Willie, Sarah

Hey everyone! I hope you have had a great couple of days since my last email. Not too much has happened, but it has been a fun few days! We got to be in the Visitors' Center on Thursday and Sunday, so that was super awesome! One of the tours I was able to give was to a young woman named Maddie, and she is so cool! It was such a great tour, and one of the members that came bore such a powerful testimony of personal conversion. And one of the missionaries that is teaching her was in my MTC District! So I got to see Elder Rawlins again which was super fun! This weekend, we were going all over the place trying to have lessons with all of our friends and invite them to come to church. We had some really great lessons that were filled with the Spirit, and you could tell that our friends were feeling it too.  Spiritual Thought: I read the talk "The Joy of Our Redemption" By Kristin M Yee this week, and oh my goodness! It is such an amazing talk! One of my favorite lines says: ...

Merry Christmas everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful day!  We had transfers last week, and my new companion is Sister Hailstone! She is also from Utah, and she is literally so sweet. I have already loved serving with her and experiencing her kind and thoughtful spirit. I am excited to serve with her this transfer, and I know that we will see miracles. And another little fun fact is that this transfer is 7 weeks long, and it is sadly my last transfer which feels so unreal to say. But I am excited to work hard in Glendoveer with Sister Hailstone!  This week, we have been trying to meet with our friends so Sister Hailstone can get introduced to them. And we have had some really amazing lessons with them. We had a wonderful lesson with our friend Mary, and we were able to find out a few of her concerns. Then she came to church on Sunday with her son! It was such a miracle and I am excited to continue to teach her and her son about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  On Thursday...

Hello everyone! This week we were able to have a really good lesson with our friend Muhoza and her family. We talked about how Jesus Christ understands us, and how He wants us to follow His example. Which led us to talking about baptism! We taught them about the Holy Ghost and how we can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost once we are baptized. We invited Muhoza and two of her siblings to get baptized, and they said that it is something they want, but that they will have to talk to their parents about it. Please keep them in their prayers, so they can get baptized soon!  We were able to have an amazing temple tour this week! A returning member of the church, Julia, came in with her boyfriend, Christian. It was such a Spirit filled tour, and Julia bore such powerful testimony about the Gospel and about the temple. Christian had lots of really good questions, and he said that he really likes how we can make covenants with God that hold us to a higher standard. It was a wonderful exper...

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you had a wonderful week!  This past week has been full of a lot of Christmas festivities. It started when we went to a members house and after dinner we made gingerbread houses out of pop tarts. I am not an architect in any way, but I did whip up a pretty nice looking villa. It was a lot of fun to spend time with their family and it brought back fun Christmas memories with my family. Then we had our ward Christmas party this week! It was really fun and we got pictures taken with Santa! I love being able to experience Christmas as a missionary, and feel of the Christmas spirit with the missionaries and ward members I get to serve with.  We were able to have a lesson with one of our friends Marie. She is really sweet and super open to the Gospel. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she said she will read it! She also told us that she has lots of doctor's appointments, but she will schedule them around our meetings because she knows that this is more i...

Hello friends and family! I got to serve at the Visitors' Center this Monday, so I am taking the rest of my p-day today!  One of my highlights this past week was Thanksgiving!! It is my favorite holiday, and we had a really great day. We delivered cookies to some of our friends and members. Then we had dinner with one of the member families, and it reminded me a lot of Thanksgiving dinner at my house. Everyone was crowded together with good food and fun conversation. We also had the opportunity to do service for a woman in one of the wards in our stake. We decorated Christmas stockings that will be filled with things for the homeless people that live in this area. It was a lot of fun, and it helped usher in the Christmas spirit.  I also got to go on exchanges this week! I stayed here in Glendoveer, and Hermana Sullivan came with me. We had a fun day complete with some knocking and lessons. It was really great to be able to serve with her for the day. We had a really good lesso...