Happy Halloween - 11/3/14

Hii guys! I hope you all had a happy halloween! I wish you could see the way people decorate out here. It's a little scary. I've decided my favorite halloween decorations are lollipop ghosts that you put on the tree. 

This past week was really really good! It's been great to see how the area is improving. It just reminds me that we won't always see how much good we do. missionaries have been working really hard here for a long time and it's all paying off! A lot of really cool things happened this week!

1. a member of the 70 came to our stake conference

2. the member of the 70 asked sister scott and i to do a role play (or demonstration) of how to help members with their missionary work

3. it was terrifying

4. afterwards we received 5 referrals

5. one of the referrals is actually very interested

1. Elder Martino from the 70 came to the stake because the stake president here was released! Elder Martino is super nice and we actually had a chance to talk to him for a little and he gave us so many tips and ideas of how to get members more involved with the missionary work here.

2. President Morgan called us Friday night and told us that Elder Martino needed to missionaries to help him during the saturday night session of stake conference. We were called up in the middle of the meeting with a family from the ward to basically demonstrate how missionaries should help members with the missionary work.

3. i normally am pretty fine with speaking in front of people, a little nervous but it's all good once i get up there. but this time was a bit different. not going to lie i had nervous butterflies up there on the stand. and do you know how hard it is to stand naturally in front of 300 people?! 

4. After the meeting and on Sunday morning some members came up to us and gave us some referrals of friends and family that they know that they feel are ready to hear about the gospel! It was so cool! Sister Scott and I were just amazed! 

5. We got one referral from the stake president, he wants us to see a lady who is going through some really hard times. She is a newly single mom of 4 kids all under the age of 6, both of her parents are religious but she doesn't have a church that she attends right now, her dad actually asked the stake member if he could send missionaries to see her so she had no idea that we had been asked to visit her and so when we knocked on her door we didn't know how she would react. We told her that we share a message of happiness and she asked us if we could come back! We left her porch feeling overwhelmed with the love that Heavenly Father has for her. So many prayers are being said for her.

This week was great and we have another one coming up! It's getting pretty cold here, cold enough that i rolled out my winter suit case. We had daylight savings yesterday and of course i was confused beyond belief (arizona problems). 

loving missionary life

loving sister scott

loving missouri

loving o'fallon

loving the lord

sister oberfield

this happened also.. i promise i'm a good driver, i really did try to avoid it.
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