tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48134371633752612222024-03-13T03:03:06.830-07:00Sister Ormsby's Opus....18 Months in Florida..Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11741617255806359414noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-11077818967163396052014-07-14T19:10:00.000-07:002014-07-14T19:11:33.635-07:00Real World Update 7/14/2014<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Sister Ormsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09637078470709739951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-62423588675152155202014-06-30T08:29:00.000-07:002014-06-30T08:30:02.249-07:00Unexpected pause 6/30/2014This post is by Sister Whitney Ormsby's mother:<br />
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I received and unexpected phone call last week from our Stake President to tell me it had been decided that Sister Ormsby will be coming home to receive medical attention. She has had shoulder pain for several months, that has progressively gotten worse.</div>
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She will be arriving home tonight, and will receive a medical release. </div>
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Our plan is to have her diagnosed and treated as quickly as possible and then she can returned to her beloved mission.</div>
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Please keep her in your prayers, as you can imagine her heart is very tender at this time. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">On Monday we had a truly wonderful lesson with Georgene. I can't remember everything I have told you about her, but she is so incredibly sweet. She has had some health struggles lately, and she contacted us because she was praying for strength and she knew that our prayers and our spirit could help her.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">It was sooo great to see her and one of my favorite things about her is that she so easily recognizes the spirit and the hand of the Lord in her life. We showed her the video 'Lifting Burdens' (<a href="http://www.mormonchannel.org/come-follow-me-the-atonement-of-jesus-christ?v=910937379001" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">http://www.mormonchannel.org/come-follow-me-the-atonement-of-jesus-christ?v=910937379001</a>) I am so grateful for the Atonement of my Saviour, Jesus Christ. I know that He understands each of us perfectly. What a sweet comfort that brings to each of us in times of pain and sorrow!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Also, she knows that Book of Mormon testifies of Christ and she is learning more and more how similar it is to the Bible!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Wednesday was the Funeral and although it was hard, I couldn't help but be amazed at the love our Father in Heaven offers us. He has made a perfect plan for us to find happiness and peace through every trial and into the next life. Brother C. and Bishop spoke and they had beautiful testimonies to bear. They were stunning missionaries actually, explaining their pure testimonies of the plan of salvation. They were great examples of the temple! How grateful I am to have the knowledge of eternal families, and to have already began my covenant path to return to my Heavenly Father! I know that Whanau IS Forever! That brings me a comfort, peace and joy that is explainable!</span></span></div>
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Thursday we had interviews with President Cusick and he gave the council to go to the doctor. [please don't freak out] My left shoulder has been giving me some minor, slight trouble lately and he wants me to figure out what is going on. I have been alternating heat and ice and taking ibuprofen but nothing is really helping. I have an appointment with the Orthopedic on July 3rd. And we will see what is going on.</div>
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Saturday was a hard day! Hermana K. was in a lot of pain (she has previously torn 4 ligaments in her hip flexer). She went downhill really quickly. Just in time for my shoulder pain to really kick into high gear. We were both pretty broken, trying our best to look after one another.. but the other Hermana's in our ward came and looked after us. They made us dinner and help around the apartment. We weren't able to get to church due to the lack of sleep from pain. But they came and gave us lunch and dinner! Today we are feeling a lot better!! and we had blessings on Saturday, don't worry.</div>
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I was able to go on splits with Hermana D. last night to see a referral we got and it was really cool! We got to teach and testify quickly to 3 people.<br />
The work goes on! Even through our small struggles. I am soooo thankful to play a small part.<br />
My love to you all!!<br />
See you in a week,<br />
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Sister Ormsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09637078470709739951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-39543631409844074602014-06-18T09:00:00.003-07:002014-06-18T09:01:44.806-07:00She's a Goal Orientated Missionary. 6/16/2014<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I have really taken Zone Conference to heart. And yes, maybe I made a list of new personal goals 3 pages long, got super overwhelmed at how much I need to improve and use the Atonement, cried for about a day, erased the entire list and narrowed it down to TWO THINGS! hahaha :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am going to make 2 changes, and the rest will follow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First- I am beginning to understand the power and importance of planning. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have always hated planning. loathed. despised. avoided. BUT I have always LOVED the outcome from seriously good planning. If you didn't know this already, I will let you in on the inner workings of missionary life. We plan. Like all the time. When we don't plan, it is a terrible day. We spend part of Companionship Study every morning confirming our plans for the day. When we are out driving, we are confirming plans. Every night we plan for 30 minutes(often more.. :\) for the next day. And every Thursday morning, after 3 hours of studies.. we have the glorious opportunity to plan for the coming week.. just want to make sure you got that, THREE HOURS! okay, if you didn't catch my sarcasm... it is not glorious. it is terrible. helpful. but terrible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, that's a stupid attitude to have when none of this is in my control, right?!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The answer is yes! Sister Ormsby, you are making yourself miserable!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And to that I say- I WAS! (past-tense, that's important)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The truth of the matter is, planning is great, but inspired planning is POWERFUL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can plan for hours (and I do), but with out the right attitude.. I am wasting mine, the Lords, my companions time, and everyone else! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, the simple truth that I explained in a very complicated way just now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your attitude makes a difference. Things change when we do it with a happy and positive disposition. Don't get me wrong, being happier about it doesn't just make 3 extremely looooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggg hours instantly easier. Not even close. BUT it does make it bearable! YAY! for that I give thanks! :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">just in case you don't really believe me... because of our inspired planning- we doubled our lessons this week. Doubled. Yep. You read it right. THERE IS POWER IN YOUR ATTITUDE and of course, in inspired planning! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second, filtering my every action on my missionary purpose!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If what I'm doing isn't helping me fulfill that, I stop. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What is your purpose? Do you have one? Do you check up on it each day? Is what you are doing helping you to fulfill that purpose?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love this gospel! It is perfect. I know that. Jesus Christ is my loving Savior. His care for me is beyond my understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My new favorite hymn:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"The time is far spent; there is little remaining</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To publish glad tidings by sea and by land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then hasten, ye heralds; go forward proclaiming:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Repent, for the kingdom of heaven's at hand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Repent, for the kingdom of heaven's at hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shrink not from your duty, however unpleasant,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But follow the Savior, your pattern and friend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our little afflictions, tho painful at present,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ere long, with the righteous, in glory will end,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ere long, with the righteous, in glory will end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What, tho, if the favor of Ahman possessing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This world's bitter hate you are called to endure?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The angels are waiting to crown you with blessings!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Go forward, be faithful, the promise is sure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Go forward, be faithful, the promise is sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Be fixed in your purpose, for Satan will try you;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weight of your calling he perfectly knows.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your path may be thorny, but Jesus is nigh you;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His arm is sufficient, tho demons oppose.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His arm is sufficient, tho demons oppose"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know His arm is sufficient when we are fixed on our purpose!! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Keep praying for Quinton! Please add Georgine to your prayers and our new investigator Cynthia and her children!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I LOVE YOU ALL!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See you in a week,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister Ormsby</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PS. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Thanks for the news on Hermana Olson, I teared up to hear it! She is wonderful, I am sure! O</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">h, & read John 14:18, 26-27! LOVE THEM! :)</span></span>Sister Ormsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09637078470709739951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-16668313118553297952014-06-16T12:23:00.001-07:002014-06-18T09:38:22.806-07:00Sorry I'm a week late posting... this is her email from 6/9/2014<div style="white-space: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This email arrived on Tuesday instead of Monday and not until around 4pm!! As I discovered they had a Zone Conference on the Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks sooooo incredibly much for all the info about Thea!!! I seriously love her guts and am soooooooo proud of her decision! I just know she is gonna rock it!! :) </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First off, sorry for the late email.. but better than nothing!! </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a super dooper fantastical Zone Conference yesterday! Elder Don R. Clarke, of the Seventy came! </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was inspiringly wonderful! There is so much I learned! I am going to forward you all my notes.. it might not all make sense, but just trust me it is great! </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I do want to tell you quickly about Quinton! Because he has been doing AWESOME! And He is set to be baptized on June 22, he came to church on Sunday and it was fantastic to see him there. Feeling the spirit mega strong. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I totally suck for this terribly lame email! I promise to be better next time!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I surely love you a lot!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See you in a week,</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister Ormsby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some news from Mum to explain some of her following email.... Sister Ormsby had transfers last week (we knew she was staying in Apollo Bay, but did not know anything about her new companion). Her new companion is a Spanish speaking sister, and if you've been following Sister Ormsby's blog you will know how dearly she has longed for and prayed for the ability to speak Spanish with so many of the people she teaches. Here is the picture posted on the Florida Tampa mission FB page, that was taken last Tuesday, transfer day:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First off- I squealed when i saw the picture of Jai's ultrasound!! SO WONDERFUL! :D</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh yeah. Like you wouldn't believe and like a perfect answer to my prayers.. my new companion is Hermana K.! She is AWESOME.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are basically the same person, and we have soooo much fun together!! And! We get to do language study every morning! I AM LEARNING SPANISH! And I am THRILLED about it!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have started reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish, and I'm not too far yet, but it has been really great! I have started praying in Spanish too! And we put sticky notes all over everything in our apartment and car so I can practice my vocab! It is like a dream come true! haha :)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seriously though, I am so excited to be learning and my sweet Hermana is kind of the coolest person ever.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She is 19, from Orem and the youngest of 6. We like all the same things and have crazy similar sense of humor! It is pretty wonderful! She has been in Naples her whole mission (7 months) and she is <span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">a rock star. I love the way Heavenly Father just </span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">knows what and who we need. It is such a witness to me of His great </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">love. Hermana K. just loves. It is an incredibly powerful gift </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">that she has. She loves me, which I really needed. But she loves the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">people. Everyone can really see and feel her love. That is what </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">motivates her and it is beautiful! I know I am going to learn so much </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">for her.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">This week, on top of my incredible language skills improving, we had some awesome stuff go down! <span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">I have really noticed the blessings of being prepared this week! I </span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">realized that I stress about things out of my control, but I am </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">working on that. Now I focus on all I can do. Our lessons have been </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">led by the spirit and I just love being able to focus on others. There</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">is power in teaching by needs! It is such a cool time to be a missionary. We have the freedom that the 1970's missionaries did not (they had everything memorized to recite).. we get to pray for specific people, be led by the spirit as we focus on what message they need, and then when we teach it can still change based on questions we feel prompted to ask! It is SUCH a gift to be able to teach people what they need, when they need it, and how they need it! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">This week my testimony of charity has grown. In big part because of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">my new companion. Lately I have become more focused on 'doing', but </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">such power has come from letting Christ-like love fuel my efforts. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">That is why I came on a mission, because I love my Savior and because </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">I love my brothers and sisters. I testify that others can absolutely </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;">FEEL a difference when we show them the love of their Heavenly Father.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18.459999084472656px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">So many super cool experiences! But one really quick one was this week I got to see my recent convert of 7 months (Christian) teach a new member lesson to my recent convert from last month (Phillip). And the Spirit bore witness so strong because of Christian's very real testimony. HOW MANY PEOPLE GET TO SEE THAT ON THEIR MISSIONS?! I AM SOOOOO BLESSED! It was really incredible! </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Sometimes I think Heavenly Father just spoils me! :) But I sure am grateful for His pure love!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Love you all!!!!!!!!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">See you in a week,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Hermana Ormsby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Yes, the rumors are true! I will now and forever stay in my beloved Apollo Beach!! :D I will be here for almost 11 months at the end of this transfer- It is so great here, I don't wanna leave! And I am excited to have a new companion! I have 3 options(from what I know from the conference call- but who really knows, president likes to keep it fresh) and they are awesome sisters so I know this next transfer will be a great one!!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week was super awesome!!! And insanely long! haha</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BUT!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WE HAD 31 LESSONS! what? yeah. I know. Its incredible. :)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the low down:</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Monday- we had Family Home Evening with the Gainers, they live out on a farm and we got to feed an adorable calf that we named Fawn! She had really long eyelashes and was very sweet!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tuesday- in all its amazing-ness. are you ready for this? Cause it was miracle-filled and WONDERFUL! I woke up still not feeling 100%, actually I felt exhausted and sick. but I am stubborn and I was already frustrated that I had already been out for days and we were missing opportunities and people that are prepared! Sometimes I get fed up with circumstances- usually when they are out of my control.. not very healthy, I know. But it is those moments of frustration and discouragement that I can truly appreciate my Saviour and the love He has for me. Even in those moments- He increases my faith and answers my pleas.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I told Him that I only had 13% I could give Him that day. I knew I couldn't ask Sister J. to give that 87% on top of her 100%.. I was praying, pleading more like it, with Heavenly Father. I wanted to work hard, I really did. But I was lacking the capacity.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BUT... if there is anything I have learnt on my mission, it is this.. GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS. I promised to give Him 100% of that 13% I had, but I told Him, He had to make up the difference... and He did. More incredibly than I could have done on my own, I am positive! We taught TEN lessons!! And they were all SOLID appointments with investigators, not just something quick in street contacting. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Heavenly Father really reached out- the whole day was almost completely without breaks, but I didn't feel flustered or unfocused. God really guided our steps- when a lesson went long, the appointment we would have been late to wanted us to come later anyway. And when someone cancelled, we needed to see someone else. The timing of the day was crazy perfect, just lesson after lesson. We got soooo unified and by the end of the day the awesome things just kept rolling in. Our last 2 lessons were miraculous and we were so in sync- the spirit was palpable! The Lord gave me more energy than I could have imagined. I quite literally worked harder than I ever have, and I collapsed from exhaustion on my bed when 10:30 came around.. but I could not wipe the smile off my face and ever grateful heart! I love my Eternal Father, and I know that He is so aware of us and our prayers- not only was my frustrated plea answered- but countless others were shown His love because He strengthened me and blessed me with the capacity necessary to accomplish His beautiful will! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister J. wrote about our lesson later in the week with Brother R, who I have told you about- My commentary to add is that it was amazing and I LOVE the Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were meeting with a part-member, part-active family. We started<br />teaching and the Spirit just was not there, to the point where I knew<br />if it didn't come soon that we needed to go because we cannot teach<br />without the Spirit, it simply does not work. I was praying so hard for<br />what he needed (and I know Sister Ormsby was as well). The thought<br />came to my mind to turn course and to go to the picture of Joseph<br />Smith receiving the Priesthood. The Spirit started returning.... the<br />person we were teaching started breaking down his wall. I was prompted<br />to speak about how awesome (as in, huge) of a responsibility it is to<br />have the Priesthood. I then asked him what he wanted to do because of<br />that responsibility. He said, that he couldn't live up it to. I asked<br />what it would take for him to come back. This is a question that we<br />have thought about many times and had in our plan to ask. His wife was<br />crying, because this is something that she wanted so desperately to<br />know. He said he didn't know. Sister Ormsby then was able to come in<br />and knew exactly what to say from the Spirit. And pointed out that I<br />didn't ask about what he needed to do, but what he wanted to do, what<br />he desired. In the scriptures it says, "what desirest thou?" She<br />explained how we will be judged partly on the desires of our hearts.<br />Desires are important to God. She then asked "what desirest thou?" He<br />was able to share questions that he had for God, "Does He love me? Is<br />this true?"etc. Near the end of the lesson the Spirit was so<br />incredibly strong. He was able to commit to praying to God and other<br />commitments, such as family prayer and scripture, and then he said the<br />closing prayer. His wife and daughter again cried. This is the first<br />time they have heard him say a prayer in maybe 10 years. It is amazing<br />that a lesson can turn from one of someone being closed, to him saying<br />a prayer and his family being in tears. That is the power of teaching<br />with the Spirit. We were so blessed. None of it was from us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At FHE with a couple of families we heard about a deaf lady that used to<br />take lessons from the missionaries and came to church every Sunday. We<br />met her this week. She came to church. I interpreted even though I<br />was only able to help her for a little bit, it was a huge blessing. I<br />just pray that another missionary will come through that knows ASL.<br />But the even cooler part of the experience is next. So, it has been a<br />loooong time since I have interpreted. I did a little in Seffner, but<br />not very much. The night before church I woke up at 3:30 AM and<br />couldn't go back to sleep, so I was exhausted. Plus, I didn't drink<br />much water that morning so I was also pretty dehydrated. But I knew<br />that Sister Ormsby was praying for me, and I felt the power from it.<br />Signing was unusually easier that it should have been. It was a huge<br />blessing. I remembered so many signs. And then during the Sacrament,<br />my mind came fully at peace and I knew exactly what to say for the<br />rest of the first meeting. I was then blessed to have the energy and<br />capability to sign for the rest of the meetings. I think it was pretty<br />good because our investigator smiled a lot and complimented me. It was<br />not me. Now, here is the even cooler part of the story. I talked to<br />Sister Ormsby afterwards. She said that she was praying non-stop for<br />me the entire time. The member who gave our investigator a ride to<br />church even made a comment to Sister Ormsby during the service and<br />Sister Ormsby mentioned she was praying for me. The member started as<br />well, right when the Sacrament started. Yes, God answers prayers. I<br />can guarantee you that God was moving my hands and that I was<br />experiencing the gift on tongues thanks to Sister Ormsby and a<br />faithful member who joined her in prayer. The Spanish missionaries<br />were translating as well (so Sister Ormsby was praying for them too).<br />She said, I may not have the gift of tongues, but I have the gift of<br />prayer. I know that she does because I have learned to pray more<br />earnestly because of her. She certainly has the gift of prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;">PS. W</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">e got a new shoe guideline!!! I AM SO EXCITED TO WEAR SANDALS!!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, Sister J. actually has one week left! Can you believe it? She can't either! haha, but we are pushing through strong! She is so determined to work hard until the bitter end, it is awesome!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week we resolved to have the best week of our missions.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">22 lessons, 10 new investigators, 4 baptismal date sets, game night, a better tan, movie marathons, and priesthood miracles. I'd say we just about got there!!!!!!!! :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Monday night we had an awesome FHE with a few less-actives. One is our neighbor and she is so sweet, she has committed to us teaching her the lessons and when we brought her a mothers day treat she invited us over for Monday night. We ate delicious chicken and I dyed her hair (Sister L. would be so proud). We played a game called story cubes. It has 9 dice with random pictures on them and you have to roll them and tell a story using every picture. It was fun! We asked if we could teach a lesson with them, so Sister J. rolled the dice and we were both praying sooooo hard! haha. AMAZING Dice came up, and we got to teach the plan of salvation!! It was sooooo meant to be and really cool. I rolled later and taught the gospel of Jesus Christ, with some help from another less active that was there! It was really cool! :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Tuesday we had a GREAT lesson with Quinton! He hadn't been reading or praying :( and everything had gotten a lot harder for him. [I have a testimony that everything is harder without Jesus Christ, not because it gets easier with Him, but because we get stronger with Him.] We were able to testify of that to him, and Christian came which was awesome. He could really feel the spirit and that is what made the difference and made him excited to feel the same joy he felt with us, when he was struggling. That lasting and true joy only comes through Jesus Christ, prayer and scripture study- which Quinton committed to! :)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wednesday Sister Jenkins and I gave a training in District Meeting on Baptism Invites. We have a district goal for baptisms this month which means we are all gonna have to work a lot harder and pray to find those ready for the blessings God has in store. I now (this will sound silly because it is something I wish I would have done for the last 9+ months..) testify of the specific blessings I have because I was baptized and have the gift of the Holy Ghost and testify that those blessings are something I WANT for them to have and then we invite!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is soooooo amazing! sometimes a first lesson with a baptism invite tacked on the end seems so insincere.. BUT when you know something and share it- the Spirit is able to rush in and touch hearts already prepared. It is basically my favorite thing ever to talk about why I am eternally grateful that I was baptized, by my big brother who holds God's authority, the same power that Christ was baptized with. And with that power my faithful father laid his hands on my head and gave me the gift of the Spirit as a constant companion. Because of these precious covenants I have made, I KNOW what it is to be joyful. Not just happy, but full of my Heavenly Father's perfect love and pure joy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thursday night we taught another lesson to Brother R and his family and it was kind of a tough day, but I was praying for the spirit and the courage to invite boldy. I was able to testify very boldly of the sacrament and why it is so important to come to church, again relating the blessings I have because of the cleansing power of the sacrament that I need every week!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday another super lesson with Quinton- he committed to living the word of wisdom, and is looking forward to his baptism on May 25th!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Saturday I was feeling a little sick so I rested for a bit in the afternoon, but after a nap I felt well enough to visit some people! We had a great lesson with another less-active Delia. She is so sweet and she was able to open up to us about her concerns with coming to church. There is such a power from testifying- when the Spirit is what testifies! She came to church!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Here is the sad news! but don't let it get you down, it has a happy ending.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was throwing up all Saturday night! Everything hurt and I couldn't really sleep, but my sweet nurse J. looked after me. We moved the couch and laid on there with blankets and watched 'The Testaments' in ASL(the only language available.. lucky she could translate) at 2 in the morning. When it finished, it began to play in English... classic. After round two, we watched 'Finding Faith in Christ' and basically broke everything up with more throwing up and erratic naps.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sunday morning broke and I still was in pretty bad shape. I was pretty bummed because Sunday Christian was going to ordain Phillip into the priesthood and they were going to bless the sacrament together! Best thing ever, right?!?!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, turns out I could barely make it to the kitchen, wasn't gonna make it to church. Sister J. was ever patient and kind. Serving me so sweetly! She organized so much for our expected investigators at church. The Elders Quorum President asked if I would like a blessing, and when they came- so did Phillip! Three men came, and gave us the sacrament! Phillip even blessed it! It was sooooo amazing!!!!! I felt so blessed, then another brother gave me a beautiful blessing. After that I was able to rest a lot! oh, and we watched 'Legacy' haha</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Long story short, Sister J. was able to go on splits with our sister training leaders so we could teach some more lessons and I finished the movie marathon off with Hermana R. as we watched 'Mountain of the Lord'. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I got a bad fever last night, but slept most of the night through! I was very dehydrated, so I have just been taking it easy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SO MANY BLESSINGS :)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love you all soooooo much</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See you in a week,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister Ormsby</span><br />
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Has this every happened to you when you try to peel a banana?</div>
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We wanna be friends with this guy!</div>
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Fancy stuffed scallops</div>
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Nurse J's sneaky picture of her patient</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am officially half-way, but we don't need to talk about it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is sooo good to hear that your Mothers Day was lovely! I am glad Nate and Jenn took care of you! :)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">HOLY COW! Carter is the cutest thing of MA LYF! I can't handle how huge he is! But it made me INCREDIBLY happy that he wanted to keep chatting with me!! :) :)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The skype time seriously disappeared though! I feel like we didn't even talk about anything! hahaha</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week has been quite wondrous and has flown by!!!!!!!!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are some of the few awesome bites!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Georgine! We stopped by to see her this week and we came at the perfect time! She kept asking us how we knew when she needed us/the Spirit! We keep answering her prayers and it seems like every time her faith is fading, we show up! How cool is that?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I LOVE being the answer to someones prayer! I was able to testify of the Holy Ghost and so many other things. It was really great, she wants to be baptized and she knows that we are representing Jesus Christ! </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Other miracle!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a super-spiritually high and powerful lesson with Brother R this week! [He is Tara's father.. I think I might have told you about her? She is a super awesome RM that comes out with us and I love her dearly!] ANYWAYS, he hasn't been active for a long time, and we had planned out this awesome lesson, but then the Spirit had an even MORE AWESOME lesson planned! We talked a lot about how the gospel has blessed our families, and how we can strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ to gain even greater blessings. Whats even better... He came to Nina's Baptism! And to Church!! It was kind of a miracle and really amazing!!!!!!!!!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Victor! He is 17 and hasn't seemed really interested EXCEPT we taught him The Restoration! And when he read about the first vision he got a strong confirmation through the spirit which was sooo cool to see! He started getting more excited and listened more intently to our lesson. We took him a Book of Mormon the next day and it was so easy to feel his excitement! He wants to be baptized and he has gotten sooooo happy from the first time we met him!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I LOVE the way the spirit can change and touch lives! It is such a blessing in my life! I love this work!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love you all so much!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See you in a week,</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister Ormsby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">This week has flown by like many before it! Here are some highlights!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">-We KEEP meeting people that are prepared for the gospel! I don't even do anything!! These people keep dropping from heaven and, yep, I love it.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">We met, prayed with, taught, and now have a baptismal date with Quinton! He is so awesomely prepared! He has been out of church for a while, but has a desire to follow the Lord. He is willing to make a change and he has really loved our messages! Keep him in your prayers! His date is set for May 24th(Sister J's last Saturday as a missionary.) </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">-ALSO! We had an awesome lesson with Mary. She was a </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Seventh-day Adventist</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"> and she didn't quite understand the restoration while we taught. She says it is so confusing with all of the different religions and she doesn't know where the truth is. She wanted to know why it is important for her to know that Joseph Smith was a prophet. BUT THEN she gave a wonderfully pure and mind blowingly beautiful prayer asking for direction and to know that he was a prophet and that it is true! It was pretty fantastic! We are so excited! She has such a desire to follow the Lord too!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">LOVE YOU!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">I WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Sister Ormsby</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We had a miracle this week because of obedience! Saturday was our biking day and we usually have to leave our area around 7:30 to get home by 9pm. Well, we got to talk to so many people that it was already past 7:30 when we realized we needed to head up to our apartment. But thank goodness for Sister J. If we pass someone without talking to them, she is racked with eternal torment. Even though we were running late, we stopped and talked to 2 men, we were able to answer some of their questions and give them pamphlets, it took a while but then we started for home. And we passed 3 Spanish men outside the laundry mat. We turned around and in our broken and simple Spanish, testified of Jesus Christ and invited them to church. They were really interested and will be in contact with the Spanish Missionaries. When we finally left to go, it was 8:30. We called the district leader to let him know we would be home late and finally left. And holy cow!! We got home at 9:15. A bike ride that always takes us 90 minutes took 45. And from my own personal strength I know that would not have been possible! Heavenly Father warped time and angels were pushing on my pedals to get us home on time. We really wanted to be obedient and get home on time.. and we really wanted to be obedient and talk to everyone. He blessed us for those desires and gave us a miracle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">EVERYONE IS PREPARED! We prayed so hard for our investigator Phillip's daughter, Heavenly, to be baptized the same time as her dad.. on Sunday. And her heart was touched by the Spirit! The Lord helped us do everything in time and it was a beautiful day! It is the most fulfilling joy I have ever felt to see families follow Christ together! I am thankful everyday that I get to share the importance and the sweet happiness that comes from baptism!! I have such a strong testimony of the redeeming power of baptism. Because of Christ, we don't need to stew in our sins, we can start new. Yesterday I was able to witness 3 of God's beloved children start new. I was able to start new with the sacrament. I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can't stop thanking my Father in Heaven for this miracle and for the blessing it is to see! Phillip and Heavenly got baptized on Sunday!! So, we were already planning on Phillip getting baptized on Sunday, but his 10 yr old daughter hadn't committed yet. We knew that she needed to and had in a couple of weeks. She decided the day before!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We had a lesson planned where we were going to get Phillip a baptismal suit, walk through the baptismal service, and then share about the why of baptism and the simple qualifications. We started sizing Phillip for his suit and then all of a sudden Christian just casually mentioned that Heavenly was getting baptized the next day as well. I was basically like, "WHAT?!!" :D</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So we sized her up as well, walked through the service, and taught her A LOT in about an hour. Our District Leader was able to make it down for an interview. It was such an amazing miracle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We knew they both needed to be baptized together on Sunday. We had the faith that Heavenly Father would make it happen, we just weren't sure how. They were baptized together and they were so happy! Phillip said he felt "fantastic!" Heavenly was beaming. They love each other so much and are so excited to work towards an eternal family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alexa was our third baptism!! Thursday night we got a call from Yolanda (her mum), she is a recent convert and hasnt been to church in a while.. but she wanted her daughter baptized on Sunday! We went over the next day and taught her all the lessons! It was crazy!! people are just handing it to us now! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was a squirrel on our bike rack! I was so excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This picture is a little blurry... but there was this GIANT Bird of Paradise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Got your Easter package! THANK YOU!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is Victoria and Lynn's father's birthday party. Walter turned 98!!!!!!!</span></div>
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Sister Ormsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09637078470709739951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-48716440214813963522014-04-23T11:32:00.001-07:002014-04-23T11:40:12.805-07:00Easter Joy & 7 baptisms! 4/21/2014<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">This week has been phenomenal! We have been soooooo blessed and I have again and again learnt that their is such a spiritual strength and power that comes from faith-filled prayer!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We set FOUR baptismal dates! So now we have an incredible grand total of 7! What?!?! 3 of them are going to be on Mothers Day!!! (that's May 11th, right?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of them was a former investigator! Bonita! I think I told you a bit about her before.. but if I didn't, she is awesome and she has been praying about what we have taught her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another is Linda's daughter Brianna! She has such a bright spirit and she has a strong desire to change her life and be better!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And a part member family that we have been teaching! Sister I. hasn't been to church in a while, and she has 3 teenage girls. the youngest, Nina (10), hasn't been baptized and she wants too!! She will be baptized on Mothers Day! And she is sooooo sweet! They are an awesome family and they came to church on Sunday!!!! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chuck's step-son Dylan wants to be baptized too! So that is the other one! Heavenly Father is preparing EVERYONE! I feel like I just get to watch it happen! It is pretty crazy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Phillip is still super duper fantastic! He is getting baptized next Sunday!!!! His daughter Heavenly is really great! We love them both soooo much! They are so close to the spirit and the definition of prepared(GOLDEN)! Phillip is reading the Book of Mormon faster than us! He is already passed Mosiah! and he quit smoking without us telling him about the word of wisdom! I think I told you that last week.. but maybe not.. anyways, he is on FIRE! I can't wait for his baptism because he already has such an awesome light, once he gets the Holy Ghost he will be GLOWING! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Amazing things have happened this week! And you will love this, I have been writing it down!! I have been writing a sentence a day in my journal since dad asked me to.. haven't missed a day! And there is the odd oober special day that has like 12 miracles that day that Sis. J and I will take turns writing out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One thing I keep wishing, overwhelmingly... that I could speak Spanish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ohh, the possibilities! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For now, I am satisfied with my basic 3 minute conversation I can hold and my Spanish-English missionary guide book Elder S. gave me before he left. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">OH! PS! We have new Spanish sisters in the ward now!!! So it is ALL SISTERS in Apollo Beach! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First off.. PRAYER IS POWERFUL. We take it for granted. It is a gift and a blessing to communicate with God. If we ask, He will give. A simple principle that stands firm through all tests and circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister J. and I went to a taco truck on Friday night for dinner. We each had about 3 Finding Faith in Christ pass-along cards in Spanish and before we got out of the car we wrote the Spanish sisters phone number and the church address on each. When we were ordering a Hispanic man and his little daughter were in line. Her name is Ally, she was so sweet and she complemented out pretty dresses. We told her we like her dress and she couldn't stop smiling. When we got our food she hollered at us to come sit by her. We sat across the table from them and her dad didn't know hardly any English. We had some small chat and Roberto(the dad) eventually got up to leave.. Ally told us her house was a big blue one and he told us to come over tomorrow. We asked him for an address but he couldn't tell us a number, we just made out the street name and that there would be a green truck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not much to go off.. but I love the Spirit. We prayed hard that night to know which house to find them at. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Saturday comes around and we are in the neighborhood so we drive around that street and count 16 blue houses. Not a single one with a green truck. Or even the red Honda we saw them driving to the taco truck. We circled the street about 3 times. I was praying the whole time, and nothing. We were pretty close to knocking on each door! hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But we had another appointment so we resigned to come back. Later that night we were driving and Sis. J. missed the turn so we were going the long way to our lesson, on the street Ally and Roberto live, when a little girl on her bike darts out in front of us and we realize its Ally!!! She was so happy to see us and she immediately pointed out her house to us and told us to go see her family! MIRACLE! Right?! We were on our way to a lesson so we promised to stop by later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Skip to later, because when we got there... It was Roberto's birthday party! His whole family was there and they fed us some delicious rice and beans and chicken and corn! Turns out Roberto's older daughter was taught by the missionaries before she moved to Fort Myers and she didn't know there was a chapel so close to where she was! We gave her the information she wanted and we are going back there with the Spanish sisters next week! I WISH I SPOKE SPANISH! hahahhahah, but holy cow, did the Lord answer our prayers!! :)</span></div>
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Sister Ormsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09637078470709739951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-58507101069426953222014-04-15T14:00:00.000-07:002014-04-15T14:13:34.721-07:00Still in Apollo Beach! :) 04/14/2014<pre style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hey mum!!
Your date night sounded great! Sushi is sooooo good!!! I miss it!! We
were actually able to find a pretty good fish n chips place here in
Apollo Beach a few weeks ago! Add it to the list of places you need to
come to when we visit here again.
Your assumption was correct and I am staying in Apollo Beach for
another transfer!! That is half my mission for sure and hopefully it
will turn into a year!!!! ;D
Here is a little update on our investigators and a couple miracles this week:
Wade is currently not progressing towards baptism so there was no
baptism yesterday. We haven't been able to see Aurora or Monika for a while.</span></pre>
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BUT! Phillip is our shining star!! We taught him a few times this week
and he is doing sooooooooo good! He is really excited for his baptism!
(We set the date for April 27th but since we are having the Ft.
Lauderdale temple dedication on May 4th in place of normal Sunday
meetings, that would mean he would have to wait 2 weeks before getting
the gift of the Holy Ghost and that would be soooooooo hard!!!!! So we
are trying to see if he can get baptized maybe the 23rd and this is a
really long parentheses.) We taught him The Plan of Salvation this
week and he loved it. It made a lot of sense to him and he has been
reading The Book Of Mormon. He LOVES it! As he read 2 Nephi 2 (amazing
chapter. read it. study it. Love it.) he got his answer that the book
is true. He felt such an outpouring of the Spirit and he could not
deny it. He told us he has read it several more times just because he
loves the way he feels as he reads it. He has The Book Of Mormon app
and he even listened to the chapter and read along once! He was so
excited to set the date to be baptized. And his daughter,
Heavenly(10yrs) is excited too! He is going to let her decide if it is
something she wants, but you can really tell when she feels the spirit
because she gets so happy and has this wonderful light. We are
basically thrilled!!! They are awesome.</span></pre>
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Next, I want to tell you about Chuck(27yrs). He is equally awesome and
legit. We were walking on Saturday and he biked passed us we both
kinda looked at each other like we didn't know who was going to stop,
but then he just turned around to talk to us and took out his
headphones. He really wants to change his life. We set up a time to
teach him this week(tomorrow actually) and we invited him to church.
He told us that he wouldn't have a way, so we promised we could get
him there and he got really excited. Our High Priest Group leader
picked him up and before sacrament started we sat with him and he was
asking us why he has had to go through so many hard things. We got out
a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and talked to about opposition in all
things. That gave him some peace and he started flicking through the
pamphlet. On the back of the pamphlet there is a line that says,
'prepare to be baptized on....' And he pointed to it and asked if he
could get baptized! NO JOKE. Before church even started!! It was
basically amazing! Everyone in the ward was sooooo friendly to
him(because Apollo Beach is awesome). The speakers were awesome, and
in Sunday School we talked about families being eternal and it was all
incredible! Chuck really loved it! He felt the spirit so strong! He
was so happy! And after church he called his mum and told her how
happy he was and that he was changing his life and that all he wanted
to do was learn the word of God and be a missionary, traveling and
teaching people how to follow Jesus Christ. NO JOKE. He is basically a
dream come true. He called us after church and was so excited to tell
us about how much he loved it all and he asked us about the Ft.
Lauderdale temple open house going on right now (the ward is taking a
trip there on Friday). He wanted to know what it was about and if he
could go. He also asked us again what he needs to do before he can get
baptized! Keep praying for him, because he is seriously
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went to the temple and got to be baptized for his mum!! Isn't that
cool?!?????
Also, just FYI our elders are both getting transferred! So we don't
really know what's happening! But my address hasn't changed!
I don't know what else!
But I love you heaps!!!!!
See you in a week,
Sister Ormsby</span></pre>
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Sister Ormsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09637078470709739951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-42955805312988555672014-04-08T10:53:00.000-07:002014-04-08T11:03:02.600-07:00Officially 8 months out! 4/7/2014<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where did the last 8 months go??</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, I have officially been a missionary for 8 months.. today! How weird is that?! I feel like its been about a week.. There is still sooooooooooo much I need to learn! Remember the morning I went into the MTC? We went to Kneaders, sometimes that feels like it wasn't that long ago. I remember skyping Thea and my sisters before I was set apart. And the last song I played on my uke was "We are as the army of Helaman" hahahhaha, I'm getting all sentimental... but it really doesn't feel like 8 months have past!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">General Conference this weekend was incredible!! I felt a theme of stepping it up. A lot of them made it clear we need to know what we are standing for, and if necessary, stand alone. I also got the overwhelming feeling that we all need to love more. Love our Heavenly Father, Love the Saviour, and love each other. I will share a few of the beautiful apostolic commandments (advice from an apostle, is a commandment) that touched me before telling you about my miracle-filled week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-Sister Reeves mentioned the only things that really need to be accomplished in the home is daily prayer and scripture study and weekly family home evening... I know how important that is since being out here!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-Elder Christofferson bore powerful testimony of the Living Christ. (We are best friends, if you remember, so I gave him some of my notes..)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Amazing what potential we each have, huh?! :) There were sooooo many more to mention but it was all truly fantastic! what themes or messages touched your heart?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aurora- we met her when we had one of the young men out with us last Sunday. She is SO sweet! We prayed with her and told her about living prophets. Since then we have gone back and we were going to teach her The Restoration, but before we started I asked her how she felt God's love before. She told us about her brother passing away from cancer last year and she asked where he was. She has been asking people(religions) this question for some time. We were able to teach her about the spirit world and testify of life after death. The spirit was so strong and it brought her peace to know that. She is excited to come to church next week because she has work off, and we are going to her house tonight for another lesson! I LOVE Gods plan of happiness for us :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Monika- I have told you a bit about her before (Sis L. and I helped move her family a while back). It has been hard to meet with them, but we had a great lesson with her this week! First of all, everyone knows something for sure. So many people have different beliefs, but there is always(at least in every person I've met) a basic knowledge of some concept or principle in Jesus Christ's gospel. There is always something that someone will just KNOW. (I hope that made sense).. Anyway, we found out that Monika KNOWS that her family will be together after this life. She has never believed in 'until death do us part'. She knows that we are more that our mortal bodies, we are spirits, destined for greatness. We testified of the temple and the spirit was beautiful!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Phillip- our miracle!! We walked past his house because we didn't notice his parents outside until we were down the street, so we turned around and started talking to them/ Mary is the sweetest (she reminds me sooooooooooooooooooooo much of Nana!) she let us into her house to show us her painting of the last supper. She was so excited and she told us that when she is sad, she will look at that picture. Then her son, Phillip came out, with his daughter Heavenly (10 yrs). And he was glowing! Like he had the most beautiful vibe that I haven't seen from anyone before! He was really friendly and said we could come back for a message. Long story short, we've started teaching him and he is AWESOME! He cant wait to be baptized!! and he was really excited to get the Book of Mormon. :) He is our golden! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thats all for now! I cant think of much else.. although there have been many many miracles this week! The Lord has really blessed our work here, we went from 15 lessons last week, to 21 this week! :) I am sooooooo glad I get to be a small part in helping the work of salvation! I LOVE IT!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your week sounded lovely!! Mine absolutely flew by!!! I don't even know where it went actually.. We are already on week 5 of this transfer and that, to me, is insane!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But this week has not been without its miracles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have barely cried, actually!!! Hahaha, and when I did, it was because of the outpouring of the Spirit that I felt! Particularly while watching the incredible General Women's Conference on Saturday night!!! As soon as the broadcast began Sister J. leaned over and said; "our mums are watching this right now too!" Well, that just got me!!!! I was overwhelmed because I felt so connected to you as they spoke of the love and beauty of the sisterhood that connects all the women in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There were a lot of the same themes as last year, I thought. Namely, a focus on the covenant path we are all taking to return to our Father, and the love we should have for each other. It was incredible!!!! It was beautiful when the young girls sang "teach me to walk in the light"! What a sweet reminder in such simple words of our mission in this mortal existence. I loved it as well when as a worldwide sisterhood we were able to raise our voices to witness that we are God's children! Ahhh!! It basically got me super excited for General Conference! And I don't want to wait a whole week! Hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On to other news! We had a really great week! We were able to find so many new potentials by talking to everyone!!! We also had one of the young men meet us at a lesson (we were going to teach a family that he knew), but they weren't home so he came street contacting with us for a few hours! And this kid has such an awesome testimony! He is waiting on his mission call, and he has such a strong spirit when he invites! It was such a blessing to have him with us, we were able to teach a few lessons and schedule countless appointments! Members make such a big difference in this work! You have NO IDEA! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">On that note, we have an awesome new thing we are doing this month in our ward. It is called: Feed His Sheep! (Based off of Matthew 18:12-14) So basically, for the month of April our ward goal is to give 750 invites! An invite can be so many things, not just to church or to meet the missionaries, but essentially to feel the Spirit, ie; dinner in your home, Family Home Evening, ward activity, a Family Proclamation, and so many other things!!! And it counts for any of those and more! So for the month of April, Apollo Beach ward is going to be full of extra miracles and amazing stories! We are so excited for the ward to feel the power that comes when we do our part and invite! The Lords work, is missionary work! :)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And with that as a good thought, here is my not so subtle segway!..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thursday we had a surprise mission conference for all the sisters. And there were some crazy developments... Our mission, along with 13 others worldwide has been chosen to try something new!!! (Story of our lives haha) Starting this week, all the sisters in our mission will have the choice to stay out for 24 months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They are giving us the next month to fast and pray and decide, with our families if we will take this opportunity! So what I want is your honest opinion. How would you feel if I stayed out until August next year? I haven't made any decisions, but the thing that I keep thinking is that I was called here, to this mission for a reason, right? And maybe it was because I need to be here longer. But I don't know!! Tell me how you would feel! And dad's opinion too. This will be my question for conference, obviously! I just want to do what's right. They made a point of telling us this isn't something the sisters should feel obligated to do, it is just an option. So, yeah that's kind of the big thing.. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Other than that this week has disappeared! I have an awesome tan line on my feet now, I'll send a picture!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See you in a week,</span></div>
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PS! I forgot to tell you about this week! Sister Jenkins and I are going on a Car Fast! We are praying for and fasting for the part-member families in our ward. It is going to be so crazy hard, because we live out of our area.. But we are going on faith :) and I know that The Lord will bless the hearts of those people we need to teach! I am super nervous and excited to see what will come from this! :D</div>
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<b>PPS! That part about sisters staying out was an early April fools! I love you :)</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1- Sister S.M. comes in April 9! She is in the Apollo Beach ward and I absolutely love her! Look after her! She has come out with us to teach a few times and she is such a sweetheart! She just gave her farewell talk on Sunday and it was wonderful!! She is going to Denver South, Colorado! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2- HERMANA THEA OLSON! WHAT THE ?!?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!?! How did you find out?!? Did she call you?! Give me DETAILS! I am soooooooooooooooooooo freaking excited, I can not even explain!! Whats the mission called to again?! She leaves in June, is that right? How did she decide?!?! Do you have her email? and her current address? Is Joe going too? Where?!?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay. I am just really super duper pumped! But i want to know more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And here is why!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have had a few contentious lessons this week. (people that were potentials, but turns out they just want to bash with us.) One particular incident that I will mention is with a Haitian family or rather that father. We had already taught The Restoration to him and his wife, and on Tuesday we went over to introduce The Book of Mormon. To cut to the point.. He didn't like it. Like, at all. He kept telling us that it contradicted the Bible. Which it doesn't. Anyways.. 1 hour and a migraine later, and I am alive to tell the tale. And the tale I want to tell is that I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I know this because I have read it. I have studied it, and I have asked God. I know that He has blessed us with another witness and testament of Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the World. I know that it is something we can all know, if we have a true desire. Just ask Him! :) We were able to testify so boldly that it is true. And I know that even though he did not listen, my testimony is not shaken- only maybe a little stronger. (I was very tempted to stand on top of his table and shout it at him, that it is true!.... but I didn't.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another experience involved us biking for 18 miles in one day to find someone on the ward roster... best part... when we got there, it turns out that is the address to an animal preserve. So that was awesome. hahahahha. We were able to meet soooo many people along the way though! and we prayed with a few families!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So yesterday we were biking all day and it was getting to be about 5pm.. we went to an appointment and she wasn't home so across the street we met a lady sitting outside her house. She told us she didn't know English so I gave her my little recited Spanish and she invited us to sit down. (mind you I had been praying while biking to understand what the Spanish people say back to me.) Sister J. got out a restoration pamphlet and I bore a simple testimony in Spanish and she told me what she knew about Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father, in perfect English. Well she was telling a story and I looked over at Sister J's confused face and I realized she wasn't speaking English, but I knew all the words she was speaking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was amazing. I promise you I'm not lying, because this sounds crazy! But everything she was saying made sense and I heard it all in English. I started translating it to Sister J. and we were both in shock but I just kept going. I could barely respond to what she said because I would start replying in English and she was like, no! hahahaha. Then I got frustrated that I couldn't speak to her more and answer her questions. It was such a blessing, because the Spanish elders were near by and we called them and introduced them and they were able to teach her a lesson!! WHA!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I KNOW that the spirit blesses us with gifts. I got a massive headache from focusing that much after! hahaha but it was truly incredible!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">oh, the sweaty comes from two parts- first we have biked A LOT this week, AND our AC is out! yay! :) hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a church tour with Wade and we set a baptismal date with him for April 12!! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I l</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ove you all so much!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I cant believe how quickly all the kiddies are growing up!!! WHA?! They need to stop it, tell them I need them to stop it please.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week has been exhausting as always! BUT full of miracles!!!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I usually write a miracle a day in my journal at night but now with this fancy pants iPad, Sis. J. I take turns writing typing it out and then we just air drop it to each other! Its a lot less work, and here come the part you'll love.... I can email them all to you! So you have each of my miracles from that week to read as well as my letter! win win, right?!?!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">OKAY! I will send that off my iPad once I finish this email!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First- We are teaching Dan! He is soooo prepared! He works with Brother S. from the ward and Brother S. just asked him to take the lessons!! It has been pretty great! and we are teaching him again tonight. He has great faith in Jesus Christ and he really wants to follow Him. He is praying every night and right now we are trying to help him recognize his answers from the Spirit, so that he will commit to baptism! He went to church on Sunday!!! So that is fantastic! we will find out more tonight about whether he loved it or not! and we are hoping to invite him to baptism again, and hopefully set a date.. March 29th! We will see! but pray for him to recognize his answers and have a desire to act on the answer he gets!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then- Monika and her family! This is the golden family I told you about a while ago that we helped move in. They are always busy so it is hard to get in with them very often, and they haven't been progressing really because we haven't given them good enough commitments. They haven't been to church yet and that is the biggest things we have been trying to focus them on so they can feel of the spirit and make friends there. They are desperate for their 12 year old daughter to have good friends and gain good self worth so we have explained the young women program and they are really excited about that! The thing is just getting them there, pray for them to understand the messages we teach and for the spirit to answer their prayers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wade! I met Wade while i was on exchanges with Hermana Y. We were just walking in a neighbourhood and trying to talk to people and invite them. Wade was outside washing his car with his 7 year old daughter. he was all wet and soapy but I just asked if I could give him a <a href="http://mormon.org/" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">mormon.org</a> card and invited him to check out the website, he was super friendly and said he would. I asked him if we could say a prayer with his family sometime and he said we could come back in an hour! So we went and exchanged back quickly, then Sister J. and I headed over there to pray with him. Long story short he has just been making better decisions in his life to turn it all around. He has 2 young daughters and he lives around the corner from the chapel. He has just began reading the Bible from the beginning so he can get closer to the Lord. We have taught him the first lesson, and explained the Book of Mormon to him. He has been so positive and always excited about learning more. He was happy to start reading the Book of Mormon once we went over the book and testified of the blessings that come from reading and praying. Sadly, he didn't come to church! :( we were pretty bummed. But we have an appointment this week with him and we'll find out what happened. Pray for him to realize we are representatives of Jesus Christ and that the Spirit will help him follow Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stephanie! She was a referral from her neighbour that we met while walking one day. She is going through a tough time right now and when we prayed with her the spirit was so strong she was crying. She has 3 kids under 11 years old and she invited us back to do a lesson with her kids. We are going to teach them a family home evening lesson tonight, we are actually going to do the tie thing that you did in young womens forever ago, where you fold your arms like your praying and it works. we are going to tie it into the atonement and how because of Christ we can do hard things. Please pray for comfort and peace for their family and help them feel the spirit in their home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are a lot more... but that ought to keep some covered for a little while! THANK YOU SO MUCH! for the 3 things that you know :) I LOVED it!!!!! Does dad want to write me a letter? he's allowed... even if I'm bad at responding...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ALSO! new rule, that we are allowed to read our emails from home any day of the week! We still can't respond until P day.. but we can read them because it is basically the same as reading a letter from you. <b>Just in case you wanted to know, my emails are wide open for anyone out there who wants to drop a quick line! :)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See you in a week!</span><br />
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UP! It was so cool to see his excitement bloom! He is going to read it
in 1 month! We also met an awesome Spanish family today too! The
father, Ed, kept telling us he was catholic at first so we just
offered to pray with them. His wife, Rosa, doesn't know much English
but 3 of their kids were there and we said a prayer and the spirit was
so strong. They all felt it, afterwards Rosa got off her chair and
gave it to me, they both told us to sit down. Sister J started
teaching The Restoration and it he was really open and willing to
learn. He talked about his Spanish copy of the Bible and we were able
to set up a time for the Spanish elders to go back and share The Plan
of Salvation and the Book Of Mormon with them all! At first, we
weren't sure how receptive they would be.. But! Total miracle that
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<pre style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;">Tonight we showed a video to the Bennett's after dinner. It was Elder
Russell M. Nelson sharing a personal story about having faith and
being encouraged even when we feel 'weak in the heart'. The spirit was
there! Pat listened to the whole video and we were able to discuss
that there are people that seek for perfection before they turn to The
Lord, and how having faith in Him strengthens us before we have to go
through the hard times. We are all weak in heart, and that is okay.
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<pre style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;">We met C's referral.... Stephanie. At first we didn't think we were going to be able to pray with her because her ex-in-laws
didn't want a prayer, told us she was Baptist, and she was on the
phone. But when she got off the phone she did INDEED want a prayer...
And she loved it!!! Sister Ormsby was filled with the Spirit. We
prayed for her mother who is getting surgery tomorrow and for her
children (she is going though a divorce). She cried. We setup a return
appointment for Monday the whole family. It was so cool. Then we asked
C's daughter if anyone needed a prayer and she said her friend and
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is a HUGE adjustment I am making now. I haven't really been a missionary without Sister L. I feel mostly really lost that I am doing this all without her! And this area is just ours, you know?! PLEASE! somebody tell me of a companion they had for 7 months (and LOVED) and how they dealt with having to be away from each other.. because I feel like it would be hard if it had just been a short time! But we were together forever!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My new companion is Sister J! She is from Orem! The youngest of NINE! and her parents are on a mission in Tallahassee. Yes, she is a shorty! She is almost a foot shorter than me! haha. She was in our zone before this, and Sis L. and I were actually her STL's!! She came from Seffner. She is the most hard working person you will ever meet! She always wants to be perfect and she is always bubbly and smiling! She has been on her mission for 15 months! So she goes home in May (2 transfers) we figure that either I will go this next transfer, or I will be in Apollo beach for 3 more! (which would be almost 1 year in 1 area!!!... if its gotta be one area, I want it to be here.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week we have had a lot of awesome experiences because we did HEAPS of street contacting! And it has been really cool! It is soooooo easy to talk to people now, after going to metro! And it is amazing how many more people the Lord puts in our path as we seek to talk to all the ones around us! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Poor Sister J. has had to deal with my messy-ness! I feel bad for her! haha, but it is just really hard being here without Sister L., the first couple days were the worst. It felt like an exchange because Sister J. doesn't know the area or the people and i just had to decide what we were doing and when. It was really hard, but on Thursday morning I said my "sacred grove prayer" and I basically pleaded with Heavenly Father for strength and comfort. I needed to vent to someone and explain all everything that I was going through to someone who knows me, you know? Well Sis L. wasn't there to talk to and I hadn't heard from our STL's, and I couldn't call Martina. So I just spilled my heart to the Lord. I talked to Him about everything I was feeling. And then we had 3 hours of planning to do, so I might have cried some more during that time.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My super-wonderfully fantastic bishop just knows Sister L. and I so well, so he kept checking up on me. We went to the chapel on Wednesday and oh man when he just gives me this look I start crying! Its like this 'fatherly, I love you and how are you doing?' look.. but it gets me every time and I just start crying and he was like why do you cry every time you look at me?! I DON'T KNOW!!! hahaha, but the good news was, that after my melt down Thursday morning and my prayer, I didn't cry when I saw him that night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was pretty much a miracle and I was very proud! I then didn't cry ALL DAY Friday!! miracle. I know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Saturday morning we had a Relief Society Conference for Visiting Teaching and it was soooooo nice!!! There was a yummy brunch and fantastic speakers! That was the first time I got to see Martina and when she hugged me I didn't want to let go! My eyes filled with tears and so did hers! I recovered myself though, for the rest of the meeting. When it finished we sang I'll go where you want me to go.. so I was basically trying not to cry! Afterwards, I went to throw away our plates in the rubbish and bishop stopped me to ask how I was, with his famous look, and I couldn't really say anything because I didn't want to cry.. so I just gave him a thumbs up and he smiled, so I started to walk away and he said, you know you're amazing, right?! I turned around and he gave me 'that look' so I teared up and tried to nod at him. He asked me if I wanted to get a blessing at church tomorrow or right then, I just looked at him and he said, go get your companion, we'll go now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So Bishop has this amazing gift to always know what I'm thinking and feeling. And he always says the right thing. He talked with us a bit and then it was my turn for a blessing. It gave me so much peace! Like I can't express.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So everyday is still HARD! but I have found a new strength to handle it all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bottom line, I know that God has a plan for me and I know that this is a part of it. There is something to learn from all of this. this is to help me grow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister J. and I both spoke in church yesterday and I really didn't prepare a talk because so many other things got in the way! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, Bishop asked me to speak on 'What I have learned from my mission'. Couldn't be more broad of a topic, right?!?!? hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But as I prayed and thought about what the ward needed to hear, I kept thinking of something Pres asked us all to do at the transfer meeting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. I KNOW that God loves each of His children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. I KNOW that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is for all of us, and isn't just for repentance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. I KNOW that the Spirit teaches each of us and guides us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Basically, I figured out- halfway through speaking that the things I know actually make up the 1st Article of Faith, so that was cool. hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love you so so so so so much! I know that God has a beautiful plan for me, so don't you ever worry about me! I am being taken care of :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See you in a week,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">P.S- Think of 3 things that you KNOW! and get back to me on what they are :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> OH! and I have interviews with president this week!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her email this week began with the sad news that she and her companion of almost 7 months will be split on Tuesday of this week. Sister Ormsby is staying put in Apollo Beach and getting a new companion. Sister L. is moving somewhere else with her new companion. It is truly bitter sweet! They love each other like sisters...... But then she went on with the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">awesome experience this week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our RS president gave us a list of names to check out for her so she can learn more about them.. so on Thursday, I think.. we went to go find one lady and her daughter who should both be in RS. so, we drove to their place, it was in a trailer park, and when we went in, we drove past a trailer with 4 people outside it and we knew we should go talk to them.. but we decided to try these sisters first, and talk to them on our way out. Okay, so the trailer we went to ended up being the wrong address because the lady didn't know what we were talking about.. But whenever that happens, we know that we were put there for a reason, and there is someone we need to find! So we left our car parked and walked to the trailer out the front to give a card to the people outside, but they were gone already. BUMMER! So we started walking back to the car and a guy opened his bedroom window and asked us who we were looking for! Sister L. told him, we thought there was people outside that we could invite to church, and asked him if he might like to come! SO basically it was a miracle. His name is Joseph and he was super prepared!!!! He told us he had just prayed the night before for the first time in a long time! He had decided he need to turn his life around and find a church! CRAZY, right?!?!?! We told him a bit about the restoration and we said a prayer with him as it was pouring rain in the mud at a trailer park, but the spirit was really strong! I know God put us there at the right time, even Joseph knew it, because he told us, people always walk past my window, but I knew you were sent from Jesus Christ and that I needed to talk to you! He said he could feel it! How awesome, right?!!? :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, he is in the elders area, but hopefully they will start teaching him! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's one of my miracles from this week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't worry about me, just keep the prayers coming and I know it will all work out, if not how we want.. always how the Lord wants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our super-fantastic Bishop gave Sister L. and I both blessings on Sunday. He is the sweetest guy and the only person I really wish I could HUG! hahahaha, I really love him though! He cares about us so much, and he always knows what to say :) In my blessing he told me that Sister L. and I will be eternal friends, and that whichever one of us leaves this earth first, will be waiting with open arms for the other one in heaven! Isnt that the sweetest thing?! We were sobbing! hahaha there were so many other perfect things he told us :) So i know we will be okay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I LOVE YOU LOTS!!!<br />See you in a week,</span></div>
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Sister Ormsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09637078470709739951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-76290082969067281482014-02-24T10:49:00.000-08:002014-02-24T10:58:30.508-08:00Downtown Tampa & her first Alligator! 2/24/2014<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week has been pretty crazy long!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our P-day got cut pretty short on Monday, so we could head up to Metro (Downtown Tampa)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our car was still in the shop so we were able to get a ride up with some other sisters that are serving just south of us... they just so happened to be Sister U. and Sister C! (both of our MTC companions are now companions! :D)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we got to spend 3 days with them!!!! It was sooooo cool!!!!!!!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyways, we arrived in the afternoon, and we were given a large stack of <a href="http://mormon.org/" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">mormon.org</a> cards, a few pamphlets, and a schedule/walking instructions (it was totally like the MTC..haha)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So we were sent out into the wild, and were told not to come back until 9pm! It was a lot of fun walking! Sister L. and I made a plan to take turns talking to everyone! That way we were accountable! It worked out well, and it was a lot easier than we thought to hand out the cards and talk to people! On our way downtown we met Juan! He is an awesome guy from Tampa, I was able to tell him about the website, and ask if he believed in Christ. We got to have a good discussion and I bore testimony of Christ's church, and strengthening my relationship with Him. And he told us he wanted to learn more! :D We got his information and gave it to the missionaries in his area :) It was pretty cool and basically fantastic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We got lost, of course, in downtown- mostly because we were to stubborn to take our map out.. we didn't want to look all tourist-y! haha, so when we got to a certain road were supposed to turn left, but we went right... taking us into a part of town where there weren't people! haha, (don't worry mum, they told us not to talk to the homeless people, and they gave us pepper spray.. plus! we are protected! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a lot of great experiences and handed out about 35 cards in just 3 hours! I'm probably repeating myself, but I just want to emphasize how easy it was for me to talk to everyone! It is sooooo hard to do in our area, when I make so many excuses, but in metro I had just decided to talk to everyone I could- and it was super easy too!!!!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tuesday was the longest day of my life! but somehow the shortest too! hahaha, just like everyday out here, I suppose :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, we didn't know how to catch the bus... so that took a few hours of wondering from bus stop to bus stop.. lol. That's also when we got the call from the elders that Brother H. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(Their ward mission leader)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> had a heart attack and was in a medically induced coma... We prayed a lot! I'm so glad for technology so that you could all find out too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They are in AZ with their daughters, and the latest information we have is that they were warming the body back up, and took his breathing tubes out, he remembered who his family was but couldn't remember dates. Apparently he was having trouble breathing on his own so he was put back on the ventilator, as of Saturday night. That's all we know right now.. not super comforting! :( but keep the family all in your prayers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay- so the bus ended up being a whole lot of fun!!!!! Sister L. and I would split up- one would take the front and one would take the back! We handed out cards to the entire bus 2 different times! And we had so many cool experiences! We got to teach basically the whole first lesson </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Really quick cool thing that happened- we were getting closer to our stop at the bus terminal, and I kept looking back at a lady with her baby girl by the back exit. I kept thinking I needed to give her a card! But I made some excuse in my head, and our stop came and we hurried off the bus.. well, I looked back and the bus driver got off too, and I just knew I needed to go back! So I told Sister L., "I have to give this lady a card, I'll be right back!" I ran back on the bus and invited her to church and asked her if she would check out the website, she was really nice and seemed really grateful that I invited her! I told her to have a nice day and started to turn away, when a man at the back of the bus stood up and asked if he could have a card! I said "Sure!!" So I ran back there and started telling him about the website when the lady behind him just put out her hand to receive one! Then the people across from her wanted one and eventually I had give a card to everyone!! Because they all asked for one!!! :D It was sooooo coool!!! Sister L. followed me onto the bus, and while I was at the back- someone told her "I didn't get one!" so she shared the cards too! I stood there and told all of them about church and the website and it was pretty much amazing!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyways, so many more wonderful things happened! and I was soo glad I learned to listen to the Spirit's promptings!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sooooo,, our second day in metro- we handed out 154 cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wednesday came and we were exhausted! but I really loved the things I learnt! Now, it is soooooooooooo much easier to talk to someone in our area!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wow! So that took up a lot of my time! But the rest of my week was great too!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I SAW AN ALLIGATOR!! It was so awesome! That's what some of the pics are of! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we had a really great fundraiser for the YW on Saturday night that our investigators came too! It was a blast! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ps- got the wax pot when I came back from metro! THANKS!!! It is awesome! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">pps- thanks for the skirt too!!! i lurve itt!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ppps- the beehives mailed me Book of Mormons that they wrote their testimonies in! So I can hand them out! how cute is that?!?! :)</span><br />
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Sister Ormsby & the Alligator in background!<br />
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The Alligator!<br />
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Sister Ormsby with her companion and Martha & Delia :)<br />
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Sister Ormsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09637078470709739951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4813437163375261222.post-87543858821348872762014-02-20T14:04:00.000-08:002014-02-20T14:04:20.020-08:00Guess who has an IPad? :) 2/17/2014<pre style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello MUMMAH!! </span></pre>
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Then Thursday Sister L. was really sick with a fever, so I took care of her and we didn't really have an opportunity to go out, but I made valentines for our sisters :)</span></pre>
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Friday was valentines day! And I put up little surprise sticky notes for Sister L. all over the place while she was sleeping! I also made her strawberry tortillas for breakfast!!!!! It was a flashback! And pretty much delicious! :)</span></pre>
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Saturday we got a call that this afternoon we are going to Tampa! Until Wednesday night! </span></pre>
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street contacting area. President has been sending a few companionships in each week. We get taken out of our area for 3 days.
They put us up in an apartment and we all do studies together and work out in the morning and then they send us out to different places to walk and talk to everyone! Like some people are given a bus route, or a busy park to go to. We walk all day long and try our best to talk to
everyone! I am so freaking excited! It is gonna be sooooo sweet! The idea is basically that President thinks our missionaries aren't bold enough, and he is getting us over our fears by essentially throwing us in the deep end! He relates it to a batting cage, he is gonna stick us
in one where the balls are coming 100mph and it is gonna be hard and it is gonna be scary but then we will get the hang of it. So when we are back in our own areas, and a slow 60mph ball is walking past us in a neighborhood it will be so easy to hit it out of the park! I might have overlapped metaphors, I hope that made sense! Hahaha It is gonna be amazing! Everyone that has gone so far has absolutely loved it! So we are pumped! Everyone also says it is exhausting! But what else is new! ;) exhausting means your doing something right! :)
Okay, that's all for now, I can chat for a bit if you can! It's a
holiday today, right?! Are you working? Do you have fun plans with the
kids?!
LOVE YOU ALL!
See you in a week,
Sister Ormsby
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Monday, I didn't enjoy my regular p-day routine or relaxation because we had to drive up to Tampa for an Emergency MLC! We were there all night because our mission has a lot of obedience issues! It was heart-breaking to President, because last week was the first time on his mission, he had to send someone home for disobedience! :( basically we all need to be stepping it up A WHOLE LOT! Because he doesn't ever want to have to do that again! We are starting with all the little simple rules that we have been letting slip, like music- new mission rule: No More Music. (my package of cds will be on its way back to you next week.) Missionaries that have been having issues all stemmed from letting their music slip into inappropriate and then everything else got worse... so he is just cutting it all out! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But we have definitely felt a lot more responsibility now though. We have been doing crazy amounts of exchanges with our sisters now to help them with their 'little' problems or hold-ups.. we are actually going to be on exchanges all this week out of our area. We will only be here on Tuesday and on Sunday... :/ Probably one of the hardest things for me in this calling is to leave our area to help other sisters... I want to help them, but I feel bad like I'm forgetting and neglecting our area!! :( But I know that the Lord will bless us and our work when we show him how important it is to help the other sisters! Our zone leaders have organized to rotate exchanges with every elder in the zone, they are staying out of their area until Feb 15! crazy!! BUT holy cow, the Lord has given them sooooooooo many miracles! The list is tooo long! They are working soo hard! So we are gonna do the same and I know the Lord will bless us too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are going to do 72 hours with each sister, and the plan is to have a perfect 3 days. Perfectly obedient to all the little things for those 3 days, and we will see blessings/miracles! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Laura wasn't home at our appointment! Such a bummer!! But we have been getting so many potential investigators walking more often. We have walked at least for a little bit every day this week and it has been sooo cool! I am so much more bold now, holy cow! hahahaha. We walked for 3 hours on Friday in the pouring rain and I rolled my ankle (I'm fine, I didn't even notice until we got in that night LOL) and we meet people! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyways, sorry I don't have many specific stories to tell you, but I am really grateful for a fresh start this week! It will be so great to refocus my work and our zones work! I am sooo grateful for the atonement this week and for our mission President, I know that he is called of God and that he is helping our mission be better. I love this work and I love Florida! Thinking that this time next year I won't be a missionary, or it will be all over really freaks me out! hahaha, that doesn't make sense to me! That I have been out that long?! haha whaaaaaa?????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I seriously love you all and I love my Savior!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See you in a week!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week was full of wonderful, enlightening and spiritual meetings! On Friday we had zone conference, Saturday morning we had a mission wide training (two of the area seventies came) and then stake conference on both Saturday night and Sunday! (where those seventies spoke as well as Sister McConkie, general YW, and Elder Russell M. Nelson!!!) SO YEAH. I have been feasting this weekend!! :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Zone Conference: President Cusick is such an awesome missionary! He taught us how to street contact with our lesson pamphlets and leaving prayers in peoples homes. Then we did a bunch of role-plays so it was great! Lately he has really been focusing us on finding, which is where we are lacking, so its great!!!! :) He has encouraged us to get out of our cars and really go talk to people! He wants us to be walking or biking to appointments so we can talk to more people than if were just driving by, it is sooo good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mission Training: First off a side note, Sister L's MTC comp is now companions with my MTC comp!!! :D So that's cool! and we got to see them both on Saturday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, Elder Kopischke is a member of the seventy that came to speak at our stake conference, and President persuaded him to come early and meet with the whole mission! He is sooooo funny! And he taught with such a wonderful spirit! He began by asking us a scriptural question; "What desirest thou?" or "What would you have me do?" He gave us all a few moments to write down the list of things that we desire of hope for for our missions and let us continue to add to the list throughout the meeting. My list is a page long, so i wont send it all to you.. but the gist was this: 'to love and serve with all of my heart, might, mind and strength.' Make a list of the things that you desire for your life! It was eye opening to recognize the promise that if we ask the Lord, He is bound to give! We need to first understand what it is that we want, and then to simply ask for it!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He taught us 4 things to make our mission dreams come true!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1- Be as obedient as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3- Plan as good as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4- Work as hard as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in that order!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We discussed obedience a lot! But not just to mission rules, but to more celestial laws, like obeying the promptings we receive and not letting Satan slowly pull you further from the truth. it was basically amazing, I'm probably not explaining it right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He opened the floor to questions for the second half and we could ask what we wanted and either he, or President, or Elder Thompson (our Tampa area seventy) answered it! Somebody asked a question about boldness and I learnt a lot from the answers given. There are so many ways to be bold! To be bold- be persistent. To be bold- do not deviate from your message. To be bold- be clear, don't confuse loudness with boldness, be plain and simple. To be bold- don't get arrogant or overbearing. To be bold- PRACTICE! To be bold- exercise your faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We gain our confidence through Jesus Christ. He is the author and finisher of my faith, He is the reason I can be confident in my message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">AND SOOOOO many other awesome things!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So- another side note, after this training we had a dinner appointment but nothing else set until after, so we decided to walk to our appointment! We were walking for about 30 minutes.. not in the proper walking shoes, and an extra heavy bag, and no one was on the sidewalks to talk to. No one. We were getting pretty discouraged. We decided that the Lord was probably testing our faith to see if we would try walking again if it didn't work out the first couple times.... so we resolved to just practice how we would approach someone. We had a pamphlet out and we were running through what we would say, when a car pulled up on the side of the road and a lady rolled down her window and yelled out at us asking if we were Jehovah Witnesses. I told her we were Mormons and asked her if she had heard of us, she hadn't! Which is weird! hahaha, anyways- she ended up telling us that her 4 year old son just asked her the night before who Jesus was, and she asked us if we had anything that would help her teach him. We ended up giving her a pamphlet, a Book of Mormon and we have an appointment this week to teach them!!! It was such a miracle! She even told us that she drove by and felt like she should ask us, so she did a u-turn to come ask us!! MIRACLE! So, basically I love walking now and we are gonna do it everyday! It was amazing! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, my time is gone! But Saturday night was a wonderful session on hastening the work and then Sunday stake conference was a broadcast from Orlando with Elder Kopischke and the others I told you- it was broadcast to 48 stakes in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. It was soooooooo awesome too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He left us all with his prayer that we will love the Lord and yoke ourselves to Him. And that we can be one of His true disciples. Learn by teaching and feasting on His words and live as He lives, love and He loves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let me tell you how happy and blessed I am right now to be serving my Lord and to see miracles everyday. He watches over each of us and whatever we desire will be given us, we need only ask!! I love this work and I love you all!!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I KNOW! Can you believe I get to keep my best friend and the best ward for another 6 weeks?!!! I am in shock still :D</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I CANT BELIEVE TAMA IS SIX! What the what?!?! Tell him I hope his birthday was wonderful and I love him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am super amazed at how the time is flying out here. I know we all said it, but freak! I only have a year left?!?! I think I just blinked and I'm already six months out! What?! The Lord has really been blessing me out here! For starters, I get to be with Sister L. for another six weeks!! (March 4 is the next transfer) We never thought that would happen!!! We are making a bit of history! :) Being a STL this week has really taken it's toll, we did 3 exchanges in what we thought would be our last week together! So, not a whole lot was able to happen in our area. That can be a little frustrating because our numbers have been dropping, but I just tell myself that it is for the greater good! :P</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, we all know I'm great at stressing myself out, so on Sunday I made a massive list of names I feel like we are forgetting, people we need to follow up with, or contact and that is our focus this week! We have penciled that whole list into our planners for everyday this week and we are going to get back on top of it! It is hard to not lose the work in your area as we focus on the sisters in the zone. But my personal goal this transfer is to be on top of them both! (no pressure, right?! haha) I feel like we needed last transfer to understand what we were doing, and now where we are I can actually make a difference! So that is my plan, keep the prayers coming! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I thought it was pretty funny that your Sunday was so busy, but only because that is my everyday x235623952759082456832! :P even P-days are crazy because we have so much to get done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know how it is happening, but the Ormsbys worlds seem to be spinning just fine! Most of the time I don't think I'm really missing anything or like much is changing, and then I have a moment of realization..... it has been six months. AHH!! hahahahaha, it is surely bitter-sweet! and it is nice to hear that I am missed ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am so excited for you to meet Martina! She is sooooo sweet! I really love her and am excited she will spend time with you guys! (only a little jelly) totally send her back with my stuff! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love you all so much!!</span></div>
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