Hello family!
Lexi Bracken to France?! That is awesome! I love that girl!
I'm not at the visitor center every day. Lately I've only been there once or twice a week, but starting next transfers it should start to get busy again so I'll be there probably three times a week. Transfers are next week I'm pretty sure and they are every six weeks. Because of the new training program they implemented not too long ago, the 12 week program, I'll stay in this same area with the same companion. The 12 week program is where for the first 12 weeks we get an extra hour of companionship study with a special training book we use and we stay with the same companion for the whole 12 weeks.
We ate dinner with the Davis's. They lived in the Brigham 8th ward I think. They're super nice and way great!
Member work is the best. Really it's not as weird or hard as we think. It's just being non-member's friends. In the ward here, it would be so helpful if they did visiting teaching. When members don't do their visiting and home teaching is when members go less active and then the missionaries are trying to get them back. But that is pointless if the members don't fellowship them back in. Everyone needs a friend and missionary work can be as simple as being someone's friend.
I love hearing from all of you! This week has been good. We taught a lady named Cadie. She's a single mom with a lot on her plate, always going and doing something. We taught her the restoration. As we taught it her 8 year old daughter came in and we invited her to listen. This girl was super cute and asked tons of questions. We taught her how to pray and she LOVES it. She prayed three times - one I helped her with, the second one, she forgot to ask for help reading, and the third one she wanted her mom to stop crying. It was awesome! I love you all! Love, Sister Wankier
Friday, March 9, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Surprise!! Pictures!!!!
Sister Matsumori (Hailey's mission pres. wife) is right on with her timing! Thanks so much to her for providing many of the pictures on my blog!!
(That really is her back!) They are practicing teaching
They are renovating the chapel - hence the benches in the cultural hall!
(That really is her back!) They are practicing teaching
They are renovating the chapel - hence the benches in the cultural hall!
Catching Up!!
I appologize! I was stalling a little bit before I posted her latest letters - hoping to have some pictures to post with them. But to no avail! So here are her 2 latest letters ~ without pictures!~
(Wed. Feb. 29)
Hello!
Yeah, p-day was fun.... except for the fact we got in a car accident. But it's okay, we were all okay. The door was dented and the other sisters had to get a new car, but all is well. It wasn't our fault and I was not the driver. We also got towed a couple days ago, but we got the car back so all is well there too. Last week was kinda crazy, everyone in our apartment except for me was sick at different times. Luckily that's all over and we are all well! We haven't seen Alice since the first day we met her. She is around on Saturdays and that appears to be the best time to catch her, but we've had full schedules on Saturdays, that or she's been gone.
This week we've been working with the members more. We put together mini Preach My Gospels for leaders in the ward. It has all the lessons and the ward leaders responsibilities in it. We're going around and giving it to them, and teaching their families FHE. So for we've only done it once and we've set it up to do another on Sunday. Everything is good here. I love you all! Have a great week!
Love, Sister Wankier
(Wed. Feb. 22)
Hey Family,
Today we went to the city for p-day. We went to a couple monuments like the new Martin Luther King Jr. monument. Also for the zone activity we went to the zoo, that was pretty cool. On Sunday we had four investigators come. Let me explain. One of our investigators has been ready for baptism for months, but she is waiting till April till her friend can be here to see it. Her name is Michelle. Most people think she's a member. She goes to the gospel doctrine class, and she wants to make her own baptism outfit because the jumpsuits are ugly. Oh, and she calls me Wine Garden because she can't remember Wankier. We have another investigator who is VERY slowly progressing. He's been coming to church for a while and just says that he hasn't got an answer yet. Then we have a 12 year old that found a ride to church on her own this week!! She's awesome. Lastly there was an investigator that I haven't taught yet and Sister Gordon has only seen at church one time, so hopefully we'll see him more. We have another investigator that usually comes, but she couldn't this week. She should be baptized and wants to be, but her husband doesn't want her to and Preach My Gospel says not to baptize if their spouse is against it, so we'll work with hiim. But she has visiting teachers and so does Michelle, it's great!
The lady, Alice, who said she'd come to church, hasn't yet. But we stopped by her house and she wasn't home but her mother-in-law and daughter were, so they invited us in. The mother-in-law is catholic and told us we wouldn't convert her, so we just talked with her about her life and religion and she fed us. She was super nice. Alice was gone for a few days, but is back now. We'll try to contact her Saturday.
Well, I love you all! Have a great week! Love, Sister Wankier
(Wed. Feb. 29)
Hello!
Yeah, p-day was fun.... except for the fact we got in a car accident. But it's okay, we were all okay. The door was dented and the other sisters had to get a new car, but all is well. It wasn't our fault and I was not the driver. We also got towed a couple days ago, but we got the car back so all is well there too. Last week was kinda crazy, everyone in our apartment except for me was sick at different times. Luckily that's all over and we are all well! We haven't seen Alice since the first day we met her. She is around on Saturdays and that appears to be the best time to catch her, but we've had full schedules on Saturdays, that or she's been gone.
This week we've been working with the members more. We put together mini Preach My Gospels for leaders in the ward. It has all the lessons and the ward leaders responsibilities in it. We're going around and giving it to them, and teaching their families FHE. So for we've only done it once and we've set it up to do another on Sunday. Everything is good here. I love you all! Have a great week!
Love, Sister Wankier
(Wed. Feb. 22)
Hey Family,
Today we went to the city for p-day. We went to a couple monuments like the new Martin Luther King Jr. monument. Also for the zone activity we went to the zoo, that was pretty cool. On Sunday we had four investigators come. Let me explain. One of our investigators has been ready for baptism for months, but she is waiting till April till her friend can be here to see it. Her name is Michelle. Most people think she's a member. She goes to the gospel doctrine class, and she wants to make her own baptism outfit because the jumpsuits are ugly. Oh, and she calls me Wine Garden because she can't remember Wankier. We have another investigator who is VERY slowly progressing. He's been coming to church for a while and just says that he hasn't got an answer yet. Then we have a 12 year old that found a ride to church on her own this week!! She's awesome. Lastly there was an investigator that I haven't taught yet and Sister Gordon has only seen at church one time, so hopefully we'll see him more. We have another investigator that usually comes, but she couldn't this week. She should be baptized and wants to be, but her husband doesn't want her to and Preach My Gospel says not to baptize if their spouse is against it, so we'll work with hiim. But she has visiting teachers and so does Michelle, it's great!
The lady, Alice, who said she'd come to church, hasn't yet. But we stopped by her house and she wasn't home but her mother-in-law and daughter were, so they invited us in. The mother-in-law is catholic and told us we wouldn't convert her, so we just talked with her about her life and religion and she fed us. She was super nice. Alice was gone for a few days, but is back now. We'll try to contact her Saturday.
Well, I love you all! Have a great week! Love, Sister Wankier
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Updates!
a valentines picture!
(such a goofy girl!)
Family!
Valentines Day sounded fun! It was a normal day for us, so it was good. That night there was a program at the visitor center, Night of Music and Inspiration. It was all about the Book of Mormon and it was super good. That lady, Alice didn't come to church, and now we don't remember where she lives, but I'm pretty sure we'll be able to find her again, no worries. Also, we got a new investigator, Rose. I gave her the Book of Mormon, pictures, and testimony the primary gave me to give to someone. She was very appreciative. I'll keep you updated on her.
Honestly, the visitor center is kinda boring right now just because it's not busy. We do call people, so that takes up some time. When we're on the floor waiting for people to come in, I've been doing new sister training. So it's been good. But just for the future, sisters at the visitor centers hate it when you tell them you're members so you don't want a tour. They still want to talk to you about the gospel when you're a member....so don't follow my example by avoiding the sisters.
later in the week.....
We have a new baptism date! Rose. She is from Camaron Africa. Africans love God, thus I love Africans.
Mission is still going good! We're still teaching and finding and it's Great! Love you all!
Love, Sister Wankier
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| Combined District Meeting (I think Sis. Gordon is just as goofy and cute as Sis. Wankier!) |
Sitting quietly waiting for meeting to start. |
| Teaching/Learning/Role Playing |
Friday, February 10, 2012
She's Livin' the Life!
Evidence! She really did get off the plane in DC! (I assume!)
Isn't that a great picture? All the new arrivals! If you use your imagination you can see the temple in the background! There is an Elder from Centerville, one from St. George, and one from Sandy. I'd like to hear if anyone knows any of them!
The one Sister that flew out with her. She is from France!
They line them up then assign each one their trainer.
Hailey is, of course, assigned Sister Gordon. Do you recognize her Chelsea?
Experiences from her first week there!
Family!
Everything is great here. We have visitor center shifts, so no matter what area I'm serving in I have a visitor center shift. I've been there four times already and it's doing good. I have tracted a little bit. There was a lady we went to check on the other night and when we found out the address was non existant, we decided to knock on the first door with a light on. The lady that opened the door was nice, but she was on the phone with her son long distance, so she was kind of hurrying us along. As we walked down her driveway she called us back and asked us if we were Christian and when and where our church was. She wanted to come to church on Sunday, so hopefully she comes. It's been really good doing the work. The visitor center is good, but super slow right now. Last night we had two tours, and no one that I know of just wandered in. When summer comes more people will come. We do have a car and we drive everywhere. The sisters we room with are in a bike area, so they get the close stuff and we get outside of that. But they even have a car to get to the visitor center.
The longer I'm here the more I realize how much I need to learn and grow, but it's good, I like learning and growing! Well, family you're great! I love you! Love, Sister Wankier
Friday, February 3, 2012
She Made It!!!!!
Hailey arrived in DC safe and sound! After a couple failed attempts (on our end!) of calling us from the mission home she emailed us and told us how wonderful it was to be there! Some of the highlights of her letter:
"When I got off the plane, President and Sister Matsumori, along with the assistants were waiting to greet the ten of us. The Matsumoris are amazing! I can't even describe them to you, just amazing! The are super spiritual, super nice, super personable, super down to earth, super Christlike, super great. They first took us to the temple where we had time - the last time until we're off our missions, to be alone and make commitments with the Lord about our missions. We then ate at ihop, which was fantastic, but not quite as fantastic as our nap we had at the mission home afterwards. We had the day to talk about the mission, eat dinner, meet with Pres. Matsumori, and play ping pong around the world. Sister Matsumori even played a couple rounds with us.
Today I met my companion, it's Sister Gordon. She is leaving soon and all I hear about her is how amazing she is. On Sunday she had 9 investigators at church. I'd have to agree with everyone, she's awesome! Okay, but first of all I find out where she's from and guess where it is? Mendon, Utah! Pretty sure all the people I've met from Mendon I am automatically friends with and they are Awesome. Yeah, also she went to USU.
Okay the weather here is super good. Honestly it's not supposed to be this good. I think they said it should've rained today and usually it's super cold. Today and yesterday was seriously in the sixties. We ate lunch outside. Also it's just great I'm here! It's so beautiful here and all the houses are beautiful and it's not like Utah at all (I love Utah too, no worries, but picture Utah and know it's nothing like where I am then maybe you can understand a little better what it's like).
My area is Laural. I haven't been there yet, but I hear it's great and I'm sure it is. This mission covers everything in DC. The only monument that's not in my area is Arlington, but we do get to go there once before we leave. I'll be in the Visitors Center three maybe four times a week for a six hour shift. Pres. Masumori asked me to get my flute out here so I can play.
Love you all so much!!
Sister Wankier"
Do you think she's excited?!
She mentioned in another letter that the MTC was more difficult than she had imagined, but she expects that the mission field will be too. I think she's up to the challenge!
Pictures have arrived. Unfortunately, no names or stories with them.
"When I got off the plane, President and Sister Matsumori, along with the assistants were waiting to greet the ten of us. The Matsumoris are amazing! I can't even describe them to you, just amazing! The are super spiritual, super nice, super personable, super down to earth, super Christlike, super great. They first took us to the temple where we had time - the last time until we're off our missions, to be alone and make commitments with the Lord about our missions. We then ate at ihop, which was fantastic, but not quite as fantastic as our nap we had at the mission home afterwards. We had the day to talk about the mission, eat dinner, meet with Pres. Matsumori, and play ping pong around the world. Sister Matsumori even played a couple rounds with us.
Today I met my companion, it's Sister Gordon. She is leaving soon and all I hear about her is how amazing she is. On Sunday she had 9 investigators at church. I'd have to agree with everyone, she's awesome! Okay, but first of all I find out where she's from and guess where it is? Mendon, Utah! Pretty sure all the people I've met from Mendon I am automatically friends with and they are Awesome. Yeah, also she went to USU.
Okay the weather here is super good. Honestly it's not supposed to be this good. I think they said it should've rained today and usually it's super cold. Today and yesterday was seriously in the sixties. We ate lunch outside. Also it's just great I'm here! It's so beautiful here and all the houses are beautiful and it's not like Utah at all (I love Utah too, no worries, but picture Utah and know it's nothing like where I am then maybe you can understand a little better what it's like).
My area is Laural. I haven't been there yet, but I hear it's great and I'm sure it is. This mission covers everything in DC. The only monument that's not in my area is Arlington, but we do get to go there once before we leave. I'll be in the Visitors Center three maybe four times a week for a six hour shift. Pres. Masumori asked me to get my flute out here so I can play.
Love you all so much!!
Sister Wankier"
Do you think she's excited?!
She mentioned in another letter that the MTC was more difficult than she had imagined, but she expects that the mission field will be too. I think she's up to the challenge!
Pictures have arrived. Unfortunately, no names or stories with them.
This is a lot of the pictures, but I put all of them that she sent in her facebook pictures if you want to look.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Help!!
First of all - Hailey called Monday night from the airport. She was so excited! She was so anxious to get to DC. She assured me that pictures are on their way. So I am hoping to be posting some in the next couple days. We got a couple calls from the mission home on Tuesday but we missed them and no one answered when we tried to call back. I'm hoping/assuming they were letting us know she made it safely!
Next. I need help! As you know, I'm a very new blogger. If you notice on the top right of my blog is a grey patch. How do I get rid of it? Also you've probably noticed a few changes to the blog over time. I went in to fix something and in the template design part where the blog is on the lower half of the screen? It's like there is a white covering over the blog. I can see the bottom and the right side of the page, but none of the blog so I can't see what I'm doing to fix things. What did I do to mess myself up? If I do it on someone else's computer it shows up but not on mine. I would love any advice anyone can give me.
Next. I need help! As you know, I'm a very new blogger. If you notice on the top right of my blog is a grey patch. How do I get rid of it? Also you've probably noticed a few changes to the blog over time. I went in to fix something and in the template design part where the blog is on the lower half of the screen? It's like there is a white covering over the blog. I can see the bottom and the right side of the page, but none of the blog so I can't see what I'm doing to fix things. What did I do to mess myself up? If I do it on someone else's computer it shows up but not on mine. I would love any advice anyone can give me.
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