Halloween Happiness

Hello Everyone!

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!

We had a pretty normal beginning of the week, nothing super new and exciting. On Thursday 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 Thursday! :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.

Friday was Halloween and it was a pretty relaxing day. We  have our district meetingson Friday so we had our district meeting. Since it was also the last day of the month some of the other missionaries in the district were tight on miles so we had our meeting in Plainfield, about 35 minutes away. It was fine though since we had enough miles to make the trip. It was a good meeting! I always love district meetings though...they are probably my favorite of the meetings we go to. I always learn so much! We went to lunch after the meeting, we usually do...haha but this time one of the Elders in the other ward left his lights on as we ate so by the time we left their car was dead...so we had to drive the other sisters back to their apartment so they could get their jumper cables and take it back and jump the elders car. So by the time we actually got back to Greencastle it was like 3:00ish and we had left at 10. We met with a less-active before going to dinner with a member. Halloween as a missionary is kind of different than any other day. Since so many people are out and about, they don't like us to be out tracting or teaching people. So unless you were with a member, you were supposed to be doing your weekly planning. Lucky for us, we had a member invite us over to carve pumpkins! It was really fun! I enjoyed it a lot and made a cute owl pumpkin! It was a fun night and I am glad we were inside since it was freezing that night! There were snow flurries...which just shows us that winter is right around the corner!

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 on Saturday night we felt like the scripture we needed to share was Isaiah 1:18, 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!

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!

love,

Sister Abbie Paige!

1. the things you can find in a small town!

2. Pumpkin Carving

Double Halloween

Our Halloween picture with our yummy Halloween cupcakes! Thanks Aunt Debbie for the yummy treat!!! ;)

Hey everyone! 

I hope you all had a Happy Halloween! I know that we did here in Fishers...well actually we had 2 Happy Halloweens! One on Thursday and then one on Friday! So long story short, the weather forecast for actual Halloween was rainy and windy, so the town of Fishers (as well as some other cities) decided to move trick-or-treating to Friday night...weird right? I guess these Hoosiers are a little afraid of some wetness. They aren't as tough as us Utahans I guess, since I spent many Halloweens as a kid trick-or-treating in the snow! Any way it was fun and we spent actual Halloween painting pumpkins with one of the families in the ward and fake Halloween eating Chili, corn bread, and homemade donuts with some ward members. It was a fun time! 

the yummy homemade doughnut! 

This week has been good! Nothing really new to report this week, except that my Halloween wish came true and we got a car!!!! That was a good thing! We were pretty excited to get that back! 

So something that President Cleveland has been wanting us to do is to work more with the youth. So Sister Francis and I have been going to mutual every Tuesday to get to know the young women better. It has been so good! These youth are amazing! 4 of the young women bore their testimonies in sacrament meeting yesterday and they were so powerful! These girls are doing missionary work and don't even realize it! It is really just go great! 

So to end off I will tell you a funny story that happened on Tuesday when we were at mutual. We were playing Family Feud with the Mia Maids and the Teachers. When it first started there weren't enough youth to make up the 2 teams, so we played as well as 2 of the young men leaders. So on on team was 5 youth and then on the other team was the leaders and us and one young man. He sat there and said, "It's me and all the old people!" So apparently 19 is now considered old...who knew right?! Well I love you all and am sorry that I don't have much to report. It was a slow week but life is still good! We just keep looking forward at what we still have to do! 

Love,

Sister London

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!