More Christmas Surprises Then I Was Expecting

SO this week was awesome!

 

First of all me and my companion got to go caroling with a few families on Monday night, which was fun.

 

Then on Tuesday we got to teach a few people and then when we went to go see a less active woman in our ward, she said she wanted to give us a bunch of her clothes she wanted to get rid of...which was awesome because she has really nice clothes and they were all church clothes. She said it was a Christmas present haha. I also got to see the Millers! they came up and i got to talk to them for a little while and that was really fun. We got to spent that night with our bishops family and it was really fun, they're all Latino and kinda crazy so it was fun.

 

On Christmas day, we woke up and opened Christmas presents! it was really fun, most of the stuff we got were just little things, like sewing kits and pens and stuff but we were just excited to have something so it was fun :) Also i got to call you guys! which was so fun. I talked longer then i was supposed to....but i don't regret it haha. I had such a good time talking with everyone! It was fun to see how the kids had changed and how the boys had all grow beards haha.

 

As for Thursday Friday and Saturday, they were pretty slow, we ended up tracting and visiting some potential investigators who ended up being pretty not interested haha. We had a referral to go to this lady named Betty, when we got there we found out she was an 87 year old Baptist woman who was very not interested in the church, she just wanted us to describe what a sealing was like so she could ask her priest to do it haha. We told her neither of us had been to sealings but that it was preformed but those who held the restored priesthood and went into the restoration...but she just wanted to tell us about how she feel in her house the other day and couldn't get up so she scooted 60 yards to her phone. Then we told her we did service and she was pretty excited to know that if she fell again and she called us we would come and help her get up haha. She was funny.

 

Then on Sunday, i was talking to an investigator in the chapel and helping her with some of her concerns when i heard someone behind me say "BEX?" i didnt really respond at first, and then i was like..."weird that sounded like Abby" and turned around and Abby was standing there!!!! it was so nuts i seriously couldn't think haha. I finished talking to my investigator then pulled Abby in the hall and freaked out a little haha. I was so excited. Then during sacrament meeting Tommie and Jessie got there. They all got to see me give my talk that i gave and then stayed for another Hour and it was sooooo good to see them! haha it was an awesome Christmas surprise!

 

And today me and sister Johnson got to go do Zumba! haha one of the lady's in the ward is friends with the owner of a gym and so she said she wanted to take us. We both felt a little out of place for a little bit, mostly because people kept asking about our tags haha. But then it ended up being super fun :)

 

Anyways thats all for this week.

 

I love and miss you all!!

Sister Becca Redd

MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

 

Hope everyone is having a good week and is having fun getting ready for the holidays.

 

My week was great!

Ill start off with the fact that i got to spend some time in apple valley waiting for my new missionary, I stayed with sister Higbee and we had a BLAST haha i love her, she came out one transfer before me and we had a tone of fun together.

 

On Wednesday Morning i got my new missionary though :)

haha shes awesome, her name is Sister Johnson, shes 21, shes from Cashe Valley Utah, and she went to Utah state.

And we pretty much just hit the ground running this week :) on her first day, we got back to our area at about 2:00 and then the rest of the day we were just going. It was awesome. That day we taught 3 lessons i think and the next day we taught 5! it was sweet. haha Ive already had her teach the law of Chastity. So its been fun.

 

Oh! also we got a new car! for some reason the mission trusted me enough to let me drive on of the new mission cars! its so fancy, its a new ford fusion! its awesome!

 

Oh one other thing that happened this week. The lady we live with went out of town so we had the house to ourselves it was really nice. But one night me and my companion both woke up at 4:30 for no reason. And i just had this feeling i needed to check the alarm system. so i did and it wasn't turned on (which is bad because its not the best of neighborhoods) and so i went to turn it on and it said one of the windows was open. I started freaking out and running around the house trying to find which window it was. I couldn't find it so i woke up my companion and we figured out one of the sensors was just messed up. So we fixed it set the alarm and went back to sleep. Then it the morning the alarm went off and it scared the crap out of us. but we turned if off before the police came. Turns out the alarm system is just broken. BUT at the time i was really freaked out.

 

Anyways I don't have a ton of time to write today, but i will say my investigators are doing well, some of them are struggling a little but they are all still moving forward so the work is going well!

 

Im really looking forward to seeing/talking to the family on Wednesday! Ive been counting down the days!

haha anyways i love you all so much!

and i hope you are all having a great Christmas!

 

Love, Sister Rebecca Redd

Transfer week

So this week was transfers!

Im staying in Mesa Linda Ward...but I will be training!

I'm really excited, but im also pretty nervous about it. Its a lot of pressure to have to help a new missionary adjust to everything and help them learnt he ropes a little. But I think it will be a great experience to grow as a missionary, and I think itll be fun too!

Also they opened 4 new areas in our mission. They're slowing helping our mission grow :)  And they added 2 more companion ships into our zone this transfer! So instead of being in a zone with 10 elders and no sisters I'm in a zone with 14 elders and no sisters haha. Its fun though and I like it.

 

Anyways! This week was great! It was kind of slow because we had a lot of packing and cleaning to do before sister Cobabe left for transfers (I'm with a temporary companion, her name is sister Higbe!) BUt still a some exciting stuff happened!

 

First off with Sean, things are moving kind of slow... he said he really wants to be baptized, just not now. so we aren't sure how to work with that. But we are doing our best. We know that if he chooses to be baptized he'll be way happier, but we cant force him to, so we just have to show him even more this week what he is missing out on.

 

SO this was probably the best part of the week...

We went to our investigator Susan's house for a lesson this week, and she answered the door and said she had completely forgot but was super glad we were there. She Then told us how she had been read LDS.org like crazy this past week and had read President Monson's Christmas talk...she then began to tell us how when the Elders had tracted into her, it was a miracle for various different reasons, and then she said to us something along the lines of "you know...Because of the presidents speech I read.....Im this close to being Mormon" and held her fingers about an inch apart! we were so excited! she then brought up some concerns she had with baptism which e resolved all that night (just things like how many people have to be at the baptism, if it could be a private thing, ect.) and when we went to set a date with on  January 17th she said no because she might want to be baptized earlier than that!! how awesome! I then left Alma 32 with her to read that night and the next night she left us a voicemail that said " Sisters you don't have to call me back, but I just wanted to tell you, you know how I said I was almost there? well I read alma...and im there...Im a Mormon...Goodbye" I was handsdown the best phone call we could have gotten! she is awesome! and on Sunday she was telling everyone about how she was getting baptized! so cool!

 

Besides that, We had an awesome Christmas devotional for all the missionaries in the desert part of the mission and it was so fun! we got to sings songs and hear about missionaries from other countries celebrate Christmas in different ways. it was really fun! Oh also they had all the zones perform a Christmas song, and our zone wanted to sing Angels we have heard on high. So it seemed like a good idea...Until I realized how untalented our zone is at singing. And the fact that we would be singing right after the zone who has an elder graduated in musical theater and is a VERY good singer...Lets just say that everyone had a good time listening to us. By half way through the song. everyone, including us were dying laughing at how horrible it sounded. I loved it!

They also gave us small gift with some hats in the them since the desert is so cold and no one packed for that. It was really sweet. They also had letters from all of our parents in the bags. It was really nice :)

 

Anyways that was about it!

Love and miss you all so much!

Sister Redd

the coldest week yet

Hey Everyone!

 

first and foremost...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!

I hope everyone had a good week, and based on the emails i got it sounded like you guys did. well funny weeks at least.

 

My week was really good :)

ill go over some investigator first...

 Sean is doing really well, he has had all the lessons now, read the whole Book of Mormon, has bore his testimony to us, and hes just over all doing really awesome. He told us this week though that he wasn't sure if he wanted to be baptized this week, he says he wants to be but he needs to work somethings out first soooo. that was a little disappointing, but we aren't giving up! we know he is ready, we just need to help him see that a little more :)

 

We got a new investigator named Brittany. Shes awesome.

shes really excited about the church though, she grew up in it but her family went less active when she was 8.

We thought at first she was just less active, but turns out she wasn't ever baptized. So were going to take care of that  :)

 

We passed Paula off to the sisters in the ward she just moved to and shes being baptized on Saturday!!!

we are so excited! were sad that she wont be baptized into our ward because we all love her so much, but it has been really awesome to she her go from start to finish :)

 

And this past Sunday we had 8 non members at church! it was soo awesome! the work really is moving forward :)

 

Other than that, some fun things that happened this week....

We helped a family in our ward move into a different house on Thursday morning, and for some weird reason, like almost all the companionships in our zone had their plans fall through so all morning we all going to move these people and hang out a little bit. haha it made me feel like a normal person again being able to hang out with people my age. and also to be able to wear pants haha.

 

me and Sister Cobabe got 2 packages this week!

one from Mom and Jessica, which is a 12 days of Christmas type of thing, which has been WAY fun for us to do. we decided to do it early thoug because we only had 12 days left of our transfer when we got it sooo haha we started Christmas early. And all the things have been perfect things that we need like shout wipes and lint rollers, we love it!

We also got a package from Sister Miller :) she sent us a Christmas countdown with little candies and scriptures every night. Its been really nice to have some festive things  so thank you all so much!!!

 

Oh! the weather has been NUTS here! form what everyone has been telling me its been nuts everywhere haha but it dropped below 20 degrees last night. I was freezing! haha but no one was really expecting it so there are a bunch of problems with the sprinklers all over town.

 

as for the pictures im adding....

1)a picture of me in front of a crazy shed we found on a dirt road.

2)our Christmas countdown

3)me with our Christmas presents

4)The gifts we wrapped to play white elephant with our zone (they were cookies and weird CDs we found in our house)

5)some bushes next to our house that froze last night

 

Pitcure that got lost along the way

THis is a picture of a shed we found in the desert!

and i just realized i have no more time so ill add more next week

Re: Christmas Cards Are On Their Way

Oh i almost forgot! We had one AMAZING lesson this week with Sean. We were supposed to come and teach him one night, but when we got there his mom wasnt home so we told him we couldnt stay. But we started to talk to him on the door step and we had an AWESOME lesson about forgiveness and the whole time Sean kept saying things like "im sorry its so cold out there" but me and Sister Cobabe didnt feel cold at all. So we ended the lesson and went to go get gas after and we were standing out side the car just shivering. We were so confused for a minute why it had gotten so cold all of the sudden, but we realized that if we had been cold we would had rushed off and not had that lesson on the doorstep, and it was definitely something he needed at the time. It was just really cool, God works in funny ways sometimes :)

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Rebecca Redd <rebecca.redd@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hey Everyone!!

 

So this was a slower week, but still really good :)

Ill just go over some of the highlight,

 We got a new investigator named Lanae, shes awesome and we are really excited to be teaching her. She seems very perceptive, and well prepared to hear about the gospel. She actually signed up to have the missionaries come over on Mormon.org and come give her a book of Mormon, which never happens so we a re stoked! 

We had 2 investigators at church and a less active member we are working with, and the ward was AWESOME at talking to all the new people. So that was awesome!

Sean is on track to be baptized in 2 weeks! keep him in your prayers please :) we are really excited for him.

I had my first interaction with someone who is Anti (our less-active member's aunt) and that was tough, but the less active member was so awesome she could tell that we felt uncomfortable so she told her aunt to shut up and grabbed the restoration video out of Sister Cobabes hands, threw it in the DVD player and hit play. It was AWESOME! haha and the spirit was so strong :) man i love that video.

Other than that our week was kinda slow but a few funny things did happen

 

On Sunday I was getting out of bed and Sister Cobabe was climbing down from the top bunk and stepped on my head! haha it hurt but we were both laughing pretty hard. I have had a pretty bad head ache the past two days though...so hopefully thats not from that haha.

 

Also on Sunday, we went to church for our Ward Council meeting and guess who was there. TOMMIE! she decided to come and surprise me there :) haha it was super fun but it totally caught be off guard and it just seemed surreal haha. but it was so fun to see her just for a few minutes!

 

Today me and Sister Cobabe made Christmas cards haha :) sooo if you want one send me your address :)

 

Oh i almost forgot bout thanksgiving!

haha It was really fun we went to two families houses that invited us last minute. It was really fun. One family is El Salvadorian though and so dinner was a little different, but really good. It funny actually, the El Salvadorian Family, their mom reminds me soooo much of you mom, shes like a Latino version of you!

 

Anyways i miss and love you all! Hope everything is going well :)

Love,

Sister Rebecca Redd

 

Christmas Cards Are On Their Way

Hey Everyone!!

 

So this was a slower week, but still really good :)

Ill just go over some of the highlight,

 We got a new investigator named Lanae, shes awesome and we are really excited to be teaching her. She seems very perceptive, and well prepared to hear about the gospel. She actually signed up to have the missionaries come over on Mormon.org and come give her a book of Mormon, which never happens so we a re stoked! 

We had 2 investigators at church and a less active member we are working with, and the ward was AWESOME at talking to all the new people. So that was awesome!

Sean is on track to be baptized in 2 weeks! keep him in your prayers please :) we are really excited for him.

I had my first interaction with someone who is Anti (our less-active member's aunt) and that was tough, but the less active member was so awesome she could tell that we felt uncomfortable so she told her aunt to shut up and grabbed the restoration video out of Sister Cobabes hands, threw it in the DVD player and hit play. It was AWESOME! haha and the spirit was so strong :) man i love that video.

Other than that our week was kinda slow but a few funny things did happen

 

On Sunday I was getting out of bed and Sister Cobabe was climbing down from the top bunk and stepped on my head! haha it hurt but we were both laughing pretty hard. I have had a pretty bad head ache the past two days though...so hopefully thats not from that haha.

 

Also on Sunday, we went to church for our Ward Council meeting and guess who was there. TOMMIE! she decided to come and surprise me there :) haha it was super fun but it totally caught be off guard and it just seemed surreal haha. but it was so fun to see her just for a few minutes!

 

Today me and Sister Cobabe made Christmas cards haha :) sooo if you want one send me your address :)

 

Oh i almost forgot bout thanksgiving!

haha It was really fun we went to two families houses that invited us last minute. It was really fun. One family is El Salvadorian though and so dinner was a little different, but really good. It funny actually, the El Salvadorian Family, their mom reminds me soooo much of you mom, shes like a Latino version of you!

 

Anyways i miss and love you all! Hope everything is going well :)

Love,

Sister Rebecca Redd