and told us all these amazing wonderful things. I know that he will join the church someday but it has to be on his own time. We have high hopes for Summer and her family...Agency is the key. </div>
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The other night we had a appointment with a recent convert family. We went at the appointed time and knocked on the door. It took a solid few minutes for someone to come to the door. When we walked in, I knew something had happened. When we sat down they told us that some of their family members on the east coast were murdered that day. OH MAN HOW TERRIBLE. We were silent because it was still fresh but we solemnly bore our testimony about the plan of salvation and how all of us can be together again. She said, thank you for coming, we needed that. Now I know the exact reason why we made the appointment for today. Then they asked for blessings and were were able to get some of the priesthood over to do that. WONDERFUL BLESSINGS were bestowed upon them.</div>
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This week we had a health fair in the stake. We were asked if we wanted to set up a booth and we said OF COURSE! So we set up a "spiritual health" booth among all the other booths. :] It was awesome! We had some really good contacts from it! Gave away lots of materials. It was cool with this one lady though, Sister Dutson was at her booth and the lady was talking to her about how her brothers had died. Sister Dutson took us over to her and we talked to her for a second and gave her stuff about Christ and the Plan of Salvation. She came out of her booth and gave us both huge hugs! It was amazing! </div>
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ALSO ATTENTION DADDY! We were walking one day and we ran into this guy on a big tractor. His name is Robert Foremaster. He served in your mission at the exact same time as you! He gave his info because he would LOVE to talk to you! He was a really nice guy! Give him a call! Talked to him for about 30 min on the street a couple days ago!</div>
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It was a good week! Struggling with the teaching pool but considering that we just had 6 baptisms in a row I think we do need a little hardship to help us grow more. I love you and I am so glad that everyone had a great time at halloween! Love you all and I miss you so much! See you in a few weeks! By few I mean like 9 :]</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ok here is my week! We have this new investigator named Jill who was provided by the Dutsons (as always) I love them so much! Mommy!!! SIster Dutson just got the same exact calling as you so I get to see a lot of what you do! Anyways....The Dutsons invited us over to have dinner with Jill and also the Dutsons invited Jessie and Jeremy as well. It was so great. Jill's son Ricardo just went on a mission to Paraguay and she was asking us tons of questions about missions and what we do. It was really great! Then at the end the Dutsons said "hey sisters do you want to do a lesson?" And we said of course! So we were talking for a little while with her and then the conversation just went automatically to the Plan of Salvation! She loved the lesson and she said that she would like to learn more! SO EXCITING! Now we are teaching Jill and this lady named Suzanne. Suzanne has been taking the lessons for a while now and we go over to their house once a week. I think suzanne is getting closer. She resists if we push so we are just trying to bring the spirit in her home so that she feels the difference. Her husband is a member and her son is also a member. They are a great family! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For about a week and a half, one of the recent converts in our ward (Kevin) was in the hospital. He had a large blood clot over his right lung. He is 18 years old and he wants to serve a mission so bad! Then to our surprise, he was at church yesterday! He was finally released from the hospital! It was awesome! We visited him a couple of times in the hospital last week to try and get his spirits up! I know that the Lord has a plan for him. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This last few weeks since all of our recent converts got baptized we have been doing TONS of family history!!!! That is one of the things that I am going to explode on when I get home! But we have been helping our recent converts research their ancestors and get names printed up so that their work can be done, Very amazing to see their faces and how excited they are to help their deceased loved ones. Jessie is taking a great interest in it and it is very exciting! Jeremy also has his father's name printed up. We are going to do the baptisms this week! So excited for that. This last week on friday we went with Bill and did baptisms for the dead with him. It was the first time I have done baptisms for the dead in years! It was a great great thing. Mommy and Daddy....do you think it is possible for me to just live at the temple so that I can always be doing work? hahahaha....I wish!!!!!! Hey daddy! What is grandma's full name! I want to add her in to my fan chart! And she was born on aug 16th of WHAT YEAR? What is all her info so I can add it? We have a lot to work to do on our lines! So EXCITED!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So the weather has been super nice this past week and miles are running low at the end of the month so we decided to walk a lot. One of the days I was freezing cold I had to put thick tights on and a long sleeve shirt. I could have sworn it was 30 degrees but...............it was 60 hahaha. Wow, I think I have las vegas summer blood now! When we were walking the other day I saw a huge roadrunner. They are funny to watch! I was trying to get a picture like I did with the turkey but it didn't work :( sad to say hahahaha. We see lots of crazy things running around all the time! hahaha.</span><br />
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In the morning she fell really bad on the field when we were playing and her leg was bleeding really bad so we went home and took care of it. It was like 715 and it was my turn to shower first so I go in the shower and jumped out and threw some clothes on. Then I didnt get ready and I made a green smoothie, ham and eggs, cut up an apple and made toast. Then it was completed by the time she got out of the shower! IM SOOOOOOO STEALTHY! hahaha Then the Lord blessed me so much because I still had time enough to get ready!!!!!!!!!! Then I was naughty and I texted everyone that she loves in the area and everyone responded with things like "ohmy gosh I am going to make her a cake or oh my gosh lets throw a party or oh my gosh what does she want for her birthday!?!?!?" Everyone loves her so much! So pretty much the whole day was an explosion of sister monson birthday! We got enough cake to feed the continent of africa and she got tons of gifts! She felt really special and she really is special! I love her a ton! We got to go out to dinner with Jessie and Jeremy at the olive garden and I tried calamari for the first time! (OCTUPUS! YUCKY!!!!) But it actually was really good! We had a great time with them! Then we went to the dutsons and they did a spa treatment for her and made an amazing cake! Those are just a few of the events that took place that day! ANd those are pretty much the only pictures I have this week! </div>
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That song was composed by sister vanderdoes' dad! Cool huh! This last Saturday we did service called SMASH the TRASH and we gathered together as a ward and picked up all the trash in the ward! It was fun! Then we went and peeled apples for a lady why was canning and drying and what not. Everyone is so crazy thrifty and prepared and stuff it is pretty. Cool! We also helped this lady with making decorations for the Christmas party in the way future hahaha it was fun. </div>
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Can you believe that I am 16 months out today? Crazy! Also we biked this week and it was awesome! Also we went to this members house and we asked for referrals and she gave us like 10 referrals! They were for outside of our area but that is okay! It doesn't matter because they just need the gospel no matter who they get it from!!! :] Other than that.....that was kinda our week! We had a good week! Here is the quote of the week from sister monson. I about died..... "We are more likely to get new converts by selling snake oil than from street contacting...." HAHA she is hilarious! Anyways I love you all and I am so thankful for my mission. I love the mission and I am just looking at it as that I am in the middle of my mission always and when I come home it will just be a call to serve for the rest of my life in sharing the gospel and helping others. I love you and miss you tons! Tell ashley clements that I love her and I am excited to meet my niece. :] XOXOXO</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sooooo you know how I am trying to preach the gospel to "every creature?" hahahaha well the other day, we were walking up to a member's house and there was a TURKEY on their truck! I was running after it with a book of mormon and sister monson tried to get a picture for me but the turkey was too fast hahahaha. So hilarious! I love you all and I miss you tons! It is crazy that my time is coming to a close but I am loving loving loving my mission and things are slowing down a little bit but they will pick back up. Our goal for this transfer is 5 baptisms and we have had 3 and so we need to find the other lucky 2 souls!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I love these people so much! I am so glad that my grandparents are going to be there when I get home :] It will be very good :] MWAH MWAH MWAH! I think that is all for this week! Oh wait! I forgot! We had a zone meeting and the Zone leaders wanted 3 trainings to take place and so they asked the district leaders and I to train. I trained the zone on some of the Christlike attributes. I think that it went pretty well! There are always so many things that I have to learn! Love you all and I will talk to you later! </span><br />
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Lora Corynn Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06054314348366087406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3784240066906634165.post-18594775425815293952012-11-02T22:31:00.001-07:002012-11-02T22:31:51.681-07:00"Let Go and Let God"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">October 8, 2012</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Oh my goodness that was an amazing email thank you sooooo much! So I found out that sister monson and I are staying together for another transfer. Can you believe that I only have 12 weeks left.....?!?!?! Wow I cannot believe it. If sister monson and I are together for only one more transfer I will only have one more companion! WOW things are going into perspective for me.......wow.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Conference was amazing! I loved every second of it! I also loved knowing that if you were watching conference at that moment I knew where you were and what you were listening to :] I loved elder holland's talk....talk about a spiritual smack upside the head! I always love that. I also loved elder nelson, uchtdorf and elder andersons talk. NOT TO MENTION I WAS ABSOLUTELY ECSTATIC WHEN THE PROPHET LOWERED THE AGE. MY JAW WAS ON THE FLOOR FOR ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR. THE OTHER MISSIONARIES WERE THE SAME WAY. I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE MISSIONARY FORCE AS IT INCREASES A TON! I was really hoping that the prophet would have extended the time for sister missionaries! I would have signed up for that immediately! :] But they are not going to change that within my time.... :( its okay...there is a time and a place. I am the oldest sister in the world haha. So today starts a new transfer. :]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Wow lots happened at home. Im sorry that injuries happened this week with my little babies. Shar is such a beast I love her. hahaha. Oh man....and picturing britton and caden being all crazy in conference was hilarious. I remember the time where I would come out in blankets and just shade my face so that you and dad would think I was listening....and I might have been half sleeping half listening. Now I couldnt sleep through conference if I tried. Knowing that we have a true prophet of God that speaks to the world today it a HUGE deal! This time around I just really payed attention to the promptings I received from the Lord. It seems as though the main themes of the conference were missionary work, being converted, follow the savior, faith in Jesus Christ, love him, etc. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Seriously! I love pictures I get of you! I just got the packages from g'ma and g'pa with some amazing goodies! Tell them thank you mucho! :] Mom seriously you will be great at your new calling. The Lord doesn't expect us to be completely qualified for the callings he gives us. If we were qualified then we couldnt grow ever....and that is our whole purpose of life. The Lord knows all and you will be so great I know it! :] mwah!!!! Man I wish that I could get the girls ready for dances again. I have learned new tricks on my mission :] So fun!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Nothing really super exciting this week...3 baptisms coming up this saturday and that is nearly the end of our teaching pool. Filling it slowly. :] Jesse and Jeremy went to conference with the dutsons and we still havent caught up with them since they came back last night, I bet it was amazing. I love that conference is so close that members can take investigators up there. I love that! What a great missionary tool.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> This week I learned that I always need to place my faith and trust in the Lord because the plans that I make for myself are not usually what the Lord has planned. I dont know what is going to happen in my future but I must LET GO AND LET GOD. I love the mission and I wish that I could be here forever. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tell erika that I love her and I miss her and congrats on her baby boy and blakerrrrrssssss is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute! Tell her to give him loves for me :] I hope all is well at home and I am sorry this email is so totally random. Love you and miss you! Didnt take any pictures this week :( sorry</span><br />
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Lora Corynn Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06054314348366087406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3784240066906634165.post-32444175731971187542012-10-27T10:24:00.001-07:002012-10-27T11:11:31.128-07:00"Cottage Cheese and Turtles"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">October 1, 2012</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> There is this amazing family in the beverly glen ward and they are the DUTSONS! I want to be like them because they always have people in their home being taught! We dont even have to ask for referrals, they just ask us to come over and teach them. It is amazing! They have helped so many people join the church and get well on their way! It is amazing. I want to be as amazing as the Dutsons when I grow up! :] THey are just so bold and have a clear understanding that THE GOSPEL is the ONLY thing that can bring people to live with Heavenly Father again. It definatley shows that they have that in the forefront of our minds (where it should always be!) :] They are amazing and I look up to them like crazy! Im so excited for you to meet them someday! :]</span><br />
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Lifting the hands that hang down in sorrow, Strengthening knees that bend in despair</div>
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Then during sac meeting I was asked to sing in relief society for the lesson. It ended up really well, I sang "More holliness give me". It was a really special lesson because our ward mission leader's wife is getting major major major surgery today and before that the lady who gave the lesson called her and had her bear her testimony to the Relief society and there was not a dry eye in the room. Saturday night we heart attacked their house so that they could feel better :] We were SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Stealthy :] hahaha. Always lots of work to do! The ward is definatley keeping us busy! I love this area to pieces and I love sister monson she is amazing. </div>
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Summer: 16 and she wants to be baptized because she loves to feel the spirit and she knows that the church is true</div>
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Pam: Has been investigating for 18 years and she got her answer by being pushed into her pool by an invisible force after she prayed about going into the waters of baptism! hahahahahaha amazing!</div>
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Kelsie: Is one of the member's girlfriends and she already knows the Book of Mormon is true and set a baptism date on the 1st lesson. She is pretty much already a member. She is so amazing!</div>
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Jeremy: He is Jesse's boyfriend and jesse had a prompting that she should invite her boyfriend to take the lessons and he is soooooooooo elect. He want s to be baptized!</div>
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Jesse: She has been taking the lessons for a few months and she is getting baptized on saturday! :] she is awesome!</div>
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Bill and Rosa, who I taught in green valley with sister garner moved to the central stake while I was in Elko or sunrise....bill has been waiting for permission to be baptized ever since I was in green valley and on wed night president called us and said that bill has received permission from the first presidency to be baptized! So he is getting baptized after waiting a year on sept 15th at 11 am! :] yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
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We had a lesson scheduled with Summer and this was going to be a make or break lesson this week. As we were praying outside in the car before going into the house the word TEMPLE came into my head about a thousand times. After we said amen I looked at sister Monson I and said the word temple and that is it. So we changed our plans and met them at the temple. We gave a temple tour and then we set Summer for baptism on sept 29th! She came to church yesterday even though she was sick, she helped with yw and the yw leaders gave her a quad with her name engraved on it. Also she came with us to the fireside last night where a famous female lds singer Cali Reed came and provided a fireside for us. I WANT HER CD! SHE IS AMAZING! Please can I have her cd? She is recording with deseret book. She is incredible. We love Summer!</div>
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Yesterday after church a lady who is un named for now....its a secret that we cant tell yet....she has been investigating for 18 years and she came up to us and said "sisters....it is time." Im so dumb and I was like "time for what?" She said "to get baptized!" I about fell over. </div>
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Also we have potentials coming out of the woodwork. It is insane how excited members are about doing missionary work. They all are in the attitude and mindset that inviting your non member friends over to have a lesson with the missionaries. Also the members are handing out BOMs like candy. I am in heaven right now. Some days have been hard but wow the Lord is working! All we have to do is live worthy and purify ourselves and God will bless us with people he is preparing. Since I have started this 40 day purification process satan has attacked me on all sides which has made me very weak at times, but through the help of the Lord he makes us strong!</div>
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Here is an analogy I heard last night from Cali Reed. Think about a potato and an egg and the reactions they both have in boiling water. the egg hardens and the potato softens. What is the reaction that we have in trials. Do we harden and become more bitter or do we soften, become more humble and come closer to God? That is a great question that we need to ask all the time.</div>
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This week I was honored because I was invited to be one of the 3 sisters that would attend Zone Leader Counsel. I was there with Sister Medina and Sister Vanderdoes...I like to call her Vanderdoodle :] It was a really good meeting and really set the tone for the rest of my mission. </div>
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So I am soooooooo OVER members asking me when I am going home. I always say that I never want to go home and this week was the first time I have cried about it. The mission is the best thing that you can ever do in your entire life and I never want it to end. I STRONGLY DISLIKE WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT WHEN I AM GOING HOME!!!!! SO hint hint...I am really trying not to talk about it or ever think about it so unless you need to ask me a question about my return home or my plans please avoid the subject! The family does a really good job anyways, just a reminder. I love you and I miss you and I hope that I can help all of these people come to Christ through the waters of baptism and help the mission bring 1200 souls to Christ. </div>
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It is amazing how much the Romney/Obama thing is really helping the missionary work move forward. There has NEVER been a better time to share the gospel with someone. It is so easy to bring up in the world today because of that. What an amazing blessing the Lord has given us! This will be a time that will be talked about for years and years to come! </div>
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Love you and miss you all! I need to become more like a potato. I have no idea what to say for my talk! I feel like my mission has been an explosion of EVERYTHING! hahahaaha. I trust you in whatever you want to say :]</div>
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Things are going great here and I love sister Monson! She is amazing and I just love her to death. She has me laughing all day long. We are really working on the transfer purification process and I am really seeing changes in me. I wrote down all the things in my life that pokes at the spirit and I am trying to eliminate them completely. It has been a crazy experience. I am loving the change that is taking place within me. </div>
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Wow 4 months from today I will be home. Insane. I think that this will be my last area. That is the trend in the mission. Everyone who is about to go home gets moved to central. SO a little about the area. It is TINY and everyone is a member. The members are PUMPED about missionary work more than I have ever seen in an area. We even had a relief society lesson that we helped with yesterday and it was on the book of mormon challenge.....usually people are like....wow not another challenge...but I do not think there was a dry eye in the room! OVER A BOM CHALLENGE! AMAZING WARDS! The wards did the usual surprise of calling you up and giving a short talk totally impromptu but its awesome and I got a really great welcome into the ward. I feel very happy here already even though we dont have a ton of people to teach. I have had some really good experiences! The other night I was bawling my eyes out because I feel as though I am not having the same success that I had in the first half of my mission and I just want to feel like I am fulfilling my purpose! I am working hard....being obedient and the baptisms are slowing down soooooo much. Havent had one since May and it is Sept...pretty sad...but its not because I haven't been working hard. I felt that I am not helping people as much as I am trying to do.....but I got an answer to my prayers yesterday when a member announced in a class that something I said in sac meeting really helped him with the stuff he was going through in his life. It was a small thing but I instantly started bawling because God was trying to tell me that I AM helping people and I AM making a difference. It was awesome. </div>
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It is awesome. Wow the girls are going at it arent they! At it again! So proud of my little babies. Caden and Britton look SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO<wbr></wbr>OOO different in all the pictures that I got from you this week. Caden is filling out a lot more and Britton is a giant human. Caden looks exactly like shar and Britton.............I dont know what he looks like...........hahahaha just kidding britton. I love my little baby boys. :] I only have 18 weeks left. 3 Transfers and I will probably die in Central. Kay Im glad that santa has already gotten the memo about christmas! That will be awesome! </div>
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Thank you for the pictures at the cabin! Im always open to getting pictures! Soooooo what happened this week????????????????????? We had a BIG storm in the valley. Record amount of rain. More than we usually get in a year in one day. The bad thing about the rain here is that the land is so dry that it doesnt absorb the water and it just runs off.....causing flash floods and major damage. Some people died in this last flood. Sister Cheatham and I had fun with our umbrellas in the rain and wow it felt so good! But we saw a lot of damage happen it was really bad. I will attach some pictures on another email and explanations.</div>
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Hello family I was praying for you to have an amazing vacation and and safe trip there and back! Prayers answered! Im sorry it was so smokey up there. I am so glad that you had a great time though! This week has been harder than heck. I got to the point where I was laughing at how hard of time we are having. Every appointment pretty much cancelled and if it werent for our dear Jessica I would have jumped off a cliff by now. Im just kidding. I am way blessed but this is the hardest time I have ever had. I know pretty much all the members and their life stories.....I know about everyone in the area book and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! But I am just seeing that the Lord is trying me and I am becoming stronger. Im not going to lie I am going a little crazy right now....but it is good for me. I am sleeping well at night and Im doing my best. But I am so weak and there are so many things that I want to change about myself. But it is a progression and it will take our whole lives on earth and even after this life to become perfected. Something that I have been learning more so this week is that we will all be rewarded according to the DEGREE in which we decide to obey God's commandments and have faith in Jesus Christ no matter what we go through. We had a lesson on "Mountains to climb" by President Eyring and every time I learn about that talk I want to show my faith by praying for challenges. Scary thought! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!...but I know that through Christ I can do all things. </div>
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Last night we went to the Why I believe fireside with Jessica and it was amazing as always. I cant beleive I turn 14 months this week. Insane. Had a BBQ with the acacia ward this weekend and it was super fun! I love that ward. I love all of our wards! Oh and I forgot to say last week that sister Cheatham and I spoke in McCullough hills ward and it was great! After that members seem to be asking a ton how they can help and do missionary work. Sister Northrup is amazing and she made us feel so good last night by saying that she hasnt seen missionaries really inspire the members to help out as much as we have! That was really nice. I think that I needed to hear that. .....I got grandmas package and it was as amazing as always! I am sending dadyy's birthday package in the mail today! I finished the tape and I will be sending that too. Its not a very interesting tape because we are struggling so much but its something. I hope that you like it! Um what else do I want to say? no investigators at church yesterday.....no set for baptism....working so hard..........a little crazy........but I am doing my best and trying to just laugh and be strong. Love you all and I miss you tons. You are telling santa to wait a couple days for christmas right? :] Love you and I hope all is well. No interesting pictures this week except for this quote I saw in a members bathroom that I really needed to see.......</div>
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Things are slow here in black mountain. But I am trying to keep my head up. Sister Cheatham and I are figuring things out more and more and having more and more fun. We are more similar than we thought. I really don't know what is going to happen for transfers. This area by far has been the most difficult to fulfill my purpose as a missionary. More and more less actives are coming to church and people are learning about the gospel, they are just not getting into the water! Agency is a blessing but I hate it when people use their agency in the wrong way. Im trying to keep my head up. I know I have been more than blessed with number of baptisms but I want to help more people come unto Christ. I am doing everything in my power by being obedient and working hard and going the extra mile with people but right now I just need to be patient. When things are like this that is when my impatience comes out. Im really trying to fight it. </div>
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We took Jessica to the temple on saturday night and it was good. She wants to get baptized as soon as she can. But we just got the good news that she is getting transferred to a different store so that she might be able to come to church on sundays. Amazing. At the temple it started pouring down rain!!!! It is tropical storm season and we really get a lot of thunder and lightning storms from it. VERY COOL TO SEE! I love it! </div>
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Mom and Dad I feel like I am becoming the best missionary I have ever been on my mission and the baptisms just stopped at a dead hault in May. It is August and the mission wants us to baptize once a month. It has been a little bit hard and I feel a little on the edge but I know that things will happen I just need to always have a smile on and work my hardest. I am doing this 40 day purification thing with myself. I am writing down everything in my life that disturbs the spirit in any little way and praying and fasting that I can overcome those things. It is going okay so far but I think I might need a bunch of 40 day purifications after I get home too. On Aug 16th I made a goal to read one section of the doctrine and covenants per day. A lot of missionaries do that in the last months of their mission. 138 days to the day is aug 16. Crazy. I only counted it because I wanted to know when to start the goal...Im not trunky by any means. I want to stay here for the rest of my life. But I know that Life goes on. </div>
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So the pictures are a little girl named liahauna loves to decorate my face every time I come over. She is so cute. The hole is with a black widow with her 3 big eggs. They were about the size of a dime. This black widow was huge and we killed it....well sister cheatham did. She is the designated bug killer......scorpians, cockroaches, spiders....etc. She's not a baby like me. Another is with us and jessica at the temple. Oh yes and I cannot forget.....this dinsaur thing is someone's yard....yes............it is in someones yard. The first time I drove past that hahahaha I was laughing so hard. People are so weird sometimes hahahaha. Well I love you. Pray for us....I need that extra help right now. I am relying on the Lord in all I do and he is my strength. Without him, the mission would not be possible. I love you and miss you all. I hope that your trip is great and say hello to the cabin for me. I hope our cabin is safe. Dad and mom I am so glad that you get a break. You deserve it. I love you</div>
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Cool experience just now. There were these teenage kids behind me on the computers at the library and they were swearing so much. I havent heard language like that in the longest time and I never want to hear it again! But I was about to turn around and say something to them.....then I prayed for a few min for help and then one of them got up and left after I prayed. SInce then I havent heard a bad word since. Amazing. The Lord really answers prayers big or small. If things are important to us, they are important to him. </div>
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SO we had zone conference this week and it was really great! We had it with the green valley zone. So I got to see Sister Tahi and Medina (they opened another area in green valley for sisters. kinda crazy!) Also I got to see the sister that I would have been training instead of sister Tahi and that is sister Hunt. She and I get along sooooooooooooo well and I just have this feeling that we are going to be companions someday. I wasnt meant to train her for some reason but I hope that we will be compys someday. She is the one with the strawberry blondish hair and she is really tall. </div>
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This week has been a bit of a struggle. We are going out and doing work and being super obedient but we are not harvesting the way that we hope for. But I know that the Lord has tons of plans for this area...I just might not be here when it starts happening again. It is hot....no appointments....no one out to talk to on the street and members are so hard to catch but we will keep thrusting in our sickle with our might and things will work out. I just broke down crying last night and I had President Jones give me a blessing for patience and long suffering in the work. He said, I bless you to be able to open your eyes and see all the good you are doing here and also to see that people have their agency, and we cannot help how they choose. SO TRUE. I am being hard on myself for the choices they are NOT making and blaming myself for it. But that is not the way I should look at it. I see now that the Less Actives we have been working with have been coming back to church and at least staying for sacrament meeting. That is a huge blessing, I guess it is just not the success I have been programmed to see up to this point. I just know that the Lord loves all of his children and he wants us ALL to return to live with him. No matter what we have done, we can never be far enough away that would be out of the Savior's reach. We can turn around and make it back. We only become canidates for the celestial kingdom when we are baptized (like preach my gospel says). We must ENDURE and PROVE our worthiness to God every day. It is hard but it is possible. And I have loved helping these Less Actives start to see that again.</div>
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So we had a little adventure this morning. I heard sister Cheatham super frustrated in the bathroom getting ready...she called me into the bathroom and some people had come into our bathroom and just played harmful pranks. CHEWING GUM EVERYWHERE....all of sister Cheatham's makeup was covered in lotion, they dumped stuff into her perfume, gum all over the straightener, and the toilet is not working right, we think these people flushed some pretty big non-flushable things. It was really irritating. We found out that it was some 10 year old girls that were visiting the house that wanted to play a bad prank on the sisters. None of my stuff was damaged but I felt bad for sister Cheatham. SIster Jones obviously was mortified at finding out what happened and she is taking us makeup shopping today. It really wasnt that big of a deal and sister Cheatham is fine with it now but sister Jones wont let it go. SO she insists on taking us. Anyways...interesting stuff this week.</div>
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We spoke in the Laurel hills ward yesterday and it was really great! We sent around the signup for the 40 day fast and 20 people have signed up already. We hope to get it filled by next sunday so we can start on aug 6th. :] So exciting. Um...........what else happened to our lives this week? Been kinda a crazy week as you can tell! I got a lot of letters this week which I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THANKFUL FOR! Sister Hanny, an elder from Elko sending me a baptism program for someone sister espinal and I taught, Spencer wrote me a really nice letter and Dani Curry. Also the relief society presidentcy from home sent me a birthday card! Um love you and I miss you tons. MWAH MWAH MWAH! I have the family picture you sent me by my bed. I LOVE THAT PICTURE! THank you for having me in the picture too! It means a lot to me. Miss you tons and Im hanging in there.</div>
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Sometimes our investigators are not all the way ready so they need to be little fishies thrown back into the water for a bit until next season. Sister Hanny and I baptized 5 people together because of the faith to let them go. It is so hard because you love these people so much and they show some interest but they aren't quite there yet. We have a ton of things on the horizon and Billions of people that are waiting to hear the gospel and we just havent found them yet. SO I had some pretty amazing experiences this week! It was incredible.</div>
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#2 I got to see sister Abeyta this week! It was amazing to see her. I love that girl so much! and I got to meet her family too. Amazing people. It is so crazy to think that all of my companions are off their mission except for Medina, Cheatham and Tahi. Insane. Seeing sister Abeyta again was like little childhood friends were getting together. I miss her!</div>
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#3 The last thing is Saturday. Oh boy I do not have words to describe Saturday. PURE JOY is all I can think of. So I was called by Bob from my first area. He is the guy that got baptized a couple days before I got to the mission field. I got really close with him over the time I was there. But his year mark had passed so that he could go through the temple to receive his endownment and he was inviting me to come!!!! With permission I was able to go and it sounds like Bill, Carey and Gerry are coming to the temple soon too! I will be able to go just in time before I come home. I have a feeling that I will be making random trips, if means provide, so that I can come down and see more of my recent converts go through and get sealed and stuff. But here's the cool part.....we needed a ride to get to the temple and we had been trying to find one for a couple days. Then the thought came to me....the Mccullough hills ward temple night is the same session as bob's session. So soon enough I got a call from the bishop's wife saying, " I had a prompting this morning that I needed to call you sisters and see if you wanted a ride to the ward temple night session tonight." Of course we said yes! :] It was amazing to see people I loved from McCullough hills ward AND the Green Valley ward together in the same session. I was overwhelmed with the joy of my mission and all the loved ones around support Bob and doing work for those who have gone before us. I looked over at Bob during the session and he was GLOWING. Incredible. I will never forget when we went into the celetial room and seeing Bob and everyone else. SUCH PEACE. Also to top it all off there is another mini story. During the session I was sitting by someone that looked so familiar to me but I couldnt put it together for some reason. When we were in the celestial room she gave me a great big hug and said "thank you for everything you have done." Then she showed me to her dad and said that he would like to see me. Then it started coming back to me. I think we must have known each other before this life. So then she led me to this little old man with a big smile on his face holding his cane. He looked into my eyes and said "are you Sister Fine?" I said yes and he said "I will always remember you for singing at my wife's funeral." I remembered then....I sang "I know that my Redeemer lives" and it was the best time I had ever performed it. I remember feeling angels all around me helping me to perform for this family. As I was talking to this man in the celestial room my heart overflowed with joy. It was the best feeling I have ever felt. I love my mission and I know that the Lord is pleased with me and my service no matter how many doors have been slammed in my face, no matter how many unpleasant situations I have been in. The Lord accepts my service. :]</div>
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I want to express my gratitude to my Heavenly Father for allowing me to serve a mission. Lately I have been told, "You are lucky you even got to come on your mission because of your anxiety." But because of God's grace he gave me the strength and the opportunity to have that not be withheld from me. I love my mission. I love you my lovelies and I pray for you every night and day. Until we write again. I love you.</div>
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I love you all! Daddy thank you so much for the email. It was wonderful to hear from you because I have been thinking about you so much and how you are holding up. Thank you for all the sacrifices that you make on behalf of our family. I love you so much and I will never be able to repay you for all that you have done, because you have done it in righteousness. Thank you will never be enough. I hope that I can make you proud with my mission and help you feel like your money is well spent.</div>
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I have had a lot of moments this week that just made all the hardships worth it. First we finished all the lessons with Jessica this week! Obviously we are still going by all the time because we want to help her to continue to progress. She is seriously amazing. I will never forget the days that me and my companions street contacted Carey and Jessica. They are such special people to me. BTW I got a letter from Carey saying that he was asked by an investigator to baptize him because Carey has been coming to his lessons a lot. What a cool thing. I just want to squish him because I am so proud of him!!!! :] Last night we took Jessica to the WHY I BELIEVE fireside and it was amazing. The spirit was so strong and we got to introduce her to President and Sister Neider. So amazing. Sister Neider told her that she promises that Jessica is doing the right thing and that she has babies up in heaven that are cheering her on. What a powerful statement. Jessica started to tear up and that was a special experience. On the way home from the fireside, she told us with tears in her eyes that she knows the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only true church on the earth and that she cannot wait to be a part of it. I dont care where I am in the world, I will walk if I have to....to get to her baptism. She is so special. Our last lesson with her was on baptism and confirmation and we watched the awesome bible video on LDS.org about Jesus' baptism. That brought the spirit so strongly. We hope to go to the temple with her and her fiance Tom this week. It will be amazing. </div>
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The other amazing experience we had was with this family. It is a family of 5 and 3 are over the age of 8. The 2 parents and a 10 year old kid. Every time I go over there this kid Cody reminds me of Britton SOOOOOOOOO MUCH! We taught a lesson to them this week by watching the finding faith in Christ video and teaching how they can show their faith. All of a sudden we look over and cody has his shirt over his face and he is sobbing. We paused and the spirit came in like crazy. We asked him "if you could ask of anything from God right at this very moment what would it be." He said, sobbing...."I just want to have a clsoer relationship with my Heavenly Father." I about fell over and we all started crying in the room. We taught him about how he can gain that relationship with him. Then the spirit told me...."Set him for baptism." So we did and after we asked him he shook his head yes with tears in his eyes and said "I want to be baptized so much." Then we asked the mother and she said she wants to as well. The father was not there at the time but when we see him next we will ask him too. It was a wonderful experience. Cody ran up to us and gave us the biggest hug in the world. Man I love that kid. So sensitive to the spirit and so in tune. What an amazing little guy. He reminds me of my two amazing brothers and what good boys they are and the great desire they have to do what is right! I am loving it! </div>
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