Pictures 5/16

We are going to this famous arboretum today for district activity

CLEAN CAR AWARD OH WHAT? Quick. Someone show dad. :)

This is me, my daughter, and my 2 grandbabys. I HAVE ANOTHER
GRANDBABY. I hope this means lots of great grandbabies. Oh, I bought
my outfit at Walmart. Hey can you check how much money I have in my
checkings? I literally have no idea.

May 16, 2016

Hey kidooos,

Ok so this week has been really really good and cool and awesome and great.

Let me try to remember some cool things

I'll tell you about Angie Boyd (throw her to the top of your prayer list ok?)
So sister Pollmann and I have been a litTle bit frustrated lately as
to why baptisms aren't happening. We have so many people preparing
that just hit crazy major road blocks, we feel like we are doing
everything we can, and we lost the 5 people we had on date for baptism
in May. So we decided we need to trust in God more and show our faith.
We literally had no one that could really be baptized unless it was
someone who just came to church 3 weeks in a row, learned the lessons
really fast, and got baptized. So we had a fast for a May baptism, and
Angie Boyd, a new investigators, comes to all 3 hours of church, and
absolutely LOVED it! Her husband has many health concerns but is
supportive, and she has been praying and feels very peaceful about
baptism so we put her on date for May 28th! Well she has to come to
church every week for it to work and yesterday she texts us and says
she won't be able to make it because her husband was getting a call
about his cousin who was dying and she needed to be there for him. So
we meet her at the laundromat to talk to her and she is STUDYING out
of the gospel principles book, taking notes, and looking up all the
references on her gospel library app. We talk to her about the
importance of the sacrament and church and she knew she needed to
come, we didn't even have to convince her. Then she brings her 2 kids.
And we have a lesson scheduled with her almost every day so she can be
prepared. She is so ready it's insane!!  Prayers Por favor :)

Well Ryan got a meeting with president Daines!! It was super great. If
he lives the word of wisdom and law of chastity for 4-6 months he will
send in a personal recommendation to the prophet for him to be
baptized! That's means I might not even have to fly back out for his
baptism!!! So that's really good news.

We had another lesson with the schofields. Justin was in a pretty
snappy mood but it was kinda cool because well Maureen's biggest
concern still right now is polygamy and all. And Justin starts
freaking out at Maureen and this is basically what he said (mind you
this is a guy who has never had a testimony in his life) "Maureen you
need to just pray about it. I had an issue with Joseph smith and I was
talking with my mom about it and she said that I need to pray and get an
answer and guess what, I DID. God told me that Joseph smith is a
prophet you need to just get over you doubts and ask him" it was
crazy! If it weren't so contentious it would've been flawless but it
was so cool for his wife and for Justin Jr to hear his testimony!
Maureen was the only one who had a chance of making it to church this
week and she texted us saying she couldn't make it she just had too
much to do so we said " read alma 1:26 and say a prayer and see what
God wants you to do" and she is seriously like "I KNEW YOU WERE GOING
TO SEND THAT. I read it the other day and it's been stuck in my mind
all day long!" Needless to say she didn't make it church but God was
working on her because he loves her and she said she feels really bad
for not coming hahah so hopefully next week!

We also had this really adorable lady named Pam at church. She's older
and has a walker and got to hang out with two really awesome really
old sisters all church long and they were the most adorable little
group of cute old churchers ever. I told sister Pollmann that they
were just he best 3 musketeers and she said " more like 3 blind mice"
haha but Pam felt really good at church! We gave her a tour of the
church afterward and showed her the baptismal font. We extended
baptism and she was very excited! June 25th here we come!

Ok but let me tell you a really cool experience and thing I learned.
I've gotten really bad and seeking promptings and acting on them
lately. I don't know what it is really, but I guess it all stems back
to pride somehow and I've just been pretty stubborn haha so I have
really been missing having the spirit in that way. So last week in my
morning prayer I did some major repenting  I basically told Heavenly
Father that I was going to act on all my promptings again. And looking
for them. And I told him that I knew it might take a few to gain my
futurist but that I was going to do it, and I asked him to give me a
prompting to lead me to someone who is prepared. Well later in the day
we pulled up to this street and I saw a house and immediately knew we
needed to act on it. Along the way I followed other promptings but it
was really all to get to this house. Anyway we followed it and knocked
and met a super awesome lady named Mariah and we set up a time to come
back and teach her family. I love the spirit, but more importantly I
love that God gives us the blessings of improvement and Christ gives
us the help to improve the SECOND we decide to do it. I PROMISE ️

Love you all, enjoy this way lame picture by some famous trees

~Sister Hill

May 9, 2016

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii
So remember how we talked yesterday? Man I love you guys a lot 

So I really have nothing to update you on

But I love you.

So I guess I'll just send you some pictures or something and send you
another email if I think of anything

Sister Bradford got engaged. I repeat, SISTER BRADFORD IS GETTING
MARRIED ON JULY 27th. You should totally go to her wedding cause since
I can't.

this man was jogging down the street with a shirt that said "you
need Jesus" and we are still trying to figure out what the hat said.
Hey at least he's right 

May 4, 2016

Heyyyyyyy family!
Ok so remember how we are are facetimeing in 4 days? That's pretty
cool! I. Happy to hear that everything went well and it looks like
everything was a lot of fun! Man I love you guys.

Ok so so much has happened this week. SO MUCH. Like, really way to
much that my brain can't really remember any of it. But it's been full
of absolute miracles. The kind of miracles that make all of the awful
things we had to deal with for the last few weeks worth it! We had 11
investigators at church on Sunday!! It was cool because for MLC the
Daines had us all prepare a 1-3 "millennial moment" about keeping the
sabbath day holy, which is basically a little testimony with quotes or
scriptures or a video or whatever. Anyway, we actually decided to use
it in our teaching and we used it on 7 of our investigators that said
they were coming to church last week and didn't and of those 7 people
only 1 didn't come and that is because she had pneumonia. Which is
pretty valid. Sewww yeah. It was good.

There was an elder who served here who came back for the funeral for
the recent convert who had passed away. On a side note, the funeral
was the worst experience of my life and I am never going to a funeral
again. But he met Avery (the girl who passed away) boyfriend and his
cousin and invited them to church. Then he introduced us, we exchanged
contact info,mans we went out to he parking lot with them to get plan
of salvation pamphlets, taught them a mini lesson, and they are both
working towards baptism on July 2nd. One is in our area too!! They
were really nice kids.

We also had 5 member present lessons just yesterday.

Also remember Ryan? He's the one that can't be baptized yet. Well we
found out that he is moving, into another Ward!!! So fast Sunday was
the next day and one of the things we fasted for was that Ryan would
be in whatever place it took that he would best progress in the
gospel... LUCKILY ITS WITH US!! Some miracle happened and long story
short he didn't move. Also the Ward is very much warming up to him and
loves him. Also, he totally tried to drop us, and another way long
story short he got a priesthood blessing from the elders and has the
strongest testimony of the priesthood now!!!!! Gosh I love him.

I don't know if I told you about the schofields but that is one of the
biggest miracles. Justin is a less active member, Maureen is his non-
member wife, and their son Justin Jr who used to avoid us has come to
church twice in a row, brought his girlfriend and made Maureen come
and she liked it too. And they are working towards baptism!!! Gosh I
love them.

Anyway I feel kinda like those people in he Book of Mormon that are
like "I cannot write a thousandth of what happened" because I can't.
Besides I'm talking to you soon. I'll just send some pictures or
videos or somethings.

Pssssss thanks for all the pictures!!!!!

~Sister Hill

Ohhhh and we are both staying in NERK!!!! Wooooooo!

April 25, 2015

Suuuuuup,

I was going to say glad you all survived the wedding but now I'm
worried :} whellll ok so we have continued to have just craziness and
so much is going on but it's great! I don't really remember what has
happened.... I'm gonna start off with some stories I guess.

Here's a funny one: so we had this older lady, Shirley, feeding us for
dinner so we called to confirm and the voicemail was a boy... So we
didn't really know what to do and we go stop by around 3 to see and
she invites us in and all and she's like "oh yes we aré still good for
tonight" and then we are talking to her and here is our conversation
s=Shirley m=missionaries
S: so I'm gonna need you to pick up some potatoes after dinner tonight
M: after dinner?
s: yeah I'll pay you back but I need you to get potatoes
M: .... So are we having potatoes for dinner?
S: yeah
M:...... So you need us to get potatoes to eat for dinner?
S: yeah
M: ... Ok so we only have an hour for dinner, will you have time to
have them ready?
S: yeah

Ok so at this point I literally start laughing. Out loud. Like the
biggest jerk status ever hahaha but sister Pollmann and I were
literally laughing historically so Shirley starts laughing and says "I
know, I look a little funny without my dentures" and pulls this crazy
face. We didn't know what to do so sister Pollmann saves the day by
saying" sorry, we don't mean to laugh, it's just funny because we were
going to pick up a prescription today at Kroger anyway. Isn't that so
funny? Funny how that worked out. That's why we're laughing" and it
was literally the worst experience of my life.

Ok now that that's out of the way we have been working with a bunch of
people and it's going great. I really over estimated my typing skills
and I'm running out of time but first things first can we skype at
4:30 Utah time on mamas day? That would be lovely. Not to boss around
your Mother's Day. Let me know if it doesn't work.

Ok seriously I have to go but please pray for dianna. She is a
recent convert who's only child just died from some freak
seizure->coma. It's really sad and it's been rough and she needs
prayers!!

I love you all have a blessed week
~Sister Hill

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April 19, 2016

Hey home-slices,

Ohhh man this week has been crazy. Like, actually crazy. Sorry I
didn't email yesterday, I forgot to tell you that p day is today
because we had a mission wide service project yesterday where we
planted 400 trees at osu and it was way fun! I'll include a picture of
us and some sisters we are over. What if I go to OSU when I get home?
Hahahaha hahahaha just kidding #poor

Well we had an awesome week with church attendance this week, we had
8! Our mission standards of excellence are 2. And our mission average
is less than 1. But let me tell you, it was all thanks to a) the
spirit and b) the incredible ward here. We had so many people willing
to sit with and direct investigators and make them feel welcome that
we weren't stressing way bad the whole time like we should have been.
#blessed

I'll tell you about a few of them... Damien was found a while back but
he was recently jumped and has been recovering. We had a really cool
lesson with him where he felt the spirit and love of. God so strong.
He's willing to do just about anything to come closer to God at this
point! It's awesome. We got Him a ride to church and gave him a
"chapel tour" afterwards and when we showed him the picture of Christ
in the garden of gethsemane he immediately staring crying, and the
spirit was so strong! He loves his savior. And he had a great time at
church! I think he has struggled with feeling accepted in the past and
he really felt that this is where he belongs. He's right :)

Samantha, Ashley, and Brittany are our teenage investigators. Brittany
couldn't make it to church last week but this week we had a lesson
with her and had her say the prayer. She was nervous at first, but as
she started praying it was beautiful! She paused and was overwhelmed
with the spirit. It was so powerful! As she ended she looked up at us
and said with tear-filled eyes "sorry. My eyes just hurt. And I also
really like this kind of stuff" haha she's so cute! They all had a
great time at church as well :)

So for the crazy things, it seems that every person we teach has all
of a sudden been hit with huge trials that only God can help them
through. It seems that 1/3 of our investigators are in the hospital
1/3 are contemplating suicide and 1/3 are wanting to be baptized but
have some things to work through due to parole. I don't tell you this
to make you depressed! I've just been thinking a lot about the
situations. I love these people a lot and so sometimes I feel like I
am living 700 different really horrible situations. So I couldn't help
but question for a slight second "if Christ carried everyone's burden,
why am I in a position where I have to carry them as well?" And I
started to realize more fully the purpose of life. I feel as though as
Gods children we all have to go through things that make us stronger.
As we live and apply Christ atonement in our life, we kind of become
part of his atonement. Maybe that's why Mosiah 18 tells us about our
covenant obligation to "mourn with those that mourn and comfort those
that stand in need of comfort" Christ promises is that these burdens
can be made easy, maybe by us, but through Him. THE GOSPEL IS SO
INCREDIBLE! Don't be afraid to take on the difficult task of
understanding someone's trial enough to help them with it. It may be
hard, but the outcome is everlasting joy and greater understanding of
Christ.

I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!