tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13884160089588904262024-03-12T18:36:45.666-07:00As For Me And My House, We Will Serve The LORD!Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-212873854295926942016-06-20T10:23:00.001-07:002016-06-20T10:23:27.153-07:00June 13, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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preparation day, and from 10:00am-6:00pm we have time to prepare for the week
by doing laundry, shopping, cleaning and other things that will make the week
more productive. And although we have then only a small 3 hours in the evening
to proselyte, tonight was a huge roller coaster of emotions and success. Let me
tell you a short story, I will try to tell it without crying, but y'all won't notice
that anyways because this is an email. Haha <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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young 12 year old girl whom I met this time last year. She came to church on
her own and asked us personally if we could teach her about the gospel. She
said she had been baptized when she was 8, but her parents had never taught her
about the gospel. We obviously agreed and started teaching her. Because of her
parents we were only able to have our lessons out on the doorstep and for
several weeks we thoroughly enjoyed meeting with this super awesome,
spiritual-minded girl. She was so eager to learn and she kept every commitment
with integrity! She just beamed with light each time we saw her and I really
looked forward to meeting with her every week. Then we both got transferred and
sister missionaries came into the area. Because of the transfer of
missionaries, Faith ended up not being taught by missionaries anymore. Then
exactly a year later, I was incredibly blessed to come back to this very same
area. There are many people to whom my hearts belongs to here in this stake
because of the long time I've been blessed to serve with all my heart here. But
Faith stuck out in my mind a lot. We went back to her home one day and met her.
I couldn't contain my smile when she brightly stepped out into that same front
porch that we had taught and testified about our Savior Jesus Christ on. Upon
catching up again we started teaching her again and helping her start to come
back to church again. Soon we started having lessons in her home with her step-father
as well. He is a super nice guy but has come off before as not wanting anything
to do with the church. We now for the past month and a half have taught them
once a week and have had some super spiritual and good lessons with the two of
them. Her step-father even started coming to church! We washed his 67 Mustang
with him in preparation for a car show, we wrote them notes and secretly
delivered them each week, and we prayed earnestly for these two. We saw many
awesome things happen in their lives as eh embraced the gospel. Last night
however, we received word from Faith that she left her home to live with her
grandparents. There has been far too much conflict and hurt for her in her home
between her mother and her, and she couldn't take it anymore so she left to
another city. Today I had bought a small model muscle car for her step-father
because of his love of cars and wrote a note thanking him for his friendship
and love he's shown towards us. So I put it in my backpack and we headed out
after dinner to visit him, even though we knew that Faith had left, and that we
probably wouldn't see her again. We sat down and we hadn't been there for 2
minutes when her mom stood up and tore a strip off us and proceeded to yell at
us, the church, and God for about 45 minutes. She explained how missionaries
coming over before had driven her daughters away from the church, and herself
included. She told us how much Faith's step-father didn't actually want us to
come over. They both wanted to run away from the church and had moved time and
time again because members and missionaries came by trying to show their love
and concern for them. They didn't want us to come over anymore. She accused us
of Faith's damnation, and that we will bring her to hate the church just as
they do. My heart broke as every word tore at my love for these people and
especially Faith, this beautiful, extremely smart and super strong in the
church girl seemingly was taken from our lives forever, when she once used to
be such a light and joy to our life. My tears stung on my cheek as they ran
down, while we were quietly sitting on their couch being chastised. As we left
I quietly and inconspicuously placed his little car I bought and note on the
coffee table. I gave him a hug and told him we loved him. And then it started
to rain on us. We then went to a man later after that bad experience and we
gave this man a blessing. Before the blessing we taught a little lesson. We
started to read in Ether 12 about faith and how it proceeds miracles. We shared
our testimonies and felt the Spirit so strongly and shared a video that went
perfectly with what was shared. We all had tears in our eyes as we then
proceeded to place our hands lightly on his head and gave him a priesthood
blessing. We had such a contrasting, wonderful experience with him that I'm
kinda doing okay. I still really miss Faith and hope I get to see her again and
can help her with staying strong in the gospel and being happy. I love you all
so much! Have a great week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-39447695661694231632016-06-20T10:16:00.002-07:002016-06-20T10:16:37.806-07:00May 30, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Does anyone else agree with me?? I'll bet there are a few out there who
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So uh we got a haircut
today by the utmost awesome Ellen! She is too cool for school! Well and I'm
trying to think of other significant things that happened this week, oh yeah!
We were biking one day and found a guy on his roof re-shingling it in the hot Utah
sun all by himself. We stopped and offered our services to him, and he
accepted. So we set up a time the next day which was Saturday. We woke up that
next morning and it was raining. So it was postponed till the next week. It
rained that weekend as well. This kept happening when finally this last
Saturday, the weather was beautiful and so we got to go up on the roof and
shingle with him! It was super fun! He is an inactive member of the church and
we had a great time getting to know him and serve him. We got so much done with
three of us instead of just him. It reminded me of roofing my sister Stephanie
and Brandon's home in Edmonton. I actually enjoy roofing even though it's super
hot up on the roof. I got some good farmers tan that day. It just so happened
that we stopped by the Wilson's home that night and they have an aloe plant.
They cut me off a few stems and I rubbed the goo-like clear substance from the
inside of the stems on my burns and it worked so well to subdue the pain and
hot. Plants are so cool! God is so cool, with all His wonderful creations that
do so much for us and remind us of Christ (Alma 30:44, Moses 6:63). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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just gets away from you! We had nothing planned today that was more extensive
than getting haircuts and going to the store, and yet I feel like we've got
nothing done and no time to relax. I wish we took a nap today. That would've
been nice! But alas I am a servant of the Lord and have been commanded to give
my heart, might , mind and strength to this work (D&C 4:2). I am exhausted
everyday and at the end of every week. I seem to just have enough in me to do
the Lord's work and that I have no energy to think of myself anymore. That's
awesome! Haha I've seen greater blessings when I look out of myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So while at the Bennett's home we found out that there is a new policy for male
missionaries to wear wide-brimmed hats (specifically shown on the church
website for clarification on appropriate styles and so forth), and so last week
at the DI I saw this "wide brimmed hat" and so I bought it to show to
the Bennett's that I had found the widest and brimmiest hat of them all... See
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wonderful week! I love ya'll so much! Can't wait to hear back from you! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to write this week, as my email time was spent emailing an old friend of mine
to whom I just received word of many trials in her life. I hope you all can
recognize the fact that I love you regardless of how many words are contained
within these emails of mine. I just really felt the need to write her learned
of her current situation which greatly disturbed me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and WE ARE BOTH STAYING!!! I'm so excited to remain here. I'm really hoping to
finish my mission here in this area and with Elder Maldarizzi. If I stay one
more transfer after this new one, I will have spent half of my mission in this
one area. That is super mega awesome! This week during my studies of the Book
of Mormon I realized the importance of family history, specifically journals. I
realize how many times my family has urged me to keep up to date with my journal
writing and with my yearly history reports. I have not been so diligent in
these endeavors, so I am repenting and trying to find time (which is very hard
as a missionary) to write down my history—for I must "...labor diligently
to write, to persuade [my] children, and also [my] brethren, to believe in
Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for [I, Elder Patterson,] know that it is
by grace that we are saved, after all we can do. (2 Nephi 25:23)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you fam, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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different things to call you all. Maybe one of these times I'll just say
"dear family," but till I completely run out of name ideas I will
continue finding creative ways to call you the people I love most in the
world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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point in my life (and my mission) where I know how to teach the gospel of Jesus
Christ to other people so that they can understand and appreciate it, but I
myself have a difficult time applying these principles in my own life. There
are so many ways to experience the lessons God wants us to learn to re-enter
His presence someday. There isn't a cookie-cutter trial or opportunity for
"patience" that we all have to experience to gain that Christ-like
attribute. We each in our individual stations may receive the perfect
instruction through our experience of mortal life to advance to our next
estate, thus qualifying for the peace of the Spirit and calmness of conscience
promised to the righteous. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much different circumstances the last number of weeks that have brought me to
deep reflection of myself and my personal goals to refine and receive qualities
and attributes to bless my life and the lives of those around me. The apartment
we live in is of the highest quality I've ever been in on my mission, my
companion is loving, kind and very obedient and hard working. The area we are
serving in is booming with work to do and people to see. We have many baptisms
and reactivations as well as numberless opportunities to serve and give of ourselves
in behalf of these wonderful people we have come to love with all our hearts.
The environment I am in is extremely conducive to growth, because I am being
pushed to my limit every day in some way or another, whether that is
spiritually, emotionally or physically. I can push myself because when I come
home after a long day, I have little to no worries or trials; I have no regrets
about the day because I gave it all and left it all on the playing field. In
fact most days I can't even give it my all. I have to plead with Heavenly
Father for the strength to press forward and to do what is asked of us because
I am so drained that I couldn't possibly do any part of the work on my own. I
know very well when I receive strength beyond my own, and it is humbling to see
how God blesses His children when our desires and works are righteous. For
instance, this week we had an encounter with a man who powerfully fought
against us and the truth we stood for. It was a different experience from the
first half of our day as we were now sitting on this man's couch being
instructed that our testimonies were falsely paced in ungodly truth, that we
could not say "I know" because knowledge cannot come to us through
feelings of the Spirit because those are universal feelings that all humans
feel. He explained how there was no sin, no eternal progression to become
perfect like our Savior is perfect, and how our morals and commandments come
from us, not God. It was hurtful to be told that the essence of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true because it makes us want to better
ourselves and serve those around us, but that the organization (Prophets,
apostles, priesthood authority, revelation, and scripture) was bull crap. This
man used a lot stronger language than what I've been using. This was the first
time someone denounced our testimony of what we know to be true because of the
sources we gathered our "truth" from. I was frustrated! I was shaken
in several different ways as my faith was tried to a very real limit, which I
felt affect me like never before. I continued to pray but this man's words rang
in my mind over and over again tempting me to doubt. I prayed and prayed to
strengthen my faith and to receive personal revelation as to the honest
questions I had about this encounter. I read the Book of Mormon a lot and even
fasted to know what I must do. In time I received my answer which sunk deep
within my soul and extracted those doubtful thoughts and questions. I was
reminded almost all at once my many answers to prayers and experiences I've had
that have faithfully proven to me of the loving, and living reality of our
Heavenly Father and of His Son Jesus Christ. Although this week was filled with
many trials, I was strengthened and taught many things pertaining to the
Kingdom of God. Many of these lessons are personal and for my individual
betterment so I won't share all my experiences but I will share those I feel
will inspire or uplift some of you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and awesome week besides the trials and opposition we faced. There's a man
named Scott Godfrey and he has a daughter, Faith Jones that we are teaching in
one of our wards and he has a Mustang that he has restored and was asked to
enter a car show with on Saturday. We scheduled on Friday to come over and wash
it and get it shining again. It was pretty fun! The best part was that after we
helped him wash it he took us out and showed us what it could do on the
pavement. Whew! That baby purred! It sounded so deep and loud that my whole
soul shook when he opened that thing up out on the highway! :) it was so
awesome! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another man who we promised many blessings too through the prompting of the
Spirit that was with us if he came to church on Sunday. He said that he can't
because he was having some people come and lay some pipe and set up his
sprinkler system. We right away volunteered all the possible time we could on
Saturday to help him that he would be able to come to church. From 12-4 which
is basically the hottest part of the day (and it was a hot day!) we swung pick
axes, shovels, rock picks, and sledge hammers to break up the extremely rocky,
desert ground. I got very sunburned and my arms were so tired that I could
hardly shake people's hands, even the next day at church! I could barely lift
them and squeeze barely the hands of the people we greeted on Sunday to church.
Sadly they did not come to church. We went after church and found him still
working on his yard. No worries, agency is a gift from God! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this weekend! It was with possibly the oldest person I will ever baptize.
Sister Eloise McCoullough was 79 years old when she was baptized yesterday! It
was one of the coolest baptisms ever! The Spirit was super strong! A lot of her
family came out and were super supportive. I was asked to give a talk on the
Holy Ghost after she was baptized. We then got to confirm her right after the
baptismal service and give the gift of the Holy Ghost, and confirm her a member
of the Church! They had dinner afterward and one of the desserts was cracker
brittle!!! Ahhhh! I didn't know anyone else knew what that was! I ate a whole
plate full of cracker brittle, instead of eating the food, because we ate
before the baptism with a family in one of our wards. We will be having another
super cool baptism next week of an 18 year girl who is super cool and super
prepared! She knows so much about the gospel and does so much that she seems
already like a member of the church. She is going to a mission prep class,
seminary, church every Sunday, and mutual activities each week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but I need to go now. Sorry! :) hope you all have a great week! Thank you for
your unending support! I really love serving here and hope I can learn to serve
with all my heart, might, mind, and strength for the rest of my life and into
the eternities, because my Savior has changed me forever! :) till next
week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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preparation day is today, Tuesday, because we got to go to the temple this
morning! :) yay! That was awesome! We went to the Bountiful Temple which was
beautiful! There is such a wonderful view from the temple grounds of the valley
because the temple is right on the side of the mountain. It was totally worth
the effort to wake up early. It was a good morning. This last Sunday was
awesome! We invited someone to church, AND THEY ACTUALLY CAME!!! It was so nice
to sit with their whole family and to have these great testimony building
experiences. There was actually a lot of people we were working with that came
to church this week. It was quite a sight. It is always a blessing to see these
people striving to come closer to their Savior. Through the ordinance of the
Sacrament, we remember Jesus Christ and His suffering in the Garden of
Gethsemane, His crucifixion, and His resurrection three days later; showing us
that He overcame both sin and death, that we may, through Him, return to the
presence of our Heavenly Father! The work here is really awesome! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decided to go to the zoo after we went to the temple this morning, and that was
hard for me. I honestly didn't want to go, because I knew nothing would get
done today. And once you've seen one zoo, you've seen them all. And we went and
spent a ridiculously long time there, and by the time we got back home and
dropped off other missionaries in our district, we were already late for
dinner. We haven't done laundry, emails, studies, or anything. So it wasn't
much of a preparation day and was more of a "let's do nothing day"
and I don't like that. Personally, we have been working so hard that we've been
dying for a break of some sort. I'm so tired from biking up and down these
hills and teaching a ton of lessons that I'm ready to pass out! But we've seen
more miracles in the times where we struggled to want to work but then did
anyways. There is many instances in the scriptures that teaches us about that
sort of diligence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a lesson in 5 minutes! I'm surprised I could right all of this in the time I
did! It's been a good week! Love you all! :) keep in touch!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-37385707279870645672016-06-20T09:53:00.000-07:002016-06-20T09:53:11.942-07:00May 2, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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filled with miracles and with answers to prayer. It was one of the coolest
weeks that I can remember as a missionary. Tuesday was a very busy and
productive day as usual, except halfway through the day Elder Maldarizzi asks
if he can lie down for a second. I said sure and I did some other things while
he was resting. He got up a few minutes later and said he was feeling sick so
he went to the washroom. It was all good till I heard a sound coming from the
washroom that sounded much like throwing up. So I proceeded to reschedule the
appointments for that evening and allowed him to rest. Thankfully he was 100%
better the next morning which was an answer to my prayers, because we really
enjoy working together here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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testimony meeting and my companion and I were privileged to bear our
testimonies in 3 sacrament meetings. In each one we had opportunity to testify
about the truths we know and have felt in our hearts. We had opportunity to
testify about what each other had spoken of was true. I felt united with him in
our purpose and desires for the work. We went to work that afternoon and found
much success following the promptings of the Holy Ghost. We found many new
people to teach by Heavenly Father's help and I was strengthened by the answers
to my prayers!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but I have not the time to tell! Have a great week I love you all! Sorry for
the short email, but I am grateful to spend all my time in the service of the
Lord! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-59364710349065735282016-06-20T09:52:00.001-07:002016-06-20T09:52:36.725-07:00April 25, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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spiritual week for me and has brought me much happiness. I have not the time to
explain all the happenings but I will explain a little about the best part of
my week which was Saturday! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I got an email this
last week from Craig Moore. Craig is a man I was blessed to help in Grantsville
to become active and temple worthy. He had a huge journey to go through and
succeeded! He truly learned what the Atonement of Jesus Christ can do for
us--that unending love which allows us to draw from the powers of Heaven. He
went from 20 ish years of inactivity in the church and some difficult hurdles
such as smoking to overcome, to receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood, becoming
the executive secretary in the ward, and becoming temple worthy to do baptisms
with us! It was so awesome to see him be baptized in the Salt Lake Temple! I
cried seeing him having gone so far and I truly felt the Spirit. I didn't think
that it could get better than that, and that that was the highlight of my
mission. Then low and behold, I received that email this last week from Craig
saying that he and his family were going to the temple on Saturday to be sealed
as a family and asked me to come! AHHHHHH!!! I was so extremely excited because
I had never been a part of someone's life like that and I had never seen a
sealing before. It just so worked out that I could only go so we arranged for
Craig to pick me up and be my "companion" and we called and found
various people to be Elder Maldarizzi's companion for the day. Craig came by in
the morning around 10:00am and we drove to the temple. His son Damien was in
the back and needed food so we swung into Arctic Circle for a morning chicken
and fries. Damian is so awesome! He is a funny guy. He is 12 years old and he
also got to participate in the proxy baptisms last year with Craig and Veronica
and I. We got to the temple and we went into this special place where the
children were left to play and have snacks while Craig went through to take out
his own Endowment. The Endowment is such a special and spiritual gift from
Heavenly Father. It truly gives us strength beyond our own capacity. I was
privileged to be invited to go through the same Endowment session as he. It was
very full! There were many, many people there to support the Moore Family. It
was nice to see so many beautiful, familiar faces from the wonderful
Grantsiville Stake. The Spirit was so strong in the temple!!! After the
Endowment session we all went up to the sealing room where I witnessed a man I
had come to love as a brother be sealed to his wife and children for time and
all eternity. Death will not separate their family ever! It was such a
wonderful experience that filled my heart with such sweet emotion and tender
feelings of love for our Savior who made these ordinances all possible through
His great and everlasting sacrifice. Their two little girls that were also
there were dressed in their cute, little white dresses and I was so happy to
see them! Aizlee hugged me so much that day, almost every 2 minutes because I said
she could because it was a special occasion. Alivia grabbed my pinky finger,
squeezed it with all her might and wouldn’t let go, and that's the happiness
they brought into my life! :) I was overjoyed to see their faces and hear their
voices again. I was just so filled with the Spirit this weekend! I was so happy
and so full of joy that I didn't ever want to leave! I wanted to stay in the
temple forever. But you can't do that so I left peacefully. We then proceeded
outside to a very dark and rainy evening. The weather did not dampen our
spirits though! We were all still as happy as could be! I gave my suit jacket
coat to Aizlee to wear outside so she didn't get too wet and cold. We all went
to Chuck-a-Rama afterwards chosen by Aizlee. Haha I loved feeling a part of
their family that day and being so close to those wonderful feelings the Spirit
gives to us. I then had to go back to the temple because Craig left his iPad
there, and then he kindly drove me back to our home where I met up with my
companion again. It was the happiest moment of my life and it wasn't even my
own family! Haha I can't even begin to imagine what it will be like to have the
blessing of going to the temple to seal my own family together for time and all
eternity! :) But I look forward to that day with extreme happiness and
hope! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the gospel of Jesus Christ--That He came to this earth to atone for our sins
and appease the demands of justice so that we may ALL be afforded these eternal
blessings and opportunities; that our families may be sealed for time and all eternity
through the love our Savior willingly offers to us! I know He lives!!! I make
many mistakes in my weakness, and I struggle with many things in life.
Sometimes I feel I am moving backwards in my spiritual progression. However I
know and have felt the never-ending love that He brings into our lives. It is
there when I don't deserve it. It is there when I least expect it. It is there
when I don't want it. But I know it IS there! I know the Book of Mormon is true
and testifies of Christ, and tells men and women what we must do to gain peace
in this life and eternal life in the life to come. I know we are blessed and
led by a living prophet today, Thomas S. Monson, and he receives guidance and
revelation for the world in this, our time of need. I know that Joseph Smith
restored this gospel through our Savior Jesus Christ. I know that this is the
true church of Jesus Christ. I know that families can be eternal and last
beyond the trial of death. I love you all so much! I look forward to when I can
see you all again someday! :) Have a great week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Moore family. They are the ones in white! ;) (Craig, Veronica, Damien, Aizlee,
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<span style="background: white;">I'm still
praying for what Heavenly Father is teaching me here this</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">last week
and because I'm a little slow to see and understand His</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">ways, it
might take me a little bit longer to comprehend. Let me</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">explain...So
yes I have been transferred back to my second area in my</span><br />
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which is the Hunter Copperhills Stake! I was ecstatic to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">receive
this information and quickly got to packing and preparing my</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">current
area (West Jordan) for two new Elders to come in. We arrived</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">here on a
beautiful Tuesday and after many long and stressful hours in</span><br />
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morning of finding the house I'd be staying at, the keys to the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">stake
buildings, the area phone, and especially my companion! We</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">finally
got it all worked out and got safely back to the Turnbull's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">when we
were finally able to get internet and sync our area book to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">find out
that we had a lesson to teach in 30 minutes, and we haven't</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">eaten or
unpacked, we don't know who it is or where it is. So the fun</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">begins!
:) We ate a granola bar and left on our bikes to go teach our</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">first
lesson together. WOW!!! Amazing!!! My companion and I get along</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">really
well together! He is an amazing teacher and such a hard worker.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">He
inspires me and encourages me to be and do better! He is such a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">blessing!
His name is Elder Maldarizzi, and he is from Italy. Super</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">cool guy!
That whole Tuesday was packed full of amazing lessons we had</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with many
teaching opportunities and chances to talk to people on the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">street
and do service! AHHHHH!!! Compared to the last 7 weeks this is</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">HEAVEN!!!
This is the missionary work I love! :) So we had a long day,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we were
blessed to be able to put someone on date to be baptized along</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with many
other wonderful missionary things. We get home, have a sweet</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">planning
session in our beautiful home we've been blessed to be able</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to live
in, eat some ice cream, and then start to unpack and set up</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">our room.
As I am unpacking and reminiscing of having roamed the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">streets
of Hunter Copperhill, teaching in the very place I had taught</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">before,
being surrounded by the amazing members that reside here, I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">felt a
soreness in my throat... Then it all went downhill from there!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Okay I've
made this story long enough. I got a sore red throat and a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">fever
that lasted all week so we went on splits every night so that my</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">companion
could go to our lessons. This place is booming! There's a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">lot of
work to do. I'm feeling better now today. I'm drugging up to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">make sure
I can keep working today but I'm doing a lot better! I love</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">this area
and these people so much! :) I'll have more to report on</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">next week
as not much happened this week.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">So yeah!
Love you all!! Till next week! Sorry for the lame email!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love
Elder Patterson</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I made my
companion Poutine this week! It was way good! :)</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-49445163254436815262016-06-20T09:37:00.002-07:002016-06-20T09:37:31.474-07:00April 11, 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background: white;">I'm being
transferred! Ahhhhh! We both are! They are whitewashing our</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">area and
I am going to whitewash a new area too!!! We are just cleaning up and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sorry for the short crappy email. I love you all and think of you<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">often!
This email is such a contrast from last week's which was super</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">long and
detailed. For those of you who have served missions you will</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">know how
busy and stressful it is to leave all the correct info for</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the
missionaries coming in when you both leave an area.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">So this
weekend was mixed feelings when I found out we were leaving.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We were
blessed to be able to visit many people that made a difference</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">in our
lives which was a great comfort. Again we saw much success in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">many
different ways throughout this transfer, both in our relationship</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">as
companions and also with the relationship we grew with the members</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and the
leadership of our Stake. We will definitely be saddened to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">leave but
our hopes are high for our new companions and areas we will</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">be
serving in the future! God has been so good to us! He has blessed</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">us
immensely! :)</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Well
that's all we have time for today folks! Next week will be an</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">exciting
email! Trust me! :)</span><br />
<br /><span style="background: white;">have a </span><span style="background: white;">great
week! :)</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Super slow still in our neck of the woods but we are still finding many service
opportunities here with the wonderful saints of the Welby stake. We've met some
amazing families this week! We had tickets to go down to conference with some
people we are working with but alas, all of them fell through, we were still
able to go on Saturday morning and also to the Priesthood session Saturday
night downtown to watch conference there at the conference center. It was
packed as usual! The messages were really good this conference and helped
me evaluate where I am and how I can improve. On Sunday we went early to the
Liddle family home in the ward that we live in. They invited us over for a
pre-conference breakfast. It was really good! They are so nice! They have two
young boys and their youngest is a girl. Isaiah, Ian, and Elsa. They are so
cute! We watched conference with the Liddle family and helped support them as
the husband is going through a change in his work that makes him be away from
home throughout the week and we are striving to be an influence for good in
their family and for their kids. We've done service for them and shared
spiritual messages with them as well as watch conference with them in their
home this weekend. We love them and they are grateful for the help at this time
in their life. I brought my guitar and played them some songs while we made
lunch in between conference sessions. Sister Liddle and I talked a lot because
she served a mission over in Scotland! My sister Melanie served there and we
got to visit for 10 days there after her mission, so we talked a lot about all
the stuff there, how when she first got there she walked up Pratt's Hill to
dedicated her mission to the Lord and start her mission off with a prayer. We
talked about Saint Andrews golf course and of course we talked about the
amazing chocolate and bakery shops there! It was fun! It was also a good
opportunity for me to practice the songs I've written on my mission in front of
a live audience. Haha I broke one of my strings on my guitar while doing it, so
they graciously bought me some more strings! Such a nice family! I love
them! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week but here is a report of some of the things we did, or tried to do. We were
going to have lesson with the Romero family in the 1st Ward this week but we
were unable to because of scheduling difficulties and sickness. We were going
to conference with them on Sunday morning but Brother Romero called in sick, which
was sad. We gave the tickets to another family to use instead of us going. Not
many people wanted to go that we asked. We tried having a FHE with the Sharps
and their neighbors but it got pushed back again to next week because of
scheduling difficulties. We took Cayden Troff, a young priest, with us to a
lesson to teach someone in a different ward we had scheduled to meet on
Thursday evening at the Stake center. It was a good experience for him as he
actually got to participate in teaching the Plan of Salvation and not just
stuck finding people with us. He enjoyed it and we talked to him a little bit
about missionary service afterward. He is a Grand Master in the world of chess
and has travelled the world many times over because of his talent in the field
of chess. He's a pretty cool guy! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hawkins family in the 3rd Ward as their son is preparing to serve a mission. We
spent some time getting to know them as well as had a little Q and A about
missionary service. We shared an Easter message about Jesus Christ to help them
understand the importance of this time of year and season. It was a good
opportunity to see how as missionaries we teach a lot about Jesus Christ
because He is our light and salvation. He is our everything! We also met with
the Carlson's who helped us put on the talent show we did a few weeks ago. They
had given some referrals to us of some of their neighbors we had visited and we
had reported back to them the progress in that endeavor. We shared a message to
them about the light of Christ and how we must judge righteously in this world
of opinion and doctrines. We invited them to pray about the messages they heard
in conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with the Wimmer family in the 4th Ward and helped to uplift them. They have
done so much for us and for me that they have a special place in my heart. We
went to watch the Priesthood session with brother Wimmer and they gave us
referrals that we have started visiting. We have not contacted all their
referrals but did contact Brother Whitney, one of Brother Wimmer's friends, and
invited him to basketball on Tuesday nights and he came and had a good time
playing with us. (We played some children's hymns in the background so he
received some of the doctrine contained in those hymns through osmosis) haha we
are slowly trying to invite him as he is not active and is seemingly kind of
cold still towards the church, not sure yet if there is a definite reason or if
they just haven't come in a while and then stopped coming. We will continue to
try to be an influence for good in their family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gonsalves in the 5th Ward again this week and had a great discussion about
revelation and the importance of prophets and apostles on the earth today. She
is someone we have been working with to help her come back to church. She is a
bit older and is single so we have to have our Ward Mission Leader join us for
each visit so we can meet inside her home. We committed her to watch and to
take notes of conference that we can review and talk about when we next see
her. She is doing great and is just waiting on the bishop and the ward council
as to finding a calling or responsibility in the church. She feels a little
self-conscious about the whole "calling" thing. She doesn't want to
stand in front of people and teach per se, but she is warming up the the fact
that callings are another way the Lord blesses each of His children and makes sure
we are all progressing together back to His presence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conference with the Randle family in the 6th Ward this weekend but they were
not home. We have shared their info with the Wallis's, our senior couple
missionaries, to see if they can have better success with them. The Wallis's
are great teachers and can do a lot more good for that family than we can as
they will be around much longer which will reduce the possibility of he
Randle's falling through the cracks between transfers and changes of
missionaries as they are progressing slower. We supported the Law family as
Brady got his mission call this week. We stopped by the night he got it to
congratulate him and share our love for that family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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referral given to us in the 7th ward by the Wallis's. It is Lorena and Antonio
Vasquez, no answer at the door but sounded like people were home. We are trying
to contact this family to see if we or the Spanish Elders would be better
suited to try visiting them. We stopped and visited with the Brady's on the
same street as we were on our way over to contact this referral. We talked with
them for a minute and asked them if they knew this referral we were asked to
stop by. They said they've seen them but hadn't met them yet. We also stopped
by the Steed family to see how they were doing and he answered the door and
asked us to come back when his wife was there, in the mornings before
3:00pm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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8th ward this week and had some good experiences meeting these wonderful members
in the Ward. We found some extra tickets to conference this weekend and asked
many people who declined us but we invited the Workman's who we just previously
had dinner with and they accepted. Brother and Sister Workman as well as her
parents went. They greatly appreciated it. We also had a good time over at the
Rasmussen's who fed us home-made pizza, they good part was that their oldest
son was there that we were able to talk to and we shared a message with the
family on Christ and His infinite love for us and our individual situation and
trials. We invited them to watch conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hansen this week who is in the 9th Ward who basically told us to not talk
"church" to him anymore, that he was done and that God had His chance
to speak to him and now he is closed off and won't ask or listen anymore. He
said we are welcome to still come by but not to teach him. He wants the
blessings God fully intends to give to him but he feels his life is too far
gone in every manner of the phrase and that there is no point to his life
anymore, thus he will not endeavor to ask, seek, or knock. We tried to console
him but wouldn't let us. We invited him to take his concerns to the Lord by
watching conference this weekend. He agreed hesitantly. We counseled with our
district about how we can help him and received some council from the Wallis's.
We still went over and did a lot of service for them this week by shoveling
rock and using a wheelbarrow to move it to a low spot in the front of their
property. That was right up my alley with what I used to do back home for work!
Haha Sister Hansen especially appreciates the help. We still have much to do
and will continue to help out in that home to try to show Will we still care
for him. We told him when we saw him at their service and told him how much we
love him and will always be there for him. He appreciated that as well and said
he trusts us and believes us when we say that. We also met with Gary this week
and taught him the Plan of Salvation and personalized it just for him to help
him see hope amidst his trials. It helped him gain a better understanding and
viewpoint of God and how He views him. He still struggles a lot and texts us
frequently about giving up and that there is no hope for him. We console him
often and have felt the need to also involve the Wallis's in our attempt to
help Gary come closer to Christ. They have been with us to one of his lessons
so far and connected really well with him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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numbers this week absolutely suck! But I know the Lord sees the way we are
striving to work and find people and that's all that matters! Our efforts are
much more sacred to the Lord than the results. We see this correlation in the
Doctrine and Covenants, section 117, verses 12-13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unto you, I remember my servant Oliver Granger; behold, verily I say unto him
that his name shall be had in sacred remembrance from generation to generation,
forever and ever, saith the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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contend earnestly for the redemption of the First Presidency of my Church,
saith the Lord; and when he falls he shall rise again, for his <u>sacrifice</u> shall
be more sacred unto me than his <u>increase</u>, saith the Lord.
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simply to stay behind when the saints were being driven from city to city, and
his job was to sell the properties that were abandoned by the saints. He, in
the standards of the world, or looking at it numerically, failed miserably, because
he didn't gain any money for the church by what he did. Like the scripture
said, "when he falls" it doesn't say "if he falls." The
Lord did not set him up to fail—for in His perfect eyes, Oliver Granger did not
fail, because he kept trying, he was diligent and persevered. We can see the
same principle in our lives, in fact I am sure that when we reach the other
side of the veil, and we will meet our Savior, we will be astonished as to
how He views us and our efforts to come close to Him. At times I feel
very distant from Christ, or that the path ahead of me is daunting and
increasingly steep so as to deter my progress. But I know my Savior lives! I
know He loves me! I know that through Him I can become clean from sin and be
admitted entrance into my Heavenly Father's presence again someday. As long as
I keep trying, and getting up "when" life, temptation, sin, and
trials knock me down, I will see success and many blessings in my life! I know
this is true for all who strive to live the gospel of Jesus Christ in their
daily lives! I love you all so much! Hope you have a great week! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></span>Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-41126739922909796142016-06-20T09:19:00.002-07:002016-06-20T09:19:21.575-07:00March 29, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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email will be short. Today was a crazy Preparation Day and we didn't have much
time to email.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So this week flew by
again! Man if we don't take advantage of every minute God gives us here in this
beautiful world it's going to pass right by us! But isn't it completely
reassuring that we know and have a fullness of knowledge of our Savior Jesus
Christ, who suffered, bled and died for us that we may not only be resurrected
one day, but also that because of Him, we can become clean and be prepared to
enter into the presence of our loving Heavenly Father! What wonderful blessings
we have! What knowledge we have! Let us all keep in remembrance our Savior and
Redeemer and be grateful for the time we have here in this life to learn. All
the heartache, sorrow, pain, infirmities, turmoil, disease, suffering, and all
manner of afflictions that we experience in this mortal life are but a small
moment in the grand design of our Heavenly Father's plan! He knows us perfectly
and wants us to become better through our success and our failures here in this
life. Our failures, mistake and other trials can and will make us better if we
let them; if we let Christ help us with our burden. We can give our life to Him
and in return He promises blessings of far greater magnitude, even eternal
life. We give our lives to Christ by serving Him by serving those around us,
obeying His commandments, and living His gospel, namely faith in Him,
repentance, baptism by immersion for the remission of sin, receiving the Gift
of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end! I have found greater peace in my
life and an outpouring of hope from a dreary world in which I lived to a now
brighter future because of my growing faith in Him. I promise that as we follow
His gospel, we will be happier! We will be blessed and we will receive
everything the Father hath because of our partnership with Christ. I love you
all so much! I wish I could say more but for now my testimony sufficeth to
bring the true message and reason to why I am out here on my mission. I know
God, our Heavenly Father lives, I know Christ lives! I know that the fullness
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ was restored to this earth once again,
preparatory to the Second Coming of Christ, by the prophet Joseph Smith. I know
that the fruits of his labors to bring about this wonderful dispensation, full
of love and knowledge bestowed to us by God; the Book of Mormon, is true and is
the word of God. I know that we are divinely lead by Christ today through a
living prophet, Thomas S. Monson. I know that he, along with the quorum of the
12 apostles, lead and guide us personally, and collectively as a church, closer
to Christ and that we will be immensely blessed by following their counsel. I
know God has a plan for each of us and we need not feel afraid, lost, or
unfulfilled in this life; we can receive a fullness of joy through Jesus
Christ, we can sing the song of redeeming love, and in Jesus Christ we can find
new life! I testify that these things are true in the holy and sacred name of
our beloved Savior, even Jesus Christ, amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has passed me by in this beautiful valley. I now realize that September is
coming up really soon! I'm going to blink and it will be here! It's been a
rough week as well for the work in this area. This Welby Stake has been
"dead" and by that I mean, there has been little to no fruits from
our labors (no baptisms, no reactivations and no one to teach). It is difficult
because (and I've seen this before in many of my areas that I newly came into)
when nothing is happening the missionaries just wait around until someone pops
up that they can teach. You can tell that by the records they keep in the Area book,
by the phone, by the calendar and what they've spent their time doing. It looks
like not much has been done here for a while. My companion and I have been
busting our butts to find people to teach! This whole week we went out in the
rain, snow and heat (Crazy Utah weather) to visit potential investigators of
the church, former investigators, Bishops, Ward Mission Leaders, and members in
the many wards we cover. We've talked to a lot of people and have been blessed
to have shared messages with many, many families, but we ask every time for
referrals and not much ever comes from it. There aren't many non-members in our
area, and those that aren't members of the church don't give us an inch to
speak, or never open their door! Haha <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we've gotten to know the area a lot better and we've met a lot of awesome
families! We've also found many service opportunities! Spring time is here and
I swear, (I don't actually swear) but everyone was outside on Saturday. It was
in the 70"s and I got sunburned. We walked by a man digging around some
sprinkler heads on his lawn and we saw his wife trimming trees. I though to
myself, "I know how to do these things!" So I bothered the man until
he let us help them. He was very stubborn but I was more stubborn. We ran home
quickly and changed and came back and got all their yard work done that they
needed. From the experience my brother Ryan and my brother Greg gave to me back
home (and from the 4 sprinkler systems we put in people's yards last summer) we
had some fun fixing this absolutely horrible sprinkler job. For those that know
sprinklers, the previous owner had put 9 zones around this very small house and
yard. There was 5 zones alone in the front yard and about 20 crappy sprinkler
heads. To make things better, instead of taking the sprinkler heads right off
of the main lines that run from the box to the front of the house, he treed
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understand my little aerial view of this sprinkler system. It was a lot worse
than that but that is the basic premise of how he ran his 3/4" pipe. We
had a fun time digging it all up to try to understand what he did and how to
fix it. I got to put my digging skills to use! We also cut down some trees
which I have some experience doing. It was fun! We got everything done that
they needed in less than 2 hours. It helped a lot because the husband is away
every week and is only home Saturday and Sunday. So he only has those two days
to spend with his wife and their three kids, so it felt nice to help
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opportunities came from us walking out and about searching for people to teach
by going to members homes and sharing a message with them about their Savior.
That is the thing, if you go around telling members and bishops and leaders in
the church what they should be doing or what they need to work on so that we
can have people to teach is wrong. We cannot tell others what to do or influence
them in that way. "...only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness
and meekness, and by love unfeigned; By kindness, and pure knowledge, which
shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile... Let thy
bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith,
and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax
strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil
upon thy soul as the dews from heaven. The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant
companion..." We need to love people into this work! Instead, "...we
talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of
Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to
what source they may look for a remission of their sins." Jesus Christ is
the life and light of the world! If we but provide an environment to feel the
Spirit testify of these divine truths that we share about our Savior and
Redeemer, then we can feel the Holy Ghost testify to our heart, mind and soul!
He can tell us who is ready to hear the gospel! He knows the hearts of these
people and will help us find people to teach! I know It! We must keep working
hard and showing Heavenly Father how much these blessed two years mean to us! I
read a quote this week that really changed me by Elder Holland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chance to serve a mission. It is your responsibility, your duty, to use it to
it's fullest; to give every last ounce of energy until you collapse in
exhaustion at the end of it. All the hardships, all the tears, all the hard
work will be looked back upon as the best thing you've ever done, not because
you enjoyed it, not because you baptized everyone, but because you gave it
everything you had, even when you didn't think you could, and especially when
you didn't want to. Live your mission to your fullest, work harder than you've
ever worked before. Let people know that this is the most important thing in
the world to you... If you do not run until you have nothing left to give, and
then keep on going anyway; cry and pray and work and sweat and plead until you
are so drained that all you can do is turn to the Lord; if you don't do this,
then these people will not come to this joy because of you -- their failure to
come to Christ will be partially upon your head. Come out of your mission proud
of what you've done, and this experience will bless the rest of your
life." - Elder Jeffery R. Holland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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inside as I felt the Spirit of the calling I've been given to Preach His
gospel, Christ's gospel; the very essence of joy, peace and love emanate from
our Savior who is the "author and finisher of [our] faith." It is His
gospel that changes lives, and hearts, to prepare us for the time when He will
inevitably come again to this earth that we may be exalted as He is; that as
our Father in Heaven is, we may become also -- for it is His work and His
glory, "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." I
know Christ lives and love us! He has paved the way for us to return back to
our Heavenly Parents, to overcome death and sin. I love Him with all of my
heart for what He has done for me personally and how he has miraculously
changed my heart and fortified it against the temptations and lies of the
adversary. I know that the Book of Mormon is true! It's pages ring with eternal
truth and speak peace to my wearied soul. I know Joseph Smith was a true and
living prophet who ushered in the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
and supplied the place and time for us to receive, once again, the mighty
Priesthood of God and all the saving ordinances that come with it, especially
in the temple where our families can be sealed not only for time, but for all
eternity. I know that we are currently led by a living Prophet of God, Thomas
S. Monsoon, who holds all the keys necessary for us in this dispensation of the
fullness of times to prepare us, like I stated earlier, for the Second coming
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! I hope you all have a great week! I love
you so much and can't wait to see ya'll again soon! :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></span>Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-67799483078517365382016-06-20T09:09:00.000-07:002016-06-20T09:09:43.801-07:00March 8, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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by! I can't believe it's already Monday! We are doing well here in West Jordan
and working our butts off to find people to teach! When we started here in this
area there was absolutely no one they were working with. We've been able to put
a number of different families in our teaching pool these last two weeks
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a miracle! So for those of you who don't know Thursday was my birthday and I
was not expecting much because I just got into a new area and changed locations
and I really just missed home that day. It's hard to go and do missionary work
on special days of the year when we normally take breaks and do fun things. But
little by little, Gods tender mercies were revealed to me over the course of
the day. Calls from my Mission Presidents wife, the Zone leaders, and two
birthday songs sung to me, 4 packages, a drop by visit at the end of the day
from a family in an old area, and so much more. I almost cried I was so
overwhelmed with love and happiness! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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zone training meeting which was super good and super spiritual! The Zone
leaders asked me to sing a song about Christ and His Atonement that I wrote
last winter. I was nervous but played well, as I know I had help from Heavenly
Father to consecrate my performance unto Him. It was a good training on
"loving like you're not scared" because the pure love of Christ leaves
no room for fear; fear of what man thinks, fear of consequences of doing good,
fear of the unknown, whatever it may be. I learned that I need to worry more
about what God thinks and not what others think of me. I'm trying to make goals
to overcome those fears of man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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forward to the talent show we are putting on in our stake. We made flyers and
handed them out all over the wards is Sunday. We will report back to y'all
about it next week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much and I often think and pray for each of you! I hope you may all see God's
hand in your lives as I've barely noticed this week. Let us all pray for the
eyes to see these physical and spiritual manifestations of God's love for us!
Till next week! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-45802185290303212322016-06-20T09:05:00.001-07:002016-06-20T09:05:25.514-07:00February 29, 2016 Robs Birthday email <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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emails this week! :) I am beginning to realize now that the older you get, the
less important your birthdays become. They just come and go and I am almost
unaware that my age will change. Nevertheless the Lord is hastening His work in
His time and I am a part of it in the Welby Stake in West Jordan. We cover 8
wards which is a lot less than what I've had in the past number of transfers.
It's a pretty small stake area. No car :( that was nice for a couple
weeks! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good! I got moved into a brand new area and have been put in charge so I'm kind
of stressed but a good kind of stress. I love it here already in West Jordan.
The missionaries here are crazy, and not in a good way. I went on exchanges
with our district leader in his area and he drove around town all day, showed
me his favourite cars in his area and we basically did nothing, plus he drove
like a maniac. I prayed a lot for our safety that day. I'm glad that my parents
and my brother have all taught me how to work hard. It is a real challenge
being with someone 24/7 who doesn't want to do the same things as you. When we
have different purposes or goals. However I do look forward after my mission to
spending eternity with my spouse who will have the same goals to work hard at
creating a Spirit-filled home and two closely knit hearts set on returning to
our Heavenly parents. I know I'm not perfect but that if I try my best,
especially here and now, and show Heavenly Father and my Savior my appreciation
for the chance to serve them as a full-time missionary, I know and have faith
They will help me with getting the rest of my life put in order when I get
home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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here, and we put 6 people on date for reactivation this week. That is basically
like setting a baptismal date but for someone who is coming back to church. We
help them meet with the bishop, come to church, take the missionary lessons, do
family history work, etc. we also took two priests who are preparing to serve
missions out with us all weekend for a "mini-mission" it was so fun!
It really helped them know what a mission is like and know how to teach people
and love them to serve them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with this family where the dad is from Edmonton! That's where I'm from! Haha so
we had a good talk together. They have a set of twin girls who are really
talented musicians and then a boy who is a baseball player. We are going to
have a talent show at their home in 2 weeks and invite a lot of kids who are
also talented and also less active kids. We've met a few of them and I am very
thankful for the talents God has given me because I've been able to connect
with a lot of people here who are struggling. I showed one kid how to do some
tricks on his longboard, one is into music and guitar so I connect that way,
one guy had like 10 ukuleles which when I said I could play he let us in and we
jammed and shared a message. :) It’s fun being a missionary and sharing who you
are and what we believe to also bring others to come unto Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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elderly man who gives us milk and cereal! Boy that is so nice! You don't know
how much that helps with us and our tight funds. We don't have wifi at our
home, and we've had to go and ask all our neighbors for wifi and not many of
them said yes so we have to use the churches nearby. Well they are on every
street corner so that's fine with me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-79641212752216722052016-06-20T09:00:00.003-07:002016-06-20T09:00:55.458-07:00February 23, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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been a sad weekend for me though as I am being transferred again. My heart
truly belongs to these people and this wonderful place! I will look forward to
every opportunity to come back and visit! I've said goodbye to most of the
people I really connected with and affected with my work and testimony. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">I have plenty more to
tell you about but for now, know that I am doing well and I am moving to West
Jordan and will email my address really soon.</span><br />
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week, my bum is not hurting. Haha there is a lot of rocks out here. It has been
raining all day today. And has melted most of the snow. It's pretty mucky
here right now. We've been trying to get rides lately because of the weather.
People help us out a lot here. We are greatly blessed! Brother Gibson is
married and they are awesome! He is retired and golfs a lot but he helps us a
lot and we have been having fun a lot lately going into town on Mondays and
stuff. We did that today. We went into town to drop off some baptismal forms
and we ran some errands with him. They have 3 boys that are all grown up. They
have a couple of chickens out back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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eat, we had to pay for, and sushi is expensive and we had no money. Haha it was
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Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-80383037341507708062016-02-08T11:45:00.002-08:002016-02-08T11:47:24.022-08:00January 12, 2016<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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favourite person this week is our Landlord, brother Gibson. He helped us out so
much and we have been spending more time with him going to the stores in town
and going sledding and having boys days out on Mondays. I made cracker brittle
again this week for people we are working with and they loved it! We are doing
some leather working with Robert Zink one of our recent converts and I am
making a scripture case and some cool journals. Got to go now though!
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Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-8781088872368468032016-02-08T11:10:00.000-08:002016-02-08T11:10:07.765-08:00December 15, 2015<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Christmas devotional with an apostle I think! So I will let you know next week
who it was! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am still in Grantsville as you know, and my companion is Elder Woolf from
Spokane Washington. He's got a lot of family from Canada so he really
appreciates what we good folk have to offer through our candy and chips of all
kinds and flavours. We got the advent calendars the other day and hung them up.
It's crazy how close Christmas is! So yes we have a giant area and have been
promised a car but never have gotten one. We ride bikes all day in the snow
from home to home. It just snowed today actually again and my companion and I
had a snowball fight outside. We still gather at church buildings as well for
our meetings. There is one on every block. Out here in Grantsville we cover a
stake. There are two stakes in Grantsville which is about 10,000 people, close
to Wetaskiwin. We cover ten wards here and a lot of space. We are having
a baptism this Saturday for a 15 year old boy named Tayton Young. He is super
solid. We are going to temple square with him on Tuesday for our last real
lesson before he is baptized. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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working with this guy who was baptized like a month ago and his wife to find
names in their family that they could take to the temple, we got a good chunk
for both of them to do. We also have been working with a family where the dad,
brother Moore, just got the Melchezedik Priesthood and a temple recommend. We
organized with both of those families, as well as one of our Ward Mission
leaders and his family, to all go with us and do baptisms for the dead at Salt
Lake Temple. At was the first time we both got to be in the baptistery. I cried
watching the faces of these wonderful people I love doing such great things in
e temple. When Brother Moore went into the water, the Spirit was so strong in
that room! At was the first time he and his wife had been in the temple
together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of much else that has happened this week I love my Savior so much and have
really gotten to know him throughout this experience. I am grateful to be a
part of our family. I love you so much and appreciate each weekly email! :)
have a great week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Today was crazy!!! We went to the theatre as a mission and watched a movie
called "War Room" it was way good and he remainder of our day we
spent in the car and shopping. Thank you for your emails, I read them this
morning! We had a super late night with visits tonight but they were good. I
got to sing to a family again tonight. Talk to you next week!<br />
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on my mission and one thing is that communication is important in any
relationship. If I continue to keep things inside, I cannot expect to receive
the help I need desperately in many different aspects. I am learning so much
more about myself and the Plan of Salvation. I have been able to read a lot of
talks and articles that have helped me. I am learning so much. I also have to
understand that through even our best efforts we will fall and be wounded
sometimes. Even the Army of Helaman, though none perished, all were wounded,
even some to the point that they fainted from the loss of blood. There will be
wins, losses, good days and bad, as we strive to overcome our trials and
obstructions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a baptism of someone who has been working with missionaries for two years. It
was a very spiritual baptism and it was special to see this man, Robert Zink,
so happy when he came up out of the water. We also were afforded the
opportunity to go to Taylorsville again to witness the baptism of Tricia
Wright, a young woman in her 20's who I worked with for a while. She asked me
if I would sing a song at her baptism, and I said yes. I sang an arrangement I
made of Joseph Smith's First Vision to the tune of Come thou Fount of Every
Blessing. It was really good to be there and to see her progress. That is the 3rd
baptism I got to go back for with someone I worked with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thanksgiving because my companion loves to run and I love him so I agreed to
run in this race. I ended up being 7th out of 60 some people who were running.
I think that is pretty good for not running in years! I am still sore from that
experience. My calves were on fire the rest of the week. We only had one dinner
this year which was awesome! I had just the right amount of food. Then went
home and had a nap, then went to Dolly Soulè's home (Elder Dawson's aunt) and
Elder Dawson was there! We both played a song for their family and ate some
great pie! She makes this yam pie that is to die for, almost quite literally.
Their family is really awesome and I feel just like family there. I am staying
in Grantsville another transfer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Endless french toast at Kneaders! SO GOOD! </span></div>
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good. Better than last. I apologize but I do not have enough time to email a
good email. I really do enjoy all the words you share with me. I love to hear
about your week. I am happy to hear it was busy! haha no rest for the
righteous! This week has went by faster, which is good. I think that means I
worked a little harder. But I found some cool stuff at DI today! That was a
bonus! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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getting to know Elder Dawson's family! They are so awesome! They feel like
family! haha Elder Dawson is a great missionary. I might take some time to
visit them again after my mission down in Texas! haha Here are some pictures!
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It has been a long,
long, long week. It has for some reason been an eternity for me. My companion
however has said it has just flown by. It is weird how time can be perceived so
differently even by two companions who spend every hour together. It is so difficult
to travel back to the city from here. We had set up and prepared many to be
baptized in my last area, in Taylorsville, and have gotten permission to attend
the baptisms. We had a hard time finding someone to drive out 45 minutes each
way to take us to events there. We made it to the Baptism of Sean McBride on
Halloween night. That was awesome. We invited the Priest who helped us in our
lessons with him to baptize him. Sean's foot kept popping up, so on the third
time he had to step on his toes and dunk him. It was a great experience and I
had the opportunity to bear my testimony of the restoration. It was a powerful
event and the Spirit filled the church. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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area gave a gift to the ward mission leader in that ward that Sean was in for
me. They remained anonymous, and so our ward mission leader gave me the two
brand white shirts these wonderful people had given to me. The gesture alone
was very humbling as I have been wearing through my shirts and am in desperate
need of new ones. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. I went to Elder Hunt's area who has been out for about the same
amount of time as me. We got to talk a lot and found out we both like all the same
music. We also have found out that we have both struggled with similar things
throughout our missions and even at the same time. We both had a lot of trials
surface at our year mark and struggled with them. We talked about it and both
were edified by our time we got to serve together. We had a couple of very
powerful lessons that evening and went to a trunk or treat and got a lot of
chocolate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lot of family history work with some of the families we are working with. It is
so awesome to see the light in their eyes as they discover and see their
ancestors connect throughout the generations of time back to their current
families. It is really cool to help them take these names to the temple. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elder Dawson's family here. We had dinner with his aunt, Dolly Soulè. They are
absolutely wonderful! They made us some delicious Chicken Spaghetti from the
south. Haha It felt cool to get to know them more. She has a wonderful family
that we got to meet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to do something. You should buy the album called: "The Work: A Nashville
Tribute to Missionaries" and listen to is the whole way through. It is
really good and caused me to great reflection. I love you all and thank you for
your prayers. I can feel them working on me. Have a wonderful week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044854282470875948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388416008958890426.post-70375320451369079562016-02-08T10:42:00.000-08:002016-02-08T10:42:07.000-08:00October 27, 2015<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 5pt;">
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Grantsville, Utah 84029<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you for the
emails this week! It's so beautiful here in Grantsville. It feels kind of like
home. Thank you for your kind and uplifting words each week. So I have been
quite sick but can't figure out what is wrong with me. I'll get better for a
day then I'll get sick again but it will be slightly different. But I am okay
now so don't worry. I have lots of good support from the members here. Lots of
Elder Dawson's family is out here in my area and I have been visiting them a
little bit. They are great people! Elder Dawson was a great companion. My new
companion is good too. Our areas are huge out here but we still have bikes. We
are hoping to get a car soon. I hope I stay here till Christmas. We have put
someone on date to be baptized yesterday and will be having 3 others here in
the next while. That is so exciting! Well I have go now! Have a great
week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Doing some roping before we go to bed! Yup I'm in the country here! Haha</div>
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