Family and Friends!!
Wow! I feel
like it has been forever since I have got to email everyone! I don't
even know where to start! I have been so crazy busy this week! Me and my
Trainer Sister Horrocks were flushed into an area, which means she
knows about as much about the area as I do... Better yet we have no GPS
in our car so we have this big and really beat up map that we are
using... Its been a learning experience to say the least. Wow! I guess
before all that I will be serving in the Mount Herman YSA ward... crazy
right? I never would have imagined my first area to be YSA. But it is
good fun! We actually have a bunch of people from the United States Air
force Academy that are in our ward and since we don't have enough miles
to meet everyone at their houses we do most of our appointments at the
church or over at the USAA. Not only that, since cadets can't get
married while they are attending the academy we have lots of engaged
couples that have been engaged for like 2 years and are waiting until
one or the other graduates. It make for some interesting ward dynamics
that is for sure! So we have been super busy! On Wednesday I got my
companion and we went to assemble my bike which must have been very
disconcerting for our elders because they ended up assembling it
mostly... then we went to district lunch and home to drop off my
luggage... and then I went to my first dinner and .... wait for it... my
first Investigator lesson. The sisters that were here before us must
not have wanted to let us be bored because we have been slammed with
appointments with less actives and ATM's (Assisting the members). But it
has been a blast! Sister Horrocks is so much fun! We have a good time.
Sometimes I think we must be in different lessons because she is always
turning to me after a lesson and telling me how intense it was and I
just didn't notice.
I also had my first tracting experience, which Sister
Horrocks was determined I should get. In YSA they strongly encourage us
not to tract because it is so hard to find YSA eligible people that way,
but we went for like 10 minutes. We talked to one lady and got another
lady to open her door long enough to shut it once more, but such is
life. We are staying in a member home and it has been fun. Friday the
White's (the members we are staying with) had a Beetles and Broadway
party, we did not get to join but we did hear the karaoke :) Wow! I
don't even know what else to say besides I'm LOVING it here... Though it
has been really cold and windy... Luckily we live in one of the more
mountainous areas, but there are some places where it is flat as a
pancake! Anyways, so the thought I would like to share with you all is
in D&C 122: 7 "and if thou shoulds be cast into the pit, or into the
hands of murdered, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou
be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if
fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and
all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all if the very
jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my
son that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for
thy good." Now don't get this wrong. The mission is great! But there
were some things that I went through before coming out that were really
hard... But every person I have taught here so far is going through, to
some degree, what I went through. And it is because I went through
them, that I can help the people here in Mount Herman now:) Anyways!
I'm running out of time! I love you all so much!
Love,
Sister Bice
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