Week 5 of Transfer 4

Hey, everybody! :)

This is the last week before transfers...we don't think anything is
going to change but you never know. :)  if anyone is going to leave it
will be Sister Lola (knock on wood) but we think she still has one
more transfer left in her here in Kaibab.  Transfers are slightly
annoying sometimes...

We had a couple interesting experience this week. First off, One of
our Ward Mission leaders texted us and told us about this girl,
Satoria, in his Ward who had been coming to church with her
grandparents for forever, but for some reason was not baptized so we
got over there pretty quick and turns put it just hadn't happened
because the dad, a less active member, hadn't gotten around to it but
he was very open to us coming back! We were super excited about that,
and in fact we have our first lesson with her tonight. :)

Another happy note we had this awesome person we were teaching, her
name is Carolyn, but she decided to drop us. :( But we got a call from
her earlier this week saying that she wanted to see is again, she
didn't want to talk about the gospel but she did want to be friends.
That was really exciting to us because we had not had any contact with
her since we knocked on her door and she told us she didn't want us to
come over anymore.  So for the moment we are just going to be friends.

On a not so fun note we were going through the unbaptized children
list and knocked on one of the doors and this lady invited us in. We
thought she was a member and she was talking about her conversion
she... and then she mentioned Joseph Smith... and proceeded to bash
the church and everything in it quit harshly. Hahah, the funny thing
was she kept saying how 'we could just be friends, and we didn't have
to talk about religion at all (when she was literally the one doing
all the talking) and then she would bring up something else about the
church she didn't like. Sister Lola and I were talking afterwards
about it and how a person can lose their testimonies like that and it
just goes to show. This woman had a testimony, she had gone to church
for 10 years,  then she stopped doing the little things that would
keep her testimony strong. She stopped doing the things that she was
supposed to be doing and it lead her down a path of places she didn't
want to go.  We have to keep doing those things small and simple
things that are apart of our everyday life, if we do that, then we
will be alright.

I love you all!!
-Sister Waite-a second

Jan 9, 2017

Hey, Y'all!

This past week could only be described a wet. Lots of rain, and mud
with a hint of snow on the side. It is so warm weather wise
though.  It really is strange though because I expect to get up in the
morning and be freezing...but I'm not. In fact sometimes I think it is
too hot. I think Sister Lola disagrees. :)

But this week was good. We had to make ourselves busy, but this week
we are going to have more lessons. Thank  goodness the holidays are
finally over and people will stop going out of town.  :) We did knock
into a few good potential people who said that we might be able to
come back later, so we are excited about that.

We also did exchanges this week. Parents, you would be proud because I
had to drive in St. George. Unfortunately for Sister Brown, however,
she broke her tooth :( so we actually spent a good deal of time in the
dentist office. By the way, look where the dentist office was located.
Only Utah.

We also had a chance to go up to the Kaibab Ward and speak. We went up
late Saturday night and spent the night at our Ward mission leader's
home so we wouldn't have to drive up.  We had to laugh because we
actually went to all three hours of church. I think that was the first
time since I left the MTC that we have done that.

Anyway, I love you all!!
-Sister Waite (a-second)

Jan 2, 2017

Hey, hey!! :)

Not much happened this week. We had zone meeting down in Hurricane and
did interviews while we were at it. We had to laugh when at the end,
Sister Smith pulled us (the Kaibab and Kanab) sisters over and gave us
toilet paper. The mission had received a few Walmart gift cards and
Sister Smith decided that it would best be put to use in buying us
toilet paper. That is just how far out in the boonies we are. :)  But
hey, we are not complaining.

We have been knocking on a lot of doors this week. The holidays are
hard because no one wants to meet with us. :( Hopefully though this
next week will pick up and we will be able to have more lessons.  We
did have the chance to go out to Cane Beds this week, which is an area
that is about 20 miles away so we don't normally go there. That was
good. We managed to meet with a couple of less active people and ran
into some Fundamentalist.  That was interesting. :)

Here in Kanab we managed to track down a someone we had been meaning
to see for a while. They address was wrong in our area book, but we
just decided to try one of the doors I. That area. Guess who it was?
That's right! The person we were looking for. That was cool :) They
are just moving in so we were able to help them unpack and bit and we
did their dishes so we managed to hit two birds with one stone.

And of course we welcomed in 2017!!! ONE FULL YEAR OF MISSIONARY
WORK!! :) :) I am excited to get to serve the Lord full time as a
missionary this year. It is going to be awesome!

I love you all!! Thanks for all that you do!
-Sister Waite(a-second)

Christmas and Miracles!

Hey, hey!! :)

I hope you all had a very, merry Christmas!! We did down here in
Kanab. In fact we had a white Christmas.

We have had an interesting week. We did a lot of door knocking
because everyone went out of town for the holidays, so it felt like a
long week, but it was good. We had a miracle...Tuesday, I think it
was, and after about four hours straight of knocking and doors and
getting rejected, we knocked on this ladies house. She was obviously
an active member, but we talked for a few minutes and then out of the
blue she was like. 'I have an unbaptized great-grandson who just moved
into Kanab and wants to get baptized.' That, was exciting. :) The Lord
definitely blesses us when we are doing all that we can.

We had another miracle this week.as well. As I said we had been
doing a lot of tracking. So we were walking round this one
neighborhood for about an hour when we tracked into a member. Turns
out, she knew exactly where one lady was that we had been looking for,
so she drove is up there and we visited for just a minute before the
Member drove us back to our car. That was a miracle in of itself, but
it gets better. We got to the car and I couldn't find the car
keys...my stress level shot so high. Anyway, started back tracking all
the places we had been and we still couldn't find them so we went back
to the members home to see if they had fallen out there. NoPe. So she
offered to drive us back up to the house that we had visited and there
they were, right there in their drive way.  We were meant to lose
those keys, because in all honesty I had been turned around on which
direction we would have needed to go to go back to her house. The Lord
knew that, so he provided a way for us to get the right directions
because he loved that woman enough to cause me stress. :)

The Lord is in all of our lives, I think he is a lot closer than we
realize. We have had a lot more tender mercies this week, and it just
has been a testimony builder that God is in each of our lives and
wants to bless us. :)

So yeah. That has been my week. I hope you all have a wonderful rest
of your week and awesome holidays!

I love you all!!!
-Sister Waite-a-second. :)

Kaibab!

Hey, hey!

This past week was interesting... Transfers were really confusing, but
we all got where we needed to go and we all had a companion the whole
time, so that was good. :)

My last few days in Richfield were hard, because I really didn't want
to leave, but I got to see most everyone that I really wanted to say
goodbye to, so that was good. :)

Now I am down in Kaibab with Sister Lola. She is for the Philippines
and is awesome. My parents would be proud of me, I ate a  traditional
Philippine Food, a Balut. That was interesting, don't know if I will
eat that again any time soon. But in my own sweet (or maybe sour)
revenge I had her eat a Warhead. I was going to use Baking Coco,
but... :) No, we are having fun together and working hard.

We have a huuuuuge area. We cover CaneBeds (right next to Colorado
City...) And Jacob Lake, Fredonia and the south part of Kanab. Not to
mention that our District Meetings are in Hurricane, so we have to use
our miles very wisely.

We have some great people that we are working with, though. An
older couple, a crazy in a good way older couple, a few children (one
of whom is getting baptized this Thursday!!), and a couple of middle
aged people. :)

We also had the chance to go serve down at the Nursing Home and sing
Christmas Songs with one of our less actives, so that was fun and
good. We got paper crowns out of it so, hey! I am not complaining.

I am really excited to continue to work here in Kanab and I look
forward to getting to know the people better.

Anyway, I love you all!!! :)

-Sister Waite(a-second)

Transfers

Hey, hey!

Transfers are always an interesting time...not sure I like them. :) Anyway, Sister Dunbar is staying in the Richfield East Stake and training. Sister Kirby is staying in the Richfield stake and getting a new companion, Sister Hunting. I am getting booted down to Kanab.  We were almost positive that I was leaving, just for a lots of reasons, but that didn't mean that saying good-bye is any easier to some of these people who I am going to miss greatly. I don't have my new address yet, but I will send it next week. 

This week has been good though. We had a miracle baptism this past week. There is a family here in the Richfield stake that the sisters have been working with for a long time, over a year. But last week we got a phone call saying that they had picked a date and they were ready! That was exciting! 

We also got to go wrap caramels with Ann. She makes some killers caramels, but has a hard time wrapping them so we went and did that with her. It was a lot of fun, I think that she thinks that we are all slightly insane, but that is alright. Most people do. :) 

Anyway, today we have been really busy. Both me and Sister Dunbar are packing (and that is two transfers in a row. Somehow in the last 6 weeks I have gotten a lot more stuff then what I cam with. I am not even sure how I did it...) Plus I have been trying to say goodbye to as many people as possible before I leave. I managed to see quite a a lot of people yesterday and I hope to be able to see the rest tonight. 

I look forward to meeting the people in Kanab, I have heard interesting stories about Kanab so I am pumped to get to go experience some of it.  :)  

I love you all!!

-Sister Waite(a-second)  

A Temple Trip

Hey, hey! 

Today we had the awesome experience of being able to go to the Manti Temple. It was so refreshing! And it was just was beautiful as last time. The Manti temple certainly is a special place.  I am really excited for when I go home to get to go to the Temple anytime I want and not have to ask for permission. :) 

We were quite glad that this past week November changed into December, because we were running low, low, on miles and were doing a lot do walking. We did see a lot of neat things because we're walking though. For instance, we prayed for a lot of angels to pick us up (if we were going to be late to something) and every time  someone pulled over and asked us if needed rides. God does hear and answer prayers. 

This week we also had zone Conference, which was really good. President and Sister Smith have really good trainings on the white handbook and using our time more wisely. Zone Conference is always amazing though! 

Transfers are coming up, and I don't know if any of us are really looking forward to that, but what comes will come. :) we don't think that we will remain in a trio though and we think Sister Kirby is staying in Richfield so we will see. 

I love you all!! 

-Sister Waite(a-second)