Sheep, Elk and a Bear?? Oh my!!

New blankets a member made for the missionaries :-) 

Wood stacking service project 

A Bear!

Hello Everyone!! 

I hope everyone has had a great week! My week has been one of the greatest weeks of my life! My companion and I are so blessed! The Lord is helping us every single day and I am so grateful for that!

Ok so first off, guess who is the new driver??? That's right!! This missionary!! Just in time for the snow.... Super scared for that but lets hope everything works out! I am not too sure why I am the new driver, my companion thinks its because I am taking over the area but we shall see I guess!

So on Tuesday we were able to go to this beautiful area named North Fork and we did a wood project for a 92 year old member who lives by himself. He is a really cool guy and lives right next to an old gold mine! It was a fun morning stacking wood and seeing sheep, elk and a baby bear! It was freezing though but it was still an awesome experience!

So the reason it has been one of the best weeks of my life is because all of the success the Lord has given us! I was able to see people that I love enter into the waters of baptism and start their new life as disciples of Jesus Christ! I love being a missionary so much and the joy I feel seeing people decide to follow Jesus Christ is like no other!

We were able to go to one of our wards Halloween Parties and it was so cool because there were a lot of none members there and we were able to talk and meet them! I was also able to participate in a pie eating contest and I lost! :( A member in the bishopric won and I told him after that I let him win! He said that he appreciates that haha!

Saturday was a busy but amazing day! That is the day we were able to have our baptisms and I was so happy that day! I could not stop smiling when I saw them being baptized! I was asked to give the talk on Baptism and I loved that but then later the Ward Mission leader asked me to come up again to bare my testimony and I was grateful for that because being able to bare my testimony after seeing someone be baptized is amazing! 

I love being a servant of the Lord! I am learning and growing so much! There are really hard times but I am grateful because if we did not go though hard times we would not fully enjoy the good in our life! I love you all so much! I hope you guys stay safe! And share the gospel with others!

Love,

Sister Lacey

One transfer done!!!

Hello everyone!!!

This has been an amazing week in Idaho! I am sorry I did not send a general email last week but last week was great! The members here are so wonderful!  We had a lesson in a member's home almost every single day! It is the best! It is amazing teaching in a member's home because you can feel the spirit a lot! 

We were able to meet and teach a lady from Romania and she was so cool! I love foreigners! I hope she will read the Book of Mormon and want to know more!

So I am not sure if I have mentioned one of our investigators very much but he is a young guy and he is so prepared! My companion and I did not really do anything but try and teach him the best we can! He is getting baptized on Saturday and I am so excited for him!

We also were able to give one of our investigating families a church tour and then they came to church and it was amazing! We are going over to their house tonight to teach them another lesson and I cannot wait!

On Thursday I was able to go to the temple and do a session and then see one of the members in our ward that we are close with get sealed! The temple is the best and I love the spiritual growth that comes from being worthy and entering the temple!!

On Friday we went on exchanges and I went with one of the Spanish speaking sisters so I was able to sit in a Spanish lesson and I know nothing... well I can follow where the lesson was going but that was about it! Exchanges were good and I learned a lot from Sister Grosdidier!

Sunday was awesome though! We were blessed because a lot of our investigators came to church! Sunday's are busy though but I would not have in any other way!

This week we had a hard moment. We got a referral for this family and we have been trying to see them and we were finally able to meet them! It was hard though because they are pretty anti-Mormons and were trying to tear down our beliefs. It was amazing though because I could feel the spirit so strong in me and I knew that my testimony was going to be ok and no matter what they said or did my testimony would stay unshakable! It was scary but the Lord is on our side so we do not need to fear! I hope that my companion and I were speaking with the spirit though and were able to touch their heart a little bit! 

I hope that all of you guys had an amazing week and that you are all striving to share the gospel with others! I have noticed more and more on my mission how much God guides our life! We may not have done anything for the people who were anti but my testimony has grown from that experience and I am grateful for that! I love you all so much! 

Love,

Sister Lacey

"Enjoy the heck out of it"

Salmon, Id Sisters!

Sister Gaston and Sister Lacey

Service with Sister Peterson

Snow already!!

Hello everyone!

It has been another great week here in Salmon, ID! 

First off, I have to tell you all... I tried Elk for the first time!! It is hunting season here in Idaho and I like it because I get Elk but then I do not like it because a lot of people are gone hunting and we want to teach them! That being said, Elk is awesome. I want to learn how to hunt so I can eat Elk the rest of my life!

Alright so I will explain my caption, "Enjoy the heck out of it". This week, Sister Gaston and I called President Nelson and while he was talking with us he told us to "Enjoy the heck out of it (our mission)" and that this is the time of our life! He is so right! Even when we have hard times, we always need to enjoy the heck out of it! We can always find the good in every situation! This week was good but we did do a lot of knocking and not a lot of finding which is frustrating as a missionary but as long as we keep working we will find people who are ready for the gospel.

One thing that I have learned on a mission and I think I have mentioned this before but there are a lot more people than we realized who are ready to learn more about Jesus Christ and want to follow His example and be baptized. 

Another thing that I have learned is to seek the seekers. There are a lot of people who will talk with us but they are not willing to seek to find their answers from God. Also, as missionaries we cannot force anyone to become a seeker. That being said, we can help people to know that they are a seeker. ;)

For example, this week we were trying to find people to teach and we saw a guy working on his car outside. Sister Gaston said that we should go talk to him. When we first started talking to him he was not interested at all and said that a church ruined his views on organized religion. Well when we he told us that we just would testify to him and we were finally able to teach him a quick version of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we committed him to reading the Book of Mormon and asking God if it is the word of God. We are going to be visiting him soon and hope he kept his commitment!

I also talked about a family a few weeks ago that is so prepared and they still are! We were able to visit with them a little this week and I loved it because the dad said, "my next goal is to be apart of the Mormon church". We have only taught him one lesson but he just knows that this is what he needs to do and I think that is amazing! He is definitely a seeker!

Well, I want to encourage all of you to be missionaries! The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only light in a darkening world! So many of God's children are wondering in darkness and they need light! Help them find the light they are looking for! 

I love you all so much! Thank you for the support that you give me! Be safe all of you!

Love,

Sister Lacey

1,000 Views!

Sister Lacey's blog just went over 1,000 views!  Thank you to all those who show interest in and support Sister Lacey during her missionary service.

Her blog also hit 1,000 views faster than her 3 siblings' missionary blogs reached 1,000 :-)

I love Salmon, Idaho!!

Sacajawea Statue at Sacajawea Educational Center

New jacket!

Hello Everyone!!

I hope all of you guys have had a great week! Mine was amazing as usual but it was extra special this week because of General Conference (which is when our Prophet and Apostles speak to us)!! 

I felt like conference went by so quick this weekended but I also got so much out of it! It is hard to choose a favorite but one that I liked a lot was the very last talk by Neil L. Anderson. I loved how he talked about all of the other talks and quoted the the Prophet Thomas S. Monson. It has been amazing telling people this week that we have a Prophet of God on the earth today that leads us and guides us! I have never really realized, until I came on my mission, of how amazing and what a blessing it is that we have a living Prophet of God! My testimony of prophets have grown so much and I am so glad that we are able to hear from them this weekend!

So this week we were able to see one of our investigators get baptized! My companion found him about a month ago and I have been able to teach him the past couple of weeks! He has come a long way and it is amazing to see the Atonement of Jesus Christ work in peoples lives! He has not been able to be confirmed yet because of conference but he will on Sunday!

So I told you about the prepared family that we met a few weeks ago, well we were not able to teach them this week because they were busy but we were able to drop by and talk with the dad for a little bit and he is so prepared! (He is the one with the New Jersey accent) So we asked him if he had been reading the Book of Mormon and he said yes. So we then asked him if he has prayed and asked if it is true and he said no. We asked him why not and he said, "I don't have to, I already know it is true." Sister Gaston and I could not help but smile the whole time after he said that! My face always hurts from smiling so much after I leave their house!

So on Thursday we were able to have some pretty fun lessons. We taught an almost 97 year old Jewish women and a minister in another Christian church here! They were both awesome lessons that I grew a lot from and I hope they did as well. It is amazing but scary getting questions from people who are from a different religion as you but I also love it because I can feel the Holy Ghost working through me! Just like the scriptures say in Doctrine and Covenants Section 100: 5-6

5 Therefore, verily I say unto you, lift up your voices unto this people; speak the thoughts that I shall put into your hearts, and you shall not be confounded before men;

6 For it shall be given you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say.

I love being a missionary and I am so glad that I get to serve the people in Idaho! There are so many people here who need the gospel and we just need to find them! I know that there are people all around world that need the gospel, they just do not know where to find it! Do not be scared to share your beliefs and things you know to be true on social media. We have an investigator who decided to turn on General Conference and the first thing she heard is what she needed to hear and she thought, "Oh, I bet they always say that" but then later she saw that a member friend had shared the same quote and we told her that they do not always say the same things and that what they say is from God. 

I know this church is true and it is the only true church on the earth. I know that we have a prophet of God on the earth and that he is God's mouth piece on the earth! I love you all and hope you have a great week! I am just going to end with our mission scripture:

13 Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life.

Love,

Sister Lacey