This week has been great! It has been really rainy and windy all week but that just means that winter here is coming! Plus we have been really blessed with such nice weather for such a long time!
Last P-day we went to the Fishermans Wharf and got to feed a seal (some lady bought us fish to feed it, she was so nice) and had some yummy mini donuts with the YSA sisters and the Sidney Sisters! It was a lot of fun!
We were able to see so many miracles this week especially with Karli! She is so excited to get baptized! She was able to meet with Bishop yesterday and get to know him better! We had taught her about tithing which was something that was really hard for her to accept and she wouldn't commit to it at first so we invited her to pray about it! Then the next day told us she couldn't do it and was really sad and depressed because she wasnt financially stable at the moment to pay it! So we told her not to focus on it and to talk to Bishop about it when she met with him on Sunday! Then she called us on Saturday night so excited because she got the answer that she just needs to figure out how to budget her money better and she can pay tithing! It was absolutely amazing to see her find the answer to her questions and to really rely on God for the answers! She has grown so much just in the last 2 weeks we have been teaching her! When she came to church yesterday she told us she felt more comfortable and was able to meet more people and she continually just told us how happy she was and how much happier she has been since she started meeting with us and applying what we invited her to in her life! It has really strengthened my testimony of how powerful the gospel of Jesus Christ is and how it can truly change you and make you happier in life!
We got the chance to go to our wards trunk or treat and carve a pumpkin! Ours said CTR but it kind of broke so it didn't look as good as it could have but it was still lots of fun! Then on acutal Halloween we got to spend the night with the YSA sisters! We had to be in at 5 so we all had dinner together then did our planning and then took some fun pictures and talked until it was 10:30 which then changed to 9:30 due to daylight savings so we got an extra hour of sleep which was much needed and appreciated!
Funny story/miracle: We got a referral from a member in Sidney on Thursday so we went to go contact her on Friday and i was trying to find parking (it is so hard to find parking in Victoria) and i finally found one but i had to parallel park! I hate parallel parking but i still did it anyway even though the space we found was kind of small! Sister Bell started to back me in and i was going and i kind of wasn't paying as much attention since there were people waiting behind me and i accidentally squished Sister Bell in between our car and the car behind us. She was sitting on the hood of the car making the car alarm go off! It was so funny and thankfully she didnt get hurt or anything. Sadly we had all that happen and the referral, Betty wasn't home. So we tried again on Sunday night and she let us right in and we taught her about the Book of Mormon and how Jesus Christ can help her and she committed to be baptized! It was an amazing miracle!
I love this gospel so much and my desire to share it with others has been getting stronger as i realize that i only have so much longer to share what i know as a full time missionary! This gospel has changed my life and i love that fact that i get to see that change in others lives! I was thinking about my conversion story this week and realized how many people, spiritual experiences and different moments i have had throughout my life bring me to where i am today and to know what i know today! Before my mission i felt like i believed a lot of things, i believe Joseph Smith was a prophet. I believed The Book of Mormon was true, etc but as i have continually shared what i believed i have realized that i now KNOW without a doubt that Joseph Smith was called as a prophet of God to restore Christ full gospel and priesthood back to the earth and he translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God specifically for our generation today to be that evidence and keystone of all we believe, and i KNOW that Jesus Christ is my Savior and Redeemer and he suffered for me so that i could be forgiven for everything! I know that even if i was the only person on the earth that he would have still come down and suffer for me because he loves me that much!
Love,
Sister Heaton
Our CTR pumpkin
Us with the YSA and Sidney Sisters
When we have lessons or meetings at the church we pack a lunch and eat there!
We saw a man with a pumpkin for a head!
We made our own pottery together on P-day!
Last P-day we went to the Fishermans Wharf and got to feed a seal (some lady bought us fish to feed it, she was so nice) and had some yummy mini donuts with the YSA sisters and the Sidney Sisters! It was a lot of fun!
We were able to see so many miracles this week especially with Karli! She is so excited to get baptized! She was able to meet with Bishop yesterday and get to know him better! We had taught her about tithing which was something that was really hard for her to accept and she wouldn't commit to it at first so we invited her to pray about it! Then the next day told us she couldn't do it and was really sad and depressed because she wasnt financially stable at the moment to pay it! So we told her not to focus on it and to talk to Bishop about it when she met with him on Sunday! Then she called us on Saturday night so excited because she got the answer that she just needs to figure out how to budget her money better and she can pay tithing! It was absolutely amazing to see her find the answer to her questions and to really rely on God for the answers! She has grown so much just in the last 2 weeks we have been teaching her! When she came to church yesterday she told us she felt more comfortable and was able to meet more people and she continually just told us how happy she was and how much happier she has been since she started meeting with us and applying what we invited her to in her life! It has really strengthened my testimony of how powerful the gospel of Jesus Christ is and how it can truly change you and make you happier in life!
We got the chance to go to our wards trunk or treat and carve a pumpkin! Ours said CTR but it kind of broke so it didn't look as good as it could have but it was still lots of fun! Then on acutal Halloween we got to spend the night with the YSA sisters! We had to be in at 5 so we all had dinner together then did our planning and then took some fun pictures and talked until it was 10:30 which then changed to 9:30 due to daylight savings so we got an extra hour of sleep which was much needed and appreciated!
Funny story/miracle: We got a referral from a member in Sidney on Thursday so we went to go contact her on Friday and i was trying to find parking (it is so hard to find parking in Victoria) and i finally found one but i had to parallel park! I hate parallel parking but i still did it anyway even though the space we found was kind of small! Sister Bell started to back me in and i was going and i kind of wasn't paying as much attention since there were people waiting behind me and i accidentally squished Sister Bell in between our car and the car behind us. She was sitting on the hood of the car making the car alarm go off! It was so funny and thankfully she didnt get hurt or anything. Sadly we had all that happen and the referral, Betty wasn't home. So we tried again on Sunday night and she let us right in and we taught her about the Book of Mormon and how Jesus Christ can help her and she committed to be baptized! It was an amazing miracle!
I love this gospel so much and my desire to share it with others has been getting stronger as i realize that i only have so much longer to share what i know as a full time missionary! This gospel has changed my life and i love that fact that i get to see that change in others lives! I was thinking about my conversion story this week and realized how many people, spiritual experiences and different moments i have had throughout my life bring me to where i am today and to know what i know today! Before my mission i felt like i believed a lot of things, i believe Joseph Smith was a prophet. I believed The Book of Mormon was true, etc but as i have continually shared what i believed i have realized that i now KNOW without a doubt that Joseph Smith was called as a prophet of God to restore Christ full gospel and priesthood back to the earth and he translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God specifically for our generation today to be that evidence and keystone of all we believe, and i KNOW that Jesus Christ is my Savior and Redeemer and he suffered for me so that i could be forgiven for everything! I know that even if i was the only person on the earth that he would have still come down and suffer for me because he loves me that much!
Love,
Sister Heaton
Our CTR pumpkin
Us with the YSA and Sidney Sisters
When we have lessons or meetings at the church we pack a lunch and eat there!
We saw a man with a pumpkin for a head!
We made our own pottery together on P-day!