Saturday, March 8, 2014
****New Adresses****
Elder Clay & Sister Cookie Overson
Assoc. Brasil I.J.C.S.U.DFundo Perpetuo de Educacao
Av. Francisco Morato 2430
05512-0300 San Paulo,
SP
Brasil
ccoverson@yahoo.com
Elder John & Sister Terry Haws
Apartado Postal 92-4005
Belen, Heredia
Costa Rica
tljhaws@gmail.com
Elder Lamar & Sister Sarah Jean Gray
SDQ 4102
2250 NW 114th Ave. Unit 1A
Miami, FL 33172
lsgray79@gmail.com
Elder Kent Bloomfield
New York Utica Mission
PO Box 149
Whitesboro, NY 13492-0149
Elder Tyler Johnson
7011 E. 13th N
Wichita, KS 67206
Sister Eevanna Brown
South Carolina, Columbia Mission
110 Oak Park Drive, Suite B
Irmo, SC 29063-6110
Elder Ammon Fulton
Mexico Torreon Mission
Calle Ernesto Breede
Col. Ampliacion Los Angeles #301
27146 Torreon, Coahula Mexico
Elder Ryder Nielsen
Philippines, Manila Mission
PO Box 1997
Makati Central P.O. Makati City
1200 Metro Manila, Phillippines
Elder Bradley Lynch
Washington Federal Way Mission
23175 224thPl. Ste. E
Maple Valley, Washington 98038
Sister Jessica Mireles
Arizona, Gilbert Mission
65 E Olive Avenue #102
Gilbert, AZ 85234
Sister Heather Patterson
South Carolina Columbia Mission
110 Oak Park Dr. Suite B
Irmo, SC 29063-6110
Elder Shad Lindsey
Oct02 UKR-KYV
2009 N 900 E. Unit 128
Provo, UT 84602
Elder Reymond Patterson
Idaho Boise Mission Office
111 S. Cole Road
Boise, Idaho 83709
Elder Kent Waters
Italy Rome Mission
Piazza Carnaro 20
00141 Rome
Italy
Elder Kade Garner
Peru Lima West Mission
Carlos Salaverry 3664
Los Olivos
Casillo do Corres 39-054
Lima 39
Peru
Sister Anna Herring
West Virginia Charleston Mission
888 Oakwood Rd. Ste. 310
Charleston, WV 25314-2071
Sister Elese Hauser
Illinois Chicago West Mission
1319 Butterfield Rd. Ste. 522
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Elder Spencer Wilhelm
Igreja De Jesus Cristo Dos U.D.
Caixa Postal 18404
Luanda Angola
Hermana Amanda Greer
Chile Osorno Mission
Camilla 7-0
Regions X
Osorno
Chile
Elder Allan Holden
665 North 200 West
Clearfield, Utah 84015
Elder Austin Davis
1400 N. W Compton Suite 250
Beaverton, Oregon 97006
Elder Riley Pulsipher
Oficinas de Mission
Mexico Xalapa
Av. Arco Vial Sur No. 738
Col. Lomas Verdes
Xalapa, Veracruz, C.P.
91098
Elder Spencer Lee
New York, New York North Mission
700 White Plains Rd. Ste. 315
Scarsdale, NY 10583
Elder Garrett Anderson
Brazil Brasilia Mission
Shin CA 05 LOTE B1 SALAS 304/307
71503-505 BRASILIA-DF
BRAZIL
Elder Jared Anderson
Brazil Joao Pessoa Mission
Rua Deputado Jose' Mariz, 515
Tambauzinho
58042-020 Joao Pessoa-PB
Brazil
Elder Tyler Crosby
Tonga Nuku Alofa Mission
Box 58
Nuku Alofa
Tonga
Elder Konner Lee
Building 2
Holidaysburg, PA 16648
Elder Bo Mullenaux
California Santa Rosa Mission
5301 Badger Rd.
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Sister Kortlynn Pearl Herring
4-25-12 Nishi-Ochiai
Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo-To
161-0031, JAPAN
Elder Garrett Hollembeak
West Virginia Charleston Mission
888 Oakwood Rd. Ste. 310
Charleston WV
25314-2071
United States
Sister Anna Rebecca McCrite
Oregon Salem Mission
700 Deborah Rd Suite 260
Newburg, Oregon 97132
Words from Sister Elese Hauser in Illinois
"A mission is like a roller coaster. It has it's ups and it has it's
downs. You can never be really sure what's around the next corner
until you are plummeting to the ground at a speedy rate. Chances are
you will probably get whip lash because it's a brutal ride. When you
climb on the roller coaster you must make sure your seat belt is
buckled firmly, because there is great risk of being blown right out.
And of course you could end up sitting next to the girl who is
screaming and crying and saying she doesn't want to go on the ride.
And then you ask yourself, What have I gotten myself into?! And
through out the whole ride you are screaming at the top of your lungs,
your eyes are watering from the wind, and you count the minutes until
it's over. But when all is said and done, and the ride comes to a
stop, you realize how much you loved it. And through the tears and
screaming and excitement and fears, you realize that it was all worth
it because you did something nobody thought you could do. And you have
conquered The Roller Coaster.
I think this analogy can be compared to many things but for me it's my
mission. There are times when I say to myself, This is not what I
signed up for! Whether those be good times or bad times, a mission is
unexpected. I have truly come to find joy in the journey as President
Uchtdorf has taught us. I think that can be the hardest principle to
learn sometimes. We so often get in the habit of saying that we are
not happy now, but we will be as soon as this happens. But where is
the growth in that? Life is a series of disappointing moments,
interrupted by brief moments of indescribable joy, as President Fenn
would say it. But those moments of joy far out weigh the moments of
disappointment. And since we know that we are more likely to have to
live through more moments of disappointment throughout our lives, the
key is to find happiness in those hard moments. And I know that we can
find that happiness by keeping Gods commandments and being faithful
even in times of despair and disappointment. I think sometimes we feel
abandoned, forgotten by our loved ones and by our Father in Heaven.
But he has not forgotten nor forsaken us. As I have been reading the
Book of Mormon I am blown away by Gods promises to his children. He
says many timers, If ye will keep my commandments ye shall prosper in
the land. And even though he knows that as He blesses the Nephites it
will eventually turn into pride and war, he still blesses them. Time
and time again, he blesses them as they humble themselves into the
depths of repentance. Even though he knows His blessings will result
in the destruction of a whole nation, He keeps his promises. And that
shows me how much he truly loves us and cares for us. I know that
Jesus Christ lives. And I know that Joseph Smith saw God the Father
and Jesus Christ that spring morning. And that through him the
priesthood of God was restored to earth. This knowledge is important
to me because it has changed forever the way I live my life.
Well updates for this week are as follows: we got the most new
investigators in one week than I've ever gotten on my mission. We
found 6 people interested in our message! 6!!! That's a lot! And it's
mostly thanks to the members. 3 of those 6 are friends of members and
the other 3 are from our own efforts. We have this awesome member in
our area who loves to work with the missionaries and since we didn't
have the car some of this week she took us around town for 4 hours!
Now that is truly sacrificing for the missionaries and she has no idea
how much she helped us out. I've mentioned Carol before and we have
been trying so hard to get her to come to church, and she finally came
yesterday! And Tonya, the Eldes investigator who we'll now be
teaching, wants to meet with us. We are seeing so many miracles in our
area and it's so great to see progress in an area that started at 0
when we got here. But on the down side, Leena got a job and will now
be working nights and she works every Saturday night from 1:00-9:00
AM. She told us she probably won't be able to come to church anymore
and that about killed us. We did not baptize her to walk in the front
door and out the back. We are really scared and have no clue what to
do. But The Lord knew this was coming and He has a plan, we just need
to find out what it is. And it rained so much this week as well!
Which, rain means warm weather right?! Absolutely! It got up to 45
this week and we were rolling the windows down in our car, but it's
supposed to be like 15 again this week. Just great. The picture I'm
sending is of me and the snow bank I parked in last Monday. It took us
15 minutes to get unstuck. Don't ask me why Arizona was driving in the
snow storm, but I was:) if you look closely you can see me waving from
behind the steering wheel! So that's about it from Oswego Illinois! I
hope you all have a safe and blessed week and find joy in the journey!"
Words from Elder Tyler Johnson in Kansas
Words from Sister Kortlynn Herring in Japan
"So, today was transfer calls! My beloved daughter is leaving me.
:(.
She is transferring down south, where it's warm and she gets to go to
the temple. No, I'm not jealous....hehe! And my new companion is
named sister lindquist, she is awesome! We knew each other at the mtc
and we are both sister training leaders. I'm excited, because
lindquist Shimai is legit!
This week was a great one! It always is! We had a cool miracle last
Monday. So on p-day we need to do 3 hours of missionary work, and we
decided to go contact a referral in Tsubame and go housing. Well, no
one was home, and we had about 3 min left, and I was tempted to just
walk back over to our bikes and call it good, but I felt like we
should just do a couple more houses. So we decided to go down this
street by our bikes, and the first house we knock on, the lady
answers, she isn't interested, but we mention that we teach free
English, she takes a flyer, and we ask her if she know anyone whom
would be interested in our message, and she gestures toward the house
next door and just says they like English. So we walk over and there
is a lady in the yard. We say konnichiha and she turns around and
says hello! I'm completely taken off guard, because when she turns
around, I see a gaijin, not a Japanese. Turns out she is from
Australia and has been living in japan for the last 14 years. She has
met with the Jehovah witnesses before, and she said she isn't very
interested in them, but she said we could come back. So we are
meeting her today! I'm excited, but super nervous! It will be weird
teaching in English! Her name is Katrina. Pray that everything goes
well, and that she feels the spirit and has a desire to learn!
Another awesome miracle, the elders were out streeting, and saw a lady
with heavy bags, so they offered to help her. She allowed them too
and they talked about religion, and it turns out she has been a member
of a lot of different churches, but she has always left because she
felt like they didn't have the whole truth. They asked of she was
interested in learning about our religion, and more about God, and she
said for sure! So they met with her one more time, talked about
Christ and the atonement, and baptism! They set a baptismal date with
her! And then the passed her over to us. Her name is H San.
She is super nice, and just wants to learn for herself if this message
is true, and if it's true she is willing to act on it! She has a
really bad WoW problem, but that's ok! Pray for her too please!
Then the rest of the week we were able to meet with other
investigators, less actives, and nice random people. The Lord is
really speeding, or hastening his work in Sanjo and I'm so glad I get
to be here at least one more transfer to be a part of it! I love
being a missionary! Especially in Sanjo. Our little branch is
little, but it's awesome! And the members have so much fire and love
and they are excellent! Keep being wonderful family! I love you!
The temple celebration thing looked awesome! I'm so grateful you all
got to be a part of it! What an amazing experience! You are all
amazing! And I got the package! Thank you so so so much! Love you!"
She is transferring down south, where it's warm and she gets to go to
the temple. No, I'm not jealous....hehe! And my new companion is
named sister lindquist, she is awesome! We knew each other at the mtc
and we are both sister training leaders. I'm excited, because
lindquist Shimai is legit!
This week was a great one! It always is! We had a cool miracle last
Monday. So on p-day we need to do 3 hours of missionary work, and we
decided to go contact a referral in Tsubame and go housing. Well, no
one was home, and we had about 3 min left, and I was tempted to just
walk back over to our bikes and call it good, but I felt like we
should just do a couple more houses. So we decided to go down this
street by our bikes, and the first house we knock on, the lady
answers, she isn't interested, but we mention that we teach free
English, she takes a flyer, and we ask her if she know anyone whom
would be interested in our message, and she gestures toward the house
next door and just says they like English. So we walk over and there
is a lady in the yard. We say konnichiha and she turns around and
says hello! I'm completely taken off guard, because when she turns
around, I see a gaijin, not a Japanese. Turns out she is from
Australia and has been living in japan for the last 14 years. She has
met with the Jehovah witnesses before, and she said she isn't very
interested in them, but she said we could come back. So we are
meeting her today! I'm excited, but super nervous! It will be weird
teaching in English! Her name is Katrina. Pray that everything goes
well, and that she feels the spirit and has a desire to learn!
Another awesome miracle, the elders were out streeting, and saw a lady
with heavy bags, so they offered to help her. She allowed them too
and they talked about religion, and it turns out she has been a member
of a lot of different churches, but she has always left because she
felt like they didn't have the whole truth. They asked of she was
interested in learning about our religion, and more about God, and she
said for sure! So they met with her one more time, talked about
Christ and the atonement, and baptism! They set a baptismal date with
her! And then the passed her over to us. Her name is H San.
She is super nice, and just wants to learn for herself if this message
is true, and if it's true she is willing to act on it! She has a
really bad WoW problem, but that's ok! Pray for her too please!
Then the rest of the week we were able to meet with other
investigators, less actives, and nice random people. The Lord is
really speeding, or hastening his work in Sanjo and I'm so glad I get
to be here at least one more transfer to be a part of it! I love
being a missionary! Especially in Sanjo. Our little branch is
little, but it's awesome! And the members have so much fire and love
and they are excellent! Keep being wonderful family! I love you!
The temple celebration thing looked awesome! I'm so grateful you all
got to be a part of it! What an amazing experience! You are all
amazing! And I got the package! Thank you so so so much! Love you!"
Words from Elder Austin Davis in Oregon
Cael wrestled sounds like a pretty boring weekend haha sounds like
you guy shaved busy week with baseball and everything holy smokes how
I loved those weeks in school .well have you dreamed abut where g is
going to go ? I'm doing pretty good just trying to get things moving
in the ward we had dinner with bishop last night found out he is
farmer and hunter so we are getting long great I have a redneck as
comp so it's great :) well we had 2 district meetings this week every
Tuesday and Wednesday we he them from 10:30- 12:00 those were god
this week is going to be crazy we have those meetings then we have MLC
on Friday 8-5 then Stake president council on Sunday at 4:30 so this
weeks is looking pretty busy but it's good I enjoy meetings it makes
the weeks go by fast! This week we taught 1 lesson shoot me in the
head! We are going to e doing a ton of service this week to try to get in less actives homes ! Well how is moi? You doing good time continues
just to push on by gen. Conference is coming up I'm ex tied should be
good and we don't have to wear suite jackets after that yes!! :) "
Words from Elder Garrett Hollembeak in West Virginia
awesome, I couple of the missionaries here have family in Arizona who
went to the dedication. Its a small Mormon world. I can't wait for
Kate to get baptized, we moved it to the twenty first because we had
Stake Conference this Sunday and Spring Break next Sunday. When we
prayed about her date tried to work around problems it was neat
because both Elder Sorensen and I felt impressed that it wouldn't
matter what day she got baptized, she was going to get there and it
was going to be alright. I'm very lucky to have the companion I have,
he's one of those people who seeks inspiration and receives it
quickly. This week we found a lot of great people to teach. We got a
big snow storm on Sunday night so I'm glad to hear some kind of
weather is getting to you guys. At Stake Conference Elder Robert Smith
of the Seventy came and spoke. He talked a lot about less active
would, retention of recent converts, and bringing members and
missionaries together. There is so much work to do here it's almost
overwhelming sometimes, but I love being a missionary and I am so
happy to have been called here. I love your guys and can't wait to
hear from you again. Give everyone a big hug for me. I love you Dad,
thank you for everything."
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