June 6, 2016

Hey!!!

Ok short on time, it's mini mission week!! So we have an awesome mini
missionary, sister MacMillan with us. She is great :)

Some highlights of this week,

I went on this really great diet this week and lost 10 lbs!!
#dontgetsickonyourmission. Sister Pollmann woke me up at 2 am because
she wasn't feeling good and asked if I could go downstairs to get her
waterbottle and so I went downstairs and threw up. Hahaha good times.
We both had pretty bad fevers too, my body has never hurt sooo bad.
Luckily it was like a 24 hr thing, and that we had it together, and we
have great Ward members to bring us Sprite and rice and stuff :)

We went to the strawberry festival and contacted which was super fun.
Have you ever taught people who have booths? THEY CANT RUN AWAY :D we
actually taught s TON of lessons. And I got a cool bracelet so that's
a plus.

Angie is doing so good! She is just so amazing it kills me. She is
back on date for July 23rd, the biggest struggle being the marriage
license they are dealing with with 2 divorces that took place in
different counties. Prayers please!

Pam is doing awesome too. Her husband told her that he would leave her
if she joined the church and she said "there's the door" she has been
to church 3x now, loves the gospel, and is excited for her baptism on
the 25th! But we will probably move it up to the 18th because things
are going so well.

Cool story about Shirley. She has severe copd and can't be considered
for a lung transplant until 5 yrs cancer free. She just hit her 2nd
year. We taught the word of wisdom 2 weeks ago and she was super mad
because she uses rum to help her sleep. Well she was praying about it
and decided to give it a try, 2 different nights!! It was hard, she is
looking for more options, but she still had enough faith to try! The
next week she got a miracle call saying that they want to do some
testing and if it goes well give her a lung transplant, after only 2
years!!!! That never happens and I know it was a miracle from her
faith!

Hope=faith
Faith= miracles
And miracles are brought about through the charity of a loving
Heavenly Father and savior.

Love you all! I'll send some pictures or videos or something.

Pictures 5/30

so there's this huge basket. It used to be a basket factory. Then
it ran out of business. And now it's just a big, useless, basket.

half the mission with Elder and Sister Zeballos. They are from Chile momma!

mlc temple trip :)

May 30, 2016

Hiiii,

Ok first of all the news you have all been waiting for..... Angie's
baptism was rescheduled. Here's the story. She passes her interview,
she is super pumped for baptism, and then sister Pollmann and sister
parsons teach her 2 days before her baptism and sister parsons was
praying and said "what is your Last name?" And she says "Boyd" and so
she prays for the Boyd family and after she says " oh by the way I am
a Boyd, and the kids are Boyd's, but terry is not. We aren't married"
..... Oh sheeeeewt. It was really really unbelievably heartbreaking.
They refer to each other as they are married because they basically are
but.., they aren't. And that's why you don't assume anything. Angie
was very heartbroken as well. But she has been praying and we went and
saw her and she said it just means they will be getting married sooner
than expected, and that its just another thing she needs to hold tight
to and work through. She's so incredible, but due to law and divorce
papers it may be a while. :''''( so we are having a little but of a
rough time trying to figure out how and why all these weird things
keep happening. Hey, just another way to test our faith and trust and
make it stronger!

Oh a happier side we got 13 new investigators this week and some of
them have a lot of potential! Not to mention a couple of them are
related to Ryan :) we also had a miracle bible referral that we went
and taught her and her fiancé about the Book of Mormon and they are
really excited to learn more! But seriously, this whole marriage thing
is going to be the death of me here.

Hey here's another happy thing... We got to go to the temple!!! We had
it as part of our MLc to help recieve more power from the Lord to know
what this mission needs. We fasted before to know what questions to
ask, and then we counciled together before and after the temple and it
was a very incredible experience, most enlightening and filling trip
to the temple I have had! We all had very similar answers that we
discussed after. During the session, I kept thinking about how we
really need to turn to God and be accountable to him. In the celestial
room I picked up a bible and had the weirdest urge to read in Hosea.
Like, the Old Testament terrifies me hahaha but I came across Hosea 6
1-2 which says
1 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will
heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us
up, and we shall live in his sight.

We can receive so much strength and power from the Lord if we just
allow ourselves to turn to him and really trust in him. Something I am
still learning :)
I love you all so much! I have been learning a whole ton about faith
hope and charity and I'm excited that we are all reading together :)

️/ sister Hill

Pictures 5/23

we had a really cool lesson at
the temple with a less active member who we just started working with!
She wants to go to the temple :) we had a lesson in the waiting room
and she broke down in tears crying because her husband was so against
it before we started teaching her. He is still not interested in
coming to church, but his heart is changing!!

we were in district meeting and this random guy walked into the
church and wanted to speak with the elders even though he didn't know
who they were at all. They all went out, the guys was riding his bike
somewhere then it broke and he just really wanted 4.25 for bus fare
and started crying and they all put a little money together and prayed
with him. Meanwhile sister Pollmann and I watched from inside and took
this adorable picture.

May 23, 2016

Heyyy ok,
Hi.

So I am so happy to hear that you are all doing fantastic! That road
trip looked like a lot of fun and the pictures were too good! Man I
love you guys a lot.

Well Angie is gettin baptized this week!! Woooooo!! She is trying her
best to share the gospel with her husband too and we think his heart
is softening! Not to mention her kids. It is all really a great
experience but it is especially exciting to see how excited she is to
make a covenant with her Heavenly Father! Gosh I love her. She had a
procedure done and she was not feeling well at all on Saturday but we
prayed, she prayed, and she felt so much better on Sunday and was able
to come! The lord is always able to work miracles :)

The schofields are doing pretty good too. Maureen was excited to come
to church this week and bring all of her kids that they had that
weekend, but of course her baby had to come down with a 104
temperature and they weren't able to make it :( but the lesson we had
with them was SO COOL. her son Brandt and Justin's two daughters Miley
and lulu were there. since Justin and Justin Jr weren't there we
decided to teach the kids the restoration. We talked about how we can
receive answers to prayers. Maureen has told us that Miley is her
religious kid. She is about 9 but loves when we come and teach. We
decided to say a prayer with them  to ask if Joseph smith was a
prophet. Lulu said the prayer and she said "Dear Heavenly Father, is
Joseph smith a prophet? In the name of Jesus Christ amen" and Miley
opens her eyes and said " he said yes!" Besides the fact that it was
adorable, it was more powerful than anything because the spirit was
very strong and you just KNEW that God told Miley yes. We invited them
to be baptized and Miley was baptized as a baby so Maureen explained
the difference to her and said "no Miley, you were baptized Catholic
and Catholics don't believe in Joseph smith" and Miley says "oh. Well
I know that Joseph smith is a prophet, so I will be baptized." Ahhh!!
Why can't we all be so so humble and submissive?

Also we had a lesson with them a few days earlier and asked Justin Jr
why he wanted to be baptized and he said "because I want to go on a
mission. I feel like I am on some life long journey to go on a
mission" that surprised us all! I dunno guys, why aren't there more
schofields in the world?

Well yesterday sister Pollmann had this crazy allergic reaction. She
had to go to the er last time it happened so we were getting all
worried but we decided to get her a blessing because ER visits are
expensive. We got her some Benadryl and prayed that it would slow at
least til we could get to brother Stevens for a blessing and then she
got the blessing, and she started to get better! Her throat never
closed off. Her whole head and scalp was all red and itchy though and
it was crazy. Then she slept for 11 hrs straight hahaha. Then took an
hour nap. Haha but she is better now! The priesthood is so real.

Speaking of which we got a text from Ryan that said "sorry ladies I
will no longer be coming to church, it's just not how I believe." And
we were like WHAT?! So we give him a call and he goes of on this crazy
spiel about how there is no way that this is the only church that
holds the priesthood. He told us about his past experiences with
baptism and how he knows he had a spiritual experience. Obviously we
had a misunderstanding of the priesthood so we explained to him the
difference between the light of Christ, the Holy Ghost, the gift of
the Holy Ghost, and e priesthood, and it all made sense! We told him
to pray and read the Book of Mormon and that we would be over that
night. Well when we got there he said he prayed and random
Y opened to Moroni 7.... ALL ABOUT THE LIGHT OF CHRIST! He was so
excited, and it was a great experience :)

So I have really been enjoying is whole faith hope and charity thing
and let me tell you why. Our mission has been struggling as a whole
lately. We have consecutively been getting around 13 baptisms a month
between 200 missionaries so I have been doing lot of studying about
faith and hope especially and praying about how we can boost the faith
of he mission and put our trust more in Christ. Sister Pollmann and I
realized that yeah maybe we are working our butts off, but we have not
been putting enough faith and trust in the Lord. That's why when we
fasted for a baptism Angie came along. That's why when we fast each
week for church attendance, all of a sudden everyone wants to go to
church. It is not our mission! In a lesson mission related aspect it
is not your life. God has a lot in store for us if we only put our
trust in him. You can give it your all on your own but it will never
be enough! God loves us and wants to bless us and help us be happy but
he can't bring us joy against our will.

I love you guys!

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