Hello!
Its been another great week! We have been really blessed! The ward here is amazing and is taking such good care of us. We have seen more miracles but we have also had the adversary in our face trying to get us down but together sis. Anderson and i keep each other up and positive.
There has been alot of snow and yes we tract in it! It is invigorating! The spirit keeps us warm or at least helps us keep our thoughts off the fact that our toes our numb. We realized we need boots because our shoes keep filling up with snow so we will go buy some today....lots of people feel bad for us but not so many let us in. Ha Ha.....also people are so busy celebrating Christmas that they dont have time to hear a message about why we have Christmas. Isn't it ironic? Well it does not matter cuz we just keep working hard and we have had some really neat experiences and are still setting up appointments with many people for after the holidays. But untill then we will continue tracting! wow i am learning great things about perserverance and prayer! President has given sister Anderson and I the special assignment of figuring out how to get the "im allright Jack" people to listen to the message we have...so please let us know if you have any ideas on how to help the people who are content with thier life as it is to have a desire for the gospel in thier lives... That is our mission right now....President told us he wants us to become universal teachers so that we can convince anyone that they need the gospel......he has actually asked us to be "traveling sisters" so next tranfer he will send us all over the mission to do exchanges with all the sisters so that the sisters can get as much training as the elders do. That will be a really neat experience. We actually spent an hour with President at zone confrence talking about these ideas. He is such an inspired man. He also gave us blessings. I am so grateful for the Priesthood.
well i almost forgot but on Tuesday we set a baptism date with a women named June. She is a single women with two kids. She loves volunteering and serving. She was a refferal from the spanish elders. She went to a Christmas concert at the church and felt the spirit so strong that she went the next night too. The sisters taught her the first lesson and she knew it was all true. So we taught her again. we cleared up some questions and the spirit was so strong it was almost tangible! Then we set the date for January 18. Wow what a neat women. And Satan has been working on her ever since but she is overcoming because she knows what she felt is real. Wow! It is such a neat thing to feel the holy Ghost work through you. I know this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ!
Love, Sister Flake
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
December 29, 2008 Email
Well hello!
Wow that was so great to talk to you on Christmas! And it made it even better to here from all the cousins and grandma and grandmpa too! Thanks for the advice and encouragement. Were going to be trying alot of new things. So i was telling you how are ward mission leader is kind of hard to communicate with because hes chinese....well i had an epiphany yesterday during ward correlation. We were trying to help him express his many great ideas in a way that people would listen and be enthused and it worked really remarkably...and i had the thought that i should change my major to communications....? Not that i have time to think about it much now but i really feel that the training im getting out here is preparing me for the future....well obviously ....but i was just thinking about everything ive learned from president about persuasion and helpping people find truth and plus all the english classes ive taught here.... i just want to help people express themselves and help people understand each other...a peacemaker.... and anyway it will help in all aspects of my life. So mom is there a communications program at Dixie? well anyway it could help me be a more qualified motivational speaker as well! HA HA! Well back to the mission...sorry bout the tangent. The soup kitchen at the Catholic church on Christmas was such an amazing experience. We went there not intending to proselite of course... and we served dinner and then sat with some homeless and widdows.....it was an incredible expereince....i had 5 people at the table with me asking all kinds of questions about the church! I couldnt believe it....they were interested in our beliefs and such. I felt like i was in an interview. It was the topic of discussion. One lady was so excited to know that i went on a date with donnie osmonds son! HA HA! and we talked about the new temple and everything else! And they started telling me all the people that they know that were mormons. and this really cute 18 year olg girl from the catholic church sat next to me and had the most sincere questions about the purpose of life and Christ....she was telling me how she has a religion course at her catholic high school but they dont use the bible to teach it....they just talk.....and so she was really wnating to learn about the bible....so i taught her a bunch and taught her her relationship to God....That He is her Father in Heaven and she is a daughter of God....she was really toched and the spirit bore witness that it was true. we talked about meeting again....i gave her information about the Ecuador orphanage program becase she was telling me about her desire to reach out and do some kind of mission.....and she plays soccer so we had a connection. she was a really neat girl and at a cross road in her life.....She was telling me how her freinds are pullling her one way but she wants to have that relationship with God....she knows she cant have both right now....so it was so neat that God placed us at the same table so i could share with her the reasons to stay on Gods side and stay strong against temptations. So her and the lady on the other side of me who was a widow from Ireland expressed their desire to meet agian! Who wuold have thought that would happen! At a catholic church! The Lord is so aware of each of us! This is His true church and People are drawn to the light the gospel gives us....if they are searching for that light! So let your light so shine! And pray to be placed in places where the Lord can help others through you! The gospel so so true! The Lord is my Light! He is my strength! I love you all!
Love sister flake
Wow that was so great to talk to you on Christmas! And it made it even better to here from all the cousins and grandma and grandmpa too! Thanks for the advice and encouragement. Were going to be trying alot of new things. So i was telling you how are ward mission leader is kind of hard to communicate with because hes chinese....well i had an epiphany yesterday during ward correlation. We were trying to help him express his many great ideas in a way that people would listen and be enthused and it worked really remarkably...and i had the thought that i should change my major to communications....? Not that i have time to think about it much now but i really feel that the training im getting out here is preparing me for the future....well obviously ....but i was just thinking about everything ive learned from president about persuasion and helpping people find truth and plus all the english classes ive taught here.... i just want to help people express themselves and help people understand each other...a peacemaker.... and anyway it will help in all aspects of my life. So mom is there a communications program at Dixie? well anyway it could help me be a more qualified motivational speaker as well! HA HA! Well back to the mission...sorry bout the tangent. The soup kitchen at the Catholic church on Christmas was such an amazing experience. We went there not intending to proselite of course... and we served dinner and then sat with some homeless and widdows.....it was an incredible expereince....i had 5 people at the table with me asking all kinds of questions about the church! I couldnt believe it....they were interested in our beliefs and such. I felt like i was in an interview. It was the topic of discussion. One lady was so excited to know that i went on a date with donnie osmonds son! HA HA! and we talked about the new temple and everything else! And they started telling me all the people that they know that were mormons. and this really cute 18 year olg girl from the catholic church sat next to me and had the most sincere questions about the purpose of life and Christ....she was telling me how she has a religion course at her catholic high school but they dont use the bible to teach it....they just talk.....and so she was really wnating to learn about the bible....so i taught her a bunch and taught her her relationship to God....That He is her Father in Heaven and she is a daughter of God....she was really toched and the spirit bore witness that it was true. we talked about meeting again....i gave her information about the Ecuador orphanage program becase she was telling me about her desire to reach out and do some kind of mission.....and she plays soccer so we had a connection. she was a really neat girl and at a cross road in her life.....She was telling me how her freinds are pullling her one way but she wants to have that relationship with God....she knows she cant have both right now....so it was so neat that God placed us at the same table so i could share with her the reasons to stay on Gods side and stay strong against temptations. So her and the lady on the other side of me who was a widow from Ireland expressed their desire to meet agian! Who wuold have thought that would happen! At a catholic church! The Lord is so aware of each of us! This is His true church and People are drawn to the light the gospel gives us....if they are searching for that light! So let your light so shine! And pray to be placed in places where the Lord can help others through you! The gospel so so true! The Lord is my Light! He is my strength! I love you all!
Love sister flake
December 15, 2008 Email
Hello!
Oh my goodness! So much has changed! First of all thank you so much for the packages! Wow! It was all so nice and thanks for the camera! Holy Cow! You are amazing! I love you all so much!
Well yes i have been transfered! God strengthend me so much to be able to leave those people who i love so much because He made it easy when you know how usually i can get sooo emotional when i say goodbyes...ha ha! well there was some tears shed by my favoriets there... i love them so much! sherry sammy and deanna especially. and we helped the LeBrun family decorate their tree on my last night there...it was really special. David then decorated me as an angel! Ha ha! I love them so much!
So we switched! Sis. Barnum took my place and i took hers in Langley. My companion is the short Sister Anderson, not the tall one that was my trainer. Anway!! I cant even explain to you how amazing things are going allready....we knew we would serve together eventually....we did exchanges two months ago and hiked Grouse mountain together and since then we had both been hoping to serve together..... wow! so this place was completely dead two transfers ago when the sisters were brought in....sis anderson and sister barnum spent two transfers tracting almost constantly here. and they had one progressing investigator......well lets just say that God knew what was capable with the two of us together because we have been bombarded with miracles since i got here thursday! HOly Cow! God is so amazing! i can not even tell you! We pray all day we have the spirit so strong...and sis. anderson is so obedient and full of enthusiasm so together we are able to do so much!WOW! litteraly miracles....God is working miracles for us....i have never felt so much courage and strength.we have so much unity...when we teach together you can just feel the spirit so strong! i have not really had that unity with my other companions so its just been so amazing because our goals and ambitions are the same and we are both willing to do whatever it takes and so far, its only been three days, but God has just poured down blessings.
so the first night we went tracting in -2 degree weather....yes its cold. and we only went to seven houses and we got invited in to teach and then spent half an hour with another person outside teaching. Then the next time we went tracting in the snow! we got seven phone numbers and taught three lessons on one street! and you know what we dont even take time to go have dinner we just go all out out quickly from door to door and God has blessed us with meals from members that happen to live on the street that invite us in unplanned! wow the members are amazing!
we had a lady come to church with a friend that we sat next to who felt the spirit and then leaned over and said " i have some questions can i give you my number?" Thats unheard of here in Canada! someone offering us their number! Gods work is just booming here! and members are giving us refferals...that never happens! wow! i have never felt Gods love and strength so much in my life! we are preparing this city for a temple and the spirit of God is changing hearts in this place and we are here to enthusiastically gather these elect people! Miracle upon miracle upon miracle we have seen since we have been put together! And you know what our schedules are already filling up with teaching appointments.
So can you tell im a little excited? oh yeah and this members girlfreind who has been coming with him to church talked to the bishop after we taought them in gospel principles and she wants to be baptised..so we will be teaching her soon! and so you can see that many great things will be happening here!
so basically Langley is a pleasant little place....dad you would love all the barns everywhere! and its called little hollywood because lots of movies are filmed here and all the youth our into danceing and acting and singing! so i can relate with the people a little there. it is gorgeous here! and you know what? saturday morning we worked on the farm! Yes the elders in the area next to us have a nonmember that they help with the farm and they needed extra help feeding the cows ! wow it was so fun! we rode on the trailor behind the tractor and tore the hay of the roll and through it out to the cows so fun! the ward is great! Sister anderson is from idaho! She is so dang cute and enthusiastic! We are non stop talking and having fun! wow this is what i wanted missionary work to be like! Non-stop, hard working, miracles every moment, spirit strong! This work is amazing! keep praying for me! The adversary is getting stronger here too......the church is truer then ever!
Love, sister flake
Oh my goodness! So much has changed! First of all thank you so much for the packages! Wow! It was all so nice and thanks for the camera! Holy Cow! You are amazing! I love you all so much!
Well yes i have been transfered! God strengthend me so much to be able to leave those people who i love so much because He made it easy when you know how usually i can get sooo emotional when i say goodbyes...ha ha! well there was some tears shed by my favoriets there... i love them so much! sherry sammy and deanna especially. and we helped the LeBrun family decorate their tree on my last night there...it was really special. David then decorated me as an angel! Ha ha! I love them so much!
So we switched! Sis. Barnum took my place and i took hers in Langley. My companion is the short Sister Anderson, not the tall one that was my trainer. Anway!! I cant even explain to you how amazing things are going allready....we knew we would serve together eventually....we did exchanges two months ago and hiked Grouse mountain together and since then we had both been hoping to serve together..... wow! so this place was completely dead two transfers ago when the sisters were brought in....sis anderson and sister barnum spent two transfers tracting almost constantly here. and they had one progressing investigator......well lets just say that God knew what was capable with the two of us together because we have been bombarded with miracles since i got here thursday! HOly Cow! God is so amazing! i can not even tell you! We pray all day we have the spirit so strong...and sis. anderson is so obedient and full of enthusiasm so together we are able to do so much!WOW! litteraly miracles....God is working miracles for us....i have never felt so much courage and strength.we have so much unity...when we teach together you can just feel the spirit so strong! i have not really had that unity with my other companions so its just been so amazing because our goals and ambitions are the same and we are both willing to do whatever it takes and so far, its only been three days, but God has just poured down blessings.
so the first night we went tracting in -2 degree weather....yes its cold. and we only went to seven houses and we got invited in to teach and then spent half an hour with another person outside teaching. Then the next time we went tracting in the snow! we got seven phone numbers and taught three lessons on one street! and you know what we dont even take time to go have dinner we just go all out out quickly from door to door and God has blessed us with meals from members that happen to live on the street that invite us in unplanned! wow the members are amazing!
we had a lady come to church with a friend that we sat next to who felt the spirit and then leaned over and said " i have some questions can i give you my number?" Thats unheard of here in Canada! someone offering us their number! Gods work is just booming here! and members are giving us refferals...that never happens! wow! i have never felt Gods love and strength so much in my life! we are preparing this city for a temple and the spirit of God is changing hearts in this place and we are here to enthusiastically gather these elect people! Miracle upon miracle upon miracle we have seen since we have been put together! And you know what our schedules are already filling up with teaching appointments.
So can you tell im a little excited? oh yeah and this members girlfreind who has been coming with him to church talked to the bishop after we taought them in gospel principles and she wants to be baptised..so we will be teaching her soon! and so you can see that many great things will be happening here!
so basically Langley is a pleasant little place....dad you would love all the barns everywhere! and its called little hollywood because lots of movies are filmed here and all the youth our into danceing and acting and singing! so i can relate with the people a little there. it is gorgeous here! and you know what? saturday morning we worked on the farm! Yes the elders in the area next to us have a nonmember that they help with the farm and they needed extra help feeding the cows ! wow it was so fun! we rode on the trailor behind the tractor and tore the hay of the roll and through it out to the cows so fun! the ward is great! Sister anderson is from idaho! She is so dang cute and enthusiastic! We are non stop talking and having fun! wow this is what i wanted missionary work to be like! Non-stop, hard working, miracles every moment, spirit strong! This work is amazing! keep praying for me! The adversary is getting stronger here too......the church is truer then ever!
Love, sister flake
Monday, December 8, 2008
Email December 8, 2008
Hello!
i love you! thanks for the updates! Sounds like you are all doing well! That makes me so happy! Thanks for the pictures... a little update..... it is warm here....well compared to Provo. it stays around ten degrees celcius... sometimes i dont need a coat...just a sweater and guess what we have not been outside...we teach constantly and dont have time for tracting and only can contact on the way into appointments. so remember when we use to get like 600 contacts a week? well that hard work payed off because now we just teach and get not much more then 20 contacts a week....and God is really blessing us because we still get about three new investigators a week from referals etc. Amazing!
And Christmas is big here too. We helped our landlord with her Christmas tree and tonight we are having FHE with Deanna, Larry, Gil, Sammy, an Sherry putting up a tree! All of my favorite people...we had FHE last week together too....i guess its tradition now. Its great because Sammy and Deanna are recent converts, Larry is an investigator and Gil and Sherry are less actives. so its really enriching for all! Also they are all really poor. so i was hoping that we could buy Deanna Scriptures for Christmas? I could get a member to buy them at the distribution center and pay them back. Did i tell you she wants to go on a mission in a year? Yeah she is on fire! mom..she doesnt do email....so just write a letter...Thanks.
So anyway its just amazing to me because Deanna is just like the glue that holds all these people together. Its great because there are alot of rich people in the ward who they dont really seem to fit in with so its great that they have all found freinds with in each other. But like the humble Zoramites in the Book of Mormon, the poorer people are way more prepared to listen and more welcoming to other people....cant we all be a little more welcoming to new people? Anyway....today we are taking the sky train to Vancouver! Wont that be exciting? Maybe you can google it to see what im talking about.....its like this train that travels 30 feet above the ground. Pretty cool.
I dont know if i will be transfered i will let you know as soon as i can. But i just love the people here so much! They are angels and my life has been changed forever from associating with them. Another thing is I love the youth in the ward here i have made lots of friends and have tried hard to strenghen them as well.
Merry Christmas! Cant wait to talk to you! Good job being missionaries yourselves!
Love, Sister Flake
i love you! thanks for the updates! Sounds like you are all doing well! That makes me so happy! Thanks for the pictures... a little update..... it is warm here....well compared to Provo. it stays around ten degrees celcius... sometimes i dont need a coat...just a sweater and guess what we have not been outside...we teach constantly and dont have time for tracting and only can contact on the way into appointments. so remember when we use to get like 600 contacts a week? well that hard work payed off because now we just teach and get not much more then 20 contacts a week....and God is really blessing us because we still get about three new investigators a week from referals etc. Amazing!
And Christmas is big here too. We helped our landlord with her Christmas tree and tonight we are having FHE with Deanna, Larry, Gil, Sammy, an Sherry putting up a tree! All of my favorite people...we had FHE last week together too....i guess its tradition now. Its great because Sammy and Deanna are recent converts, Larry is an investigator and Gil and Sherry are less actives. so its really enriching for all! Also they are all really poor. so i was hoping that we could buy Deanna Scriptures for Christmas? I could get a member to buy them at the distribution center and pay them back. Did i tell you she wants to go on a mission in a year? Yeah she is on fire! mom..she doesnt do email....so just write a letter...Thanks.
So anyway its just amazing to me because Deanna is just like the glue that holds all these people together. Its great because there are alot of rich people in the ward who they dont really seem to fit in with so its great that they have all found freinds with in each other. But like the humble Zoramites in the Book of Mormon, the poorer people are way more prepared to listen and more welcoming to other people....cant we all be a little more welcoming to new people? Anyway....today we are taking the sky train to Vancouver! Wont that be exciting? Maybe you can google it to see what im talking about.....its like this train that travels 30 feet above the ground. Pretty cool.
I dont know if i will be transfered i will let you know as soon as i can. But i just love the people here so much! They are angels and my life has been changed forever from associating with them. Another thing is I love the youth in the ward here i have made lots of friends and have tried hard to strenghen them as well.
Merry Christmas! Cant wait to talk to you! Good job being missionaries yourselves!
Love, Sister Flake
Monday, December 1, 2008
Email December 1, 2008
Tis the season to be jolly!
I am so happy right now....i should be sad because its the holidays with out my lovely family but i actually have been so overcome with joy this week....and somewhat emotional......i have never felt so close to Christ. This past week has been an amazing spiritually growing time for me. First off i had an interview with president that really got me thinking about how i can draw closer to the Lord.....and then we spent some time in Burnaby at the Nativity Festival..... while we were waiting for our investigators to arrive i sat in the chapel where they were showing the nativity movie over and over again. I watched it three times in a row. with tears running down my face i sat and pondered the Love of our Saviour and prayed for a fair amount of time..... since then i have been looking at people and seeing Christ with in them..... this has changed the way i teach.....and our last few appointments have been filled with the spirit as i have concentrated on loving them rather then worrying about what to say next.
This is real happiness...i have never felt the Christmas spirit so strong. I love my Saviour. There was a Christmas concert Saturday night at the festival and we had two Persian investigator families show up and we went with a less active lady that we love.....she told us that this is the first Holiday season for at least four years that she has felt the Christmas spirit and she says she thinks its because she has started reading the book of Mormon again......it is a powerful book....it is changing lives. and then we were visiting Sammy, a recent convert from Iran who was baptised in February....the spirit was felt so strongly as we talked about Christ and celebrating His birth.....this will be Sammy's first Christmas as a Christian..... i cant explain how wonderful it is to be introducing our Saviour Jesus Christ to people who do not yet know Him.
Love, Sis. Flake
I am so happy right now....i should be sad because its the holidays with out my lovely family but i actually have been so overcome with joy this week....and somewhat emotional......i have never felt so close to Christ. This past week has been an amazing spiritually growing time for me. First off i had an interview with president that really got me thinking about how i can draw closer to the Lord.....and then we spent some time in Burnaby at the Nativity Festival..... while we were waiting for our investigators to arrive i sat in the chapel where they were showing the nativity movie over and over again. I watched it three times in a row. with tears running down my face i sat and pondered the Love of our Saviour and prayed for a fair amount of time..... since then i have been looking at people and seeing Christ with in them..... this has changed the way i teach.....and our last few appointments have been filled with the spirit as i have concentrated on loving them rather then worrying about what to say next.
This is real happiness...i have never felt the Christmas spirit so strong. I love my Saviour. There was a Christmas concert Saturday night at the festival and we had two Persian investigator families show up and we went with a less active lady that we love.....she told us that this is the first Holiday season for at least four years that she has felt the Christmas spirit and she says she thinks its because she has started reading the book of Mormon again......it is a powerful book....it is changing lives. and then we were visiting Sammy, a recent convert from Iran who was baptised in February....the spirit was felt so strongly as we talked about Christ and celebrating His birth.....this will be Sammy's first Christmas as a Christian..... i cant explain how wonderful it is to be introducing our Saviour Jesus Christ to people who do not yet know Him.
Love, Sis. Flake
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