Feb. 2, 2015 - Happily Staying in Navarre! Six Month Mark

Hola everybody,

This week was really great did a lot of contacting and biking.  Monday we just finished our p-day. We had fun at the beach! Sister Blake packed her bags.

Tuesday we had a really great district meeting. We read the talk" Unleashing the Dormant Sprit." Everyone should read that it is a really good talk! I had to do a role play in front of my whole district. It was pretty good.. I thought. Better then I was expecting. We also talked about being bold, that is what the role play was on. We then talked about Enduring to the End. After district meeting we taught "The Plan of Salvation" to R and E for her new member lessons. Then we taught it to J. She was taken by surprise by the 3 kingdoms, but she wasn't against it. She is doing really well. We had a nice dinner with the M. Family here. They are super Friendly. :)

Wed. I went to the Doctor for some dumb nose bleeds that I had 2 weeks ago. Haha... word of advice, don't tell the mission nurse nothin'.. hahaha Jk it was fine! The doctor did say that I have allergies. Who doesn't. haha ;) Afterwards Sister L.  took us out to pizza for lunch! She is really great!  We then had a lesson with our new Investigator E. J. That went good! We then contacted for awhile. Then we had dinner with the W's. That's not how you spell that but it's pretty close.. haha.  We then tried to see a less active but no one was home! #Morecontacting.. Then we had one of the last new member lessons with A.! That was really good! We taught about the commandments!

 Thursday we did some planning with the Elders, since they are no longer going to be in the ward. Now I am the one who has to do everything. haha since I will be the only one who knows anything about Navarre. We will see how that goes. anyways...

So after the planning with them, we did our own weekly planning. We went to see  the R's again and finished "The Plan of Salvation." Then had correlation meeting with our ward mission Leader.

Friday we just biked all flipping day! haha.... which is fine cause I love biking. It was kind of windy so that is the only thing that made it hard. We biked 20 miles round trip to see two less active.. haha...it was good though. We then got to stop in on Sister A. Didn't get to talk much because she had a sick son, but we are excited to start meeting with her again this week. It has been forever since we have seen her. When we got home from biking we walked to our dinner appt. It was at this Italian Restaurant, it was really good. Then we had movie night! Brother C. came!!!!! That was really cool! He hasn't been to church since 1975 and he just randomly showed up to movie night! We were so excited! We also had some active members come! We watched "Mountain of the Lord."Great movie!

Saturday we worked at the thrift store. Then we went to see M. and V. That was good, we hadn't seen them in about 2 weeks. She is still going through Chemo.

After seeing them we tried another member that we have never met before and we briefly got to chat with her for about 5 mins. Then we did a lot of walking, also had dinner and played volleyball. Volleyball is always super fun!

Sunday E. J. came to church! YAY! It was a really good fast and testimony meeting. A lot of people bore there testimonies on the love that our Heavenly Father has for each of us! It was a really great one! We then had our final new member lesson with A. That was good, we talked a lot about priesthood. Thank goodness that Brother S. was there to help answer some questions he had. After that lesson we tried to see C. she is sick. Then we had out final new member lesson (NML) with L. as well, she is doing really great! She got into the U of U She is just waiting to hear back from the dance program there. After our lesson there we walked to dinner with the G's. They are a new family in the ward. They are a really great family!

We got transfer calls last night! I am staying her in Navarre! I am super excited about that! I love this area! I am coming on being out for 6 months on the 6ths of this month.. oh wait that's in like 4 days! Wow!! I am sad about the Elders leaving the area. it will be weird not having Elders to help out at times! Oh well, haha...Today we are just getting stuff ready for Sister Cooper to head home! She arrives home on Thursday! It has been great serving with her! It is really great and crazy how you really do learn to love your companions for who they are! haha..  I will miss her! Well, that is all for this week! I love you all! Have a wonderful week!

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist

January 26, 2015 - Two new 'Gators and a Biting Dog!

Another crazy fast week! I don't get how its flying by so fast! I know I say that every single week but MAN it is crazy! So this week we went to the beach on Monday and that was super fun. I sent those pictures last week.

Tuesday we had a really, really great district meeting. Elder Burnett our District leader always does a really great job. It was about feeling the spirit and it was really something that I needed to hear. Then we had to travel to Niceville for an appointment. That was a long, fun trip haha.... Then we went and saw some less actives as usual. Then we went walking, O.Y.M. for the rest of the night. That was nice. We have done a lot of walking in the last week. Which is pretty good, I guess.

Wed. was pretty busy. We worked at the thrift store. After that we went and had a lesson with V. her sister is now wanting to listen to our lessons which is really great, we are super happy about that! After our lesson there we went and saw J. and then L. Then we went to see the R's.. After that long day we had dinner and then saw another less active family the C's.

Thursday was a day full of planning and dinner with the Stake President.

Friday we had lunch with M. Y. While we were walking back I saw this lady and I was like "oh let's go talk to her." So we went to do so and her little dog was yapping away. She was like "Oh, he isn't nice" so I tired to stay back and I thought I was far enough away then when I went to hand a card to the lady the dog bit me in the leg. Good thing it didn't hurt or I would have kicked the dog harder then I did. hahaha I only kicked it enough to get it off of my leg. She then picked it up and said "I told you she was mean"  then she wouldn't take the card because she was holding him. So I left it on her truck. haha anyway, after that fun time we went walking and walking. We walk a lot that day, it was really good though. We tried to see some DNC (do not contacts) the one that we tried to see lives in this super sketchy trailer. No one answered the door. After that fun exciting time we walked back to our car and then went to movie night. That was good. We watched the movies "The Restoration and The Prophet Joseph Smith" That was really good. We are trying to get more people to come to movie night. We are still trying to get it all rollin' On Saturday we worked hard and had a good lesson with C. We read out of the Book of Alma with her. It was really good. She wants so badly to come to church. She has progressed a ton since we met her.  After that we worked at the thrift store and had a good time there. It is always super fun to work there, even though everyone who works there is either super old or doing community service.  So after that we went to the church and filled up the font for a little boys baptism. The fonts hot water is broken and it was super slow. It took 2 hours for it to fill only half way up and it was really cold, poor little boy. It went really good though. We watched the video Reflections of Christ, that was good. I love that video! If you haven't seen it y'all should watch it. After the baptism we had dinner with Sister K. She had her friend there as well and she wants to take the lessons. We have one for Wed. Yay! Then we went  to the church and briefly met with our ward mission leader, Brother G.  Then we played some awesome volleyball, that was super fun!

Sunday we had a less active family come to church! That was really good! We then went and saw some people on the island. Man the water was nasty looking haha... anyways it is always fun to go out there. Anyways so today we had a fun district activity at the beach. We built sand castles. I kind of went swimming... hahahaha actually. I was laying down helping Sister Beaukers dig a tunnel when about 30 seconds later a huge wave came up and covered me in water, needless to say my whole district saw it.. hahaha they all were laughing. It was pretty funny and I dried off pretty fast.  That is pretty much all that happened. Well, I love y'all hope you have a great week!

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist

Random Pictures of Sister Seegrist Mission

January 12, 2015 - E. Baptism and Pensacola visits

This week was a good one! It was cold this week though, it was still good. We went to Pensacola a few times. I saw Krissy's sister again which was cool.

Tuesday we had a good district meeting. Some members came and talked with us about referrals and they answered some questions that we had. Afterwards E.  had her baptism interview and of course she passed. Then we taught R. and her about the Priesthood and auxiliaries and that went well. 

Wednesday we went to Pensacola for a Dr. apt. for Sister C. It was rather boring actually, haha... It was fun though, because we made it fun! Then we visited with our less actives. We are going to be splitting our area with the Elders, they will be getting the half with almost all our investigators in it, but we will still be able to go and see them. It will actually be good because it will save us miles. :)

Thursday it was FREEZING!  We were able to see a lot of people though, so that was good. We also taught E. her last lesson before her baptism. 

Friday, we had our lunch with Sister M.Y. Then we had interviews with President Smith. Those went really good! We have the best Mission President here in the FTM and his wife a amazing as well. I love both of them! 

Saturday we had the Baptism!! That went really well! I spoke on Baptism... I don't know how well it sounded, but who actually remembers what people say anyway, haha... It was really neat that R. (her husband who got baptized in Sept.) was able to baptize her. It was a really awesome experience!!! After the baptism we taught A. a new member lesson.
After that Sister L. drove us to Stake Conference. That was really good. The first part was boring but then President and Sister Smith spoke and that went really good. After the good adult session we went to Red Robin. That was yummy. Who would have thought that Prickly Pear Lemonade would be so delish! I drank about 4 huge glasses of it. haha...

Sunday was thee LONGEST DAY EVER! We had more Stake Conference. Another member drove us to P-cola again. Then we went on splits with a member and that went really well... We had dinner with a member.. it really just felt like the longest day ever. It was good though, it ended with laughter. :) 

Sorry this letter is super short. I do love how me and my companions can laugh about anything, it is awesome!  I love you all! Have a great week!  Write me letters........ ;) 

Love, Your favorite ( haha...) Sister Seegrist

January 05, 2015 - Kohnir the creepy doll!

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!

I hope y'all had a great week and New Years. Hope no one partied to hard, like me.

 Monday we got Sister Blake. She is great! We get along great! She is super funny. So after we picked her up we finished the day. We had dinner with this member. They have a new born baby who was born on December 18th. The baby is super cute.   They are super nice people.

Tuesday we had Zone Training in P-Cola. That was fun, even though I was super sick and was #outofit. The P-cola sister trainers taught and the Elders taught,it was good. Then we had a zone activity after. We played four square. That was so much fun! I never thought that four square would be fun,  we really have a great zone here in Pensacola.  We had a four square tournament and winner got 100 extra miles. That was cool. We lost! Gulf Breeze sisters won. Good thing we carpool with them a lot, haha. Then we had a good rest of our day working. We had a delish dinner with a member. They made us a ton of Italian food, you know me and my love for the Italian.

Wed. we went and said goodbye to someone in the ward who is moving to St George. We walked around and to be honest this was just a weird day, and we had to be in early. We did some comp study.

Thursday we did the usual weekly planning. We then had a lesson with M. and V. They agreed to allowing us to teach them the lessons. Which is really great! We feel that it will help him understand more about the church, and this way we aren't pushing it upon them. They are a really great couple.  Then we had a lesson with J. We were teaching her the Restoration. We have these cups as visual aids, while we were building up the church we realized we forgot the two most important cups. The two types of Priesthood, which is pretty important, since that is a huge part of the Restoration. We tried to do it without and it really didn't work, but it turned our really, really, good. She told us that the way it worked out was perfect and helped her understand it more and the importance of it.  We told her that the church wasn't the same if we didn't have the Priesthood. She then told us that she believes that everything happens for a reason. She was super open and is super excited to learn more. We are so grateful that she understood and it made sense to her. She also mentions to us all the time about how she is freaked out my organized religion and how do we know if the Prophet really is called of God. This lesson helped her a lot, maybe this story doesn't sound as cool as it really was. haha anyways it was!!!

Friday was my half birthday haha.

We saw some less actives  and had lunch with two of them. We biked around a lot looking for souls to save.  Then we walked about two miles to our dinner appt., which was really great!  We had a lesson with them, E. and R.. E. is getting Baptized this Saturday. We are so excited and happy for her! R. gets to baptize her. She really has come such a long way.  It has been a privilege to teach her. She asked Sister Cooper and I to speak at her Baptism. At the lesson we taught about eternal families, temple work and family history. That all went really good. :) Then we had movie night. We just actually went over the roster with the Elders.

Saturday, we saw Miss K. she said she wants to work towards Baptism. Yippy!!! She is really great!  We then worked at the Thrift store. #nerfgunsaremyweakness.

We have been trying to visit the do not contacts this week. While we were contacting we met this lady who is Buddhist. She invited us inside and has so many questions. She had so many different, not correct thoughts on Mormons. We set up another appointment with her, she is really great! We are excited to get to know her better, most of them have moved. We had a great dinner with Sister C. After that we went to play Volleyball. That was a lot of fun!! Then we had a sister wide fast, where all the sisters in this mission fasted. Sister Smith ( our Mission Presidents wife) said the prayer. That was really nice and cool!

Sunday we saw some less actives and members.

So, Kohnir is this creepy doll that we got at the thrift store,  he hides all over the place, haha..

Well, this is all that has really happened this week. Everyone  please read Geneses 19:17. Great scripture about new beginnings.  

Anyway,  I hope you have a great week! I love you!

Talk to y'all next week!

Love, Sister Seegrist

December 29, 2014 - Christmas/Trio

 

So First off this week has been CRAZY, CRAZY, CRAZY! Haha

I guess not to crazy but it has been busy and really good! So, I guess the biggest news is that I'M GETTING PUT INTO A TRIO TODAY!!  so this sister is getting emergency transferred to Navarre. Sister Cooper is training her but when Sister Cooper goes home in 6 weeks I will finish her training. She has only been out for 1 week. I'm so excited to be adopting my first child. :)

That is the biggest news. lol

 So it was really nice to Skype y'all on Christmas!

On Monday we did a little bit of shopping, not too much Sister Cooper wasn't feeling good. But good news, I found where I can buy GATOR heads in Navarre. I will have to get one sometime. 

 I made a gingerbread house at a members home. Mine didn't fall! Muahaha it looked kind of good for ya know Hannah Decorating it. ;) haha

Tuesday we about died!  The weather was nuts! So in the morning it was storming super bad. really strong wind and raining like CRAZY. Also really crazy thunder and lighting.  We had district meeting.. I was scared to drive. The wind slowed down so it was all good. When we got to the church, the power was out. After district meeting the rain slowed down and it was just sprinkling, so we went home and got our bikes. Then it stopped and it was good for a few hours. So we went and saw R, E, J and a less active. We then had dinner with the S. family. They really do remind me of home, I love it!  We then went caroling with the gulf breeze sisters. While we were caroling it started to rain again, we went and saw a less active after trying a few other houses. She let us in and that is when it started PORING, but we had umbrellas with us, so we just left and went  walking towards our car to put our bags away, it was raining like crazy. We tried a few other people,  sang to a few people.  We went to this one house and they invited us in they were in the gulf breeze ward. They gave us cookies and hot cocoa by then the storm was nuts,  it was raining so hard,  there was lighting and crazy thunder again. While we were at their house the power went out,  we then realized we had to drive home. So we left, when we got in the car we checked our phone. The Zone Leaders tried to call us. They texted and said everyone should be in side early because of the weather. Oops it was 9 pm by that time. We were driving every single street light was out including the Stop lights. #creepy. it was like that on the way to district meeting too, but it was light outside then.  I had Sister Cooper drive because I'm a baby.  So while we were driving we couldn't see because of the rain and crazy lighting, but when we pulled out on 98 it was creepy pitch black and all we could see was head lights coming straight towards us. Sister Cooper didn't pull all the way into the middle lane (cause she could see) then she realized that and about panicked thank goodness she didn't panic and pull out.  She just slowly pulled into the rest of the lane. and it was all good.  When we got home we said some mega prayers of thanks! Someone then dropped cookies off at our door. (The Y's)  

Wednesday, we played ultimate Frisbee, that was a lot of fun. While we were taking a water brake, Sister Beukers (gulf Breeze sister) saw one of those spinning toys on the play ground, we ran over to it and started playing. Everyone else then came over to play on it too.  Eight missionaries and some ward members.   As everyone else was leaving back to the field. Sister Beukers and I decided to just run and spin one last time...............................

 This story would be better if there was a video..

So Sister Beukers went and she almost fell. so I was like "watch out I will go first" I ran grabbed on then tripped on my own two big feet.  I then fell into no joke a big muddy puddle. It was actually just a wet sandy mess.  Sister Beukers started laughing, I was just laying on the ground laughing my head off.  I then got up and dusted off my booty. It was all wet and sandy, same with my back.  Then we were walking back and Sister Whetten and Sister Cooper where walking together. Sister Cooper had asked "Where is Sister Seegrist" Sister Whetten looked back and had seen the whole thing happen.  She was laughing so hard. She was the only one besides Sister Beukers who saw it.  Thank goodness none of the Elders saw that hahaha it was a had to be there moments. haha #stilllaughing So after that exciting event we had a Christmas eve lunch with a member we then saw the R's family (R and E) She is super excited to share the gospel, I love it! She said she can't wait to tell everyone about the Mormons. haha She carries her Book of Mormon around with her. :) We then had a exciting party with white elephants and everything, yummy food,that was with some members.

Then it was CHRISTMAS!

I hope you all enjoyed talking with me as much as I enjoyed talking with you! The time went by way to fast!  Thank you all for the great packages and gifts. I love them all. I love y'all. We went to some members homes on this day. That was really good! :)

Friday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you had a wonderful Birthday. I meant to tell you happy birthday over Skype but didn't. oops. Hope it was good though. Love you!

So Friday we just really did the same old stuff.  We went to see a less active, she wasn't home but she had her baby! Oh my cutie! It is super cute! We are going to eat with them tonight :)

Saturday, we had 3 lessons with investigators. That was really good! :) We had a good day. This is when we found out about our little Child.  Well Sister Coopers child and my soon to be adoptive child. It was just a really great day on Saturday!  We got a lot done and just had a good day! 

Sunday the Elders spoke in church. They both did a really good job! We then saw one of the R. girls. That was good. She is 14,Super nice. The mom is a member, but was only active for 1 year. The daughters are slowly investigating the church,not really progressing though. They have been through a ton of missionaries. Maybe someday!

Today we are getting the newbie! She is coming from Mississippi. There are now no more sisters in Mississippi. Weird, sisters are only in Florida and Alabama now. Lets hope they re-open some areas so I can serve in one of those two states ( Georgia or Mississippi.) That'd be cool.

Well, I love you all. Have a great week and Happy New Years!

Love, Sister Seegrist

December 22, 2014

 

Hey Everyone! I hope y'all have had a great week! I hit my 4 month mark here in Navarre! I feel like I have been here for so much longer but it goes by so fast! its hard to explain.

 So This week was WET! It rained Friday, Saturday, Sunday and today. 

 Tuesday we had a good day. We had a great district meeting. I taught about the Holy Ghost. It went better than I thought it would. Thank goodness. We then had lunch with a less active. She had us help her wrap some Christmas Presents. She is super nice and we are her "Main Girls." We had our Christmas Party Saturday and she drove us there. We thought she left us but we found her and said "we thought you left us" she said back "Are ya kidding me? I wouldn't leave my two main girls" She also calls us her home girls.  She is like 50, its great! We  tried some other less actives but no one was home so we did some street contacting. We also took R and E on a church tour. That went good.

Let me just tell you all how much I DISLIKE goat heads!! They are EVERWHERE!!!!!!! They just get in everything. I often find them in our Apt floor. grrr.

Wed... was just one of those days. We went to Choir... haha and worked at the thrift store.. oh and had our Christmas Party there. The manager gave us $25 gift certificates there for Christmas .

Thursday was mom and dads anniversary. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!!

We then finally got to meet with one of our investigators that we haven't seen awhile. She is doing good. We saw E and R. That was good. We then did #weeklyplanning

 We had dinner with a member.. let me just tell you I will NOT be that returned missionary.........

 We then had a funeral that we had to go to. It was for a non members husband. She wants to be baptized but she doesn't understand we have to teach her first. We will start teaching her when she gets back in town. After the services we had to go to Correlation Meeting. That was good. That RM was there to...... 

Friday we did our usual  we saw some less actives. We did get to meet with one who invited us over for Christmas. We are looking forward to that. Her husband isn't a member. Then we had movie night. The only people that came was the Navarre Elders and the Gulf Breeze Elders and us.  so we just watched the Restoration in hopes that someone would show up.. nope. Good movie though.

Saturday, we helped set up for the ward Christmas party. It was a night in Bethlehem. That went really well. Then we worked at the Thrift store. We saw V and M, We watched "Joy to the World". M who is a non-member was crying. He is not super open about his feelings. He then asked for a copy of the movie. He said he really enjoyed it. when V asked about it he was just quite, he was still teary eyed and changed the subject. It was actually a really neat experience.

After that lesson we went and had our Christmas party! That was really great! the missionaries and ward mission leader where in charge of  the "gifts of the Magi" We sold " Gold, Frankincense and Muir." It was really cool.

Sunday was a day full of Church! We went to Gulf Breeze Sacrament because R and E couldn't come to  Navarres but we really wanted them to go so we went with them. We then went to our ward. That was good. Sister Cooper sang in the Choir. They did good.. We then saw a less active on the Island. She is super nice! She got Sister Cooper and I massive bags of treats! Well it is  wrapped but she told us it was treats. She is super nice and loves us coming over!  Then  we had dinner with the C's. They are a great family. Their  dad is deployed right now. 

Well, that is really all I've got for you this week! I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas! I love you!!

Love, Sister Hannah Seegrist