Hey Fam!
I just have a minute but I wanted to say that I love you all! We had a week of
service I don't think that I have done more service in a week than I have this week. But it was great. Lots of dishes, shoveling dirt, raking leaves, and unpacking boxes. But it has been a great week. I love service, and wow the work you can get done when you have many hands. I even put bags of leaves around a house for insulation. Its been great. I love the members.
I get to give a talk this week... and well I am the only speaker so I get the whole meeting to talk. This should be interesting. Also, we got cell phones this week so we can talk while we are out. It is pretty exciting and changes things up a bit. Nice to have though when we went out about a half hour out of portage looking for a house. So definitely a blessing. It has been good though. I love the work and the people. It is amazing the chance we have to teach and testify of our Savior. I did dress up for halloween we had to be in at 5:00 for the rest of the night. But I had 2 costumes... a cowgirl which was nice... but also I was a thief in the night in all black both great costumes. We had fun and ate pudding. How much better does it get? I don't know! IT was great!
I love you all and hope you have a great week! Can't wait to see pictures of all the great times back home!
Love you! Write soon! hehe JK.
Love, sister North
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Transfers
Hey Family!
How are you doing? So wow... there is a lot going on. Transfer calls were last night, and well I am moving! I am heading to a place called Portage la Prairie which is about 45 minutes away from Winnipeg. It is outlining so we won't be with that many other missionaries. My new Companions is sister Henderson. She has been out 2 transfers, and I am excited to go work hard with her. She is sweet. I took her out her first day in the mission field back when I was in Winnipeg. So I am excited to serve with her again. Sister Sullivan is also leaving heading to a place called Kenora. Which she will love! Because there are more hills, water, and trees. Surroundings that she is more familiar to, and a small town. We are sad to be leaving each other but excited to see what outlining is like. We have had a good transfer together, and I love her a lot. I will miss the good times.
So we can only have 2 suitcases and 1 carryon bag. and well.... I have a little more than that, so I am considering wearing half my clothes. We were practicing today and hehe... I think I put 18 articles of clothing on. I had shorts, 2 pairs sweatpants, 4 skirts, 3 tank tops, 3 shirts, a t-shirt, a light sweater, a sweater vest, a sweater, and 2 blazers. hehe. I looked like a marshmallow, and felt like one too. it was pretty funny were were laughing about it. but we are doing everything so that I can fit everything in my suitcases and make it to where we are going. hehe. So it is completely entertaining. hehe.
We have had a good week, and have been working really hard. I love the work we get to do and to really be able to get to know these people we teach. I love them so much. we had to say goodbye to Stephanie today and it broke my heart. The people we teach out here become a part of us. And I know that without them the work would be harder, but teaching amazing people makes the work not so hard. It is really is a blessing. I love it.
I hope you all have a wonderful week. I am grateful for all of you, and the chance I have to get to keep in touch. I am blessed so much, to have the family that I have. Happy Holidays! I will talk to you soon....
Love you all.
Love, sister north
ps... the pictures are me as a marshmallow, and the other is us with stephanie
today.
How are you doing? So wow... there is a lot going on. Transfer calls were last night, and well I am moving! I am heading to a place called Portage la Prairie which is about 45 minutes away from Winnipeg. It is outlining so we won't be with that many other missionaries. My new Companions is sister Henderson. She has been out 2 transfers, and I am excited to go work hard with her. She is sweet. I took her out her first day in the mission field back when I was in Winnipeg. So I am excited to serve with her again. Sister Sullivan is also leaving heading to a place called Kenora. Which she will love! Because there are more hills, water, and trees. Surroundings that she is more familiar to, and a small town. We are sad to be leaving each other but excited to see what outlining is like. We have had a good transfer together, and I love her a lot. I will miss the good times.
So we can only have 2 suitcases and 1 carryon bag. and well.... I have a little more than that, so I am considering wearing half my clothes. We were practicing today and hehe... I think I put 18 articles of clothing on. I had shorts, 2 pairs sweatpants, 4 skirts, 3 tank tops, 3 shirts, a t-shirt, a light sweater, a sweater vest, a sweater, and 2 blazers. hehe. I looked like a marshmallow, and felt like one too. it was pretty funny were were laughing about it. but we are doing everything so that I can fit everything in my suitcases and make it to where we are going. hehe. So it is completely entertaining. hehe.
We have had a good week, and have been working really hard. I love the work we get to do and to really be able to get to know these people we teach. I love them so much. we had to say goodbye to Stephanie today and it broke my heart. The people we teach out here become a part of us. And I know that without them the work would be harder, but teaching amazing people makes the work not so hard. It is really is a blessing. I love it.
I hope you all have a wonderful week. I am grateful for all of you, and the chance I have to get to keep in touch. I am blessed so much, to have the family that I have. Happy Holidays! I will talk to you soon....
Love you all.
Love, sister north
ps... the pictures are me as a marshmallow, and the other is us with stephanie
today.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
From the Birthday Girl
HELLO EVERYONE.
My birthday was SO GREAT! tHANK YOU for all the letters and emails... some of which I haven't gotten. I must be off I am out of time but I had a great day, with district meeting, lunch with the Davis' (senior couple) some members sang me happy birthday, Dinner with Stephanie for a mexican/canadian meal. And a lot of good laughs. I love you all. Have a great week.
Love, Lou (Sister North)
My birthday was SO GREAT! tHANK YOU for all the letters and emails... some of which I haven't gotten. I must be off I am out of time but I had a great day, with district meeting, lunch with the Davis' (senior couple) some members sang me happy birthday, Dinner with Stephanie for a mexican/canadian meal. And a lot of good laughs. I love you all. Have a great week.
Love, Lou (Sister North)
Monday, October 6, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Today is Lindsey (Sister North's) 22nd Birthday! We all wish we could give her our love in person, but this will have to do! We love you Lou! We hope you have a very special day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Pictures from Regina
These are pictures of Lindsey and her new companion Sister Sullivan. The picture with the Birthday cake is of Stephanie, an investigator.
Last week.
I am so excited for conference this week. It is going to be amazing. How many times can you say "come listen to a prophets voice..." well twice a year for sure. But what an amazing opportunity. It is so important to learn as much as possible. Stephanie (our investigator) will be coming. All she needs is a big enough confirmation that the church is true and I know she will be able to quit all the habits. I know she will come along. She is doing good. And we had a really good lesson with her. We Love her so much and really just want her to be happy.
We got to go to the Relief Society Broadcast. We had to go to the dinner they were having late. And the men who were helping with dinner helped us get everything we needed to be completely stuffed. There are some really great members here in Canada that I love a lot. The interesting part, is how grateful I was to see these familiar faces from the family ward and just remember great memories past. We were fed well physically, and then we went to get spiritually fed. Which was amazing. I LOVED ALL THE SPEAKERS at that broadcast. Each one was powerful, and stephanie didn't go so we went to her house later and talked about them, then she told us that she went onto the website to look them up, and listened to 2 or 3 of the 4 of them wow! I loved it! It was a great chance for her to listen to them.
Love,
Sister North
We got to go to the Relief Society Broadcast. We had to go to the dinner they were having late. And the men who were helping with dinner helped us get everything we needed to be completely stuffed. There are some really great members here in Canada that I love a lot. The interesting part, is how grateful I was to see these familiar faces from the family ward and just remember great memories past. We were fed well physically, and then we went to get spiritually fed. Which was amazing. I LOVED ALL THE SPEAKERS at that broadcast. Each one was powerful, and stephanie didn't go so we went to her house later and talked about them, then she told us that she went onto the website to look them up, and listened to 2 or 3 of the 4 of them wow! I loved it! It was a great chance for her to listen to them.
Love,
Sister North
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Hello Everyone.
This week has been an amazing week. We have had 12 lunch/dinner appointments in a week. We are rather full. We had some amazing lessons with our investigator Stephanie! And I know that we were blessed.
So last night though, was transfer call night. We had to be in at 8:30, so we invited the Davis', a senior couple, to come over and play phase 10 as we were in our apartment. They did, and as we waited for our call the phone probably rang 20 times before our call actually did because everyone wanted to know what we were doing. and we would yell, "we haven't got our call yet...bye" and hang up. However, it was a lot of fun. I didn't get the call until about 10:20. And the news is....Sister Ferguson is being transferred back to the states, she is going home. I will miss her greatly because I love her a lot. And I am training a greenie named Sister Sullivan in Regina. I am excited to meet her. I will go in to Winnipeg with Sister Ferguson for our last road trip for a while, and have a transfer meeting tomorrow. I am excited to get a chance to share what I have learned with someone who is willing to learn. It will be a great opportunity to learn, I am quite nervous, and excited at the same time.
Yesterday we set a baptismal date for Stephanie for September 20th. So it is coming up. She is scared to death so pray that she will find confidence within herself. But she knows it is true, and now it is time for her to use her faith and Act. It was such a great experience to be able to see how the members have loved her and invited her. They are a great support and help. Sister Ferguson has already planned that she is getting on face book to stay in touch. hehe. I am doing really great. I love Regina. And this weekend is Stake Conference...wahoo! It should be really great. I love you all. Take care, and know that I am happy, healthy, and scared to death to train.
Gracias.....Malo....Thank you...Mahal Ko Kayo (I love you)
Sister North
So last night though, was transfer call night. We had to be in at 8:30, so we invited the Davis', a senior couple, to come over and play phase 10 as we were in our apartment. They did, and as we waited for our call the phone probably rang 20 times before our call actually did because everyone wanted to know what we were doing. and we would yell, "we haven't got our call yet...bye" and hang up. However, it was a lot of fun. I didn't get the call until about 10:20. And the news is....Sister Ferguson is being transferred back to the states, she is going home. I will miss her greatly because I love her a lot. And I am training a greenie named Sister Sullivan in Regina. I am excited to meet her. I will go in to Winnipeg with Sister Ferguson for our last road trip for a while, and have a transfer meeting tomorrow. I am excited to get a chance to share what I have learned with someone who is willing to learn. It will be a great opportunity to learn, I am quite nervous, and excited at the same time.
Yesterday we set a baptismal date for Stephanie for September 20th. So it is coming up. She is scared to death so pray that she will find confidence within herself. But she knows it is true, and now it is time for her to use her faith and Act. It was such a great experience to be able to see how the members have loved her and invited her. They are a great support and help. Sister Ferguson has already planned that she is getting on face book to stay in touch. hehe. I am doing really great. I love Regina. And this weekend is Stake Conference...wahoo! It should be really great. I love you all. Take care, and know that I am happy, healthy, and scared to death to train.
Gracias.....Malo....Thank you...Mahal Ko Kayo (I love you)
Sister North
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