Hermana Inman Letter December 26, 2012

Hello again!

It was SO SO good to see you on Skype yesterday!!! I miss you all so much and was glad to see that you are all healthy and happy!

 

I'm glad you all had a great Christmas! It sounds like you are all very blessed! I have been extremely blessed this Christmas as well. Thank you so much to those who sent me Christmas cards and packages :) it means the world to me. I loved every single letter and present you sent me! I will be replying to your letters as soon as I can! It might take a couple weeks, but I promise to write back.

 

Thank you SO MUCH for everything family! My roommates were all jealous of my awesome gifts (they got gifts too, but mine are defintely cooler), they were super jealous of my jewelry container that you sent me haha and we love to listen to the Steven Sharp Nelson CD together. I've put the pictures you sent me up on the wall above my desk! Thank you for sending me my other shoes, I wear them almost every day. The penguin lip gloss works great and is cute :). I truly LOVE each of the gifts you sent me, even the razors, because those are the best kind ever and are my favorite! Now I don't have to worry about getting lost because I received that wonderful GPS, I look super cute since you sent me that pretty cardigan and those skirts from Alicia Campbell, and I get to eat chocolate. I have a great way to store my jewelry so it doesn't get lost or tangled. And I got to read letters from you, which always gives me support, encouragement, and helps me to feel loved :). Thank you so much everyone for being so thoughtful and generous. I am so grateful.

 

Our investigator Mayolo gets baptized this Saturday, and then that day, after he receives the Holy Ghost and the Priesthood, he will baptize his own son! On the same day!! It is going to be a beautiful ceremony. We are so excited for them. He has taken the missionary lessons for 5 years and has finally gotten his answer and is truly ready to be baptized. :)

 

I hope you all have a great week and stay safe on New Years! You are in my prayers every day! Remember to share the gospel with everyone and be thinking of others you know who could use the gospel in their lives, then tell the missionaries! They can help! That's what they've been called to do! Shout out to Alex who leaves for the MTC next week! Good luck cuz! You will be so great! This is the best thing you could possibly do for both your life and the lives of God's children.

 

I love you! Please keep praying for me! Thanks for all of your love, encouragement, and support :)

 

Love,

Hermana Inman

 

 

PS from Dad - we were very fortunate to take advantage of the wonders of technology, and to Skype with Lacey (Hermana Inman) for about an hour on Christmas morning. It was fantastic to have her in our family room, talking, laughing, and getting a chance to get caught up. The most important thing for a father, is that she looked healthy and happy. It was truly the best Christmas present ever! We loook forward to her Skype visit on Mother's Day.

Hermana Inman Letter December 18, 2012

What A Week!!

 

Holy Cow I am a missionary in California! I am currently serving in Vista. Oh, and Tuesdays are my P-Days.

 

Allow me to share my first day with you:

 

So, we left the MTC around 5:15am to go to the airport, left SLC at 8:40, arrived in San Diego at 9:30, and met our mission president and his wife, as well as our zone leaders and the assistants at the baggage claim. We loaded up in cars and went to the mission home, where they fed us lunch and did some training, interviews, and they lets us all take a nap! That was wonderful. We then went to the mission office where we had more training and where we later met our trainers. It was transfer meeting, and so everybody was already in the chapel, and when they began to sing "Called to Serve" we (all the new missionaries, there were 11) walked in and made a grand entrance haha so cheesy. We proceeded to sit on the stand and one by one he introduced each of us to our trainers in front of everyone. Why did you tell him my popsicle story? Haha he introduced everyone with these awesome things and then he got to me and said "and this sister has a strong testimony of prayers, especially with popsicles..." LAME! So we met our trainers, continued with the transfer meeting, and then we went out and did missionary work! We had an appointment scheduled but of course they weren't there when we came. So we went contacting on their street. Contacting is fun! Then we taught an English class to some members in our ward (every Tuesday we teach an English class!). Then we went to our next appointment to one of our investigators named Jose Luis. He has a baptismal date but we keep having to push it back, but we know he can do it! Then we went home, planned, unpacked, etc.

 

SO, that's my first day in the field. Oh, and before I came here everybody and their mom told me to find someone who is serving here, and I found every single one that first night at the transfer meeting! haha it was awesome! There was like 10 people. I'm roommates with one of them, too! And, it turns out, one of my friends from BYU-Idaho from fall 2010 is in my zone haha that was a funny surprise. I had forgotten that he was sent here too. Hermana McBride is in a different area now, I miss her. Elder Bear (who was in my district in the MTC) is in my district here, too so that's fun and comforting to know somebody. Funny side note- our last name "Inman" sounds like "iman" in Spanish, which means "magnet" haha, so some of the members here call me "hermana magnet" how appropriate, eh? Nah, I'm just kidding. It is funny though. The people here say I speak really good Spanish, especially for only learning it for 2 months, but I don't believe them! I can hardly understand anybody! And Latinos are TALKERS, they like to talk and talk and talk, but since I'm new, and I'm not fluent in Spanish, they won't look at me, and it's so frustrating. We'll go through an entire lesson and they won't look at me once until I say something, and then after I've said it, they won't look at me again, even if they're answering my question. So frustrating. You don't realize how important eye contact is for communication until you can't communite except through context clues and body language.

 

My companion is Hermana Farr. We're very different people, she and I... I'm having a really hard time getting a long with her, but I am trying so hard! We just don't mesh very well. And I pray and pray to love her more and for us to be united and get along... but I think the Lord just wants me to learn patience and dilligence for these next 3 months- that's how long we'll be companions...

Our mission president and his wife have a rule that we have to jog/run for 30 minutes every morning for our exercise, no exceptions! So, we do! Rain or shine! And it happens to rain a lot here haha so we run in the rain, and I feel like a Spartan beast! And apparently that's what we looked like because somebody pulled over on the side of the road and yelled out their window "hey, you look really hot running in the rain!" oh goodness. OH, guess what happened to me the other day? So we were out contacting the streets the other day and were waiting to cross the street when a man, probably about 50 years of age, Hispanic, came up to me and started telling me about how he has lots of friends, he doesn't drink or smoke, and he has money. And I was like, well that's great! So then he asked if he could take me out to dinner, on a date. Hna. Farr and I told him that no, missionaries don't go on dates, that we're here to share the Gospel and that's it! He then proceeded to ask me if I would marry him (he's not even drunk!), and I was just in shock so I just laughed and shook my head no. He looks over to my companion and asks her, pointing to me, "will she marry me?" And she tells him no. So he asks, well how much longer do you have left as a missionary? I told him 16 months. And he says "I'll wait for you." And so by now we are totally creeped out and take a detour back to our car to get away from him. Anyway, fun things happen when you're a missionary!

 

Lot's of really amazing things happen, too. I'm gaining such a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon! It is so powerful! I wish I had more time to tell you all of these stories! The other day all of our appointments bailed on us, all day long. So we spent a lot of our time tracting and contacting. Nobody was interested and we couldn't figure out how to catch their attention. Then I remembered a talk at the MTC the other month about the power of the Book of Mormon. I remembered that in that talk, that this person would have people come up to him and talk to him about the Book of Mormon if he was carrying it in his hand. So, I decided to try it out. We went to the next house and asked if we could share a message about the Book of Mormon, and gave them an overview of what it is. This girl let us come in and teach her a lesson on the spot and we are going back to teach her in a couple days, with her whole family! Then, after that, in just 5 minutes, we met 2 other people on the street who wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon. There is power in this book!!! Share it with everyone!

 

My companion and I cover 2 wards. The members are so nice and accepting and they love missionaries. And, apparently most of them are tone deaf because they asked me to do a musical number last Sunday (with like a 4 hour notice) and then asked me to sing with them in the choir and then the other ward asked me to sing in their sacrament meeting next week. Hna. Farr has a singing voice, and they love her to sing for them, and they think for whatever reason, that I'm almost as good haha. Bless their hearts.

 

Hey mom and dad, I forgot to get a BYU-I deferrment before I left on the mission... could you please call them and see what we need to do with my enrollment? Muche sent me a Christmas gift in the mail, that was so nice :). Oh, the mail system here works like this: you sent everything to the mission office, and then they distribute it by hand, which takes at least a week... so if you want to send something to me by a certain time, allow an extra week or so for it to get to me. We're going to try to find a member this week who will let us come over and use their phone/computer on Christmas.

I read a cool scripture today in Mosiah 2:34, and the line that struck me was "render to Him all that you have and all that you are." All that you ARE. That's a lot! It just made me think about what I need to change so that I can give all that I am to the Lord. I also learned a good lesson about the Atonement the other day. It was actually in the MTC. Think of the Atonement like a gift. Think of a time when you worked hard and long to make or purchase a gift for someone, and when you gave it to them, they didn't really appreciate it or use it. How did that make you feel? It's like that with the Atonement. The Savior worked so hard and suffered so much to give us the Atonement, which is the greatest gift we could ever receive. Are you appreciative of that gift and do you use it everyday? We truly need it every day, and should cherish it.

 

Anyway, my time is up and so I have to go. I hope you all are doing well. I pray for you every day. Have a great week and happy holidays! I love you and miss you!

 

Love,

Hermana Inman

Hermana Inman's Last MTC Email December 6, 2012

CALIFORNIA HERE I COME!!!


My travel plans got here last week! (of course I would get them the night of my p-day when I have to wait a whole other week to tell you about it). I fly out to the San Diego airport from SLC this Tuesday on the 11th. We leave the MTC at 5:00am, which means I can call home sometime between 6 and 8am!! Will that time work out okay? Will you dear elder me and let me know how that will work out? Dad I know you have work in the morning... :/ maybe they could let you come in late? Mom do you have seminary that day? Can you find a sub? I am SO SO excited to hear your voices!! I'm already crying haha. I bought a calling card, so that part is figured out, all you have to do is be there to answer the call :) I'll have about an hour to an hour and a half to talk. We're doing a pre-pack today to make sure that everything fits and is under the weight limit for luggage. I finally sent home a package today that has some things I don't need anymore, and a few other things. Hopefully you'll get it next week.

I have been seeing Jacob Moss, Spencer Barrett, Sarah Valdez, and Abby Poston a lot :) it's so fun to have friends here from Arizona! I have pictures with each of them that hopefully I will be able to either email or send home soon. It's difficult to email pictures from the MTC, but sometimes it works. Otherwise you'll just have to wait until I send home my SD card. But I can't send it back until I receive the other one I sent home so that I can still take pictures. Please tell Sister Barrett that Spencer is doing just fine, and that she doesn't need to worry. Spencer said that his mom is freaking out haha. He's supposed to be in the MTC in Brazil, but he had to come here instead because he didn't get his Visa yet. It's been a huge problem with a TON of missionaries lately, nobody has been able to get their visas, so they've all been temporarily reassigned to either a different mission in the states or to the referral center here in the MTC. Such a bummer.

Want to know something AMAZINGLY EXCITING?! So, yesterday, my roommate got a letter from her mom saying that her friend just got his mission call, but when he went to open it, it just said "please call this number." So he did, and who should answer the phone but PRESIDENT THOMAS S. MONSON?! President Monson told her friend that he has been called to MAINLAND CHINA and he asked him to serve for THREE YEARS! WHAT! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?! China is being opened to missionary work now! I believe that mission and as well as a TON new missions are being opened up during the April session of General Conference! I heard that from a reliable source, but it's not a fact... still. CHINA! FINALLY! We all literally screamed and jumped up and down for a few minutes when we heard that. This gospel is progressing so fast! It's amazing! The Lord is hastening His work and needs more servants to come join the ranks! This is such a wonderful time to be a missionary and to be a part of this gospel. But, even if you don't have an official "Missionary Call", everyone is called to the work and is expected to be a missionary to all those around them.

Dad, which Argentina mission did you serve in? Did you know an Elder Larsen? Chances are you probably didn't serve with him, but one of my friends here said that her dad is the same age and served in Argentina so I was just wondering.

I got to watch the First Presidency Christmas Devotional last Sunday, it was wonderful. It reminded me of the scarf Torie made me over the summer, that she gave me for my birthday/mission. She spent so much time working on that, and she put so much love into it. It is truly one of the best gifts I have received. Will you please tell her thank you so much for me, and that I love wearing it here at the MTC because it keeps me warm? Thanks :). How is she doing? How did Jake's finals go? When does Jesse start his testing? What is he asking for for Christmas?
Since I am moving to California on Tuesday, it would be best if letters were sent to my mission home now, unless they're dearelders, because I can get those tomorrow and Saturday. But after that, I would just send them to CA. I've been asked if you can use dearelder.com to send my letters to California... I think you can, but you have to pay for postage and then they will print it and send it out with pouch mail. I'm not 100% sure though, so could you maybe check that out? Aunt Muche asked me about that. We'll probably just resort to emails again each week now (our family-mom dad jake torie and jesse), and I'll just learn to be extra fast at reading and typing so I can finish before my 30 minutes is up.

I feel like my language is digressing, but at the same time some things are making more sense to me.. it's so confusing. Some days are awesome and some days are awful. Such is the life of a missionary :). I'm so excited to get out into the field! I've met quite a few people here in the MTC who are going to Carlsbad, Spanish speaking, so that's fun.

Thank you so much for your words and scriptures of encouragement! I love them! This week my favorite scripture has been in D&C 108:7- read it! I've been trying to follow the counsel in that scripture and uplift someone every time I say or do something. I also love D&C section 4, read it!

I hope you are all doing well and are enjoying the holidays! Drink some hot chocolate and eat lots of treats for me! I love and miss you all! Talk to you on Tuesday morning :)

Love,
Lacey

Hermana Inman's Letter November 29, 2012

HOLA!!

Hello Everybody!!!

Thanksgiving was so great and they treated us so good! Jeffrey R. Holland came, we did a humanitarian project for the people in Mali (Africa), we had a fun evening program that had skits and funny songs and then the MTC presidency gave everybody popcorn and let us watch 17 Miracles. It was a great day! I hope your Thanksgiving was just as wonderful.


Somebody told me this week that in Babylonia (that's what we call the outside world) that Puerto Rico became a part of the United States... is that true?

Our district found some funny yet wise scriptures the other day in Proverbs 25:14 & 21:19, check them out. You'll get a good laugh.


This week we learned about how important it is to serve others before you can try to preach to them. Sometimes service is the best way to preach anyways. We were reading in Alma 17 about Ammon, and how he dedicated 14 years to serve King Lamoni before he even tried to preach to him, which in turn, opened King Lamoni's heart. I also learned that each day before we go to bed we should think to ourselves (and write in our journal) "what message has God given me today?" and "how have I seen God's hand in my life today?". It's amazing how much the Lord is a part of our lives each day. Every little miracle or tender mercy, and subtle messages here and there. Sometimes they're bigger ones. Also, when we recognize them by writing them down, the Lord blesses us with more as we show more gratitude. Another quote I liked this week, "I've found that with this church you're either all the way in or you're all the way out. There is no in between. So, I must ask you, are you all the way in, or are you out?"

I will hopefully be getting my travel plans tomorrow! Woop Woop! I am SO stinkin EXCITED to get to California!! You will know next Thursday about my flight and when I can call home. If it goes according to plan, I should be scheduled to fly out on the 11th of December (which is in just over a week!). CRAZY! Today we (Hna. McBride and I) met a couple who just got informed that they will be mission presidents in July to a Spanish speaking mission. They don't know which mission they will be over, but they received a list of a couple of options and Carlsbad, CA is one of them! So they could very well be my next mission presidents! So that was fun :). They were awesome.

How exciting that Torie got her Patriarchal Blessing! I'm sure it was such an amazing experience and blessing. Torie, tell me how it went/ how you felt! Yes, Jen can use my prom dresses for that night as long as none of the girls take them home and are very careful and don't stretch them out :) haha. I haven't seen Spencer Barrett yet, but I've been looking out for him. Chances are I'll see him sometime this next week. The MTC is such a small place. I got to be a host yesterday for all of the new missionaries! That was pretty fun I guess. I just had to help a new sister take her bags and find her room and her books and her class. It seems like I was just barely the new missionary who needed help- now I'm una vieja aqui en el CCM (an old lady here at the MTC).

That was awesome to hear about Dom doing baptisms for his dad and grandparents!! That is SO cool! Tell him I said congratulations. Congratulations to Mikayla Flemming on her mission call! She will be a great missionary.  That was such a cute story about Jake and Jesse on the way home from the airport :) that made me laugh and smile. Too stinkin cute.

Jorge (one of my investigators) got baptized this past Saturday :) it is such a good feeling, and I'm not even doing the real thing yet. We also got a new investigator this week named Librado. Librado has taken the missionary discussions many times before, so I know he likes the church and he even said he feels that the Book of Mormon is true, but something is holding him back, so hopefully the Lord will help us to help him come unto Christ.

I keep learning more and more each week and at the same times things get harder and harder each week. If you could keep me in your prayers that would be grand. I can definitely feel all of your prayers already and am so grateful for them. I pray for each of you every day and think about you often. Thank you so much for your letters of support and encouragement and love. They mean so much to me and help me more than you know.

Yo se que Dios es muy amoroso y escuche y conteste nuestros oraciones. Tenia muchas experiencias con eso esta semana. Yo se que el Libro De Mormon es la palabra de Dios y entonces es verdadera. Yo se que Dios tiene una plan por cada persona y El ama todo. Yo se que este Evangelio puede ayudar todas las personas quien existen, con cualquier problema tiene.

Me amo ustedes y estoy muy agradecida por ustedes. Espera que tienen un buen "holiday season!" :) Feliz Navidad! No olviden la razon por la Navidad. Es la celebracion de la nacio de Jesucristo, y esa es la mejor don podemos recebir. (I don't know if I said that right, but you get the idea!).

Love you all! Have a great week!

Love,
Hermana Inman

Hermana Inman's Thanksgiving Letter Part 2 - Guess Who Came!!!

IT WAS JEFFREY R. HOLLAND!! WOOHOOO!! Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was our speaker this morning! How AWESOME is that?! He and his family did a special program for us (with his wife and grandchildren). It was beautiful. Some of my favorite quotes from the program were "today and everyday should be a wonderful day". THIS (the mission) is as REAL as your life is ever going to get. So don't you ever say, at the end of your mission, I'm off to the real world." "Buck up, hang in there ...." and there were so many more great quotes and of course my words don't do Elder Holland's words justice. He talked about how fortunate we were to live the the last dispensation. I wish there was a way that you could all look up this talk. I don't know if they record these ones or not, but if they do, find it and listent to it. The spirit was so strong here. I also liked his wife's (Patricia Holland) talk. She talked about how important the Book of Mormon is. We need to cherish it and read it day and night. It will make you so cheerful and happy. Just try it!!  Anyway, I learned so many great things and the spirit was so strong. I am so blessed to be visited by Jeffery R. Holland! My favorite speaker EVER! Have a great Thanksgiving! I am so grateful for you!

Hermana Inman's Thanksgiving Letter 2012

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

 

Things are so crazy at the MTC right now.  Today is supposed to be our Pday, but since it's Thanksgiving and there is a special program, we don't get to have a p-day... except for 2 hours this morning for everybody to do their laundry in the same laundry room... SO, everybody in the MTC who has a Thursday p-day was doing laundry at the same time in the same laundry room this morning.  It was nuts.  Also, since a general authority is speaking to us in a couple hours, people have been lined up outside since 6:30am this morning waiting to get a good seat.  It doesn't even start til 10!! So crazy!  Half the MTC is already in line...

 

Anyway, this week we learned about gifts of the Holy Ghost (spiritual gifts).  We can find what those gifts are in D&C 42.  It's interesting to recognize which gifts are yours and to think about how you are using them to benefit others.  I encourage you to read through D&C 42 and think of which spiritual gifts you have been given and how you are using them to benefit others, because after all, we're only given them to benefit God's children! 

 

I saw Elder Jacob Moss yesterday!  He has to be here for 12 weeks, I can't even imagine how awful that would be.  I'm here for 9 weeks and I'm already anxious to get out of here!  I love the MTC but it's time that I get out of here and go teach the people in California.  I've got cabin fever!

Did Alicia Campbell ever get those cards I left for her and her mother?  I left it by the fabric we used for my skirts?

 

I'm excited to see the bonus room when I get back!  It sounds like you're doing some fun things to it!  :)

 

Thank you for sending me Tim's address!  I've put his letter in the mail.  Has Julio gotten back to you? Is Jake home for Thanksgiving?  It brought a huge smile to my face to see what he posted about me on FB, thank you :).  I love getting mail from my family and friends!

 

Are you going black friday shopping tomorrow?  What are Torie and Jesse asking for for Christmas this year?  haha

 

Last night our zone had a "pre-thanksgiving kickoff party"  with all of the food packages our zone received.  There was SO MUCH FOOD!  After class we all just went outside in the courtyard and ate tons of food and sang goofy songs and just had an awesome time until it was time for bed.  Our zone really is the best!  We're all united and have a great time together.  

 

Thank you so much for all of your encouraging and loving words!  It's so nice to hear words of encouragement that keep me going throughout the day or help me end my day on a good note. 

On this Thanksgiving day (and everyday), I am so thankful for my family, friends, the Gospel, our doggies, missionary work, scriptures, food, shelter, warmth, health, clothes, shoes, to live in this country, my companion, my district, my zone, my teachers, letters, email, internet, toothpaste, beds, pillows, blankets, hairbrushes, soap, medicine, music, and so so many other blessings in my life that I could go on for hours!!  I have been blessed with so much in my life and I am grateful for this day that we have to reflect on all of them.  However, it is important to make everyday a thanksgiving, and always remember and give thanks for all of the blessings we have been given, and we must remember from whom all great things come, which is our Heavenly Father.  One of the speakers the other day mentioned that thanksgiving is equivelent to worshipping.  When you give thanks to the Lord, you are worshipping Him.  Don't you just feel so much happier when you're grateful?  I do.

 

Gracias por tu pensimientos and oraciones.  Estoy muy agradecida por todo el ayuda y amor de mis amigos y mi familia. Estoy muy agradecia por la oportunidad servir un mision y ser misionara por Dios.  Oro cada dia para ustedes y siempre pienso sobre ustedes.  Espera que ustedes tendran un buen tiempo a la casa de abuelo y abuela!  Por favor diga ellos "hola y te amo"  por yo! Que tenga un buen dia y dia de gracias! Te amo mucho.

 

con amor,

 

Hermana Inman

 

p.s. lo siento por mi pobre espanol, estoy tratando a hablar mejor, pero, yo soy gringa.

Hermana Inman Letter November 15, 2012

yo soy una misionera por la iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Dias!

 

Hola!

 

This week has been pretty good. The Spanish is getting harder, though. The language has come pretty easy to me these last 5 weeks, but this week was more challenging. I'm not worried though :) I can do all things with the Lord!

 

It's FREEZING here! The snow is beautiful though and I love winter clothes, so it's fine. It was so funny to hear about Callie and Chloe wearing those t-shirts! haha! I'm surprised they let Torie put the shirts on them! Did they keep them on? It sounds like Mom and Torie are having fun with personal progress! I'd like to do it again when I get home. Let me know how youth conference goes! It sounds awesome!! Yay for Torie's solo!! I wish I was there to hear it! I'm sure she did a fantastic job, she always does. It's even more impressive that she came up with it herself! She has so much talent! I got Jesse's letter; it melted my heart haha I almost started crying when I saw the envelope covered in stickers and his cute little handwriting. I'll be writing him back today. Speaking of letters, I have a few letters that I'd like to send to my friends but I don't have their addresses... would you mind finding them on my facebook friends or something or if you see them and ask them for their address? or have them send it to me on dear elder? or you send it via dear elder? Tim Murphy, Julio Donoso... actually that's it for now. I ran into somebody who served in AZ Spanish speaking and he used to take Julio with him, and Julio's dad was the bishop there, so I wanted to write to him and tell him about it. And I need to send a letter to Tim. I've been thinking about him a lot lately.

 

 

I have not run out of meds yet, but thank you Dad :). How come stake conference was a broadcast from Salt Lake? Did you receive big news? There have been many speakers at our devotionals lately who share pioneer stories of their ancestors. Do you know any pioneer stories of our ancestors? Can you send some to me? Their stories give me so much strength and courage to keep moving forward. When I think I have it hard I just think of them and everything they went through, then this all seems like a piece of cake. I have a new favorite song; it's an arrangement of "Savior, Reedemer of My Soul." It's not the regular hymn, but I bet you could find the version I'm talking about if you looked it up on youtube or lds.org or something. Everybody is singing it here at the MTC and it's been sung at a couple of firesides. It's absolutely beautiful. Speaking of hymns, Dad, you were right when you told me I should take my "hymns made easy book." As soon as I got here (actually it was a week later), Hermana McBride and I were called to be the music chairmen in our branch, and guess what? Nobody played the piano. One of our newer elders plays now, but before he came I was playing the top notes of the right hand for Sacrament meeting haha. So, when you get a chance, maybe could you please send that hymns made easy book to me? Thanks.

 

 

I hope you guys have a wonderful Thanksgiving!! I'm so glad that Jake gets to come home for that :). We get to have a general authority come speak to us on Thanksgiving, which really isn't any different from any other fireside, unless this means like a quorum of the12 apostles or something!! We usually get to hear from members of the 70. It's great! We never know who it is until they walk in. Have you ever heard of John Tanner? If you haven't, look up his story. There is a video called "Treasure in Heaven" and it's the John Tanner story. He is the MAN and everybody needs to know about him and be more like him. He lived in Joseph Smith's time and helped the church so much. Ironically, his story is what confirmed my testimony of Joseph Smith a few years ago when I was at school at BYU-Idaho and I learned about him in my Doctrine & Covenants class.

 

 

Fun story: The other day our whole district dressed up like Harry Potter characters! It was AWESOME! I was Hermoine, of course, Hermana McBride was Bellatrix Lestrange, Hermana Crandall was Luna Lovegood, Elder Bear was Ron, Elder Mecham was Harry, Elder Vest was Cedric Digory, and Elder Duclos was Draco Malfoy. It was better than a birthday. It was seriously one of the best days ever. I took some pictures, so I'll try to email them to you. If I can't, youll see them when I send my SD card home next.

 

 

I received the biggest compliment of my life the other day from my ZRT Hermano Toone. He said to Hermana McBride and I that we are the best hermanas that he has ever worked with, and he is amazed at the progreses that we have made in the last month. He said it scares him to think about what we will be like in 17 months at the end of our missions, because if we have already improved this much in a month, imagine how far we will have come in 17 more months. He said that if all missionaries were like us that the world would change, and missionary work would never be the same. WOW, right? We were so shocked to hear that, and it's still hard for me to take it in. I don't feel extraordinary or any different from any other missionary. I'm still me and I have so much that I need to improve on, it's overwhelming to think about sometimes. It brought a great sense of comfort to hear him say that though; it's nice to know that hard work does not go unnoticed. I hope that doesn't sound like I'm trying to brag, because that's the last thing I could be doing right now. It was just a nice surprise to hear that :). He is my favorite teacher ever, but he got reassigned to the 4th floor (Im on the 5th) to a new district because our zone has the most experienced and awesome teachers, so they had to distribute the wealth. Hermano Toone told us that they kept trying to transfer him but he kept telling them no, because he wanted to keep working with us. They finally just moved him anyways, but he said that whenever he is not with his district then he will come upstairs and work with us. Anyways, now that you know more about my teacher than you needed to, let me tell you about my investigators! Ellos son escojidos! Carla is going to be getting married to Damien to that they can live the law of chastity and be baptized :), and Jorge is golden. His baptism is next week on Saturday :). I got two more investigators this week as well, their names are Miguel and Andrew. Miguel is just taking the discussions as a favor for his friend, and Andrew is curious to know more about the church. He was taught a few things by one of his friends who is now serving a mission.

 

 

There is so much power in the Book of Mormon, never miss a day of reading it.

 

 

Yo se que esta iglesia es verdadera. Yo se que el Libro de Mormon es verdadero tambien, y yo se que Jose Smith fue un proteta verdadero. Estoy muy agradecida por la oportunidad a servir un mision, y estoy muy agradecido por todos mis bendiciones en mi vida. Se amo mucho :)
Que tenga un buen dia y semana!

 

 

con amor,

Hermana Inman