Springville 7th Ward Relief Society

  Holy moly! It's happening you guys!  I have finished home MTC, and am now playing the waiting game till I report to the provo MTC tomorrow.  As I told my mom, I'm too excited to be fully sad.  But I'm way too sad and nervous to be fully excited!  What a pickle.  I find myself sometimes thinking: I can't wait to get to the MTC so I can fully focus on my missionary purpose!  Other times, I wonder: why am I doing this again!?!  But there's a story!  There are some of you who know this, but others who don't.  So maybe to make up for not telling you all during my farewell (and to remind myself) I'll tell you all why I decided to do this: I had never wanted to go on a mission. The thought always terrified me (and still does)  For a long time, I wondered whether this was something God wanted or expected me to do.  Eventually I asked him, and got an answer.  He told me that it was my choice. Wow.  Shocker.  Agency, ami...

  La Senda de los Convenios Well this week like always was very interesting, but it had some pretty awesome highlights! So a little update with my companion, Elder Shulsen. It's been decided that he will be going home the same time as me. It's definitely a tener mercy because I didn't want to be sent around like crazy for the last little bit of my mission. My companion definitely wanted to go home quicker but it all worked out because it'll only be for a bit longer. With that this week was just little interesting. It's just different having a companion who really doesn't want to be on the mission, but huge highlight was that we had zone conference this week. We traveled to Ciudad del Este which is about four to five hours from where we are at. I've served in Ciudad del Este so it was so cool, and kind of weird, to head back to an old area. I loved my time in Ciudad del Este a lot. On Friday we had our zone conference which was amazing. First things first I l...

 We be 蹦起來ing MANGO BING Happy half way to Christmas in 2 days! This week we celebrated by putting Christmas lights up💗 here are some things that happened this week! - we had our last zone conference this week with the President and Sister Fields and it was so good! Next week we get to meet our new president and I am so excited!! I know that the Fields were called to our mission for a reason and I'm really excited to see what the Cummings bring too❤️ - I got to go on an exchange with Sister Cooper! She was my trainer and now she's dying as my STL, what was crazy though was that we met someone who lived 4 minutes away from where we used to live! I really believe there are no coincidences with the Lord!  - on one of the days we didn't have time to go to our area because we live so far so we decided to pray and take it from there and then we prayed and we both got the idea of 7 so we went to a 7/11 and had the thought of purple! So we went and bought ice cream so we didnt loo...

 Effects of eating a raw onion Our friend we met who has been to Springville! HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!  Taiwan's fathers day isn't until 8/8 because that makes the noise of Baba which is Dad! But don't worry even though Taiwan didn't celebrate I was thinking of my dad and grandpa's and all the amazing father figures in my life and my best brother in the world Ben and my pro brother in laws Mckay, Ammon, and Kolby you are all HEROS! I LOVE YOU!! I don't have much time but here's some things that happened this week! - we met a lady who was saving a turtle - we set a goal to have somebody download the Book of Mormon app and then God helped us meet somebody who did! - We met someone who had been to Springville because 20 years ago she did folk fest!! What?!? There are no coincidences with the Lord! - we had a member drive us to two of our lessons way far away and even though our friend randomly left in the middle of the lesson and left us to take care of our shop, wh...

  Boomin in Bloem Hallo en hoe gaan dit met julle almal! I hope everyone is having a Lekker time wherever you are in the world. In the recent weeks Our District has been Boomin! Our District has had 10 Baptisms ever since I became DL 3 weeks ago. Out of those 10 we contributed 2.  We have recently been biking to Batho everyday. Batho is a location near town and it's about a 20 minute bike ride from the chapel. We are now striving to build a branch there since apparently there are a ton of inactive members there as well as many interested people! The past Elders just never biked that far for who knows why. So hopefully we can get that area growing!  The only struggle has been that our bikes are broken and getting repaired. Apparently I go on an exchange and then when I come back I learn that the Elders had a bike accident and messed up the bikes 🤦‍♂️ sooo we are on foot. Which is rough because our area is massive.  Last Pday we went to Nature's Pride! Which is a mass...

  Christ's Infinite Understanding I hope that all of you had an amazing week! My week was a bit weird for sure. I Sure still saw some miracles like always! The mission up until it's very last moment, continues to surprise me. Big news is that my companion will be heading home and finishing his mission as a service missionary. It has been crazy this whole week figuring that out and dealing with the situation. It was just a little crazy all week. I've learned lots of patience and understanding and had some good experiences this week still. Saturday we were able to have a good day because we headed to Paso Yobai! I truly love going and working there. It is so much fun. Every time we go it's an adventure and we get a super good lunch as well so it's all pretty great. We were able to do a bit of service which was really fun. We helped building a house. We had the job of cleaning off old used bricks so that they could be used again. It was hot and dirty so we got really m...

  back to new york just kidding I still in france :) its olympic season over here and I hope you're getting hyped... because we are ! went to zone conference and it was a blast ate lots of yummy food teaching lots I would love it if you could pray that our friends can come to church, our members are ready to welcome them, they just need to come !   Thank you all for your prayers, love and appreciate you all !

 "You probably shouldn't sleep in your suit" -the best two years HAPPY DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL!!! For Dragon Boat Festival you celebrate by eating rice dumplings and watching boat races! We didn't get to watch boat races but we did have a ward activity and got to learn how to 包粽子！or put rice stuff in bamboo leaves! We have so many of them in our fridge to fully celebrate 🥳 🎉  This week was fun and hard because I got to introduce Sister Ashton to missionary work! Even though she was so so tired she loves to talk so it's been keeping everything interesting! It's also been interesting to introduce her to the streets of Taiwan! Because we have to bike at least 30 minutes to get to our area, Sister Ashton has been getting used to it real fast🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️ This week we met with a lot of our member and we also met with our one progressing friend! Woo! It was so cool to meet with her and such an answer to our prayers! This week while we were riding a car randomly honked a...

 He'll Always Forgive Us ¡Haupeiiiiii! What a week, for sure a weird one. Like I said my comp was sick last Sunday. Well that proceeded to get worse and that led us being stuck at home all week. Legit all week, but don't worry I got somethings to talk about. Alright so Tuesday is when it all went down. My comp woke up throwing up at 5:30 in the morning. We had our district council online while my comp was dying a little bit. Then we headed to the hospital with some members. Thank goodness we went with these members because they were a huge help. My comp got hooked up to an IV and they took his blood which was really difficult because he has such small vains. Then, sorry too much information but it's necessary, he had to poop in a cup. Lots of fun experiences and it was my comps first experience in a hospital here in Paraguay. It was such an adventure. Also seeing all the things in a hospital gets me super excited to start studying to be nurse. We headed home while we waited...

 God loves you and I do too Zero time, great week... just wanted to let you know that I, Love Lille  Love people Love umbrellas  Love you Love Sœur Kasteler  Love God Love being a missionary

 I moved 🚂 Heyo guess what I moved farther north !  Finished of the training of sœur Robinson and now I'm greenie breaking her comp from the mtc. Sœur Kasteler is so cool, also from Utah lol.  I live in Lille now and it's raining à lot and à bigger city... I love it ! I love people and big cities are a great place for me because there are more people to meet and the more the merrier  😊  Pday we tried a fancy salad place and it was delicious. Went bowling with the elders and I LOST how embarrassing. Little tip for missionaries and everyone else too ; serve your companion not just because you love them but because you love the Lord. You are there to serve the Lord and sometimes we forget to serve our comps because they're with us all the time. This goes for your family and friends as well. The book of mormon teaches us that we can serve God by serving the people around us. Start local... really local !  I'm thriving now ! Love you all ! Sœur koger !

 ¡¿Americans in McDonald's?! ¿Mbaeteko? ¿Iporã? I hope you've all had a fantastic week! I love seeing all the amazing things you're all doing in your lives so keep it up! Here in Paraguay it was a pretty interesting week for us. Tuesday was definitely the highlight of my week. We had our district council in the morning which was fun to have with the new district this last transfer. After district council I had exchanges with my DL Elder Woodward. Before we started exchanges, since we had to travel far, we went and ate lunch with the other Elders. We went to McDonald's. Funny story apparently it was National Burger day or something so there was a really good deal. We didn't realize how much food that really was so we ended up ordering an insane amount of food. We were finishing up eating, regretting how much food we had just eaten, when all the sudden we here a girl say "Only 50 cents!" We all just shut up and looked at each other and we were all shocked be...

Look they aren't looking at us weird!! 🪲🥳  Hello team!! I just want you all to know that you're awesome DONT FORGET IT!!  Here are some of the things that happened this week! - had the most awkward conversation of my whole life and could not stop laughing afterwards😋 turns out knocking on doors you already knocked is not the most effective(love you SISTER CALI) - learned that large intestines are NOT IT - had a goodbye dinner with members and sang love one another with them and it was SO spiritual!! - Had departing testimony meeting and it was also so spiritual! It made me so excited for the work!! - said goodbye to Sister Wang王姐妹😭😭 - went on a 2 day adventure with Sister Dockter! - Got to feed an Ama and heard a prayer in Taiwanese～ so so special:) - accidentally passed by somebody's house that we've been trying to go to for the last 3 weeks but haven't been able to because they were in the hospital BUT when we walked by their house they invited us in and they...