August 26, 2013

Here's this week's email! Enjoy!

It is so weird not to be going back to school or getting ready to go back, but I know that this is where I am supposed to be. 
I feel like you don't realize how much mission presidents and their family do until you are on a mission (at least I didn't),  and I cant imagine what you would do without them! 
We found out this week that we are going to probably stop working at the thrift shop. There were some rules that we weren't aware of, so we are hoping to get the Relief Society sisters to take our shift there. But I am doing good! It is getting hotter. It seems like everywhere is having weird weather. We now are getting the July heat and humidity that skipped us in July. Sister Harris is doing well as far as I know. It's so weird that we are almost done with another transfer! We have like a week and a half left! 
This week will be really cool. We have a member of the 70 doing a mission tour and he is coming to our Zone Conference on Thursday. Hopefully we will find out then what our mission will be doing with all the changes with technology and stuff! 
We are still just trying to get used to all the new changes living in a new town and getting to know people. Louisville is so far out missionaries only got here about once a transfer so we are trying to get to know more people. Sister Reveillac has been so amazing! She is so involved and wants to help in any way she can! 
Thanks for all you guys do. Love you!
Sister Huss

August 19, 2013

Another email from Sydnie! (:

I am really good! This week has been stressful for me and Sister Harris. The move brought a lot of other changes that we hadn't really thought about, but living with Sister Reveillac has been really great so far! Sorry I am not sure what my address is at Sister Reveillac's, but you can always use the mission home and they just send it to me from there too. But I will get it next week. I am really glad that we have a car. I can't imagine how bad it would be having to ride the bus everywhere, especially since our area is so big! We have been working with the same investigators and less actives and one of our investigators came to church yesterday which was so cool! And honestly really surprising. We didn't think that he would come, but it was great! The thrift shop and assisted living center are both good. No scandals lol but it is hilarious. They all are so competitive! And especially hate it when we win!
Thanks! Love you guys!
Sister Huss

August 12, 2013

Here's the latest! I will hopefully get her address soon!

We actually found out where we are moving this morning, We are living with the Relief Society President Sister Reveillac, so we also are moving today. So today has been a little crazy with packing and everything. Sister Reveillac lives in Louisville. She is from Norway and immigrated when she was like 19 or 20. It will be way fun but Louisville is like 15 miles out of Plattsmouth so we are going to have to figure out something with our miles, but it will all work out. This week was really cool. One of the sisters that served in Plattsmouth about 2 years ago came back with her husband to visit. She called us and told us some people that we should try. She wanted an update with some of the Less Actives that she had worked with (some of them we are still working with) and she asked if she could come out with us that night. We had a lesson with an investigator that night and her and her husband both came and it was really cool! It was one of the best lessons that we had with our investigator.  We have mostly been working with Less Actives again this week. We do have a couple solid investigators that we see at least once a week, but there is so much of our ward that is Less Active. And they are starting to bring other people into the church too. Last week, all of the new investigators we got were from Less Actives. We had a lesson with one Less Active and her two friends and this week we will have a lesson with a Less Active and her non-member fiance who has started to get interested.

For the first couple weeks I was out, I was that missionary that thought that we needed to knock doors. But it's just really not very effective. The few people we did get that were interested in the church have lost interest. Like you said Hayd, it's just way more effective to work with members and Less Actives.

Well have a great week! Love you guys!

Sister Huss

August 5, 2013

Here is the latest from Sydnie!

Thankfully neither of us have been sick again! We are still with the Bucksbees until the 15th, and I have no idea where we will be going after that! It's up to the ward to provide housing. Right now it's between the Bishop, who lives 10 miles South of Plattsmouth in a closed community, (so we couldn't knock on doors) or the Relief Society President who lives in Louisville about 20 miles west of Plattsmouth. I am way excited to be with Sister Harris again! It was so surprising! and she has never had a companion for more than one transfer. Our transfers are 6 weeks long. The Thrift store is not super exciting, we just wash the donations that come in and will price them, but the assisted living is hilarious. We help with activities, so we go and just play games with them. They can get super competitive and will gang up so against us so that Sister Harris and I won't win. The most competitive lady has Alzheimer's so she will be super mad that you made a move in the game and she will chew you out. But then like 3 minutes later she won't remember she was mad at all. Our investigator from Africa isn't interested anymore. She refused to read the Book of Mormon or pray about it. She would cancel all our appointments. She just wasn't interested.

The weather has been super nice, in the 70's all week and no humidity! It's been amazing!

Other than that, this week was not much out of the ordinary except yesterday. We had 2 less Active members come to church. One has been coming with her kids on and off for about a month, but her husband is not a member and he came to church. He knows more about the church than most members do but he is too stubborn to admit that it is true. We saw them last right before transfers and when he saw us yesterday he actually yelled "You are both still here!" and came up and gave us a hug. Hilarious but SUPER awkward. Their whole family is so nice!

The other miracle was with the other less active we have been working on. She is working on her PHD and according to her "doesn't have time" to come to church, but she has said she wants to come back now, it's just hard. We talked to her about it last week and she said she would think about it. We didn't think she would come, especially since she hasn't come for almost 3 years, but she came! Everyone in the ward was so shocked! But she stayed the whole 3 hours and actually set up an appointment for tonight for us to teach some of her friends!

Sister Huss

July 29, 2013

Here's the latest from Sister Sydnie! Enjoy!

Thanks so much for all the emails and stuff!

Sounds like you guys had a really exciting 24th! It's weird for it not to be a big deal here. All the other missionaries from Utah were commenting at our meeting last week that it would be the 24th and no one else even really recognized that it was a really big deal. We got a lot of teasing about us 'Utah Mormons'!

Sister Harris and I are both still in Plattsmouth! It was really surprising! I kind of thought I would be staying here but Sister Harris was actually called to the Trail Center,and I was called full proselyting, so they are trying to have the missionaries stay where they are called to. So I most likely won't get to serve in the Trail Center, but that's okay! And Sister Harris had spent time full Proselyting before, so she thought she would go back, and she has never had the same companion for 2 transfers. So us staying together was surprising for many reasons. No one thought we were going to stay together, especially in Plattsmouth. But that just means that we are meant to be together for someone specific. I am glad we are still together!

Not a ton going on this last week. We were trying to find more investigators. Some of the ones we found dropped us or just aren't progressing at this time, but we do have a couple solid investigators. We did a lot of service this week too. We have gotten involved more with places in the community, like at an assisted living center, and a thrift store that is run by many different Christian churches in the community. We now have specific shifts at those places and it is so fun! 

We also were able to be involved with a concert series that the Trail Center put on. It's a concert featuring the missionaries in the local area, about the restoration. So the concerts go all around Nebraska, and are mainly at the stake centers. So the missionaries that go to that stake center sing at that concert and bring ward members, recent converts, less active members, and investigators. It seemed to be really successful. I was just in the choir but Sister Harris and many others had solos and it went really well, especially for the little time we had to practice!

Thanks for all you guys do! Love you guys!
Sister Huss