Hello Family,
Wow! Were going to have a little farm! That is so neat! Kind of funny! But really neat! I actually cant stop smiling right now! Remember when i planted a garden like ten years ago and we left for a few days and everything was scorched! That was sad. but i am sure that you will do a great job. your gonna have to bring in a lot of soil you know....that hard dirt wont grow a dang thing. i cant wait to milk the cow....anyway...... has anyone realized that i am at my half way mark? holy cow! Speaking of cows......anyway ...... Sounds like everything is going great down there!
Tell Jacinda hi and she can wear anything she wants of mine as long as she does it with
S T Y L E! HAHA just kidding...anyway....congrats Andrew on your eagle! I am amazed at you..... you have a letter coming in the mail. Dawson I hope yourmaking the best of your senior year and helping everyone else too! Anyway i guess i can tell you a bit about the week. we have been finding new investigators so that is great.
On valentines we heart attaked a bunch of less actives and investigators and our relief society president. It was great to spread some love. One family in our ward adopted a cute little African girl named Elly......she remindsme so much of my little Michelle in Ecuador! and she likes me lots and i like her lots...anyway i love you all so much!
love sister flake
Monday, February 16, 2009
February 9, Email
Hello dear family!
Thanks for the emails. thanks for the prayers for June. thanks for your encouragement! I just love you all so much! I am so proud of you all! Sister Anderson has been sick this week so thats too bad. we ditched a bit of church but I know God understands:) OH yeah mom thanks so much for sending that picture to Sheila! Oh my she loved it! and she gave me two big hugs...one of them she said was from you! Thanks for that! I almost cried! It meant so much to her mom! And the baptism was so wonderful! Lots of people showed up and Sheila was so calm and peaceful and never stopped smiling! so they invited all the sisters who had taken part in teaching her to bare testimony...it was very touching. Others bore testimony as well....including two converts that moved here from Russia....wow! The spirit was very strong and all were edified! wow the church is so true!
Also this week we taught a family! Amazing I know! There is a huge amount of Buremese people who have saught refuge here....( Buremese people are from the country Burma;) haha. dont worry i didnt know that either! They were all refugees in camps in Thailand where they had to live for 12 years untill they could move to Canada. So anyway we have met tons of these beautiful people around here....they are so humble and believe in Jesus Christ....the problem is they have only been around at most for two years so they dont speak good english....but we did an investigation and asked around until we were led to a man named Skari ( funny i know) who just graduated the free english class that the government offers to these people.....so we have taught them twice.....him, and his wife and 5 year old daughter.....they are receptive to the spirit because they are so humble and live simple lives unlike the rest of the canadians around here....sorry that was not very positive i take it back...haha...anyway we have to teach so simply and there is no church materials in thier language so last night we promised him that if he read the Book of Mormon in enlgish daily that the Lord would bless him to understand and improve his enlish... so he says he will continue to pray about the BOM and Joseph Smith till he finds the answer....
In the mean time president is doing what he can to stop the CLA church (Christian Life Assembly) from teaching anti mormon. and also we were invited to talk to some college students about our religion at Trinity Western University located in our area...its a huge christian school. they have a club specifically for "learning about mormons" which we didnt find out tell later that its soul purpose is to "save the mormons souls" yeah...so anyway this school is one of the reasons why they call our area the bible belt. anyway they were very nice to us.....they asked me what it was like growing up in a mormon family....... i got emotional as i told them how wonderful it was and then bore testimony of the church and what it has done for our family and felt very moved by the spirit.....they could not dispute it.....they tried to bring up polygamy...etc.... but we were able to handle it all very well with the help of the Lord....anyway as you can tell i have had plenty of oppurtuinity to strenghthen my testimony! Oh how grateful i am for it! i know this gospel is true! The book of Mormon is the word of God! It has become a treasure in my heart! It is so powerful! i love you all!
love, sister flake
Thanks for the emails. thanks for the prayers for June. thanks for your encouragement! I just love you all so much! I am so proud of you all! Sister Anderson has been sick this week so thats too bad. we ditched a bit of church but I know God understands:) OH yeah mom thanks so much for sending that picture to Sheila! Oh my she loved it! and she gave me two big hugs...one of them she said was from you! Thanks for that! I almost cried! It meant so much to her mom! And the baptism was so wonderful! Lots of people showed up and Sheila was so calm and peaceful and never stopped smiling! so they invited all the sisters who had taken part in teaching her to bare testimony...it was very touching. Others bore testimony as well....including two converts that moved here from Russia....wow! The spirit was very strong and all were edified! wow the church is so true!
Also this week we taught a family! Amazing I know! There is a huge amount of Buremese people who have saught refuge here....( Buremese people are from the country Burma;) haha. dont worry i didnt know that either! They were all refugees in camps in Thailand where they had to live for 12 years untill they could move to Canada. So anyway we have met tons of these beautiful people around here....they are so humble and believe in Jesus Christ....the problem is they have only been around at most for two years so they dont speak good english....but we did an investigation and asked around until we were led to a man named Skari ( funny i know) who just graduated the free english class that the government offers to these people.....so we have taught them twice.....him, and his wife and 5 year old daughter.....they are receptive to the spirit because they are so humble and live simple lives unlike the rest of the canadians around here....sorry that was not very positive i take it back...haha...anyway we have to teach so simply and there is no church materials in thier language so last night we promised him that if he read the Book of Mormon in enlgish daily that the Lord would bless him to understand and improve his enlish... so he says he will continue to pray about the BOM and Joseph Smith till he finds the answer....
In the mean time president is doing what he can to stop the CLA church (Christian Life Assembly) from teaching anti mormon. and also we were invited to talk to some college students about our religion at Trinity Western University located in our area...its a huge christian school. they have a club specifically for "learning about mormons" which we didnt find out tell later that its soul purpose is to "save the mormons souls" yeah...so anyway this school is one of the reasons why they call our area the bible belt. anyway they were very nice to us.....they asked me what it was like growing up in a mormon family....... i got emotional as i told them how wonderful it was and then bore testimony of the church and what it has done for our family and felt very moved by the spirit.....they could not dispute it.....they tried to bring up polygamy...etc.... but we were able to handle it all very well with the help of the Lord....anyway as you can tell i have had plenty of oppurtuinity to strenghthen my testimony! Oh how grateful i am for it! i know this gospel is true! The book of Mormon is the word of God! It has become a treasure in my heart! It is so powerful! i love you all!
love, sister flake
Monday, February 2, 2009
Picture link from Langley
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Christmas, New Years, Helping on the Farm, the Temple under construction, converts with Sis. Anderson from Idaho
Christmas, New Years, Helping on the Farm, the Temple under construction, converts with Sis. Anderson from Idaho
Email February 2, 2009
Oh dear family! How i love you! Thanks so much for the emails. I so appriciate your support! Mother thanks for taking care of everything i asked about. Thank you for the updates bros! i am so proud of you two! and dad thanks for the enouraging words. Can you really tell that i am maturing? because i still feel pretty inmature most the time! HaHa. I soppose thats one reason im out here... :)
sorry i didnt update you much last week.....i ran out of time and my email was erased. but life has been good..... we did have a major trial......the hardest trial of my life actually.....well it could have been....but we recieved priesthood blessings and so we are doing fine...... i didnt really want to say it cuz i didnt want any of you feeling discouraged because everthing is going to work out the way the Lord wants it to. so anyway june, the wonderful women who was just baptised had an old friend rip her beliefs apart. and she invited us over to let us know that she would not be coming to church anymore. Yes it hurt...it hurt bad....and her "christian friend" was there to make sure she went through with it. I have never felt so much coldness....she had been manipulating June and then she manipulated us and told us we couldnt talke to June anymore and then kicked us out of Junes house. I felt like i had just met the devil. we sobbed and then sobbed some more and then got a blessing from the elders and felt much peace and have felt great ever since. June is going through a major trial of faith..... we know that she will come around soon...... she has felt the spirit and so much love from the ward....once this manipulating anti mormon gets out of her life she will come back.....or once she realizes how evertyhing in her life that got better since being baptised gets worse again..... anyway im telling you this so that you can help contribute faith as a principle of power and unite with us and the wonderful ward members here in getting June back into the fold! and dont worry about me because it just makes me want to work harder....seriously i feel so much peace about the whole thing and i just want to save as many people from the devil as i can. so anyway..... tissues any one? haha..... well i know more then ever the truthfullness of this gospel.....i love bearing my testimony to the children of God here in Langley..... its such an amazing feeling to go from house to house bearing testimony to everyone even though most dont listen. The spirit is so stong....it burns with in....and i love it because i love the Lord! and even though it would seem as if were not getting anywhere sometimes the Lord blesses you with the spirit so strong that you just know that what you are doing is what the Lord wants you to be doing at that time. and then you feel how much he loves each person you talk to you and i know there is not a better feeling....and i am just so grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ who has gone through the ultimate rejection and a perfect suffering and i am just so happy to be able to suffer for the cause of bringing the gospel and the Lord makes it so the suffering doesnts hurt....i love Him so much....i wish i could express it to you,.... i love feeling Him so close to me. Thank you all for the prayers and please pray for June.... love, sister flake
sorry i didnt update you much last week.....i ran out of time and my email was erased. but life has been good..... we did have a major trial......the hardest trial of my life actually.....well it could have been....but we recieved priesthood blessings and so we are doing fine...... i didnt really want to say it cuz i didnt want any of you feeling discouraged because everthing is going to work out the way the Lord wants it to. so anyway june, the wonderful women who was just baptised had an old friend rip her beliefs apart. and she invited us over to let us know that she would not be coming to church anymore. Yes it hurt...it hurt bad....and her "christian friend" was there to make sure she went through with it. I have never felt so much coldness....she had been manipulating June and then she manipulated us and told us we couldnt talke to June anymore and then kicked us out of Junes house. I felt like i had just met the devil. we sobbed and then sobbed some more and then got a blessing from the elders and felt much peace and have felt great ever since. June is going through a major trial of faith..... we know that she will come around soon...... she has felt the spirit and so much love from the ward....once this manipulating anti mormon gets out of her life she will come back.....or once she realizes how evertyhing in her life that got better since being baptised gets worse again..... anyway im telling you this so that you can help contribute faith as a principle of power and unite with us and the wonderful ward members here in getting June back into the fold! and dont worry about me because it just makes me want to work harder....seriously i feel so much peace about the whole thing and i just want to save as many people from the devil as i can. so anyway..... tissues any one? haha..... well i know more then ever the truthfullness of this gospel.....i love bearing my testimony to the children of God here in Langley..... its such an amazing feeling to go from house to house bearing testimony to everyone even though most dont listen. The spirit is so stong....it burns with in....and i love it because i love the Lord! and even though it would seem as if were not getting anywhere sometimes the Lord blesses you with the spirit so strong that you just know that what you are doing is what the Lord wants you to be doing at that time. and then you feel how much he loves each person you talk to you and i know there is not a better feeling....and i am just so grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ who has gone through the ultimate rejection and a perfect suffering and i am just so happy to be able to suffer for the cause of bringing the gospel and the Lord makes it so the suffering doesnts hurt....i love Him so much....i wish i could express it to you,.... i love feeling Him so close to me. Thank you all for the prayers and please pray for June.... love, sister flake
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