November 18, 2013

Enjoy another email from Sister Huss!

Thankfully we don't have to tract on Thanksgiving. It actually is the day before transfers, so we have to clean and do all the end of transfer stuff on thanksgiving. But we are also going to our ward mission leaders house for Thanksgiving. It should be lots of fun. I am excited! We also do all the regular study stuff and if we still have time left over we do weekly planning. But we should be pretty busy. The ward turkey bowl has been brought up for us to go to, but I think that is still up in the air. And it actually is really warm. It's so weird to hear that it is snowing there because here we are having an unseasonably warm weather. I don't think it  is even supposed to snow here till mid December. Crazy!
This week was pretty normal. We had exchanges, which is always such a great experience getting to learn from missionaries other than your companion and just to see how other people work is always interesting. Our ward did a cool MTC night for mutual and we got to do a little class. They had classes on packing, clothes, rules/ manners etc. But we got to do a class on Preach My Gospel. It was way fun! They made it a really big deal, which was cool. They assigned everyone to a mission and even got Elders from the area next to ours to come and help, since this area hasn't had Elders for like 4 years. So a lot of the youth had never really seen Elders.  The coolest thing this week was that it finally just clicked for Sister Wagher. It's like everything just fell into place this last week and she is confident and ready. I don't know. It's just cool to see it happen. 

Thanks, love you guys!

November 13, 2013

Hey! 

Sister Wagher still thinks she is going to die in Nebraska because she is going to freeze to death. It's really pretty hilarious. I think that she is just getting used to being cold all the time not as much getting used to the cold.
We had a miracle happen with a less-active. A guy we have been working with ever since I have been here came to Church for the first time in I don't know how long. He had a lot of issues with the Church and actually asked for his records removed, then got baptized again a few years ago but he could never get over some questions about the Church (even though it was explained so so many times to him). Conference really helped and he realized he needed to doubt his fears before he doubted his faith. It also really helped that a lot of members of the ward have been going over without us and helping him a lot. It was amazing. He participated in classes and even called us with some questions after Church and just is progressing and wanting to know more and wants to go to the temple. Thankfully, our members have really stepped up to help with the less-actives we are working with. It has been amazing to see the progress of people, especially when members get involved. They have gotten really involved with the other family I talked about last week too. I never realized before my mission how many members are less-active and how it is our responsibility as members to reach out and to help them, even if at that time it might only be to befriend them. I can't imagine not working with members. Our mission president has really been talking a lot about working with members and how it is the way the Lord wants us to do the work. 

Thanks, love you guys!

Sister Huss

November 4, 2013

Here is this week's email, with pictures!! (:

Hey! 
This week we saw a ton of miracles. Sister Wagher had said that she wanted to try all the less actives on our ward list, so this week we started doing that. We had amazing success. One of the families had been inactive for 15 or more years and we dropped by when they were in dinner. But they came out and talked to us for a minute and were incredibly nice! They said they were trying to  get back into going to a church and that they wanted us to drop by again so we could talk about it. The other one was my favorite lesson we probably have ever had. We tried another less active, but we didn't get to stay long. But he said he had made a lot of wrong decisions when he was young and ended up getting in a fight and he thought he was no longer a member. He said he had never doubted the Church and never even told anyone that story. The entire thing was totally by the Spirit. We talked about the Atonement and how it is never too late to come back. He actually got a little teary eyed and just thanked us and said it was a long time since he had heard that. He said he and his wife wanted to come back. Neither she nor their kids are members. He said they all were very open and gave us a phone number to set up a return appointment. It was absolutely amazing! 

This week we had a zone conference too. We went up to Sioux City, Iowa about 2 hours away,  and the President and Sister Weston both did trainings, as well as other people. I  felt like it was exactly what I needed to hear. We had a little road trip and drove up with some other sisters close to out area. And then we stayed with sisters in Sioux City the night before in this gross apartment that elders had lived in for 10 years before. Sorry Hayden, but it was super gross. We also had a surprise temple trip. This week has been crazy busy!

Thanks! Love you!

Sister Huss

PICTURES: 

 The award winning trunk 

Probably the only time you will see me in a BYU shirt; enjoy it! :)