Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:40:07 -0700Subject: I did it!From: sara.anderson@myldsmail.netTo: homeecdiva@hotmail.com
I did it!!! I hard commited a girl to baptism and she accepted ( her name is Ying Yue (13)!!! I was soooo nervous b/c it was my first time doing it so I like butchered the lesson. hahaa. but sister wang said I did fine. haha. But it was soooo exciting!!! So this weekend we have Maricels baptism.) I am saying the opening prayer) Next week, Houg Houg aka Tammy(17). Cool story about her. She took the lessons with her mom last year and her mom got baptized in Aug. but tammy was not ready so she didn't get baptized so on Tuesday we get a call saying, hey sisters can you teach Tammy again she is ready to get baptized!!!!! AWESOME! Then she said, "Oh and I want it before my birthday." So I asked when is your birthday and its on the 18th of this month! So we are having it on the 14th! Then there is GG. She is from Hawaii, same story as Tammy but her dad joined a few months ago and we got a call last week, like on Friday saying she wanted to hear the lessons!! We are teaching Jami (17). Her mom just joined a few months ago also and we got a call from her saying she is ready for the lessons again too. She has been giong to church since she was 7 (b/c her dad was a member) but never joined because she does not "agree" with the 3 kingdoms....and Joseph Smith. She never flat out said what is was about him but there is something she does not agree with. So we had like a 30 mim pep talk challenged her to sincerely pray to know about Joseph Smith and we would come back in a week and a half (that's the only time she was free). So it was good to talk to her. We are teaching a girl names You Jia ( 18) and she had so many amazing questions!!! Its great! She is my favorite to teach just b/c of her questions. Some of them were " Why did God only create one Savior if the pain was so bad why not create more?" This is a great one. "If J.C. helps us more than Heavenly Father, then why do we need Heavenly Father." Like what 18 year old thinks of those questions? But I love it! Then there is Dan Dan (17) I have not met with her b/c when we came to teach her she was not home b/c her keys got locked in her car. But we are going back like tomorrow. We are going to commit Dan Dan and You Jia to baptism next time we visit. Scary thing about this mission....soft commitments are not allowed. Only Hard. So it's scary when you do it.
So we did a zone finding on Tuesday. It's when the whole zone focuses on one area for like 2 hours. So Sis. Wang and I got like 10 old teaching records and went out to see if they were willing to meet with the missionaries again. We found a golden investigator!!!! So when the Elders met with her yesterday they hard commited her and she accepted!!! So exciting! We found another mom that was willing to hear from them and a meeting time for another girl. So it was cool to be able to help the elders out!!!
Wednesday was Zone Conference that's why I didnt e-mail. So sorry. Today we went to the temple it was great like always. I love the SLC temple. Don't worry I will always be a DC temple girl! haah. Zone conference was really good. I loved hearing from Pres. Sonne.
Wow, I can't believe I almost forgot, my haircut!!! The girl that did it was amazing!! So nice. And I like my hair, for the most part. It takes like 1 min to wash so that's sure nice. Ready to hear how "long" it is....Its like an inch or so under my chin....so yeah its above my shouders. She cut a good 5-6 inches. Sister Sonne loves my hair though so that's good!
To answer your question about how many wards I cover, 23. So it's crazy! Not a huge fan of having that many wards b/c it's like impossible to get to know all the bishops, RS pres, Stake pres, and Ward mission leaders. And our mission pres likes to keep missionaries in an area only for 1-2 transfers. So he likes to keep us on our toes and not get too comfortable in an area.
Oh, so I now know why I was sent to SLC and why it was now. Did you see a trend in the age of ppl I am teaching. They are all between the ages on 13-18. I don't know. Maybe I can just relate to them or something. We shall see. And the reason why I was sent to SLC....so I don't have to go tracting. Everything is referral work. Its amazing. I love it!! The people here are amazing! Well except one ward who flat out said no to feeding us when we asked them to feed our district for some meeting we had. There are 14 of us. She said we ask to much of their ward.....each stake gets a months so its only every 3 months a stake gets to feed us. So each ward only gets a week. And some wards don't even get that. Therefore we are not asking too much....we never ask them for anything. Other then referrals. Sister Wang and I were not to happy. Like it's the fact we asked the RS pres. to just get like 3 ladies to have lunch for us. Everyone else loves to just because missionaries are sure a rare thing here. but not her...ok I will be done complaining.
Sundays...This Sunday we went to 2 sacrament meetings, a YW lesson (which we taught part of it), and a stake conference. It was such a busy day!!! Then we had lessons, dinner, and more lessons! My talk went pretty good. It was supposed to be like 15 min....it was like 8 oops. haha. But I wote it all by myself and in like 20 min....haha.
The teaching is going great. I am starting to learn a bit of chinese. I can say like 4 things. Mainly parts of my testimony. That's what I am working on.l Well, I have to write Pres Sonne so I better go. Sorry I cannot write more. I hope I answered everyone's questions. Love you all! Love, Sister Anderson
Only in the SLC mission do you have to hard commit someone to baptism everyday!
p.s. can you make sure evan does not delete my pictures from my laptop? Just put them on a flash drive please.
I did it!!! I hard commited a girl to baptism and she accepted ( her name is Ying Yue (13)!!! I was soooo nervous b/c it was my first time doing it so I like butchered the lesson. hahaa. but sister wang said I did fine. haha. But it was soooo exciting!!! So this weekend we have Maricels baptism.) I am saying the opening prayer) Next week, Houg Houg aka Tammy(17). Cool story about her. She took the lessons with her mom last year and her mom got baptized in Aug. but tammy was not ready so she didn't get baptized so on Tuesday we get a call saying, hey sisters can you teach Tammy again she is ready to get baptized!!!!! AWESOME! Then she said, "Oh and I want it before my birthday." So I asked when is your birthday and its on the 18th of this month! So we are having it on the 14th! Then there is GG. She is from Hawaii, same story as Tammy but her dad joined a few months ago and we got a call last week, like on Friday saying she wanted to hear the lessons!! We are teaching Jami (17). Her mom just joined a few months ago also and we got a call from her saying she is ready for the lessons again too. She has been giong to church since she was 7 (b/c her dad was a member) but never joined because she does not "agree" with the 3 kingdoms....and Joseph Smith. She never flat out said what is was about him but there is something she does not agree with. So we had like a 30 mim pep talk challenged her to sincerely pray to know about Joseph Smith and we would come back in a week and a half (that's the only time she was free). So it was good to talk to her. We are teaching a girl names You Jia ( 18) and she had so many amazing questions!!! Its great! She is my favorite to teach just b/c of her questions. Some of them were " Why did God only create one Savior if the pain was so bad why not create more?" This is a great one. "If J.C. helps us more than Heavenly Father, then why do we need Heavenly Father." Like what 18 year old thinks of those questions? But I love it! Then there is Dan Dan (17) I have not met with her b/c when we came to teach her she was not home b/c her keys got locked in her car. But we are going back like tomorrow. We are going to commit Dan Dan and You Jia to baptism next time we visit. Scary thing about this mission....soft commitments are not allowed. Only Hard. So it's scary when you do it.
So we did a zone finding on Tuesday. It's when the whole zone focuses on one area for like 2 hours. So Sis. Wang and I got like 10 old teaching records and went out to see if they were willing to meet with the missionaries again. We found a golden investigator!!!! So when the Elders met with her yesterday they hard commited her and she accepted!!! So exciting! We found another mom that was willing to hear from them and a meeting time for another girl. So it was cool to be able to help the elders out!!!
Wednesday was Zone Conference that's why I didnt e-mail. So sorry. Today we went to the temple it was great like always. I love the SLC temple. Don't worry I will always be a DC temple girl! haah. Zone conference was really good. I loved hearing from Pres. Sonne.
Wow, I can't believe I almost forgot, my haircut!!! The girl that did it was amazing!! So nice. And I like my hair, for the most part. It takes like 1 min to wash so that's sure nice. Ready to hear how "long" it is....Its like an inch or so under my chin....so yeah its above my shouders. She cut a good 5-6 inches. Sister Sonne loves my hair though so that's good!
To answer your question about how many wards I cover, 23. So it's crazy! Not a huge fan of having that many wards b/c it's like impossible to get to know all the bishops, RS pres, Stake pres, and Ward mission leaders. And our mission pres likes to keep missionaries in an area only for 1-2 transfers. So he likes to keep us on our toes and not get too comfortable in an area.
Oh, so I now know why I was sent to SLC and why it was now. Did you see a trend in the age of ppl I am teaching. They are all between the ages on 13-18. I don't know. Maybe I can just relate to them or something. We shall see. And the reason why I was sent to SLC....so I don't have to go tracting. Everything is referral work. Its amazing. I love it!! The people here are amazing! Well except one ward who flat out said no to feeding us when we asked them to feed our district for some meeting we had. There are 14 of us. She said we ask to much of their ward.....each stake gets a months so its only every 3 months a stake gets to feed us. So each ward only gets a week. And some wards don't even get that. Therefore we are not asking too much....we never ask them for anything. Other then referrals. Sister Wang and I were not to happy. Like it's the fact we asked the RS pres. to just get like 3 ladies to have lunch for us. Everyone else loves to just because missionaries are sure a rare thing here. but not her...ok I will be done complaining.
Sundays...This Sunday we went to 2 sacrament meetings, a YW lesson (which we taught part of it), and a stake conference. It was such a busy day!!! Then we had lessons, dinner, and more lessons! My talk went pretty good. It was supposed to be like 15 min....it was like 8 oops. haha. But I wote it all by myself and in like 20 min....haha.
The teaching is going great. I am starting to learn a bit of chinese. I can say like 4 things. Mainly parts of my testimony. That's what I am working on.l Well, I have to write Pres Sonne so I better go. Sorry I cannot write more. I hope I answered everyone's questions. Love you all! Love, Sister Anderson
Only in the SLC mission do you have to hard commit someone to baptism everyday!
p.s. can you make sure evan does not delete my pictures from my laptop? Just put them on a flash drive please.
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