Aug 19, 2019

HELLO!!!!!

This week has been awesome, me and sister Adam's have been killin it here I  Mandarin 2nd! We had lots of lessons with Achano! And we plan to teach her about baptism this week! She is so so cool and LOVES the missionaries, whenever we've brought members over she introduces herself as 'Sister Achano'

Our ward does a scripture class and we taught it this week, we covered 1Nephi 16-17, it was pretty fun and a good way to bond with the members (cause it's mostly members in the class) 

We did exchanges this week! In the Florida mission they call them "trade offs" Haha, I stayed in Mandarin with Sister Dettmann!!!!! Who was my STL from Nashville!!!!! It was so fun!!!! And crazy because my area book stopped working the morning of exchanges so we had to improvise a lot of plans, but despite that we had a good lesson with Achano, and Brenda and Alyssa! We also found this guy who lived in Albania 15 years ago and new some missionaries from back then! We finished off the exchange by making milkshakes

I cant really remember anything else that was particularly fantastic, we did start teaching Narada and Danielle again!!! we also went over to read the scriptures with Sister James and she insisted that we read her patriarchal blessing to her, it was pretty cool! 

We had a Zone P-Day!!!! All us missionaries from Jax East got together andwe played games and basketball and made tye dye shirts!!!! Its been fun but hasn't left me a lot of time to write. 

My favorite thing I read this week was a talk by Neal A Maxwell called "according to the desire of our hearts" 

I love each of you so much thank you for all of your prayers, I hope yall know how much each of you mean to me

Sister Maller

Aug 12, 2019

Hello!!!

I hope you have all had a great week!!! 

This week was really cool! Some highlights were Narada and Danielle's family, they are so cool and eager to learn!!! We also have been teaching Maria and her family which is super fun but kinda crazy sometimes because she has 5 young girls and all of them like to talk. 

One of my favorite things we did this week was help Sister Cutler move out and into her new apartment, she is so fun and LOVES books so it was so so fun to talk with her and get to know her as we helped her move. 

Haha we had a cool miracle this week, so our entire mission's miles has been cut back and so we has like N O miles RIP. And so each week we have to do a car fast and not drive at all. SO we've had to bike, our first day biking was SOOOOO FUN!!!!! Except we were biking back from a dinner appointment and it started POURING RAIN AND THUNDERING⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ and it was CRAZY so we took shelter in this school thing and not too much later we got a text from the YSA sisters and they saw us on our bikes and drove to the school and picked us up!!!! They're the best!!

We also had zone conference this week, which was Sister Adam's 1st one!!! It was really spiritual, Sister Wood gave a training based off of 1 Nephi 1:1 and 2 Nephi 5:27. President Wood gave a really really cool training on the Doctrine of Christ and how it's a prescription for spiritual welfare and eternal happiness. He talked about each 5 points of the gospel of Jesus Christ (faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, Repentance, baptism, receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end) and he talked about each specific point and then he worked them backwards and taught how a person cannot endure to the end if they do not have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and a person cannot have the gift of the Holy Ghost if they are not baptized and a person cannot be baptized unless they repent, and a person WILL NOT repent unless they have faith in Jesus Christ. It was really cool! 

My favorite thing I read this week was 2 Nephi 31, mostly because it was the main thing we talked about in Zone Conference, and because I really like how simply the gospel is laid out and how lucky we are to have access to these plain and previous truths. 

I hope all yall have a great week! Thank you so much for all of y'alls support. 

Sister Maller