It was great to see Sister London on Christmas. She is loving being a missionary!
For those who haven't heard yet, she has just over two weeks left. She'll be home January 13, 2015!!
Her family couldn't be more excited!
Library closes....see you later. Try to email another time.Hi Everyone!So for transfer news, Sister Munoz and I will be staying together in Greencastle for another 6 weeks! :D I am super excited to be able to stay here and get to continue working in the great branch with such amazing members and a great companion! We had some cool experiences this week! A recent convert from another ward in the zone had to move in with her dad due to some stuff. Her dad and his girlfriend live in our area and we have been able to meet them and start teaching them! The girlfriend is super solid and we met her 11 year old daughter yesterday, who is also super solid! we left them with a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and the 11 year old texted us last night at almost midnight telling us that she read the pamphlet and hasn't felt closer to God in her life as much as she did after she finished reading it! It was so cool! She is excited to come to church and wants to be baptized!!!! It is awesome! I am super excited to be able to keep getting to know them and to teach them more about the peace of the gospel!
Sorry this email is coming at you all so late in the day! We went golfing for p-day today...yep golfing. One of the ELders is pretty big into golf and they wanted us to tag along with them...since neither Sister Munoz or I had been golfing it took a lot longer than normal to golf 9 holes....like all day! It was fun though and I actually enjoyed it sometimes... I am not good like at all! But I was able to hit a couple good swings and get the ball farish! On one hole I actually made it in the hole in 5 shots! :) It was pretty thrilling!
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1. Our Risk game...by this point we were all doomed so as the one Elder was resting his head, i was making the picture #2. And this #3 was after I had been cleaned off the board. #4-Teri the watermelonSister Abbie Paigelove,Also, last Monday for P-Day we went bowling! It was pretty fun and was the first time in a whole year that I had been bowling! I didn't pretty good and managed to finish in 2nd the first game with a 103! I got 3rd the second game with a typical score of like 90's....still it was a lot better than what I played last year in Fishers! It was fun to relax and go bowl! We had a member give us a giant watermelon last night at dinner....yep, the same one who gave me all the watermelon before! It is pretty good watermelon! I guess when you tell someone how much you love something, they are more likely to give it to you....anyway, we decided to seatbelt the melon in the car and last night/this morning proceeded to make a face on it. Her name is Teri and she is currently living in our fridge. It was pretty fun!We had a really cool opportunity on Wednesday to watch "Meet the Mormons" and it is just awesome! I loved it and will be excited to watch it again someday! I think it will be a great way to get people to know more about the church and we heard that it was #11 in box office hits this weekend~! That is awesome since it isn't even playing in all theaters! I would definitely recommend it to all you of! Go watch it!Last week we did the usual and visited less-actives. That has been our focus lately and we have been able to contact some pretty awesome LA who are wanting to get back into church! It is great! We just came from a lesson with one and I am super excited to continue in our quest of becoming a ward! Hopefully Sister Muñoz and I will be able to stay together another transfer and continue to work on it together. We get transfer calls on Sunday and I really don't want to leave Greencastle yet!Hi Everyone!Due to Columbus Day yesterday and our little library being closed, I finally get to email! We have come to the library 3 different times today in hopes of 2 computers being open...third times the charm and we were able to snatch a quick email sesh before dinner tonight! So forgive me for being scatter-brained in this email....I have not really thought about what will be going in it...so yeah. It has been a crazy couple of days for sure though! We had a fun P-Day yesterday and spent from about 12-5:30 playing board games! We played Risk and Monopoly. I was not good at Risk but was not the first person killed off....and I was doing pretty good at Monopoly! Thanks to the Elders and the member for telling me when I should invest in houses and even hotels! If we would have had time to finish the game, I probably would have won! It was a good game...some competitiveness crept in but for the most part it was fun!
We met a really cool potential this week on campus so hopefully something will come of that soon! She is awesome and was pretty excited to take a Book of Mormon! We can tell that she will be a member some day! Sorry this is all so scattered...can't really think right now! I hope I made sense and I love you all! Have a wonderful week!
2. Indiana Fall!1. My cute new fall outfit from home! Thanks family! :)Sister Abbie Londonlove,I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!This week we also got to assist some members in hauling some hay! We got to be farm hands again and serve! It was really fun and a good work out! I got a nice bruise on my leg...not quite sure how it happened but it did and it looks cool! It was really fun to help with the hay and we got pretty good and tossing it....hay is a lot heavier than you might think so there is a little trick to tossing it! So basically I am now a pro and can help in any of your hay moving needs! :)Now to my week as a missionary! It was a good week! We were able to get in contact with some of the less-actives on the list and have appointments with some this week! I am excited to go get to know them better and am hopeful that we will be able to start to see some progress with them soon! We also gave one of our investigators a church tour. She is a junoir at DePauw and is from China. Her family doesn't really want her to be baptized so she is trying to figure out what she wants. I believe that she knows the church is true and has felt the Holy Ghost testify to her on many occasions but she is afraid of what might happen in her family is she is baptized. The church tour was good and the spirit was strong...she is still at a stand still right now. We are kind of unsure about how to help her right now. We had another investigator who lived downstairs but her and her boyfriend broke up and she moved out...so we haven't been able to get her new address to meet with her yet. Hopefully we can get things picked back up soon.Hello Everybody!Wasn't it such a wonderful weekend with General Conference?!?! It was so great to be able to hear so many inspired talks to help us all become better! I really enjoyed how so many of the talks went along with each other and it was fun to notice some of the themes of conference! One that I noticed was how we all need to follow the council in Helaman 5:12 and build our foundation on Jesus Christ. I really enjoyed all of the talks on how we can do that and on making the atonement a part of our lives, the most important part! I also enjoyed the talks on overcoming challenges that life throws at us. I thought it was pretty cool how many of them spoke about the principle of agency and how "decisions determine destiny." I also learned a lot from those who spoke on obedience. That is one of the hardest things in life and on a mission! The principle of exact obedience is hard to follow sometimes so it was nice to get some reminders and ideas on how I can be more obedient! Probably one of my favorite talks was by Elder Korg Klebingat of the Seventy. It was a quick, powerful talk and I loved when he said, "selective obedience brings selective blessings." That one really stuck out to me. Sometimes it seems easier to just obey some of the rules and not others, but really in the end is it going to be worth it? Will the limited blessings get you all the way to where you want to be? I also really liked the idea that Elder Carlos Godoy had with the question, "if you continue living the way you are living, will the blessings promised in your partriarchal blessing be fulfilled?" It was really neat actually because something that we have been working on as a mission is beginning with the end in mind, which is something that Elder Godoy mentioned in his talk....I could go on and on but I am sure you and I both don't have time for that! Conference is such a wonderful time to receive guidance in our lives, now the trick is to keep reviewing the things that we learned throughout the next 6 months. It is now time to apply what we learned and see some of those wonderful blessings that come from following the council given. As Sister McConkie said, "following the prophet is ALWAYS right!"
1. the sunrise one day this week!
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Sister Abbie Londonlove,This week we did some service, tracted, and personal contacted some people on campus. We laughed and had some funny moments with members and missionaries. Life is going good here and I am loving being a missionary! I am hoping that with the new transfer we will be able to find some new investigators. We have been kind of struggling to find and really need to find some solid gators. Well, that is about all I can think of to share with you all! I hope your lives are all well! Have a wonderful week!So this week I mowed a lawn for a member, which may seem like no big deal to all of you, but let's remember that I have been a missionary for 14 months where most people only let the Elders do the heavy lifting and "hard work"....so this was a big deal for me because it was the first time in 14 months that I was able to mow the lawn! And to make it even better I did it in my skirt! It felt so good to push a lawn mower again and to be able to help someone at the same time! :) Also on Friday we had dinner at a members house with the Elders. It was a fun dinner but I left there almost having to be rolled out. I was soooooo full and here is why! So we get there and sitting on the table are two HUGE pizza boxes, each with a 20 inch pizza inside. So the 6 of us, the missionaries and the member couple, sit down to eat and Bro Evans tells us about the watermelon he got that day. We are finished with our dinner and he asks if any of us would like some watermelon. If any of you truly know me, then you know that the answer to that question would be, "YES!!!!!!" Watermelon is my favorite, it is the reason why summer is so great. So he has the elders go out and help him carry in all the stuff he got that day, some tomatoes and 2 big watermelon. One of the watermelon's was pretty big, maybe like an average large sized watermelon. The other one that he got was about the size of a toddler. It was huge, probably about 30-40 pounds...that is the one he cute into to share with us! I had told them how much I love watermelon and he asked what size piece we all wanted. They decided to give me a big piece, me not truly knowing what big is to this family. He walks over and puts a chunk of watermelon that does not fully fit on my plate....it was so big!!!!!!!!!!!!! I sadly was not able to finish it but if it would have come before dinner, maybe I could have accomplished it. My piece was bigger than the other missionaries slices put together! I ate over half of that thing before feeling like I would explode. It was awesome! And they sent us home with more! Let's just say I am in Watermelon Heaven right now!!!!!So this week was a good one for a couple of reasons! We didn't find too many new people to teach or anything but we were able to meet one of our investigators from DePauw. She is from China and has been there all summer but since school started back up, she is back! It is kind of hard right now because her family does not want her to be baptized Mormon, so she is trying to figure out what Heavenly Father wants her to do. She is an honest seeker of truth so I have no doubt that she will receive an answer to her prayers! The key will be to help her have as many spiritual experiences as possible so she will be able to see her answer better and know for a fact that it is from Heavenly Father. She is super awesome though! I am way excited to get to work with her more!Hello Everyone!I hope you had a wonderful week! It was a good one here in Indiana too! So as far as transfers go, Sister McCombs will be transferred on Wednesday and I will be getting another companion! I am really excited to be staying here in Greencastle for another 6 weeks! It is crazy to me though that this is my 11th transfer here....I only get 13 of them...no worries, only minor freakouts going on! Haha but seriously I am so grateful to be here in Indiana and to be able to serve in this little branch a little longer! It is a wonderful place to be! I absolutely love it here!