tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573369252157720612024-03-13T08:16:13.323-07:00Abbie in IndianaNicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-60639612582056413902015-01-05T18:17:00.000-08:002015-01-08T18:18:10.744-08:002015<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, it is now officially 2015! The year I thought would never actually come. Haha I hope you all had a great time ringing in the new year and are having a good one so far! This week has been a pretty good one! I guess you could call it a week of some more firsts as a missionary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So last Monday we had a half p-day since it got moved to <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_765589163" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Thursday</span></span> for us, so we went out at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_765589164" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1:00</span></span> and visited some people! We have a less-active whose husband passed away the day after Christmas. It is a really tender situation with them because she was recently diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and was told she has about 6 more months to live. Her husband passed away the 26th and she is in a nursing home right now trying to regain her strength from being in bed at for 3 weeks at the hospital and what not. She is such an amazing person who has such strong faith! Her husband was a hoot too. Always telling us story after story when we would visit and would grumble about this or that. She wanted us to come by and read the scriptures to her, so we have been visiting her a lot, going over and reading to her. On Tuesday it was her husband's funeral. The first funeral I have attended on my mission and not only that but it was my first time personally driving in the funeral processional, with an orange flag and all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We met with a lot of less-actives this week. We almost got one to church yesterday but they ended up not being able to come, so hopefully we can get them there for our last week in the branch! We had a really awesome district meeting this week. Our district leader gave an awesome training on not judging others and stopping the gossip. It helped me realize better how even just the thoughts we have that we might not say effect other people's moods. I have been struggling with some stuff this past week on not letting my thoughts get annoyed and so this training on better understanding others and their situations helped me see how I can improve and become more Christlike in my thoughts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On New Year's Eve we found out that we reached our mission goal of 400 baptisms in the year 2014! :D woot woot! We got to celebrate by being permitted to stay out until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_765589165" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:30</span></span> as long as we were with members! It was fun! We spent our time with the Hale family, eating dinner, playing games, and just enjoying the time together! It was really a fun night! The 1st was our p-day and we had made plans with the Weiss family and the elders to go play some games over there! So we headed over and just hung out with them. Ate lunch and played some games! We also went on a squirrel hunt with Brother Weiss since he said he would try to catch a squirrel for me to eat...but we didn't catch anything. We played catch phrase with them and I played Friends trivia game with Bro. and Sis. Weiss for a little bit! haha it was a fun day over there and made me excited to play catch phrase with the family again! Hopefully next time we play, people will know that it is racetrack and not racetrack! :) haha </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The rest of the week was pretty normal, nothing super exciting or new going on. We got some snow and cold temperatures but other than that everything in Greencastle is just the same it always is! I am looking forward to this next week as a missionary and am also excited to see you all next week! Hope you have a wonderful week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Chillin on New Year's Eve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was great to see Sister London on Christmas. She is loving being a missionary!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For those who haven't heard yet, she has just over two weeks left. She'll be home January 13, 2015!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her family couldn't be more excited!</span></div>
Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-4677071763920649752014-12-29T16:36:00.001-08:002014-12-29T16:36:21.430-08:00Happy 2015!<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I just wanted to start off by wishing you the best of these last days of 2014 and the happiest of 2015! :) I hope your year is full of wonderful, exciting things!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, looking back on the year 2014, it was absolutely the best year of my life so far! I am so grateful for the year full of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ and serving him! It has truly been life changing and I will forever be grateful for the things I learned! I am excited to see what this next year has in store for me as I continue in new adv<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, this last week was wonderful! It was a little slow with Christmas as whatnot but we had a really great time! The first couple days of the week were fairly normal in missionary work. A couple weeks ago when we had our Christmas mission conference, we were encouraged by President and Sister Cleveland to go around to nursing homes and sing Christmas carols to them. So that is what we decided to do here on Christmas Eve! Along with the Elders, we made some cookies and went around to the various nursing homes and the hospital in Greencastle and spread some Christmas cheer to others! It was so great to be able to go around and sing of the Savior's birth! It made my Christmas mean so much more!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This year on Christmas we got permission from President to watch Disney or Christmas movies! :) So after a nice talk with the family Christmas morning, I finally was able to see Frozen! After a whole year of hearing about it and listening to the soundtrack, it felt good to finally be in the loop about all this Frozen hoopla going on! I really liked it. It was a cute movie! It was also great to watch it with the Weiss family! It was fun being able to hang out there most of the morning and afternoon and just be with their amazing family! We had Christmas dinner with another amazing family, the Stewarts! It was a really good meal and we had fun with them and their family! We were able to watch the Tinkerbell Pirate movie and Shrek the Halls with them. It was a wonderful Christmas where I felt very loved and taken care of by the Greencastle hoosiers!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Other than all that, we had district meeting where I gave a training and we did a gift exchange, white elephant thing. That was interesting....it was funny though so that is all that matters. I also had the opportunity to speak in sacrament meeting yesterday on the birth of Christ. It went really well I think and it was really great preparing for it! I am really glad I got that topic. The other speaker did and amazing job and it was such a spirit filled meeting!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am looking forward to see what this week will bring. I love you all!<br /></span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-49029592570849213032014-12-23T16:42:00.000-08:002014-12-29T16:42:35.723-08:00More Pictures!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-77011100500580871112014-12-22T16:32:00.000-08:002014-12-29T16:33:32.285-08:00MERRY CHRISTMAS<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just wanted to start off by wishing you all a Merry Christmas! I hope you all have the best day! I know mine will be amazing, full of fun with members and talking to 5 of my favorite people! :) So it has been a pretty exciting week here in Indiana! We didn't teach too many lessons but we did see some awesome things happen!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I would say one of my favorite things that happened this week was our Christmas Mission Conference! It was so great! We spent the first couple hours of the day receiving trainings from the Mission presidency, assistants, some missionaries, and Sister Cleveland. It was a really good meeting, where all the trainings focused on developing Christlike attributes that will better help us in sharing the gift of Jesus Christ. I really enjoyed President's training on humility. Humility is probably the Christlike attribute that I have been thinking the most about throughout my mission, well that and patience. We sang Christmas songs and just enjoyed being able to feel the spirit! After that part of the conference, we had lunch and watched a slideshow of all the missionaries holding up a sign that says, "I pray when..." and we all wrote in when or what we pray for. We played some bingo and then gathered together to watch all the talent that our mission has! There were some pretty awesome and funny things in the talent show this year! A very sassy Santa came and shared some gifts with some missionaries! He said that we had all been good so to decide who won, they would draw names. I was one of the names drawn so I got a nice little package of stuff from Santa! Then they opened up the overflow and we all got our Christmas packages from our loved ones! It was such a fun day and it was so awesome to be able to have a chance to go around and catch up with my missionary friends! Especially since it was my last opportunity as a missionary to see most of them. I was able to go around and take pictures and catch up with some of the amazing missionaries and friends I have made over the last nearly 18 months! I realized again how blessed I am to be serving in this mission and I know that the people I have met here, I have met for a reason! I am going to miss these people so much! It was just a great day all around!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another really cool thing that happened this week was the wedding, baptism combo of a couple in the branch that the Elders were teaching! Tristan and Laney are just awesome! The elders met them about a month and a half ago and they were super prepared and on Saturday they were married, then right after their marriage they were both baptized! It was such a neat experience to witness their baptism! We have seen their progression and their testimonies grow as they have come to see the blessings and truthfulness of the restored gospel! They both were just glowing yesterday in church! It was so great!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope you all have a great week and are able to continue to remember the reason for the season! One of the speakers in church yesterday said, "without Christ, Christmas would just be mas, and who wants to just celebrate mas?!" So as you are opening your presents and doing whatever you do on Christmas, just take a moment to remember why you are celebrating! I love you all and wish you the best of Christmases!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. got a fun little Candyland game from the fam! It was a fun one to play! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been an interesting week here in the land of the blessed aka Greencastle Indiana! A new transfer started last week, meaning it is my last one. Along with the new transfer, I became the oldest (longest out) Sister Missionary in the mission, except for Sister Cleveland...she's got 3 weeks on me! It has been so weird to think that this is my last transfer. People ask me how much longer I have and 5 weeks just sounds so strange. I am excited to be able to be out here for such a wonderful time though! There is so much excitement going around the mission with He is the Gift and shooting to reach our mission goal of 400 baptisms for the year of 2014! I am so lucky and blessed to be a missionary at such a great time and hope that these next few weeks will be just as exciting and meaningful and all the previous ones have been! :)<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So this week was kind of a slow week. We had a pretty fun p-day last week, just eating food and playing games at the church! Since on the the Elders got transferred, we got to eat dinner at some of our favorite places which is always wonderful! :) It seems like lots of our people were sick this week so we had some trouble getting to meet with them. When winter comes, everything starts to travel from place to place and inflict people with the nasty flus and colds and whatnot. I am hopeful that all the crap I had is gone for good and we won't have to worry about that anymore. We did have a pretty good scripture study with Hanah this week. She is the less-active who is really skilled in make-up stuff and gave us the acid burns a while ago! Things are going well with her and we are really enjoying being able to go over every week and read the Book of Mormon with her. The Book of Mormon is such a wonderful tool and helps us so much, sometimes with out realizing it! It was pretty cool also this week in some of our lessons with less-active members who are also a part of part member families! We had 2 lessons where the non member joined us and sat with us the whole lesson with the member! It was so awesome and they were pretty open to talk with us. I am not sure if anything will come from it yet but just the contact is progress in itself! It is great!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We tracted and did normal missionary things this week. We met a cool potential who was kind of skeptical and not super open but agreed to let us come back. We started talking to him about He is the Gift and the conversation led to talking about the atonement. He kept saying how he can't be forgiven since he is a bad dude or a bad seed, but I think he felt something as we testified about the power the atonement has. We gave him a card and mentioned something about church and he said, "well I am an adult and haven't gone to church yet, what makes yours so different?" The golden question that everyone wants to be asked! Sadly he didn't have much more time so we didn't get to share the restoration with him but we were able to bear strong testimony of the truths that have been brought back! I know I felt the spirit and I am hopeful that we will be able to meet with him again soon and teach him more about this amazing gospel!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We also were able to get in contact with our investigator Natalie and have a lesson with her! That was great! She is awesome and really wants to be baptized. We are working things out right now to try and figure out who should teach her though and how to work everything out since she lives in the Plainfield boundaries during the week and in our boundaries on the weekend. Hopefully it can be handled smoothly and calmly...we will see though. Anyways, life is good! I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week! :)<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">P.S. I sucked at taking pictures this week...but I took some random ones of my Christmas stuff around the apartment! So...you can see my Christmas desk and the awesome advent tree my family sent! :)</span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-29348110698597843002014-12-07T19:46:00.002-08:002014-12-07T19:46:55.083-08:00He Is the Gift<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy December! :D I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It was a great day here in Greencastle, everyday is a great day here in Greencastle! So first things first, we got transfer calls this weekend...well I should say a transfer text since Sister Munoz and I are staying together here for another transfer!!!! Yep, I get to finish it off here in the land of the blessed and I am sooooooooooooooo excited about that! :)<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So this week was good! We had a really cool church tour this week with a less-active sister and her nonmember kids. It went really well. The spirit was there and some big steps were made in their conversion process. We are going to hopefully start teaching 2 of the kids this week! :) Last Monday we had a half p-day so at one, we started out in doing missionary work! We visited lots of people and were able to do some good teaching both on Monday and Tuesday. Sadly, I woke up last Monday with a nasty cough that has been hard to work through so the rest of the week wasn't as productive as the beginning was. #missionaryprobs Luckily I am serving in a branch with awesome members who have many ideas and solutions for helping rid the cough that have been working pretty well! Slowly am I getting better which is great because then I can focus more on sharing the gift!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For those of you who don't know about it yet or haven't watched it, the church has put out a new video for Christmas called "He is the Gift." It is a very, very good video that can help us remember the true meaning on Christmas. Why we really celebrate this special time of year. The church is encouraging all to share the gift with everyone. So as missionaries, we have a big role in helping spread the word about the gift. We have been given pass along cards specifically for the video and are working our hardest to share the gift because it is so important to share! I am really excited for the miracles that will come these next couple weeks as we as a mission work on getting the message out there to those in Indiana. It is so important to remember why we are all here, why we are celebrating Christmas, and what is possible because of Jesus Christ. He really is the greatest gift that has been given and we need to remember and be grateful for that gift everyday of our lives. That is where true happiness lies. If you haven't seen the wonderful video yet, you can find it here: <a href="http://www.mormon.org/christmas" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.mormon.org/<wbr></wbr>christmas</a><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a great Thanksgiving full of fun and food! In total last week, we had 4 Thanksgiving dinners, 1 <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1046359865" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>, 1 on Wednesday, and 2 on Thursday. All of them were very yummy and I felt very loved and taken care of! On Thursday we had our p-day, so when we weren't at the members eating, we were at the church playing card games with the elders! It was such a fun day, we played a lot of Hearts. It was nice to be able to relax and it helped me realize how truly blessed I am in my life. I am so thankful to my Heavenly Father for so many things and am so blessed. Being on a mission has completely changed my life and I am so grateful for the experiences I have had here and the ones that await me these next 6 weeks!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all and don't forget to #ShareTheGift! Have a wonderful week!<br /></span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-43048578176756265782014-11-24T19:43:00.000-08:002014-12-07T19:43:41.017-08:00Happy Thanksgiving Week<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi everyone!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This has been a wonderful week, all of them are usually wonderful! Just like every week we have some bumps along the way but when you are doing your best and on the Lord's team, it works out!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So we had a slow start to the week and weren't really able to get into to many homes. This week we saw a lot of less-actives and are seeing some progress with some! There is a less-active we are working with whose kids aren't members and we were able to sit down with her and the kids and teach a restoration lesson to them! They seemed pretty interested and we should be taking them on a church tour tomorrow, so that will be great! We are hoping to have the Branch Mission Leader and his grandkids, who are the same ages as the la kids, come with us! We are trying to get some fellowship over there! It will be good.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was really cold at the beginning of the week but we endured and spent some time tracting out in the elements...I don't really like tracting but we need to do it so we do...even though we have lots of awkward things happen! Hey, the awkward makes the best stories I suppose! We met a couple cool potential investigators that we will hopefully be able to meet with soon.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our Friday was a little rough....we were just sitting there finishing our companionship study when the elders called. They were wondering if we were coming to district meeting. We told them yeah at 11, we will be there since that was the usual time we had it. Then they decided to inform us that it was at 10. Everyone else in the district was there waiting for us...luckily the meeting was in Greencastle and not Plainfield so we weren't as late as we could have been. Sister Munoz and I were both a little angry about it and it was pretty hard at the beginning of the meeting to pay attention. After sneaking away to pray for some help, I was able to focus more and actually get something out of the meeting. To add to it all, we were apparently supposed to bring a lunch to the church to all eat together but we didn't get informed about that either...we were feeling pretty good about ourselves after that meeting! (Sarcasm in my voice) Everything worked out though and we were able to still have a fun time together and learn lots. It was a bit of a struggle though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a really cool experience on Saturday to go down to Terre Haute and help out with a service opportunity! :D I was super excited! The zone leaders down there called on Tuesday or Wednesday morning to see if we would be able to come help out at the NCAA Division 1 Cross Country Championships! So we headed down and got there a little too early, another miscommunication. So since we were an hour early and I was in my old area, we went down into town more and got Square Donuts! :) It was such a great feeling to drive through Brazil and Terre Haute again! I was able to talk to the elders in the great Honey Creek ward and get the update on everyone! It was pretty fun! They didn't really have us do anything until after the races were over, so we basically stood around and watched....let me tell you that cross country spectators get about just as much running in as the participants! I had no idea that it was such an intense thing! People were running all over to be able to watch their people run by! I was a little scared for a bit but we survived just fine! It was fun to see the teams from Utah playing! There were some from BYU, they were excited to see missionaries, and I even saw some SUU Thunderbirds out there running! :) It was a fun experience. WE walked around the course at the end picking up trash left behind....that took a while! It was super fun though!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The talking in Sacrament Meeting yesterday were all on gratitude and during the second talk I did a lot of thinking about what it means to be grateful! He shared a story about a man in the world's largest garden show. He was a gardener and was super excited to see the world's largest flowers. He spots some of the flowers and starts running over when he gets cut by a giant thorn. He see's all the thorns around and grabs a branch and starts cutting down the thorns. People gather all around and are staring at him. He is all done when he realizes they are looking at a sign that says, "World's Most Beautiful Rose Bush." He was blinded by everything else and missed out on the beauty around him. The speaker then talked about how we all have the opportunity to notice the roses or the thorns in our lives. Our attitude shapes us. If we chose to be grateful for the thorns we face, like our trials and hardships, we will be able to better see the beautiful roses at the end of it. So I want to encourage all of you to keep this in mind throughout your lives. You chose what to be grateful for. In True to the Faith it says, "You cannot be bitter, resentful, or mean-spirited when you are grateful." Having a grateful heart really is the best thing to help you become more Christlike! It is something that should occur all year, not just this week! I love you all and hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am thankful for you all and the love and support you give me!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Abbie<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-73558509630140551812014-11-17T19:17:00.003-08:002014-11-17T19:17:26.605-08:00Sunshine and Snowballs<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been a good week here in Greencastle, the land of the blessed! That is what it is known by in the mission...the land of the blessed and after being here, it doesn't take long to find out why! This is such a wonderful branch and I am so blessed to be able to serve here and get to know so many wonderful people! Well, I guess I have felt that way about the whole state of Indiana. Haha So this week has been good and here is why:<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">First off I will start with the beautiful blanket of snow that is outside right now! Not only is the ground white, but it is also sparkly because the sun is out and making it absolutely beautiful outside! I have sort of mixed emotions about the snow right now...it is really pretty and it is always fun when the first snow comes but I also know what is to come here. I experienced one of the worst Indiana winters already and am a little cautious about what is to come this winter! I am loving it because yesterday when it was snowing and actually sticking to the ground, we had 3 separate snowball fights with the Elders! :) It was pretty fun! The first one was outside of a members house after lunch with them...that started it all and we took a little break to go and be missionaries and teach the gospel but then resumed before we ate dinner. We took another break to eat and go to a fireside but by the time that was over, our cars were covered in snow again so the best and most logical way to clean it off was to make snowballs out of it and continue the fight! haha it was a fun time!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week we had a lot of lessons but not really with nonmembers. We met with lots of less-actives and with active members. We did meet a couple people who seemed interested in learning more but sadly haven't been able to see them again. We had interviews with President this week, which were really good! I have always enjoyed interviews but this one was probably my favorite! He had us come prepared with a scripture to share that has helped us on our missions and then shared a thought with us on having the right mindset. We are working hard as a mission right now to reach 400 baptisms by the end of the year and really need to have a positive mind in order to reach that goal. He asked us how we get our minds back into a good mindset when we are having a negative one. My answer was that when I feel frustrated or negative the thing that helps me the most is writing in my journal and just venting to it! Let it all out and then look back and read it...usually it makes me laugh at the weird things I said and at how ridiculous I sound! Haha it helps a lot though. I have been thinking about that question a lot lately and have come to realize even more at how important a positive attitude is. As we were talking in our interview President mentioned how having a positive attitude is one of the best Christlike attributes that someone could attain. Being positive will help lead you to better charity, which when you have charity all the other Christlike attributes are being shown. Attitude really does shape our future and how we view our lives.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week was also so great because a 9 year old in the branch got baptized this weekend! Brenden is awesome! We taught him a little bit when I first got here and then the Elders took over and continued in teaching him! It has been so cool to see the change in his heart the past couple months and was even better to see him make that covenant <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1080154722" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> and be baptized!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, as you can tell, life in the Castle is still going good! We are working hard and have had some great trainings here lately to help us even work harder and be more effective! I am still loving being a missionary and am so glad that I still have time here to work and serve my Heavenly Father! I love you all and hope you have a great week, and if you don't....well maybe a simple change in attitude will make it better! :)<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-61679854225016141772014-11-10T19:15:00.000-08:002014-11-17T19:15:27.718-08:00Another Week in my Little Castle<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Haha yep...I seriously just said that! So now that you know how much of a g I am....how's your week been? Mine has been great, thanks for asking! I know you are all dying to find out so here it goes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week we have done a little bit of everything! From leaf raking to tracting in the rain and even a little bit of playing! We worked hard and saw some cool things happen! To start off I will talk about Hanah! She is super cool! She is the 18 year old less-active that we had dinner with last Sunday. The one who is super cool and amazing! We did our first scripture study with her on Tuesday and it went pretty well! We read Ether 12 and talked about faith. We had some good discussion and some giggles...it was a room with 4 girls in it, of course there was giggling! It was pretty fun too because after we did our scripture study, we got acid burns put on us! :) Not real ones obviously because that would not be fun. Hanah is really interested in doing like Hollywood make-up stuff and is getting a portfolio made to submit to a school in LA. So she needed people to try out the different things on! So last week it was acid burns and tomorrow night after the study, it will probably be knife wounds! It was so cool and looked pretty intense! We grossed out the Elders later when they saw it and almost tricked someone else into thinking they were real!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have been seeing some success with some other less-actives that we have been working with too. There are a couple families that we have been trying to meet with more consistently and were able to get in contact with one of them a couple of times this week! The wife is pregnant, just started a new job a couple weeks ago that is an hour away, and the husband works nights in Terre Haute which is also about an hour away...so they are super busy with work and their other 2 kids. It has been hard to get in contact but having a companion who is licensed to cut hair really helped out with this one! The boys needed hair cuts so we were able to get over and do that as well as help clean a little. It was a big help and we got invited to go to their 10 year old son's birthday party! So we went to that yesterday and met her mom who is apparently anti-church and she really liked us! It is great to see the power that having a little charity can do! When you show someone a bit of the love of Christ you help them more than you can ever really know! I am now being able to see that more with the people that I am around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We met with Natalie again this week and had a good lesson with her on the Plan of Salvation! She is praying to know if the church is true and if this is where she needs to be. She is only 11 but it impresses me and how sincere she is in her desire to do what is right and follow Heavenly Father. It is amazing to see! We had an awesome lesson and were able to put her on a baptism date of<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1080154721" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">December 20th</span></span>! It is awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We did some fun service this week with raking leaves and helping stack fire wood! Sadly the winter is creeping up on us and it is starting to get pretty chilly...well some days are and some aren't too bad. Like right now isn't super cold. It is fun to be able to be out and help people. Service is one of the greatest ways to show and share the light of Christ. It is getting to that time of year when everyone starts thinking about all the things they are grateful for. I think that the holiday season is more than just having gratitude. It is a season of Christ. I want to encourage and invite all of you to think about how you can help others more this next couple of months and then do it. Serve those around you and help them see a bit of the love through you and your deeds. Spend these next few months more focused on the true spirit of it all and less on the wants of the world...I can promise you that it will last a lot longer than all the presents and treats will last. I love you all and am excited to hear about how your service experiences go!</span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-73315922729652937212014-11-03T16:26:00.003-08:002014-11-03T16:26:56.599-08:00Halloween Happiness<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I just realized now that I have been out for 16 months how hard it is getting to come up with a subject line that I haven't already used that is still catchy enough for you all to want to read my emails....haha the struggles of becoming an old missionary...anywho, this week was awesome! It was such a wonderful week and we got a lot done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a pretty normal beginning of the week, nothing super new and exciting. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_675048354" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Thursday</span></span> we had exchanges and that was awesome! It was nice because the Sister Training Leaders blitzed our area, which means that all 4 of us were working in Greencastle. So by the end of the day, we had taught 8 lessons for the day bumping our total lessons up to 13 and it was only <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_675048355" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Thursday</span></span>! :D It was really nice! I was with Sister Tua. She is a really cool sister. She has been on her mission for 9 months and is just an excellent missionary! It was a fun day and we got some cool potentials that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a good weekend. Natalie came to church again and had a much better experience this week! We got a new Brach Mission Leader who is ready and excited to get the work moving better in the branch! It will be a nice change! We also had a really cool lesson last night after our dinner. We had finished eating and were just chatting with the member family...well I guess it is part member family. So the members have their non member daughter and her 2 girls living with them. One of the granddaughters is a member but is less-active. As we were planning <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_675048358" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> night we felt like the scripture we needed to share was Isaiah <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_675048359" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1:18</span></span>, which is about the atonement. It was the perfect lesson! After we shared that the conversation took off and we were able to find out the less-active granddaughters concerns about why she isn't coming to church. She really opened up and it was a really great lesson! We are going to start going over and having like a scripture study class with her! It was just the perfect lesson! It also really helped me get a better testimony of the power of effective planning! Bro. Evans (the member) told us as we were leaving how it was the best night of a missionary dinner that they have had! It was so spiritual and just so awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That is about all I've got for you this week...well it's more like it is about all I can remember! Haha I hope you have a wonderful week! Love you all!</span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-64630802716740909672014-10-27T16:22:00.000-07:002014-11-03T16:23:20.074-08:00Fall Surprises<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">
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Your favorite Indiana missionary coming at you live from the Greencastle Public Library! I hope you all had such a wonderful week! Sorry about the lameo email last week! Hopefully I can make it up to you this week, even though nothing super new and exciting has happened! I will do my best to deliver though!<br /></div>
So last Monday we went golfing...I wasn't good but we had lots of fun! It was a beautiful day and I didn't even really need my sweatshirt on for too long! It was lots of fun! I started to lose my voice on Monday also which wasn't very fun. By Monday night it was pretty pathetic, but just kept getting worse as the week went on! I caught a little bit of a cold and am starting to get over it now. My voice is almost back to normal! Yay! But there were a couple of people that we tried to teach this week that told me how miserable I looked and that I needed to go sleep. It wasn't very fun! being sick as a missionary is so hard because you want to rest and get better but you know that resting all day is not productive and not what you are paying to do. So you try to keep working and being diligent and then people tell you how awful you look and it makes you feel worse...it is an endless cycle. Haha but I am glad to be getting better!<br /><br /></div>
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We have a new investigator, Natalie. She is 11 and super awesome! she is excited to learn more about the gospel and she came to church yesterday! She is kind of the step-sister of a recent convert and so we have been teaching her the last couple weeks! she wants to get baptized but hasn't been put on a date yet. We are still trying to figure everything out...it's an odd situation. She is super awesome though! We taught her on Saturday night and made a craft with her! We made these hair flower clip things and showed her the Restoration DVD. It was a cool lesson and it is fun teaching her!<br /></div>
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We had the Branch Chili Cook-off on Saturday and it was a beautiful 70 degree day! The weather this week has been absolutely wonderful! It is so nice and warm with a hint of a fall breeze! I am loving it! This morning when we left to go do our laundry at<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_675048352" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:00</span></span> I didn't even need a jacket or cardigan or anything! It was so wonderful! The leaves are bright beautiful colors and are everywhere! Fall in Indiana is probably my absolute favorite thing here! It is so great! i love looking at the beautiful trees and thinking about how blessed we are to have a Heavenly Father who loves us so much and has given us things like this to be grateful for!<br /></div>
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I also had some random things happen this week...like on Tuesday I got a call from the mission office telling me that they were booking flights for the January departure and they needed to ask me a couple quick questions. Then she asked the questions and told me to forget this call ever happened! haha it was pretty funny and I have surprisingly been able to not dwell on the call too often! It is getting really strange though how quickly it is coming up and all the things that go along with that. I am just excited to be here and to be doing the Lord's work! It is a wonderful thing being a missionary and I am loving every second of it. It is hard sometimes and things get rough but I am so grateful for all the trials because of what I have been able to learn from them! :)<br /></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-39180129742517995112014-10-20T16:24:00.000-07:002014-11-03T16:24:38.665-08:00Golf<blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" type="cite">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi Everyone!<br /><br />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!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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 <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_675048353" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">midnight</span></span> 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!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">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 <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_4087062" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">12-5:30</span></span> 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!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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 <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_4087063" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> and I really don't want to leave Greencastle yet!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a really cool opportunity <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_4087064" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span> 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! <br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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!<br /><br />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!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">love,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Abbie Paige<br /></span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-36608860749463960992014-10-11T11:43:00.004-07:002014-10-11T11:43:42.779-07:00Hay, it's General Conference!<blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" type="cite">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">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 <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1044498917" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:12</span></span> 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!"<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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! :)<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">love,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Abbie London<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. My cute new fall outfit from home! Thanks family! :) </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Indiana Fall!</span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-37660516880381900402014-09-29T16:29:00.003-07:002014-09-29T16:29:30.311-07:00Mission Conference and Milking<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">
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This week has been a busy one! It was wonderful and even though we didn't teach a whole bunch, I had my spiritual glass overflowed with revelation and guidance! It was awesome!<br /><br />We will start with probably the highlight of the week, spiritually...I have a non spiritual highlight later on....So this week we were able to have Elder and Sister Perkins come to the mission for a mission tour! Elder Perkins is a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. It was such a blessing! We gathered in Fishers <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1149091591" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span> with the missionaries from the Indy West and Indy North stakes to have our meeting, or as Elder Perkins had us look at it, our revelatory experience. He started off the meeting by talking to us all about the importance of coming to any type of meeting with a question. By doing so we are then taking control of the meeting and it becomes up to us if we take something away from it. He had us all write down 2 questions, one pertaining to missionary work and the other could be any personal question. It was really cool to see how through out the conference I was able to receive answers to my questions. It was great to be able to have that time to sit and listen to him speak to us. There was a point in the day where he came down off the stand and stood up front for a question answer about missionary work. There we were able to ask him some questions and get answers from him and his wife, President Cleveland and other missionaries! It was really cool to be able to ask a question about how to help on of our investigators and have a general authority help answer it! The are an awesome couple and have a super missionary minded family! All 6 of their kids have or are about to serve a mission! They love missionaries so it was great to be able to have them there! It was just a wonderful day!<br /></div>
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1149091592" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Thursday</span></span> we had exchanges at IUPUI in Indianapolis! IUPUI is a college downtown that stands for Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis....at least that is what I think it stands for...either way it is easier to say IUPUI! haha it was a fun day and was kind of nice to be back in the city and on a college campus! It was a little strange too though since I have been in the country for a while now and am not as used to city driving! It was really fun! We talked to a lot of people and found some pretty interested ones. It was a beautiful day outside, perfect for walking around campus and Indy! We taught someone a lesson in the library back in a little study area and it made me think back to my college days of studying....it was a fun little moment and actually made me a little excited for when I go back to school! But I am more excited to share the gospel so no worries! :)<br /></div>
It was great to be able to watch the General Women's Conference this weekend and I really enjoyed the talks that were given there! We had our mission wide fast yesterday and I am positive that we will begin to see the miracles come from that soon! So now to the non spiritual highlight! So last night we were about to come in for dinner when we got a call from a member inviting us and the Elders over for dinner! So we went and had some pancakes with the Weiss family! They own and live on a farm so there is always something exciting going on there! As we were finishing up dinner they start talking about how they need to milk the cows so they can feed their new calf. We asked if we could help since we had never milked a cow before....so I got to milk a cow! It was awesome and was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be! The cow I got to milk, Daisy, just had a baby so she was a little sore and was scared of all the people so she didn't let me milk her for very long, but I got a couple squirts out! It was so fun and one of the calves in stall they just bought, so Daisy isn't the mom. His name is Stud Muffin and he was very hungry and impatient. He really wanted the milk, so we learned that a way to help him while waiting for the milk is to let him suck on a couple of your fingers....be a cow pacifier! So Sister Muñoz and I took turns being a pacifier! It was such a weird feeling! Sometimes he would "moo" while my fingers were in his mouth! That was a pretty strange feeling! It was such a cool experience and now I can say that I have milked a cow! It was awesome!<br /></div>
So it's been a great week with another great one to come! I love you all and hope life is good with you! :)<br /></div>
love,</div>
Sister Abbie London<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How are you?!?!?! I hope you all had a great week! I know we did! it was a good week where we did some more teaching, finding, and fun! :)<br />To start off, we got a new investigator! She is pretty awesome! She has gone through a lot in her life and is dating a less-active in the Branch. She is really in need of the gospel and is pretty open to learning and listening to what we have to share with her. She has had Mormon friends before but doesn't remember all that they have shared with her, so she has some questions. She really wants to start coming out to church! I think that this will be a pretty solid one, what we are trying to do now is find out a way to be able to teach her and her boyfriend at the same time and work on reactivating him too. It would be so great to be able to work that out and help them see how the gospel will bless their relationship! We also had a cool experience with another investigator this week! She is from China and has been praying about whether or not to be baptized. She likes learning and meeting with us but her parents don't want her to join the church so she is torn between what to do. We met with her on Friday and talked about the Holy Ghost. It was pretty cool too because there was a baptism on Saturday that we were able to invite her to! She was super excited to come and see what a baptism was like and told us that she was excited all day Saturday! I was standing next to her at the baptism and she was just so happy! We explained some things after and talked with her a bit about how she felt and what she thought! she told us that baptism was a good thing. She really enjoyed being there and was able to feel something there! Sadly, we won't be able to meet with her this week because she has to go up to Indy for something but are excited to give her a church tour next week so she can get back into the building and feel that spirit there again!<br />This week we also have been trying a new way of finding. We went through the branch list and have marked all the less-actives in Greencastle and are going to visit all of them, then move on to the less-actives in the other towns. We have a lot of them in the branch and really want to figure out why. We have a couple members who want to help us contact them and are pretty excited to see what this will bring! We have met lots of nonmember family members of the less-actives and feel like we will be able to do a lot of good with this idea! It will be good. This Sunday as a mission we are going to be fasting together. The fast is for every unit to be able to find a family. It will be a special day and I feel like it will really help and bless the mission and help us find those who are prepared to receive the gospel!<br />we did some service on Saturday at a members and we helped them cut up logs to prepare for winter! It was fun to use the log splitter and also to watch the trees come falling down! There was one tree that would not come down! It was very stubborn and thought it could get caught on the tree behind it instead of come down! It was pretty funny. It finally came down though once they started pulling it with a tractor and had someone cut while it happened. Who know tree cutting could bring so much entertainment!<br />I love you all and hope that you are all doing well! Have a wonderful week and remember that there is a missionary in Indiana who loves you! :)<br />love,<br />Sister Abbie London</span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-68093775388915242612014-09-15T15:33:00.004-07:002014-09-15T15:33:24.245-07:00Plays and Olympics<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been a good week here in Greencastle, Indiana! I got a new companion<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1606475552" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span>! Her name is Sister Muñoz. She has been out for 3 transfers now and is awesome! We have been having lots of fun the past couple of days. She is 24, from St. George, and is licensed to do hair! I don't do very much with my hair anyways, but if I want to, I have someone who will do it free! Haha the Elders like it all more since they need their hair cut more than I do but it is still fun! She is funny and I am sure we will have a good transfer!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week was really slow with our missionary work....like super slow. It was hard to teach lessons due to transfers and various meetings/service opportunities. So I will talk about some of the cool things we got to do this week! So the Branch Mission leader here decided that he wanted to go out in the community more and try out for a play with the community theater! So all of last transfer he was going to rehearsals and what not for that. He got permission for the missionaries here to be able to go and watch on the free family night! It was really funny! It was called "The Man Who Came to Dinner." It was really, really funny! Since it wasn't an actual performance and was technically a rehearsal, we were able to take pictures. It was an exciting night and we were able to enjoy a night of laughs and giggles, which is always nice to get sometimes!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had transfers <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1606475553" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span> and then had a zone meeting <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1606475554" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span>, which took up a lot of our day. It was a good meeting though and I really like the zone. There are lots of good missionaries here! We talked more about how we can better use the Game Plan in becoming more effective and powerful missionaries! It was a good one. Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1606475555" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> we had a really cool service experience in Indy! They were having the finals for some of the Special Olympics games this weekend. It was the softball and corn hole finals and we got to go up and help out! It was so fun! There were about 80 missionaries from Indy and the surrounding areas who were able to come help out. I really enjoyed it and chuckled that in Indiana corn hole is considered an Olympic event! For those of you who don't know what corn hole is....well it is basically tossing a bean bag into a hole on a board across from you. Sounds simple right? Well, there are actually 4 pages of rules to it and it is pretty intense! We were assigned to help with scoring the corn hole games...but Sister Muñoz and I didn't think we could remember all the rules so we announced things on the microphone. Obviously what they told us to announce. It was pretty fun to have the microphone! It was also fun to watch the games going on around us! When a lot of the games started to die down and there were empty...courts maybe is the right word...I went out and played a game with an Elder. I made an epic toss right into the hole! It would have been a perfect swoosh in a basketball game! It was legend....wait for it...dary! Legendary! Super fun day and it was so great to be able to see all the excitement on the athletes faces when they got their medals! It was an awesome day!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry there was not too much to say this week! I wish I had more to tell you about lessons and investigators this week, but we just didn't really get a chance to see them. :( Hopefully next week can be more exciting! I love you all and hope your week is just magical!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Abbie London<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-3266023808603053962014-09-08T15:29:00.000-07:002014-09-15T15:29:49.254-07:00Wonderful Watermellon<blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" type="cite">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">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!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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!!!!! <span style="margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex;"><img goomoji="ezweb_ne_jp.054" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/ezweb_ne_jp/054" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /><img goomoji="ezweb_ne_jp.054" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/ezweb_ne_jp/054" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /><img goomoji="ezweb_ne_jp.054" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/ezweb_ne_jp/054" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /><img goomoji="ezweb_ne_jp.054" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/ezweb_ne_jp/054" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Abbie London</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been a good week here in Greencastle! We have had a lot more rain and I completely understand the "green" part of Greencastle...but there are no castles so...awkward! Haha! Anywho this week has been a really good one! We have been able to keep fairly busy and have enjoyed the work!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Friday night we had a really cool experience! It was about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_570896896" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:15</span></span> and we didn't have enough miles to drive and go visit someone. So we parked at our apartment and I had the thought that we should walk down to one of our investigators house to schedule another lesson with her. We started walking down the street and as we walked, we started walking past a yellow house with a lady out on the porch smoking. We had just had zone conferences the day before and had been committed to talk with every single person who crossed our path. So, trying to be as obedient to that commitment as possible, I said hi and started talking to her. It was typical conversing at first, how's your day? How are you? That sort of thing. She had heard some false things about Mormons so we cleared some of that up and were going to go on our way when she invited us up to come and sit with her and tell her some more. When we got up there, we noticed that she was drinking too but we still went and talked. Once we started talking to her, she really opened up! She told us all of the crap that she is going through in her life and how hard it is to try and do it alone. She mentioned how she wanted a better relationship with God and realized that meeting us was the way for that to happen. It was actually a roller coaster of a lesson since she was drunk and kept contradicting herself...but that is not the point! We were able to leave her with a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and a Book of Mormon. We prayed with her and as we did, her kids who had been out playing both came up to the porch and were quiet. They could feel something special about the prayer. We wanted to leave her with something because we were pretty worried that she wouldn't remember us...but she did! Sadly the return appointment we had set fell through because of various reasons but we called and she still wants to meet with us!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moral of this story is that sometimes, the thoughts that we have are really promptings from the spirit. We may not realize it at that time but Heavenly Father is able to work through us in many miraculous ways. A simple thought that came from trying to stay effective with our time, lead us to find a daughter of God who is struggling to know if He is even there. never question the thoughts of the spirit and when a thought you have leads to a miracle, odds are that the thought was really the spirit prompting you and make sure to give him the credit.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week! I would still really love to receive some letters from you all and want to hear how your lives are!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">love,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Abbie London<br /></span></div>
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We had some crazy rain this week! There were many storms throughout the week and then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_996109796" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> evening, the biggest one hit! It was crazy! We were really happy that it hit after the baptism seeing as it flooded most of the streets in Greencastle! We were in a members house talking and eating cake and were about to share a message when we noticed how dark it had gotten outside. Then the thunder started and we saw the lightning begin to light up the sky! It was pretty cool but the member told us we needed to leave before it got worse....so we didn't even get to teach her! Haha it was raining pretty hard when we opened the door and our umbrella's were in the car, so she ran back in and came out with a cowboy hat for me to wear and a cloth hat for Sis McCombs! We drove home to drop something off and were going to teach more people before dinner but as we drove we noticed how much water was in the road so we went home and ran inside! We were almost soaked by the time we got in the apartment so we decided to go play in it for a quick minute! It was so much fun! It was very relaxing and fun to be able to run around in the rain and jump in a couple of puddles...we went inside when we heard the loud cracks of thunder again though and enjoyed the rest of the storm inside! It was a fun adventure!<br /><br /></div>
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Other than that, my week was pretty routine. Met lots of people who didn't want to listen. Talked to some strong Catholics and Baptists...semi friendly but not interested in listening other than trying to compare. We did some service and ate some food with people. We got a couple new potential investigators that we will be meeting with this week. I think the most exciting thing is that classes at DePauw University start up this week so the students are all headed back into town! I am excited to personal contact on campus and find some new people there! College life in this town is definitely very different than it is in Utah, we will just leave it at that. haha!<br /></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-78727707188889439512014-08-18T17:46:00.000-07:002014-08-25T17:46:53.784-07:00Many Mighty Miracles<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week has been so great! We saw so many wonderful miracles happen and were able to do a lot of good work here! It was fun and we worked hard, what could be better?!?!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Tuesday we had a lesson with 3 of our investigators. We only had one more lesson to teach them before they had been taught everything. They are 12,11, &10 and all have been wanting to get baptized for a while. It was hard last transfer I guess to get a hold of the parents to set stuff up but we were finally able to go over for dinner and a lesson. While we were waiting for dinner, they mom of 2 of the kids asked us if the branch was having any activities on the 23rd, we said none that we knew of and she then told us that she would like to have the baptism that day! The kids were super excited to be able to finally get on a date and were interviewed yesterday! All three are set to be baptized this Saturday at 1:00 in their POND!!!!! Yep, that is right! They have gotten permission to be baptized in their pond since it is a family tradition or something like that! I am so excited for the baptism and am glad that they are finally able to make this commitment with their Heavenly Father! It was such a wonderful miracle! Oh, and the best part is that a couple weeks ago when we were doing our weekly planning, we had felt that the 23rd was the date that we needed to extend them! Coincidence....I don't think so!<br /> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We also had exchanges this week and saw lots of cool miracles then too! I was with Sister Mumford, she is 20 and has been out one transfer longer than I have. We had some good teaching experiences and got a new gator! His name is Mike and he was watching Heaven is For Real a couple months ago and just knew that God really is there. He grew up going to lots of churches and doesn't really like how there are so many churches that don't teach the same things. Every church has different things claiming to be true. So we taught him the restoration on his porch and had a really good lesson with him. He said that if he found out that what we are teaching him is true, that he would be baptized! We have another appointment with him tonight, we are hoping that we will be able to teach his whole family tonight too! We had a good fun day, even though Sis Mumford hit her head on a tree branch really hard....yeah...that wasn't good! But she is fine and we were still able to get stuff done!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday we had Branch Conference and a member of the Stake Presidency taught our 3rd hour lesson. It was a really good lesson. He talked about 2 different things. First he started out by sharing a cool experience he had during a study of his recently. He was reading in the Book of Mormon, Mosiah 5:7-9, and it talked about being a child of Christ. He talked about where we got our names from. Like I am a London and got my last name from my dad. He talked about how he was adopted and when he was adopted, he took on the last name of his new parents. When we follow Christ and make covenants with him, we become sons and daughters of Christ. We are adopted into his family and can better take his name upon us. It was a really cool lesson and something I had been thinking about lately. He also talked about how we can all be a part of the Hastening of the Work. There are so many ways to help in the Hastening and we all need to figure out how we can best do our part. It is Heavenly Father's work and we need to get behind him in accomplishing it. It will be so much easier if we do.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all and invite you to figure out your part in the Hastening this week!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. I realized yesterday how long my hair is getting! I love it! </span></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Thanks for the new headband mom! I love it!</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi y'all! I hope you have all had a wonderful week and are enjoying life and what not! This week was my first full week i<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So on Tuesday night we were coming in for the night when Sister McCombs looks at me and says, "Look, I caught a lightning bug!" Sure enough there in her hands was a lightning bug! Since I am from Utah and have never had the opportunity to catch these little suckers, we decided to go out and catch some more! So, a little while later, we had 6 lightning bugs in our jar. Laman, Lemuel, Sam, Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph...missionaries are weird okay... It was a fun experience! Another fun thing that happened this week is that we kind of learned to play Monopoly by the real rules, you know with the houses and hotels and stuff...last Monday for p-day we played some games at the church with the Elders. Both of the elders knew how to play Monopoly and one say that Sister McCombs and I had way too much money not to have houses/hotels...so we bought some! It was cool! I am still not super sure how it works...but I was making money faster, so thats cool! :)<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We taught some gators this week and got dropped by an eternigator (eternal investigator). That was sad. This week we mostly spent our time trying to track down some of the less-actives. There are A LOT on our branch list and half are names of people that no one has even met before. So we are trying to track some down and are hoping to start teaching more part member families. It will take some work but there are so many LA here and if we can get them to start coming back, this little branch could be a ward! So as we travel around the county roads and such, we came to some pretty fun dirt roads! It made me want to go jeeping! Good thing Sid still owes us a jeep trip when we get back! ;) There are a lot of back country roads here and some pretty cool red covered bridges. They are cool except when driving over them and being able to hear them creaking underneath the car....I'm not the biggest fan of crossing bridges...<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So some other random cool stuff from this week is that we have started giving out church tours officially to anyone! Before we were just giving them to people that we were already teaching, but now we are giving them to the members and we can now take anyone! So if we just meet someone and they want a tour we can take them or we can do the members friends. It is pretty exciting! I really like these church tours that we give. We show them 4 different paintings placed around the church and also the chapel and talk about the sacrament. It is a simple tour but so powerful! The elders took us on one the other night to practice and I was playing the nonmember. It was so spiritual especially when we were looking at the painting of Jesus Christ coming to America. It was such a powerful moment!<br /><br /></span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-63621210269992505222014-08-04T19:12:00.000-07:002014-08-05T19:13:02.249-07:00Greencastle!<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi everyone! So I have been transferred to the Greencastle Branch! My new companion is Sister McCombs! She has been out for almost a year, meaning she came out the transfer after me! Greencastle is a tiny little town....like really tiny! It is the smallest town that I have ever lived in...I haven't lived many places but it is small! I like it though! It has a cute little small town feel that I imagine Stars Hollow would feel like! Depauw University is in Greencastle so I am pretty excited for school to start here in the next couple of weeks! The branch is pretty awesome, it is strange being in branch instead of a ward...I'm not used to such a small congregation. It is fun though! We have a set of Elders who are also in the branch so we aren't completely exiled...just a little bit! Greencastle is actually fairly close to my old ward in Terre Haute! We are in a different stake so I won't really get to go down there until some of the people we were working with get baptized.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I haven't really gotten to meet too many of the investigators that we have here yet but most of them are out of town. There is a lot of work to do here, none of the gators are showing much potential or willingness to progress. So we will need to do a lot of finding! Yay! I am excited! Let's see....nothing super exciting or funny has happened since I have gotten here...<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was very bittersweet leaving Terre Haute! It was such a great area and ward and I was very sad to leave. My last 2 days there were mostly spent visiting members and teaching some gators one last time. I miss Terre Haute but know that I did all that I was supposed to do there. A new adventure awaits with new laughter and new trials. Come what may and love it!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So the bugs here in Indiana just love me! For some reason I am just too sweet and they keep coming back for more...it happened last summer too but it is annoying! I had gotten a lot of bites last month in Terre Haute but they all healed and stopped itching and the bugs seemed to be sick of me. Then I got transferred and the new bugs were excited to find some fresh blood....I have probably at least 20 bites on my legs. The itch so bad!!!!!!!!!!! I have some bug spray now and am going to make it hard for these pesky little suckers to eat me! I'm not gonna let them win that easy!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well...sorry it is a really lame email...I wish I had more exciting things to write about this week...but sometimes, mission life is pretty uneventful! I love you all and would love to hear from you!<br /></span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826646416502744029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857336925215772061.post-48476007905810308112014-07-28T21:51:00.000-07:002014-08-02T21:52:12.896-07:00Last Week in Terre-dise<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello Everyone!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, as you can see from my email title...I am being transferred! <span style="margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex;"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/gtalk/344" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /></span> I am very sad to be leaving Terre Haute and Sister Faleono! I have enjoyed this wonderful ward and area so much! I feel so blessed to have been able to serve here for so long with 2 wonderful companions! Last night when we got the call, we were at our former bishops house talking after dinner to his wife and the Elders. All of a sudden, I heard the phone ringing and my heart jumped as I answered the call from the assistant. He told me I was leaving and my companion was staying. At that moment, our hearts broke a little. 2 seconds later the Elders phone rang, one of them is leaving too. The Honey Creek ward will be getting 3 missionaries transferred in this week. We are all very sad...but I know it is the Lord's will, so I will go and do what He needs me to do! I have worked hard here and have been blessed to see many miracles, so I feel like I have done my job here in the Haute!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So besides transfer news, we had a very good week! The highlight was being able to go to the St. Louis Temple with some members! It was so great to finally be able to go back to the temple after not being able to go for over a year! The spirit was so strong and I felt to so good being there! It was the best way to end my stay in Terre Haute! I also realized how much better Indiana is than Illinois...the drive through the part of Illinois was very boring...driving through Indiana is very boring too, but it is greener here and the corn is taller, which makes for a more interesting drive! It was exciting though when we got to the south part of Illinois and I saw some hills! It was great!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We taught a lot of people this week! We found and taught some pretty solid people! One person we taught is a young women who is friends with a member. This girl's family doesn't approve of the church so since she isn't 18 yet, she can't get baptized. That hasn't stopped her from gaining a testimony of the gospel however! She knows it is true and wants to be able to have the spirit with her always! She also even talked about maybe going on a mission one day! It is super exciting and I will definitely be returning to Indiana when she gets baptized! Her testimony and faith is so strong!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We also found some cool potentials this past week and were able to teach a couple lessons to them. It was a good week and we used our time effectively! I love being a missionary and being able to see the changes that people are willing to make for the gospel!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday, I spoke in Sacrament Meeting! I spoke on an article out of the June 2014 Ensign called "That We May Rejoice Together." I think it went pretty well! About a month ago, I felt a prompting to write a talk based off the article and to volunteer for a talk. I skeptically obeyed the prompting and am glad I did. I don't know why Heavenly Father wanted me to speak on it but I do know that the spirit was in that room! There was a time in the middle of my talk where the room was spooky silent! It freaked me out a bit actually...but it was good. Sister Faleono told me that you could feel when the spirit came into the room and a couple people mentioned to me after that they were more inspired to do missionary work. So even though I felt a little off, I guess others were able to receive some guidance! We also taught the YW yesterday! We had 4 girls at church yesterday and no leaders. So it was us and them and we were able to have a nice talk about what it means to take Christ's name upon us and how we can better stand up, even if we are standing alone. I think it also went pretty well!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That is about all I can remember from the week....but I have a good couple days ahead of me! Tomorrow is basically already planned out with saying goodbyes to members and teaching some gators one last time. I hope you have a great week and I will talk to you next week from somewhere else!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">love,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Abbie London<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. at the temple! </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. the craziest district on the planet...half of the group will be transferred... :(</span></div>
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