Teaching English

Hi mom!

  Well our week has been amazing!  It went by fast, but it was good!  English classes start tomorrow and then they are every tuesday!  I'm super excited about that!  We have been teaching quite a bit!  I am getting more and more confident and I just love feeling that the lord is blessing me with the ability to learn and to change!  it is awesome to see!  well, I only see it when someone points it out, but I do deffinately feel more comfortable!  hehe

           The weather is finally cooling down! We were at 99 a couple of days ago but these past two days have been in the 70's!  I am so excited about that!  I told them that I was readdy to use my bike and get some good excersise going!!  hehe we will see what the Lord has in store for me!

        I did get your letter with Adri's Pictures and I thought that they were beautiful!!  she is just georgous!!  I want some of the rest of the family too!! hehe So how come I haven't heard from dad lately? and the rest of the Family? what are you doing?  hehe so is all of Wendover one congregation now?  You all meet at the same time?  hehe yeah, I will get it one day!!

       ok, this week we got five more baptism dates so in total, we have 8!  We are so excited but the hardest part is that they aren't going to church!  We had three come to church this week but they don't have baptismal dates!  hehe do you see the problem there!?!  hehe anyway, that was such a beautiful miracle because they have been having a hard time with the Book of Mormon so we told them they have to try it and test it out to see if it is true.  so they have been reading, and they came to church!!  We just keep praying that they will have a wonderful experience and be able to feel of the difference!  They are so wonderful though!!  they are so sweet and nice and they just really love when we come over.  Their daughter is a member (just 20 days younger than Adri) got baptized last year and wants to go on a mission right when she turns 19!  She was like screaming when the prophet made that announcement.  Her parents are very supportive of her so we will see if they have the faith to find thier answer and be baptized!

      I just want you all to know how very much I love you and that I know that this church is true.  I am so greateful that I have this opportunity to serve my Father in Heaven and show him how much I love him!  I hope that you are all doing super great and I can't wait to hear from you!!  Love you so much and I can't wait to hear back from you!!

 

Love you,

           Hna. Higley

mostly pics

I hope you have enjoyed some of these pics!!  it is us with our district and some other people!!  hehe I will send you my flash drive again with some of my letters that I would like you to save for me!  if you could just put all of the pics onto my comp. and then erase them from the flash drive and then send it back to me so that I could fill it up again, that would be really great!!  Thank you so much!!  oh, can you send me the lol- i- pop principle lesson so that we can help one of our investigators try it.  Thank you!!

Locked out

oh mom,

     you are so cute!!  You can send me a letter this week and it will still get to me! lol  This is our last week of this transfer, but we don't change until next thursday.  So not the 11th, but the 18th.  We get calls this saturday that will tell us if we stay or go and then sunday is the training calls.  Then we just meet at the chappel on Thursday and find out where we are going and who our companion is!  So this week will be normal and fine. On monday I will let you know if I am staying or going and then we will figure things out from there. 

    I'm so sorry that everyone has been getting sick, that is no fun.  I hope you don't get it either!  I am really excited to see her pictures!!  I'm sure they turned out just wonderful!! 

    Conference was soooooo good!!  I was so shocked when they changed the age!  Adri could go right after I get home!!  well, almost!!  How cool is that!?! It was so cool because we had two investigators show up to conference!!  oh, Thank you so much for sending me that Pero!  Saturday inbetween the sessions, we went and taught Pablo.  We had him give us his coffee and we gave him the Pero.  He didn't really want to but he said that I want to show the Lord that I am ready to change and that I love him.  How cute is that!?!  When he showed up to conference sunday morning, the first thing that he said was "Hermana, no me gusta la pero."  hehe but he promissed us that that was all that he would drink!!  He even went out and bought one of those electric cigarettes to help him quit smoking!  if he does it, and stops smoking, he could be baptized this weekend!  I have the faith that the Lord will help him and I am so very excited for him!!  Then we have a 15 yr old investigator that went to hear the prophet speak!  he said that he really loved it too!  We promissed him that if he would but god first and go, he would help him finish his homework so we will have to see how that went!  hehe I know that the Lord is here working miracles in this area and I am so very excited to bring this wonderful invstigators into the waters of baptism!  I really did love conference though.  I loved Elder Holland's talk on if we love Christ and if we do then we are going to turn our back on all the worldly influences and serve him with everything we got.  That is what I want to do!

     On Thursday there was a Leadership Conference and Hna. Arguello was invited so I was on exchanges with sister scrivner and it was really cool because she is on her first transfer so I kind of had to be the Senior Companion and all the citas that we had in spanish, I had to do because she doesn't know spanish!  It went really good!  I had to rely on the Lord so much and he helped me to realize that with him, nothing is impossible.  I can be Senior Companion, if need be!!  I can speak spanish if I just focus on what he wants me to do!  it is really just so amazing!

    Funny story,  we are starting up an english class to get more investigators and we met with the first councelor in the bishopric and Hna. Arguello locked the keys in the trunk!  We had to wait there for about an hour till, they broke into it!  hehe so funny, i wish I would have taken a pic of it!  Then sunday morning around 7:30, we hear a really loud knock on the door and someone had made us breakfast and dropped it off!  It was so nice!  I think that it was our district leader, but we have no idea!  it was just super sweet and made us feel very appreciated and loved!  

    I know that the Lord is preparing me to help prepare his army in this next generation.  I know that The Lord is stronger than Satan and that we all have a very vital and important part here in this work and we can't loose sight of that.  Everyone here on earth choose Jesus in the Premortal Life, we just have to help them remember that.  Our job is to save them and to love them.  Even the one that persecute us. 

    Right now with the Paez family, we are teaching them that principle of loving your enemys because that is the thing that is holding him back from being baptized.  We had them read Uchtdorf's talk from last conference, the merciful with get mercy, and then we shared some stories.  It went so well and I think that we broke one strand of the rope that is tying him down.  We have a little ways, but I know that we can do it.  I shared with them my struggles with Christian and how I just hated him for all these years and then how I felt that I had to start writing him every P-day.  I told them that it was really hard to do it at first and to tell him that I loved him, but as time has been going on, I have felt that love become more real.  God does help us when we ask him to and I know that he puts people in our lives for a reason.  Not only that but sometimes he gives us trials so that we can help others get through them as well and I really think that this is one of those times.  For that reason, I'm not sure if I will be transferred, but I told the Lord that I would do whatever he askes of me.  So I am still writing Christian every Monday and I am working as hard as I can to help these people and to bring them unto christ!  I love it!!  I love serving the Lord, and I Love being your daughter!  I have truely been raised by goodly parents and I am so glad to bear your name and Christ's as I go about doing his work!  Thank you for all that you do!  I love you so much!!  Have a really great day/week and don't get sick!  hehe Love you!!

 

Hna. Higley

Everything we got

Mom,

    Dang!!!  Adri looks good!! I love those pics!!  I can't wait till I get to see them all!! hehe  Thank you for sharing them with me, I really can't believe that she is a senior!!  My little sister/best friend is almost done with school and off to college!  I really can't belive it!!  Don't worry mom, I consider you and Sara and the rest of the Family as my Best Friends too!  That is fun that Alex and Michelle were willing to do it! So cool!!

    The work here is going amazing!  We are teaching and working and just getting to really love and help the people.  We are teaching this one investigator who really wants to get baptized.  He has come to church enough times but we have to keep moving his date because he hadn't given up smoking yet.  On saturday when we went there for our appointment, we asked him how many cigarttes he had smoken.  He said two.  We told him that they were his last ones.  Then we asked him if he had a pack of cigaretts and if he could bring them out to us.  He did and we told him that we were going to take the box and decorate it with Jesus, temples, church things, and we were going to write scriptures and roll them up and put them in the box so that every time he had the desire, he could look at the box, think  of the blessings, read the scriptures and not have that desire any more.  He really liked that idea.  Then he asked us what we were going to do with the ones that were in the box.  We asked him to get a glass of water and then break one into it.  we let it sit there for a while and then had him drink the water.  he said that it was really gross and we told him that that was what he was putting in his body every time he smoked.  We told him to remember that taste every time he wanted to smoke and he said that if he does, he would never want to smoke again.  That is what we are hoping for!!  Anyway, we had him break the rest up and throw them in the trash and say a blessing that he could have for everyone that he does.  he did it!!  He came to church on sunday and we had him talk to a convert that had to give up smoking and we got him a blessing and he hadn't smoked or even boughten another packet that whole day!!  Then he came to the baptism that night and he really just wants to be baptized!!  he is such a cute, humble, little man and I love him so much!!  his name is Pablo and he is the one that we just stopped and talked to him on the street who had gotten the finding faith in christ DVD but the previous missionaries hadn't followed up with him!!  Anyway, Hna. Arguello and I are so excited for him!!  At the baptism last night, Hna. Arguello and I had to give the Missionary moment and it was in spanish!  I was so nervous and President was there, but it went really good.  The spirit was so strong and it helped me to calm down so that I was able to speak and say what I needed to.  I know that the Lord is helping and guiding me here doing his work and I am so very greateful for that.  There is no way that I could do it on my own!!  Well, I love you so very much!!  I am so excited for conference and I hope that you are too!!  Have such a wonderful week and know that I love you and that the Lord will guide and direct you, all you have to do is ask with the intention to act.  I love you so much!!

 

Hermana Maddy Higley

Yari's Baptism

mom,

    I am so excited that they took 2nd place!!  That is so amazing!!  I really wish that I could have been there!!  Congrats to them!!  That really is so exciting!!  Enrique is going to have hand-cuffs!?!  That is crazy!!  I hope he passes!! does he still have como?  how is the singles thing going?  So how many braches are there now?  here we only go to our one ward and we just work with them.  I really like our ward a lot!!  one of our members is from Guatemala and he gave hna. Arguello and I those leather scripture cases!!  how nice is that!!  I really love them a lot!! 

 

We didn't watch the dedication, we went to a Baptism for one of Hna. Arguello's old investigators!  That was super awesome!  So you went to the dedication?  You went to Brigham city?  What is a green card?  hehe man, I feel dumb!!  Rain sounds wonderful!!  The other day, it was over cast but we didn't get any rain!!  not to mention that it was still in the hundreds!!  People have been saying that after september it cools off.  man, I sure hope so!

 

Man, I really can't believe that Adri is a senior!!!  That is crazy!!  yeah, I do want an invitation to her graduation and pics of her!!  sports, school, graduation, lo que sea.  I just want to be able to feel like I am there through all the wonderful steps that everyone that I love is making!!  I love and miss you all so ver much but I know that this is where I am suppossed to be right now.  I know that the Lord has a plan for me and I know that he will help me accomplish it. 

 

Well, we are in the fourth week of this transfer so in three weeks, we will know if I stay or go.  I told the Lord that I would do what he wants but that I would really like to stay with Hna. Arguello!!  hehe we will see what happens!!  We had a really amazing opportunity to be able to meet with the mom of our investigators.  She hasn't been letting them come to church but after meeting with her, she said that she would take them this sunday and that she would go too!!  We are so excited about that and we really hope that it happens!!  I know that the Lord is working miracles here in our area and I know that as we continue to grow our faith, he will continue to bless us and work more and more miracles!!  I love you all so very much and I  can't wait to hear from all of you!! 

 

Cuidate!!

 

Hermana Higley

Giving up old habits

mom,  I am really sorry that you aren't feeling too well :(  I hope that the family is taking care of you and helping you to get everything done that you need to.  Good thing that you have good officers to help you with your opening social/fireside! That makes me happy!! 

 

The team placed 5th at St. Joe!?!  That is so exciting!!  I am so very proud of them!!  I know that Adri is leading them to where they need to be!  I really wish that I could go to the Wendover tournament this weekend, that is always fun!

I'm glad that lalo is working in the laundry,  that was my favorite job, beside making pizza! lol  I am really excited for him to have such a good future ahead of him!  Thank you so much for giving him that opportunity and for showing him that he can do anything when christ is on his side!  That is the coolest thing that we have!  Well, the gospel and our families!!  hehe I just love it all!!

 

ok, so things over here are going so wonderfully! Transfers are the 15th of October and I really want to stay here!  But I told the Lord that I will do whatever he wants! hehe  We are learning a lot and we are teaching a lot!  We taught this amazing lesson last night to a young man (19) who just got out of jail and we taught him about how he could be cleansed of everything that he had ever done!  It was so amazing.  He was so intent on doing it and he said that he really wanted to be able to change his life.  That he didn't want to continue going where he was heading, but he didn't know what else he could do!  Tada, that is why we are here!!  He had so many good questions and he said that he went to "church" while he was in jail but all the preachers just confused him.  We were able to clear up a lot of things about how babies are innocent and how God loves all of us and how we can repent and the attonement.  Man, I can't explain how awesome it was it was just such a good feeling to help someone realize that there is more than just going through life.  That god loves them and that he is always there for them!!  I just really loved being a part of that!!  he is on parole right now so he can't be baptized for a while, but he is going to be changed through the attonement and that is really the beautiful thing that we have as members of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints!  I love sharing that with people!!

 

We have an investigator who wants to be baptized but he keeps smoking.  he has gone down a lot though!  he really doesn't smoke as much as he used to but we have to keep changing his date because he does that and he doesn't come to church eather :( one day, everyone will realize their actions have consequenses!!  hehe  I just really love the work that I am doing and I love hearing from all of you!!  I'm sorry that you aren't feeling too well and I hope that you get feeling better soon!!  I love you so very much and I will talk to you soon!!

 

Hermana Higley

Birthday Surprise

Mom, 

            I can't believe annie had another baby!!  I didn't even know that she was pregnant!!  That is so exciting!!  They are so cute and asher is just huge!!  he is a doll though!!  hehe ok so last monday was awesome!  We told Hna. Arguello that we were going to do a service project as a district and then I took the keys and drove.  She knew that something was up but she didn't know what.  I had snuck some socks into my bag cuz we were going to go bowling, but apparently she saw me and snuck some into her bag as well!  hehe anyway, the elders called me and told me that the bowling alley was full so we just met at a ice cream shop right next to the bowling alley.  The whole zone was there, which surprised me, and we sang to her and Elder Chadburn-our District Leader-bought us both ice cream!  He is such a good missionary and person!  So she thought that that was all that I was going to do for her birthday so when I woke up early, made her breakfast and decorated the door for her, she was very surprised!  I felt bad because I was just exhausted. I didn't set the alarm because I didn't want to wake her up when I got up early, I was just going to wake up, so I couldn't sleep well that night.  anyway, the pancakes that I made her, I burned.  the eggs that I scrambled for her, I put too much milk.  and the bacon I cooked for her I burned.  man, felt really bad but she was so wonderful about it!  She was just happy that I loved her enough to do something like that for her.  I made some things that were edible for her though!  hehe I also recorded somethings on a recorder for her so that when she woke up, she listened to that right away! hehe  Then  Hna. Paez made us some dinner for her birthday and one of the other members bought her an ice cream cake!  She has so much sweets that she keeps sharing with me that there is no way that I will loose weight!!  at least I am still not gaining any so I am still down 15lbs from when I started, but man, I have been out for 6 months now!! Anyway, it had been really cool to see all of these prayers answered!  I have been noticing my spanish increasing imensely and I know that the lord is answering yours and my prayers on that one.  It is really cool to be able to hold conversations with people and to know what is going on!  It rained here on tuesday like all day and that was very cool!  it felt good!!  So I had been praying really hard to feel of the love that Heavenly Father has for me and for all of his kids and this past week I recieved more letters than I have before.  It was wonderful to know that the lord does hear and answer our prayers and when he answers them, he puts it into your thoughts that hmn... that was my answer!  I know that my heavenly Father loves me and that he has placed me here for a reason.  I know that he hears and answers my prays as I continue to follow him and I know that with him, I can make miracles happen.  I have seen it, especially as I strive to work hard and to do his will.  I know that we are on the Lord's Erand and that he said that it wouldn't be easy, but it would be worth it and I can definately see that!  I know that this is where I am suppossed to be and I know that I am changing to become more like christ and I just love that!  Thank you so much for all of your love and support and for everything that you have done for me.  It really does mean the world to me and I love you so very much!!  Thank you!!

 

Hna.  Higley