Week 16

This week! 

Monday- We did our normal errands, and went and made fudge at a members. Best fudge ever!! I talked to my mission president, he is awesome! We had dinner at the Dows and had FHE at the Krugers. We all went around and shared our favorite scriptures and that is one of my favorite things to do!

Tuesday- Met with some less-actives and part member families. Also finally saw a recent convert John Taylor! We have been trying to see him for months. and sadly he is not doing too well and not interested in church at the time. So that was a bummer. But at least we finally saw him. We taught Krystal and her family the Restoration. They talked about church and how much they loved it! Super cool, Krystal said how she noticed a difference in the church. It was peaceful and she really liked it. Also that she has noticed a difference in her kids already. So cool. They are all praying for a baptismal date! YAY. Taught Wiliam a Recent Convert. He is so awesome. and that was the excitements for the day.

Wednesday- Rex and Adam, our Wednesday usual haha. Went and contacted a lot of part family members on our ward directory that we don't know and it now counts as finding time. So that was successful to at least see if they still lived there or not. Also for New Years Eve we went to the Gillets and played the best game ever, CATCH PHRASE! Soo fun. My team was awesome so we won of course haha. But that was fun. We still had to be home by 9:30 so we left and went home and just went to bed. But we set the alarm for 11:59 to get up and take a picture like "this is our New Years Eve" and it went off and I said Sister Lundberg it's 12:00.. and she said okay should we take the picture? and I said it's okay.. and we went right back to bed haha. Too tired. 

Thursday- Planned in the morning which was needed! Saw Paul and Melissa which was good, and Frank. Went and saw some more Less actives and ended with Ramiro! Started our fast. :)

Friday- Fasted all day. longest time I have fasted. a full 24 hrs! But guess what? strengthened my testimony in fasting because holy cow, I was hardly hungry all day and I didn't get a headache. It was really cool. We also studied fasting and we both learned a lot. We had district meeting and that was great as usual. I got a blessing from my district leader as well. We had a lesson with Rafael which was awesome! We haven't been able to meet with him in a while so it was good to see him. We also met with Nicole! Taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I think it was good. We have return appointments with them so hopefully they will keep them and they will continue to progress because they are awesome people! Ended with a DQ run to eat at home, broke our fast and ate a blizzard. How fitting ha. 

Saturday- Called my mission president and he talked with me. He is soo great and I just love him! I am blessed with a great mission president. We went to candler and went to see some more random less actives. We have just been going through our directory and seeing people who live around some of our appointments, and try to see them. Taught Krystal and her family the Plan of Salvation. The kids had learned that in primary last week so they knew a lot. They all loved it and are excited for church tomorrow. Also... They ALL are preparing for baptism on January 31st! Soo happy. They are great. Went and saw a less active family, the Maner's who I have heard a lot about but haven't met, so it was great to see them. They are a cute family and it was great meeting with them. 

Sunday- Went to a Baptist church before our church. Such a fun experience ha. They had some singers and drums and people were standing up saying amen and hallelujah. It was great! But it was also a testimony builder because as much fun as it was to be there, it did not feel like church, Sister Lundberg and I both noticed we didn't feel the spirit and it was different. Krystals family didn't make it to church :( The youngest was sick.. I bore my testimony which was good. I have gotten a lot more brave about doing that haha. Had to teach the 17 and 18 year olds haha.. We all went around and shared out favorite scriptures and why and got to know all of them. They are great! I sat and listened to the Young Womens class. I just love being in there haha. It is always a great lesson. The rest of the day was not too exciting. We did go to the Hargadons and had dinner. They are a great family. I LOVE them. We also made some breakfast burritos. We went to see some MORE less actives.

This was a week full of seeing less actives because people were not wanting to see us haha. But it was good to see them and do some detective work to see if people still lived places.

Love you all more than you know, your support and prayers.

Sister Farmer

Only picture this week is a cute boy Julius! His mom is Nicole who we have been teaching. He asked to take the picture and is just darling.

Week 15!!

Well it is Christmas on Thursday! :) I hope you guys all have fun, but remember the real meaning of Christmas :)

Monday-Got my hair done, a cute lady in our ward wanted to for Christmas! Got our car washed, cleaned and got some things done. Went to dinner at the Hargadons who I absolutely love! They are so great. Then we had FHE at the Curridens. Fun, productive day!

Tuesday- Met with Kathy and Kiel, watched a Mormon message and just talked with them. They are leaving to Texas for Christmas so they will be missed. Met with Ron, interesting lesson because he is so smart he looks at the bible as a fable story?  Idk how to explain him. He is very nice, but hard to teach that is for sure. Saw Paul and Melissa. They are awesome!! I love them. Talked about the Book of Mormon which is always good. He still isn't so sure about it. We went caroling/tracting for about 1 and 1/2 hrs. We would sing silent night and then after they were happy with that we would share a He is The Gift card and talk with them. It was fun. Ended with my favorites, Connor and Savannah. They are doing soo good it makes me happy. 

Wednesday- Zone Conference!!! We had training's for about 3 hrs which were awesome. The Assistants gave one, and then President who I love to hear speak because he is so in tune with the spirit and just awesome. We had skits.. Ours was not super funny but kind of? They video it and all of them and I think we are going to get it on a video, hopefully. It was the 12 days of Christmas missionary style. We played dodge ball which was fun and then watched.. FROZENNN. So good to watch it and sing haha. We then had exchanges, I stayed and Sister Lundberg left. Sister Bohannon stayed with me. We did tracting across the street and it was awesome. We had like 3 return appts. and 3 potentials. We had delicious dinner at a members house, the Malaskys. Then we went and had an appointment with Ramiro. He is so awesome! such a solid, kind guy. We also are over on miles and needed a park day, so we were able to do that today, where we didn't use our car. It was great.

Thursday- Had a not too successful day, met with Rex and Adam, went to Candler with the sweetest lady ever in our ward, Sister Nelson. She drove us to contact some referrals and none of them were home. But it is okay because it was still fun. We went to contact some potentials and they weren't home.. had dinner at the Hood's. Super fun family. Pretty wild kids but fun haha. Drove to Waynesville to get Sister Lundberg back :)

Friday- Weekly planning. Nothing crazy. Met with Ryan and Sarah! I love them! We taught the Plan of Salvation and it seemed to go well. We asked them to come to church, they are both open, but he is the youth minister soo not as likely. It will be something we are working towards :) Taught with David Baxter and he is now dropped. He said he may stop in at church sometime but he just wasn't open sadly. Also lost another investigator who said no thanks.. Had dinner at the colliers, sweetest old peeps ever. Then went to Candler and. MIRACLES. We went to meet a potential family, Krystal, she was happy to see us and her daughter and we are going back and teaching them Tuesday! So happy. Then went to see another potential investigator and her husband answers the door, who I hadn't met last time, turns out he read the Book of Mormon 16 years ago and was reading it, because we left her with one and are meeting with them Tuesday too!!! Soo cool. Some other cool things with people happened as well.

Saturday- Jammed packed day! Hopefully 6 appointments and.... we had one of them turn out :) Such a great day ha.. Mission life.. So we did lots of finding, hoping to find people. We found a girl that had mormon cousins, she was cute. Also another person who had read the book of mormon which was cool. Another one who had been to temple square. It is cool when those things happen. But yea pretty bummed about all those appointments.. But Amanda was the one appointment that stayed! She was one we met on Wednesday and were hoping to have a return appointment. Anyway she was way sweet and said she would come to church! YAY

Sunday-So she didn't come to church.. SOO bummed. We had no Investigators at church.. A lot were out of town for the Holidays but still. We had an alright day, nothing too crazy. But we had dinner at the Hedgecocks, 8 little kids, and it is my FAVORITE going there because it reminds me of my fam when we were little. We went Caroling around there neighborhood and passed He it The Gift cards out, so cute. They are great.

I am soo grateful to be able to have this time to focus on the true meaning of Christmas. It is for sure hard being away from home this time of year, but with such awesome members it makes it much better. I love the gospel, and am so grateful for the knowledge I have that Jesus Christ gave us all the ultimate gift, the Atonement. It is hard, but also the best thing, being able to be out here spreading that knowledge to others. I love you all and hope you have a fantastic Christmas. 

Love, Sister Farmer

Day before Christmas Eve dinner :) Cinnamon rolls, eggs, hot cocoa :) loved it

 Shepherds

 Christmas Eve sleep over :)

 Skyping my fam

Week 14...

WOW! Another week down and 10 days until Christmas! CRAZY.

So again.. That 2 minute video is still up if you all want to see it :) It is on christmas.mormon.org. It is so awesome! Share it on fb so everyone can see it. 

Monday- We emailed, then we ran errands and we were at the SAB most of the day just hanging out with other elders playing games and stuff. It was great. We went to dinner at the Ostlers and their little 5 year old got sick, so sad! But we headed out and went to the Gomes for FHE. It was just on family history and I realized I need to learn a lot more family history haha. I am slacking! Anyway it was great, and there was some yummy soup! I had just eaten so I was quite full but I have gotten use to just eating anyway :)

Tuesday- Half mission conference! We went to Johnson City, Tennessee and it was an awesome day! Elder Renlund and his wife from the Seventy was there, as well as President and Sister Griffin. The trainings they give were amazing! I learned so much and it was awesome getting to learn from them. So fun! I also got a picture by the NC sign so I was happy haha :) So that was way cool. Had dinner at the Workmans who are just hilarious!!!

Rest of the week:

Lots of crazy appointments, some regulars. Met with Ryan, Rex and Adam, Lori,

Met with a new investigator Ron, who is almost Atheist? It is cool/hard teaching him. He still wants to meet with us so that is awesome. Josh and Mary we have met with before.. We are dropping them.. He was trying to convert us. I lovee them but yea he was telling us to pray about the bible and he had seen some anti material online because he was saying some random things that did not matter. Also met with a cute couple, Ryan and Sarah. I love them already! He works at the Church of Christ but they are just wanting to learn about what we believe but they really liked what we were teaching so I am looking forward to future with them! 

Met some Less-Actives Bart and Eve who are AWESOME! He was a speed skater and broke an american record! So cool. They are awesome and we are excited about them.

A very crazy thing happened this weekend and I wish I could go into all the details, but basically someone put a guys address and name down, but there number, and when we called they acted like him. We went to visit him the time we had set up and he had no idea who we were. So dumb someone did that. But oh well!

Friday we were Hosts for a nativity event, there were over 130 different nativities and from about 50 different countries. It was soo cool and I absolutely loved it!

Sunday- Kathy, Kiel, and Dan came to church :) LOVE them! 

Anyway kind of a sporadic email, sorry. Love you all so much!!! Enjoy this Christmas season!! :) I miss you all so much!

Sister Farmer

Hosts

 Nativity event

 Glasses from my Fam, while making phone calls to people :)