Progress!

 June 29, 2015 

What is up?! Hope you all are as snazzy as ever. Life here in the Arabian desert is as great as ever. The people are still crazy and I'm still crazy for loving it. 

For the first time ever we went back to Nicole's and she wasn't falling apart! Hurray! She was actually calm and hopeful. Hopefully we will be able to get her into a house that another less active is renting out and she finally went back to court to get the money from her husband that he owed from not paying child support. Progress! I loved giving the lesson because I knew that her heart was more open to trusting God. God really is watching out for us all. 

We went and helped sister Lair work on the rental again. Man, I love that lady. She has gone through anything and everything but she is still so generous and kind. She is my definition of charity. I love doing service too. It always makes me so happy. It is a sure way to lift your spirits.

 Laura is also doing a lot better. She is recovering well and her kids even came to church yesterday. Progress! It was a tender little moment for me. We were all squished on a little pew, all comfy. It made me miss the good old days when that was all of us taking up the whole middle pew. They were so well behaved and the members were so good about welcoming them and involving them during classes. 

I went to a mission leadership training meeting this week. We talked about how to help those around us help themselves and how God works the same way. We don't pray for him to take away all of our challenges, but we pray for the strength to overcome them and change our circumstances. It was a great life lesson. I love little things like that. It was pretty great.

In all honesty that is the only thing I can think of that is worth mentioning. haha. We had some good exchanges but other than that it is just same old .....that, and I'm running out of time:D

Love ya lots!

-Sister Prows

Coyote's are nasty 

My Poor

Mansoon season, planet of the dogs, and transfer doctrine

June 22, 2015 

Ok. so last Monday I had this awesome email and right as I was about to send it but my computer turned off on me because I was out of time. Smooth, I know. So yeah, sorry about that. I know that I spoiled your most exciting event of the week;)

So first off, I gotta tell ya a crazy story! Are you ready for this awesomeness?! Let me hear a YEAH! Ok, so once upon a time in the blistering hot deserts of California there lived two missionaries. One day all of their appointments fell through and they were looking and looking but couldn't find anyone. So they decided to get out of the car and just walk to the next person on there list. Just as they were about 100 feet away the person that they were planning to go see pulled out the driveway. Just their luck eh. but wait! There's more! looking around and concluding that there was only like two houses on the whole street without a fence and a huge dog, Sister Prows randomly decided to go knock on a random door. Her comp cried out "Well that was random" and she smugly replied" Missionary work is random." So they walk up to the door and their two bull mastives the size of elephants start barking there minuscule brains out. We knocked our lucky 7 knocks, waited, waited some more, an ALAS! He opens......only the stinken dogs wouldn't stop barking so they had to yell at his face. So finally after a really awkward first few minute the dogs are finally quiet and they proceed to talk with him. Long story short, they ended up sitting down on the patio and teaching him and now he is an investigator who wants to be baptized! And then they lived happily ever after. Taduh!!!!!! Man, I should write a book. So yeah, moral of the story, follow the little thoughts and never give up too soon. You'll miss out on miracles. I swear though, dogs are taking over the world. (No offense Sarah;D) But man, they are taking over the world. I saw a sign the other day that said "My dogs aren't spoiled, I'm just well trained" ha! No kidding. Na, I'm just bitter because they mess things up all the time and they keep attacking us on our bikes haha. Anyway, now that I'm done with that rant........I will go off on another!

We had a crazy rain storm. If you all didn't know, Cali is in  major drought because the East coast is being mean and stealing all of our water, but the other day it rained like no ones business. There was literally rivers blocking all of the roads and main street was completely flooded. It's not like there are any storm drains so it was pretty crazy. It was funny though because my comp hates, and I mean hates, water so she was freaking out. She drove out of that thing so fast. haha. It was funny because we would drive a block to where it wasn't raining, wait 10 seconds and it would catch up. We did it over and over. We thought it was pretty amusing. You get desperate for entertainment out here if you can't tell. 

The weather here has been in the 100's every day besides that so no biking this week. We can barely make it to our car without passing out from heat stroke. Actually I'm just a sissy. But when it is super hot and you get into AC it is really hard not to get sleepy. We teach a lot of old people that talk for hours and their homes are always dark so I have this thing were the moment I walk in, all of the sudden I need to sleep. I don't of course but it takes everything in my willpower not to haha. I have to stare at them like a deer in the headlight or I'll fall asleep. They probably wonder why I make such weird facial expressions. haha. But I'm surviving. Just always super super tired. My comp went to the bathroom and by the time that she came out I was knocked out cold on the desk hehe. 

So, the work has been kinda slow and I always wondered why. I have an amazing comp and we both work really hard. That should equal lots of work, right? Well, in this area not so much. We haven't been able to meet with all of our investigators for awhile and we aren't having much luck finding. Sometimes I wondered if it was something that I was lacking or I wasn't working hard enough, but God has been teaching me an important lesson. I don't think that I would have grown nearly as much as I have if everything in my life was easy. I wouldn't have to strive to figure things out or improve at the rate I needed to. The hardest times are often the times where I learn the most about God. When I have to get down on my knees, study like no tomorrow and try with all my little might to improve my teaching skills. It was through hard times that I learned the root of my weaknesses and where I need to improve the most, but I also learned how to truly overcome those. He is teaching me hope, diligence and patience. I know that good things always come out of hard times. If God wanted me to convert thousands and get me into doors and make all of those other things happen He could, but H e wants to make sure that I'm converted as well and it is through those hard times, and the good, that I become that converted missionary. I know that I've said this before, but the missions really are for the missionaries more than anyone, but it is through serving and giving ourselves to others that we find that conversion. That's why all of the rules and guidelines are so important, because they keep us focused on others and not ourselves. I would never trade the mission for anything. I can honestly say that it was the best decision of my life

Just so you all know, I'm staying with my same comp in the same area. It will be great. We are going to make miracles happen and turn this area around. It's going to be epic!

Thanks so much for everything! 

lOVE ya lots.......and don't you forget it!

-Sister Prows

Our plan to visit that less active we quickly halted

I held a snake! It like choked me me to death 

We painted a tree for everyone to put their thumbprint on when they come for exchanges. 

I’m Officially Mexican

June 8, 2015 

Monday I learned that Hawaiian BBQ is really good. Tuesday, I did a training on the role of the Book of Mormon in drawing us closer to Christ. It was really nerve racking, as always, but I learned so much while I prepared it. I learned that the reason why it helps us so much is because we come to know his character, what he needs us to do, and the why of the gospel. Our trust in Him grows because we come to know Him more personally. We also taught Danny again. He has gotten into a lot of anti stuff so that has kinda halted his progression. Curse you google! But the Spirit keeps telling him to hear what we have to say so hopefully this week his hear t will be a bit more open to our message. 

We also saw sista Love. That poor lady has been through just about everything that you can think of. I swear, all of our less actives and investigators are going through a divorce or an abusive relationship of some sort. I had no idea that so many people went through things like that. That is one of the hardest parts for me at least-seeing people suffer and being powerless to do anything about it other than give them some hope and comfort. Sometimes I feel like giving those abusers a taste of their own medicine. There is plenty of desert out here so no one will ever know. right? haha, jk. But man, there is so much abuse in this world. We are so blessed to have the family that we have though. Good families are becoming more and more rare I feel. Satan is attacking our families so much thses days. That's why we have to put on our armor every day and do the simple things that help us make good decisions. 

On Thursday we went to old town Victorville for a service project. Turns out that they didn't have it that day so we went to go find this little whole in the wall Mexican place. I don't know if I've ever mentioned this or if anyone knows, but there is a huge homeless community down on the dried riverbed of the Mojave River. They all live in tents and shacks. So many of them have families and everything but no where to go, so they live there. People think that it's all their fault and if they really wanted it bad enough they could get out of it, but it's really not that simple. People get evicted and don't have the several hundred to move into a new home so they end up on the street. We know a sister who will end up in the same situation with her 4 kids if she can't find work soon. It makes me so sad to see that in our own country. I am very grateful for the church though, that gives so many people that needed support. It all reminds me to count my blessings and Fully develop an attitude of gratitude. 

On Wednesday I went on exchanges with the Hermanas from the Spanish ward. It was so fun. I was like a deer in the headlights to almost everything that was going on and to what in the world anyone was saying. Apparently I look like a Latina so people automatically start speaking Spanish. haha. My comp is obsessed with Mexican food and I have eaten so much of it lately that I think I'm turning into a Mexican. 

So funny story! I got my bike from the storage unit down in Rancho when we went to MLC. Man, we were so excited! I was all ready to go with my nerdy helmet and everything. We set out on our epic adventure across the hilly desert, destined for greatness and then............I popped a tire. haaa. About five minutes in I ran over something and didn't know what it was so I just kept on going. About 2 miles down the road we stopped at a stop sign and I heard a pppppssssssss. Dang it! So we walked home. And thus ended the biking adventures for the week. FAIL.

So yeah, I know that  told you at the beginning that this would be short but half way through I changed my mind and remembered all of the wonderful things that happened this week. No lie, I could go on forever but I'm scared that if my letters get too long that you'll give up on reading them....if you haven't already. haha. Love you all! 

Peace out!

Sister Prows

My first nap in 7 months, exchanges, more exchanges, boss planting skills, and trucks

June 1, 2015 

Man, This week was so fun. Yesterday I went to Phelan on exchanges with Sister Otuofi. She is from Tonga and just about the nicest person you'll ever meet. So I'll tell you a little something about Phelan. Picture this. No paved roads, all the houses are either super super nice or super super ghetto, no street signs, no people out and and more Joshua trees than you could ever count. Yep, that's Phelan. It was epic! And guess what! I drove a big ol' truck. Haa. It was like a really really bumby roller coaster. I was laughing the whole time because it was just so fun. Just picture two sister missionaries blowin through the desert with M tab blasting, catching air on every sand dune we blew over. haha. no not really, but in my little mind that's how I felt. We even drove like 15 miles to get to dinner. I think their driveway was about two miles long and they fed us Russian food. Yep, it was a good day. We decided that when I get home, I'm going to go to Tonga and visit her and she will show me how to climb a coconut tree and make Otii and Sapasui. See, that's the cool thing about serving a mission- you can travel the world and have someone to stay with wherever you go! 

I also went on exchanges with Sister West. I think we almost passed out from heat stroke but other than that it was a good day. I always learn so much from the Sisters! They are amazing and I'm so happy that I have the chance to get to know them.

On Monday the members that we had dinner with sent us home with blueberries and whipped cream. Bad idea! Never give whipped cream to missionaries. They go crazy. We decided to test out our mad skillz and see if we could catapult whipped cream and catch it in out mouths. The first try it totally went over my head and I almost face planted into our fence. FAIL. The second time it still went over my head only this time I tripped on a weed and totally biffed it in the dirt. DOUBLE FAIL. We both went inside covered in whipped cream, dirt and weeds. It was great.

On Thursday we did some more planting at Sqaush4friends. By the time I get home my thumbs will be permanently green. I'm so excited to start a garden someday. It's one of the only times during the week when we can get super dirty and wear pants so we take full advantage of it. We always leave dirty and smiling. 

Yesterday I woke up with a bad cold. I didn't even fall asleep during church! You all should be so proud of me. Nevertheless, by the time I got home my comp literally forced me to go to bed. I tried to escape but she wouldn't let me. So I eventually gave in and had the best 3 hours nap ever. I can't even remember the last time I took a nap in all honesty. 

So yeah, that was my week. We worked really hard I promise. I continue to learn so much every day from everyone we meet. We really do have the opportunity to bless peoples life every day. I love meeting so many wonderful people and their inspiring stories. I've realized that everyone in our lives will go through a lot trials but with them there are also so many miracles and blessings that help us all get through it. God is very aware of each and every one of us and He knows what we're going through. Everyone at some point in their lives will have their faith tested, but I know that as we rely on Him He will give us the strength to get through it.

I gotta go but I love you all!!!!! Thanks for all the love and support

Love ya lots,

Sister Prows

Big Ol’ Lizards, Bowling, and Blessings

May 26, 2015

Man, this week has felt like 3. I went on exchanges with my new favorite person, Sister Brown. She took my place in my last ward and she is doing great. I loved being in my old area! It was so fun to see all of my favorite people again. 

Monday, Sister Cromwell and I went bowling. It was epic and I discovered my mad skilz....not really but it was really fun. Oh and yesterday we caught a really huge lizard...ok it was only like 7 inches but it was still big. It was really fun but it almost jumped on me when it crawled out and for the first time ever my comp saw me freak out. haha. We felt pretty accomplished.
We were blessed with 2 new investigators this week! One is Daniel and the other is Mano. They are tough cookies but I love teaching them.

Darn! My time just ran out. I'll finish next week but know that I love you all! thanks for all of the support and encouragement. It means more than you could ever know!

Love ya lots,

Sister Prows

Cupcakes, Exchanges, and Really Big Desert Trees

May 18, 2015

This week was a blur. It went by way too fast. I can't believe that this transfer is already 1/3 of the way over. What the who ha hey. I  hit my year mark on Thursday! It's that crazy!?  I love being an STL though. I went on my first exchange on Saturday and I had no idea what I was doing but I survived. I stayed in my area and since I haven't been here that long it was kinda hard planning and whatnot but we managed to get along just fine. I love learning from all of the other Sisters. That night when we went to exchange back I saw that the other Sisters were still sitting in the car talking. Me being the horrible person that I am decided to get payback to my comp so I snuck up to their car and got right below the passenger window then I popped up and screamed. Oh my goodness gracious. I almost peed my pants laughing. I scared the heebie Geebies out of them and man did they scream bloody murder. They live in an extra sketchy part of Victorville so it made it even better. You should have seen their faces. haha.

We have a couple of Sisters way way out in the booonies over in Phelin. So we went and had lunch with them this week. It was fun being outside of the area in the middle of no where. 

I also made cupcakes for my old comp for her birthday so we took them to Zone Meeting. 

I can't really think of anything else other than missionary stuff. haha. We met some super cool people this week. I think that that is what I love most about my mission. You would be proud of me though, I contacted a guy on a horse and 4 hippies outside on their lawn. haha. It was great. 

Well, Love you all! Send me lots of pictures ok! 

Love ya lots,

Sister Prows

Double Baptisms and Best Mother’s Day Ever

May 11, 2015 

Man oh man, I loved talking to everyone yesterday! I'm glad to see that none of you have changed. haha. Still the same only crazy sarcastic family. Love you mom! 

This week was wonderful! I love my new area. It is going to be a challenging area but it will be good too. We have lots and lots of old people but they are all super genuine, down to earth, good people. The area has also been picking up and we have some good people that we are working with. This week flew by so so fast and it was really nice because we were able to stay really busy. It's nice, but at the same time it makes my mission go by way too fast.  I remember last year yesterday I was giving my mothers day/supposed to be farewell talk. Crazy how time fly......but at the same time I go through all of my areas and it feels like it was years ago.

I love being an STL so far. It finally hit me when we were going over the logistics of exchanges and whatnot. I realized that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing! Hurray for cluelessness. I'm sure that it's going to get even better when we do exchanges on Saturday, then I'll really be clueless. It's all good though. God's got this. I get to give my first Zone Meeting training tomorrow so we'll see how that goes. It's on how our correct beliefs and self worth increase our effectiveness and actions as missionaries. If we believe that we can do it then by George we'll do it. We have this cool "control model" that we run a beliefs through to see if it is correct and to help us to change our incorrect beliefs about what we can do and how they really do affect us. It's going to be really fun showing everyone. I'm really nervous though. I also had my first MLC down in Rancho with all of the other zone leaders and stl's. I felt kinda weird and inadequate being there hehe but I loved everything the President taught us.

Saturday was Gilbert's baptism! Hurray! Woot woot! Booya! He is the first person that I have ever found taught and baptized. The Spirit was so strong at his baptism. Bro Moore, a really awesome recent convert baptized him. Santa Fe ward also found like 4 new investigators since I left. I'm so happy for them. One of them is Gilbert's friend! He is a super awesome missionary already. Aleece also got baptized later that day. She is a child of record but I still taught her since she doesn't have much background in the church. She is a cutie. We snuck in for the confirmation yesterday morning before ward council. He looked so happy. It's cool to be a part of something life changing like that and what an amazing blessing. I grew as well. I can't believe how good I feel and how seeing others happy makes me happy. You go through the ups and downs with them but in the end it all turns out. 

Throughout the week while we plan and whatnot we have been making little mothers day handouts. We cut out these cute little cone flowers and stick a chocolate kiss in it and attached it to a mothers day quote. I was really happy with how they turned out and we made a lot of really old ladies happy. haha. Old people have the best reactions.

I know that the Lord is aware of each and every one of us and that He is mindful of every little thing in our lives. He really does love us. ....and I love you too!

Love ya lots,

Sister Prows

Transfer doctrine, Jamaican Throwback, and STL Calls

May 4, 2015 

Man, oh man. Where to start? Well, I'm no longer in the Santa Fe ward, but funny story, I'm going literally right next door. We share the same building and everything and our church times even overlap. haha. But the bestist part  is that I'm going to be with my bestest bud Sister Cromwell! We have been serving around each other for over 10 months! She has been my Sister Training Leader for the last three transfers and now were STL's together! Dream come true! It's going to be epic. For those of you who don't know what an STL is, it's like a Sister version of a district leader, so we go on exchanges with the sisters and help them out whenever they need it, so I'll get to go down the hill to Rancho for lots of meeting and whatnot now. On Saturday I got a call from my district leader who tells us where we go, but when he told me that I was going with Sister Cromwell to Mojave River I thought that he was just pulling my leg. Nope. Because usually if you get a leadership call it will be from the Assistants to the President but they never called so it was news to me. I'm really nervous and I feel pretty inadequate but God will help me and it will all be ok. But I'm really happy and I'll still be able to keep an eye on Santa Fe ward and help Sister Dart whenever she needs it. She got a really good new comp too so I'm happy for her. I'll even get to go on exchanges to my old ward! haha. How awesome is that?

Gilbert is progressing splendidly towards his date! He is excited and has already seen so many blessing from the Gospel. I'm so happy for him. The ward is progressing well and I'm excited that I still get to see it grow from across the hill. I'm so grateful to be a missionary and I love it so much. It is so hard sometimes but so worth it.

Love ya lots,

 Sister Prows

 It was wonderful. We also got to go to the route 66 museum in old town Victorville. It was so fun and all of the old people took us on a little tour:)

 Last week we found a Jamaican restaurant! It was the best day ever! I had jerk chicken and rice and peas and they even had sorrel!

I also took a Legit beef patty and cola champagne to go.

Old Lady Parties, Golden Investigators, and Trail Clean Ups

April 27, 2015 

Sorry again about last weeks letter. You get days where you get nothing and other days everyone decides to write you all at once. haha. It's just like our days out here. Some of them are packed and we run around like chickens with their heads cut off and others are those really long days where you wish that just one person would let us in. haha. Gotta love it

Well oh well, what happened this week? Uuum....., the week started off with the old lady luncheon. Those are the best. All of the old ladies get together for a lunch and they talked about old people stuff but it always feels so nice to be included. I always feel so loved. 

On Saturday we headed out of our area to Silverwood lake for a Stake clean up project. It was SO nice to see a different scenery. The same couple of square miles get kinda boring after awhile. haha. We drove through boonies and I felt like I was in Idaho again. For the service project we cleared trails and I got to use those massive clipper thingies. I like feel so boss when I use those. It has been super cold and windy here the last week so everyone was kinda cold but it turned out to be a really fun morning. While I was sitting there in the Dement's big truck with the engine humming, all nice and warm staring out the window, I had one of those moments where you just know that God loves you and knows what we need and when. I needed that little break and moment of peace so bad. I sometimes get so stressed that I don't even realize that I'm stressed until I'm not anymore and I realize the difference.  We got done really early though so we kinda had to figure out what to do with our extra 3 hours. We couldn't really tract in 65 mph winds though so we had to be creative. 

Our investigators are progressing so well. Gilbert is moving along towards his date and passing everything with flying colors. Carol is getting a blessing so we hope that that will help her get to church. In the mean time her faith continues to grow and I can see it changing her whole countenance. She is using the Atonement.  Nothing has changed much, other than me. I still have the same personality and I'm still Becca but my outlook on life has changed a lot. My priorities and dreams have definitely been refined in a lot of ways. That's the miracle of missions. It is literally changing my eternity. I've been thinking a lot lately about how I want to apply my learning and growth when the time comes for me to go back to the real world. It is one of my greatest excitements but one of my greatest fears as well. Even though I know that I won't be perfect at it all and not everything in life goes the way that we plan, I know that what the mission has given me is a greater desire and a greater knowledge of how I can serve my Heaven,y Father better. If anything, I've seen just how important the small every day primary answers are and how much they really do help us. I've seen what happens when you do do them and I've seen what happens when you don't. I know that the little things in life make all the difference. It takes faith to keep those "celestial habits" up and sometimes we're just not in the mood to read, pray or go to church, but when we finally do  them we are reminded of just how amazing they are. As humans we forget really really fast. We forget feelings and thoughts and we too often forget what is most important. That is why we need daily and constant reminders to help us to remember. When we are true to the little things, God will give us greater things. I don't know if that alll made any sense to anyone, but it does to me. haha. So I'd encourage everyone to exercise their faith and go back to the basics. Remind yourself of just how great they really are and just how much they help. I promise that you will feel the Spirit more abundantly  in your life and that Spirit will make all the difference in everything that you do. Our testimonies are like a fire. They need fuel to stay bright and big but if you don't keep putting wood in the fire goes out. You can't blame it for not staying big if you never do anything to keep it burning. We can always fan the flame back up though, even if it is merely a little dim amber still holding on to keep glowing. So yeah, that is what I've learned. haha. .

Well, I love you all! Transfers are this week so the next time I email I'll let you know if I stayed or left my area. I kinda have a feeling that I may be leaving( knock on wood) but we'll see. Only God knows and that's ok with me.

Love ya lots,

Sister Prows

Out of Time

April 20, 2015

So this week has been filled with lots of little moments where I just knew that the Lord was very aware of me. I fasted for something on Sunday and little my little I have seen how the Lord has helped me because of it. My testimony of fasting and prayer has increased so much. So, I'd encourage anyone who reads this to fast for something that they need help with. It is one of our most powerful tools. 

This week has been full of lots of long meetings and lots of old people. haha. Wednesday was zone conference. I loved it! It was exactly what I needed to hear. It went right in line with what I needed and what I have been working on trying to do. Never in my life have I actually understood the enabling power of the Atonement and for the first time I finally feel like I'm starting to figure it out. Hurray! God really does provide a way for us to do everything that He asks us to do. He helps us get there with His help. 

AAAAAWWWWW I just realized that I have about 30 sec before i get kicked off so I will finish this next week. haha. Love you all! 

Taxidermy Restaurant

April 13, 2015 

This week was pretty great..in it's own little way. One of the other Sisters has been out of service due to the flu for the past 2 weeks but they still had appointments and things that they had to get done so we we went on a couple of mini exchanges to help them out. I went our with Sister Cromwell both times. It was so nice to get out my 6 by 6 mile radius for almost the first time in 4 months. haha. And I didn't even have to be the one to plan what to do next! Yep, it was great. I forgot how nice that feels. I loved it though. We went and saw this little old lady from Puerto Rico. Oh my gosh, I have never laughed so hard. She was hilarious! She told us everything she knew;) but it was actually really enjoyable and fun. I always love getting to meet such fun people like her. We had a really fun dinner appointment with the Jackman family and then headed off to visit one more less active, only we never actually got to the door. We had most amazing conversation instead. haha. That sounds bad but we both really needed it. It was one of those times where I knew that the Lord was very aware of me. Everything that she said was exactly what I needed to hear. I knew that the Spirit was guiding our conversation and we both learned and grew together. Hurray for answered prayers! 

We had lots of fun at squash4friends too. We had to take out all of the old winter crop of broccoli and whatnot so by the time we were done hauling it all off we looked  more like homeless old people than missionaries. We were hunched over and covered in dirt from head to toe. Yep, we were quite the sight, I still look like I got attacked by a dog from all of my scratches. It was way fun though. Look out California! The glamour girls are comin to town! I love being with the other missionaries! We also got to take home the last little bit of the veggies that were left. I didn't even have to buy produce this week! Which is nice because that is basically my diet when we aren't with members for dinner. I make a green smoothie every morning for breakfast so I go through a lot of greens. I've seen the results of eating crud every day and it aint pretty. haha. Motivation comes from all sorts of places. 

I don't have much of an update for you I just wanted to let ya know that I love you all and I'm keeping busy. Gilbert reset his date for May 9 so we are super excited. The Winklers also agreed to get baptized! Hurray! So life is good, hard, but good. I love my mission and I love you all!

Love ya lots,

Sister prows

We went to a whole in wall Mexican restaurant that looked more like a taxidermy shop than a restaurant. It was quite the surprise when we walked in. This wart hog looked really happy to see us

 I picked them myself

Some-Bunny Loves You

April 6, 2015 

So we had a pretty sweet week! Starting with my favorite part......GENERAL CONFERENCE! Hurray! Man oh man, I didn't want it to end. I loved Elder Uchtdorf's talk on Grace! and Elder Holland's was amazing as always. I'm so grateful for such amazingly inspired leaders. I felt like so many of them were written just for me.....along with 15 million other people haha. Yep, it's pretty great. Miracle moment: Carol, the one who has a hard time with crowds came and watched General Conference with us at a members place! She stayed for both Saturday sessions and we had a nice lunch in between. Gilbert and Abby also watched it at our ward mission leaders house with us. Yeah, I was excited to say the least. I was so conscious of whether they would understand what the hey anyone was even talking about haha, but that is where the Spirit comes into play. It teaches us in ways that words can't and I felt like they were all able to understand it pretty well. They really liked it too. Carol has come so far and I'm so grateful to see her growth and progression in the gospel. We taught her the Word of Wisdom and she readily accepted it and everything, even though she loves her tea and coffee. I feel like she is happier and happier every time we go to see her. 

So for Easter we wanted to get out the HeLives video to as many people as we could so we went and bought a whole boatload of candy and Easter eggs and a member help us print a really pretty quote on a little 2 by 2 card and on the back it said  "the Sister missionaries have an Easter Video message for you" and then it listed the website fr the video. So we stuck those to the eggs and dropped them in all of the members mailboxes and doors. It was so fun and it made me happy. I like doing little things like that.

 Easter is the most important day of the year. It means a whole lot more to me this year than it ever has. We really do owe everything good in our lives to Christ. My understanding of the Plan of Salvation has really grown a lot since I've been out. It really is such a great plan. It gives me so much comfort because I know that everything will work out for everyone. The people that don't understand now will get a chance. The people that suffer will find peace and the seekers will find what they are looking for. We will be judged by an all knowing and all loving God that knows all of the could haves, should haves and would haves. It really is all in His hands and none of our happiness and joy in life would be possible with out Christ. My heart almost hurts sometimes when I know that people don't understand or believe that. I love them so much and I just wish that they knew everything that I do. I wish that they understood just how much it can mean in their lives. I wish that they knew how much God loves them and wants them back with Him someday. But I'm mortal and all I can do is my best and hope that they feel His love through my words and actions. God will take care of the rest.

I love you all so so much! Have fun at the family get together and take lots of pics!

Lov ya lots,

Sister Prows

Double Wammy!

March 30, 2015 

Man, I never know how to start these letters. Sorry if they all sound the same haha. Sometimes you just run out of things to say, ya know? Oh well.

So, uummm, uh, funny story. We kinda, sorta locked ourselves out of our car this week. Not once but TWO TIMES. And get this, the second time was only the day after haha! Yeah, it was embarrassing to say the least. The first time, they fell out of my pocket onto the seat and I got out and closed the door and when we tried to open it it didn't obey my yelling at it to open. So, we called the mission office and and luckily they had a spare that they sent up the hill with another set of missionaries. We got it just in time....three hours later. It's okay though, because we had an awesome tracting spree and found 3 potentials! hurray! It still shocks me when ever people actually say yes to another visit haha. I'm like " would you be interested in learning more about our message" and these people actually said yes! It shocked me so much that I didn't even really know what to do next haha. I just stood there like a deer in the headlights. Nah, I'm just kidding but it was an awesome feeling. You get so used to the same answer sometimes that anything different throws you off a bit haha. 

The second time we had just gotten done with a service project and I needed something out of the trunk so I threw all my stuff down in the back and grabbed what I needed and started walking to go get something. Well my comp thought that I was done and closed it. It was jsut like in the movies where I turned around in slow mow yelling NOOOOOOoooooooooooooo in slow motion right as she closed the trunk that had no button to open it on the outside. So there we were, two chicks sitting on the trunk of their car in the middle of a huge empty field in the desert, all alone and stranded. I was just picturing everyone coming back the next week to find two skelotins with names tags next to the car. We could see the vultures already starting to circle plus it was stinken hot..... but luckily we had our phone so we could call someone. The night before, we were helping some old ladies in our ward move boxes and stuff and we told them about how we had locked ourselves out. They offered there AAA next time that ever happened, and since I was not about to call the mission office AGAIN and tell them that we had locked ourselves out AGAIN, I decided to have the old ladies rescue us instead. They got a kick out of it when we called them to ask for help haha. So we just sat there and waited, snacking on some left over broccoli that we had just picked for all of the soup kitchens in town. haha. It was awesome. So yeah, that is my adventure for the week.

Now for best part. So for the mission fast that we had at the beginning of the year we were all asked to figure out something that we wanted to work on. I decided that I wanted to work on listening to and following the Spirit. Well, that was definitely manifested this week. On Tuesday, we were driving off to go see who we had planned but I had the impression to go see if Aby was home. So I turned my little Toyota around and drove back. She wasn't there but Gilbert was! we haven't seen him in forever because he has been working so much and we caught him on his only day off that he has had in weeks! hurray! We were able to help and comfort him about some things and he says that he is going to put i=his foot down and tell his buddy that he is serious about having Sundays off. He is such a god guy. The next night we had planned a billion names in a couple of areas. It took us like an hour when we were done I had a feeling to scratch all of it and go down and trct area 6. I was reluctant at first because of all our planning that we had just done and plus it was so far away so I didn't really want to waist so many miles when we were so low on them this month. But, we went anyways and we ended up finding several potentials. But wait! there's more! the Next day, we randomly planned to go and see the Kirby's. Well, that was random but I felt like we needed to go anyways. So we did, and Bro Kirby, our ward mission leaders, wasn't even there haha. But we got talking to his wife instead. She had been having horrible heart burn all day and she was having an anxiety really bad but by the time that we left she expressed how it had all melted away as we talked. How cool is that?!! Moral of the story-listen to the Spirit and fasting works!

 Keep being amazing! Know that I think about and pray for each one of you often. 

lOVE YA LOTS!

Sister Prows

watch this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!  it's amazing http://www.mormon.org/easter

Miracles!

March 23, 2015

So I just completed my 7th/13 transfer! Pretty crazy, eh? We got the calls late Saturday night and I'm staying in the same place with the same comp. My work isn't done here so I get to spend the next 6 weeks figuring out why. I love my ward so I'm cool with it. 

This week we had so many cool miracles. Friday we had a feeling that we should go to one members house after dinner to ask her a question about family History that a less active wanted us to find out about. Long story short, a lot of things happened that should have kept us from going but we did anyways. When we got there and we had asked our question she remembered some temple names that another Sister had agreed to take to the temple for her in order to get them all ready for sealings. She asked us if we could take them to her before we went home for the night and even had us go get another Sisters names as well. So that was cool. We were able to be used as instruments in the Lord's hands to help people. That is a really short version of what happened but it was really neat. We also did the Food Ministries again this week and the other Sisters that came with us started talking to this one lady. Turns out she is a recent convert and when she moved she didn't know what ward she was in so she fell away. So they are going to start teaching her! Hurrah for miracles. Those are the main ones of the week but there have been so many other little ones that we have been able to see too. God is so aware of us. There is no better feeling that being able to participate in miracles. 

Sorry this is so short this week but I wanted to get something in at least. Love you all! 

-Sister Prows

pic 1:  My healthy version of a shamrock shake

pic 2: My favorite person ever went home today. Ignore the creeper in the background haha

Lost Investigator

March 16, 2015

Our week had a couple of crazy moments to say the least. On Friday night, the YM/YW had a fundraiser for girls camp/high adventure. Abby, our 13 year old investigator, wants to go so we had someone pick her up and bring her. We left after the dinner because there was no need for us to stay and watch the auction and I told Abby who would be taking her home. About 45 minutes later we got a text from the Sister that was supposed to take her home that said nobody could find her. I did a mini freak out session. After awhile of no one being able to find her we went back to the church and all the leaders were there. We called Gilbert and asked him if he had come and picked her up and he hadn't so then he started to freak out. So nobody knows where she is and I'm just thinking how horrible it is that we lost our investigators daughter haha. Long story short, she got a ride with someone and didn't tell anyone and didn't get back until later. That's what we thought but it was still kinda scary. So yeah, we lost our investigator haha.  

So this week our whole entire mission and all of the the ward councils did a huge fast for missionary work. it was really cool and I can't wait to see all of the amazing miracles that will come from it.

On Thursday we did sqaush4friends again and I got to take home a bunch of broccoli and cauliflower. You know me, I was SO happy! I've been putting it in my smoothies and making it for lunch everyday. Yep, it's been great. I've done like 7 hours of gardening this week. On Saturday we hula hoed for two hours at the Elders investigators place and then went straight to another old lady and did two and a half there and then went straight to go help someone else clean and organize her newly painted cupboards. We slept well that night haha I loved it though. It feels awesome serving people..... and you get buff arms really fast haha. 

We started teaching the Langs again this week. They are the ones that tried to remove their records. They decided to give it another chance so hopefully we will be able to help build their faith enough to stay. I'm kinda scared though. Her testimony is wavering and she has a very strong personality so explaining things can be hard. It's all in God's hands though. I've been realizing more and more just how little control over things I have. This really is HIS work and the only one I can control is myself. It's hard seeing people make not so great decisions. It's been harder on me than I ever thought it would be. You come to love people so much and when they make bad decisions it's hard to see. I can't even imagine how God feels. Opposition in all things, right? Salvation was never an easy task. It wasn't for the Savior and it's not going to be for us. It's all good though. We see so many blessings throughout our day that keep us going and we have a wonderful ward family that takes care of us.  

Sorry that I don't have anything cool to report but maybe something will pop up next week haha. Thanks for being so great! 

Love ya lots,

Sister Prows