Happy Halloween!

Hi all!!!

This week has been good! To start off, last Monday night we went to dinner at the Vivona's. They are members in the ward who feed us every 3rd Monday and have us stay for FHE with them and their 2 daughters and their families. It is fun and I have really enjoyed getting to know this family! They are the ones who fed us Chicken Roll-Ups so...yeah...they are pretty great! Anyway, they had us over for dinner and we carved pumpkins with them! It was fun to participate in this fall tradition with them and to get to know them all better. I gutted the pumpkin and Sister Francis carved it since she hates the smell and the inside guts. We carved a Mickey Mouse pumpkin! It was a fun night. 

This week we have done a lot of work with some less-active members. Mostly just getting to know them better and trying to figure out how we, as well as the ward, can help them. There are so many different people here in Fishers all with different struggles. It has been good to start forming this relationship with them. This one less-active just finished chemo-therapy and will be starting radiation soon. She is so sweet and is only 27. Her 2 daughters aren't members so we want to start teaching them and working to reactivate her. She is really struggling with all of it, feeling like one thing after another just keeps hitting her. Ah! She just needs to come to church! I know that it will help her so much! 

As well as less-active members, we have been working with active members as well. Getting to know them and help them see that we are normal people, not missionary robots. It has been great to start to form different relationships with different families in the ward. Members really are the key to missionary work. This one Mia Maid in the ward was sitting at school and her teacher knew she was a member and started asking her about the church. This young women started telling her that we have this book that is just another testament of Jesus Christ and told her she could bring her a copy if she would like! So today the girl took the Book of Mormon to give to this teacher! It is so great to see the youth get involved in missionary work as well because they really do interact with more nonmembers than adults. 

I love you all and thanks for all the love and support! Keep praying for those missionary opportunities! I would love to hear what experiences you have from them! Don't forget to write!  And have a Happy Halloween this Thursday!! :)

-Sister London

Ours is the cute Micky one on the top step...the one with all the sticks in it is the Elders....and the one next to the Elders is supposed to glow in the dark! 

Third Times the Charm....

The Elders who took our car brought us 3 toy cars to try and make up for it. This picture represents how sad I was to see my second car be taken.

Good Morning Everyone!

So....this week has been a roller coaster week! First off, we did not get to teach one of our investigators this week. They either cancelled or we were not able to get in contact with them. :( That's okay though, we will work extra hard this week to meet with them at least once, if not more. We have spent this week trying to find new people to teach through different approaches. We tried rake tracting by going through the neighborhoods and raking up people's leaves. We haven't seen any success from that yet but I am hoping that they at least looked at Mormon.org since we left a card on the door. It is definitely difficult to find here in Fishers. For those who do not know much about Fishers, aka probably all of you..., it is a more well off area. Many of the neighborhoods are no soliciting so even if we wanted to, we can't tract. Since it is a more rich area, everyone is super busy with work, school, or kids. Most everyone has a church they are "satisfied" with. It is great! I seriously love the work here! It was a slow week, slower than usual, but that has just made me so much more motivated to hasten the work!!!!! 

Another thing that happened this week that relates to the title of this email is.....wait for it.....they took away our car again! Yep that's right, we are now sharing the car with the other sisters again. For all of those counting along at home, this is the 3rd time that this has happened. This time it's a little trickier though because we just barely split the area with the Elders and we are in the part farthest away from our apartment. So we are trying to figure out how to actually get into our area each day, without having to spend the whole time actually traveling into our area. Luckily the other sisters are teaching a lot of people in the apartment complex, so if we need the car while they are in a lesson with one of those investigators we can take it. Maybe this is exactly what we need to get the work moving in Fishers...maybe not...we will see. They told us we would get a new car in 2-3 weeks so it won't be too bad. Just pray that winter comes after we get the car! That's what we are doing!

This week we had an awesome service project in Indy with our zone. It was through this Community Outreach Program and we went around this neighborhood cleaning the garbage off the streets and pulling weeds. We did this Saturday morning and it was awesome!!!!! I  love serving people! The weather was rainy and cold but to me, that made it so much better! It was definitely a highlight of my week! If you all want to see more about it and see some pictures from it, they will be uploaded onto the facebook page for our mission today! For those of you who do not know about our missions FB page, it is www.facebook.com/indymission ! At least that's what I think it it.... hehehe! Go and like it! 

Service in Crossroads on Saturday! 

Anyways, it's been a good week and I have learned a lot. I would love to hear about all of your lives as well! My address is still the same and I LOVE getting mail from you! But mostly, I just love you all! 

-Sister London

Transfer 3

Abbie and Sister Francis

Howdy Ya'll!

I'm not really in the south, but sometimes it is just fun to act like it! So this week I started my 3rd transfer out in Indiana! Crazy, right?!?! Anyways, that means that I am done with being trained and am now with a new companion! Her name is Sister Francis. She has been on her mission for 4 1/2 months, which means she came out the transfer before me!!!!! There are so many exclamation points because that is rare! They usually put a new missionary with an older missionary, but because the mission is becoming so young now, they are switching it up! Some of the Elders I came out with are companions with other Elders that came out with us! It is so great to see the hastening of the work! Sister Francis and I are very similar! We both love pink, Disney, and Chick-fil-A!!!! There are many more similarities but we are on limited time, so stay tuned! 

This week has been great! We started off the week by going bowling last Monday with the Fishers district before 3 of the missionaries got transferred! It was really fun even though my ball spent more time in the gutter than on the lane...but let's just say, without my 61 points, Fishers 1 would have lost to Fishers 2 by 62 points...so yeah...I kind of rock it! We had a lesson with an investigator, Becky, Monday night! It went so great and the spirit was so strong! It was a great lesson! We spent most of Tuesday going to various members homes so Sis. Knight could say bye.Wednesday we went to transfer meeting and then spent the majority of the day getting Sis. Francis familiar with the area. We were supposed to have a lesson with Amber on Thursday night however, she had to cancel. :( So It has been probably a month since we have been able to have an actual lesson with her...not good. We will keep trying though. I know that she is still interested, she is too solid not to be! We spent most of the weekend trying people except on Saturday night we were able to get a lesson with an investigator! The absolute best part of the week was yesterday though!! Sacrament meeting was so great for a couple different reasons! First, Becky came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is only the 2nd time that I have had an investigator attend sacrament meeting! She wants to keep coming too! Woot woot!!!! Another reason it was so great was because of the talks. All 3 speakers spoke on charity but all had such a different approach. They shared different experiences and told different stories, but they all tied together and the spirit was sooooooooo strong! I am so blessed to be serving in this ward for another 5 weeks! I love Fishers! We had a missionary fireside last night, which was also amazing! The spirit is so strong there as well! It is a testimony meeting where recent converts share their conversion stories! It is my favorite time of the month! 

Life in Indiana is great! Like I said, I am still loving Fishers. The work is hard and it is probably one of the more difficult areas but it is great! I have learned so much in the short 3 months that I've been here! I hope you all are doing well! Know that I love you! 

-Sister London

Fishers family bowling

Another 6 Weeks in Fishers

The Fishers Sisters wishing you all a "Happy Halloween!"

Hello All!!!

So we got transfer calls last night, and can I just say that I was so nervous I thought I was going to pee my skirt! But all is well and I am pretty sure we were the first ones called. Calls start being made at 9:30 and that is when we got our call. So I will be staying here in Fishers for another 6 weeks and Sister Knight will be transferred. I am sad to see her go, but am ready and excited for a little change. That's what mission life is.

This week has been good. Nothing too exciting going on. I got a nice call this week from the mission office telling me that there was someone that was friends with my dad when he was here that wanted to take me and Sister Knight out to lunch, so I called them back and it was the Overmeyer's. They were close with my dad when he was in Muncie, so on Thursday they came down and took us to lunch! It was a fun time! They brought me some pictures of my dad when he was here 35 years ago!!! It was awesome and Doug and Bobbi are just great!  We had a lot of member lessons this week, so we went and taught some of the members the Restoration or Plan of Salvation. President Cleveland is really pushing us to get into members homes to teach, which is good because if you listened to General Conference this weekend you may have caught a similar push on members and missionaries working together! It is an exciting time in missionary work and in church growth in general! 15 Million members!!!!!! I love it! It is really just a fantastic time in church history and we are all a part of it!

So I loved watching conference! All of the talks were so inspired! I got so much out of conference. One of my favorite speakers this year was Elder Dube of the Seventy. I really liked his talk on never looking back. In missionary work that is an important thing to remember! There are so many people that do not get baptized and it is so hard not to look back and dwell on why that is. But by doing that, we are missing the people who are ready! Do not live in the past! I also enjoyed the quote, "Doubt your doubt before you doubt your fears." As the Walmart greeter here told one of the Elders, "When fear is tolerated, faith is contaminated." Don't let your fears or your past get you down!

Sorry it wasn't as exciting this week, we still had lots of fun here in Fishers though! I love you all and would love to hear from you all too! Since I am staying in Fishers, that means my address won't change for at least another month and a half!

-Sister London

 After our yummy lunch!