tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59949096537377516272024-03-12T21:38:17.716-07:00Elder Daniels MissionMcKadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03964435572324412603noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-51917684560143653342016-03-28T09:47:00.003-07:002016-03-28T09:47:28.356-07:00March 21st <div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">So this is what I have found over the course of my mission. I have found that when you go about doing missionary work, you have good days and bad days. The odd thing is, is that when you have a really awesome week where tons of things happened and missionary work is progressing, then the next week is just super un-progressive and you struggle teaching people and the work is super hard. Well, we just had one of those weeks. Last week we had the baptism of T. (which was really awesome) and we had a really successful week. Then this week we struggled a bit When we were in Cutbank. On Tuesday we had the zone conference in Helena, it was my final zone conference of my mission, so most of the missionaries I knew there, I would not see again until after the mission. Of course during the final zone conference of your mission (if the zone conference is on your last transfer) you bear your testimony in front of almost half the mission. I was not the only missionary to bear my testimony in Helena. There was another elder that I came out with, as well as a sister that is going home with us (she came out 6 months after we were out, so it lines up 18 months and 2 years). I thought the zone conference was great. I was the last of the three to bear their departing testimony. I stood up their and started speaking and then I just stopped for a second and I was fighting back tears. I accomplished not crying. But during that moment of silence. I looked out at the missionaries and I noticed that some of the sisters that I had served around were starting to tear up. I don't know why.... But when I was finished, I walked down and I sat down and looked at elder Archie (who was the other elder who bore his testimony) we looked at each other for a second and elder Archie said while everyone was still quiet, "this sucks man!" And everybody heard it and they all started laughing, it was weird to be bearing my testimony. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">After the zone conference was over we split up and went on an exchange with the district leader since we had not done one this transfer. During the exchange we met with a few people and one of them in fact was M. who we have not seen in about 2 months. We came back and finally met with her just on her doorstep. (You can probably see where this is going) as soon as she opened the door we didn't even really get a word out at the beginning, she said, "guys, I love my church and it was good to get to know about your church, but I just love my church and I am not going to join yours." So in other words, she dropped us.....hard. But I was actually fine with it. Usually when somebody drops us, I get pretty upset. But this time I was actually calm. Usually when you stop going to someone weekly and then show up a few months later, the investigators usually either do two things. They either realize that they missed you and become super interested (and eventually get baptized), or the opposite happens, they harden against the church because of anti-Mormon stuff or they finally got the courage to say "not interested" to us. Which in this case was the latter of the two. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">After the exchange was over we tried to go to Browning the next day but when we did, Nobody was home. We tried so many different people but were unsuccessful. Sunday was pretty good. We spoke in church and everybody loved it. Also, when we went to browning. There was a old lady there that was coming to church. She said she is a member but we don't have her records. She said the last time that she came to church was 1987. We have no idea why she decided to come that Sunday. We asked her but she was keeping silent. She wouldn't even tell us where she lived so we could visit her. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Anyways, it is winding down but I am still going strong to the end even though the end of my mission is nigh. Have a good week!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Dear Son! I'm so proud of you! They say love grows fonder as your apart! It certainly has for me. We have missed you dearly! We have grown to love who you have become. We are so excited to see what the future holds for you. This experience! well? When times got tuff you really pushed through! And so did we! It really has brought out how much love we have for one another. I know you have learned to have a greater appreciation for us as your parents and all we have strived to teach and provide for you as your stewards. Heavenly father defiantly blessed us with your presence. Your a kind obedient person and I truly love you. Your tenderness and love for those around you has always radiated like the bright sun. You have been able to accomplish sharing that light of the gospel through all your works and deeds. It was your turn to live by every word and your time to be called to serve, your time to shine! You did it! You will be forever blessed for your service. You took your turn to serve our father in heaven and his children and did it with a humble and willing heart! I know you now know the blessings of service to your fellow man. You have always loved a uniform. It has always helped you to understand reverence! As you take off that tag we will be by your side! You will never forget the lessons you learned. Remember the way you felt as you were a disciple of Christ. It will help you forever when life gets hard you will know how to push through. Never give up when times get ,</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tough, and the storms of life encircle you! You are not alone! You know that. GOD IS REAL! He is there, he loves us! He is our </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">parent! Every parent has unconditional love for there child! We love you we would never leave your side. And neither will he. </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Rejoice in your service. You did enough. Don't ever despise your youth! We truly loved riding this ride with you. I know you hate roller coasters but this one was AWESOME! Saturday will come! Just as death comes. Its unenviable. I'm sorry your dying! hahaha killing of a missionary! I'm a little nervous for the next uniform you want to try on? I’m pretty sure you still want to be a police officer. But hey life rolls on. I love you! I didn't know if I had the words for this letter so I've added a poem. Written by a friend of mine named Anna, I met along this journey. I've mostly cried as I was typing! haha I'm totally going to be crying when I see you. hahaha I have a problem ok. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="s1" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As you know, this is my last letter as a missionary. It is a biter sweet moment for my final week of my mission.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="s2" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I want to leave with you my testimony of what I know to be true. I know that my mission was the best thing that I could have chosen to do at this time in my life. There is no way that I could be the person that I am now, if I did not serve my mission. I am grateful for the experiences that I have had over the course of my mission that have shaped me into what God would have me to be. I am grateful for the loving care of everyone around me and even the loving care of God to give me the hard times that I have had. My mission has meant so much to me. I did not catch the vision of missionary work near the beginning. But now I realize how much meaning my mission has to me. This is one of the hardest things that I have ever loved to do. If I did not serve, I would not have met certain people where only I could be the one that got them closer to God (with the spirit of course) I have been able to witness and see many people change their lives, and see the growth in their testimony. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Friday we went out to the W. to go see how they are doing. It seems like every time we go to the W (which is not weekly) it's usually on the weeks that they didn't show up to church. It's almost like a bi-weekly thing. But when we showed up, They were going to load some hay on a trailer, so we helped them do that in our missionary clothes. (They provided jackets we could wear so we didn't get dirty though) after we helped them they fed us dinner and we played some games with them, one of which was Jenga. A few times we didn't get very far into the game before it fell over. But the last round that we played went for a long time. We were so careful and we ended up getting to 25 rows with only 3 possible pieces to move that were completely stuck. We later found out that the level of PRO gets up to 30 levels. So we were ALMOST pro at it. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Well I guess I'll start off this letter by saying that T. was not baptized on Saturday. I have no idea why, but here is the story behind it. On Tuesday, We had the Conrad elders drive all the way up to browning since we were planning on working there after T. baptismal interview. Keep in mind that is an hour and a half drive from Conrad to Browning one way. So we went over to the church (which is where we told her we were going to have the interview) but when we showed up, there was nobody there. So we waited and waited. Finally we decided that we were going to go over to her house to see if she was there and if she forgot about the interview. But when we went over to her house, she was not there. Her father said that the truck was not there (which was quite obvious). But we figured that she might be with her boyfriend. So we called him and somebody else answered the phone and said that he forgot his phone. So we went over to brother M. home to see if they were there. But he nor she was not there either. It was starting to get frustrating. So we went back to the church and we got onto Facebook and tried to find her and send her a message via Facebook. We knew that she had a phone and we figured that she probably had the Facebook app and she would get a notification on her phone about the message. But we still have not got a reply to this day. We can see that she has not even looked at it either. So she basically dropped off the face of the earth. I'm not sure why though, we have been meeting with her every Tuesday and Friday for the past two weeks without missing an appointment, but when she has a baptismal interview scheduled, she is nowhere to be found?!? She knows she is ready because she said it. So we have no idea why. We have tried to contact her everytime we go to Browning now. But we still have not been able to meet with her. So this is a little wild goose chase. So Conrad drove up for no reason basically. Then they asked if they could hitch a ride to the zone training in great falls last Friday since they didn't have any more miles for the month. </span></div>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-7609748891705380702016-03-09T11:23:00.003-08:002016-03-09T11:23:25.907-08:00March 7 2016<pre>Hey!This week was fairly stressful. To start off we went to Browning to try and meet with T again To set another baptismal interview date with her. Luckily she was home and we were able to set the date with her for the next Friday (which was last Friday). The rest of Tuesday was pretty slow, we tried to see many investigators and lots of less active members, but nobody was home or we couldn't find the house because in Browning there are no street signs so you don't know what street you are on and the address that we have are not regular addresses, they are coordinates. So that doesn't really help at all luckily our i Pads can give directions to coordinates! It was also elder Erickson's birthday on Tuesday so we had cake with them. Wednesday was slow. We had district meeting in the morning and we also went to see sister King in the afternoon since we have not been over there in a while Thursday was dreadfully slow because we tried to stay as focused as much as we could during our weekly planning. But I got sooooooo bored,but we got it done. Also the branch presidency made a plan to feed us more because we have not been getting fed by the members. So we are doing every Thursday, somebody is going to be assigned to feed us that day if nobody volunteers. They are going to start with the branch presidency first and then open it up to the members after. So this last Thursday we had dinner with the branch president. It was a good dinner but the main point of them doing the assigned dinners is to get the members to have us in their home and we can get to know them as well as they get to know us. Then we share one of the lessons that we teach so they know what we teach, so they can share that message with their friends and the members can me more missionary minded. One thing that I have noticed on my mission is that when the members of the ward/branch are not missionary minded, then the work for the missionaries is slow and it sucks. But when the members are missionary minded, then the work is amazing and the area progresses and there are baptisms. On Friday we had Conrad come again and give T. her baptismal interview. But when we showed up to the church in Browning, we waited for a little bit and she still didn't show up. The first thought that came into my head when she did not show up was, "great! She didn't show up again." So we left the church and went over to her house and we tried to see if she forgot again. But when we got there they,meaning her and her boyfriend, we already heading out to go to the church for her interview. So the interview ended up happening and she passed so now this Saturday is going to be the baptism. We got everything figured out on Sunday when she came to church. But I've also noticed that the week of the baptism, whenever you have one, is always super hectic. You are running around trying to get every thing ready and set and we are still doing that right now but we hope to get everything set in stone when we go to Browning tomorrow. That at was my crazy week. Have a good week as well.</pre>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-10883664965134512662016-02-16T08:19:00.002-08:002016-02-16T08:19:34.486-08:00Last TransferThis week and transfer flew by really super fast. I don't really want<br />to know what this next transfer is going to feel like. But it's<br />happening. It's going to feel super-duper-uber fast.<br />I've got some exciting news too! If you remember the person that said<br />she wanted to be baptized a few weeks ago. Well, we taught her on<br />Tuesday and Friday this past week and on Tuesday we talked about a<br />baptism date and we put her on date for baptism for the 27th this<br />month. So not this Saturday, but next Saturday! I am so excited! This<br />might be the last baptism for my mission, but I don't know. I am<br />pretty sure that It is going to happen though.<br />Something else that happened this week was my birthday!!! We saw on<br />Facebook that one of the members in the branch was having a birthday<br />party for their son and so we made a gift and went over to their house and spent the party with them. Then the found out that it was my<br />birthday the next day. So they celebrated it early with their family.<br />We also got the transfer news. I am staying and Elder Masauo is<br />leaving. My new companion is Elder Story.<br />Have a good week!<br />
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-63505099330467300372016-02-09T08:26:00.002-08:002016-02-09T08:29:45.511-08:00Slow week<div class="p1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px;">
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<span class="s1">This week was pretty slow and nothing much really happened. We only taught one lesson, which was an active lesson. So this letter might be pretty short compared to the last couple weeks. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1455034183069_20015">One of the cool things that happened though was on Sunday. We showed up to church in browning and it was just a normal Sunday. Only about 14 people showed up to church. During the Sunday school lesson however. A member of the branch presidency got my attention and gave me his phone, which I took and looked at it. It had a message typed out on it saying, "j*** came up to me after sacrament and said that his girlfriend wants to get baptized and asked what they needed to do." (by the way, this is a different person than the two solid investigators that came last week.) Then I handed his phone back to him and he said in a tone of joy, "go to work!" So that was pretty cool that we had somebody that has been coming to church for a few weeks say that she wanted to get baptized without us teaching her first. So we are going to start teaching her and she will be on date for baptism and hopefully get baptized soon. Now the work is starting to progress and the members are seeing it. We now have 3 potential people that could be on date and get baptized soon, hopefully before I go home. Also during Sunday school, we were talking about eternal marriage and after the lesson one family wanted to start taking the temple prep class, another couple (more specifically the husband) wanted to know what he needed to do to get the priesthood so him and his wife could go to the temple and be sealed. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">This past Sunday was legit. We got a new investigator that wants to be baptized, and two family's that want to go to the temple to be endowed and sealed! What more could you ask for? There is nothing much to write this week. So have a good week!</span></div>
Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-12872833607842710212016-01-28T08:23:00.001-08:002016-03-30T13:08:27.378-07:00Coolest somewhat neatest experience ever!<div>
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This week had some ups and downs. Some really scary moments and some really amazing memorable ones as well. There was a bunch of miracles this week. I think that they are both worth sharing, So here it goes!<br />
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Monday after preparation day I experienced probably the coolest thing on my mission. The story goes like this (it might help if you try to imagine this in your mind), after we finished our preparation day we got ready to go to the stake presidents house to have dinner with him and the whole zone and talk about missionary work stuff. Conrad got a ride with us. While we were driving to the stake presidents house, we were following behind everyone in a giant caravan as we would call it. But at one point in the journey, we were traveling downhill and we started to slow down so we could turn at the corner, we were a safe distance behind everyone. But as we (meaning just our car) tried to stop, we started slipping on a patch of ice. I was driving and Elder Asbury was in the front with me while Elder Pett and Elder Masauo were in the back. Elder pett saw that I had put on the brakes but he noticed we were not stopping. So he looked up at the front and realized that we were going to slide into the back of the other missionaries car. Elder Asbury thought the same thing. The next thing that happened impressed everyone in the car, even me! Ive never done this in my entire life (Ive never even thought about doing this if this happened), I turned the wheel and slid right into a small snow pack off the side of the road which slowed us down a little bit, and I turned the wheel back out of it and we got traction and we ended up NOT rear-ending the other car in front of us. This all happened within 5 seconds or less.<br />
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As soon as we started to slide on the ice, everything seemed to slow down and I maneuvered the car SO SMOOTH that it seemed like I had taken a driving course or something and knew what to do (which I didn't). God definitely had a hand in that situation, because like I said, I did not even think of doing that before. I just...did it. Not to mention that there was that small snow pack CONVENIENTLY in the right spot when we needed it. It was quite literally "Jesus take the wheel" because I had no idea what I did or how I did it. Like I said as well, everyone was impressed after it happened. It was the conversation topic all the way until we got to the stake presidents house. Surprisingly all the other missionaries in the other cars did not know about it or see it happen. How could they miss it?!? How could you miss a set of car lights behind you veer off the road into a snow pack, bounce around a little bit, and then end up safely behind you again?!? Long story short, we were definitely watched over by God as he subconsciously helped me maneuver the car out of the way. It's hard to describe it written down, you would have had to been in the car to experience it to understand. It was the coolest/somewhat scariest experience ever! I say somewhat scary because the whole time I was calm, I did not freak out at all! I think if I did freak out, we would have hit the other car. <br />
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The next miracle was amazing. We got a referral from the church on our iPads on Thursday, the person lived just outside of browning. We were planning on going to browning the next day, so we called them <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" tabindex="-1">Friday morning</a> and said we would be in browning that afternoon so we could drop off their requested item (the book of mormon). They were quite surprised that they got contacted the next day, they thought it would be a month or two. So when we showed up, we gave them the Book of Mormon, and they let us in and we started answering their questions that they had concerning the Book of Mormon and how "they were the lamanites." We answered all of their questions until they had no more. The topic of church came up and we told them when "the service" was. They said that they would come to it, which most people say they will come (but they never follow through). Then when Sunday rolled around, THEY SHOWED UP!!! After church was over, we asked them what they thought about it. they said they loved every bit of it and had even more questions answered, and they were going to come back again! They even asked if they could take the gospel principles book home too! You could definitely see the light in their eyes! They seemed so happy! This will be the first time on my mission that a referral from church headquarters has been profitable. They are super solid people. I think that they are going to be baptized soon. They have been prepared, now it's time for harvesting!<br />
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Another thing that happened this week was a unique experience. A few weeks ago we got a call from this guy that asked if we would be some judges in a speech and drama tournament at the school (which was this last Saturday). So that's what we did. There were a bunch of schools from all around the state here. I did notice that there was Malta high school there. So I thought that I might be able to see some people I knew from Malta. It turns out that I did see a few kids that I knew (that were members) they saw me first. I am actually surprised that they remembered me considering that I was in Malta when I was 2 months out (and now I have about 2-3 months left, so roughly almost two years ago) and I was only there for a month and a half. I ended up having to judge one of them for one of the rounds. We conversed for a few minutes and that was it. Judging was interesting though. I had pretty much no idea what I was doing. But I read the instructions given and did the best I could. Everyone was so good! It was hard to rank them. I will admit that I did pray for help on some decisions.<br />
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After we finished volunteering we had to head over to the church because president and sister Wadsworth were in Cutbank to talk to the new senior missionaries (the Ericksons). But they figured since they were in Cutbank, they might as well say hello to us too. After we talked with them, we waved goodbye while we walked across the parking lot that was a giant layer of ice. When I turned and waved, I slipped a little bit which made me loose my balance. But I managed to catch myself without falling. Then I looked over to president and sister Wadsworth after I caught myself. Needless to say, both had a huge smile on their face and we laughing pretty good. We all had a good laugh out of it.<br />
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I apologize if this letter was long and boring. I've been trying to make my letters enjoyable and understandable to read. They seem to make sense to me, but they may not make as much sense to you. Again, this past week was amazing! So many miracles! I think the work in Cutbank is starting to get out of a slump now. Have an enjoyable week and look for the little miracles in your everyday life! </div>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-25245819649533364332016-01-28T08:11:00.003-08:002016-01-28T10:13:12.006-08:00Snow Snow and more Snow<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">On Tuesday we drove out to Browning, we had just got assigned on Sunday a few home teaching routes to help the branch out. The good thing is that we will be helping boost the home teaching numbers because we, being missionaries, go to people and teach them all the time. We will for sure get our home teaching done every month, it gives us something to do! So we tried to go and see our families we were assigned but none of them were home. We were driving to one of our families and there was another car leaving when we were arriving. The driveway was pretty small in width so I pulled off as much as I could without going to far off the road. The ground looked flat where I was pulling off to, so I was not scared of getting stuck in the snow because I figured there was not a lot of snow because it was flat And I could see the weeds poking out of the snow as well. But as I came to a stop so we could talk to the people leaving, I felt the car tilt a little bit to the right! At the end of the conversation we tried to pull out, but we were stuck! I tried all that I knew how, to be able to get out. But to no avail, we did not have enough traction because of the quality of the snow (way to slick). Not to mention that the traction control on the car did not help at all. As soon as I would start going, and almost be out, The traction control would engage and the engine would stop (even if I had the pedal floored), and I would still be stuck. Long story short, we got out about 20 minutes later with the help of the two guys we talked to earlier. We had to manually push it out because there was nothing to hook onto to pull it out. (That's why I hate cars in the snow, trucks always have something to be able to be pulled out if needed.) we ended up being late to a lesson with an investigator because of being stuck. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">On Thursday it snowed pretty good. It was a very wet snow, so it was really heavy! We went out and shoveled a few driveways and we were so tired by the end of the day because the snow was so heavy. All we have been doing is just shoveling snow because a lot of the people are not interested. We have been shoveling random peoples driveways and leaving a pass-a-long card hoping that persons heart will be softened to the missionaries. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Saturday we went out to Browning again and this time we drove there was a pretty thick fog. We tried to see a few investigators, but none of them answered. So we did not know what to do. We decided to drive out to the W. (active family) to go and see them. We stayed there and we played some games with them and had dinner. The whole time we were there it started to snow more and more. By the time that we left to go back home, there was already 2-3 inches of snow on the roads. What didn't help was that it was still snowing and the roads were not plowed at all. I could not see the lines on the road, So we were driving pretty slow and I was using the blizzard reflector posts (or whatever they are called) to guide me so I could stay on the road. We managed to get home safely and I went right to bed because I was so tired from being alert and ready for anything that could occur during that drive. </span></div>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-82589017752191350122016-01-13T18:12:00.004-08:002016-01-13T18:12:44.827-08:00Lets get stuck<pre> Mon, Jan 11, 20166:44:23 PM Hey everyone!This week was an interesting week. Ever since the transfer call where we are both staying again. I have felt this interesting feeling near the beginning of the week. It was a feeling that I have never felt before. I tried to figure out if it was a feeling like I should not be here this transfer (because I've always felt that I needed to be in my areas that I have been in). Or if it was a feeling that I am entering into my second to last transfer on my mission. It has somewhat gone away now, but I still think about it. There was not much that happened during the beginning of the week. We only had to switch cars with the Shelby sisters on Tuesday because one of them was transferring and they needed a car with a bike rack. So in the past three months, I have driven 3 different cars because we have switched around a lot.One of the good things that happened this week was that we were fed pretty much every single day of the week. The interesting thing was that we were fed by the same member Thursday-Sunday. You can take guess as to which member that is. (hint: only $2.50 and 22 minutes!)but instead of feeding us pizza every night, he actually cooked meals that were really good! He really loves feeding us Because it gives him the Desire to cook. For instance; on Saturday he fed us a HUGE plate of pasta, then 20 minutes later he fed us a HUGE piece of cake along with tons of ice cream! He always asks if we have dinner the next day,we say no and he says, "come over" or "see you tomorrow evening"On Wednesday we had some appointments set up that the other missionaries found on the 1st when we blitzed Cut Bank. But sadly,they both fell through. We went back a few days later and taught one of them, but the other we don't know what to do because her mom was there. Before we even knocked on the door she opened it and demanded to know what we were doing. We told her and she proceeded to say,"well I am Catholic and my daughter is not going to be interested because she has a lot on her mind and she is strong were she is at andis too young to understand different things."(but her daughter is-probably mid to late 20's) in my mind I was thinking, "well that is-great that you are Catholic and you say she is not interested. But we were here to talk to your daughter...not you" it was a good thing that I said that in my mind. We might stop by again sometime.I have been at a loss to what I should do in my studies now. I've read the standard works, the church handbook, Jesus the Christ(which I finished this past week by the way), preach my gospel many times,along with the Book of Mormon Multiple times. Studies are kinda getting boring now. I've started reading the Book of Mormon again along with the Book of Mormon student study manual. It's got quotes and different things about certain verses that helps me understand a little bit more. I'm not sure what I am going to do after that. I guess it is starting to turn into "same old stuff"On Friday we drove out to east glacier again. All elder Masauo wanted to do was to tract there for a few hours and then head back. (It is an hour drive each way) We got there and walked around town. We only knocked on 10-12 doors only about 4 answered. Then we drove back. We didn't have a whole lot of lessons this week. It has been pretty cold and in the negatives a lot. But we have been out doing work, just nobody wants to open their door to talk to us or let us in because its cold Also during the week, we went to sister Ks house to visit her. It turns out that she needed help from us covering up some cold drafts in her house. So we helped her and then sat down and talked for a little bit. She told us that these Jehovah witness ladies had stopped by on Sunday morning. She thought it was us and answered the door. She then told us that the ladies just walked into her home and said that they were going to take her to church. Sister K. said that they have been stopping by frequently and she does not feel a good feeling when they come over, but when we come over she feels at peace. Jokingly, we told her that she should invite them over when we come over, that way we would scare them away and they would never come back. We just laughed about it. Last thing, On Sunday we got a ride with a member of the Branch presidency to Browning. At the church in Browning, the snow has drifted across the parking lot. Upon leaving when church was over, the member said jokingly, "let's get stuck!" Then he proceeded to drive through the snow drift and ended up slowing down as he exclaimed,"shoot! We're stuck!" We all were laughing about it and we eventually got out of the Snow drift.Have a good week!Elder Daniels </pre>
Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-89667002863338872016-01-13T18:01:00.001-08:002016-01-28T09:55:25.769-08:00If your knocking you don"t belong here!... have a nice day<div>
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<span class="s1">2015 flew by so fast! I can't believe how fast my mission has gone! I had so many great experiences on my mission the past year, I met a lot of really amazing people. Even though 2015 was a really good year, it sadly ended with me fighting a little bit of a sickness. I didn't get super sick, I only had a little cough and a headache, it started on Tuesday. Even though I was not feeling very well, I still wanted to go out and work. I needed to stay home because I didn't want to get anybody sick, but I was not sick enough to keep me in bed. So we decided to go out and do random acts of service shoveling driveways and walks. That way we were still outside and being seen, while I didn't really have to talk with people and get them sick. It was much better than staying at home doing nothing. The other thing was that I was not really coughing and feeling sick when we were out working. But when we were home eating or at the end of the day, I felt sick again. We have been going over to this old lady's home and shoveling her driveway whenever snow comes along, the past few times she has came out to meet us(this is the lady that tried to give us money a few weeks ago). She is super nice. She has let us in her home to warm up for a little bit, she has been asking a lot of questions regarding our religion. We have been teaching her little bits and pieces every time we have came over. She asks more questions each time. I think her heart is being softened the more we teach her and the more we do service for her. I feel like she has potential. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">This week was a much better week that the others since I have been here. Yes, it was Christmas and that is always good. But we had a lot more lessons than we usually do. You know about most of the week from the skype call, but I'll just write it again. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">We had district meeting on Tuesday instead of Wednesday. It was the most powerful district meetings that I have had in my whole entire mission. The spirit was totally there, no doubt about it! The zone leaders where there as well, one of them gave a role play on asking inspired questions. usually the first role play is a bad example and the second is a good example. The first role play that he did, the person was not keeping his commitments and he wanted to do other "more important" things. One of the questions that he asked was, "well, is that more important than your salvation?" it was definitely the boldest thing that I have heard on my mission! The second role play was super powerful though. The spirit was definitely felt. Near the end of the district meeting we had a testimony meeting. Everyone (including me) bore their testimonies on the atonement. The spirit came stronger and stronger into the room every time someone got up. By the end of the district meeting, I felt like I was in the temple! District meeting ended up going just over 3 hours instead of the usual 2 hours. But it was definitely worth it. Then we switched companions and went on the exchange. Elder Pett came with me and we went straight to browning. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Wednesday we did not have a dinner. We went out during the day from 3-6 shoveling random peoples driveways we shoveled 4 then headed over to brother C. He is a really good member, he always asks how the missionary work is going and if we got fed. We told him that we did not have a dinner and we hadn't had dinner yet. He then got up out of his chair exclaiming, "Jimmeny Christmas!!" Walked over to the kitchen, and put in a pizza. While we waited for the pizza to cook we played a board game which I don't know the name of but here is a diagram of what it looks like. He made it himself. Each of the dots are holes where the marbles can sit. And there are 4 colored marbles that you use. It was a pretty fun game. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Saturday we went to East Glacier to go find some people since we had not been out there before. Some of the people we met were really surprised that we were out there. The missionaries had not been there for almost 20 years from what the people said. There was so much snow there! The cars were all drifted over with snow and had 2 feet piled on top of them. We met some Indian kids that recognized who we were. They were building a snow cave out of a giant pile of snow. So we offered to help them. We ended up getting to the point where we could all fit in the cave. It was pretty fun. We talked to them for a little bit before we had to head back for dinner.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Tuesday we went to Shelby for the doctors appointment for Elder Masauo. Even from the bloodwork, they still didn't know what was wrong. The doctor said everything was normal. I have no idea either what is going on. We then went to browning to go and see T, but when we got there, she was sleeping. We rescheduled for <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://embedded-result/665" tabindex="-1" target="_parent"><span class="s2">Friday this week</span></a>, She said that, "it would definitely work." We gave a blessing later that night to a member who is going in for a knee replacement. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Wednesday we gave a blessing to another member who had a doctors appointment in the morning. Then we got ready to go out and do some service shoveling snow since it snowed the night before. We would go and shovel the persons driveway without telling them, and when we were finished we would leave a pass along card on the door. The last one that we shoveled was this old lady. Right when we were finished, she came out and told us, "stay right there", we both knew that she was going to try and give us money, which we were right. But she was astonished when we would not take the money. We told her that it is a service that we were doing. "Well, can't you give it to some charity or something?" She said. We told her that Jesus Christ served without getting paid and that we were representatives of Jesus Christ. "Are you sure I can't give you anything?" She asked. We replied in a kind tone, "gratitude is the best thing you could give. Merry Christmas!", and then we left. We then drove to Conrad to stay the night with the elders for the Christmas zone conference the next day. </span><br />
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-34113475453153761542015-12-24T15:38:00.003-08:002015-12-24T17:06:57.168-08:00The people we meet<div>
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As you probably already know from all the letters that I write, My week was pretty good. This letter is going to be a pretty long one because a lot of things happened this week that I want to write about.<br />
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On Monday we had a zone preparation day in Great Falls. It was super fun, we played some Podball(which is a twist to the classic game of dodgeball. Its a mission made game) I drove the 1 hr 45 min to great falls after lunch and then after having our zone preparation day for 4 hours, we all had dinner with the stake president and his wife. We had a fun time playing the "christmas story pass around" game (or whatever it's called.) That took the rest of the night, then I had to drive back to Cutbank. I was pretty tired when we got home. I wasn't tired driving though, which was really good!<br />
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On Tuesday we went to Browning. We went to see D. who was (to no surprise) on another hangover. We didn't really teach him because there is no point in teaching something to someone who is not going to retain anything because they are drunk. After we left his home, we hurried over to T house for our lesson with her. T, is the person that we found last week that wants to be baptized. When we arrived there, we walked into the home (after knocking of course)and everyone had this look of astonishment on their face. When they saw us, they realized that they had forgot they had the lesson planned today. T, was not even there anyways. So we set up a return appointment for this next week.<br />
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After our dinner with the Ericksons the same day, We went tracting for the new initiative called "A Savior Is Born". There are two funny stories that I have from this. We tracted into this guy that said right from the get-go, "guys, I am a 'die-hard' catholic, so you are going to have to kill me to convert me." Then right at that moment, Elder Masauo jumped out from behind me towards the guy and said, "Do you believe in Jesus?!" It was pretty funny. The guy just said something like, "not interested guys. stay warm." We laughed about it for a while. Then a few houses later, we Tracted into a Jehovah's Witness lady. She was a very interesting lady. She was talking with us and she was asking us some weird off-topic questions such as, "do you believe in war?" I felt like she was trying to catch us in our words just like many of the people did to the prophets in the book of mormon. She proceeded to try and put us down by saying that we only do our missions for 2 years and that she does her's for life. Thats when I had enough and I spoke up and corrected her in the most polite way that I could summon. I said, "let me stop you right there. You are right, In a sense. Yes, we do this for two years. But for those two years we do this from the time we wake up, to the time that we go to bed. nothing else. We gave up our lives to do this all day! Then, after our two years are over, We do exactly what you say you are doing for the rest of your life, We continue to share the gospel while still having our lives." After I finished speaking, She had no other comment for a little bit. I could tell that the spirit was working on her pretty good. The spirit was testifying so strong from the testimony that I had given her. We then went to leave and I told her, "merry christmas!" (completely forgetting that I knew that they don't believe in any holidays because 'they are pagan') I then told her that I was sorry and that I forgot they dont believe in it. Then before we left again, I unintentionally said, "happy holidays" to her. Long story short, It was a very awkward situation. But thats why finding can be fun, you get some funny stories!<br />
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Then Wednesday we had district meeting in Shelby, I gave a discussion on our purpose as missionaries. The only problem was that the district leader forgot to give out the assignments until the night before. So I gave the discussion with very little preparation. It turned out to be a pretty good discussion. After district meeting, Us and the sisters went into the chapel so me and sister Stacey could practice a song for the Christmas zone conference this Thursday. Here is a little backstory, During the zone preparation day, Sister Stacey remembered that I could play the piano. She needed somebody to accompany her and she didnt know who. So I got roped into it. We practiced for a little bit and made our little arrangement of "o come all ye faithful", and then went home for lunch. Then later that night we got invited by one of our investigators to come to an advent service at her church (there was a dinner as well) so we went. The people there were really nice, They welcomed us. The service was interesting though. Everything was scripted in a little booklet that they passed out. All of the songs and what the pastor (who was a woman) had to say was in the booklet. It was very scripted.<br />
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Thursday and Friday we didn't do a whole lot because elder Masauo was not feeling very well again. But we went to dinner with some members in East Glacier. We got stuck behind a couple snow plows with their lights flashing most of the way back to Cut bank. Our heads were hurting a lot from the super bright lights flashing.<br />
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Then on Saturday we drove down to Great Falls in the morning for interviews with the mission president as well as going to stake conference after. Luckily we didn't have to drive all the way back to Cut Bank that night and back down to Great Falls in the morning for the Sunday session. We stayed at the zone leaders house for the night.<br />
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-1452098423500795822015-12-24T15:32:00.001-08:002015-12-24T15:32:06.647-08:00Tracting for miles<div>
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<span class="s1">This week was pretty good. We had the doctors appointment in Shelby which went fairly well. The doctor didn't really know what was going on, But she thought that it might be pre-diabetes (which is what everyone else we told thought as well) He did some blood work and we are going back on the 15th to see whats up. After the appointment we drove back to Cut Bank and we went to go and see sister and her husband who is not a member. We helped them clean out their freezer because they were getting a new one. While we were there the fridge guys showed up and it got really hectic so we left. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Saturday we went walking down the highway again. We started between mile marker 1 and 2 and then walked and tracted all of the houses between there and mile marker 4. So we walked about 6 miles today in the cold and tons of wind. Your probably wondering why we were walking for so long in that kind of weather. Well, we are going to be driving to great falls for Stake conference this <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://embedded-result/2462" tabindex="-1" target="_parent"><span class="s2">next sunday</span></a> as well as meeting for the Christmas zone conference. So we are going to try and use as little miles as possible. While keeping elder Masauo's health in good condition. He loves walking. After tracting, we went over to the church to go to the Christmas party for the branch. It was a pretty good Christmas party. There was a lot of food and we were pretty hungry. But we got loaded up with so much leftovers of turkey and mashed potatoes and ham that we probably wont be having to shop for the next week or two...</span></div>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-6245491052858901732015-12-01T11:55:00.003-08:002015-12-01T11:55:54.215-08:00Greetings<div>
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<span style="color: black;">This week was pretty slow, probably the slowest on the mission so far. The first few days of the week we were able to do some missionary work, but the latter part of the week elder Masauo was feeling pretty sick. So we ended up staying home from Wednesday until the present time. He said that he has felt sick for a while but it was worse this week.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">On Monday we had our lesson with M. She is such a solid investigator, but all she needs to do is come to church and think about baptism. She accepts everything that we teach and she says she believes it all. She just needs to take that step of making time to come to church and to get baptized. Our lessons are always great discussions. I think we just need to be more patient. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">After our "lesson" with D (I say "lesson" because I don't know if he got anything that we said) we went and saw k. We showed up to his house and it was really cold outside, I'm sure that it was at most 0 degrees outside. He was about to not let us into his home because he had something in 15 minutes. We told him that we could share our message in 15 minutes. So he let us inside. We sat down and shared with him the restoration, he did not interrupt us until we got to the part of Joseph Smith. When he would interrupt us, he would go on some really long tangents where he would just babble on. (haha i just thought of Babylon with babble on because it sounds the same. I guess babbling on and on is something in babylon. haha JK!) Ive focused on not interrupting people when they are talking, but when we have a message to share in a short amount of time that they gave us, and they are not letting us share it because they are talking too much, I don't really have a choice and I have to interrupt them or else we were not accomplishing our purpose. But when we walked out of the house after the lesson, We were there for almost an hour! But I thought about the lesson for a while and I realized that we did in fact share our message in about 15 minutes total time throughout the hour. So I felt good about the lesson. The spirit was definitely present as well. It was a good lesson despite the interruptions.<br /><span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Then from Wednesday until now, elder Masauo was feeling sicker than he has before. Some of the members that we had dinner with checked his blood sugar, and it was 405 when it should be somewhere around 150. So that probably explains part of the sickness. We have an appointment Tuesday the 1st (tomorrow) to see what is wrong.<br /><span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">During the time that we have stayed home, I have started to run out of things to do. I finished reading the Old testament the day after thanksgiving. Which, by the way, means that I have read the whole standard works of the church in one year. If you remember, I started reading the New Testament the day after thanksgiving last year when I had nothing to do because my companion (Elder Graham) sprained his ankle. After finishing the New Testament, I started the Doctrine and Covenants. Then I read the Pearl of Great Price, and then the Old Testiment, all while still reading the Book of Mormon at the same time. Ive come to know the scriptures more during the past year of reading them all. It was a pretty hard task to do, and it takes lots of dedication. But I know that it is possible to do. I accomplished my goal to read all of the standard works on my mission. Not to mention that It was a year to the date! Now i've started to read the church handbook from cover to cover. Partly because I am running out of things to do while Elder Masauo is sick, as well as I want to know what the church's stance is on things because Ive gotten a lot of questions about things like that on my mission( especially during these changing times). Plus I get to know how the church works and everything. Then when I finish that, Ill probably start to read Jesus The Christ. Ive hated reading my whole life but now it doesn't bother me at all.<br /><span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Im actually surprised that this letter was longer than I expected, I was expecting it to be pretty short because there was not much that happened this week. I hope I didn't bore you at all. I hope you all had a great thanksgiving and that you remembered all the things that you are grateful for, and especially those things that you normally don't think about. I tried focus on those things that I normally don't think about. It got me pondering a lot! I got into a deep thinking mode for a while. Deep thinking really blows your mind sometimes! I want you to try it as well. You will be blown away at the simplest things that you have never thought about being grateful for. Anyways, I hope you have had a great thanksgiving holiday and a great week as well.<br /><span></span></span><br />
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-7601030083493978752015-11-29T17:32:00.004-08:002015-11-29T17:32:59.069-08:00one more freezing cold transfer i'm stayingThis week was an interesting week. It seems like I have had a lot of<br />interesting weeks here in Cutbank. It felt like we were so busy, but<br />we didnt have a whole lot of lessons. We had another lesson with<br />M. on Monday. She is a really good investigator because she asks<br />a lot of questions as well as she accepts everything that we are<br />teaching and she believes it all. She had struggled with reading the<br />book of mormon in the past, but last time we met with her she wanted<br />to have a chapter that would "give peace to her soul", as she said it.<br />Last time we taught the plan of salvation, so we gave her alma chapter<br />40 which talks about the afterlife. When we came over last monday, she<br />said that she read alma chapter 40 and she loved it so much that she<br />read on to almost chapter 42. Its too bad that she is not technically<br />progressing because she has not came to church yet. We keep inviting<br />her but she is always busy on Sundays, but she is trying to come.<br />
<br />On Tuesday, we went to Browning to go and see some of our<br />investigators there, but the wind was really bad when we got into<br />Browning. It was so bad that we could hardly stand up straight just<br />walking. If we stood up straight, then the wind would blow us back off<br />our feet. We tried a few people but with no success, we just went back<br />to Cutbank. But the wind had picked up there as well. We had a really<br />good lesson with sister K, and her husband in their trailer house<br />(which we thought was going to blow apart) but we read a passage of<br />the book of mormon and the sprit was definitely there. She usually<br />interrupts us during the lesson and goes off some really long<br />tangents, but that lesson she didnt talk at all!<br />We didnt do a whole lot on Wednesday or Thursday because elder Masauo<br />was not feeling very well. So again, all I did during the day was just<br />read the scriptures and studied. It was a really long day for me, But<br />I learned a lot!<br />On Friday we went back to Browning and we tried to see C. again,<br />but to no avail, She was not home again. It is so frustrating when<br />this happens. But we also tried to see D, but the whole time we<br />were there, Everyone was running around doing different things. We<br />never got to a lesson, but right before we were going to leave, D's<br />wife started asking us questions relating to the afterlife part<br />of the plan of salvation. So we taught her and shared some scriptures<br />from the book of mormon as well as some mormon messages. The spirit<br />was definitely there, and the distractions were less than before. We<br />then had a dinner with the W. family who live WAY north of<br />Browning. They probably live 10-15 minutes from the Canadian border.<br />
<br />On the drive back home, the wind was starting to pick up and blow snow<br />across the road which already had a lot of ice on it already! It would<br />have taken almost an hour to drive home, but we went slow and steady<br />to be safe. It almost took an hour and a half to get home.<br />Sunday was interesting at the church in Browning. About halfway<br />through the sunday school class, some people walked in to the church<br />and sat down, I could tell that they were not members. So the first<br />thought that I had in my mind was, "sweet! we just got some new<br />investigators!" But after church, we were talking about it with the<br />member who we got a ride from. He said that he has been in there many<br />times before because all he wants is money. So it kinda ruined my<br />hopes of getting a new investigator. The numbers in church have been<br />depleting every single week. People are moving out almost every week.<br />I dont think that it is because it is winter and they are turning into<br />snow-birds. I think they are actually moving out for good.<br />
<br />Well that was my week. I hope that your week was better than mine<br />because not much has been going on here. We are trying to keep the<br />work going here, but it does not help that we cant find people during<br />the day because they are all working or in school. Also, that the sun<br />is going down just before 5 every day and people do not want to answer<br />the door because it is dark. This time of year is always hard to do<br />missionary work, but we always try our best. We also got out transfer<br />calls this past week and we are staying in the coldest place in the<br />nation for another transfer!<br />
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<span class="s1">This week was a very busy week. We ended up traveling a lot to different areas. We did a lot of service as well because we have had a lot of snow storms lately. On Monday, after preparation day was over, we walked outside and we had about 6 inches of snow on the ground when earlier in the day we had nothing! Our car was covered with snow! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">While we were in browning the same day, we met this guy named K. K. is an interesting character. The elders had previously met with him before and Elder Masauo told me that he was saying that he is an apostle. So I thought that I was going to be in for a ride. But when we met with him, he was not saying that he was an apostle anymore. He was saying that he is the prophet! I thought it was really interesting and I wanted to see his reasoning for it because I was curious, so I let him keep talking for a few minutes. The odd thing was, he was talking about (in other words) the apostasy and how "the body of Christ has been changed by man." He was also talking about the restoration (in other words) how "the world is going to be cleansed by god and when the world is cleansed, then god is going to join the body of Christ back together. and that is going to happen soon, so get ready" The odd thing about everything that he was saying was that pretty much almost all of what he was saying was true. besides the fact that he said he was the prophet and that the restoration of the church was going to happen soon. I would say he was about 95% true with everything he was saying. When he finished talking, I jumped in and told him, "You know, I really like some of the things that you said. I want to tell you that we are on our missions to testify about Jesus Christ as well as to tell people that the church, Or 'the body of Christ' as you called it, has been brought back. It has the same organization as Christ set up. It has a prophet, it has 12 apostles, and it has 70's the same way Christ set it up! This church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the 'body of Christ' you are talking about. We are the only church that has the true priesthood of god, and we want to share that with you so that you do not have to look anymore. It is here, and it is here to stay." It was a really good doorstep lesson/testimony. He is really prepared and we are definitely going to go back and teach him. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Friday we went to browning again. The wind today was super bad. If you didn't know yet, The wind on northeastern part of Montana is really bad sometimes. The wind can get up to 50 mph, and the gusts can reach 80+ mph! today was one of those days! On the way to browning, a highway patrolman zoomed past us with lights and sirens going full bore. Upon arriving into browning, there was a semi that had flipped over while trying to turn a corner when a big gust of wind must have came and turned it on its side. I couldn't get a good picture of it. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Saturday, we had to wake up at 5:30 to get ready to go to great falls for zone training. Cut Bank to great falls is about a 2 hour drive one way. we left at 6:30 to get there at 8:30. But I forgot that they changed the highway speed limit to 80 instead of 75. So we got there almost a half an hour earlier than expected. Then we had zone training, in which I gave a discussion on how I have seen gods hand in my mission. zone training lasted for 3 hours and then I got to drive the 1 1/2-2 hours back to Cut Bank. I was pretty tired that day. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Then finally on Sunday we were assigned to give some talks in church. Elder Masauo spoke on service and I spoke on gratitude. So this week I had to prepare for my talk as well as the zone training discussion. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It is Slowly starting to become more and more like winter. It is becoming colder and colder (mostly because of the wind), as well as this is the last week of the transfer! I cant believe how fast this transfer has gone! It is amazing how fast some transfers are and how slow they can be too, even though they are the same length of 6 weeks. Come to think of it, I only have 3 more transfers until the end of my mission. Its a mixed emotions kind of thing. </span></div>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-79073354439248817822015-11-14T15:50:00.001-08:002015-11-14T15:50:10.085-08:00First Snow<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">This week was one of those in-between weeks. The first half of the week was really good. We had a lot of lessons. But the second part of the week was slower. On Monday, we met with one of our investigators named M. She had not been taught in a while, so we decided to go in and see how she was doing and just get to know her. While she was talking with us. She brought up some things in her life that had to do with the plan of salvation. Which ironically enough was the next lesson that she had not been taught yet. So we taught her the plan of salvation and it was a really good lesson because she was soaking up everything that we were saying and she was understanding it all. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Tuesday we did our normal routine of studies and getting ready for the day. I Don't have a view of the outside world where I study. So when I got up for lunch, I looked outside and I noticed that it was snowing pretty good and the flakes were HUGE! After lunch we headed out to browning to go and see some people. On the way to browning, the snow storm kept getting worse and worse. We met a few people while in browning and most of them thought that we were crazy for being outside during the cold winter storm. Also, a few times while we were about to get into our car to go somewhere else, a drunk person would come walking up to us asking if they could get a ride to the bar because it was cold outside and they didn't want to walk. As a missionary, we are not allowed to give rides to anyone. So I proceeded to tell this one guy that we were not allowed to give him a ride. But he (thinking he could convince me in his drunken state) started to say he would pay for gas money and he would always say, "c'mon buddy..." It was kinda funny how hard he was trying to convince me (since I am the driver). But after a few minutes of him trying to convince me, he just turned around and walked away and gave up. Some people are funny. On the way back from browning, The snow storm proceeded to get worse as we went. We were going 40 in a 70 mph zone. But we made it home safely and cut bank had about 4 inches of snow. It was a really good first snow of the season. The attached picture is when I first noticed the snow coming down. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Thursday, elder Masauo was not feeling very well. So we stayed home all day and since he was the one that was sick, he rested all day and I didn't have anything to do after studies in the morning because we cant do a whole lot on a mission that we would do back home. So I tried to find stuff to do. I caught up on my journal and also washed all the dishes and that only lasted a few hours. So I was still stuck with what to do for the rest of the day, I finally came to the conclusion that I was just going to read the book of mormon. I started around 3 Nephi chapter 5 and I by the time the day was over, I read all the way to the book of Ether. While I was reading the last couple chapters of the book of mormon (in the book of mormon), I was understanding a lot of it and I started to realize that Mormon in chapter 7 was pretty bold with some of the things that he said. One thing that I liked was this, "Therefore repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus, and lay hold upon the gospel of Christ, which shall be set before you, not only in this record but also in the record which shall come unto the Gentiles from the Jews (a.k.a the bible), which record shall come from the Gentiles unto you. For behold, this (a.k.a the book of mormon) is written for the intent that ye may believe that(the bible); and if ye believe that (the bible) ye will believe this(the book of mormon) also;" But even though Mormon was pretty bold, Moroni, his son, got much bolder in chapter 8 and 9. In chapter 8 Moroni basically says that he saw our day and he describes what he saw and it got me thinking, because a lot of the things that he was describing, it is actually happening today! It was very eye-opening. There was a lot that stuck out to me. Here is one, "For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted." Is that how today is? How many people in this world fit that description? I know I have at times. Most people I would say love money and our nice clothes and stuff that we have, rather than showing compassion and love to the poor and sick people. But wait, it gets better!! In chapter 9, he really gets bold! Verses 1-6 he calls out the "atheists" and basically asks them if they will still not believe when the second coming happens right in front of them. Then from verses 7-20 he really hits hard on those people that say that god does not work with miracles or revelations in the latter days. He says, "He that denieth these things knoweth not the gospel of Christ; yea, he has not read the scriptures; if so, he does not understand them." I don't know if anything that I tried to describe made sense to you. If not, I would invite you to go ahead and read it yourself and you will see what I mean by lots of boldness! =) Anyways, long story short, it was a really good 9 hours of studying the scriptures! </span></div>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-71193679943434459552015-11-02T16:46:00.002-08:002015-11-05T18:42:21.998-08:00 Stormy week Way to much wind!<div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">This week was a little bit better than last week. The work in this area is getting better and better as time goes by and we keep working, but it is still slower than I am used to. I am used to just hopping from appointment to appointment and having lots of lessons during the week with our teaching pool being really full. Here is different; It is basically like we just opened the area, We are struggling to get in with people to teach lessons and find people to teach. The branch is getting smaller and smaller as the weeks go on. Thee last branch president only served for about a month and then he moved out as well as other families. It is by far the smallest branch that I have been in. Dont get me wrong; I love it here, It is just a lot harder work than the others. Ive looked in our area book recently and it looked like most of the people have not been taught in over 150 days on average. So we have been doing a lot of "weeding out" trying to find those that are actually interested and those that are just being a time filler. Every Time we are at a doorstep with somebody and I ask if we could come back at a specific day and time; their usual response is, "well.....you could come back.....whenever." Thats usually when I straight up ask them, "so are you interested in what we have to say or not?"(typically in a nicer tone than you think) Thats when they say, "well, to be honest, im not really interested." When they say that, I thank them for being honest with us and that we dont want to waste their time and keep bugging them if they are not interested. It sounds like a pretty bold approach, but it works and people don't get mad at us. they say that just because they dont want to be rude and they say that we could come back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I just noticed that this letter is not like any of the other letters that you have received from me. I didn't know what I wanted to write for my letter this week. So I just started to type, and this is what I came up with. I know that studying, especially in the scriptures, is important for us because we receive a knowledge of truths and guidance in what we can say and do. I don't think I could have been out on my mission this long if I did not study or read the scriptures. Oh, and by the way, today marks 19 months on my mission thus far. It has flown by so fast! I cant believe that it has been this long. When I was 5 months out, I thought, "this is going to be the longest 2 years of my life!" But now I look back and I ask myself, "where has the time gone? I only have 5 months left. this has been the fastest 2 years of my life!" I've also noticed that I am not the same as when I came out. During the course of my mission, I have not realized that I have changed all that much. But a mission really does change you whether you know it or not, and its for the better; not the worse.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-15765396350953100742015-11-02T16:46:00.001-08:002015-11-02T16:49:39.571-08:00McDonalds lesssons and DQ! I love shakes!Hey everyone!<br />
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This week was a better week than last week. I didn't really know the<br />
area when I got into Cutbank, but now I have been here for a week and<br />
a half and I am starting to know the area. The first of the week was<br />
pretty slow. Wednesday was when the work started to pick up for the<br />
week. We went tracting on Tuesday night and we tracted into this guy<br />
that told us to come back and see him the next day. So we went back on<br />
Wednesday at the time he told us to come back and he walked right<br />
outside and told us that he was going to take us to McDonalds. He said<br />
that the missionaries stopped by a while back and he said that he<br />
usually takes them out to McDonalds and meets there because his house<br />
is a mess. So long story short, we went over to McDonalds and he<br />
bought us some shakes and we sat down and we talked with him. He has<br />
heard pretty much everything about "the mormons" from the missionaries<br />
and he loves what we are doing. He then asked us if we would be able<br />
to listen to his presentation of his buisness that he just started. So<br />
we listened to him. The business was pretty cool I thought. He<br />
basically works his own hours, and whatever he sells he gets money in<br />
1 oz gold bars on a card and he can trade it for money or they just<br />
put the money on his mastercard. but he gets a better deal when he<br />
gets the gold instead of the money because gold has more value than<br />
the dollar. he said in one day he made almost 500 dollars. I dont<br />
quite understand it, but it sounds interesting.<br />
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After That lesson that we had with him, we were supposed to go to<br />
dinner but the member was not home and he texted us a couple hours<br />
later saying that he was never going to be home. After our dinner that<br />
we had at home, we got ready and packed up our stuff because the zone<br />
leaders told us that we were going to stay the night in Conrad with<br />
some other elders. So after we packed we headed out on the road to<br />
conrad and got their about an hour later. you see, on the highline<br />
(which is basically highway 2 on the east side of montana) the time<br />
between each town is AT LEAST an hour or more. We stayed the night at<br />
their apartment and then we all got up at 4 in the morning to get<br />
ready for the day and go down to great falls to meet up with the rest<br />
of the zone at 6:30. Then we Carpooled with the zone all the way to<br />
Helena where we had a Mission leadership training from 9am-4pm. It was<br />
a very long meeting. We talked a lot about the sabbath day observance<br />
and other things of the like. One thing that President Wadsworth<br />
mentioned in the meeting was that elder holland said at one time that,<br />
"this church is only one generation away from extinction" That phrase<br />
got me pondering for a little while. During the Mission Leadership<br />
Training we had a breakout session where we got together as zones and<br />
we had a Zone Leadership Training meeting. It was a really spiritual<br />
meeting for me. One of the experiences that I had in the meeting is as<br />
follows. There was a discussion going on by some of the sisters.<br />
During their discussion, I had this phrase of scripture come into my<br />
mind. I shrugged off the Prompting and kept listening to the<br />
discussion. Not even 10 seconds later the same phrase of scripture<br />
came into my mind, so I new that it was from the spirit and I was not<br />
thinking of it myself and I looked it up and as soon as I found it, I<br />
raised my hand and I shared the scripture with everyone and It really<br />
shed some light on the subject. I can testify that the spirit works in<br />
many ways, and one of those ways is promptings. If we heed to the<br />
promptings of the spirit, we will be blessed as well as be a blessing<br />
to other people. Anyways, after the meeting ended, we headed back to<br />
great falls and then went to lunch at DQ because we get it there for<br />
free. I got it a lot when I served in great falls over a year ago. But<br />
after dinner we had to drive all the way back home which was about 2<br />
hours. we didn't get home till 9 at night. So by this time I had<br />
already been up for 17-18 hours and only running on less than 5 hours<br />
of sleep Wednesday night. You can imagine that I was pretty tired.<br />
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On friday, We got a call from the second counselor in the Branch<br />
presidency. He was calling because he wanted to know if I could speak<br />
in church the next sunday. He wanted me to speak on the sabbath day<br />
using one of the talks from last general conference. So I said I<br />
would. On sunday, My talk went pretty well. He asked if I would speak<br />
for about 10-15 minutes, but I ended up talking for about 30 or more.<br />
I was pretty bold in my talk as well. I mainly focused my talk on the<br />
talk by elder M. Russell Ballard called, "God Is At The Helm" In that<br />
talk, Elder Ballard was pretty bold and straightforward. As I was<br />
Preparing my talk, I remembered that President wadsworth said a few<br />
things about sabbath day observance. So I took portions of his<br />
discussion as well. Everyone loved my talk. I think they gave me the<br />
assignment of me speaking in church so that I could tell everything<br />
about myself before I gave my talk so that everyone could know who I<br />
was. But when I got up to give my talk, I did the exact opposite. I<br />
just taught straight doctrine and ended my talk. I have found<br />
throughout the course of my mission that the best talks are the ones<br />
that teach straight doctrine and truth.<br />
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After church we went over to the previous branch presidents house (he<br />
was only branch president for about a month and then moved). He said<br />
that he had some boxes that he didn't need. so he gave them to us<br />
because we were going to give them to an investigator that said that<br />
they were looking for some boxes so they could move. We showed up and<br />
we got way more boxes than expected. The investigator(i dont remember<br />
his name) thanked us for the boxes and he said that it was going to<br />
get pretty cold in the next few weeks. he also said that he had some<br />
extra parkas that he owned and he would give them to us for free so we<br />
could stay warm because cutbank gets pretty cold.<br />
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well that was my week and I hope that the work progresses even more<br />
because right now the work is kinda in a drought and there is not too<br />
much people to teach.<br />
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-65008816421263720452015-10-22T12:19:00.006-07:002015-10-22T12:21:19.071-07:00FACIALS FOR THE ELDERS<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">This week has been an interesting one. We didn't do much the first few days because I was packing up my stuff because I was getting transferred. I stopped by the J. family to go and say my farewell to J, who was the most recent convert that I have had. We talked for a while and then it was time for us to leave. But while everyone exited the room that we were in, J. started asking me some questions and we talked a lot about the temple and I told her that I was looking forward to the day that she is going to go through the temple and get sealed. It was a really good conversation that we had. After seeing J. We headed over to the G family, who was the other recent convert family that I had while I was here. When we walked into their home, there was a bunch of women having what looked like a Mary Kay party. It was kinda weird to walk into that. What they were really having was an arbon party. I also saw sister B from the ward there as well. It turns out that sister B and sister G are best friends. The next thing that happened I had to think about really hard. All of the women (especially sister G) wanted us to get what they called a "facial" which is a beauty treatment for the face. Me and elder Grizzle didn't really want to do it at first. But after talking about it for roughly 20 minutes, as well as sister G pushing us to do it, because it would make a great mission story. </span><span class="s2">😃</span></div>
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<span class="s1">On the day of transfers; We drove down in the morning to Missoula, then got everything packed into the trucks and drove to Helena. By the time we had arrived in Helena, I had already been on the road for 3 hours. It took a while to get all of the luggage situated in the trailers of the transfer van. But I was handed keys to one of the cars that was going to great falls and I drove all the way there and all the way to Cut Bank. it was a very long day.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Cut Bank is a pretty cold. We haven't been doing much lately because there is not a lot of work here. There are not a lot of people in the teaching pool. This area is way different than Corvallis. </span></div>
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Misty Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03981978395914848749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994909653737751627.post-83223864921307674002015-10-12T20:42:00.001-07:002015-10-12T20:42:07.002-07:00Transfer to Cut Bank<div class="p1" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1444706539330_5780" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica; padding: 0px;">
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<span class="s1">Also, I am getting transferred. I am sad to leave Corvallis. I love the people here. I am going to miss everyone that I met and worked with. But I know that I will be back someday. I am headed to cutbank Montana. I'm going to be with elder masauo he is from Micronesia. </span></div>
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