Miranda first Baptism!!

   So last monday we went to a pumpkin patch it was sooo much fun we had a blast! monday night we went to one of our less actives house and she told us she had a christmas gift for us and she wanted to give it to us now. So she gave it to us and she knitted both of us scarfs

   Tuesday we had a dinner apt with a member then the member came with us on team ups after to teach the rest of our lessons that night. it was really fun and she was a really good team up. we had a lot of good lessons. 

   Wednesday we had district meeting and after my comp and i went with the nebraska city sisters out to lunch. They are the only other sisters in our district but us. So we went out to lunch with them. when we were sitting at the table a lady who worked there brought this fruit dessert over and said another customet bought these for us. it was really nice. we all felt like we were serving in utah for that moment. Then after lunch me and one of those sisters went out and taught some lessons while are comps went back to their house to sleep because they were both really sick. That night when we were teaching lessons a lady we were talking to gave us both a hat and  a scarf she said she made for us. so it was really nice of her. 

     Thursday my comp was sick so we had to stay in it was really boring. Lots of missionaries are getting really sick right now.

     Friday we drove to the pioneer sisters house and we did studies with them. and we did splits that way i wouldnt have to stay in again. so i went out in the pioneer ward area and we taught some lessons then we drove back to my area and we all of our apt fell through so we decided to knock a lot of doors and we didnt find any new investigators from that but we did give out a lot of pamplets and pass along cards with our number on them. And we had a really good night knocking doors. and we taught a really powerful lesson that night. it was so great.

    Saturday we had ward corrilation and we taught lessons and tried to find people

So that was pretty much my week we had a really good week we taught a lot of really powerful lessons we passed out a lot of pamplets. We had an investigator drop us which was hard. but we were lucky and we got a new investigator and she seems really intrested so we are super excited to start working with her. 

I love you!

Love sister sommers

Made it through transfers!!

Hey how are things going? this past week was really good. On Monday we had dinner at the ward mission leaders house he was dead set sister vance was getting transferred so they had us over for dinner. (even though they have us over every other week and the week they don't have us they have the elders) But we had a fun dinner at there house like we always do.

   Tuesday was transfer calls. Which is when president calls and tells us if we are getting transferred. He starts calls at 7 am and it goes till about 12 and so you just wait. We didn't get a call so we were very excited. Then we went to district meeting and we took our family photos (photo of our district)

      Wends was transfers. Me and my comp were not getting transferred but we still went to transfer point because our car was getting transferred. Our car got transferred to grand island and we get there car.

     Thurs we had an appointment with the lady we had set for baptism for October 12 that fell through. and she stood us up again and wasn't there for our apt we think that she is going to drop us :( it makes us really sad because we loved working with her and she kinda just stopped.... so we will see what happens..

      Friday was temple day for our zone!!! it was so much fun the Omaha temple was sooo pretty we had a great time there!!! I cant wait till we get to go again.

      Saturday was really good we had the baptism. It doesn't count as a convert baptism but we are still counting it as ours. 6 months ago this couple got baptized and there 8 year old daught decided she wanted to get baptized so she asked if we could teach her so she would forsure know she wanted to so we taught her all the lessons and worked with her and she got baptized Saturday she is so cute. now we are working with that whole family to get them to go to the temple.

        Today we went to a pumpkin patch this morning it was soo much fun we went with 14 other sisters and 6 senior couples. it was soo much fun. the way we got the senior couples to go was teling them they could watch the pig races it was fun we had a blast there today!!!

      Everything has been going great!! love you

Love:Sister Sommers

We had a very eventful week this week. Lots of stuff happened it was a really fun good week. Last Monday for Pday we went to the zoo with some pioneer ward sisters. and while we were there we were petting a cow and the owner at the zoo walks over to us and said he was having a really really bad day because his brother past away exactly a year ago today. And he said he saw how much fun it looked like we were having and he had a feeling to just come over and talk to us. So we were talking to him and he gave us a lot of free food to feel the animals with. then he took us on our own private tour of the zoo. And he showed us his camel which is in the back were only employees could see it he had to unlock gates. This camel was over 2000 pounds and it was 26 years old and 20 years old is old for a camel. So it was really fun we had such a good time at the zoo.

 

On tues we had our triple T. Which is the trainer trainee training. So all the elders and sisters that came out the same day as me came to this training and all of our trainers  came to this training then they talked to us in a class room and gave us a training and they had our trainers in a diff room and gave them a training. it was really fun. we all had sooo much fun there.

 

On wend we had zone training which we had a lot of fun at it. At zone training our zone leaders carved pumpkins for their p day so they brought there pumpkins and put them on the tables at zone training.

 

on thurs we went on exchanges in Omaha with the lakeview and millard sisters. It was soo much fun we taught a lot of people and had a lot of fun. then that night we all went to a murder mystery dinner. it was sooo much fun. they did it for a relief society party it was sooo much fun!!

 

Friday we just taught lessons and vistited people

 

Satruday we went on exchnages with the pioneer sisters we stayed in the trendwood area though (which is my area) it went really good. I was with sister McMaster. and we taught tons of great lessons and we had everyone agree to come to church on sunday we had a really good day. and we were knocking on a couple of doors and and this guy came to us and asked if we were chirstan and he told us he loved jesus and he tries to follow him the best he can and so we tried teaching him but it was hard because he spoke Spanish so we got his number and gave him to the Spanish elders in our area to teach.

So to tops of such a great day we were driving to the capital to trade back with the sisters and we were stopped at the stop light and someone hit into the back of our car.... :( so we pulled off to the side and got out and the guy who hit us just got married the day before. But we had to wait for the cops to come (it took forever.) and we had to fill out a lot of papers and call the mission home. luckily no one was hurt and there wasn't that much damage done to the car. so we got really lucky. so it wasn't that bad. the mission home wants us to just go get our car checked today to make sure its safe to drive and make sure everything is fine on the car. but really it didn't even hurt the car that bad which was really good.

 

this week we have transfers. we find out tomorrow who is getting transferred and who is staying our president starts calling at 7 amtelling if you are getting transferred or staying or if your cars are changing so we will fine out tomorrow. then if we do get transferred we leave wend morning and meet at the transfer point. I hope I don't get transferred because I have a baptism this Saturday. And the girl who we are baptizing asked if I could speak at it. So I don't want to get transferred I want to see the baptism. and our zone is assigned to go to the temple on Friday. So if I get transferred I will miss that to,, I honestly don't think I will be getting transferred which is good.

 

okay will I got to go. I love and miss you! . I love it here in Nebraska its soo much fun!!

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I love you

Sister Sommers

Tornado Sirens, and the Still Small Voice

Well my training went really good! I was able to give a talk in front of the other missionaries the other day! Elder Rollenberg talked first, and then it was my turn. I didn't feel nervous at all, I just got up and let the spirit speak. Everyone said it was really good, and Elder Summers kept referring back to it, when he gave his talk afterward. Even Sister Weston, the President's wife, came up to me and said she was super impressed with me!!

Oh! General Conference was really good; we watched it at the stake center. :)

So, my companion is going home soon but you wouldn't even know it because she is a sister training leader, so she is in charge of 6 of the other sisters' companionships. We are always going on exchanges every week, which are  a lot of fun and we have leadership meetings we have to go to which are also fun.

I am so lucky because I get to do all of the exchanges which most new missionary don't get  to do until they are out longer, so I am so blessed to do it.

Last Monday we got invited over to  a member's house for dinner and for family night. They had one of their friends over who is not a member of our church so they asked us to teach a lesson to her about the Book of Mormon, and the plan of salvation. It was not the most spiritual experience, because the entire lesson their 3 kids were running around and being really loud. So when we were done we asked her if she would read the Book Of Mormon and she said no. We didn't give up though, and we started testifying about the Book of Mormon and how it would bless her life, luckily the kids ran off somewhere, and it became really quiet and the sprit was strong. We asked her again if she would read it and she said yes. And after she said yes the kids came running back in! It was a really cool experience.

On Wednesday the tornado sirens started going off, and it was really loud. We had to take cover, and
I guess a tornado touched down 12 miles from us, and there were flash flood warning too.

Despite all that, things are going really good and I am so happy that I am serving a mission.

I love you all, and keep your letters coming ;)

Sister Sommers