July 27, 2015 Fish Fry and Fantastic Lessons

 

 

This week has been pretty good. Feels like it flew by, but like it was super long, lol. Crazy how that works.

Monday we went to Panama City Beach! We ate at "Panda" then we went to this place called the "Pepper Place." They sell a ton of hot sauce. The Elders asked us if we wanted to become a man? We were like...ahhh?... I don't know, haha.... but guess what? We totes became a "man".  They have this hot sauce that was apparently super hot, Haha..... the Elders were like "Oh, it will make your mouth burn, you wont be able to breath" we tried it.. not that hot, haha... It was hot but it wasn't as bad... it was pretty good actually. I think since I grew up kind of eating hot stuff it didn't burn as bad, lol.. Me and my companion were like "Really this isn't even that hot." lol... Granted, I didn't get very much... but my companion did and she said it wasn't that bad... It did make one of the Elders cry though lol.. We got a video of all of this. Wish I could send it, lol..

So, the beach was beautiful. I have been so lucky to have served by the water my whole mission. I love it so much!  I have been very blessed to serve with some amazing missionaries.

Tuesday we had a good district meeting. We kind of had a party after with Krey-Z Cones and whip cream...... lol.. We put the whip cream on our arms and hit it and tried to catch it in our mouths.. lol... funnier than it sounds haha... We then did some service with helping the Young Women's President set up for a YW thing. We had a great dinner with some returning members, who I love dearly. They are just a great family!They are working towards going to the temple as soon as they can.

Wednesday we tried to visit some people and saw some other people. We did a cool lesson at scripture study that night. We talked about the pioneers, it was pretty good. We had such good stuff to share.

Thursday we did weekly planning and tried some referrals. We had dinner with L's. They are just a wonderful family. Half of their family is in the ward. I have decided I will just have to marry into that family some day... lol ;)

Friday we contacted some referrals. We have been getting so many, which has been great! We had our ward Pioneer Day party, that was fun.. stick pull hurts.... lol. We did get a new sister,she is awesome her name is Sister Stevens. :)

Saturday, we helped clean the church, then we had a fantastic lesson with R. She just is doing so well. I am so proud of her and how much she has opened her heart. We read about Nephi and his brothers going to get the plates. That was really good. She even read the Book of Mormon by herself! She is doing so great! We feel that she is one of the reasons why we are here in this area. We tried some more referrals.. and then had our correlation meeting. Then we went to a fish fry wedding reception.  It was mostly a fish fry. That was so fun! This family is the same family I was talking about before.. the Laster's, Davis, Mack's, Gold's, they are all related. I sure love them!

Sunday we had some wonderful lessons at church. We had a great dinner with some awesome members and we saw one of our less actives/gators. It was pretty good!
Well, family and friends, I sure love y'all. Hope you have a wonderful week!

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist

July 20, 2015 Staying in Calloway!

So I am sticking around Callaway for another transfer. I am super stoked about that. Great area! So my email will be shorter this week.. We don't have much time.. We are going to the Beach.. yippy!

So on Monday we went to FHE. That was fun!

Tuesday we had a great District Meeting. We had a root beer party, because there was a baptism. We then went and tried some former investigators, but no one was home. We did get a new gator. Her name is C. She is 15 and comes from a part member family.

Wednesday we got checked out BIG TIME! lol. This guy riding the bus was not sly about it at all.. straight up watching us.. lol..The funniest part was the people behind us noticed as well. lol.. Then we had a great scripture study. Talked about how Nephi went back to get the plates. It was pretty great! We talked about the obedience they had.

Thursday we had weekly planning, saw some less actives then had a Relief Society activity, that was fun.

Friday we saw some recent converts and had a KILLER lesson with R. She is improving so much! it is an amazing miracle. I got called "Sister ADD.".. lol.

Saturday we had a really nice Baptism that we went to. We painted an older ladies fingernails. She is super nice. She made us eat a ton of ice cream.. #notcomplaining. We then had a awesome dinner with some great retuning members. I love this ward so much! We then saw another returning member.

Sunday we got to meet a recent move in member. She is awesome! Then we tried to see some others but  we didn't feel like we should. Then we kind of got lost in this really nice neighborhood.. That had houses that looked like they would be in horror film.. lol

Well  that's about all I have.. Hope that you have a great week everyone.. and remember that your hair looks like "angel wings" flapping in the wind..

(I got told that by an older guy.) lol

Love y'all

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist

July 13, 2015 Snakes, Snakes, Snakes-Black Racers

 

 

HOLY COW.! THIS TRANSFER HAS BEEN THE FASTEST THING OF MY LIFE! I KNOW IT'S BECAUSE WE ARE STAYING BUSY.

So this week was pretty nice.. it was hot! lol. We get the car on the weekends and the other sisters get the car on the weekdays.

So Monday we had dinner with some transplants ( that is what they call the ones that aren't really from the south.) They were awesome! This is just a wonderful ward. We then went walking and contacting. We found a few potentials. That was really awesome! On Tuesday we had Zone Training. That was fun, I learned a lot. We then went out to lunch with the zone afterwards. We went to this Mexican restaurant. It was good. The waiter took a selfie with us.. lol.. We then saw R. she is coming along. She has some health problems but she is coming along and understanding The Book of Mormon more.  Then we had to ride the Trolley home.. That is always fun. Some pretty interesting people ride the Trolley.. But, they are children of God too. So we were meeting a member at Firehouse Subs for dinner and we were walking there.. while we were walking I looked down and see a snake.. ( my companion HATES snakes.) I screamed like a 12 year old girl and she then sees the snake.. she jumps back yelling "OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH" it was pretty scary.. so we started walking and we took about 2-3 steps and see ANOTHER snake... we then were very shaky as we walked on the grass.. haha the joys of the south. ;) Good thing the snakes were just Black Racers.. Still pretty creepy.. 

Wednesday we contacted some referrals.. tried some others... and guess what? Got caught in the rain... AGAIN! This time we were walking.. haha... It started pouring. it was pretty awesome... we hid under a building (the doors were locked.) We were really afraid of the rain.. and we were already dripping wet.. the thunder and lighting was super close.. so that is what was scary. We called a member to come and get us.. 

We then had scripture study. That was really cool. We had a non member and a less active come. They really enjoyed it and the spirit was super strong. We then talked to the Relief Society President about some people she wanted us to see..

Thursday we did weekly planning and saw G.and A. H. came with us. She is awesome! We taught the first half of the Plan of Salvation. It was pretty good. We then tried some others for about 2 hours... No one was home... or didn't live there anymore.. She then took us out to FROYO! It was pretty sweet! They had some pretty delish flavors.
Friday we saw one of our new Gators. We didn't get a chance to teach her much so we will try back in a few weeks.

We set up for volleyball.. and had correlation.. we then saw some recent converts and less actives. We went to volleyball and no one came.. So we helped out the sisters and made their baptism program for them. 

Saturday we tried visiting about 15 people in about 2 hours and not a single person was home... Just kidding one was... but she told us to never come back.. people are just not very nice sometimes.. Oh well it's their salvation... we tried.. lol... That's horrible of me.... ;) 

We did get to see a few people. That was nice.. 

Sunday we went to the sisters baptism. That was nice there were 3 boys that were getting baptized. They are super cute. We then tried to see 2 different investigators. One wasn't home and the other was busy. We had a nice dinner with this awesome family. They work at the jail and told us some pretty cool stuff. We saw some returning members. They are super awesome! He was baptized a little over a year ago. They are starting to come back to church! They have been the last 2 weeks.  I am so proud of them. 

Well, sorry this letter was pretty lame.. Hope you guys have a wonderful week! I love y'all. 

Keep being "Boss" as Elder Lopez our DL would say. 

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist 

July 06, 2015 Biking Again in Down Pours, Alligator Park

 

Hey everyone! this week was pretty good. it consisted of my companion almost getting hit by a car. see an alligator, my 20th B-day, the fourth of July and exchanges. Monday we had a nice p-day. 

We had dinner with a super cute family. We taught the "Plan of Salvation" to them by drawing it with chalk on the side walk. It was good and they liked it. 

Tuesday I  taught in district meeting about referrals. That was pretty fun!  We have a good district. We then did some biking my companion and I were going to deliver a bible so we biked across town and the address was wrong. So we got the correct address and biked over there. It was in the next town over (it was still our area) so we had to bike by the paper mill and the Arizona Chemical...PEW... that smelled bad. We were biking on a pretty scary road actually and we get up by the fire station and this person slams on their brakes so the person behind them was also not paying attention so he slammed on his brakes and them swerved and nearly took out my companion. It honestly probably would have hit me as well. It was pretty scary. We are now going to try our best to avoid that road (we were in a bike lane to).

We then got caught in a massive crazy awesome storm! We came home soaked! 

We had dinner with some members he is moving to Utah for work.. 

Wed. we did more biking and saw some less active members. We had a great dinner with some awesome members. We had a really great lesson with them. They are super intelligent people who actually enjoy having a church related conversation with you. We then went to scripture study and no body came so we went to that same members house for ice cream.... ( we didn't have time before to eat it..) lol.

Thursday 19 died, we saw some less actives and some investigators. Then we did exchanges. Sister Nichols came to Callaway... lol she is serving in Callaway too.. these were the weirdest exchanges ever.. we planned and then went to bed. The next day we saw some more LA members and got a new investigator! She seems awesome. We then went out to St. Andrews State Park for correlation and lunch, it was cool. We saw a real live alligator. I will show y'all pictures! So the exchange was weird because we spend almost the whole exchange with the other sisters. Who happened to be our companions.. it was pretty funny though. then we had some dinner at the returning members home! They are so awesome! I love them already!

We then went to volleyball and no one came... (we were a little late) Oops.. but we went and saw another LA and they were super nice! It was pretty awesome! 

Saturday we had a few bb1s and went contacting and saw some awesome peeps. t'was good! 

Sunday we actually saw some pretty nice active members. We visited with the bishops family they are super awesome! We then had kind of a awesome miracle. So we were walking around our apt. complex trying to stay out until 9 because all our other appointment fell through. We need to talk to 2 more people just reach our goal for that day. So we prayed to Heavenly Father to place two people in our paths so we could talk with them. So we were walking and we see this guy run past us and jump into his car drives over and picks up his mom before we could talk to him they left.... we were like sorry we failed you Heavenly Father. Then we just kept walking.. we had the faith that we would be able to talk to someone.. So we then see this couple with this baby.. we were so happy so we talked to them. They were super friendly but we weren't able to set up an appointment,  but hopefully they will call us sometime. Haha... it was cool that even if they aren't ready for the Gospel now in their lives Heavenly Father still gave us the opportunity to talk to them and we were able to reach our goal. It was really neat! Well everyone, I love you! Hope you have a wonderful week! 
Stay STRONG! 

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist 

Oh, my companion made me pancakes for my B-day..