What a crazy week it was! I don't even remember what happened it all went by so fast! We got to see Karli a lot this week to keep helping her prepare for her baptism this Saturday! She is so excited! She had her interview on Saturday and passed with flying colors! Tonight we are taking her the baptism outfits so she can try them on! She is amazing and seriously has come such a long way! I have only know her for almost a month now but it feels like i have know her for so much longer!

We had Stake Conference this weekend and President and Sister Burt came and spoke! It was amazing! We heard a lot about opening our mouths and just talking to people no matter what we talk about but just really building relationships with people then introducing the gospel when the time is right! Very inspiring and spiritual as always! We also got to have interviews with President and Sister Burt! They both gave me some encouraging words to help me finish off strong and keep working hard! They also encouraged us to pray and include Heaven more into our plans and our days so we can be sure to do the Fathers will and be where he wants us to be!

After we had our interviews last night we talked more about what we can do to be more focused on the work and to help the ward and the investigators we have! Then last night we decided to start praying to Heavenly Father to include heaven into the work more! We both got a very distinct and clear answer to go and visit a recent convert that we had gotten a text from who was struggling! It was amazing to receive a very distinct impression from the spirit and know that you were going right where Heavenly Father wanted you to go! It gives you so much more confidence in the work and you can feel you are where you need to be! I now have an even stronger testimony of prayer and know that as we continue to include God in our day even more we will find more of his prepared children and be able to follow his will more exactly!
I love you all so much and can't wait to hear from you next week!

Love,
Sister Heaton

Pictures:
Sorry there isn't a lot of them this week! We have a goal to take more pictures!
1. Beautiful ocean view
2. We stuck a mormon.org card to a spider web! It was great!

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

This week as always went by way to fast! It was a very interesting week for sure with all the transfers and changes! But i know this is going to be the best transfer!

We had Sister Jeppson our Sister Training Leader with us on Tuesday due to her companion being transferred! So we got to see her off! Then we had a wonderful lunch at our favorite place La Belle Patate with a wonderful member Brother Lott! Then got to see 2 of our recent converts and see some of the YSA recent converts and then at the end of the day we got to spend time with Karli! She is doing so well! She stopped drinking coffee and smoking and seriously can't wait to be baptized on the 14th of November! She is the most golden investigator i have ever met! She has had some amazing witnesses of truth and has a great desire to do good and have the spirit in her life!

Karli is our only progressing investigator right now! We have a few that are eternal investigators but are just waiting to make a decision about things that are holding them back like smoking or living with their boyfriend so we are not seeing them a lot but enough to let them know we love them and are here for them when they make the decision! But we have a bunch of appointments set up with new people we have this week so we are excited to increase our teaching pool and find more of Heavenly Fathers children that are prepared and ready for the gospel!

Then Sister Magleby left me at 9 am on Wednesday morning after a long night of helping her get all her stuff packed! After that, Sister Jeppson and i were companions for the day and were in charge of getting all the sisters to their new areas and to the ferry on time! So we took a Sister to the ferry at 1 and had her companion with us until 2:30 when her companion came in then we had a dinner appointment we went to since our companions were suppose to come in at 4:30 but missed their ferry by 2 minutes so we got them at 6:30 except we got a little lost on some round about (5 in a row) and a side road that was really pretty but finally got our companions! It was an adventurous day!

My new companion is Sister Bell! She is amazing and is such an amazing missionary! We have set so many goals for the transfer and really want to work really hard and make sure we make this transfer a transfer of miracles! We already have seen so many miracles with the short time we have been together, making me so excited for the rest of the transfer! She is so full of desire and loves to work, so it has been a really good change! She is determined to help me finish my mission strong which is exactly what i need! She has so many good ideas and really wants to help our investigators progress!

Our Bishop here, Bishop Nohr had all the missionaries stand up in sacrament because each companionship in the ward had a new missionary and announced that we want to come to members homes and they don't have to feed us just let us in their homes so that we could feel of their spirit and we could share an uplifting message to build their testimonies and faith! It was amazing and we already got a call from a member wanting us to come and see them! It is going to be amazing! And with my goal of making sure i leave the area better than i found it we will for sure be working hard and being as exactly obedient and i know we will help the area progress even more!

I love you all and hope you have an amazing week! Can't wait to talk to you next week and hear all about how your Halloween was! :)

Love,
Sister Heaton

So we got our transfer news on Saturday and I AM DYING IN VICTORIA! And getting a different companion named Sister Bell. She has only been out for 3 months so she is still a baby but it will be great! I can't wait to see what these next few weeks have in store for me and all the amazing last minute miracles i get to experience while i am still a full time missionary! When we got the news i was really sad that I wasn't going to end my mission with Sister Magleby! We have gotten so close in just a short amount of time! We have had so many amazing and fun experiences these past few weeks that i will never forget! I are almost the same person! I like to call our companionship a "twinpanionship" because we say the same thing at the same time all the time and are thinking the same thing all the time and like so many of the same things it is crazy! She is amazing and i can't wait to hear how the rest of her mission is especially as she goes to Kelowna with my MTC companion Sister Tingson to pink wash!

This week went by so fast.Time is seriously going by in fast forward! We leave in the morning and then somehow it is night again and we are pulling in for the night! I don't know how it happens!

We were also able to have a great Sunday this past week! Karli came to all 3 hours of church and loved it and can't wait to meet again on Tuesday! She is understanding everything and we had an interesting gospel principles class all about the second coming and thankfully we had taught her about the plan of salvation and answered a lot of the questions that came up in class so she knew exaclty what was going on so that was really cool! Also me and my companion and another Sister got to sing in Sacrament! We sang Nearer My God To Thee! It was amazing! We got a lot of compliments and a lot of people were crying so it was really good! Then on Sunday night we got to go to a Stake MTC for all the leaders in each of the wards in Victoria and President Burt came so we got to see him and hear from him! It was all about how we just need to start conversations and just open our mouths! It was very inspiring and very uplifting!

I love the gospel and sharing it with others and helping other people understand how it applies to them and how it can help them in their lives just like it has helped me in mine! I am excited to really rededicate these last 7 weeks of my mission to make sure i do everything i can for the Lord and his work before its over! This gospel is something that has changed my life and i know can change anyone that is willing to know for themselves if it is true but it all starts with desire and faith! It is only then that the Lord will be willing to give us what he knows we willing to do what we can to act on our answer and apply it! One of the best ways to get answers is from the Book of Mormon! It answers all the questions of the soul and will never lead us in the wrong direction! I love you all and can't wait to talk to you next week! :)

Love,
Sister Heaton

Us and our Recent Convert Magdalayna-Teaching the Plan of Salvation again!
Our District-we are the only Sisters

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!!!!

That is why i am emailing you a day later! Our mission president wants us out on holidays so every time a holiday is on a Monday our p-day turns into a Tuesday! But it was well worth it! We got to have dinner at our Bishops house on Sunday night with a few other members and a non member friend! Our bishop gave him a french Book of Mormon for us! It was great! Then yesterday on real Thanksgiving we had dinner with the cutest family, the McNiells! They also had non member family there! it was great, they asked us a lot of questions and we were able to share a very uplifting message about gratitude! We had the usual Thanksgiving foods: Turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, vegetables (including cauliflower with cheese sauce and sweet potato pie that should have been dessert! SO GOOD) and pumpkin pie to top it off! I am so grateful that we were able to spend time with the members and feel at home!
We also had the most amazing miracle! We got a call from the Elders in another ward here in Victoria and they told us they got a referral that was in our area! This girl had been learning from missionaries online in Mexico so we were able to go and meet her! Her name is Karli McInnis! She is so cute and wants to get baptized so we set a date for the 14th of November! She is dating a member in another ward and can't wait to get married in the temple! She is pretty much already living everything and is SO prepared!!!! So that was amazing! We dropped almost everyone we were teaching and were blessed with this amazingly prepared woman!
We are also teaching a woman named Linda who was taking the lessons a few years back from missionaries in Parksville and met some of the elders on the bus! She has had a really hard life but as we testified to her about the gospel and how much happiness it will bring her and she got really excited to learn more about the plan of salvation!
We also had what we call "Park the Car Day" this saturday and they changed it so we can't use our car at all so we can rely on other modes of transportation kike a member or the bus or walking or bikes! We were on exchange and i was in the YSA sisters area and we couldn't find a member to drive us to meet the other sister at the chapel so we had to walk. I had about 30 pounds i had to carry and I still don't know the area very well and i had no idea how far we were actually walking! We ended up having to walk for 2 hours! With this giant duffle bag i had i thought i was going to die! I have never been so tired or sore before! Then a few hours later it rained on us as we were making our way home so that was a lot of fun! It made me feel better anyway! I am finally now almost recovered physically and i know that the Lord strengthened me the whole way!  
Other than that we have been really finding and talking to lots of people oh and we were finding at a place called Saxe Point and ended up seeing a bald eagle, a hummingbird and then 2 ORCAS! They were right in front of us! It was amazing to see them! We were very thankful for that amazing experience! Then we got to see some seals that you can feed by one of the bays! Lets just say it was a great week full of adventures and miracles!!!!
I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here and share the gospel with all those i meet! Just having the opportunity to bear testimony to as many people as i can to give them a taste of the spirit and the happiness it can bring them is such a blessing! I love it here in Victoria! I am also very grateful for all of you and the support and love you give me each week by writing to me and sharing you experiences too! Love and miss you all!

Love,
Sister Heaton

The McNiells-Family that fed us thanksgiving
The Orcas!
The Humingbird

Conference somehow has this way of coming so fast and then its over before you know it!!! It was absolutely amazing though and i really got so many answers and recieved so much revelation! So many of the talks were just what i needed to hear and answered my questions and others taught me things i didn't even realize i needed! All in all i can't wait to get the Conference Ensign so i can to review all of the talks and recieve that extra revelation i am always in need of! My favorite talks were Elder Holland, President Nelsons, Elder Ballard and President Uchtdorf! I loved all of the other ones too but those really hit me and helped me in many ways!

This week was very interesting! The only people we have been teaching lately are eternal investigators that were found at the beginning of the year so we decided this week was going to be the deciding week to figure out who needs a break and who is going to progress! We have been finding a lot of YSA or people not in our area which is good but we are in need a teaching pool so that is going to be our focus for the week this week!

We were able to have an amazing Zone Meeting and hear what our leaders learned from their Mission Council and what we need to focus on as a mission. We talked a lot about faith and really increasing it to find more people who are prepared! I also was asked to give a training on Elder Bednar's talk from April Conference "They Hushed Their Fears." I was able to learn so much while preparing this training and really started to understand faith and how much power it has in our lives when we exercise it! Fear is the opposite of faith so we have to have fears so we can have faith and be able to use it in our lives! Without faith we would have no ability to see miracles and wouldn't be able to repent, be obedient or serve others. It says in Preach My Gospel, " When you have faith in Jesus Christ, you trust the Lord enough to follow His commandments—even when you do not completely understand the reasons for them. You accomplish what the Lord wants you to accomplish. You help bring about good in your own life and the lives of others. You are able to do miracles according to the Lord’s will." Faith is so important in each of our lives and i know as we each exercise it even more we will see Heavenly Father working in our lives and help us see our true potential as His children!

I love this gospel and am so thankful I had the amazing opportunity to sustain the Prophet and apostles especially the 3 new apostles! That was definitely the highlight of this week! Zone Conference was amazing too and i am so glad we were able to receive a greater boost of faith and be reminded of our purpose and what we are doing here! I love this gospel and the opportunity i have to share it! I know that God is in charge and loves each of us and knows what is best for us in our lives! As long as we trust in Him we will be happy! I hope you all have a great week and are able to apply what you learned from Conference!

Love,
Sister Heaton

Sister Magleby and I
Our Zone
Just a piece of Victoria :)

Can't believe how fast this week went by!!!! More like my whole mission! I have been out 16 months today!!!! I don't know about you but it went by a lot faster than i thought it would but i have enjoyed and cherished every moment i have had to be a full time missionary in Canada and can't wait to use every minute i have left to work even harder!!!

This was a crazy week! We have been finding like crazy just searching for more people to teach!There are people all over to talk to so we have been able to meet lots of people! We have a few investigators that are close to baptism but have been super busy and not able to meet but are meeting this week so i am excited to finally meet them and help them progress! We had kind of a slow week just trying to find more people! Sadly all the people we have been finding that actually want to meet again are YSA and have to be passed to the YSA missionaries but we have a few people we have found we are meeting with this week so we are excited about that! The weird thing is that this transfer is only 5 weeks then my last transfer will be a 7 week transfer due to President going to Utah for a Mission President Training so there is a possibility either me or my comp could be transferred so we will find out on the 17th of October our transfer news if we get any (we are praying that we stay together)! So i am trying to get to know the area as fast as i can just in case Sister Magleby leaves me!

Sister Magleby and i are getting to know each other really well in fact we made a list of all our similarities and are continuing to find more everyday! SO we have been having lots of fun and working really hard together!!!!

We also got to go to the best poutine place in the world called La Belle Patate! It is owned by a member so all the missionaries get as much poutine as we want free!!!! And it is absolutely amazing so that makes it even better!!! Plus we get to have a drink from Quebec called Spruce Beer. It tastes like Christmas in a cup it is so good!!!! So that was a great day too!!! But Saturday was the best day ever!!! We were able to do service for one of our ward members who is really sick with our favorite member Brother Brown this weekend and he made us breakfast while we were cleaning up! It was the most amazing breakfast ever!!! Then later that day was Women's Conference that was absolutely amazing!!!! I can't believe how fast it went by! Each talk was amazing and so many of my questions that i have been having lately have been being answered! Then we got to have chocolate fondue afterwards with our investigator! It was a wonderful night!!!

I seriously can't wait for conference! So many new things like 3 new apostles and Sister Magleby think they are going to announce something else really big too! I can't wait to go and get all that revelation and answers to questions!!!! I am so grateful to have a prophet on the earth and apostles to help us know what we can do to prepare and come even closer to Christ!!! We can always do more and can always work harder to become more fully converted and have our natures changed!!!! Love and miss you all!!!

Love,
Sister Heaton

Us with our Victoria sweat shirts!
Our similarities on a white board! (hopefully you can read some of them)
Us at La Belle Patate

Hello Everyone!!!

It was quite an interesting week! I got all packed up and got to say goodbye to everyone in Port Alberni! That was really hard but i did it and arrived in Victoria safe and sound! It is very much different than Port Alberni in a lot of ways so it has been interesting to get use to the big city since i haven't been a big city in about 10 months now!

My companion Sister Magleby is so cute!!!! She has only been out for 3 months so just finished her training! We have been having so much fun and have had some very interesting experience already!!!! It has been a great few days! We started off delivering the bags for the BC Food Drive that they do every year! I guess they had taken a lot of routes so it took a really long time to get them all done but we did it and then on Saturday spent 3 hours picking up all the bags of food! We gathered over 90 bags of food!!!! It was a lot of food and bags!!! It took up a lot of our week but we had a good time using that time to get to know each other better and have some fun experiences!!!

We have us and 2 sets of Elders in our ward! The best part is we are the only companionship in the ward with a car! The Elders are now on transit due to one of the cars being taken up island and the other companionship is really new to the area so never got one! My ward is full of lots of either old people or kind of crazy people and i was joking with my companion and told her they sent me to die in the ward full of old people so i could be with people my own age! Not sure if i will end my mission hear but i wouldn't be surprised if i did! :)

We don't have a lot of people to teach but have a few that are close to baptism but have just a few things stopping them from it! So we get to go out and find a lot this week to search for more of God's prepared children! I can't wait to find those people that i have been sent to find! I am excited for this next transfer and to see the miracles that He has in store for us in this big city!!! I just can't wait to talk to all of you next week, especially from all the women to hear about what you got out of the Women's Conference this weekend!!! I can't wait to watch it! And when the Women's Conference is here you know that in a week you get to hear from the Prophet and Apostles speak to the world! It will be so exciting to finally hear who the new Apostles are going to be and to hear what we need to focus on now! It is interesting to think how much the world has changed in the past 6 months and to be able to hear what we can do to prepare for the next 6 months again! I am so grateful for the knowledge and testimony that i have been able to gain about having a prophet on the earth today and how important it is! We are all so lucky to have this knowledge and know we are loved and can receive the guidance we need to return to live with our Heavenly Father once again!!! Love you all and hope you have a great week!!!!

Love,
Sister Heaton

Pictures:
Us and the YSA Sisters at the Food Drive
Sister Magleby and I
Us again delivering the BC bags

All i have to say is the Port Alberni is serioulsy amazing and is so full of miracles! This transfer has been the most miraculous transfer in my whole mission! We were able to see so many! We just got transfer calls again!!! So crazy how fast time has flown by! I have no idea what happened to this past transfer but it has been one of the best on my mission! The Lord has given me one of the most interesting and craziest missions, but i am very thankful! I love change and i love adventures and you definitely learn more when you are out of your comfort zone! I will be honest i was quite sad when i heard i was leaving Port Alberni, Sister Atkinson and i were seeing so many miracles and have found so many amazing prepared people but i know that the Lord needs me in Victoria for a reason. It is actually really interesting, when i was praying to know if that is where he really needed me there and for confirmation i was reading in my studies 1 Nephi 17 all about Nephi and his family leaving their beautiful land in Bountiful and building a boat to go to the promised land. When i likened that to myself i realized that Port Alberni is amazing but the Lord has somewhere even better for me to go and that truly helped me to know that he has people prepared and ready for me in Victoria whether its my companion, people they are working with or someone we have to find i am excited to go and do what the Lord needs me to do and find the miracles that are prepared in Victoria!

Port Alberni is doing amazing though! We had our wonderful baptism with Pam and even more amazing we had 3 investigators we are working with come as well! Two of them are a couple, Betty and Robert! Betty and Robert are people we found in our area book that we have been meaning to go and see for a while now and for some reason we always forgot or didn't  have any time or they weren't home when we tried. We had a lesson for 4 all ready and a member and then it cancelled last minute so we decided to go out with our member anyway. We had 5 backups that we prayed about and i felt really strongly we should see Betty and so did the member. So we walked over there! Timing was amazing! Betty wasn't home but Robert has just gotten back from Alberta the day before and so he let us in and they had been looking for a church as of recently so we got to teach him the whole restoration and the spirit was so strong! He wanted us to come back and teach his wife the same thing! So she called us later that night and set up an appointment for Friday. We met with her and taught her the whole thing again and Robert was pretty much testifying of it the whole time! They said they would be baptized on the 10th of October! They are as golden as you can get! We found them on Thursday miraculously and then met with them again on Friday and they came to the baptism on Saturday and to church on Sunday!  They are so thirsty to know more about the gospel and already know it is true! They are so willing to be obedient to the commandments and love how welcome everyone is at church! I am so sad i won't be here to help them but as long as they make the covenant with Heavenly Father i will be happy!

We also got to go the famous tourist place on the island, Tofino! Sadly it was super foggy but still beautiful! it was a fun p-day activity though! We had some amazing food and had a great time with the Hunters, the senior couple that took us! They are so funny and so sweet!

I am so grateful for everything! I have learned so much in just these past few weeks! This gospel has truly changed my life and will keep changing me so i can continue to come even closer to my Savior! For all he does for me, the least i can do is do all i can to be even closer to him and show him my love! Love and miss you all!

Love,
Sister Heaton

Man this week has been so crazy busy but we have seen so many miracles it is crazy!!! We had a dinner appointment every night this past week and each one was so good!!! One of the members fed us duck from his backyard even!!! It was wonderful!!! We also had a miraculous experience where we got to have dinner with a less active and his fiancee and the spirit was so strong that we invited her to be baptized on September 12 and she said yes and was already living everything! We have been teaching her everyday to prepare her! She is so amazing and has so much faith! Funny story the District leader was driving here to interview her and they got in a car crash! They were fine but they totaled their car! They called and let us know what happened and we kept asking if they were okay and all they wanted was a ride so they could come interview Pam! Then she passed it was great!
We have been finding and teaching so many people! We have a native couple James and Alice who are so prepared and every time we go and teach them the spirit is so strong!!! They accepted a baptismal date for the 10th of October!!!! It was just so amazing
The Lord is so good to us and has been blessing us so much!!! I have never seen so many amazing miracles before and they just keep coming! We have so many people to teach we have no time to do anything else but it is all so worth it!!!
I love this area and i love being an instrument in the Lords work! I have grown and changed so much all because of the many experience i have had and the amazing opportunities i have had to share the gospel and rely on the Lord! He has done so much for us and all he asks us for in return is to do everything we can to live our best so we can be with him again! It all come down to being obedient and keeping the commandments and he will take care of the rest as long as we do what we can to follow what he has given us! I love it here so much! Hope you all have an amazing week, i know i will!!! :)

Love,
Sister Heaton

P.S. Sorry my email is so short we are going to the most amazing place in the world that i will tell you all about next week! Also there are way too many miracles to share!!!