Faith, trust and an amazing companion!

Sister can wear pants now!!

Hola Everyone!

This has been a week full of laughing, crying, learning, loving, memories and so much more! Weeks like this are the kind that you are just going to remember!

I was able to start my week off right... with my family! It was so good to talk with you guys and to lift my up! Y'all have no idea of how much you have blessed my life! Thank you for all that you do! You are all a light in my life!

Christmas was amazing! Very relaxing and fun! We don't do regular missionary work and we were able to watch G rated moves which was the best! I miss movies haha!

On Wednesday I was able to go down to Idaho Falls for a meeting and honestly, I love meetings. A lot of people don't but I just get spiritually fed from them! A quote from my mission president during the meeting, "then everything is going to go heck in a handbasket". He was referring to if the General Authorities of the church didn't repeat things to us! He's too funny!

On Thursday we had Zone Conference and those are always amazing! They always help me refocus on the things I need to do! It was also great too because my chirstmas gifts got mixed up so the Assistants brought them to us that evening! Good guys! I also felt like I needed a priesthood blessing and they were able to do that for me! They were both my Zone Leaders the past couple of transfers so it's nice being friends with them! Also, the spirit was super strong and know the blessing was from God and it gave me the boost that I need to "sprint to the end"! ;) 

On Saturday we had a cool experience! So we were out finding a lot of the day and a name came to mind. We weren't sure at first if we should go see them but we decided that we should. We went there and guess what!? We got a return appointment to come and teach the kids who are not members! It was so cool! 

*side note, the roads here get a little crazy haha but it's a really good thing my companion is the designated driver and she is really good at driving in snow haha

Anyways, I wanted to tell y'all why I named my email this. This transfer, I want to work on having more trust in God and His plan for me and all of His children! We need to have faith and know He is in the little details of our lives! And the last part is because I've leaned that we are not meant to ever be alone and I know I could not have made it through my trials in my mission without my companions and especially Sister Rose! She is amazing! 

I love you all so much and I hope you have a great New Year's Day! God is good and make sure to set meaningful goals and plans! Love y'all! 

Love, 

Sister Lacey 

TRANSFERS!!!!!

Hey Y'all!!

So this might be a little shorter today just because it is transfers but I will hit on the highlights! 

So I bet all of y'all are wondering about transfers! So Sister Rose and I are staying in Rexburg and then Sister Barreto is going down to my old stomping grounds... Rigby!!! She is not going to my same area but the same city which is pretty cool! The trio is going to be no more :'(

So last Tuesday night, a cold hit me out of nowhere! I was feeling great the whole day and then we went to some lessons and it came out of nowhere haha! I rested most of Wednesday but it was good! 

Oh Thursday I went on exchanges and they were great! I saw Wolfgang Shultez on campus! It is always fun to see people you know! 

We had a super amazing lesson with someone we are teaching! We took them down to the Idaho Falls Vistor Center and at the end of the lesson, they said that they wanted to get baptized in a week!!! We were like what???? It was amazing! Super spiritual lesson! 

Well, again! I am sorry this is short! I will email next Christmas Eve and then I get to talk to yall on Christmas! So cool!! I love you all so much! if I can do anything for y'all, let me know! I love yall!

Love,

Sister Lacey

Temple!!

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Sister Gaston got married!!!

Hey Y'all!

So first thing is first, the reason why I am emailing today is because we switched our preparation days to go to the temple! We were able to go to the 6:45 am session and my goodness! I LOVE the temple! I received so much clarity and guidance and peace today! I feel so re-motivated!

So Christmas is just around the corner and I think Rexburg is finally getting that and it is deciding to snow... a lot! I love it though! I finally able to figure (kinda) of how to drive in the snow! The worst apart about snow is just cleaning it off your car, other than that, it's not too bad!

So lately things have kind of been kicking us in the butt with not being able to work and things like that but I think we are finally figuring things out. That is a blessing and a cursing from being in a trio is that if one of us does get sick, we just have to drop off the sick sister somewhere but with another sister, it seems like almost always, one of us is sick haha! But we are getting healthy haha! I was able to by-pass a full on sickness which was nice! Resting when the sickness is coming on does the trick!

That being said, God is blessing us tremendously! This transfer has just been full of miracles and I am so humbled to be able to witness them! We have been able to find new people to teach and I am so grateful for that! 

Speaking of gratitude! So our district leader came up with the idea that everyday after we are done proselyting, we put in the group chat something we are grateful for! I love doing that because then it's like Thanksgiving every day! Gratitude goes a long way!

So on Friday we were able to go down to the Idaho Falls temple visitor center and have a lesson with someone we are teaching! Man he is so amazing! He is from Pennsylvania and came over here for work. The spirit was so strong during the lesson too! And at the end he gave one of the most beautiful prayers I have ever heard! I am so lucky to be able to teach him!

Speaking of prayers. Prayers are everything! Lately I have been lazy and not putting a lot of effort into my prayers and I realized that I was quit sad but I was able to talk to my Heavenly Father and I realized that I just needed to pray more and that everything will be okay! So, if you are not praying sincerely... PRAY! 

So late last week we get a text from one of our Young Single Adult Ward Missionaries and he set up a visit with a non-member and we were able to teach him the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he committed to try and read the Book of Mormon! It was an amazing miracle! 

Heavenly Father is so good and this is His Son's church! I am so grateful for the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and for the opportunity I have to be a full-time missionary! If any of you are trying to decide if you should serve a mission... DO IT! I have loved every second of it!! I love you all and hope that you have the best week ever! Remember to #LightTheCommunity! Love y'all!

Love,

Sister Lacey

Sorry, this will be short

Hi!! 

Sorry this is going to be short but this week was amazing! Our P-Day got crazy haha! (Like usual)

So this week was great! I was able to go on exchanges with Sister Johnson and she is an amazing missionary! I was finally able to serve on BYU-I campus for a day and it is hoping! It is crazy being around so many people my age and having to go up to groups and talking with them... I think I was able to do it thought with God's help! Oh and tender mercy. We were eating on campus and I saw Hannah (Schlegel) Conner there and was able to eat lunch with her! It was great to see her and catch up!

So something so cute happened yesterday! So we are teaching this young man who is 9 years old. None of his family members are members and he is the only one interested in learning more. Anyways, he came to church with us and in the middle of Fast and Testimony meeting he whispered to us that we should bear our testimonies. Jokingly we told him that he should too! We told him that we would but that he doesn't have to unless he wants to. Well I went up there and sure enough, a few seconds later... guess who come marching up to the front... him! I leaned over and told him how to close a testimony and he said that he might just sit up there and not say anything. Well I went up and Sister Barreto went up and guess who got up after... That's right!! He did!!! He gave such a cute sweet testimony! I think that was one of my happiest times on the mission!! Oh I love that kid!

I went to a meeting this week and I was able to hear from my mission leaders and I am blessed to be in this mission! President Brent Nelson is such an inspired man! He show clips from Prophet Nelson and I am so glad I get to be apart of the Gathering of Israel! I was able to also talk to President Brent Nelson and he always has amazing advice!

Well, I think those are the main highlights! I love you all so much and hope that you have an amazing week and REMEMBER to Light the World!

Love,

Sister Lacey