Portions from Emails with Dad
...The baptism was AMAZING :) it was so fun and so good :) Church was good for us too. We have zone conference tomorrow and I'm singing with Sister Davis and Elder Johnson and Sister Miller is playing piano. They just told us yesterday after church that they needed us to do a musical number... but I think its going to be really good. I'm kinda nervous for zone conference but I think it will be fun. I just hope I don't fall asleep, that would be embarrassing. I can't believe Tyler is already getting his permit that is so crazy to me. I'm great, we went shopping today and I got some cute stuff. I'm getting more and more nervous each day as the end of my training gets closer. I don't want Sister Davis to go home and I don't want to be on my own idk what I'm doing or where to go or how to get anywhere yet! Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter because it comes anyway. I love you.
...yeah and I might just train right after I'm done with my own training which is even scarier and we only have a stupid paper map booklet not even a full map you can open up. You have to look in the directory and find what page the street is on and figure out how to get from one page to the next and the pages don't line up! It's so hard idk whats gonna happen I'm just trying to not think about it! haha
Monday, April 6, 2015
Email 3-30-2015
Well I have like no time to write you all this week and I'm not able to send pictures today so hopefully next week's email will be much better and you will get to see more of what I have been up to. :)
This was a crazy week! There is so much more to planning a baptism than it seems. Haha. But ADUT IS BAPTIZED!!! She was baptized on Saturday (3-28-15) and all her friends that we have been teaching went and it was so amazing. Adut is the best. As soon as she came up out of the water she just cried and hugged her mom who was waiting at the top of the stairs of the font. It was a very tender moment. She just cried and hugged and her mom didn't even care that she was soaking wet. It was sweet. The spirit was so strong. :) I love baptisms and I hope we have many more throughout my mission :)
We were also able to go to the Women's General Conference Broadcast and it was so wonderful. It talked a lot about the family and how we need to defend the family and how we all belong and play an important role in God's family. I loved it so much. Family is the foundation of this gospel and so important in my life. I love my family and I want everyone to be able to have a family they can lean on and turn to. I know that families are so important in God's plan and we need to do all we can to stand up for that. So those were my thoughts about that :)
I hope to be able to write you more next week. I pray you are all happy and well. :) Love you all
Sister Martin
This was a crazy week! There is so much more to planning a baptism than it seems. Haha. But ADUT IS BAPTIZED!!! She was baptized on Saturday (3-28-15) and all her friends that we have been teaching went and it was so amazing. Adut is the best. As soon as she came up out of the water she just cried and hugged her mom who was waiting at the top of the stairs of the font. It was a very tender moment. She just cried and hugged and her mom didn't even care that she was soaking wet. It was sweet. The spirit was so strong. :) I love baptisms and I hope we have many more throughout my mission :)
We were also able to go to the Women's General Conference Broadcast and it was so wonderful. It talked a lot about the family and how we need to defend the family and how we all belong and play an important role in God's family. I loved it so much. Family is the foundation of this gospel and so important in my life. I love my family and I want everyone to be able to have a family they can lean on and turn to. I know that families are so important in God's plan and we need to do all we can to stand up for that. So those were my thoughts about that :)
I hope to be able to write you more next week. I pray you are all happy and well. :) Love you all
Sister Martin
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Pics 3-23-2015
This is Brother and Sister Butt. They are amazing! We went to their house for supper last night and we all made our own pizzas! It was so fun :) and delicious. And look mom, I put more than just pepperoni on it! Vegetables! haha my tastes are changing a little for pizza. I kinda like it all now! Not mushrooms or tomatoes still though...
We even rolled out our own dough. It was fun :) and they let us borrow their lovely xmas aprons.
Email 3-23-2015
We did so much service this week, it was really good. We got to help a guy clean out his basement and go through stuff and re-organize. It was fun. We ended up with 2 truck loads of stuff to take to the dump. Then he fed us this realllyyyyy great pizza :)
Later that same day we went to help a lady in our ward clean her apartment. It was a really big job. We cleaned for 3 hours and didn't even touch the bathrooms. We were sooooo exhausted that night. But I love doing service because you can just tell that it relieves a lot of stress from those you serve and we get to help Heavenly Father bless those people. I don't think either of them could have done the job themselves by the time it needed to be done. So I was happy to help. :) We also helped another lady clean and reorganize her kitchen. That was fun. :)
We are always super busy. It seems like we are constantly running to and from the car or changing in the car from our service clothes to proselyting clothes and back to service clothes. At one point we probably could have lived in our car for a week with the amount of food and clothes we had in there! But staying busy is good. Time seems to fly by. I am already through my first transfer and two months into my mission. Totes Cray!
We have a baptism coming up this Saturday! I am so excited. Adut is amazing and so ready and I think she will be a great example for the rest of her friends who have a date for April 25th :) So we get to plan our first baptism this week. :)
We work with a lot of less active members as well. I love meeting with them. Helping them figure out and resolve their issues and getting them back to church. Sometimes all they need is a little love. And getting them back to church brings them so much love and blessings. The work of saving souls is multi faceted. And truly brilliant :) I love it.
I found a new investigator on Facebook. I have been working with her for quite a while but she is finally starting to open up a little more and wanting to learn more. I love that we have the opportunity to proselyte on Facebook. It can be super effective, especially for people who have a hard time opening up to new people face to face and in person. It is amazing how you can feel the spirit through some words on a screen even across thousands of miles.
Well I'm sure I'll have more to share next week. hope you are all happy and well. :)
Love you all xoxoxoxoxo
Sister Martin
Later that same day we went to help a lady in our ward clean her apartment. It was a really big job. We cleaned for 3 hours and didn't even touch the bathrooms. We were sooooo exhausted that night. But I love doing service because you can just tell that it relieves a lot of stress from those you serve and we get to help Heavenly Father bless those people. I don't think either of them could have done the job themselves by the time it needed to be done. So I was happy to help. :) We also helped another lady clean and reorganize her kitchen. That was fun. :)
We are always super busy. It seems like we are constantly running to and from the car or changing in the car from our service clothes to proselyting clothes and back to service clothes. At one point we probably could have lived in our car for a week with the amount of food and clothes we had in there! But staying busy is good. Time seems to fly by. I am already through my first transfer and two months into my mission. Totes Cray!
We have a baptism coming up this Saturday! I am so excited. Adut is amazing and so ready and I think she will be a great example for the rest of her friends who have a date for April 25th :) So we get to plan our first baptism this week. :)
We work with a lot of less active members as well. I love meeting with them. Helping them figure out and resolve their issues and getting them back to church. Sometimes all they need is a little love. And getting them back to church brings them so much love and blessings. The work of saving souls is multi faceted. And truly brilliant :) I love it.
I found a new investigator on Facebook. I have been working with her for quite a while but she is finally starting to open up a little more and wanting to learn more. I love that we have the opportunity to proselyte on Facebook. It can be super effective, especially for people who have a hard time opening up to new people face to face and in person. It is amazing how you can feel the spirit through some words on a screen even across thousands of miles.
Well I'm sure I'll have more to share next week. hope you are all happy and well. :)
Love you all xoxoxoxoxo
Sister Martin
Monday, March 9, 2015
Email 3-9-2015
Not a lot of time, but one miracle from this past week: our family of 8 that is investigating, the Obi's, all came to sacrament meeting yesterday! They only have a small car and can't take all of their family so we had to find a ride for the other 4 of them. And let me tell ya, that was harder than it should have been! No one from the ward was willing to do it and that was really frustrating and stressful since we promised this family a ride. But God always provides a way and one of our recent converts offered to take them. So she went out of her way to take this family to church then back home to pick up her daughter and her neighbour for church. What an amazing lady :)
The kids were all so good during church! They had to go somewhere after sacrament meeting, but they told us that next week they would love to come and stay all three hours! Wohoo! The church is true! I'm excited for them, I think they will love primary and Relief Society especially. They are progressing, slowly but surely. The language barrier is a bit hard, but we were able to find copies of the Book of Mormon in their language! What a miracle.
Oh and yesterday I dropped my bagel on the carpet, but it fell right side up, tender mercy of the Lord :) haha.
So that's my news for this week :) Stay updated on my blog :) Love you all
Sister Maddy Martin
The kids were all so good during church! They had to go somewhere after sacrament meeting, but they told us that next week they would love to come and stay all three hours! Wohoo! The church is true! I'm excited for them, I think they will love primary and Relief Society especially. They are progressing, slowly but surely. The language barrier is a bit hard, but we were able to find copies of the Book of Mormon in their language! What a miracle.
Oh and yesterday I dropped my bagel on the carpet, but it fell right side up, tender mercy of the Lord :) haha.
So that's my news for this week :) Stay updated on my blog :) Love you all
Sister Maddy Martin
Pics 3-2-2015
We bought a fish as a joke for one of our members. The elders bought the boy one a couple weeks ago so we thought we would get a girl and she has a lucky fin so we named her the girl version of nemo so her name is Nema Milldavin (miller-Davis-martin) haha She is super small so you can't really see here haha.
We had to go to another appt before the one where we could give the fish,and we couldn't leave her in the car cause she would freeze so we put her in sister Miller's purse and brought her in the lesson with us so we had a fish in our purse in a lesson and no one even knew! Hahaha it was funny. Here's Nema Milldavin j-chillin in the purse.
Letter 3-2-2015
So this has been a really good week. There were some ups and some downs but the good outweighs the bad :)
I almost fell asleep in a lesson! acca awkward! haha
So guess what, this week we met with all the girls ( Angella's friends: Adut, Apajok, Rhoda, Angellique) and they brought another friend named Sabrina! AND THEY ALL COMMITED TO BAPTISM. Adut and Apajok's date is March 21 and the rest of them are April 25 so i'm super excited about that. They all seem really open and interested. Yesterday at church Adut came and brought her 2 younger brothers and she even went up and BORE HER TESTIMONY. What what what what... what what what what... hahaha anyway she is super good and so are the rest of them. I love them already.
Then we met another girl named Natasha she's in her 20s and like 9 months pregnant about to pop any day and we taught her the restoration and committed her to baptism. She doesn't have a date yet but she is super sweet and wants to learn more. But she wasn't there when we went to our next lesson with her so we think she might have had her baby!
The Obi family is doing great as well. We talked about scripture reading and prayer and they are progressing slowly but surely so that is good. I am doing well. I am happy. It has been hard to eat weird food and eat way too much and sleep way too little, but other than that I am good. The days seem to go by fast and the weeks fly by.
Sorry my email is super short. I have no time to email today. But the good news is that my Dad is amazing and made a super neat blog that you can all go check out for more updates and info on my super crazy fun mission life :) I love you all :) Have a good week :)
Sister Maddy Martin
I almost fell asleep in a lesson! acca awkward! haha
So guess what, this week we met with all the girls ( Angella's friends: Adut, Apajok, Rhoda, Angellique) and they brought another friend named Sabrina! AND THEY ALL COMMITED TO BAPTISM. Adut and Apajok's date is March 21 and the rest of them are April 25 so i'm super excited about that. They all seem really open and interested. Yesterday at church Adut came and brought her 2 younger brothers and she even went up and BORE HER TESTIMONY. What what what what... what what what what... hahaha anyway she is super good and so are the rest of them. I love them already.
Then we met another girl named Natasha she's in her 20s and like 9 months pregnant about to pop any day and we taught her the restoration and committed her to baptism. She doesn't have a date yet but she is super sweet and wants to learn more. But she wasn't there when we went to our next lesson with her so we think she might have had her baby!
The Obi family is doing great as well. We talked about scripture reading and prayer and they are progressing slowly but surely so that is good. I am doing well. I am happy. It has been hard to eat weird food and eat way too much and sleep way too little, but other than that I am good. The days seem to go by fast and the weeks fly by.
Sorry my email is super short. I have no time to email today. But the good news is that my Dad is amazing and made a super neat blog that you can all go check out for more updates and info on my super crazy fun mission life :) I love you all :) Have a good week :)
Sister Maddy Martin
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