Letter #36 - Online Proselyting Mission

September 25, 2017

Hello Family and friends!

One of the newest and most exciting things happening right now is that the FJM is now doing online proselyting! This includes using Facebook as a tool for sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ! As family and friends you are welcome to follow my teaching efforts on Facebook (Or if you wanna get baptized OR you want to help teaching my investigators- I get permission on a case by case basis) We don't officially start until Oct 4 after my zone conference/ training for it. All companionships in the mission will also get a galaxy smartphone, which is a BIG improvement to the phone we have now😂😂😂 Our Efforts will still be focused in our own area, so I will still mostly be teaching people in my own area.

There is going to be a lot of freedom with our online use, but also a lot of responsibility!
Last week: I got a new haircut
I got a new companion, Sister Anderson, she is awesome and beautiful. Don't have a pic with her yet.
Women's General conference was good
WATCH GENERAL CONFERENCE THIS WEEKEND, SAT AND SUN GO ON LDS.ORG
We have been trying to track down a lot of Less Active members, they are hiding for us...
Well there was and still is a lot of cleanup from Irma, a lot of fallen trees, so that's how it is.

Love, Sister Prue

After the Storm

September 13, 2017

Hi, President Lee gave us permission to write you and tell you I am safe and well. I survived the Hurricane, yay! Things are almost pretty much back to normal. We still don't have electric in our apartment because of trees falling on power lines (trees don't have strong roots here like idaho), but we are the only companionship in the stake who doesn't. It should come back in a day or two. So we spent the night at bishops :) It wasn't bad at all by the time it got to our area. Just a little rain and wind. Love you, hope you are having a great day!
Sister Prue
Ps Don't be anxious, we are so well taken care of 👌👍😬😻😻😻

Letter #35 - All is going well ✋👌😁🐺🐜👍- missionaries in Hurricane Irma

September 9, 2017

Hello Family and Friends!
Today is our p-day instead of Monday, since Irma will be passing through that day. We have two sister missionaries currently with us right now, but I assure you all is safe and well. The church keeps us well taken care of! We have had some wonderful miracles this week, including coming in contact with a less active, part member family who is ready to come back to church! They said they love feeding the missionaries before they moved here, and they want to take the lessons again. What a miracle!

We had interviews this week and President Lee said he saw a picture of me and my companion on the internet, so I guess he looks for them 👀👀🦑🦃 Please help missionaries stay dignified by only posting proper pictures please. PS He really enjoyed the picture he saw of me and my companion, we were hugging and he really liked that we were getting along.

So we are also with Sister McConnell and Sistter Allgaier, they were evacuated to us from St Augustine Shores area. We were walking into the church today(to send emails), and we accidently walked in 5 mins before a baptism was starting, so we went to a baptism today, haha. Thoughts being Heavenly Father puts you where you are meant to be, even if you don't know why. I know he has guided my life and i have been very blessed by it. Even though I don't always understand why things happen a certain way. When you get answers to your prayers LISTEN and follow your prompting(s). Love you all. This week is going to be another great week.
This week I was reading the end of Mosiah and learning the pattern of faith building and blessings.
1. Promise/ convenant from God
2. Instructions to live by from Him
3. Trial
3.5 living by the instructions given from God to overcome trial with his help.
4. Trial is lifted+ blessings

Love, Sister Prue

Letter #34 - Mike's Baptism

September 4, 2017

Hello Family and Friends!

This week Mike got baptised, it went well and was so exciting for him! We set a tentative date for Ariana to get baptized, but there are many activites going on, so we arent positive when it will be yet. General Conference is coming up soon, get your questions and pens ready! I made a paper chain to my 9 months left mark, but it isnt until next month :) We are coming in the thick of hurricane season, so they may or may not come to our mission, but I am in the safe part of Florida, so no worries really.

I know that Jesus Christ is truly our savior and can his atonement can and will change our lives as we come closer to him. I know following his example will bring us back to our Heavenly Father. I know that Joseph Smith was really a prophet of God and truly saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I know the church is organized by Christ and is the only church with God's priesthood authority. I say these things in Jesus' name, amen.

Love, Sister Prue

Letter #33 - New things are always here

August 30, 2017

                                                

Hello Family and Friends!

This week was the first time I saw lightning bugs! It was pretty cool and unexpected, I didnt know they had them here :) Everyone here drinks Crystal Light, almost every dinner we had, they offered us some, lol. We had another amazing Zone Conference featuring Elder Brent Nielson, and Elder Godoy. We talked about the atonement and he shared with us about the upcoming technology efforts the church is putting forward to help us do missionary work better. I am very excited to see what these new changes will bring.

We were talking with a member who didnt understand the power of the atonement of Jesus Christ. She shared some of her transgressions with us, but didnt know that they could be forgiven of and she could be clean from them. There are many people in the world that wish they could be forgiven and made clean from their mistakes. They do not know of the redeeming and enabling powers of Jesus Christ's atonement. Many people ask "Have you been saved by Grace?" Yes, I have. With a proper understanding of the atonement, we may also ask "Have you been changed by grace?"
As we share the gospel, or the good news, we can spread joy and actually obtain peace within ourselves and peace on earth.

We had a nice baptism for Autym, and this saturday we will have a baptism service for Mike. Nita came to Autym's baptism, and she said she felt the spirit there! YES!

Letter #32 - It's a long ride

August 21, 2017

Hello Family and Friends,

First of all, Shout out to mom, HAPPY BIRTHDAY :)
The next couple of weeks we are looking forward to a few baptisms happening. The Lord is truly blessing us at this time to help prepare these people to make covenants with God. Yesterday, we had a church tour with Corey. He is nervous about coming to church, but he is so excited about living the gospel. We found out he was living the word of wisdom after we taught it to him, he gave up some really hard things by his own choice!
There was some confusion about when certian sisters are going home, the final answer I got was July 10, so I guess im a misssionary for an extra transfer than expected, (which makes it a normal amount of time, because I thought I was leaving a transfer early.)
A week from today will be zone conference with Elder Nielsen, I am very excited. So my next p-day will not be until wednesday.
We met with this member this week who used to be a model and a wife to a millionaire. We were trying to help her pick out an outfit for church, and she picked one out and sat with us this sunday. It has been raining and thundering a lot lately. It shakes our apartment a little bit. Yesterday we were finding and we saw two cute dalmation puppies! It totally made my day!
Okay, So thats what it is for now. Hope you all are having amazing day. To Be Continued....

Love, Sister Prue

Letter #31 - It's been a good week

August 14, 2017

Dear Family and Friends!

It has been another great week with Sister Spangler in Middleburg. We are teaching Brother Kinder who has been "active" in the church for years, but never baptized. He is on date for the begining of September :) we are finding a lot of overaged youth to teach and bring to the waters of baptism. We have a lot of investigators coming to church. We are finding new people to teach, not too much time to knock doors :D This makes me really happy.

On Saturday, there was a funeral for one of our members who had cancer. She was well known and liked. We are teaching some of her family members now, who were inspired by how she lived her life. 

In two weeks my p-day will be on wednesday (August 30, 2017) because Elder Brent Nielsen from the Missionary department will be touring our mission!!!! We will have a zone conference with him there. We have to be looking our best, and there are going to be random apartment inspections :O
There has been continued rain here. Today I have been a missionary for 8 months. By the end of the transfer, it will all be downhill :) I know this gospel is true, It is amazing to see the light that comes into people's eyes when they accept the gospel. 

Service is so important in God's plan. We serve our ancestors by doing their temple work. We can serve the people we home teach and visit teach. I have gained a testimony of visiting teaching the wonders it can do as we serve- spiritually, and temporally edifying those we oversee. I know the early saints and prophets gave up their whole lives to share the gospel and allow them to experience the joy it brings. I Know Joseph Smith truly did see Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father. I know he is a true prophet of God. We can help in so many ways, and going on a mission has helped me know those many ways.

Until next time.....

Love, Sister Prue