Area: Stillwater
Companion: Sister Kitterman
Companion: Sister Kitterman
Alma 7:23
Hello Everyone!
This week has been so great!!! Thanksgiving was good, but I
actually got a little home sick. I have
so much to be thankful for. At Thanksgiving dinner we went around the table and
said the “A, B, C’s” of what we are grateful for. Sister Monical fed all of the
missionaries in our district.
We decorated Gma Severijng’s home for Christmas. It looks
like Clark Griswald did a number on it! I went crazy with the lights! She said
her apartment is going to burn down!!
With Thanksgiving this week, I am so thankful for all of you
who are supporting me. You are truly amazing people, thank you! I know that Heavenly Father has called me to
do his work. I am so grateful for your testimonies and continual love and
support for me. You have truly strengthened my testimony, and my love for the
Savior and his work!! Thank you!!!!! Please tell people in the ward sorry I
don't write them back fast, I try to write my family in the short time they
give me.
We are truly blessed here in Stillwater, our members and
investigators are all so wonderful!!! We just love them to pieces!!!! We have
really been focusing on our most progressing investigator, who is getting
baptized on December 13th!!!! One of our goals for her this week was getting her
mom to sign her baptismal record. As we have been praying for her and her
family, we felt confident that everything with her mother would run smoothly.
As we taught her a couple of times this week we set up a time to go see her mom
and get the paper signed and answer any questions she may have about her
daughters decision. As we knocked on her door her mom was there and she was
thrilled to see us!!! She said that her daughter is so excited to be baptized
and she talks about it ALL THE TIME!!!! We then asked for her permission to
have her be baptized and she was more than thrilled to sign the paper!! We
asked her if she had any questions or concerns and she said no, because she can
tell that this is changing her daughter for the better!!! We were so happy to
hear that from her mom!!! Hopefully as she keeps progressing her mom will allow
us to teach her too!!!
John Axtell is all over my area book. It’s funny, I looked through the Watsons
family scrapbook and John was in it! Lol!! In the area book under one person he wrote “you
need a magic wand to get into that apartment!”
Hahahaa!
Good for Madie! She
will be an awesome missionary! It will be interesting to see where she
goes……..Tell her to start doing the schedule NOW INCLUDING STUDIES!!!!!
I am so thankful for all that I have learned these past 2
months being on my mission!!! People are so crafty here, everything is homemade
ha-ha!! (Just like Ann said) ha-ha! On Friday I was sick... so was Sister K.
hopefully we don't have the flu.... awk!!! I ate goat this past week. I think
that is what made me sick the next day. The Osborne’s took us to the Lowell Inn
for dinner yum yum!!!The funniest thing is when Minnesotans try to say “bag”
like we do lol …..They have no idea how funny they sound……Seriously accents
here kill me, but I must have one too, cuz they all think I’m from the south???
On a serious note we have seen victims and people suffer like
I had never ever seen in my life. It is sad to see first-hand the effects of abuse,
hunger, poverty, financial issues, even “hoarding”….. Just like on the show
“Buried Alive” literally! (There are dead cats in some houses I think....) There
are people starving, people actually scrounge for food here.
I have no regrets
coming out!!! I know that this is where I am supposed to be serving the Lord. I
am so grateful for the knowledge I have of the Savior Jesus Christ and that
through him I can live with my Father in Heaven and my family again for
eternity. I love you and wish you a happy and safe week!!
Love,
Sister Young
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