Really cool story!!

Hey everyone

So the elders in our ward told us this really cool story this last week. They told us that on Wednesday they decided that they really wanted to find service project really bad so they decided to pray really hard hoping that they will find service. and that same day a less active that we work with told us she needed some big things moved out of her yard and she asked us if we could get a hold of the elders to see if they could move it for her. So i sent a text to the elders asking them if they could do service for her. Which was really cool because they got the message i sent 10 min after they finished praying for service. and then they went outside in service cloths and they found so many people to do service for and they ended up doing service like the whole day. They said it was really cool and how receiving the message from us was an anser to there prayers. it was a really neat experience i thought

   Tuesday we went and we taught a lot of lessons and we went and tried to find people.

    Wednesday. We had zone training. which was really fun. we have a really good zone and we had a lot of good trainings. we taught our progressing investigator and she told us she didn't want to change and she doesn't belive she can change, and my comp and i were able to  tell her that she can change and its not to late to change. and she belived us so now this week we are hoping to start seeing a lot of progression in her. After that we went on exchanges with pioneer sisters. And we went to a dinner apt and they had a dog that looked just like oakly it was sooooo cute!!! after the dinner apt we tried to find people which we didn't have to much success which was alright.

      Thursday we went on exchanges with nebraksa city sisters. They had two houses that they have been painting so we went and painted with them. then we traveled to Omaha and went on exchanges with elkhorn sisters. and that was a lot of fun we taught some good lessons and talked to a lot of nice people.

     Friday we went on exchanges with lakeview sisters. they are really nice. we taught lessons and we had a lot of fun. we had a dinner apt that night and the daughter is turning in her mission papaers so she was asking us advise and stuff like that and she was just asking what she can do to prepare. it was a really fun dinner apt and she was really nice. She wrote our emails down so she could email us when she gets her call.

     Saturday morning we did studies with the elkhorn sisters then we left and president called and said that there are some former missionaries that came back to visit the mission and he told us we could go to lunch with them. because they were super close to my compainion. So we went out to lunch with them and it was a lot of fun they were really funny!! after that we went to the trail center to drop some papers off. and one of the sisters i came out with i could tell she was struggling and having a hard time so i had a feeling to pull her to the side and talk to her and it was really cool cuz as i talked to her the spirit just spoke through me and told her exactly what she needed to hear. it was really cool. Saturday night we had ward correlation which was really good.

I love you all and hope everyone is doing really well!!!

love

Sister Miranda Sommers

I had Wonderful week!!

Hey how is everything going? I didn't get a chance to email yesterday because it was vetrains day so all the libraries were closed so our president told us we can all take an hour on Tuesday to email. This week was really good. we were super busy and have a lot going on.

   Monday: For P day we went to the pioneer sisters house and we listened to music (don't worry it was church music) and we wrote letters and hung out. Then after that when p day was over my comp and I traveled to Omaha for exchanges.

   Tuesday: we went on exchanges with the millard sisters. We had a lot of fun. we had a lot of fun and we taught a lot of lessons with them.

    Wednesday: we were back in our area and we had district meeting and we taught some lessons. When I first came to the area in September we had an investigator drop us my first week here. and we had a feeling to call so her. So we called her on Wednesday and she said that she is so glad we called because she noticed that when she dropped us she could feel her life got harder. and she has been wanting to call us but she has been to scared. But she was happy because we called so now we are meeting with her again and teaching her again. Which we are super excited and happy about.

   Thursday: we got a call this morning from one of the less actives we are working with and we found out that he is in the hospital.  So we went over to the hospital to visit him and we found out he as pneumonia and empyema. We were able to share a scripture with him and say a prayer with him. and we were able to call his home teachers so they could come give him a blessing.

    Friday. we came up to Omaha again because we had leadership counsil. It was really good. There were a lot of really good trainings and it was a lot of fun. after leadership counsil we got to go on mini exchanges with the Florence sisters which was a lot of fun. We taught some really good lessons. Then after the mini exchanges my comp and I Drove to the elkhorn sisters house. and we spent the night there.

     Saturday we went on exchanges with the elkhorn sisters. It was really fun. During one of our lessons we taught the restoration and I got to recite the first vision and it was really cool and a really powerful lesson. after that we went tracting for two hours and didn't get bored once. we had so much fun!!! and we had a lot of really cool experiences. One of the cool things that happened was we went to this one house and this guy answers the door and he says hes not really interested but he would listen to what he had to say. So we started teaching him a mini lesson on his front porch and in middle of the lesson he started crying and said wait here and he ran inside in house and came back out with a pic of his wife. and he told us that she passed away not to long ago. he said that he know his wife is an angel right now and that she sent us to him to help him out in his time of need. and he agreed for the missionaries to come back another time and teach him a lesson. It was a really neat experience!!!

we went to the trail center also to drop off some papers to sisters. Sister barton said sister sommers come here I need to show you something in the gallery. So she grabbed my hand and pulled me in there and she pointed at a map that the pioneers used to come to salt lake and she said what do you see? and I said I see a map that does not have a lot of details on it and its super hard to read. and she said exactly! the pioneers didn't know exactly where they were going but they knew the lord did so they trusted in him and they knew he would take them were they needed to be. Then she said sister sommers 2 years ago did you think you would be serving a mission right now. and I said no the age was 21 for missionaries then. She was like exactly and said that even though our map for ourselves may look like the pioneers did and our map for ourselves might not have a lot of details on it. the lord has a map for us and we just have to be faithful and put our trust in him and he will make sure we are following the map he has for us. She told me that when she was giving a tour someone in the group told her that so she wanted to share it with me. It was really cool and really true

     Sunday it was fast sunday for us because the week before was stake conference. Every fast sunday the young women like us to come in and be in there class so it was fun being with the young women.  

   Will I hope everything is going great. I love you all!!!!

Working hard!!

On Monday last week we carved some pumpkins with the pioneer sisters. It was a lot of fun. Then after that my comp and I went over to our bishops house. We meet the elders in our ward there. And we had a meeting with our bishop on what his vision for the ward is and how we can get the ward to do missionary work with us. After that meeting we had a few more apts. Then we went back to our apartment and the Nebraska city sisters were there. They spent the night in our apartment with us.

    Tuesday we woke up at 5 am and had to travel to grand island with the Nebraska city sisters for zone conference. Zone conference was really fun. we had some really good trainings and we learned a lot. it lasted all day. we got back to our apartment at 9pm and so the Nebraska city sisters stayed the night again.

    Wednesday the Nebraska city sisters left. We went out and we taught a few apt. Then that night we went to our wards trunk or treat. And we saw a lot of less actives we are working with. Then after that we went to the stake center and we went to our sign language class which was a lot of fun. it was my first one and I was able to learn so much from it.

    Thursday. during one of the lessons we taught it was a really hard lesson. The lady is going through a really hard trial and her faith is being tested really hard. So my comp and I at the end said a prayer with her and at the end of the prayer she said she was able to feel hands on her head and she had a really good feeling inside of her. and we told her that was the spirit then we told her we had to go. (we like to make the spirit really strong and then leave. That way when we leave the spirit is still there) for Halloween we had to be in by 6 pm or in a members home. our president said that he wanted all missionaries off the street by 6 pm. Our ward mission leader invited us to come to there house for Halloween. So we had a pizza party at his house and we carved pumpkins. and we just hung out it was a lot of fun.

    Friday we went and tried people and taught lessons. around 9 at night the Nebraska city sisters drove up and spent the night

     Saturday morning we went on exchanges with   the Nebraska city sisters which was fun. when we went to eat lunch we ate at noodles and the manager was Mormon and he gave us 50% off our meal which was really nice of him. We went and tried a lot of people and we knocked doors but we didn't have that much success. all the missionaries got invited to go to the stake center for the adualt conference of stake conference. and the whole time they talked about missionary work and how memebers and missionaries need to come together. it was really cool there were a lot of good talks

    sunday stake conference they had a lot of good speakers and they talked the whole time about how members and missionaries need to come together. they actually invited our mission president and his wife to speak at stake conference. so it was fun to see them. and there were some really powerful talks.

I love and miss you all

Love Sister Miranda sommers