November 11, 2015

Hey fam!

Thanks for the packages they are FANTASTIC! I will be prepped for
winter :) and yes thoughts on Christmas really I don't need
anything... Except maybe money :} but really everything is great here!

Sorry not so much time today things are crazy because transfers calls
happened and 1) I will be leaving Powell and 2) sister McMillan will
be training! Crazy! IMMA BE A GRANDMA!! Guesses on where I'm going? My
guess is Chilicothe aka the place everyone thinks that sisters
shouldn't be allowed in... But they are! :) that or piqua. With the
goats. :) I probably spelled those both wrong...

Well let me give you a quick update! We met with Josh again and taught
the plan of salvation and it went SO WELL. He is way excited to come
to church and double excited to be baptized by the priesthood
authority on December 12th! Buuuuuutttttt it turns out he lives in the
Westerville boundaries Hahaha but that's ok! Covenants are just as
amazing and important outside of your boundaries :) we have been
working more with Vicky who is really really intrigued. We went to go
see her and there's nothing like going to the door of an investigator
to see them reading the Book of Mormon through the window! The biggest
problems for her will be the approval of her husband and the fact at
she is like contracted into the ministry of her church for 2 years or
something... But we know she has felt the spirit and feels the truth!
Just can't get her to commit to a specific baptism date. Amanda was
all for baptism and coming to church and making this a part of her
life until the new handbook change, which we actually found out about
THROUGH her. We had a lesson on it to explain it better and she felt
better about it but was still discouraged. She's so sensitive but she's having a hard time with the eternal perspective.
Please pray for her! Also we went back to Shaun's and he said "hey! I
was hoping it was you guys, Courtney said you would come back soon! I
have a lot of questions about chapter I read!" We set up a return
appointment buuuuuuut.... It fell through. All in timing!

Well I spent more time on this than I have hahahah but I want to keep
you guys updated! I know the church is true and at we ALWAYS need to
turn to our prophets! As prophesied, the people of Christ and the
people of the world are becoming much more separated and it's time to
pick a side and stick to it (so pick right!)

I love you all so much!
~Sister Hill

Pictures 11/2

Dad, funny you should mention John John florence.... #sisterhillflorence?

Just a {sister} and her manatees.

Pizza party for 2.

Squirrel, check. Possum, check. Mole, check. Raccoon..... Check.
(The house was some members, and they told us they saw us taking these
pictures..... Awkward.)

November 2, 2015

Dearest fam status,

I'm glad you had a great Halloween! Mom, I hope you get feeling better
darn soon! Those pictures were so fun, I sure love you guys! To answer
some questions: Shaun, the busy guy with the girlfriend, hasn't met
with us again yet. We don't really know what happened, but we went
over the other day and actually had a great interaction with his
fiancé but it was short because they were having a birthday party...
We hope she's warming up to us, we told her that we really like her
jacket (women.... Tell em what they like to hear...) so we'll see! The
weather here was really cold last week. But this week is absolutely
perfect! Yes, TONS of osu fans and we are about 30 minutes away. No
pancreas pancakes this year, it was fast Sunday! Not to mention we
don't have pancake supplies.... But we still celebrated with candy :) that's great news about mah boi joe. I'll have to
watch the last 3 seasons when I get home ;) haha tell cam that honors
society was my fav.... Do you know how many girls hair I almost lit on
fire? And then I accidentally blew out my candle with my laughter and
it was so awkward. honors society for life. My poison ivy is... I
dunno it's doing weird crazy things now and my mission Doctor is like
"uh....?" So it's going pretty good. My fasting blood sugars are
pretty good but I probably go low once ever other fast Sunday... Can
you believe I've been out for almost 6 months? It's crazy, I've been
doing a ton of packing today hahahaha... But we'll find out next week!

Whale let me tell you about some of the people we've been working
with... Vicky is a lady that we have had three lessons now and she is
really intrigued by the Book of Mormon but she is super high up in her
church.... Which makes her afraid of change and afraid of her answer
that the Book of Mormon is true, but we know she feels the spirit a
lot, it's gonna be tough but she is very prepared! Joshua is a guy
that sister Bradford and I met one day that he had " only had 2 beers
and smoked weed once" haha but we actually had a lesson with him this
week and he said all he knew about Mormons before was not to open the
door when they came on Saturday mornings haha but he felt like he
needed to talk to us and apologized for never giving the Mormons a
chance, he's really trying to make a change in his life, and he very
enthusiastically accepted baptism! We'll have to teach him the word of
wisdom... But one step at a time :)

We had a trunk or treat which was SUPER great because we were able to
get close with the ward, meet the friends that they all invited, and
our investigator Amanda showed up with her 2 yr old son Jude! It was
awesome because she told us that she has always wanted a sense of
community for Jude and she really sees at in the church. She has been
reading e Book of Mormon for 5 minutes every night for the last few
weeks and we have taught her a few lessons! It gets tricky because she
is a single mom of a VERY energetic kid but she is starting to realize
the blessings that come from the church! Not to mention she was able
to meet a lot of ward members and she and Jude had a great time at the
activity!

Fun fact about Ohio.... They schedule trick or treating times..., so
like, half of our ward trick or treated on Thursday and half did on
Saturday... And there's a city that had trick or treat from 1-2 on
October 25... It's SUPER weird.

We had a really cool testimony meeting this week, and a lot of people
talked on the subject of believing and knowing. One member pointed out
that when Jesus is healing the guys son who has all sorts of problems
he asks if he believes and the man says " Lord I believe. Help thou my
unbelief" many people spoke about how some things they may not know
perfectly, but I exercising the things we believe we can come to a
sense of knowledge as we see it work in our every day lives. I may not
know everything, in fact there are a TON  of things in this gospel
that I don't KNOW, but I know 100% know that this church is true and
that it truly blesses the lives of anyone willing to take the
outstretched hand of Jesus Christ.

I love you all so much and hope you have a lovely week!
~Sister Hill

October 26, 2015

Hello family!

Whale this week has been a pretty good and kinda weird one. We have
had lots of good stuff going on though! We have dropped Lacey for a
little bit while some things get worked out, but we sure haven't
forgotten about her! We were able to find a few new investigators this
week as well as get some really good lessons with investigators and
less active members. There is a guy here who used to be a bishop and a
stake leader and everything, but asked to have his named removed from
the records and left the church. He came close to coming back a few
years ago but it all fell through again, his wife is still extremely
strong in the church, as well as their daughters family who is in the
ward and I think it's pretty hard on them. I always had this feeling
that he would come when he was ready and never felt impressed to try
to teach the gospel to him. We actually went to go ask his wife a
question and he was the one that opened the door, as well as the only
one home. He was just talking and talking about his job and all this
other stuff and both me and Sister McMillan had the spirit tell us to
just listen. We listened for a long time but he eventually turned it
into a conversation about Joseph smith himself! It was really cool
because we were able to help him with some of his concerns, and
afterwards he thanked us because he said we knew that everything we
said was genuine and he could tell we really were trying to help him.
He may not be ready yet, but he promised to pray about Joseph smith
and about Gods love for him! It was a cool experience.

We also got the chance to do service with the Carsons. If you haven't
been able to tell yet, they are a less active family. Brother Carson
and 2 of their kids don't really want anything to do with the church
anymore which makes it harder for sister Carson and their other
daughter. After service, we had a SUPER good talk with Sister Carson.
We have been committing her to reading the Book of Mormon for the last
few weeks and she told us it has made a huge difference in her life.
She also opened up and told us that she know that she got more
blessings when she was coming to church and going to missionary
lessons. With e guidance of he spirit, we helped to realize the impact
it would have on her and her family if she set that example for them.
The next day she came to church all by herself. It was awesome!

Apparently I'm on a less active rampage right now but we also got a
record come in for a guy named Craig who had moved in. We went to go
meet him and his family and they were super nice! Apparently, he had
moved in clear back in February though, but he was happy to see us!
His wife and 3 year old daughter were very nice too :) we left them
with our number and he actually called us to ask what time church was
and at he wanted to bring his daughter! All it takes is a little
reaching out :)

So we have been hoping to get the ward involved a whole bunch more but
his ward is a little hard to... Involve haha. It's cool though because
the ward council and bishopric are starting to see the need and
urgency, and we have been working much better with them in finding ways
to get the ward involved! We've already seen huge changes and
blessings from that, and our up coming week looks really promising!

We're hoping to go out and find some more people this week as some of
our investigators have fizzled out a little, so pray for us!

I love you guys and hope you all have a great week!
~Sister Hill

More Pictures 10/19

The Leggs daughter drew this while we were doing service for them!

Poison ivy a few days ago (it looks way better. It used to be oozy
and swollen)

Poison ivy day 3 from when it showed up

Zone activity from today!

Pictures 10/19

My junior self. Doesn't she look a ton like a mini camri? She adorable.

mom, dad, I found your pole.

"I met a possum" ~teen girl squad

District activity! I won the pumpkin carving contest! (It's a face
made out of OCM) ((like the great OCM)) (((like Ohio Columbus
mission)))

We took some super awkward railroad pictures. Sister McMillan
wanted some candids so this is what I gave her hahahah

October 19, 2015

Hello family!

To answer some questions: yes the service was for the leggs, and yes I
would love to have all that sent to me! Along with the stack of new
sweaters we bought.. I could really use those! Also a good casual
sweatshirt for like morning exercise or something. Also maybe my
mumus, I would actually really love both of them! Sorry, sooo needy.
Thanks for the package! You can activate my card now, and I'm really
enjoying everything else in it so thank you!!

I would like to apologize for how lame my emails always are. Typing on
an iPad is the actual worst, but starting next week I will try to
leave more time for it so you can hear all the cool and fun stories!

I will give you a super awesome story though... So back when sister
Bradford was here we were walking past some condos and there was a guy
on the phone in his screen room and I remember thinking" we need to
come back and meet this guy" so me and sister McMillan knocked on his
door once... No answer... A week or so later we were walking past and
saw him outside with his dog so we went over and started a
conversation which was really good! We set up a time to come meet with
him and when we came this girl (we later found out fiancé) came to the
door and was super standoffish and said "he's not home" as we drove
away we saw that he was clearly home. We went back maybe a week later
and he came outside and said "hey sorry about last time, can we
reschedule? Can we do it at my work?" And we set up a time to meet him
at his work which we took a member to. We found out he owns his own
constriction business that is currently moving so he is super busy and
he had been up til 3:30am the night before. He told us " people from
work kept asking me why I had planned to meet with you guys when I
have no time already, but I kept feeling like I NEED to meet with
you." We had a super great lesson and he accepted baptism, is reading
the Book of Mormon, and set up his own return appointment! It was a
miracle.

Nothing super newer than usual here. I have raging poison ivy (which I
have had for 2 weeks now and I've been on prescription cream for over
a week and it's still just spreading away, but at least it's not huge
swollen and infected anymore).... So that's a plus! We have a few new
investigators which has been a huge blessing! There is nothing better
than keeping busy on the mish... Lacey could definitely use some
prayers to make good decisions. Can't say much about the situation right
now but she has some things that we really need to work through before
she can progress. We are just out and about, it's starting to get
pretty chilly lately so we've been pulling out the coats and leggings!

Well I love you all so much and hope you have a great week! I'll send
some pictures for you :)
~Sister Hill