October 28, 2013

Hey!

Sister Wagher and I are doing good! She does think she will freeze to death, but the whole cold thing is pretty hilarious! And it just gets worse and worse. I will just look at her and she is shivering, but she will have to get used to Nebraska weather pretty quick!

I absolutely loved the zoo and want to go back in the spring when we have more time and all of the animals are out. But I loved it!

Sadly, we didn't get to dress up for the trunk or treat, but we had an investigator come with her son and they were able to meet a lot of other people from the ward. And we won the best decorated trunk prize. We had parked in the middle of the trunk or treat, so a member gave us her candy saying she wanted to go with her kids. Everyone else had a ton of decorations and music, the whole 9 yards. And we decorated with what we had in our trunk: an emergency blanket, copies of the Book of Mormon, Church movies, and pass along cards. But we won, and we passed out 2 copies of the Book of Mormon.

The funniest thing this week was on Friday. We ate dinner with the Bishop and his wife. We were having ribs. He was using a spoon and a knife to get them out of the crock-pot, and one got stuck. He ended up all but throwing them in my lap! They ended up in my drink and I had the sauce all over my shirt. I have never seen his eyes so big. He apologized over and over and they told me they would wash my shirt. It was really not that bad and I told them that, but they wouldn't let me leave until they got the stain out. I had to wear one of the Bishop’s wife's shirts. They are avid BYU fans and they know that I am a Utah fan (sorry). So she gives me this shirt to wear with a sly smile on her face and it was a BYU football shirt. We both just started laughing. She said she just couldn't help herself. We got a picture of probably one of the only times you will see me wearing a BYU shirt. It was hilarious. We ended up spending like two and a half  hours there because they would not let us leave until it was completely washed with the stain out and dried.

Another amazing thing, after the party on Saturday night we decided to try one person before we headed home. It was pretty dark and there were some leaves covering a hole. I almost fell but did drop my purse. When we got home, I was looking for my camera and couldn't find it anywhere. Sunday, we tried to look at the Church and we thought the only place it could be was where I almost fell. It must have fallen out of my purse. While we were looking for it, a lady comes out of her house and asks if we are looking for a camera, that she found one and her neighbor has it. We got ahold of the neighbor and she said she knew people that came to our Church, so apparently Heavenly Father has a plan with these people. We are going to try back this upcoming week. And hopefully we will find a new investigator!

Thanks, love you guys!

Sister Huss

October 21, 2013

Here's the latest from Sister Huss! (:

My first experience with tornado's wasn't too bad. LOL I think that If you sleep through it it doesn't really count but oh well. 

As far as transfers, I am still in Plattsmouth with Sister Wagher! It is so weird to think that after this transfer I will have been here for 6 months! I am excited to still be here! It also turned out to be a good thing because Sister Reveillac broke her arm really pretty bad, enough to have surgery this week.  So she had even said that she was praying that we both stayed. She didn't want to have to get used to new people along with every thing else and have to show them the ropes and everything. We were meant to both stay this transfer.

Not a ton different this week. It is starting to actually get cold now ( like highs in the 40's or 50's) so that has definitely taken some getting used to. Not as much for me as for Sister Wagher! Miss Arizona is freezing to death and sadly it's hilarious to watch. My favorite was this week when she asked me if it was going to be cold again when it had been in the high 50's that day. We don't have snow yet, but we have had some really bad storms. Nothing like the tornado warnings though just lots of rain. It also has made it more difficult to find new investigators because we usually would  just talk to people outside, but it's so cold outside no one wants to be out. The big thing we have been working on is getting people to come to the ward activity. It’s a chili cook-off/ trunk or treat. There have been a lot of people we are working with that are really excited for it and a lot have even said how excited they are to bring their friends too. It's just a nice safe environment for kids to trick or treat, as well as free food. We have been working with members to invite people to that too so hopefully it will be a big success. There are a lot of activities going on. Here the Christmas event is gingerbread houses that they display at the trail center and Kanesville tabernacle and each ward does a gingerbread display. So that has been the big thing that we also have been inviting people to. Almost everyone we talk to has no idea what the trail center is but when we talk about the gingerbread display, they immediately just go “Oh that! We have been going every year since I was a kid..." So it’s a huge missionary tool.

But today we went to the zoo!!! A member and her non-member daughter have year passes (most people in the area do) but we went  with them and they were able to get us in for free! It was so fun! It really is a super cool zoo. They have an aquarium in it along with an entire Jungle house where all the jungle animals aren't in cages or exhibits or anything. They just are free to go to wherever they want, safely though. It's amazing!

Sister Huss

October 14, 2013

Hey! 

They just changed transfers because we would have been finding out about transfers, packing, and cleaning on Thanksgiving and we would travel on Black Friday. So now transfers are Wednesday, so we will find out tomorrow what will be happening. I think we both will still be here.
This week has been a pretty weird week. We haven't had a ton of time in our area. We had a lot of meetings. We had a specific trainer/ trainee meeting where President and the assistants to the president came and we had training from them. We just talked about how to be better trainers, and we kind of just talked about the things we are struggling with and how best to help each other as fellow trainers. President talked to the trainees about how to be a better missionary. It was really good and made me realize that I am not alone in some of the things I struggle with as a trainer!
This week was also weird because on Saturday one of the 8 year old girls in our ward was getting baptized. So we invited a lot of people to come and see that just to help people understand the process and understand more of what being baptized means. So we went and helped  but no one we invited showed up, which was a big bummer, but it was nice to see the service and to be able to help get it together. And the family is super missionary minded and ended up inviting some of their nonmember friends and they introduced us and we got to talk to them, which was cool! So in the end it all worked out. 

Thanks! Love you guys!

October 7, 2013

Here's the latest from Sister Huss!

This week was pretty amazing. We had exchanges, tornado warnings, and conference! We had exchanges this week and it is always so cool to see the miracles that come from going on exchanges. It started off with a phone call from an investigator from a part member family who is trying to get her daughter who is 8 baptized. I guess she had a pretty bad run in with a priest who told her that her daughter isn't old enough or mature enough to be baptized, she asked my opinion and if our church would baptize her if she is 8. I was so excited and told her all about it she seemed a lot more comforted and we have an appointment with them tonight to talk about it. I love getting to know other sisters better and being able to learn from them. I have learned again how the Lord has a plan for us. That me and Sister Wagher being companions is truly meant to be that our differences make us a strong companionship. I have learned so much this transfer! It has been difficult but worth it!

So for the tornadoes’ there was a huge storm on Thursday night we had been under Tornado Watch, basically just to watch out for them , but no one seemed to worried about it. We just went to sleep and when we woke up on Friday we had 3 texts about tornado warnings that we got during the night at like 11 and 12, which means that they predict or have seen a tornado in the area. We asked Sister Reveillac about it and she had said that the sirens were going off and the storm had gotten really bad. We slept through the whole thing. We are supposed to stay awake during a tornado warning but Sister Reveillac said that she knew we were really tired, and didn't want to wake us up, that the way her house is situated there is practically no way that a tornado would hit and so she just stayed awake just to make sure everything was okay. It has been super cold the past weekend it got into the 40’s, but no snow yet, we did see some golf ball sized hail though!

Conference was amazing! We watched the first session with a less active member we have been working with, then we went to Jenny, our progressing investigators house to watch the second. She had a lot of questions about how the Church was organized and who did what with the church and what everyone's jobs were. She took us out to dinner and we helped her paint her bedroom. I think that my favorite talk was Elder Holland's. Everything he said is so applicable to everyone, not just people with depression. I also really liked Elder Uchtdorff's because a lot of what he said is really helpful with the people we are trying to work with.

Thanks! Love you guys!

September 30, 2013

Enjoy this most recent email from Sydnie!

I never realized how big football really gets until here, its crazy! Me and Sister Wagher are getting along well. It's just really difficult trying to figure out the differences you need to make with different companions. Me and Sister Harris were so similar we didn't even need to talk about some things, we just automatically knew that that was how we both wanted to do things. Going from that to where me and Sister Wagher are very different had been a challenge, but i'ts just so different not for the better or the worse, just different. I also feel like different companionships have different strengths and weaknesses and you learn so much from each companion.

This week was pretty normal week. We were able to go and watch the Relief Society Broadcast on Saturday and that was really cool. I liked that  the whole thing was based around covenants. It also made me way excited for Conference this weekend! This week we also were able to have our first church tour with an investigator. We took Jenny our progressing investigator and it was really powerful. I had never really gone around the Church and just looked at the importance of the rooms and the pictures that are in the church before. The most powerful was the picture of the first vision. I think she just doesn't recognize the Spirit as an answer, she can feel and recognize that she is feeling it but doesn't know what to do with it. She is amazing and just wants to learn more and more.

Thanks, love you guys!

Sister Huss