Letter #41 - Temple, Transfers, Lizards

October 30, 2017

I got to go to the Temple in Orlando! I went down with Elder and Sister Fershtut and my MTC companion, Sister Knight 😁 It was well, and a spiritual experience. After we finished the session, we went to Panera and said goodbye to the Bookers, an elderly missionary couple who are going home. This week I succeeded in having a lizard hanging on my ear. My companion said I was now initiated into the FJM.

I'M GETTING TRANSFERRED. I'm going to the Mandarin area, 1st ward. I'll be in the same district as the assistants to the president. My STL is one of my former companions, Sister Williams! We got along, so it's fun to be close again 😍😍😍 Something President Lee is doing to help us find more investigators is to have a car fast 1 day a week, so we have to walk or bike. This is definitely going to be a blessing to the mission, as we find more opportunities to talk to everyone. I get to be companions with Sister Kirkham, it will be a wonderful transfer!
Believe it or not, it's getting very cold outside all of a sudden, I already miss the summer time!

The church is continuing to change the way things are done, but not the doctrine we live by. These changes are going to provide more opportunities to lift where we stand and strengthen those around us.
Love, Sister Prue

Letter #40 - I Love the FJM

October 23, 2017

Hello Family and Friends,

This week I saw many of my former companions which was super exciting! We went to a devotional in which the missionaries sang. We had a blitz in our area with our district and found a few investigators in just an hour :) this week I go to the temple, yay! I tried to pick up the tail of a lizard so I could put it on my ear, but it just popped off and the lizard ran away. I didn't know that would happen!😂😂 A member brought her friend to church, it was so awesome, we might teach her soon.

The bar has been raised again on prospective missionaries. The standards have been posted on LDS.org stake presidents will now have set questions for prospective missionaries and other opportunities to serve are being emphasized. Once a month 3rd hour meetings will be council meetings to a dress needs in the local ward/community. It's cooler about 10 degrees some days and then it's right back up 😂 well I can't think of anything else. Love y'all.
Sister Prue

Letter #39 - Another week in FJM

October 16, 2017

Hello Family and Friends!

Another week comes and goes. Today for zone p-day we carved pumpkins! I cut a spider into mine. Sister Anderson drew eyeliner on hers. I get to go to the temple in 10 days. Halloween is coming around, we made ghost cookies and ate them during weekly planning. It is still warm, but there was a bit of fog a few mornings. I ate candy corn too today :) we found a new investigator, apparently he has read about half of the book of Mormon before and he said yes to our baptism invite! K. Love y'all, keep in touch,

Love, Sister Prue

Letter #38 - Loco Zoco

October 9, 2017

Hello Family and Friends!

This week has been a bit adventurous. We had zone conference and trained us for online proselyting. Now we are actively using Facebook to share the gospel 😁 we also now have smartphones, we are almost like normal people! 😂🤣 then we went on trade offs with the stls. I was with sister Pereira for the third time in a row! We stayed in middleburg. That night a member asked us if we could answer some of her friend's questions and we used Facebook video chat to teach the lesson. It was so cool to use it right away for a lesson. We are excited all the ways that Facebook will allow us to share the gospel. Something new I ate this week was born nuggets aka deep fried corn balls. We has district p-day, we played this game called psychiatrist, kinda like someone guesses the pattern everyone else is doing. We had a good fast Sunday and we were getting referrals of people to teach. It is still in the 90s here, really hot and humid! We hear about hurricane that come and go, but no new real threats. Hope y'all have a great week.

Love, Sister Prue

Letter #37 - Trickle into FLOOD!

October 2, 2017

Hello Family and Friends,

It has been another week of missionary life. The biggest thing that happened was General conference, where the apostles and other General authorities speak on how we can increase our faith in Jesus Christ. That really seemed to be the especial theme this weekend was serving others and becoming more Christlike. The reason that we even reach out to others and TRY to be good people is because Jesus Christ can and does redeem us from our sins. As we allow HIM to strengthen us through the power of his atonement, can we make the necessary changes to be clean and worthy to enter into the presence of God. We know that Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father are separate beings. We worship the Father for his greatness and perfect plan of happiness. We thank him for the gift of his only begotten son who gives us hope in a grief stricken world. There are many disasters lately, but these disasters allow us to share the love of Jesus Christ to those whose hearts are softened. We know through study, prayer, that we can receive a confirmation that these things we learn are true. We receive opportunities for our testimony to strengthen and our natures to be changed as we share this good news with others. This is not the end, but "now is the time to prepare to meet God."

Love, Sister Prue