Oye Sis!

Oh. My. Goodness. I have to sincerely apologize to all of you as you have not been seeing any of my amazing pictures lately. ;) I just realized I was only sending them to myself!!!!!! My dad will update my blog and you can see all of them there in a bit (right Dad?) ;) Maybe it's a good thing. I send tons of pics... and you guys never see them... sad day. Anyway on to the good stuff:

MIRACLES:

Remember the lady I talked about that showed up at church, with pink hair, Yvette?? Well guess what.....she has accepted the invitation to be baptized on Feb. 13th!!!!!! 

We also invited the Seymour family to be baptized and they said they would pray about it as a family and let us know! (I'm feeling it's a yes...!)

FOUR people/families came to church this week!!! Usually it's ZERO. So four is saying something! Investigators and less active families and individuals. Man. I could not stop smiling. It did call for a lot of people who needed attention, that's for sure! Haha! We were going crazy. 

We have a new investigator!! Her name is Jen. She just got back from Utah for a month visiting a friend (members) who used to live in Australia. She showed us all her Utah pics with the beautiful snow and everything and I got a bit homesick tbh. She said she was depressed that she wasn't in Utah right now. Haha! It was so funny! She LOVES Utah! She went to the MoTab concert, temple square, her friend sang in church and she played the piano for her, went caroling with the YW...everything. At the end of our visit, she basically asked US if we could teach her. She wants to learn more about our church. She's basically already LDS. Sent from Heaven. (Sister Grace and Sister Weist found her a the library one day before her trip and she needed help printing a flight ticket something. Sister Grace saw she was going to SLC and told Jen Sis. Wiest was from there! They got talking and the rest is history.)

Funny Story: There was a house with a sign that said "Natural Honey! Free Samples" so naturally we decided to go "get some free honey", really seeing it as an opportunity to meet and talk to some new people. We rang the bell, they came out and gave us some samples. Right away they said, "Ohh. You're Mormons." After tasting the honey, we put the sticks with all the others, in the cup to throw away. There were ants all over them. They invited us in and long long story short they were Jehovah's Witnesses and we got stuck in their trap - just like the ants in the honey. Hahahaha! Good one. Good one.

Can someone help Sister Wiest and I with our tracting. It. Is. So. Awkward. Like you can feel the awkwardness in the air when we try to talk to people. Man. But we keep trying. Haha!

I just have to say that I LOVE studying in the morning! I am learning so much, and it's only because I'm giving Heavenly Father the opportunity to teach me. Never in my life will I have an easier schedule: set time to exercise, an hour to study, etc. before the day even begins. This week I found myself reading Ether 12. Ho.Ly. Cow. That is SUCH a good chapter!! Please read it!!!! Right now!! Everyone go dust off your Book of Mormon and read Ether 12. BY FAITH we can do anything. And we don't have to do it on our own either. We do it with the help of Jesus Christ. 

So I'm writing today, on Thursday because we went to the temple today for our P-day. It is a miracle that we even got there. So I'm a new driver and the first go around we were trying to make it to the 9:30 session. We were going to drive to the Belmont Forum and catch buses to the temple. We were running a bit late, like 4 minutes, and I totally missed 2 exits and we ended up back at our house. Total waste of K's (kilometers. we only have so many...) I was so mad. They are also redoing the roads so my GPS isn't the same as the roads and it takes me weird places... 

Anyway, we decided to go for the 11:30 session instead. We got to the Belmont Forum the 2nd go around but when we caught the bus we didn't know where we were to get off! We ended up getting off and getting lost. We decided to call a member (someone with a smartphone) to give us directions. She turned us back around and told us we were almost there. So we walked and walked and walked and turned on this street. As we rounded the corner, we instantly saw the Angel Moroni!! It was GLORIOUS! We screamed with happiness and relief and joy and everything else and ran down the hill to the temple!!! We barely made it to our 11:30 session and only by the goodness of Heavenly Father. I love Him. 

I thought about how GOOD it was to see the temple and how Sister Wiest and I literally REJOICED. I imagine that is how it will be when I get to Heaven and finally enter into Heavenly Father's rest. I WILL get there. I will do everything I can to get there, and I will rejoice. 

<3/Sister Beardall

Tim Tam Slamma Jamma, for no good reason at all. :)

I live here.

I'm in the other room and I hear this loud explosion and Sister Wiest scream! I run out and there's this. Haha!! Egg all over the wall, the microwave, her face, everywhere!

My companion is Anna... or Elsa...ehhh the one with the red hair. But SERIOUSLY LOOK AT HER!!! Identical.