April 20, 2015 Rain, Rain and more Rain!

This week has been pretty wet! But I love storms, so I really didn't mind! Oh, I hope Samuel had a nice birthday! Love you buddy!

So at the beginning of the week, Monday and Tuesday we had the Gulf Breeze sisters staying in our apt. because they had to get a mold infested wall removed from their apt. Monday morning we all went to Sister L's and went on a walk, it was raining but it was still fun! Then we went back to her place and had smoothies and bagels. Those were super good! She makes the best smoothies! We then had the rest of our good P-day. Then we went and had a great and I mean GREAT lesson with V.  A. was there for dinner but then he had to leave.. but, his dad was there. He is a member and just happened to be in town this last week. So we taught her the Plan of Salvation! It was a wonderful lesson! The spirit was so strong. She told us she 100% believes the Plan of Salvation. When we told her about the Celestial Kingdom she started crying and expressed how she wants to live there with her family forever! She also loved learning about the Spirit World. She then was like I really, really want to marry and get sealed to A. She started crying about that as well. She asked us if she can't get sealed without knowing the Book Of Mormon is true? We told her no.. she was like, I just feel like I won't ever know if it is.. We testified to her that we know if she prays and asks God with that sincere heart.. She will know! She really is doing so well. We love her so much!!!

On Tuesday we had a nice district activity. We learned about teaching people not lessons and how to begin teaching. We did this thing, it wasn't a role play, but we each had to write a question on the board and we then got assigned a question and had to answer it.  I got the hardest question... I was sad I couldn't answer it for Elder Fortin, but I did do some extra studies on it and kind of found a answer.. after I asked President Smith in our interview after district meeting. We did a very short district activity we had another Nerf War for about 45 minutes. We were going to go to the Naval Air Museum but we didn't have time, it would have taken too much time out of our proselyting day but after the Nerf War  we headed to Pensacola. We had interviews with President Smith. Those went good,  I just love my Mission President and his wife! They are such great leaders!!! While we were waiting some of the other sisters and I drew some pictures on the board... They are on the Blog.. When we were driving home... we got NAILED with rain, it was crazy!! There was thunder and lighting everywhere... I loved it,  then we had to pull over because it was raining so bad. We couldn't see 15 feet in front of us.  When we stopped I took of my shoes and got out.. the water almost covered my feet. it was really deep in the parking lot.. haha it was flooded kind of bad in some areas we passed.. When we got home it was still raining, but not as bad. We went and saw a member in our apt. complex. The sisters spent the night again!

Wednesday we did some service at the thrift store and had a small lunch! Then we went to Predio for a baptism.  It was one of Sister Kirtons old investigators. She spoke for it the Y's drove us there. We had a good time with them! We saw M. S. for our first new member lessons. She is a completely different person! It was crazy! She talked, she even went to Mormon Prom and danced! She was so shy before her baptism and now she is just so different, it is amazing! We taught her about obedience. We then talked to her grandma forever after her lesson.. She is a really great women!

Thursday was weekly planning. We saw the R.  we taught about Family History and Temples and Eternal marriage. That was sweet!

We had dinner with the W's. They are moving to Turkey! How cool is that? So sweet!  It would be kind of scary to move you whole family over there right now but still it's pretty cool. They have lived some pretty awesome areas. Then we went to our Correlation meeting.

Friday we went and saw sister W's and sister A.! We then had a lesson with J, we taught her about Following the Prophet. She is doing really good. Continuing to pray and read.  We read from 1 Nephi with her. We had dinner with the C. family. I love that family! They are so cute! Their little boys are adorable! I think I got pictures to send. We played Pictionary with them haha... We then went to movie night! We watched some really good movies about enduring to the end. The Elders did a great job at picking some real tear jerkers.. Oh, when we got to movie night the Gulf Breeze Sisters and the Eders recent convert attacked us with Nerf bullets. When the Elders got there we did the same thing... I may or may have not been playing around after and shot someone in the back of the neck.... Oops! it also may or may have not left a nice welt..... :/ Word of advice.. PBC pipes work great for Nerf guns....  

Saturday we did service at the thrift store. Then we tried to see the R's.. No one was home so we got to go and meet with this less active that we haven't met before. The Elders use to work with him, he was super cool and super friendly. He said we could come see him and his family again. We then had a really good dinner with the G. family and The L's. who are new in the ward. That was really cool. I found out they know Sister Strickland, small world. We then went to play basketball. There were so many people there. We ended up playing Hunger Games Dodge Ball.. That was super fun! I don't mean to brag or anything but I won! :D haha... Elder Payne won the first one, then it was me..haha it is a super fun game though..

Sunday we had a nice time at church! We had some CRAZY storms again.. along with this whole wet week.. but yesterday was awesome! Poring rain.. thunder every where.. I don't think people know what rolling thunder is until you experience a thunderstorm in Florida. I love them! We made this game... for keeping the commandments. We played it with the S. family after dinner. Then we saw C. She is such a busy women, it's crazy!! Then we saw the H's. Another really cute family.

Well,  I love y'all so much! Hope you have a great week!

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist

April 13, 2015

 

 

HEY EVERYBODY!

How has everyone's week been? This week has kind of been a weird Blur..... but it has been a nice one! :)

Monday we spent most of the p-day with the Y's which was fun! They took us to Walmart and they did Sister Kirtons Makeup! :) That was fun!

Tuesday was so great!! We had a wonderful Zone Training. We learned from our Zone Leaders and our Sister Trainer Leaders some wonderful things. They taught about Effective OYM'S (TALKING TO EVERYONE, open your mouth)  We also talked on referrals and on finding families! It is becoming more and more of a push in finding families. Which is fine by me! :) Families are so amazing to teach! To be able to bring them together and help them reach the goal of an Eternal Family! After zone training we played kickball. That was pretty fun! I did get a little sunburned, which is weird because I don't normally get burned, but it was fun! I really love our zone! It is so amazing to me how many friendships you really can develop in the mission! The Mission really is the BEST choice ever! Anyone thinking about serving a mission... DO IT! You will NEVER regret it! If you don't know if you should serve, I would encourage you all to PRAY about it! It truly will bless your life and the lives of so many others!

So when we got home we did some contacting and then went and saw the C's. They really are a awesome couple! They are so nice and welcoming to missionaries. Even thought they aren't active in the church they will do whatever they can to help us out! :)

Wednesday we got to do our service at the thrift store. Then we saw our investigator J. We taught her how the Book of Mormon and Bible go hand in hand with each other, how they support each other. We also talked to her about her prayers.  :) We then went to Navarre Park and did some contacting. Then we had a nice lesson with A. she also made us dinner! :) Then we shared some scriptures with her and her non member husband. We were able to leave them with some readings. He was asking us some great questions! :) We are super excited to continue seeing them. They are such a cute couple! We talked to him about the Book of Mormon and the Bible as well. :) It was nice! :)

Thursday we planned for our week and had a lesson with the R. Then we had dinner with the R's. Their son is coming home from his mission in Brazil this Wed.  So the dad made some Cajun dish  that was pretty good. It was something that he learned to make in Louisiana. It was kind of spicy, but really good. We then had our correlation meeting. :)

Friday we had to spend a lot of time updating our area book because it was really bad and really missing a lot of papers that we didn't even know needed to be in there. Then we saw a less active member that we have been trying to see since Christmas. She hasn't been home or has been sleeping.  It was cool to see her. She is just having a lot of family stuff going on. Then we went and had a visit/lesson with V. and A. We read with them 3 Nephi 11. about when Christ came to the Americas. I think they enjoyed it. We then went to our movie night. Only 2 people came, but it was fun still. We watched some good movies on the Holy Ghost. Sister S. bore her Testimony in sign language, which was really neat because it brought the spirit so fast.. it was really neat!  :)

Saturday we did some contacting, not really too much.... We worked at the thrift store and had a nice dinner and lesson with Sister C. and her daughter N. as well. They cooked us a nice southern meal of fried chicken, creamed corn. biscuits, homemade mashed taters and mac and cheese, it was really yummy!  We then went to volleyball, but no one came because it was Mormon Prom.

Sunday! V. and A. came to church! It was so neat! V. was crying the whole time during fast and testimony meeting. She leaned over to us and said " I don't know why every time I come here I have to cry". We were able to tell her why and let her know it was the spirit. She really enjoyed church again. A's dad is in town. ( he is a fully active member from Utah.) He kind of acted like we hadn't met his son and V. before. It was kind of funny actually, but we set up a dinner with them for tonight. We are teaching the Plan of Salvation. I am super excited about it. :) So after church we went to the island and tried to see some less actives out there and to talk to some people... No one was out because it has been really wet these last few days.. Then we went to see another less active family but they were sick... :( Then we had a really fun dinner with our Relief Society President. That was really fun! She cooked us a ton of German food, which was awesome! :) We had a really great time with her :)

Today has been super rainy, but we have been hanging our with the Gulf Breeze Sisters a lot. We went and exercised with Sister L. then she made us really good smoothies. The sisters have been at our apt. all day because they are getting a wall fixed in theirs, it had mold on it and creepy bugs in the windows, but we love having them over.  I am sorry this letter isn't too exciting. I love y'all!!

Hope y'all have a wonderful week! Don't forget to;

 

P-ersist

U-ntil

S-omething

H-appens.
 

Love you!

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist

April 6, 2015 Baptism

 

 

Hey Everybunny! How was y'alls Easter? Mine was eggciting and eggcelent.

So this week feels like it has been pretty busy! Even though our numbers didn't really show it that much, but we had a great week anyway! :D Monday we played Hunger Games Dodge Ball.. That was so much fun! Who would have thought that dodge ball would make you so sore!! It was really fun though! We had a wonderful Family Home Evening with The C. Family! We went down to Navarre Beach with them. They fed us dinner and we took some fun pictures! They are a great family! They kind of remind me of our family! :) I love the amazing beaches here. Even though I do miss the California beaches. There is just something special about them..

So on Tuesday it was pretty busy! We had a great district meeting! We learned about revelation through prayer! How prayer is KEY in conversion. Our investigators need to pray in order to be converted. In order to receive that knowledge that the church is true! We did some role plays about teaching our "Investigators" how to pray. Those were umm fun! It's so awkward role playing.  Especially with Elders..... I don't know why... after that we had lunch.... :)

We then headed back to the church to start filling the font.... Oh boy was that something special.. hahaha.... When we got there we realized that the font didn't get drained all the way from the baptism on Saturday the plug was pulled but it got clogged when there was only about 6 inches of water left to drain.. So we were a little worried... We had gone early to clean the font, it is a good thing we did.. We tried to plunge it, that didn't work. We then called some members. One member came with a Shop Vac and the Elders showed up with draino.... hahaha while we were waiting for the member to come with the Shop Vac we just took buckets and bailed out about 5 out of the 6 inches of water.. My poor companion.. Her back was hurting really bad.. I tried to get her to sit down but she is a stubborn one.. love her... haha  When the member came he was using the vacuum to try and unclog it but it wasn't working.. He then just vacuumed up the water and we started filling.... (people came and fixed it after the baptism) but we did get some epic pictures..

So after we filled the font the baptism didn't start until later.. because she was scared to come out of the bathroom.. she is VERY Shy and wasn't expecting that many people to show up.. So that made the service start about 30 minutes late, but it was all good. Right when it ended we headed to our dinner. Then we realized the guy who baptized her has to sign the baptism record..so we drove over there and realized that he actually didn't have to sign... haha anyway we ended up getting home at about 9:30, but it was all good and let's hope that she had a nice experience.

Wednesday was one of my favorite holidays.  Sadly I didn't get to pull any pranks. We did get to do some service.. That is always fun! We then got some movies together for our appointment later that night.. Then we went to see a lady who is about 29 who had open heart surgery about a month and a half ago. She set up a return appointment with us to eat dinner with her and her husband who isn't a member on Wed. We are very excited for that!They are the sweetest couple. Then we had dinner with another less active member. We were going to watch the videos that we got ready but they didn't work sadly, so we ended up watching the " Reflections of Christ." Which was still good, she gave us cute little Easter Baskets. :) We love her! :)

Thursday we did some service for Sister P. She is a member in our ward. We Raked her front yard, which was huge.. But it was a lot of fun! We also got to teach E. J. while working as well. She was asking questions about the Word of Wisdom, that was really nice! There were so many leaves at her house. We filled 11 HUGE garbage bags full of leaves.. That was just the front yard.. :) Then we were suppose to do some service for C. but she cancelled.. oh well.... we then got ready for exchanges! I got to go to Milton! Finally left Navarre for more than a few hours.. hahaha Milton was fun! It was nice to be able to bike some more... even though I realized how out of shape I am... I haven't biked in so long, that it hurt to bike. It didn't help the fact that it was so hot! It was super fun though. I got to meet some really neat people in Milton.

Friday I spent the whole day in Milton as well. It was a lot of fun! The members and their investigators seem super cool! One of their investigators little boy is about a year and a half old. While I was praying, I felt these little fingers in my mouth... hahaha. I pulled them away and right back they went. I started laughing in the prayer, I then pulled them away again and right back they went. His mom looked at me during the prayer and started laughing. It was pretty funny. The other son was like "Isn't a bird Gods Angel ?" It was really funny! He was super cute too. I love kids!! :D  I heard about your prank Charity, that was a good one.. Even though I think I know you to well... haha When we got back from exchanges we showed up at movie night and this less active that Sister K. had visited with came up to me and was like " Girl! I missed you! Don't ever leave like that again, and if you have to at least tell me first." It was pretty funny! :) The members here are so awesome!

Saturday, Conference WAS SO GOOD!  I hope everyone had the chance to watch it! It really was amazing! I loved the first talk from President Eyring. That was very great! I also loved Elder Bednar's talk. "We can be blessed to hush our fears" Remember to;

1. Look to Christ

2.Build a foundation of Christ

3. Press forward with faith in Christ.

I really loved his talk!  I also really enjoyed Dale Renlund's talk. I liked how he said "God Cares a lot more about who we are and what we are becoming than what we were. "  also how he also said "We know perfectly well that we are NOT perfect."

Conference was really just so great! I think that the older I get I just get so much more out of conference. I learn a lot more.. So I had some questions when I started watching conference... I felt they were answered by Elder Packer, Elder L Tom Perry and Elder D Todd Christofferson.  If you didn't notice all of those talks were on MARRIAGE........ and I am kidding about getting those questions answered.  I feel that was funnier to me than it will be to y'all... any whom,

Sunday was a nice Easter. Again Conference was great!  That would be about what we did.. Oh and we did some contacting, it was a nice Easter! :) I hope y'alls Easter was Great! Thank y'all for everything you do! I love you and pray for y'all everyday! Keep keeping on! Love you!

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist