Hello!!!!!
ELDERS CAN GO AT 18 AND SISTERS CAN GO AT 19???? WHAT????? How cool is that????? We were so excited to hear this news! I'll be honest, I was a little jealous, but more excited than jealous! I think more girls will go on missions now because of the age change! I seriously couldn't keep my chin off the floor when Pres. Monson announced it! How cool!!! And I LOVED Elder Holland's talk!!!! SO GOOD!!! Probably my favorite one! What talks did you guys like?
So it was a pretty good week this week. I can't believe it is week 3 of the transfer and that Sister Boone goes home in 3 weeks and I'll be left to teach Nevada to someone else! I don't know if I can do it!!! Thankfully I've been driving so I know the area better than I would if I wasn't driving. It is also a tender mercy to me to have the Elders in the zone that we do. We had a zone outing this morning and it was so much fun! It has me re-energized to do missionary work! When we got together, we talked a lot about our different areas and it was so great and made me so happy to hear the other missionaries talking about their areas in a loving way! I could really tell that the best missionaries are sent to this mission! It is so true! I'm so happy to be here!! A few of us went to lunch after and one of the Zone Leaders said a prediction - that I was going to train after Sister Boone got sent home. That's like three or four people that have said that already! I hope it doesn't happen! I'm SO not ready to train! But, I guess if Heavenly Father thinks I can do it, then I'll do it. It will be hard but it will also be good.
WE ARE SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW!!!! We as in Sister Boone and I. You might recall a Brother Elliot in the last few of my emails. Well, this week he is going to be interviewed by President Shumway and then probably be baptized on October 20!! He's had a long hard road to get to this point! It will be AMAZING to see him get baptized!!! We seriously couldn't be more excited!
So we started teaching and proselyting in Ft. Scott this week. We had a lesson with a guy named Chris. It was amazing because when we went to church last Sunday, a member came up to us and said, "My husband was just wishing we had missionaries because he has someone he wants to share the gospel with!" What a miracle that we show up right when he has someone ready! And Chris really is ready! He had to go out of town this week so we don't know for sure if we will see him but if we do, we will probably be setting a date with him! It is so exciting to be here and have the work progressing! We are being so blessed!
Sister Gilkey is also on her way to be baptized! We had to push it back another week because she hasn't stopped smoking yet. She came to conference and we could tell that she liked it! Her daughter is also a member and has been less active but is going to start coming back with her mother! She's also related to some other less actives in the ward and they were at the same session that she was at. We had a lesson with her after and all of a sudden the guy that she is related to came in and said that he just talked to the Bishop and he has a few things he has to straighten out but then he can baptize her! So essentially, she is getting baptized and bringing 3 people back to church that haven't been coming for a while! If that's not a miracle, I don't know what is!
We are also teaching a man named Bro. Riley. He's been less active for a while but he just got his temple recommend! Now he just has to get the Stake President to sign it and he'll be on his way to the temple again! We usually meet with him on Sunday nights but there was one night that we were not sure what to do because it was now dark and the plans that we had fell thru. We didn't know what to do so we prayed and I thought that we should go see him. So we did. At the end, we said we were sorry that it was so last minute but he said that it made his day and that God must have been talking to us to come and see him. So, I'm not telling this story to boast about myself but to say that I am so grateful that I can receive revelation. It was weird to feel that we should go see him on a Thursday night instead of a Sunday night, like we usually do, but it was a miracle because he said that it made his day!
I love serving a mission and it truly has been hard but I know that it will be a huge blessing in the end, both for me and my family and my future family.
WE ARE SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW!!!! We as in Sister Boone and I. You might recall a Brother Elliot in the last few of my emails. Well, this week he is going to be interviewed by President Shumway and then probably be baptized on October 20!! He's had a long hard road to get to this point! It will be AMAZING to see him get baptized!!! We seriously couldn't be more excited!
So we started teaching and proselyting in Ft. Scott this week. We had a lesson with a guy named Chris. It was amazing because when we went to church last Sunday, a member came up to us and said, "My husband was just wishing we had missionaries because he has someone he wants to share the gospel with!" What a miracle that we show up right when he has someone ready! And Chris really is ready! He had to go out of town this week so we don't know for sure if we will see him but if we do, we will probably be setting a date with him! It is so exciting to be here and have the work progressing! We are being so blessed!
Sister Gilkey is also on her way to be baptized! We had to push it back another week because she hasn't stopped smoking yet. She came to conference and we could tell that she liked it! Her daughter is also a member and has been less active but is going to start coming back with her mother! She's also related to some other less actives in the ward and they were at the same session that she was at. We had a lesson with her after and all of a sudden the guy that she is related to came in and said that he just talked to the Bishop and he has a few things he has to straighten out but then he can baptize her! So essentially, she is getting baptized and bringing 3 people back to church that haven't been coming for a while! If that's not a miracle, I don't know what is!
We are also teaching a man named Bro. Riley. He's been less active for a while but he just got his temple recommend! Now he just has to get the Stake President to sign it and he'll be on his way to the temple again! We usually meet with him on Sunday nights but there was one night that we were not sure what to do because it was now dark and the plans that we had fell thru. We didn't know what to do so we prayed and I thought that we should go see him. So we did. At the end, we said we were sorry that it was so last minute but he said that it made his day and that God must have been talking to us to come and see him. So, I'm not telling this story to boast about myself but to say that I am so grateful that I can receive revelation. It was weird to feel that we should go see him on a Thursday night instead of a Sunday night, like we usually do, but it was a miracle because he said that it made his day!
I love serving a mission and it truly has been hard but I know that it will be a huge blessing in the end, both for me and my family and my future family.
I know this church is true. Not just for me, but for everybody in the world!!!
I love you all! Thanks for all the support and the prayers you send my way. I can feel them!
See you soon then!
Love, Sister Pahl
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