Monday, July 29, 2013
First Letter From Mission
Hello family!
So it
seems like forever since i have talked to you! I sure do miss you guys a
lot! I don't know if you have heard from my mission president but I am
serving in a little called kearney nebraska. My companions name is
Sister Youngberg. She is 20 and is from American Fork. She is super nice
and this is her third transfer in Nebraska so she is also pretty new. So Wednesday and thursday we stayed in a hotel in omaha and went
to the visitor center. It was awesome. I want to serve there so bad
sometime on my mission! We also gave out some book of mormons on my
first day which was scary but fun. Thursday night the President gave us a
letter that told us where and with whom we would be serving with and we
all got split up around the entire mission (sorta sad) So then Friday
morning i drove in a van for four hours to KEARNEY! haha Kearney is a
very small poor town. Us and one set of elders are the only missionaries
around. The people her are very poor but very nice. Some of them are
very set in there was though which is really hard. Seriously like there
is a different church on every corner. So on friday i got to town and my
companion and I went and painter this trailer house for five hours. We
do a lot of service work here. It was pretty fun except i was exhausted
and hadn't eaten all day but thats okay. Saturday we studied and did
weekly planning all morning then did some more service. Then we went and
visited less active members. We work a lot with less actives because we
need to build the ward before baptizing people basically. It is really
awesome but I want to meet the challenge from the president and have a
baptism every week. I got very discouraged saturday night because we
went and visited investigators and less actives and they all love to
visit but dont want to talk about the church. Sunday was good! We went
to church obviously and the ward has 400 members but there werent even
100 people there. It is very different than at home that is for sure.
Everyone here is so humble and nice though i love it. We want to start
getting members involved with missionary work so hopefully i can make
friends fast. So the old bishop of this ward his name was Ryan Page and I
guess he did something really bad and offended a bunch of people and
then left town so everyone ask me if we are related hahaha it is sorta
awkward even nonmembers know who he is. So that sorta makes things hard
but i just laugh about it. I taught my first official lesson last night
to a man named Allen he has two kids and lives in a trailor park. While
we were teaching him his cats just crolled all over me and you all know
how i hate that and im pretty sure i was sitting in cat pee but whatever
feel free to laugh.He is coming out of a very dark place and the spirit
was very strong. It is amazing how the Lord just puts words in your
mouth. We also met this old man and his wife recently passed away so I
hope we can help him find joy again through the gospel. We are going to
visit him again soon. Yesterday we also went to dinner with this cute
member family. They have two daughters and I seriously had to try so
hard not to cry because it reminded me so much of me and tori. Sometimes
sundays are hard because its family day and I really miss you guys but
things are going well and I am excited to get working. I love and miss
my family so much and i will try and write some letters today! We don't
get a lot of computer time. I know that the next couple weeks or months
in kearney are going to be hard but i promise you i am happy and i love
being a missionary. First Letter From MTC
ITS PEEEEEE DAY!!!!! :)
Well hello my family! How's life going? I honestly have so much to say and so little time. First, I just want to say home much I love all your letters! I get the most letters out of all the people in my district! It is awesome! So thank you! So my district is pretty cool. There are six sisters and three elders going to Nebraska and then we also have three elders going to Alaska! I told them all how I colby served there and they are super excited! I lve my district they are all very fun. Most importantly I love my companion. Her name is Sister Courtney Dumont. She is 21 and basically just takes care of me. We are so much alike. Our personalities mix so well we just laugh like half the day. She is also very spiritual. We teach very well together. It is a lot of fun but most importantly haha she is super athletic. So we finally got our first gym time last saturday I believe and we played volleyball. It was so great to exercise i needed it so much. So sister Dumont and I were on different teams and someone set the ball like right above the net so we both went up to spike it (which technically is against the rules but of all the rules to break I think Heavenly Father is okay with this one) and we both hit the ball at the same time as hard as we could haha and we both like fell to the floor and everyone on the court stopped and went silent and then sister Dumont just was like love you andwe both just stared laughin it was awesome. She is really great and the Lord new exactly who i need to be with. Just so you know I am getting fat so no more fat jokes cause it is true hahaha Anyway the first couple nights were really hard. I don't know what my problem was. During the day i would be busy and feel the spirit and have lots of fun but then at night I would just get homesick i guess you could say and couldn't sleep. I was just really out of my comfort zone. I just needed to accept that my life is totally different and that its the Lords time not mine. In a way Krissy won't really excist for 18 months I am sister Page... sounds way stupid but its true. I am doing better and although somedays are still hard and discouraging I am learning so much. I honestly don't want to leave to MTC on the wednesday because I just don't feel ready. Our teachers are awesome though. They actually teach the teachers how to teach. So basically they are the best teachers I could have had. I love them so much. There names are sister Murphy and Sister Evans. Sister Evans acutally served in Nebraska. Which is way cool! Really though like everyone always tells us that we are so lucky becuase they are the best teachers at the MTC. It is awesome. they have taught me so much. The thing I struggle with most is listening to the spirit. I need to learn to say what the Lord wants me to say not what I want to say. I am trying really hard to learn how to teach to peoples hearts and not their minds but it is really hard. It is really easy to teach the gospel to the knowledge of investigators but teacing to their understanding and conversion is hard. BUT I am getting better at it. It is just a work in progress. As you probably already know the Lord has humbled me so I can learn to rely on Him. Anyway I love it. We teach like fake investigators. Sister Dumont and I have taught Christina and Barbara. It is really hard for me to love people when they are actresses so I always just pretent I am talking to Tori and then I can love them and I am sincre about it. Some lessons are great and some not so much but when the spirit is there I just love it. You guys know me though I am really hard on myself and I just need to realize that some things just take time :) I have also learned how important obediance is.. not that i am breaking rules just that the little things that you don't find important are and they will bring you blessings and miracles. Anyway I have seen so many friends and missionaries from Viewmont. It is so fun. I see Dani and Camrie all the time. We live in the same building so we will have short girl chats at night. I also saw the one the the Neberkers cousin and talked to him for a little. Then i went and sat down and told my fellow sisters how cute he was and all this stuff. Then I stood up to take my tray back and he was sitting right next to me.... hahhaah super embarressing but whatever. Anyway don't worry about me I am doing great. I love being a missionary. Sorry I dont' have a ton of time and so i am writing fast and probably spelling things wrong haha i dont' care. I love you all so much but more importantly Havenly Father and our Savior love you. Thanks for being to best family in the world. I miss you guys. I can't wait to hear from you soon. I will write you some letters. the Church is true!
Hoorah for Israel!!
Love, Sister Page <3
Saturday, July 13, 2013
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