June 23

Hello ya'll! I hope all is going well on the home front.

This has been a good week..because CRISSY got baptized!

I am so happy for her :) Even though I am not in that area anymore, I have been

messaging her on FB and she told me all about it. She is such a

sweetheart and I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for the

opportunity to find and teach her. She truly is an example of how

people really are prepared for the gospel, but know not where to find

it. She had been living with members in Idaho for 7 years, always

wanted to learn more about the church but never was invited to.

People, we need to talk to our friends and neighbors! Invite! You

never know who is ready, you never know what in their lives has

prepared them. I am so glad my companion stopped to talk to her on the

street that night, because I was going to walk right by her. It made

me so happy to hear about her happiness in finding the gospel and the

way that she felt at her baptism. And I am grateful that we have

Facebook so I can keep up with her. :)

This week in Salisbury has been good.  We had bikes, and it was really

hot. At the beginning of the week, we had to spend sometime updating

our map because it's way out of date. You kind of need a map to plan

where you need to go! We know even though that took some time, it will

bless us this week.

On Tuesday, we went to service and we have the best service project

set up!!! Ah I loved it. The neatest experience. We got to go to the

food bank and put together peoples orders and give them their food and

help them take it out to their car. It was so neat and we got to meet

a lot of great people. I am excited that we get to do that every week.

I thought a lot about how I want to do things like this for the rest

of my life, be service oriented and help other people. I think I have

learned on my mission that my life is really not my own and it's

supposed to be spent helping out other people. I don't remember who it

was, but a prophet said "My life is like my shoes, to be worn out in

The Lord's service."

We had a great district meeting on Wednesday. Sister Holman is in my

district, and it's funny because she was Steve's supervisor at the

creamery. I love finding connections and that the people in my mission

know people in my family.

We found a great new investigator tracting this week. She's so great.

She is a single mom, she's 26, we taught her a little bit and then

came back the next day with a member and had a really great lesson.

She seemed very receptive to what we were saying. She can't come to

church this week because of work but hopefully next week. There are

people prepared!

We had a girl in our Ward who is going on a mission soon and she loves

going out with us. She is super excited about everything. I love it.

She's just like " Wow, You are missionaries!" And she is just so

amazed by the littlest things and it's so cute. I hope she keeps that

her whole mission. I think we forget as missionaries how important and

special it is that we are missionaries and get to represent The Lord.

I am grateful for it.

We met with a less active who has some real word of wisdom problems.

It was so sad to see, she has so much potential and faith but has some

serious addictions! We helped her understand that through the

Atonement, she can overcome this. I have faith that she can do it, but

it won't be easy. She also has a 9 year old daughter she wants us to

teach, so we are going back to teach her tomorrow. I have taught a lot

of kids on my mission, I think The Lord is using my elementary

education background.

We taught the 9 year old daughter of another less active and she is so

cute. Her and her family came to church and it was so great to see

them. She read her Book of Mormon chapter we left her and she loves

learning. It's so sweet to see a child's faith and how they just are

so close to the spirit. Hopefully we will be able to talk to her

family about setting a date soon.

Yesterday after church we had an appointment to see a less active. But

when we looked on the roster, the note said incorrect address. So we

called and called and she didn't answer to tell us the correct

address, so we weren't planning on going. But then she called right at

the time we were going to be there and she was like "Oh aren't you

coming??" We were pretty far away and on our bikes. But we said we

would get there as fast as we could. Then the BEST members EVER came

to our rescue. They are an older couple who just moved here from Utah.

They came with their truck and picked us up and took us and our bikes

to the appointment, waited for us to finish, then took us back, and on

top of that, they had already fed us earlier in the week but theyh

asked if we had a dinner appointment and when we didn't answer because

we didn't want to be a burden, they fed us as well, they are so kind!

He said with tears in his eyes, " I have had 6 kids serve missions and

I know people rescued and fed them, so please let us help you out, I

want to

pay them back!" They are just great examples of Christian service and

Faith. Ya'll pay it forward to, if you see some missionaries or anyone

who needs help this week, go help them because I was helped!

"And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom, that ye

may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye

are only in the service of your God"