September 23, 2013

The latest! Enjoy!

I am good! The weather has drastically changed and it's getting cooler every day now! It has been different with Sister Wagher. Not better or worse, just different. With Sister Harris, from the very first day we realized how similar we were there were a lot of times that we didn't even have to talk about something because we just knew what the other was thinking and me and Sister Wagher are different  So that has been a big change. We get along really well though. She is from Mesa Arizona and is 19 just barely graduated in May, so that I think is a big reason in has been so different just because she is so young and has never been away from home or anything before. It was quite an adjustment. 

To clarify on the steak, it wasn't an Omaha steak brand but I think it was better, sorry to make you [Hayden] jealous. It was from a different meat packing company that is also in Omaha. I had heard about the game. BYU is a pretty big deal here too. A lot of our ward is military and a lot have gone to BYU,  so I did hear about that. BYU  is not near as big of a deal as the Huskers games though. Everyone is wearing red and we can't really even contact people on game days and if you try to tract you just get yelled at. Thankfully I learned that from other missionaries not from experience. 
This week has been kind of crazy. We had a big zone training, so everyone from our zone (which is our stake) got together instead of just our districts and president had asked us the previous week to give our 5 copies of the Book of Mormon a week, but at the zone training they asked us to pass out one a day. Seems like it wouldn't be a problem, but it has been so cool just to see how big of a difference in has made in less than a week! Since we have been trying to literally talk to everyone we see about the Book of Mormon, it has made a huge difference in how many we actually give out and even with how many people we talk to about the church. Even if they don't want a copy, we usually have a good conversation with them about the Church and it has been so cool. We also saw a huge miracle with another Less-active we had been working with. He has really roller-coasted with his testimony. Probably 4 weeks ago he all but told us he didn't believe in the Church. With the ward being involved, he said on Saturday that he is going to start completely over and go on a quest of sorts to see what Heavenly father wants for him to do in his life. I think one of my favorite things about being on a mission is seeing the change in people like that!

Thanks! Love you guys!
Sister Huss

September 16, 2013

Enjoy the latest from Sydnie!

Thankfully I haven't gotten sick yet. I hope I don't though. It is getting colder. I don't know if we will continue to get colder and go into winter or if it will get warmer. They are predicting a pretty bad winter but hopefully we get to experience fall a little first.

The trainee has been an eye opening experience. It makes me so grateful to have been away before I served a mission. But it's cool to see how much someone can progress in just a weeks time. We mostly drive just because our area is so big, but since it is nicer now and not super hot or super cold. We are trying to park the car and walk around town. We also try not not tract. We never go door to door but we will do inspired tracting about once a week, mostly just if we really need new investigators or if all of our plans fall through. Our investigators are going pretty well, we only have one right now that is progressing a lot and she is so close. I think that she knows the church is true she just doesn't recognize it yet. She also wants to finish the Book of Mormon before she gets baptized, but she talks about when she is baptized not if, so that's really cool. We haven't had any bad or weird food so far. Last week we actually had real Omaha Stakes. A member of our ward works for a meat packing company so they promised we could come over for steak night. And it was amazing.

I loved the festival it was hilarious! Love you guys!

Sister Huss

September 9, 2013

The latest! Enjoy! (:

We learned a lot from Elder Robbins. He talked a lot about having a vision for the entire mission and having a vision for your individual mission. He also did a lot on receiving personal revelation. Surprisingly, he didn't say anything about what technology we are going to be using. I guess we will just have to wait for that one. 

The clinic was really cool but sadly it was probably something I won't get to do again. The Trail Center sisters are the ones that usually do that. They didn't have anyone that could go to the clinic that day so they asked us to go, but it was really cool. The weather has been really hot still, like July heat. I am hoping that it will cool down soon. They are predicting a bad winter. I think that the snow will be similar to Utah but the Humidity will be killer.
I am still in Plattsmouth, and I am training! I was surprised! I was told by Sister Harris, my sister training leader, and President Weston that it would probably happen but still very surprising. I guess I just feel really unprepared but I don't know if you ever could be prepared. Her name is Sister Wagher. She is from Mesa, Arizona and is 19. She is one of the new new sisters and she just barely turned 19, and graduated in May. She is super sweet! She has never been away from home before, so it's way different for her. Our big thing this week was that Plattsmouth had their big Harvest Festival (formerly called the Kass Kounty King Korn Karnival, but people started to shorten it to the KKK so they changed it to be politically correct) this weekend, so we were mostly at that. It was a lot like a county fair, but it's the town's big thing, so the whole town was out for it. 

Sister Huss

September 2, 2013

Here's the latest! (:

Transfers are this week we find out on Thursday what is happening and we transfer on Friday. Both me and Sister Harris are doing well, we are just trying to get everything done before transfers, in case one or both of us aren't here.

Our Zone Conference was amazing! We had Elder Robbins from the 70 come and he gave a 2 hour training on a lot of things, but especially goals and what we want to get out of our mission and what we want for our area. I think especially hit [home] since this transfer is the first where people I know well that are going home and I have been thinking about what I want for me and my mission.

We aren't going to the thrift store anymore. We had a really cool chance to work at a free clinic in downtown Omaha this week though. With Elder Robbins coming, a lot of the sisters at the trail center had to change their schedules and they usually trade off going to work at this free clinic, but they asked us to come help out instead. It was way cool to see the amount of people that they are able to help. And one of the Doctors is investigating the Church, so all the sisters that went were able to answer a couple questions and then he and his wife took all of us out to dinner.

Good luck with school starting, love you guys!