Hey! It's a Wonderful Time of Day....
Hey Hey Hey!
I hope everything is going great! First things first... as many of you may already know all missionaries worldwide are aloud to e-mail ALL friends and family AND we have 90 minutes to e-mail! So people PLEASE e-mail me! E-mail is way easier than snail mail so no excuses it dosn't need to be long I would just love to hear from all of you! My e-mail is hillary.andrews@myldsmail.net
Also another exciting piece of news is that this week is the transfer that we are able to go to the temple and we got permission to go to the Saturday morning session in Spanish with two members of our branch who are going through for the first time. It is going to be so so neat! I am a little nervous to do a session in Spanish but the Spirit is the same no matter what.
Also one more piece of big news is that next Saturday March 23rd Elder Quinton L. Cook is coming to our mission a long with Elder Tad R. Callister! It is going to be so awesome! We will be having an all mission conference with both of them on Saturday and then Elder Callister will be coming to speak at our Stake Conference on Sunday!
So life is crazy here in the California Santa Rosa Mission! Amazing changes are happening and miracles are all over the place!
This week Hermana McKay and I have kept singing but we have turned from Primary songs to a few "worldly songs" from our past. The only one we continue to sing is the theme song from Arthur and I love it! It has such a great message! "Believe in yourself because that's the place to start and I say hey it's a wonderful time of day where you can learn to laugh and play and get a long with each other....."
Every time of day in the mission field is a wonderful time of day because it is a time to share the gospel and help others.
Wonderful Times of Day This Week:
1. On Monday and Tuesday morning I baked!!!!!! It was the best thing ever! I miss really cooking things! I made two pans of Carrie's chocolate cake for our Branch President's birthday and then one just for us to have and then I made monkey bread for our zone meeting on Tuesday. It was really fun and everyone enjoyed the treats.
2. Our investigator Faine is soooo ready to be baptized! She has been investigating for over a year and has been taught everything so we went over the baptismal questions with her on Tuesday and she knows everything. Her daughter and husband go to the Catholic church and her daughter is preparing for her first communion in May so she did not want to get baptized until after that but she is realizing that might not be God's plan for her and that it might be better to get baptized sooner. She has not been able to come to church before and to make the story even better she just asked her boss yesterday and she now has Sunday's off!
3. We went on an exchange this week with the English sisters and I was here in Novato with Sister Gubler. We had so much fun and I was amazed that I could teach the lessons, make phone calls and do everything in Spanish on my own! I felt so SMART! I also could not do it with out MY Elders. I love serving around such amazing Elders that are so willing to help me. I was really nervous to give the dinner thought by myself but they totally backed me up and the Spirit was so strong!
4. We finally figured out what is holding our investigator Ilse back. She is just comapring the Book of Mormon to the Bible and is frustrated that she does not have the same testimony of the Book of Mormon that she does for the Bible. We told her that as she prays to Heavenly Father and continues to read this testimony can grow. We also used many scriptures in the Bible that tell about the Book of Mormon. It was really powerful and she was impressed. Thank goodness for Seminary or I would not know the Bible!
5. We went to the goodbye party for Grisel who is going on her mission soon. She is going to be great and it was neat because her mom is not very active so it was good for her to be there and to interact with the memebers. It is so fun to see other people preparing for their missions because I know what is ahead of them and it is great!
6. The Elders had a baptism yesterday and the spirit was so strong! Baptisms are amazing! It is so neat to see people enter into their first covenant with Heavenly Father!
7. I have been sick this weekend just with a bad cold but I got a blessing yesterday and it is just incredible how close to Heavenly Father I feel when I recieve blessings!
Well many more wonderful things happened but these are the highlights. I hope you can look for the Wonderful Times of EVERY DAY!
Please e-mail me... it's allowed!
I love you all! Thanks for all of your prayers!
Love,
Hermana Hillary
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