Pictures!

Dear family and friends.
Here is a couple more pictures. So it has been so crazy here. Where to start. My knee is getting bigger and bigger. I forgot how nicely I bruise. Transfer calls were last night. I am staying in Portage with Sister Burns I guess I can't leave until I get it right or they do. hehe. However we are excited. We have seen some less actives come back. We have a baptismal date with a woman named Nancy. She is the grandmother of one of our other investigators, Pam. She has had the Book of Mormon for about a month and is through 2 Nephi. She loves the Book of Mormon and says that there is something that just keeps drawing her into it. Telling her to read. So it is exciting. Her husband is also becoming interested in what Nancy is reading. The other problem is she lives about 45 minutes away so we talk on the phone a lot. But we love her and are excited for the changes that are taking place in her life. It is amazing what the Book of Mormon can do. For Nancy it gives her peace, and makes the pain in her leg go away. I love it!!

Me and sister Burns are happy. We are a lot a alike and are trying to make things
go faster. We have seen miracles and have decided for a joint audio journal
because we love talking about things going on so much that we might as well get it on tape. hehe. I was excited to stay with her. I guess Portage is my home away from home. So things are crazy here but really good. I love the gospel and the experiences I am having out here.

I hope you have a great week.


Love ya all. and hope to hear from you soon.
Love, Sister North

Hello Family.

Wow what Chaos it is here in Portage la Prairie. We had freezing rain for 2 days so everything was covered in Ice. We were on "walk down" and weren't allowed to drive our cars so we had to walk everywhere... well slide and slip everywhere. I feel like I could be a fairly okay ice skater compared to before this week. hehe. We slide everywhere! So it has been interesting for sure. Sometimes a little scary and recently a lot of puddles while the ice is melting. So it has been good. I love it here. Transfers are this upcoming tuesday and I can't even believe how fast it went.One thing after the next. I have really enjoyed being able to serve here with sister Burns (my twin in personality.) and the Smith's a senior couple here that takes care of us on so many levels. They are an amazing couple and I love them very much. I took a wonderful fall yesterday. My knee got pretty banged up however. It wasn't my favorite as far as we were on a busy street, and I probably amused many by it. hehe. However i got up quickly and resumed on our way.
We are teaching a lot of people and trying hard to help them come unto Christ and repent so that they can experience the full love of the Atonement. It is a change of life, and heart, but essentially nothing will make them happier in the long run. But I have really grown to love the people here, both members and nonmembers.
I love the work. There is nothing like missionary work and blessings it brings. I know that the gospel is true. And I am grateful for the prayers in my behalf. I feel them. I know that you are aware of me. I love you all. Thanks for all the support you have given me. It is great! I really appreciate it.

I love you all. Take care. Be safe, and hopefully spring finds you soon.

Love, Sister North

TRANSFERS

Hello Everybody.
SO transfers were a surprise. I thought I might leave. And as usual I was wrong
because I get to stay here in Portage La prairie. Wahoo. It will be so good. I love the people here a lot. I am trading 2 for 1 new companion. Her name is Sister Burns and I came out with her. SHe is so cute and fun. And I am so excited for this chance to serve with someone that I was in the MTC with. We will have a great time. I love the gospel, and the people we are teaching here. We are hoping to see some real progress in this area this transfer. The whole transfer board looks like this for the sisters.

Sister Dietrich YSA winnipeg
Sister Henderson

Sister Wertz YSA Saskatoon
Sister Sullivan

Me. Portage La Prairie
SIster Burns

Sister Winchel Kenora
Sister Price

Sister Peterson Regina
Sister Reynders
Sister Drake

It is a complete change up but it will be good. I will miss my 2 companions they are both really good. And are good friends of mine. But we have different work to accomplish this next transfer. I am excited. I am so grateful for the support I feel from all of you. I love you so much. And know that I am where I am suppose to be.
This week has been good. we had a member fireside where taught the members. There was a really great turn out that we were so excited about. Now if they apply what was taught this area can improve and be united. I really love how much the gospel is able to make things right in peoples lives through the Atonement of our Savior. I am so grateful for that. I love you all. Have a great New Years and I will hopefully hear from you soon.... missionaries do love mail.. even if it gets here slow.
It still gets here. hehe.
Love, SIster North

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello Family.
Happy Thanksgiving. I will be excited to hear that it is celebrated because here that holiday is far past gone. I am so grateful for all of you. There is so much that the Lord has blessed me and Sister Henderson with. We know that it is such a blessing to be a part of the Lord's work. We met a girl 2 sundays ago and met with a woman named Pam. She has 2 little kids and we went to go talk to her on the street. The great thing was that when we met with her she had a chance to really listen to what we were saying she has a baptismal date for Dec. 20. We are so excited for it. I know that it will be a great experience for her. She is sweet! She has had a lot of hard things but I know that this will do wonders for her family. we have met a lot of others this week that we are excited about. We got our transfer calls last night. And.... I am staying here to see the work progress. I will be staying with sister Henderson who is one of my best friends and also getting Sister Sullivan back. So we will be in a 3 here in portage. We will be able to accomplish so much. And I know that it will bless this area to have 3 of us accomplishing everything. I love the gospel. I love that Heavenly Father knows our needs and gives us according to them. I love the members here. And the ones that are soon to be one. It has been an amazing week. We have seen one miracle after the next. I think the Lord is someone who is so kind and loving and that we really are suppose to find joy here. It should be a great transfer. We are excited that SIster Sullivan is coming to serve here. Yesterday we went to a less-actives house and we did some service. Well, it was hilarious because as we were leaving her dog bolted out the door. So we have the 3 of us trying to catch this reindeer of a dog, it took us probably 5 minutes running after this dog until we got it. We were laughing pretty hard because it was so fast. And she got tricked by sister Henderson. She was pretty grateful
though. We also did service for another lady who typically we knock and walk in. Well we had set up this time to do service. So we knocked walked in and she was asleep. Well we promised we would help her so we did her dishes and swept the floor and cleaned off this table. She slept the whole time... talk about secret service hehe. The phone even rang but still to no prevail did she wake up so we left a scripture on her table and left not even saying one word to her. hehe. It was great because this member has been pretty sick so it was probably good for her. We are teaching a lady from Sao Paulo brazil English. She is so sweet. We are teaching her what things are, Pronunciation, sentences, and everything else imaginable. But she really opened up to us, and even though there is a language barrier we understand each other and feel her appreciation to us for our help just humbled me so much to think how wonderful she really is and how much we can be angels in others lives by the actions we do. I loved it. So at this time of year I am grateful for the countries we live in, the gospel that has blessed our family, the scriptures and living prophet we have so we can find answers to our questions, and the chance I have to be in the service of our loving Father in Heaven. I love you all. take care of yourselves! And I will write again soon!
Love, Sister North

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