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!!

July 18, 2016

Hey family!

Sorry. Sending this email in the few minute I have at the laundromat.
We had zone activity today which took in all 3 1/2 hours of our day
including travel so basically I'm the worst and is email is going to
be the worst.

This week has been full of complete miracles. I promise. Just straight
tons of them all week.

Ok here's a really really cool scripture I read this morning. Like my
new favorite one. Helaman 3:29-30. I don't have time to type it but I
imagine us on this nice peaceful, bridge walking across all the misery
and sorrow of the world, because we have the scriptures on our side!
Lay hold upon the word of God everybody.

Have a fun week!!!

~Sister Hill

Pictures 7/11

Hi. I'm sitting on my couch right now, eating subway, trying to
remember what even happened this week. Also I just chopped my hair 4
inches so momma are you proud? I hope so because they chopped out a
little piece of my heart while they were at it.

1-3 we remembered late at night that we needed 4th of July pictures...
So they are really lame sorry.

PAM PAMMY PAMMEROOOO!! I love this woman. Recent convert, brother
Ken eppich got to baptize her and let me tell you it was one for the
books :')

We gave Pam some flower seeds for her baptism with this because she
likes us to write down scriptures for her. And she wants more flowers.
:)

July 11, 2016

Greetings

This week was sooooooo goooooood! Mostly because I love Pam a lot and
she received the gift of the holy and it was so amazing! What's cool
is she is going through a huge financial trial, and she was really
stressed and didn't sleep at all Saturday night just worrying about it
and at church she said she felt peace. It didn't worry her anymore. It
got me thinking how bad of a stressed wreck I would be without he Holy
Ghost haha. But everything went so great, like baptisms never go that
smoothly but it did!! What a wonderful day. Sister Pollmann got to
come back and all three of us gave talks at the baptism. Ryan came
too! They are neighbors across the street so that is fun. Pam keeps
telling Ryan "stop putting it off you gotta just get baptized!" Hahaha
and Ryan's like "uh.... Yeah... I would... But I can't... So.... "
haha anytime we talk to Ryan about baptism he's like "why are you
bringing this up, are you trying to torture me??" Haha I seriously
cannot wait for his baptism. It's going to be amazing.

Whallle this week we got a text from Randy and Berta saying something
along the lines of "we want to cancel our church tour. After much
thought and discussion we decided to stop looking into Mormonism. We
have really appreciated and loved your visits, but please take this as
final. " and it was really really sad. I love them way too much so it
hurt, but I know God has a plan for them! I can't wait for some
missionaries to stop by in a few years :)

But on a better note can I tell you some miracles?

We were going to see our friends Matt and Cathy and they weren't home
but  there is a guy on his porch across the street so we decide to
talk to him and walking up I'm thinking " this guy looks super
familiar" and we go say hi and he looks at me and says " you seem
really familiar. One second." And he goes inside and comes back out
AND THEN MY FRIEND KAYLA COMES OUT. And she's like "oh hey, I moved. I
actually was just saying to Brad today 'I should call my sisters and
tell them where I live'. I've been reading the Book of Mormon you left
me with everyday. I'm super busy so it's usually only a little but I
make sure to do it and I'm on page 26. " and we extend baptism and she
said yes!! Like what the goodness? I don't know if you remember Kayla
but she was like the miracle of my life and then she dropped of the
face of the earth. God is so real! What an amazing sign that he is
looking out for all of us.

Also, sister Pead (who is from Farmington) and I went tracting on this
street and met a guy named Bud. We were actually in some really nice
houses. And he's like "I can't talk I work from home bye" and we're
like "wait can we come back another time?" And he's like " uh sure"
and we are like "Sunday at 10am? and he's like "uh sure" and closes
the door. Well despite my lack of faith in that return appointment we
went back because we told him we would and he comes out and we teach
him the whole restoration! He knows about the word of wisdom, some
about Porter Rockwell, but he asked if Mormons are allowed to go to
movies hahaha. So anyway we teach, he prays for the first time in his
life, and he is going to think and pray about baptism! It was really
cool, it gets better though! He's says " my daughter met with
missionaries and went to your church a few time. Do you know
Stephanie? Here's her address. You can go say hi if you want." And so
we go to meet her and she's super cute, has an adorable family, and is
super normal. She's like "oh hey I actually just got off the phone
with my dad talking about you. Can you come Tuesday evening to teach
my family?" Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes we can. So I'm super excited about
that.

Also just a reminder... ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD! That's it.
That simple.

I love you all, I know the church is true and that Jesus Christ is the
Savior of the world. We all need him a little more in our life. FAITH
HOPE AND CHARITY! How is everybody doing onhe Book of Mormon???

CHALLENGE: email me your insights :) I want to hear em all!

️/ Sister Hill