August 6, 2009
Hey!
So this may be a little bit of a short email with a lot of information in it! The elders have been waiting for us to be done so I'm going to try to be fast! First a couple fun stories. First....last P-day, we were all at the church doing emails and the elders would NOT be in the same room as us. Weird. So when we were done, we went to go tell them we were done and they could use it now and they were all playing volleyball....without us! So Sister Deal kind of freaked out since we've been feeling left out about a lot of things lately. She was like " you know, you should invite us to do things sometimes!! We've been feeling like outcasts! It's hard being a girl!!!" It was really funny. So they are waiting for US now to go play tennis.
Other funny story, we had our first district meeting on monday with our new district...in which the Harrisburg and Pittsburgh missionaires are all mixed up now. So we had to start combining ways of doing things and it was soo funny. We usually would kneel down to pray and so when half of us went down, everyone else was like "oh, I guess we are kneeling". After prayer, we usually recite D&C 4 and Our Purpose all together so it was all awkward when we wanted to start that. Anyway, it was pretty funny.
Two more stories I want to tell you about people we are teaching. One named Vinny. This was our second time teaching him and we taught the plan of salvation. The subject of baptism was coming up so much so Sis. Deal went with the flow and invited him to be baptized....once he knew it was true. He said he would...but then went on to say, "do I really need to keep meeting with you or can I just talk to you on sundays?" hahaha. We told him whatever he'd like, but we'll get him to meet with us again.
We also visited with a less-active member who has been lost from the records for a long time. Cati...her mom told us about her so we stopped by and she was SOO SWEEET! We just visited with her and got to know her. Asked her if she remembered her baptism very well and she said she didn't because she was about 9 or 10 but she did remember the day she got sealed to her parents. It was so sweet, she started crying and we talked more about the temple. After our prayer we gave her a hug and she just started crying more and said "I'm so glad someone finally came." It's like she's just been waiting for someone to come from the church, but didn't know how to get us or find us. She did say she would go to church this week too. YAY!
Anyway, sorry this is written so quickly. I hope it makes sense. But I should get going. I love all of you and miss you SOOOO MUCH!!! :) Have a great week!
Love, Holly
Monday, August 10, 2009
Week 15 - Transfer outcomes
July 30, 2009
Hi Everyone!
Well as you all know, we had transfers this past week. Ready for the results??????? (*ahem, drum roll please)................Sister Deal and I are staying together Yet Again in Dover. Shocking right???????? That was exactly my thoughts!! Absolutely shocking. I'm not going to get greenie busted until I'm 4 1/2 months into the mission....maybe even 6 months if I stay with her til her end!! Weird, I know! But I guess we are both needed here for some reason that we don't know yet. Now since we both weren't transfered at all, that also meant that we didn't get to go to Pittsburgh :( At our last zone conference, President Summerhays told us that all the sisters would go to transfer meeting so we could all meet eachother and get to know everyone, etc etc. Well, when we got our phone call about us staying together, our district leader also told us that we couldn't go now. Sad huh? We blocked out our whole day, we even got a member of our ward to take us! We were so excited to go meet everyone. So you can imagine the disappointment we felt. Having our whole day blocked out also meant no appointments, which then meant that we had to tract all day long!!! And wouldn't you guess, it was the hottest day we've had this whole summer. Transfers were kind of a bummer but all is well now.
So two funny stories to tell you. The first is that last Friday or Saturday, I can't remember which one, I went to go take out the trash in our apartment. On the way out it scratched my leg but I didn't really think anything of it except "ouch" until after I came back in. When I got back in, I looked down at my leg and it was COVERED in blood!! What could have scratched me to make me bleed that bad? Who knows. It's been bleeding ever since too, it got me real bad! Well on Tuesday, I was changing my bandaid and sister deal came in and looked very concerned. haha, she finally fessed up and admitted "I broke a glass and threw it in the trash and that's what attacked your leg!!!!" hahaha! 4 days later, she finally tells me it was a glass she threw away! Really, that just makes the story even better!
Next story is.....Krista you'll like this one (it's a good finding one)...we were tracting last night in an apartment complex. We were talking to this man named Alan just about the restoration and things. When we brought up the Book of Mormon, his eyes lit up. He was CURRENTLY watching Glenn Beck when we knocked on his door and he told us that he agrees with a lot of Glenn's opinions and thoughts. So he is very interested in reading the Book of Mormon. He said he was going to do it that night! hahaha. Of course we got a return appointment with him so I'm excited to see how it turns out. And THANK YOU Glenn Beck for being such a great media representative for the church! I just thought there was no better timing for us to knock on his door :)
Anyway, the work is still doing really well. Things are stil rolling along. Thanks for all you do! I sure do love all of you! Miss you lots and lots!
Love, Sister LaMont
Hi Everyone!
Well as you all know, we had transfers this past week. Ready for the results??????? (*ahem, drum roll please)................Sister Deal and I are staying together Yet Again in Dover. Shocking right???????? That was exactly my thoughts!! Absolutely shocking. I'm not going to get greenie busted until I'm 4 1/2 months into the mission....maybe even 6 months if I stay with her til her end!! Weird, I know! But I guess we are both needed here for some reason that we don't know yet. Now since we both weren't transfered at all, that also meant that we didn't get to go to Pittsburgh :( At our last zone conference, President Summerhays told us that all the sisters would go to transfer meeting so we could all meet eachother and get to know everyone, etc etc. Well, when we got our phone call about us staying together, our district leader also told us that we couldn't go now. Sad huh? We blocked out our whole day, we even got a member of our ward to take us! We were so excited to go meet everyone. So you can imagine the disappointment we felt. Having our whole day blocked out also meant no appointments, which then meant that we had to tract all day long!!! And wouldn't you guess, it was the hottest day we've had this whole summer. Transfers were kind of a bummer but all is well now.
So two funny stories to tell you. The first is that last Friday or Saturday, I can't remember which one, I went to go take out the trash in our apartment. On the way out it scratched my leg but I didn't really think anything of it except "ouch" until after I came back in. When I got back in, I looked down at my leg and it was COVERED in blood!! What could have scratched me to make me bleed that bad? Who knows. It's been bleeding ever since too, it got me real bad! Well on Tuesday, I was changing my bandaid and sister deal came in and looked very concerned. haha, she finally fessed up and admitted "I broke a glass and threw it in the trash and that's what attacked your leg!!!!" hahaha! 4 days later, she finally tells me it was a glass she threw away! Really, that just makes the story even better!
Next story is.....Krista you'll like this one (it's a good finding one)...we were tracting last night in an apartment complex. We were talking to this man named Alan just about the restoration and things. When we brought up the Book of Mormon, his eyes lit up. He was CURRENTLY watching Glenn Beck when we knocked on his door and he told us that he agrees with a lot of Glenn's opinions and thoughts. So he is very interested in reading the Book of Mormon. He said he was going to do it that night! hahaha. Of course we got a return appointment with him so I'm excited to see how it turns out. And THANK YOU Glenn Beck for being such a great media representative for the church! I just thought there was no better timing for us to knock on his door :)
Anyway, the work is still doing really well. Things are stil rolling along. Thanks for all you do! I sure do love all of you! Miss you lots and lots!
Love, Sister LaMont
Week 14 - last week of extra long transfer cycle
July 23, 2009
Hi Family!
So as you can see from the subject of my email, we are in week 7.....the last week of this transfer. I don't know if I mentioned before but because of our missions combining with Pittsburgh we had to add an extra week to this transfer because they were a week behind us. Which also means that I'll be adding an extra week to my whole mission. That also means this is my last week with Sister Deal. :( It makes me sad that we have to be seperated. But I guess it has to happen sometime.
Well as for the work, we are finally starting to get some progressing investigators! Amanda is so cute, she is the fiancee of a member of our ward. She's really started to open up to us and ask questions and share her concerns, when before she was just really quiet. Probably because we are teaching just her at her house now....with her fiancee there of course. But she's sweet too, she wants to make us dinner this coming friday night and help her decorate her apartment. She doesn't understand yet that we have to be baptized by the authority in order to go into the celestial kingdom....but it will all come in time. Once she knows the B.O.M is true and Joseph was a prophet, it will all come into place. Hopefully.
We are also teaching a husband and wife, Gabe and Deb Barsanyi. I don't know if I mentioned to you before be we met them on their front porch while tracting. They are SOOOO searching right now! Deb already seems like she is a member of the church. Shares her thoughts and feelings with religion that fall right inline with us. I feel like I'm just talking to a member when we talk to her. Gabe is really hesitant about going to an organized church and isn't quite sure how he can know for sure about the truth. I guess it's hard for him to recognize the spirit or recognize answers but he is just an amazing person as well and always asks us such deep, searching questions.
I've told you every now and then how Sister Deal has stomach problems and she has a lot of health issues. Well here is a new one as of this week. She got SHINGLES! Yikes! It started out looking like a rash on her leg that was really itchy. Then it started hurting her really bad. So we went to the doctor on Monday and it was shingles. Poor girl, always has some kind of problems she has to deal with.
I just wanted to share one last thing about how awesome our ward mission leader is! We had a correlation meeting last night and he brought up to us how he knows we are working hard and he feels he doesn't do enough. So he started praying about how he can be better at helping us out and how he can be a better missionary. Well, he decided that he wanted to go visit our investigators and just introduce himself as a member of our congregation and get to know them. He is just too good to us! I'm sure, even though these people have no idea who he is, it makes them feel happy that someone is coming to show them that they care.
Well, I've said enough for today. I should get going now....I swear P-days are busier then any other day! Have a good week! Can't wait to hear from you ALL next week! :) Sure do love ya!
Love, Holly
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