I hope everyone had a good Christmas!

   On wenesday for Christmas eve we had zone training!!!! it was fun. it was a really good zone training they talked a lot about working with the bishop and gaining a good relationship with him. And that once we have the bishops trust we will get the wards trust. after zone training our ward mission leader invited our whole zone over for a Christmas lunch. So after zone training we all went to his house and had lunch together and took some photos so it was a lot of fun. At the end of that the elders all left and our ward mission leader asked if us sisters could stay longer. and they gave us each two really cute scarfs and then we had a little testimony meeting, it was really cool the spirit was super strong. Then after that we drove down the le mars for our Christmas eve. and we stayed at the le mars sister house and we decorated gingerbread houses. Then we all went to a member house in le mars and they through a Christmas eve party for us and they dressed up as santa and gave us all gifts all my stuff was pink wooh wooh!!! it was a really fun night and we played games with them it was a lot of fun!!!!!

    On Thursday it was Christmas we woke up and the member the le mars sisters live with told us to come down stairs and she had put together stockings for all of us. and then we all Christmas presents under the Christmas tree from eachother so we all sat down and opened the presents together. and we had breakfeast. I made something and sister nelson made something. but my gernman pancakes got messed up... I forgot to add the milk... ops. guess I better try it again :) :) lol then my comp and I drove down from le mars and we went to the ellis house and we got to facetime there. when we got there the elders were facetiming. and then we got to. which was a lot of fun I really enjoyed talking to my family!!! it was amazing!!! Then we spent sometime and hung out at the ellis it was a lot of fun! I love that family they are sooooo super sweet! then Christmas night I went home and opened all my presents. thank you everyone who sent me stuff I loved it all!!!!

     Saturday we had brunch at a members house then we went and taught Shannon and cory and renae and those lessons went really good. cory and renae should be getting baptized this week. their invterview is on Wednesday. Saturday night we got to do service at a wedding recpeption we got to serve the food it was a lot of fun! we had a really great time!!!

     Sunday at church we had a good time. after church there was a little prob though we relized that our ward doesn't own any baptismal clothing. the other ward does but its really hard to borrow it from  them. and this Saturday the ward has 4 baptisms. two of them our ours. 1 of them is the elders and the other one is a 8 year old baptism. and so the bishop and ward mission leader talked and they solved it and are ordering some for our ward. a members mom is coming up from Idaho so she is going to buy some for the ward and she will bring them up with her and the ward is going to pay her back. im glad that that problem got solved. that was really good. our investigators mike and gabe that have been sick are now feeling better and were at church yesterday so that was really good we are going to be meeting with them this week.

   That was my week it was amazing. we had a really good Christmas we saw lots of miracles it was a lot of fun! thank you for the stuff everyone sent me and for the support everyone gives me. I love you all!!!

love sister sommers

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!!!!!

   Hey everyone! merry Christmas!!!! This week my comp and i were still sick for a lot of it and recorvering. sister musasu met with president Weston at zone conference and she said we have been sick for a while and he told her that we need to take the time to recover and not run faster then we have strength. But we both feel fully recovered now. So hopefully no more resting this week. lol

    on Monday last week we had a missionary pday and we had it at a members house is south Dakota and it was a lot of fun! they have a ping pong table so all of us missionarys had a ping pong war and we played volley ball outside. it was a lot of fun. the members left snack down stairs for us to, it was a really fun p day. haha i loved playing ping pong it was a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     on Wednesday we were meeting with a sweet rcla family that we meet with a lot and they told us that there goal of the new years is to get to the temple. so we are going to start working on getting them to the temple. that was exciting.

      Thursday we had our Christmas zone conference. it was amazing!!!!! they trained a lot on the book of Mormon since we all just finished it. and our mission president committed us to read the book of Mormon 30 min a day the rest of our lifes. and he also talked a lot about acting and not being acted upon. and he talked a lot about attitude and being positive. and our theme for last year was pray to know and he announce the mission theme for this year which is be a preach my gospel missionary. it was really good i love all the training so much and i learned a lot!!!!!! it was one of my favorate zone confrences. then president and sister westons family made hats for all the missionaries which was really sweet. and president and sister Weston gave us these cute Omaha Nebraska mission things to go in our book of Mormons it is really cool. president and sister Weston are sooo amazing!

    On Saturday. we did service at bishops store house. then after. a family from 2nd ward watned to feed all the missionaries in Sioux city to say merry chirstmas. there are 16 missionaries total our here in Sioux city so there are 8 sets. and out here in Sioux city there are only 2 ward and a Spanish branch. so they prepared a meal at the church and we all meet at the church and they feed all 16 of us lunch which was really yummy. Then they had all of us stand say our name were we are from and how old we are. and then they thanked us for all of our service and they said they are greateful for all of us so this is how they wanted to thank us. Then the family passed our presents for all of us. which was sweet and we all opened it at the same time. They got matching ties for the elders and scarfs for the sisters. (we all wore them to church on sunday) then they brought card games and board games so we got to play games. it was a lot of fun!!!!

     After that we had a lesson with renae cory and Ashley our baptism sets for jan 3. they are progressing super well. and they for Christmas gave my comp and I these really cute neckalces which was really sweet. They are such an amazing family. im so greateful we get to work with them. our other 2 baptismal sets for jan 3 are not progressing so well. they have been really sick and we haven't been able to contact them. and so we are really going to try to contact them this week. Then Shannon who is set for jan 10 is progressing super well. she loves it all and is super prepared!!!!

      Sunday at church we were able to have 4 investigators attend and 9 returning members. which is really good. church Is something that is hard to get people to. so it was exciting seeing them all there. sunday night we tried people the whole night and no one let us in. but we still had a good night trying people haha it was fun.

    I hope yall have a merry Christmas!!!!!! I love you!

love sister sommers

oh funny story I forgot to put in the email. So yesterday night when we were trying a lot of people and nobody was letting us in. the elders gave us a referral we decided to try. So we knock on the door no answer so we knock again no answer so we decide to stand there for a while and finally this lady answers the door and she doesn't understand who we are asking for and you hear this guy in the back ground yell They better leave now or im going to sue them so he comes marching to the door and swings it open (he was angry) and he was going to get mad at us but he sees me and he points at me and say HOLY COW I HAVE SEEN YOU BEFORE!!!!!!! and he starts laughing and im like you have? and he starts talking to me and was super friendly and I have never seen him before and he said the persons house he has seen me at I don't even know them. but we ended up talking outside in the cold on the porch with him for about 15 min he wasnt interested in learning more but we gave him  a book of Mormon. and he was really nice. haha it was so funny because when he saw me his attitude changed and he was like I know you! haaha it was funny. it was a cool experience.

I love you all! merry Christmas!

Six Investigators Committed to Baptism!!

    This week we had district meeting and it was a lot of fun. our district leader likes doing themes so it was sweater wheather district meeting. so we all wore sweaters which was a lot of fun.

   After district meeting a member called and asked if we could do service for them. it was a sweet old couple in our ward, and they asked us the le mars sisters the Sioux city 1st elders. and the Spanish branch elders. and they had us decorate their Christmas tree and put their chirstmas decorations up and they feed us all dinner which was really nice.

    The le mars sisters stayed the night at our apartment because they didn't have time to leave and make it back to le mars in time. so they stayed with us. and in the morning sister muasau woke up sick and one of the le mars sisters sister nelson woke up sick. and sister muasau and I had a lot of apt. and so we got permission to go on an exchange. and have those to stay in and rest and me and sister batton go out and cover our apt. so we did that.

   while sister batton and I were out we set ashlee for baptism on dec 26 so she can be baptized with her brother and sister. Ashlee is the one who is hearing impaired so its a little harder teaching her but we are doing it and her mom is helping sign to her. and cory and renae are progressing really well to there baptismal date on dec 26th they are really excited I think they will make it. cory bore his testimony in sacretmentmeeting about how excited he is for his baptism. and they are reading there book of Mormon everyday the kids even bring it to school and read it there its sooo great!

    the next day le mars sisters went home. sister muasau and I worked for a couple hours then went in because she was still really sick and not doing well.

   on Saturday we went out and worked though because we had a lot of apt we needed to cover. we got a member referral a few weeks ago for a girl  name Shannon and we were able to contact her. she is sooo amazing and soo prepared we had a really good lesson with her. we set her for baptism on jan 10 and she is really excited. shes reading and praying and she came to church on sunday! shes really excited to be baptized so that was exciting.

    This area we are seeing so many miracles. its cool because sister muasau said the area wasn't like this before. but its amazing because we now have 6 baptismal sets. we have been seeing so many miracles!

    Transfers are this week I think sister muasau and I are both staying. today for p day we are having a sisters day so we are going to the mall with the other sisters and hanging out with them it will be fun. it will be us the Sioux city 2nd sisters and the hermanas so today will be a fun day! :)

    if anyone has been following the book of Mormon reading we are on page 525 and we will be finishing tomorrow.

love sister sommers I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Here is our mission presidents weekly email about reading the book of Mormon as a mission I really liked it so I thought you would like it. somehow our distrct got a day behind in the reading so we will finish it tomorrow I will just finish it tonight. but I love what he says about the book of Mormon and it helping to have a change of heart the book of Mormon is an amazing book I love it so much I love reading it. there were lots of sacrifices made by a lot of people so we could have it. so I enocuage you if you are not reading the book of Mormon daily to pick it up and start reading it daily you will be able to see the difference it is an amazing book!!!! here president westons email

     

Dear Sisters and Elders:

What a great time of this world to be a missionary! You are all doing fantastic! Even with the cold weather our baptism sets keep rising as well as lessons taught RC/LA. Our faith in finding through members is paying off! Also I feel our faith has increased as a result of the Book of Mormon. With our reading I just finished for the 43rd time. I will admit the focus on the change of heart through the Atonement has made this my best read ever! Thanks to all who have been reading along as a Mission, I pray this has been a great read for you as it has for me. I LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON!!

With our up and coming Christmas Zone Conferences we look forward to hearing your insights on how this book has changed your heart and strengthened your testimony as well as those whom you have taught. "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth and the keystone of our religion, and a man could get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book" (Joseph Smith). I know that, as a Mission, as we abide the precepts of this book, we will be nearer to God and have great success!

Thank you for your fasting and prayers for Elder Espinoza. He is in the Lord's hands and we know He can make him whole! Have a great week!

Love,

President Weston @47 BofM 531 Finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving" (About St. Francis de Sales).

"...for charity never faileth" (Moroni 7:46)

I had a great week!!

 I hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving. for thanksgiving we had it with the ellis family it was a lot of fun! they are such a fun family and they love having missionaries over. its a lot of fun. they always have the missionaries over.

   On Saturday we had a cool experience. we were trying to contact a less active and they weren't home so we decided to try to street contact because a lot of people were outside because it was a beautiful day it was 50 degrees and the past days its been like 15 so since everyone was outside we were street contacting. and this guy was kicking a soccer ball and it rolled down a hill to us so I kicked back to him and he said thanks. and we started talking to him and it was really cool. my companion asked him if he belived in jesus and he said ya then I asked what church he went to and he said he didn't go to a church. so we started talking to him about our church and telling him what we belive. and he said its so cool the courage you girls have to stop some random person and tell them what you belive. and he said you girls are making impacts in the world. and he talked about how he is greatful we stopped him to talk to him. and we asked if he heard of the book of Mormon before and he said he has but hes never had one. so I asked if he wanted one and he was so greatful he was like yes I want one and so greatful for it. and we taught him on the side of the road for like 30 min. and he said we could come by this week and so we are going to teach him this week. it was a really cool st contact though. we know heavenly father placed us there for a reason it was a cool experience.

    oh so our two baptisms for dec 13 got pushed back to jan 3 because we still had a lot lessons we needed to teach mike and gabe but its really cool because they had experinces this week that helped make them stronger I think they will make it to the 3rd I know they will they are so great. cory and renee are still set for the 26 and they are progressing really well. they are great. cory has been reading the book of Mormon daily he even brings it to school. and he has been praying more and he gets all excited everytime he prays so its really cool. and renee is slowly starting to read the book of Mormon. but she is loving church and loves when we teach. Im excited I know they will make it to the 26.

    thank you so much for your emails and letters. I hope you all have a great week love sister sommers