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| My new companion. Isn't she beautiful? She is 6'1" or so and the oldest and the shortest in her family, like me. |
The area is going well. With transfers and not getting my new companion until Wednesday I was away from my area for a long while. I really missed it and now we are doing our best to get everything done we can. Sister Hagemeyer is really awesome and has such great desire to share the Gospel. She has such a powerful testimony and we are working at setting up lessons where she can practice teaching with less active members. The ward is starting to be more unified and Jeri's husband, a nonmember, stayed for all three hours this Sunday for the first time ever. Its really exciting. We are striving to be exactly obedient and accomplish all we have been sent here to do. Melissa is still progressing, she has not received a clear answer one way or another but she feels strongly that what she is learning, and the Church, is leading her in the direction God wants her to go. She has a strong desire to be baptized.
Don't know what else to say. Adjusting is sometimes tough but Sister Hagemeyer is awesome.
Also one of the Sisters in our ward is suffering an infestation of cockroaches and bedbugs because while she keeps her home super clean, she lives in an apartment complex and when they spray in one area all the roaches and problems spread to all the other apartments in the building... It is so sad to see when people suffer from the choices of others.
Apparently there are chiggers in Nevada now, they, like bedbugs,migrated here from the South. I haven't seen them but one of the members has and mentioned Pestilence. Signs of the times are all over.
I love you lots mom, Take care
Alyssa
April 1 2013
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| Midnight the poser cat |
This week has been hard. Melissa and her family have not been
letting us come over and haven't been to church the last two weeks. She
says she has been overwhelmed a lot and apparently crazy stuff has been
happening but we have not been able to meet with them in person despite
our efforts. We have been teaching lots of practice lessons with Less
actives though so Sister Hagemeyer is getting a lot of practice and is
getting better each time. We have a couple part member familes we are
working with, and it looks like we will soon have some more
investigators from it. Some of the less actives we are working with are
becoming active. We are having success, just not in investigators. We
have been able to do more service recently though and that has brought
us solace and comfort. Our relief society president gave us a list of
names to find, mostly less actives or recent move ins and we found just
about all of them and there were a couple who want to come back to
church and we found a girl who was an investigator at an earlier time
but hadn't gotten baptised because her uncle died and it caused havock
in the whole family. We hope to teach her soon. I feel like the man in
the parable who only had two talents, we have very little but if we do
the best with what we do have we will in nowise lose our reward.
Sister Hagemeyer is awesome and very committed and has a huge desire for missionary work. She is wonderful and growing quickly, she is also helping me with my struggle with contacting. I feel like it is the greatest struggle of my mission, just contacting people, and with each companion I get I improve. It is still a struggle but I can often speak out without hesitating now and thinking back to when I had started I see how far I have come. The Lord has truely helped me.
Today we helped a lady move, it took some of our P-day time but she
ended up giving us some food she didn't want to take with her, which we
then took to a family in the ward who is really struggling to have
enough to eat. There isn't a lot we can do to help these people, but
what we can do, we do.
I love you lots, I hope you are feeling better. Get well soon
I love you
Alyssa
