Gratitude, Snow and Miracles!

Screenshot with 130 messages... referrals!

Hey Y'all!!

So sorry this is late but we played lazer tagging as a Zone so P-Day got moved around haha!

Happy Thanksgiving again!!! I hope y'all had a wonderful day and you ate lots of food! So I am going to cover about 2 weeks in this email! Sorry for not sending one last week! REXBURG IS ON FIRE Y'ALL!!! (Well not like Cali but like in a spiritual way haha it's too cold for that up here!)

We have seen so many miracles this transfer and it so humbling to witness! We have been able to find so many people to teach and I love them all so much! Maybe it's because God is able to work through 3 of us and not just 2... Haha I love being in a trio! Never a dull moment! 

So I will explain one of the pictures I sent! It is the one of the screenshot of the phone. So a few days before stake conference, we were able to meet with our stake president and talk with him and he proposed this idea that our mission president presented and we told him we were all for it! So since our family stake is so huge it is brodcasted to 3 other buildings besides the stake center. We just found out that our family stake consists of almost 4800 members! Cool huh! Anyways, we walk into stake conference and shake the stake presidents hand and go sit with someone we are teaching and the meeting starts. Well when the stake president gets up there he asks us to come to the front haha! Luckily the only thing he asks us to do is tell everyone our phone number! And sister Barreto pushed me to the front so I did it haha! But the stake president challenged everyone to text us a name that comes to mind during the meeting and I know the screenshot only says 130 but we got 150 texts and 118 referrals! Cool huh! So we have been trying to tackle that! members are supportive and help us a lot though!

So on Thanksgiving we had a dinner at 12, 1, 2, and 3... Let's just say saying I was full was an understatement... My comps and I survived though and lived to tell the tale!

Sister Rose was not feeling too good this week but she is so amazing! We were still able to work everyday and we saw so many miracles. I don't even know where to start with all of them. God has been blessing us so much these past weeks! Through the Holy Ghost we have been able to find people who are willing to listen to the message of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ! That is why Rexburg is on FIRE! THERE IS MISSIONARY WORK EVERYWHERE!! God was not lying when He said in Doctrine and Covenants 4:4, "For the field is white, already to harvest"!

I love y'all so much and hope that y'all have a great week! Something I was able to learn this week through prayer and scriptures is that God is ALWAYS there for us. Satan wants nothing more to "drag us down to the gulf of misery" and he sometimes does a pretty good job at it but if we reach to the Savior, Jesus Christ, we will always have help! Love yall!

Love,

Sister Lacey

First Snow!!

Hola Amigos!

I hope y'all are doing well! This past week has been wild! I hope I will be able to express to y'all all of the amazing miracles we were able to witness! I wish I could just tell y'all in person because then I can get into but... email will have to suffice haha!

SO!!!! An amazing miracle!!!!!! The Spanish elders gave us this referral for a few weeks ago and we were finally able to teach them last Friday and my goodness. I am not sure if I have meet a more prepared man! There are a few that are pretty similar but he is AMAZING!!!! We come in there and he just starts saying, "I know that is church is true! I feel like I am being hugged by the spirit when I walk in there. I want to be baptized and be temple worthy and be sealed to my family!" I was just floored! He is amazing! We are able to teach his wife as well and she is still not sure so we are mainly teaching her. The other HUGE miracle we had was connected to them. So we had the feeling that we should go to the ward that they should be attending so when we went there, we we're greeting people at the doors, and GUESS WHAT?!?!? THEY SHOWED UP!!! I thought I was going to cry. I was so happy. So that was a cool miracle. Oh and a funny story added onto that, when we went to go and teach them we we're walking up the stairs to go to their apartment and guess who fell... I did... and guess who heard it... They did... That was a good way to break the ice though. 

Another miracle that we got to see was teaching this one woman who has had a really had life. We had been trying to teach her and then everything just fell into place. It was also really cool because that was our first night in a trio and we taught in unity. We didn't even have time to comp study because we just got put together that day but God blessed! 

Another cool thing that happened this week was that at district council Sister Barreto and I we're able to bear our testimonies in Spanish. We just had a testimony meeting for district council and the spirit was so strong. The reason we bore our testimony in Spanish was to thank our district leader for all he did for the district before he left. It was fun!

Anyways, I think that is all for the week! I love being a trio! My companions our amazing and I learn so much from them! I know that this is God's church and that Jesus is the Christ! I love y'all and hope y'all have a great safe week!

Love,

Sister Lacey

Hey Y'all!!! It's Transfers!!!

Making pizza at a member of the Mission Presidency's house

Pizza oven :-0

Matching with President!

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Hello Everyone!!!

First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!!  I love you so much!!!

Alright! So this is going to be short and sweet! P-day the week of transfers is crazy haha! You gotta say bye to everyone and everything!! But!!!!! I'm staying with Sister Barreto and we are adding more to the party!! We are becoming a trio with a sister named Sister Rose!!! Our district is getting spilt up though! I'm sad haha! But I am proud of the elders that are leaving! So Elder Lewis was our Zone Leader and he just became the new Assistant to the President and then our District Leader, Elder Estrada just became a Zone Leader down in the south part of our mission! I am sad that they are leaving but I am so proud of them!

This week was amazing! We saw so many miracles and God is blessing us so much! We were able to find two new people to teach this week and it was all through the Spirit!!! I am just lucky to be an instrument!

We were finally able to teach one of our people and he wants to be baptized this month!!!

Also, another person we are teaching came to a baptism this week! We texted him the night before to invite him and we didnt get a response back. Well the next morning we were trying to figure out what to do because we felt strongly that he needed to go. We prayed and we asked that he would respond within a half an hour. Well he did!! And he went! And it was amazing!!

God is so good!!! Missions are so hard but so amazing! The Priesthood is real! The Spirit testifies of truth! God has His hand in all things! I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!

Love,

Sister Lacey

P.S. Sorry for the picture overload! I hope it makes up for the short email!