24th June

We are being blessed working here en LE. We currently have no investigators. But we have potentials that are going to be baptized! (I know it!) I know the Lord has prepared this area over the last couple weeks. I am still learning! We found out about two families in our area: one is active and has missionary work to do, and one has been less active for 3 years and we have an FHE tonight with them to help them know we miss them and to help motivate the Dad and everyone to reactivate to baptize their 9 year old daughter!

 

I feel so blessed to work with the families here. When we ask the right questions they get motivated to work or they reveal that they have work they have already been doing (being great examples talking to people who answer questions). I feel blessed to see them sharing the gospel and helping their home a little at a time! \

 

Don't forget to open up to people and share a little taste with everyone you talk to, the gospel is true and Christ has restored His Church on the Earth again and people will know that its true with help; the truth rings within me and I know it will resonate within them.

 

I love you mom thank you for all your support!

-Sister O

Mon, Jun 18, 2012

I'm doing well! Living and learning!

 

Recently were had some great blessings from our members. One our Ward Mission Leader is now our Bishop, Bishop B. so great just really amazing. The week was good. We're working hard and we're going to work even harder. Its not easy but we're working to be even better every day.

A past-less active family just baptized their son on Sunday! High light of the week. The father was able to perform the baptism and I feel blessed to have visited them and see their progress :-) The V family. Two years then he can baptize his daughter too!

It really rang true to me how much the parents have to teach their kids its not easy but I just know its going to be my responsibility to help my family grow with a strong faith. I am grateful that I'm preparing for that now :-)

 

(Something random I just heard from a person at a diff computer "You are the cheese in my mac-oroni" oh dear) 

 

Also I just love the fire that the families here have for missionary work! One person described how she just feels like she can be doing more so we invited them to find a family to reactivate and a family to baptize. I am grateful for these blessings of these families.

I'm out of time but I love you mom!

 

Tell J HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

I did receive the package! thanks mom! I love the binding but its doing okay with out it ;-) when Oct comes :-D hahaha thanks for thinking ahead!

 

Love you mom!

 

Usted es hermosa, bonita, diligente, y tiene la luz de Cristo. Continue a brillar!

 

-Hermana O

 

Mon, Jun 11, 2012

?How's your investigators?

We have a few. We have a lot of new potentials.

?Enjoying your new companion?
Ya she's great taught me a new recipe called Alligator Stew! Delicious.

?Do you speak in Spanish with her always?

I need to speak Spanish always but sometimes I forget...  ya sometimes my head is upside down.

?Is your area new/different from the last companion? ?Did you move apartments?

I'm in the same area, same apartment, same bed, and same desk as the last 9 weeks. However! I did rearrange the desks before she got here. So I did some internal fung shue (sp?) so we didn'r have to turn for Companionship Study.

 

Crazy happening of the week the Bishop from one of the wards was changed! Now our ward mission leader is Bishop. Bishop B. He's just great! I was crying for gratitude for the old Bishop W and excitement for Bishop B all during sacrament meeting. It was great!

 

We had Zone Conference this past week! Heavenly trainings and talk about just feeling a lift from the unity of the Zone and such. Loved it.

 

I am trying not to count months so I almost forgot that I have 8 months tomorrow... Sister G is training again in the same area she started her mission in it is just crazy! If she finishes the training of Sis VD she'll have over half her mission in the same area. Its always interesting to see where the Lord wants us to be. I am learning to all day everyday in the people... Now I am going to work on lesson plans so I can help them better!

 

Alma 17:11 patience its one of the things I'm working on. Patience in finding and growing :-) For example Sis R has helped me to double my progress in Spanish (at least with the numbers of things I've passed off) Its great!

 

I love the scripture! It is so true the charity you grow for those you serve like Nephi. And then its so easy  to believe the words of the Book of Mormon when people learn from the Holy Ghost that the words are from Christ, the words of the book testify of Christ and are truly from Him because the Holy Spirit testifies of that truth :-)

Sigh -oh the power of the scriptures!

 

Love you mom!

 

I send my love everyone else too. and a hug... a virtual hug to the males and a real hug to the females.

Herman O. 6/4

Hermana O.

Texas Mc Allen Mission 

200 W. La Vista

McAllen , TX

78501

 

Hola hola!

 

I am in la tierra prometida with Sister R. She is tall and looks kind of like me. Brown curly hair, but taller and more slender build... she didn't play basketball ever but if she looks like she should. She's from bountiful like Sis G and she's great and a powerful teacher.

 

 So two tall sisters were biking down the street of our area, three days!

 

Without being too informal, nuestras piedras estan como pedras (rocks...sp?). We rode a total of 8 miles one day which doesn't seem like much but for sisters its a lot. I have a tan and the redness in the cheeks is going away. I just hope I don't get cancer someday :-/

Our investigators are doing okay. We have had to prune a lot of people and now we have a lot of open time to find and its slow but we're being inspired of where to go and truly we are successful missionaries as we are learning to work together and help those around us.

 

I was blessed to have a reminder of God's love yesterday. During sacrament meeting the Bishop looks a lot and had the same spirit of love that Bishop C always excluded. I remembered the time when Bishop C came to our home and said "I had a feeling that I needed to come over and offer you a blessing" right before I headed out for California for jaw surgery. That blessing was written down by you mom if you remember and at night when it was super painful and I kept wishing I hadn't done the surgery, I pulled out the blessing and remembered that the Lord was always with me and that the pain would be a short time compared to the blessing. I know that the Lord sends His children to help His children. We are literally angels for people everyday.

 

"For as [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7)

 

I know our life has a purpose even if it is to babysit and give the time to someone else to bond with their spouse :-) or help others live out the rest of their days in the best comfort and love you can give them.

 

Love is never wasted. There is always a reward for those that have sacrificed.

 

I know that my Redeemer lives. I know that we are the lights on the shore for our brothers and sisters. I know that as we draw closer to our Father in prayer and study we can have more peace in our lives. I love these lessons of sacrifice. It is true and it is all worth it.

 

I love you Mom. Thank you for your example and grace.

 

To the friends and family you have been a blessing in my life thank you.

 

Sister O!

 

"Brightly beams our Father's mercy" so why shouldn't we?

May 29, Hermana O

?Are Your bikes just better than the Elders?

The Elder that made the comment about our bikes has been on his mission a while and I saw his bike today... ya ours are nicer, we also don't use near as often!

?Do you drive very much or Bike more?

We drive A LOT. And its all good until the end of the month comes and me and my companion get lost, have to turn around, habits got us stuck with asking for rides and riding bikes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllll day tomorrow :-D

I'm excited! I hope my companion likes to bike :-)

?Do you have all your supplies for your 72 hour kit?

I have every thing but I will double check on the food for 72 hrs... see if its enough calories wise i think so.

 

Thank you for the inspiring words in your email. I loved it! I know you are running around a ton and such but I know that you are blessing the lives of some many! Don't forget that :-D

 

As for transfers.... dan dan dannnnn...

 

I am still in LE and Sister B is heading to C (she's gonna baptize a whole ward's worth of people!)

I am currently with Sis G and Sis VD (her new greenie adorable and powerful!) 

I am about to get a ride from a member to the church to pick up my new companion Sister R! 

She is taller then me and apparently looks a lot like me :-) She came in with Sister H and Sister B so it will be great!

 

Sister D didn't get baptized this past Sunday but we are going to try for this Sunday! 

Please prayer for Sister K she has a baptismal date of June 10th but she still hasn't said "yes" eegads! Miracles !!!

 

2 Nephi 6:3

 

BYE I LOVE You!!!!

May 21, 2012

Just received this forward :)

Hermana Oomrigar Texas McAllen Mission 200 W. LaVista McAllen, Tx 78501	May 21 (6 days ago)

Si I have the package thank you! And the one from the S's! Thank you S's!

I don't know the address of our home :-/ sorry!!!! I should get it though no matter what happens!

 

Sis D has not had it easy lately and she didn't come to church on Sunday. We're going to visit and perform spiritual CPR! Church Prayer Reading... and we'll see she is going to be baptized Sunday!

 

Sis K is great as usual her son came to church this Sunday (yeah!) And we'll see if she has received an answer to her prayers about baptism and the church and the Book of Mormon. :-D I think she has she just doesn't recognize it yet.

 

Area is great :-) and the wards are wonderful. The Elders are jealous of how amazing our bikes are. So its all good!  Its been crazy and transfers are next week. My companion already feels like she's leaving and I have no idea what will happen. But we're going to find and teach and prepare 10 or more people this week so please keep us and them in your prayers. Love you all!

 

PS Read your Book of Mormon in Public! I was reading it in the DMV (DPT here) and I sat down thinking that I could talk to this old man, but then he couldn't hear me so I stopped trying, he left and this lady sitting two chairs away scooted down just to sit next to me and ask if I was reading the bible. I talked to her about the Book of Mormon (as best I could by myself in Spanish!) and she "helped me" ;-) read some because I was studying it to learn Spanish I shared Alma's story and such because her son isn't following Christ. And well eventually I gave her my Ensign from general conference (two conf- blue liahona with angel Moroni) and she was reading an article I showed her then she was just looking in the whole thing and  I was barely able to focus on my reading trying to pray for her that she wouldn't find something that was an answer or anything to help to want to learn more and such and I traded spots with my companion so she could talk to the lady but I forgot to tell her to invite her to learn more and the lady left and I didn't get her number or anything!!!!!

 

BUT moral of the story is open your mouth and don't forget to invite them to learn more get an address phone number anything!!!! Oh and study the Book of Mormon in Public and smile and be willing to talk... Send me your experience ;-)

 

 

 

Love you!

 

Hermana O

 

2Nephi 9:20 & 21

Hermana O. May 14, 2012

Okay hello!

Sis K is great she is a single mom who wants to come closer to God. She has a boyfriend that is a member and he and she read the scriptures over the phone! Its very sweet to hear that they are learning together.

Sis D is a wonderful young mom  (i just realized all our current investigators are single moms wow...) she recently found work and is trying to juggle her three kids and read and pray and fast (we fasted with her to find work the other day) and well she is just making all the changes in life to have that peace in baptism its amazing. She is so powerful!

 

We (my companion and I) are so grateful for all your prayers in our behalf we've definately seen the miracles of talking to someone right when they need it and I feel all of your faith helping me study and teach, without your prayers I don't know where I'd be!

 

That was a big thing I learned this weekend: how do we grow closer to our Heavenly Father daily? Prayer, reading scriptures, and follwoing the commandments. I have seen the blessing of these habits and I have seen the consequences of not. I know that our Savior has given us the example and the ways to live to find true happiness. A talk (actually from George Albert Smith Lesson manual) someone was speaking on yesterday was titled "Open your Soul to the Lord in Prayer" I heard of how if we teach our children to pray (like when I wanted to go to do something and I had to pray to see if I should) it will help them to build that relationship with God. And another lady mentioned how hearing the stories of how prayers were answered to her grandparents then her mom and now she tells those stories to her children, she has built that habit from those stories and remembers those stories in times of hardship. What blessings!

 

The song from this past week is "Secreta Oracion" Rendire mi corazon en secreta oracion ganare este don, el cielo comunion" or something like that! in eng its "secret prayer" WONDERFUL song.

 

I will give my heart to secret prayer to earn or recieve this gift commuion with the heavens!

 

I know that we can communicate with God and recieve help and guidance! I love praying :-D

 

Don't forget to pray! And please send my thanks to all those who have written me and I may not have written back yesterday I said people haven't written but then I realized how many have and I am so greatful! Please tell all my family and friends I love them for all the little things they have done for me.

 

I love you mom!

 

"If we have faith in Jesus Christ the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing" Elder Eyring quote of the day :-) see lds.org for more from conf!

 

-Hermana O

April 30,2012

I'm doing well ;-D living and running around but I'm trying to limit running to the morning... it hasn't worked yet,

I always seem to need to run to the car or something :-D

My week went well. We found families to help to be baptized in May and we'll see how they progress. 

We had a baptism this weekend! The assistants and us had investigators and it was just a grand event! 

Family, friends and ward members moving all together, and such, it was great to be so involved. 

And a call for missionary work for the members this week from zone conference. if the members understood 

the responsibility and knew how to accomplish it then they can help us, so we're trying to help them help their 

own missionary work they should be doing. 

Being senior companion normally means you lead, you are responsible if the companionship does anything out of line, responsible for entering numbers on Monday, and basically that's it. Sis B. is 29 and is a lot faster at making decisions with investigators then I am so I am trying to learn to not just lean on her to lead in decisions all the time, so sometimes it feels like I am alone in making the decision when really its me catching up.... its hard but its good for me to think fast and learn to make decisions faster.

 

Love you mom talk to you soon.

Hermana O.

April 23, 2012

Note from Blog Admin/Sister: Sorry this is so late getting posted, it was just forwarded to me yesterday

I'm en LE, I think its a type of tree? Its just an area

I don't know my new address the mission home is so close. And my new companion is Sis B. she's from Mexico and she is great. So powerful and she just teaching . Sometimes I get lost in all of the things that she knows and I need to know.  I'm not a very good senior comp but I'm learning and we're balancing and she and I are learning to let the Spirit be senior companion!

So I see the Assistants all the time now, at first I was a little freaked out but now its okay. Just normal Elders that have lots more to do then me. We have zone meeting this week so I get to learn the stuff I already learned in McAllen, but I'm excited to keep working. We have a family (a young couple!) Getting baptized this weekend keep couple S in your prayers!!! 

K's married and Sweet pea is one how crazy! I feel so blessed! I hope to see a picture of them both sometime soon!

 

Mom keep up all the good work and enjoy camp! I love YW and I can't wait to hear how it all goes.

 

Did you give a lesson this Sunday? or recently? I thought of you and I saw you giving a lesson?

Covenants are so important!

 

My scripture for today: Lucas 10:38-42

:-D Love you mom! send my love to everyone!!!

 

Hermana O

April 16, 2012

Mission Home address is:

200 W. LaVista

McAllen, Tx 78501

Okay I'm heading to L.E.

Lville is being whitewashed this week. 

Sisters are leaving and the Elders are coming in. Elder W. and M. 

They are just going to take off and burn up this place!!!!

Baptism by fire!

 

Well Sis C and I only had 3 weeks together but I know that we've had to rely on each other and complete the work we had here to do. 

I feel tired because of all the late nights and paper work, and I know I am stronger because of it. 

We knew we had a family to find but we haven't seen the fruits of our labors of this week. We were blessed to visit members/ less actives and such, 

-exactly when they were home or they had just barely gotten home and things like that. The Spirit guides! Even if the miles suffer :-D

 

We are still in the process of leaving the area with a map of all the members  (la rc pm and every type of person you can think of!) 

and we're giving these Elders all the tools we didn't have in order for the people here to have better help. 

I wish I could see all the miracles that they will witness! Someday I'll run them down and ask if we helped them at all :-) 

I know it will, I know that this short time here has been a blessing. Maybe I didn't get to know the members or many people but I am 

doing what I can to prepare the Elders and that's what matters!

 

Anyway I love reading about your life mom. I know that you are being blessed and guided in all that you do! Keep following the Spirit and serving. 

I am so grateful to have a mom that loves others so much and gives to them. Thank you for all you do mom!

 

Love Your Daughter,

Sis O.