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OSU DISTRICT WON THE MISSION OLYMPICS! We straight killed it. Also,
our country was China because all we teach is Chinese people and it's
so fun.

End of the month probs

August 29, 2016

Ok we have had so many crazy miracles straight from God this week.
Like, insane. I guess I'll list a couple off.

1) Lyn. We were sitting updating our lessons when Lyn just comes up to
us and is like " hey I need to go to the bathroom, can you guys watch
my stuff?" So we're like yeah sure and we move to her bench. She comes
back out and we start talking to her and she is from some country
close to Thailand and Malaysia and she is Buddhist. The "God is in
everything" type. I asked her if she has ever learned much about
Christianity before and she says "no, can you tell me about it?" And
we teach her the restoration which she LOVED. we asked when we could
give her a copy of the Book of Mormon and she says "I'm free
tomorrow!" We bring an awesome member named Emily and teach the plan
of salvation and giver her the Book of Mormon and she is just SO
excited about it. It was amazing to see when she learned about all the
things Christ has done for her she said it made her feel so good. The
power of Christ atonement it so real!! In the closing prayer she just
breaks down bawling and says "I'm sorry I don't know why I'm crying I
am just so happy!!" And she is literally the cutest thing ever. She
couldn't come to church this week but wants to come next week!

2) Lauren. We were waiting for our bus when this girl walked past us
and so we compliment her shoes, as you mind missionaries doing. Well
she tells us where they are from and all but looks kind of in a hurry
and kinda just starts leaving and says bye and we kinda slacked on
this one and just said bye back but then, in the midst of her brisk
walk, she just halts to a stop out of nowhere, pauses, turns around
and says "what are your tags for?" We told her we were missionaries
and she asked if we were Mormon and we said yes. And she's like " this
is going to sound crazy but Mormons keeps just showing up in my life.
Aaaaand I think it's a sign from God. There are some things I don't
necessarily believe about your religion, but I can't really remember
what they are. But I think God is pulling me to it. " so we asked if
we could set up a time with her and she was SO excited. It was
straight crazy. Even through our imperfections and mistakes God  is
perfect and has a plan :) our district leader had us study scriptures
that had the wording "hear my voice" there were so many. They are all
so good. And many of them say "mine elect will hear my voice" I know
that even though there are so many people, and so many of them are
uninterested, that those who are prepared will hear the voice of the
Lord. Even if he's telling them to turn around and go back to those
Mormons on the bench hat everyone else is avoiding. I have a strong
testimony that there are people prepared everywhere!

We have also had a lot of awesome experiences working with a girl
named Gracie who has on and off investigated the church for over 2
years. We are the first sister to teach her and she needs to recieve
an answer from God that Joseph smith was a prophet. She is so awesome
it kills me.

I read a talk this morning by Jeffrey r holland titled the laborers in
the vineyard and it was so good! It talked about how we can be joyful
when others receive blessings from God, but even more so it talked
about how no matter how Late we are in joining God army, we can obtain
the fullness of Christs blessings. My favorite quote is from it is
"surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of
being merciful, especially to those who don’t expect it and often feel
they don’t deserve it." Remember that you always deserve Gods
blessings and so does everyone around you! I know God is all merciful
and all loving and the more mercy and love we show to others, the
closer we become with Him :)

Love you all!! Have a great week!
~Sister Hill

Pictures 8/22

This is he involvement fair we contacted at :)

KANDYCE MY MAIN SQUEEZE

August 22, 2016

Hello Fammmm!

Today is super crazy because of a 4 hour mission event :) Yeah sister Alius went to timpview! So she knows who Boone is. She has been out just 1 transfer less than me.

Whale this week has been crazy! It was move in weekend and literally
this place has been packed. We keep trying to help people unload and
move in and stuff but very few people let us haha. We have talked to a
whole ton of people! It's been very hard getting return appointments
because people don't know their schedules and they are all stressed
haha.

More to come next week!

Pictures 8/15

OSU= best donuts

Maria is super cool and took us to the mall last p day

August 15, 2016

Hello fam bam!

First off some matters of business. the senior couple that
teaches institute here is Brother and Sister Dabb from Kaysville Utah!
Dad, brother Dabb knows you. They are pretty cool. Also Sadie Hall is
companions with Sister Scott, my granddaughter. So yeah good times. I
think I get to meet her next week!

Well great news! KANDYCE HAD HER INTERVIEW AND SHE IS GETTING BAPTIZED
THIS SATURDAY! She is so perfect it's crazy. She actually found the
church because she worked with a member who invited her to church and
now she has the strongest testimony ever! She has had a rough
upbringing and she knows that everything can be healed through Christ,
I love her so much!!

We had an interesting lesson with Dan. He didn't come to church and we
were trying to get ahold of him and our dumb phone received his
message 5 days after he sent it that said he quits the religion. We
set up a time to meet with him and he told us all these concerns he
had. He doesn't want to make new friends and he's afraid of losing
friends, his dad is like one of the head honchos in the Chinese
government and they aren't allowed to have any religious beliefs at
all, and he is afraid that his family will be mad and think he came
here to learn about God and waste time on religion when he should be
studying. But here's the best part hahahaha he felt soooo bad but said
he really only set up a time to meet in the first place because he's
basically in love with Sister Alius hahahaha this is literally the
strug being her companion on OSU but he apologized to the picture of
president monson that was in the room for saying that. Hahaha he's
sooo adorable. Then he felt super bad because he tells us "I rejected
your call twice, I've never done that to anyone before!!" So we
basically promised blessings and we are going to meet with him for 10
min every day this week to see if he can feel God in his life. The
cool thing is he brought up his grandpa who just passed away and said
he can't feel him, but he wants to. And then at the end he says " I
have to ask you two a question. You don't even know me, I could do bad
things and be a very bad person, why do you even want to help me?" And
we were able to testify of gods love for everyone. It was a really
powerful moment. He said the prayer at the end and it was so sincere
and perfect and he literally just repented right then and there it was
so cool. I asked him how he felt after praying and he said he felt
happy. God really has a hand in everyone's lives :)

Here's a cool story. So I have really really come to love fasting on
the mission. A lot. Because it literally brings miracles. So I was
kinda doubting and wondering if it was really doing much anymore
because I've gotten so accustomed to it so this week I focused extra
hard on it and while I was praying I asked God to help me continue to
feel the blessings that come. Sister Alius and I have really been
struggling to get people to church and new investigators have been
hard to get as well so I fasted very specifically for help in those
two things, and God ALWAYS keeps his promises! We got 4 people to
church this week! Which is more than 4x as many as we got the last 2
weeks combined :} haha so that we great. And even though we didn't
have a whole ton of contacting time on Sunday we were able to get the
2 new investigators we needed to complete our weekly goal! Fasting is
so underutilized, YOU ALL NEED TO TRY IT MORE.

Anyway I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week :)
~Sister Hill

Ps. 3rd nephite Taylor neuffer just got called as our new ward mission
leader and he's literally flawless. Quote from him this week "here's
my set schedule. Anything outside of that I should be pretty open. I
literally have nothing better to do with my time than the work of
salvation so"

Pictures 8/8

Me in my friend nicks chair. He said he will try church once if a
set missionaries comes and drinks with him all day once.

The convenience of the institute literally being the elders closet.

Aren't we cute?

All the elders told me I look angry all the time BUT LOOK HOW HAPPY
I AM I PROMISE IM HAPPY.

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sister Alius made these bad boys hahaha

August 8, 2016: Nehao pyoy lau.

I don't think I spelled that subject line right but the pronunciation
means "you are beautiful" in Chinese I think.

Greetings!

First off everything finally worked out with my pump. After a few more
phone calls, a few more mistakes, and a few more days they finally
sent my new pump! P-Diddy Daines named it Tiancum so everyone in my
district every day: "how's Tiancum doing?" So yeah that got all worked
out. I got my new iPad which is really really great. I will send the
old one back, the screen turns on  and the home button works and it
gives me notifications but it won't do ANYTHING. you can see the water
in the screen. I'll send it hopefully this week if not next. But
everything is going really great!

First off, there is a girl named Sadie Hall from the Farmington
oakrdge stake who just came to OHio and she is my great grand baby!!
Not to mention I just got a new grandchild as well. So thanks to my
daughter Sister McMillan my posterity is flourishing.

This week has been really great! We have been setting goals as a
companionship to get more contacts, lessons, and new investigators and
it has been really awesome! We talk to literally everyone we see. We
have been having so many experiences though where we have all these
FLAWLESS contacts, the spirit it so strong, AND THEY STILL DENY IT AND
SAY NO. It's so crazy! But I know that if we continue to talk to
everyone, see them as Christ would, and love them to death that things
will all work out.

We are teaching a girl named Kandyce who is going to be baptized
soon!! She has been in and out of the hospital which is throwing a
wrench in things but please pray for her! We are hoping for her baptism
to be next Tuesday but she needs a lot of prayers!

We also had our 1st and 2nd official lessons with the most adorable
little Asian guy named Dan. He is so cute it kills me. He has only
learned about God from a host family he lived win a few years ago so
he had some questions. In our first lesson he literally says " I think
I am weak. But if I believe in god I think he can make me strong" OH
WHAT? And then we taught the plan of salvation. Being the prideful
fool that I am I just assumed that I could teach a really simple plan
of salvation because hey I HAVE been doing for the last 15 months.
Well I've never taught it to someone who knows literally nothing about
God. So we get in the lesson and I'm like "oh my gosh how do you teach
Adam and Eve??" And my words were a little jumbled and awkward, but
the spirit is the teacher and flawless and makes up for everything so
every time Dan talked I could feel the spirit testifying through him
it was amazing! We asked what is favorite part was and he said "to be
resurrected and be with my family and God in the Celestial Kindgom
forever" he loves learning and he's perfect. But it's hard for him to
wake up early for church so we are still working through that with him
hahahahaha. Prayers please? He was so close this week!

So on OSU there are 6 sets of missionaries and it's kind of cray. But
there is this 12 seater van that use that we all got to take to Chenyus baptism and seriously it was so great!! It's amazing to see and hear
the huge beautiful impact the gospel has on individual lives. Don't
take it for granted, and share it with everyone!

I love you and I will send pictures :)

Pictures 8/1

Dinner party with my new fam

Walking our groceries home.

When we got rained on.

Rice and cream cheese cause poor.

August 1, 2016

Hi family. Really short on time due to using my companions iPad and
spending like 6 hours figuring how to log in my account. Literally
everything is cray right now. #tooblessedtobestressed

But...... I AM ON OSU CAMPUS IM A COLLEGE STUDENT. I knew I was
getting transferred and I knew I was going to OSU so I had sister
McDonald train me all about it the 3 days leading up to the transfer
call haha. I knew it was coming because literally the only place that
scared the living daylights out of me was OSU. Here I am world.

I am with Sister Alius, and she is so awesome! Its been a really good
time so far. She is from Provo and went to Timpview! So that's cool
you can all be friends.

I'll just tell you a really cool quick story about how all member
missionaries should be. We are talking to this guy on a bench who was
just there for the day, he's 40's and definitely not a student but we
are teaching him anyway because everyone needs the gospel, and then
one of the 3 Nephites comes out of nowhere and sits down and says "hey
sisters" and turns to the guy who is talking and says something along
the lines of "I am actually a member of this church and everything the
sisters are telling you IS going to bring you joy and truth." And then
we just keep going like normal and I totally just treat him like a
member present and ask him how he came to know the Book of Mormon was
true etc. we finish the contact, and the guy stays behind to talk with
him more. So the whole time I'm seriously like oh my gosh I met a
nephite. Here it is, my life is accomplished. But he also looked super
familiar and I realized HE IS A BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYED TAYLOR NEUFFER.
It was crazy. Anyway sister Alius has been here almost 5 months and
has never seen him before. Cool stuff!

It's weird here. Every time you set up a return appointment they try
to turn it into a lunch date, and I've never been invited to so many
parties in my life. BYOB everybody. This place is so apostate.
But here's a nice scripture.... Mormon 8:39:
"Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life"
There are so many ways that Satan can distract us from real life and
from our true identities. What kind of things do we hold onto that
hath no life? Something to think about. Please don't download Pokemon
go. Please.

I love you!!

Oh and my iPad is straight dead. My pump never came. One day at a time
everybody.

--sister Hill

July 29, 2016: At least the church is still true.

Hi mom and dad!! Please don't hate me, I got transferred to OSU and it started pouring rain so hard outside that it ruined my pump (my new one arrives tomorrow) and seeped through my bag and ruined my iPad as well. I am going to let it go one more day in rice, but it hasn't improved at all this far. I will send you an email in the morning to confirm if my iPad is still ruined.Please email me back as soon as possible so I know you got this message. Love you!!