Well hello everybody!
Good to hear from all of you! Congrats on the excellent grades bros! And yea Dawson you are done with high school! How does that feel? I appreciate the pictures you sent. Well i love you all and are so proud of you!
Well this week was the most stressful of my whole mission i think. But the Lord is helping me learn to cope with stress. So basically we changed the baptism date for Keith and Tiffany about five times. We were having the hardest time coordinating with parents and with leaders. Anyway it was a big mess. But what happened is that Tiffany will be waiting for her dad to be prepared to use his priesthood so he can baptise her....probably in a month or so. And we ended up having Keith's baptism on Sunday. So all this stress kind of building up was finally washed away as we watched Keith wash away his sins in the waters of baptism! Beautiful! The service was beautiful! We had the youth do the talks and prayers and it was awesome to see how they are so accepting of him. And Keith's mom was there and was really fellow shipped well so we will be working on her, as well as Keith I'm sure. So Keith bore his testimony after the baptism and tears of joy just filled my eyes! The Lord has great things prepared for him. Last week he told us that his class mates and teachers were all throwing questions at him during class when he announced to them that he was going to be a Mormon. He said he was surprised because he was able to answer all the questions. He has so much courage and i am just so pleased with the strength of character of the youth of the church today! wow!
Also Katie went to six hours of church yesterday. She really just thirsts after knowledge! Teaching her has been such a blessing....and like i said before....shes teaching us too. I love the people here. I love teaching people of their true relationship with their Heavenly Father. There is no other message other then the true restored gospel that could get me to walk up to crazy looking people of all walks of life and bring up something as controversial as religion. This gospel means everything to me! I know that this is Gods church!
Love, sister Flake
Monday, May 25, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Well hello! I love you soooooo much! Just a few points of business before I get started...I did receive the memory card...thanks a ton. I hope you enjoyed the pictures I sent you. So did Fusi give you a call? I got an email from her. Which is crazy cuz i was thinking about her the other day? You remember her right. The one from Tonga...or Samoa...can’t remember, she lives in the Boulders and I use to pick her up for church. Well I can’t email her back cuz of the new rules....but can you get her address for me...or give her mine? Thanks so much! Mom I just wanted to say I got the pictures you sent and you look beautiful, and Sister Wong thinks you’re pretty too. You look pretty too dad! HAHA just kidding.....anyway my brothers are huge its kinda scary... how am I gonna keep up on bike rides now? No chance.
So anyway ....life here is great! We had a miracle this week. We met with Keith and asked if we could talk to his mom. At first she said " no he doesn’t need to be baptized, has already been baptized in the Catholic Church." Then we kept talking to her and 5 min later she said she needed to think about it....then we talked a little more about authority and showed her the Strength of Youth pamphlet....and then she said" ok let me check my schedule." Wow! Isn’t that great! She agreed! So Keith and Tiffany will be baptized this Saturday! The Lord answered our prayers...and thanks to all of you who participated in those prayers. Faith in Christ works miracles! So then we had another great miracle from God. Remember about a month ago when I told you I had to buy new Nikes cuz my feet were having problems? well when we were in that store at the mall on Preparation day there was a couple there and the guy was like" hi sisters" and we were like "woa, oh hi" cuz that doesn’t usually happen....so found out he was a member from the states and his girlfriend was not a member from Kelowna (long distance relationship).....so we asked her if she was ready to meet with the missionaries?...haha....and she declined but was very friendly. Well....we forgot about it till last week when we got a call from the office with this girl, Katie Turner as a referral! WOW! So we met with her this week and wow! She is amazing.....she has already been going to church with her boyfriend in the states and came back so she can get a visa and meet with us so she can be baptized! So we asked her how she feels about the church so far....well basically she bore her testimony and we were all teared up as she explained how the first time she walked into the LDS church she was filled with an overwhelming feeling of the spirit....she said she felt like she had returned home! She knows it’s all true.... She is already in Alma and she has notes on every page with things she has learned and questions for us..... she also came to church with us and answered most the questions in gospel principals...the ward members were like" do you want to get baptized after church?" ....she is on fire with the spirit! Amazing! I feel so privileged to be a part of teaching her....she is an elect daughter of God....she grew up in the catholic church...her family is strong catholic....she was frustrated with her church because every time she would ask questions they would tell her "that’s just the way it is....don’t worry about it." so any way she will be baptized in June and she is so amazing and such a great example and faith builder for me! And please pray for her family because they are kind of mad about her investigating the church...The gospel is true and the spirit is real! Love you all!
Love, sister flake
So anyway ....life here is great! We had a miracle this week. We met with Keith and asked if we could talk to his mom. At first she said " no he doesn’t need to be baptized, has already been baptized in the Catholic Church." Then we kept talking to her and 5 min later she said she needed to think about it....then we talked a little more about authority and showed her the Strength of Youth pamphlet....and then she said" ok let me check my schedule." Wow! Isn’t that great! She agreed! So Keith and Tiffany will be baptized this Saturday! The Lord answered our prayers...and thanks to all of you who participated in those prayers. Faith in Christ works miracles! So then we had another great miracle from God. Remember about a month ago when I told you I had to buy new Nikes cuz my feet were having problems? well when we were in that store at the mall on Preparation day there was a couple there and the guy was like" hi sisters" and we were like "woa, oh hi" cuz that doesn’t usually happen....so found out he was a member from the states and his girlfriend was not a member from Kelowna (long distance relationship).....so we asked her if she was ready to meet with the missionaries?...haha....and she declined but was very friendly. Well....we forgot about it till last week when we got a call from the office with this girl, Katie Turner as a referral! WOW! So we met with her this week and wow! She is amazing.....she has already been going to church with her boyfriend in the states and came back so she can get a visa and meet with us so she can be baptized! So we asked her how she feels about the church so far....well basically she bore her testimony and we were all teared up as she explained how the first time she walked into the LDS church she was filled with an overwhelming feeling of the spirit....she said she felt like she had returned home! She knows it’s all true.... She is already in Alma and she has notes on every page with things she has learned and questions for us..... she also came to church with us and answered most the questions in gospel principals...the ward members were like" do you want to get baptized after church?" ....she is on fire with the spirit! Amazing! I feel so privileged to be a part of teaching her....she is an elect daughter of God....she grew up in the catholic church...her family is strong catholic....she was frustrated with her church because every time she would ask questions they would tell her "that’s just the way it is....don’t worry about it." so any way she will be baptized in June and she is so amazing and such a great example and faith builder for me! And please pray for her family because they are kind of mad about her investigating the church...The gospel is true and the spirit is real! Love you all!
Love, sister flake
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Monday, May 11, 2009
May 11 Email and Mothers Day phone call
Hi Friends and family,
We had a delightful visit with Sis. Flake on Sunday morning. She sounds like all is going well. She loves her companion Sis. Wong. They go to the church and dance once a week for exercise. Sis. Wong likes to shop and likes Sushi. Good thing that Lindsey likes that too. They are in a very beautiful area and she says that they are just wearing sweaters now that it has warmed up. They live close to the church and there is just one ward in their area. She will have been out one year on the first week of June. She should be returning in November.
May 11, 2009
Oh how wonderful it was to talk to you yesterday! Wow! you are all as amazing as i remembered. Thank you for your much support and encouragement. what a blessing. and i cant beleive that the next time i will talk to you will be face to face. AHHhh! oh yeah before i forget.. .yes mother i do have another memory card and yes please send me the other one and then i will send you more pics. and Happy Birthday mom!
So my companion and I are of one heart and one mind....yesterday at church sister wong introduced herself to someone: "Hello, im sister Flake" haha it was so funny once she realized what she said. And i wrote my presidents letter yesterday and put down her name instead of mine on accident. We definately have unity. Speaking of unity...this is what we are focusing on as we teach members at dinner appts. "Now ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citezens with the saints and of the house hold of God." So we ask: What makes a stranger turn into a friend? we want to help our ward be one and welcome everyone. sometimes we can get caught up in just going and talking to the same people....but we need to make sure that no one at church is a stranger. So we have been challenging every family to say hi to one new stranger every week untill there is no longer strangers or foreigners at church. i extend the same challenge to any of you that may be reading this right now. We are all brothers and sisters. Lets act like it. UNITY! ..........ZION! its a wonderful thing. i just felt like i was making a commercial....ha ha.....anyways....
I dont know what to talk about other then the church is true and we have investigators who are progressing.... after church yestday i was talking to Keith ( the 13 year old investigator) so i said "hey Kieth is this really the true church" and he said "yeah"....and i said " how do you know?" and he said " everytime i pray and ask God about it i just feel to good." and it is my testimony that it is so good....every bit of it. I just love rejoicing in this glorious gospel. Keith also offered a simple and beautiful prayer at our last appointment....." please help my mom to let me be baptised so that i can recieve the priesthood, and the holy ghost, and live with you in the Celestial Kingdom." How beautiful and simple it is. And we have it! Take a minute and think how blessed you are to have this. Who can you share it with? Pray and find someone today. well thats all for now...until next week....love, sister flake
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
May 4 Email
News from Sister Flake in Kelowna, BC, Canada
Subject: This is God's work!
OH my goodness! I feel so blessed to be a part of this great work! Things have really taken off here! It's been a spiritually powerful week! At zone conference president inspired us to challenge more people to be baptized...not to wait tell their ready...but to challenge them to be ready....so we asked almost everyone this week and we now have two people being baptized on the 23 of May! Well i don’t think that I have told you about them yet. Tiffany is 12 years old. Her father is a member that hasn’t been to church for years because of work..... but we have been teaching her and her friend Keith who is 13 and had interest. So we have been teaching them for about a month and they are so wonderful. I love teaching them. They both came to church yesterday and they are already excited to be involved in the activities and the youth really engulfed them! Yea for the wonderful members of the ward. One little problem is that Keith's mom is Catholic and has not agreed yet. So please pray that she will soften her heart and allow him to be baptized! He received his answer about the Book of Mormon and started reading it at school during reading time. His friends have tried telling him bad rumors about Mormons and he was strong enough to resist! WOW! For the strength of youth!
Also pray for Mauro....he is one of those eternal investigators...he wants to be baptized so bad but he is an alcoholic.....but this week he called and said he is done with the beer! He said he was drinking and looked at the beer he was holding in his hand and as he read the brand of beer he was determined to change....the can read "Hells gate" clever brand name eh?
Now to tell you of some answered prayers. I told you how our ward is in the "way older" category...and most our investigators are young....so we have been going to the other ward to find fellow shippers. Well yesterday at church we had 9 people in their 20s move in to sell security systems for the summer! We already have two of them coming to appointments with us this week! WOW! The Lord is so amazing! what a huge blessing! And Dan came to church this week. He's praying for a baptism date! and then another amazing thing that God did for us ....we had scheduled two appointment at the church Friday night....not knowing that the other ward had a convert baptism scheduled that night as well. (the elders forget to tell us those things sometimes) but anyway God knew...and it all worked out because Dan and David got to be at the baptism and the spirit was powerful as usual! Thank you Heavenly Father! So as you can tell I am very happy and being a part of this great work is so fulfilling. I know that this is God's church! I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet! I know that God is with us in this work! The gospel is true....you better believe it!
Love, sister flake
Subject: This is God's work!
OH my goodness! I feel so blessed to be a part of this great work! Things have really taken off here! It's been a spiritually powerful week! At zone conference president inspired us to challenge more people to be baptized...not to wait tell their ready...but to challenge them to be ready....so we asked almost everyone this week and we now have two people being baptized on the 23 of May! Well i don’t think that I have told you about them yet. Tiffany is 12 years old. Her father is a member that hasn’t been to church for years because of work..... but we have been teaching her and her friend Keith who is 13 and had interest. So we have been teaching them for about a month and they are so wonderful. I love teaching them. They both came to church yesterday and they are already excited to be involved in the activities and the youth really engulfed them! Yea for the wonderful members of the ward. One little problem is that Keith's mom is Catholic and has not agreed yet. So please pray that she will soften her heart and allow him to be baptized! He received his answer about the Book of Mormon and started reading it at school during reading time. His friends have tried telling him bad rumors about Mormons and he was strong enough to resist! WOW! For the strength of youth!
Also pray for Mauro....he is one of those eternal investigators...he wants to be baptized so bad but he is an alcoholic.....but this week he called and said he is done with the beer! He said he was drinking and looked at the beer he was holding in his hand and as he read the brand of beer he was determined to change....the can read "Hells gate" clever brand name eh?
Now to tell you of some answered prayers. I told you how our ward is in the "way older" category...and most our investigators are young....so we have been going to the other ward to find fellow shippers. Well yesterday at church we had 9 people in their 20s move in to sell security systems for the summer! We already have two of them coming to appointments with us this week! WOW! The Lord is so amazing! what a huge blessing! And Dan came to church this week. He's praying for a baptism date! and then another amazing thing that God did for us ....we had scheduled two appointment at the church Friday night....not knowing that the other ward had a convert baptism scheduled that night as well. (the elders forget to tell us those things sometimes) but anyway God knew...and it all worked out because Dan and David got to be at the baptism and the spirit was powerful as usual! Thank you Heavenly Father! So as you can tell I am very happy and being a part of this great work is so fulfilling. I know that this is God's church! I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet! I know that God is with us in this work! The gospel is true....you better believe it!
Love, sister flake
April 27 Email
So i am writing today because we had zone conference yesterday. wow! we learned about how we can get to the "boiling point" in our areas. I learn so much from president and his wife. and i love testimony meeting. we have three recent convert missionaries in our zone! Their testimonies just blow me away.... i am so grateful to be working with one of them... sister Wong is so wonderful. i just cant say enough good about her... we really feel unity together and it is a huge advantage in our teaching. we have had many opportunities to be bold....and the more we lay down the line for people the more success we are having!
my goodness! I have never felt so much desire to serve! Things are really climbing here! We had loads of new investigators last transfer and now there are a few who are progressing! we had two come to church actually! It has Begun! the one guy, Dan, just got out of jail and has had a major change of heart. He wants to be clean of his sins! So that’s going well because there is a man in our ward who went through a similar lifestyle before joining the church that is fellowshipping him....so what a blessing! the other one that came to church is the husband of a less active....Jason. They have had missionaries over for months now but he has not progressed....sister wong and i didn’t want to waste Gods time so we told him we would not come teach him until he come to church. and guess what....he came! and we challenged him to be baptized....so he said he would pray and let us know. Yeah... he has a problem with Joseph Smith....we told him.... "you can not receive a logical answer to a spiritual question." so we are excited about him.... well i will tell you about others next week. i love this work! I love bearing testimony! The gospel is so true! I know that God is there and Christ is our Savior!
love, sister flake
my goodness! I have never felt so much desire to serve! Things are really climbing here! We had loads of new investigators last transfer and now there are a few who are progressing! we had two come to church actually! It has Begun! the one guy, Dan, just got out of jail and has had a major change of heart. He wants to be clean of his sins! So that’s going well because there is a man in our ward who went through a similar lifestyle before joining the church that is fellowshipping him....so what a blessing! the other one that came to church is the husband of a less active....Jason. They have had missionaries over for months now but he has not progressed....sister wong and i didn’t want to waste Gods time so we told him we would not come teach him until he come to church. and guess what....he came! and we challenged him to be baptized....so he said he would pray and let us know. Yeah... he has a problem with Joseph Smith....we told him.... "you can not receive a logical answer to a spiritual question." so we are excited about him.... well i will tell you about others next week. i love this work! I love bearing testimony! The gospel is so true! I know that God is there and Christ is our Savior!
love, sister flake
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