Pictures 11/14

November 14, 2016

Hey fameroo! 

This week has been pretty good! Let me tell you about the way cool experiences we have had with J and Lauren

So we had 2 great lessons with Lauren this week. The first, we were originally going to talk about follow the prophet because it's one of the last things she needs to be taught but last minute we felt impressed to share D&C 20:37 with her. When we went to the lesson we asked how she has been feeling about baptism and she said she has been thinking about it a lot and she is worried she doesn't know enough. She made an analogy that her church refers to as "cheap grace" like when she tells people how wonderful Christ is and all that he is done for us, but realizes after that they don't really understand what that means or what they need to do about it, and she just has these fears that because she doesn't know everything and hasn't read the entire Book of Mormon she is only getting surface level, or cheap Mormon grace haha. So we were so excited to share D&C 20:37 with her. It was so cool!! We talked about what it means to humble ourselves, to truly repent of our sins, and to have a broken heart and contrite spirit. It was amazing to see the spirit kind of resolve her concern as she realized that she has already met the requirements, the only thing is a desire to be baptized, which is definitely growing! We committed her to pray about a specific baptism date. We were worried that she would find a specific time to be baptized because sometime she struggles with those specific prayers so we prayed throughout the week that it would work out. I also really hope she gets baptized before I leave, but I haven't told her I am leaving because I don't want that toWe brought a recent convert named Marcus to the lesson who was a 3 week and baptized kinda guy and when he told her that she said "I envy you" because she has been investigating for a few months now. I envy you?? What??? She's so perfect!!

We also had a cool lesson with J. He has been having a lot of negative feedback from his Chinese church about the Book of Mormon, but he is very open with us about it. Ok, I'm so sorry, I really wanted to tell you about his but I will have to next week. We have 2 different celebrations today... I promise I will tell you! 

Ok. Great. Thanks for all you do I love you guys so much! I'll send a few quick picks. 

️️Sister Hill

Pictures 11/7

This guy sleeping on a bench was way to majestic not to take a picture of.

I hope you all enjoyed my diaversary!

I don't think I sent this one yet

Look at this way cute picture of me

November 7, 2016

Hiiii family!

Ok. I'm not at my apartment and I can't remember what happened this week.,,, so here it goes

Well this week has been kind of hard. Sister Gibson and I have been brainstorming ideas on how we can better get way awesome contacts and find more prepared people, and we have actually had a lot of fun with that! We've been pulling some Book of Mormon pictures and asking people to caption them. As well as asking people which of the Ten Commandments they feel the world would benefit most from keeping, and all kinds of other fun stuff. It's been awesome, we've met some cool people!

As far as Halloween most of the parties happened Saturday night because Monday nights are rough party days, so we really didn't have any Halloween regulations. We called a lot of super wasted people though and it was the funniest and saddest ever. 

J is doing great, he really loved church this week. In fact, he said that he might not be able to make it because he might go out of town. I told him "ok, we will say a prayer every day that you will be able to come, because there are so many blessings for keeping God So then he went out of town.,.... AND LEFT EARLY SUNDAY TO MAKE IT TO 9am church because he's perfect. 

Lauren, still trucking along.

Sorry I postponed this email too long .

But this band from Utah, foreign figures, just waltzed into the institute and performed for us. I tried to tell them it was borderline disobedient but they told me it was conducive to the spirit hahaha, But anyway here's a video another missionary videod when they later performed for the students. Good times. He wrote this song right when he came off his mission, 

I'm sorry this email is so lame, byee

Pictures 10/31

Campus from afar

Our really intense team photo.

Our really friendly team photo

I bought this notebook on clearance today.

Hannah, sister Gibson, Lauren, sister hill

A really awkward district picture of sister hill swearing to death
in the van. From last transfer though

October 31, 2016

Ok so update on Lauren! As of last Tuesday she had gotten to 2 Nephi
12. So that's awesome! You can tell she loves the Book of Mormon. We
had a lesson with her at the temple with a member who actually went to
viewmont, named Hannah. We were thinking and praying a lot about what
to teach her when it hit us.... the gift of the Holy Ghost. Like, the
whole deal. So we had a lesson in the waiting room and Lauren said she
loves the temple.(picture included) We testified and taught and
basically told her she doesn't have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and
she like, completely agreed. As we were asking her some guided self
discovery questions she said that she thinks it would bring a lot of
added peace and comfort. She is still a little hesitant towards
baptism, but man it's coming along. She is so great and always looking
to do what's right, she just needs to act on those answer :)

Update on J. He is just as flawless as ever. We have met with him 3
times, plus church again, plus he came to a restoration movie night
last night. During one of our lessons through the week he said he's
been thinking about being baptized and he just feels a little bit bad
because he was baptized in his Chinese Christian church, and he said
it's like getting married again behind your wife's back hahaha.
Anyway, he always talks about how peaceful he feels at the church
though, and how much he has learned. So here is the miracle. We are
watching the new restoration movie and it was really good and the
spirit was really strong but there are some parts where I was kind of
thinking "does J understand this? This part might really weird him out
or confuse him" and things like that but at the same time the spirit
was just really strong so I wasnt worried about it. At the end he told
us he started getting emotional half way through and that it was the
most inspiring thing he has ever watched. He then said "wow. Amen.
Thank you for sharing this. I got half of my answer from watching this
movie, and I learned how to find my other half" "where?" We asked.
Then he lifted up his Book of Mormon and he said "from the book. The
other half of my answer is in the book." And I almost started crying
and then I started testifying  of Joseph smith and the restoration and
actually did start crying because sometimes I forget how much effort,
heartache, and miracles went into the divine book that we get to have
conveniently sitting on our table or right at our finger tips whenever
we need it. If we are taking it for granted we have some serious
repenting to do!

Lewis has kind of dropped off the face of the earth and I am so so so
sad about it. He's so ever loaded with school and says he wants to
come back to church in a month, and we've had a really hard time
setting something up where we can talk with him about it. Keep him in
your prayers, I would really love to see him get baptized before I go!

Ok. I really don't have a ton of time today so yeah but God is good
and the church is true!!

LOVE YOU 😘

~Sister Hill

Pictures 10/24

I finally found a picture where I'm the only prepared one 😏 besides the Dabbs. But they are always prepared. 

our final picture before 3 of the elders went home 😭

Ohio is so majestic

I am also pretty majestic

hahaha sister pollmann got a hold of these gems somehow.