Monday, January 11, 2016

#miracles

It's been another good week of learning on the mish!

Working with Sister Wiest is a blast. She falls all the time. I don't understand. 

Two Sundays ago, we saw a lady with pink hair (so cool) at church who hadn't been there before! Long story short, we got to know her and spent church with her. She moved into our area recently. Her 12 year old son just got baptized and she wants to too! We set up an appointment to meet with her that Tuesday. On Tuesday, we were a little early, so we knocked some doors in the neighborhood. We went up someone's drive way and Sister Wiest started to fall and she was catching herself with her left foot and after about 3 seconds of that, she gave up and literally fell over with the bike landing on top of her! It was soooo funny!!!! Hahahaha! Man. Tears were flowing. We knocked on the door. No one answered. We went to another door. A lady answered and I just started speaking. I said, "Hi! Are you Angela?" Those words just came out of my mouth... She said, "No. I'm Samone, but the lady over there (pointing to the house where Sister Weist crashed and burned) is Angela." In my head I was thinking, "What??? Are you kidding me!?!" I think it's a sign we are supposed to meet Angela. I will keep you posted.

We ended up having an AMAZING lesson with the lady who came to church and her son later in the evening. She literally (well not literally) fell into our laps, and I'm so grateful for that. I hope she will come to understand baptism and what it means and will mean for the rest of her life. I know she will be blessed as she makes those promises with Heavenly Father.

We are teaching a cute Maori (from New Zealand) family with a less active mom. Her 4 kids as well as her partner aren't members. We had an amazing lesson totally led by the spirit. We taught them about Nephi and how he was obedient to the commandments. We then started talking about the 10 commandments and when we got to Keep the Sabbath Day holy, they were like, "Oh is that one of the 10 commandments?" The mom realized how they "probably" need God in their lives and we invited them to come to church. Fast forward to church. It's 9:06 and a miracle happened. They came to church!!!! We were so happy!! I love them. We are making progress!!!! Also we made them a pumpkin pie and they absolutely LOVED it. #miracles

Man, there is so much to write... I don't know how much you all like to read or what...

On Friday we had Zone Conference in Rockingham. I LOVE ZONE CONFERENCE!! Sister Ives from the MTC is now here!! She was visa waiting in CA. My new Zone Leader is Elder Cordner from Highland! What a small world it is... He is a very hard worker. His companion, Elder Brinkerhoff (aka Clinkertrough) teared up when he was talking about how amazing his companion is. We have great leaders. :) I left Zone Conference with the drive to follow the spirit as in when I get a prompting DO IT! (Sometimes I get scared. I'm working on killing the natural man inside.) Also, with a drive to make our purpose as missionaries clear.  Right after ZC, we had a lesson with a former investigator and as I taught, I really tried hard, to listen to what the spirit was telling me. I was listening intently to what she was saying and listening to any thoughts that came into my mind. She was talking about how she is afraid of death and about the afterlife and a scripture came into my mind about how death has no sting, and the grave no victory, because of the savior Jesus Christ. I had no idea where that scripture was and I was hesitant to get my BOM and search for it b/c it would be distracting. I did it anyway, and literally the first page I flipped to and literally the first verse I looked at was that exact scripture that came to my mind. (Mosiah 16) Complete miracle from Heavenly Father. I know he will bless us as we listen to and follow the promptings of the Spirit! I'm still in awe. I love the Spirit. I love Heavenly Father. And I love Jesus Christ.

I love yous.
Love,

Sister Beardall
Wishing for Miracles.

This lady collects salt and pepper shakers!!! She has millions!!

Dinner on the mish consists of: corn, mushrooms, and tuna. #scrumptious (I worry for my future kids...)


At zone conf. the zone leaders, Elder Brinkerhoff and Elder Cordner did a training. We all went to the back curtain in the chapel, they taped a small picture to the wall at the front of the chapel and we were supposed to draw what we could see from where we were standing. It was tiny and in black and white. I don't really remember the principle they were trying to get across...something about doing the bare minimum? The training was on sacrifice... I was the one that drew something closest to the pic on the wall! Hahaha! They gave me a bag of lollies!  What I learned is that I have perfect eyesight and it doesn't matter how far removed or close to something I am, I will always see clearly....hahahahaha jk jk jk. 

How we get around. 

CTR: current temple recommend


Sister Wiest fell again... but bad this time. She went up the curb and literally 1/2 second later she was on the ground. The back wheel slipped in the gravel. I was right behind her but I slammed on my brakes and caught myself before I landed on top of her! She was a bloody mess!!!! We got into a house though... ;)


Reunited and it felt so... good... Sister Grace and I pray every night we will become Sister Training Leaders together in Rockingham. 

Zone Pday: donut eating contest. I (wish I) won. I love my zone! We played a whole bunch of fun games. But my favorite was.....basketball! Ha. I played with this other sister and the rest were elders. It was Lone Peak vs. New Zealand.  Dominated the drive to the middle, turn and shoot. Mom, Dad, you would be proud. ;)

Sister Wiest and the Lollie-Finding contest... She (wishes she) won.





















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