NO MORE EXCUSES! GET TO WORK! MEMORIZE!
(Emily sent home a list of scripture masteries so we can get to work on the challenge given to us a few weeks ago.) There's a cool app you can download also to help you memorize scriptures. lds.org under resources, seminaries & institutes, scripture masteries. <3 ya. Sister Smith
And that is all she sent home this week. Guess we better get busy and now we have no excuses.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Dain and Kyle Parkinson
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Monday, July 21, 2014
Fun pictures
our sweet dollar tree glasses!
I Love my district! We were all being the animals, or the plants on our glasses! it was so fun!
Our first meeting with Sister Forbes.
Email 7-21-14 President's fireside.
weekly letter replacement!
This week I am sending a weekly e-mail rather than a weekly letter, because I have to pack and do other things this p-day. anyway, this is a repeat for mom, but everyone else will get it (plus this one is more complete, because I added more on to it!)
My week was so full of awesomeness! The best thing was going to President's Fireside. Which is a fireside that my mission president has once a month and recent converts share their conversion story in 5-10 minutes, and the Spirit is so strong there. But this time I had a very special experience. For the first time I saw some investigators and members from North St. Paul, and , Sister Riley, I truly felt like Ammon, when he is reunited with Alma, and his brothers in Alma 27:
"16 And it came to pass that as [Sister Smith] was going forth into the land [of Bloomington], that [s]he and h[er] brethren met [Sister Riley, and all of her favorite Karen people], over in the place of which has been spoken; and behold, this was a joyful meeting.
17 Now the joy of [Sister Smith] was so great even that [s]he was full; yea, [s]he was swallowed up in the joy of h[er] God, even to the exhausting of h[er] strength; and he fell again to the earth.
18 Now was not this exceeding joy? Behold, this is joy which none receiveth save it be the truly penitent and humble seeker of happiness.
19 Now the joy of [Sister Riley] in meeting h[er] brethren was truly great. . ."
My joy was full as I saw the progress of both Ann (Who came to President's Fireside) and others that I have taught, and the progress of my companion in learning the Karen language! I know that there is no other thing that can bring such great joy as I felt! Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that seals families together, and gives us the knowledge of the Celestial kingdom can bring such a lightness of heart and a sincere joy!
I also found out that a Karen investigator that I had in North St. Paul got baptized, and so did Jose and Miriam! Jose and Miriam got married and baptized(that is who the attached picture is of, just a reminder for y'all)! They were always a family I felt so close to, I knew that I knew them since day one! They fit so well into the North St. Paul ward! My heart truly rejoices in knowing that people that I know and love are coming unto Christ!
Also, I'm getting transferred. So DO NOT SEND MAIL TO HILLTOP CT ANYMORE! just send it to the mission home! I am going to Cedar Lake Ward! My new companion is so awesome! Her and I have served around each other often, and we have always wanted to be companions! So I am so super excited about it! Very bittersweet. I wanted to stay here for the rest of my mission, because I love this ward, but I know that I will love the next ward too! The church is true where ever you go!
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
pictures 7-14-14
So, You know how I like my water. . . I had left my water bottle in the car and we were waiting in the kitchen to have our meeting (we have our ward coordination meeting in the kitchen because there is no other open room at the church) Sister Shumway did not want to walk from the kitchen to the drinking fountain with me, and we could not find any cups that I could drink from. So she gave me this bowl and so I was using it like a cup but then she was laughing too hard because I reminded her of a cat drinking out of a bowl, so she found me a straw, and I used the straw and I think that made her laughter worse! haha. . . I just thought it was funny so I decided to share with you! 
This is who we had dinner with on Sunday. Both of the women's husbands were out of town, so we got to have a little girls dinner! it was so fun! these are some of my favorite sisters in the ward!
email 7-14-14 Answering my letter
My letter to Emily is posted at the bottom of her letter, so if you are confused just keep reading.
They are covered with paper becausue I want to not look at the lame planner cover all transfer, so you can put stickers, or pictures of Jesus or quotes, or anything! You like to scrapbook, it's kind of like that! Just to make it a cute background too!
The Atonement talks you should be able to find them online at lds.org.
The pictures were fun! I did not even recognize Brynlee, she is so grown up! I hope you get your iPad worked out, by the way, I don't know if you have seen this but here is a pretty cool article about the use of iPads for missionaries, and what they have decided to do with them.
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-expands-use-of-digital-devices-for-missionary-work?cid=HPFR062714276
You and I are totally on the same page! Today I read a talk on family history from this last conference. By Quinten L Cook he said: "Don’t underestimate the influence of the deceased in assisting your efforts and the joy of ultimately meeting those you serve. The eternally significant blessing of uniting our own families is almost beyond comprehension." how cool is that?! It is so exciting that you found a family that went back to 1515!
I LOVE them. (new shoes) They will be really comfortable when they are broken in! I still have some mole skin from when I was in the MTC, so I should be good, they are not even too bad, they are already comfortable to wear! Cassidy mentioned it but I do not really know any details of her pageant. Is it the one that Jenn is in charge of?
It does make sense where the veterans memorial is now, I guess in my memory the land there is very little, but I do not really remember, it has been a long time since I lived in Duchesne.
I am glad Ally is more happy, she needs to write me! I miss her too. Every time Elder Peatross and I see each other we ask "has Allyson written you?" haha! it is funny, we always discuss changes that we hear about from home, like Kim being married and having a baby, etc. I have not heard from Ally at all, except a graduation announcement.
The pictures were great! i loved them! Love ya! XOXOXO
With Love,
Sister Smith
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Christy wrote:
I love Mondays! I love to hear from you and see what's new. Before I forget, your bank balance is 188.10. I have a few questions for you. You send home two planners for us to decorate. They are already covered with paper. Did you just want stickers or drawings or something else added? And I was looking over the Atonement study schedule you sent. The first part that is listed, are they talks I can get online or what? I looked, but maybe not hard enough for the talks. So I started with the scriptures and have been studying those. I took lots of pictures outside yesterday while we were outside relaxing watching the kids play. My ipad is being a pain and won't let me sent any emails out. It keeps telling me the password is wrong. I even changed it on the big computer then on the ipad to match and it still says the same thing. It is driving me crazy. I got some cute videos of Cooper playing in the cozy coupe. Won't let me send those either.
I have been working for some time 3-4 weeks on a family in family search. I have a legal size notebook with four pages of information I have found that I need to put on or people that need more information before I can put on. Like an obituary on findagrave.com that lists children so I have to go looking. Anyway, some days it drives me crazy. I just want to get the information put on and cross it off my notes. Last week I really prayed hard to know where to start or who needed me to work on them. When I went to the family history center on Wednesday I added William Stroupe's mom. (I found her on a census) From there it added 12 more generations to our tree! Clear back to the year 1515. It is so exciting. I have more names that need sources, but I can get help from Lindsey. I haven't really had a chance to do much looking around about them, but I love it. Now I just need to find a spouse for Dollie, William's mom. I am also amazed at how the Ensign always has an article about family history and it always happens I read it when I need it for my class. I feel the Holy Ghost guide me so much with family history.
You mentioned buying new shoes, how are the one's I sent ya? I love new shoes after they are broken in. Hopefully it won't take long to break them in. I do have some moleskin I can send you if you get blisters from breaking them in. All the girls went to Wicked at Capitol Theatre this weekend. It was so good. Cassidy wore some shoes that gave her blisters wearing them all day. Not really much new going on here. Cassidy will be in her pageant Saturday. Did anybody tell you about it already? Seems like I have, but maybe not. It is here in Duchesne.
I was going to draw you a map about the veteran's memorial here in town, but I keep forgetting. If you drive past Angella's house and cross the bridge to come back into town. Where the road splits and you can go toward Roosevelt or keep driving into town, that little triangle of land is where it is. Does that make sense?
Allyson Mckee asked me about you yesterday and when you would be home. I told her the end of December and she sighed and said, "I miss her". I told her we talk about her quite often. She is so cute. I just love her so much. She sure seems happier now than a few months ago.
Here are some of the pictures I took yesterday. Lindsey is 29 weeks now. I had to get a picture of her in her matchy dress. Brynlee and Cooper were having a demolition derby. And Kade was playing with Cooper too. They are getting big too. Hope the pictures work and you can see them. I'm not having much luck with them this week. I love you and hope you have a great day.
Hugs and kisses. Mommy
They are covered with paper becausue I want to not look at the lame planner cover all transfer, so you can put stickers, or pictures of Jesus or quotes, or anything! You like to scrapbook, it's kind of like that! Just to make it a cute background too!
The Atonement talks you should be able to find them online at lds.org.
The pictures were fun! I did not even recognize Brynlee, she is so grown up! I hope you get your iPad worked out, by the way, I don't know if you have seen this but here is a pretty cool article about the use of iPads for missionaries, and what they have decided to do with them.
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-expands-use-of-digital-devices-for-missionary-work?cid=HPFR062714276
You and I are totally on the same page! Today I read a talk on family history from this last conference. By Quinten L Cook he said: "Don’t underestimate the influence of the deceased in assisting your efforts and the joy of ultimately meeting those you serve. The eternally significant blessing of uniting our own families is almost beyond comprehension." how cool is that?! It is so exciting that you found a family that went back to 1515!
I LOVE them. (new shoes) They will be really comfortable when they are broken in! I still have some mole skin from when I was in the MTC, so I should be good, they are not even too bad, they are already comfortable to wear! Cassidy mentioned it but I do not really know any details of her pageant. Is it the one that Jenn is in charge of?
It does make sense where the veterans memorial is now, I guess in my memory the land there is very little, but I do not really remember, it has been a long time since I lived in Duchesne.
I am glad Ally is more happy, she needs to write me! I miss her too. Every time Elder Peatross and I see each other we ask "has Allyson written you?" haha! it is funny, we always discuss changes that we hear about from home, like Kim being married and having a baby, etc. I have not heard from Ally at all, except a graduation announcement.
The pictures were great! i loved them! Love ya! XOXOXO
With Love,
Sister Smith
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Christy wrote:
I love Mondays! I love to hear from you and see what's new. Before I forget, your bank balance is 188.10. I have a few questions for you. You send home two planners for us to decorate. They are already covered with paper. Did you just want stickers or drawings or something else added? And I was looking over the Atonement study schedule you sent. The first part that is listed, are they talks I can get online or what? I looked, but maybe not hard enough for the talks. So I started with the scriptures and have been studying those. I took lots of pictures outside yesterday while we were outside relaxing watching the kids play. My ipad is being a pain and won't let me sent any emails out. It keeps telling me the password is wrong. I even changed it on the big computer then on the ipad to match and it still says the same thing. It is driving me crazy. I got some cute videos of Cooper playing in the cozy coupe. Won't let me send those either.
I have been working for some time 3-4 weeks on a family in family search. I have a legal size notebook with four pages of information I have found that I need to put on or people that need more information before I can put on. Like an obituary on findagrave.com that lists children so I have to go looking. Anyway, some days it drives me crazy. I just want to get the information put on and cross it off my notes. Last week I really prayed hard to know where to start or who needed me to work on them. When I went to the family history center on Wednesday I added William Stroupe's mom. (I found her on a census) From there it added 12 more generations to our tree! Clear back to the year 1515. It is so exciting. I have more names that need sources, but I can get help from Lindsey. I haven't really had a chance to do much looking around about them, but I love it. Now I just need to find a spouse for Dollie, William's mom. I am also amazed at how the Ensign always has an article about family history and it always happens I read it when I need it for my class. I feel the Holy Ghost guide me so much with family history.
You mentioned buying new shoes, how are the one's I sent ya? I love new shoes after they are broken in. Hopefully it won't take long to break them in. I do have some moleskin I can send you if you get blisters from breaking them in. All the girls went to Wicked at Capitol Theatre this weekend. It was so good. Cassidy wore some shoes that gave her blisters wearing them all day. Not really much new going on here. Cassidy will be in her pageant Saturday. Did anybody tell you about it already? Seems like I have, but maybe not. It is here in Duchesne.
I was going to draw you a map about the veteran's memorial here in town, but I keep forgetting. If you drive past Angella's house and cross the bridge to come back into town. Where the road splits and you can go toward Roosevelt or keep driving into town, that little triangle of land is where it is. Does that make sense?
Allyson Mckee asked me about you yesterday and when you would be home. I told her the end of December and she sighed and said, "I miss her". I told her we talk about her quite often. She is so cute. I just love her so much. She sure seems happier now than a few months ago.
Here are some of the pictures I took yesterday. Lindsey is 29 weeks now. I had to get a picture of her in her matchy dress. Brynlee and Cooper were having a demolition derby. And Kade was playing with Cooper too. They are getting big too. Hope the pictures work and you can see them. I'm not having much luck with them this week. I love you and hope you have a great day.
Hugs and kisses. Mommy
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Week of miracles Dated July 13, 2014
What a week! This week was great, we got fed dinner almost every night! And on Sunday I was thinking, "It's been a ling time since I have had enchiladas. That sounds so good." Then on Monday one our favorite families invited us over for dinner and they fed us enchiladas! They were creamy chicken enchiladas just like mom's! Yummy, it made me so happy!
There were many miracles this week. There is one I would like to share. It was Sunday and we had not taught many Restoration lessons this week. We were focused on finding and trying to achieve our goals. We felt inspired to go to the Relief Society Presidents house and go finding in her area. So we went to her house. Before we went out tracting, we knocked on her door and told her we would be in the area for the next 40 minutes and we wanted to come back after that time and tell her about all the miracles we found in her area. She agreed and we said a prayer with her before we went out to work. We were so blessed to be able to talk to many people. we got to teach two people and set up appointments to come back and teach two others. It was probably the most productive hour we have had all week. Then when we went back to share miracles with the Relief Society President and her less-active son asked if he could sit in and listen to the miracles that happened! Little did he know he was part of the list of miracles that night! The Lord guides us every day!
I have been making the Atonement a part o my daily study and i have been able to see a huge difference in my happiness level. Early on this week I had a rough day where I was doubting myself and questioning why we were doing so much tracting and not finding any new investigators. I have also been having a lot more headaches lately so it was just rough. We called the Ward Mission Leader, Brother Kochenderfer, and another brother in the ward and asked for a blessing. As we talked before the blessing, I realized how prideful I have been. Thinking that I don't need medicine, or that my companion and I can find investigators on our own without the members help. Since the, I have made sure to apply the Atonement of Jesus Christ more to my life, and to study it more. I have seen a huge increase in happiness and desire to do the Lord's work.
With love, Sister Smith
There were many miracles this week. There is one I would like to share. It was Sunday and we had not taught many Restoration lessons this week. We were focused on finding and trying to achieve our goals. We felt inspired to go to the Relief Society Presidents house and go finding in her area. So we went to her house. Before we went out tracting, we knocked on her door and told her we would be in the area for the next 40 minutes and we wanted to come back after that time and tell her about all the miracles we found in her area. She agreed and we said a prayer with her before we went out to work. We were so blessed to be able to talk to many people. we got to teach two people and set up appointments to come back and teach two others. It was probably the most productive hour we have had all week. Then when we went back to share miracles with the Relief Society President and her less-active son asked if he could sit in and listen to the miracles that happened! Little did he know he was part of the list of miracles that night! The Lord guides us every day!
I have been making the Atonement a part o my daily study and i have been able to see a huge difference in my happiness level. Early on this week I had a rough day where I was doubting myself and questioning why we were doing so much tracting and not finding any new investigators. I have also been having a lot more headaches lately so it was just rough. We called the Ward Mission Leader, Brother Kochenderfer, and another brother in the ward and asked for a blessing. As we talked before the blessing, I realized how prideful I have been. Thinking that I don't need medicine, or that my companion and I can find investigators on our own without the members help. Since the, I have made sure to apply the Atonement of Jesus Christ more to my life, and to study it more. I have seen a huge increase in happiness and desire to do the Lord's work.
With love, Sister Smith
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