d8002f7c-d196-4de8-bc4c-f2c60f04c96c Elder Drake Wakefield Back to Missionary Letters Transfer😮💨😮💨 Pagi yall, got some transfer news and I am finally moving cities🙏🙏I'm going to Bogor😁😁it has bikes and it's colder and it has mountains I can climb, that's all I need to know. District leader while training again, training arc pt.2 But this weeks been great, kinda been anticipating transfer news a lot cause I knew it was coming. But we were able to work hard and go to lots of janjis. Really have grown my love of the people in Indonesia by meeting with the members here. They are so awesome and fun, definitely one of my favorite parts here. Went to this LOADED family's house. Rich in like they had a pool with dolphin statues over it. There was a big Chinese New Year party there and after we ate, Brother Leo took us to his gym room, he had a whole Smith Machine and he let us bench🙏🙏 He whipped out his golf clubs too, hit a couple nice putts, he asked "when's your p-day?" Told him I'm moving cities, he said "if you go to Bogor or Bekasi, you have my number". A wise man once said, "let's go golfing" FOOD Buy one get one for Chinese New Years was fire Mixue is always fire for WPS (Boba sundae 🔛🔝) First shoutout to the Aston family, @mymom too cause they made their version of tacos in a bag, it was epic Some great indo food too, I actually enjoy it now that it doesn't give me the runs (no pics cause I forgot) Now that 6 months have passed and I'm moving cities, it feels like a new phase is starting, and it makes me excited to see what I can do even better in this new phase, how I can give my will even more to God Romans 12:1-2 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. This sums up my my mission, but more than that too. Because of the mercies of God, I am able to present my body for not just two years, but my mortal time on earth to God. That's my reasonable service to Him. A limited mortal experience for an eternal one. The mortal experience however, is where we are transformed. “No, we are not earning heaven. We are learning heaven" (Elder Wilcox, His Grace is Sufficient. BYU Speech). I gotchu Mrs. Quinn for in text citation🙏 This is our time to learn Heaven. We know no unclean thing can enter into the Kingdom of God, so all we can do is give our will to God, and know that His grace is sufficient -Elder Wakefield Brother Liliek Cool guy we met on the bus, bros gonna become a missionary too super sick that gas station is where the temples gonna be😁 (if they can actually build it bro) Previous Letter Next Letter

0941512e-ed00-45c8-aef2-4213c23f098e Elder Scott and Sister Stephanie Sangberg Back to Missionary Letters Elder Sangberg is the mission vehicle coordinator and I am the mission secretary. Our mission office is quite busy. We have about 180 young missionaries and about 20 senior missionaries. Our mission comprises most of New Jersey and some of New York. Our mission president is President Rolfe. He and his wife have 6 children, of which 4 are here with them. They are very kind and energetic people. We love serving here and seeing how the gospel changes lives, including our own. We love working with the young missionaries and being inspired by their dedication. Previous Letter Next Letter

2544410e-3d9a-4f99-8ac8-b20119afdab7 Elder Coleman West Back to Missionary Letters Hey everyone! I hope you all had a good week. This week has been pretty awesome and fun here at the MTC. It's been a bit hard though sometimes. I just can't wait to get out into the field and be with the people. It's crazy to think that in less than a week I'll be out there. Time is flying by so quickly already. It's weird to think that we are already in December. I know I've said it already, but I've felt the Lord's hand so much here. I've really felt Him continue to help me grow and learn. He has really magnified my efforts and is making me more than I ever could be on my own. I know He wants to, and will do, the same for you if you let Him. Not much else has changed from last week though. I've gotten to eat all kinds of new and fun stuff here in the MTC cafeteria though. They prepare food from all over Africa for us so I've had things like gizzard, a stew with cow skin in it, and a huge variety of ways to prepare rice. It's been super interesting and fun to try it all. I hope you all have a wonderful week. Much love from Ghana, -Elder West Pictures: -The temple from our apartments Previous Letter Next Letter

f8067cc6-f0ad-40be-a7e9-9e81a639f2f8 Sister Abbie Wilson Back to Missionary Letters NEW PEOPLE AND NEW THINGS Hey guys, I'm trying to be more consistent about writing these emails. This week has been a crazy one so that is why I'm writing one right now haha. Monday was a good time. We sat and chilled at home and called our families which is always nice. Later that night we got a call from President Campbell which I thought was going to be scary. We found out that we were going be in a trio, which was absolutely crazy. I was actually so pumped, but also nervous because Trio's sometimes don't end up well. Tuesday we went and picked Sister Paine up! She is the third sister joining us. As we were driving home we had a lot to talk about. We then went to lunch and then dot hopped until our lessons. After we were finished with the lessons we went to institute which is always a good time. When inistitute was over I decided I needed a blessing before we all went home. I asked Hughesy to do that for me and it was great! I left feeling amazing and knowing that I could do this. Wednesday we had a couple of lessons which were a lot of fun. Sister Paine and I also became really good friends so fast. She is honestly one of my bestfriends. We taught our friends dad Jeremy, and our friend Shane. They are so ready to join the church! After the lessons we went to our local food pantry to provide service. We stand there, yell out the numbers, and take the carts out haha. Sister Paine and I were laughing the whole time. I also taught my old man friend Dave thats 83 the only tiktok dance I know haha. It was so much fun. He is the sweetest and cutest thing ever. Thursday we had exchanges with the STL'S and I got to be with Sister Hardcastle again! It was literally so much fun. We had a blast reminiscing and talking about the new stuff that is going on with us. We took so many pictures at the beach, walking the streets, and sitting in the car haha. After walking the streets, we went to dinner with Charles who is Sister Hardcastles member friend that loves to take us out to dinner. Later that night we stayed up late talking and just having a blast. I miss being with her. Friday, Sister Hardcastle and I drove to District Council and jammed out together. It was so much fun. We had a great DC and then had donuts and apple cider during it. After we went to lunch and did our exchange meetings. I got to come back to my trio which is always a blast. We all got in the car and headed towards our lessons we had for the rest of the day. At our second lesson we ended up playing the piano at the nursing home. Our friend Colton showed up a little later and started playing the piano, and talking to us. I then asked him when he was going to take us to dinner and he told us next Thursday so we are pumped haha. Saturday we helped clean out Lisa's closets which was actually crazy. Sister Paine is good at helping people clean and make decisions so she got rid of a lot of stuff. Later we watched conference all day that the church. I also crocheted the whole time so that was fun. I forgot that I knew how to so it was good to pick it back up. My friend Caylie that is in the ward bought me some snacks for conference and it was so nice of her. She is literally my favorite. Sunday we watched the first session at the church and then had lunch with the members. The food was so good! It was so much fun to hangout with the members and get to know them even better. After lunch we went to the Rowley's house for the second session of conference. While we were watching, Sister Minson fell asleep for the rest of the session and it was so funny. We also all had dinner together and she always makes the best food. ANYWAYS.... Be grateful for everything, follow the first prompting, pay attention to the little things, pray always, and remember HE loves you and remember to love each other!! 143, SISTER WILSON Pictures https://photos.app.goo.gl/HnGmkCohrviGgg916 Previous Letter Next Letter

515c4d2d-bfeb-4e62-a472-32e2aa84c612 Sister Kiera Davis Back to Missionary Letters Catch me in my polygamist fit 💯 Que xopa mi gente 🤙 Another week down in beautiful San Fran drinkin chicheme and churnin bollos. Thats for real btw, we churned our own corn this week. Slay. 🌽✨️ We also had intercambios and I got to go to Mendozas with Hna Santana. I learned some juerga from Costa Rica, rode a super aesthetic diablo rojo, and had dinner with Shelly and Torres!!! Omg that little half a day there was actually such a vacation. Sometimes its just weird to think about the fact that I've been the senior comp ever since i got out of training 😅😐 For Pday, I cant forget to mention that we hit up the bowling alley and played some billiards too. Big shout out to the elders of Guadalupe for being our best bus for the day 😂😂 Not a single interaction that day was normal, but we did get some tea on what they do out there on the islands 🏊♂️🌴🐠 We got rained on a LOT. Hashtag aguacero. It was the first time ive ever actually felt cold in Panama, and im even writing this email wearing a lil sweater ☃️☕️ we also hit up this ladys little food stand on the side of the road that we walk past every day, shes totally our dawg. But she literally had the best chicken I've eaten. Yall need to come hit her up 🍗✨️🍴 On sunday..... Cesy and Tony Jr came to church!!! They sat right next to us all sacrament meeting and shes already planning on coming next week. Thank you Heavenly Father fr. Shes suuuuper super awesome. Then after that... we had some kids saying american cuss words in a chino while telling us we should buy them siumai, and then we hit up the Sanchez fam where they tried to get me to agree to marry at least three of the brothers. Quote of the night: "Hermana Davis... 8 years really isnt that big of an age difference!" No creo! I like em legal 🧏♀️ other things of note that I just remembered was that President Spencer and his family pulled up to our stake conference 🎉🎆😄 but also my barbershop baddier that always catcalls me has a wife and a child 😱👨👩👦 Other than that, this week my and my cute little amazing gorgeous comp have been watching inspirational videos and eating popcorn after 9pm and there are some really really good vids out there. I reccomend watching the good samaratin video even though it lowkey scarred me as a kid. But while we were watching that one, I just loved how there were people who passed by who had actually been looking for opportunities to serve people. It wasnt their idea of how they wanted to serve so they said no and ignored the opportunity in front of them. The lady that ended up helping the man in street was a refugee and maybe did not have the time or means to help, but she did anyways. And what stood out to me was that our trials and hardships uniquely qualify us to be of service to others in the future. Through our trials, we can become more empathetic, understanding, amd aware of those around us. When God has made a difference in our lives, we must be willing to let Him use us to make a difference in the lives of others. ALSO, there are people who I have not emailed in like forever and ever and im sorry!!! Im working on them frfr Ciao4now Hna Davis Previous Letter Next Letter

71cecf40-4419-4df6-86c4-8fdc9f91176d Elder Toone Back to Missionary Letters This week we did some service and I got to use a sickle and hack up a yard with billions of weeds. That was fun. We had a lesson with Bruce and invited him and his girlfriend to church! We went over early to their house before church and made sure they were ready to go. Bruce didn't answer and we got scared he wasn't going to wake up. He called us right after and said he was actually in the shower getting ready. We got hyped and they both came to church and heard a phenomenal fast and testimony meeting! They loved it. Bruce said he has nothing against being baptized and now that he is showing good interest and coming to church he will be on date very soon! We also met Two Feathers, this Indian guy at an RV park. He gave us a zucchini and now we are teaching him the lessons! I know the church is true. I can't express what my mission has meant to me. It's changed my life forever. I love Jesus! I'll be home next week probably. Excited to see everyone but I'm gonna miss the full time work I will see you all later! Love you! Previous Letter Next Letter

931e5df2-5718-49d9-aa0a-aab20e737bde Elder Connor Zarate Back to Missionary Letters Out of the west. I am heading back to Dublin but this time in the southern outskirts. Instead of the city center North like last time(Finglass). My area is called Clondalken. This week I said my Goodbyes to the Knights. And the other cool members here like Ferris and sister Nash and Robert Boylen. And some really cool friends I was able to teach. Like Yaro, Irish, Olana and Pavlo. Spiritual thought "We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth." This week we get the opportunity to listen to the teachings of these men and women who have been set apart by God's priesthood power. Like no other men and women in any other organization on earth. 15 of those we and I sustain as prophets seers and revelators. Gods representatives. I invite each of you this week end to make time to listen to them. Ephesians 4:11-15 "11 And he gave some, apostles; and s ome, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:" https://photos.app.goo.gl/tGCNLwWcsXsYxgai6 Previous Letter Next Letter

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3ec707f8-8886-4e2c-a678-e8c516fbe443 Sister Lara McOmie Back to Missionary Letters PARKOUR. PARKOUR. PARKOUR QUE PASO? What a week wow, also I feel like I just wrote to you guys?!?! time FLIES let me tell you. THE DAY OF STRAIGHT MIRACLES Tuesday was one of those days that's like a high of highs. Miracles were coming left and right. Our friend Amalia who we've been teaching IS ON BAPTISM DATE and it was so unexpected! Then we called a grey dot... HES COMIN TO CHURCH... then we got in contact with someone we havent been able to for a long time!!! There were lots of other things today but guys God really is good :) EXCHANGES. ZONE CONFERENCE. CHINESE PARTY? yall this week was lowkey a VIBE. I had exchanges with Hermana Church and it was soooo fun, it was cool to go and work in a different area and meet amazing people. Zone Conference was SO good. Okay. Pause. Wait. Because I NEED to tell you this miracle. We learned about baptism and being better at inviting at ZC. Later that day... we had a lesson with one of our newer friends. We were teaching the resto again cause the first lesson was interrupted many times. ANYWAYS... he had no questions about it, we talked about the Holy Ghost read some scriptures #moroni10:3-5 duh. THEN this man brings up the fact he isn't baptized for HIMSELF. Then we whipped out our ZC training... Matthew 3:15 and 2 Nephi 31:6-7 to follow... BAM baptism in 2 weeks. The Spirit was working all the magic during that lesson. Oh also kinda cool... I was the one who invited him to baptism... did I mess it up so bad he didn't understand what I was saying the first time? Yes. BUT I asked again anddd he said YESSS. Anyways back to the Chinese party... my district is like all Chinese speaking except for us so it's kinda hype. They posted on their story that there was a Chines New Year party and we were like bet. So you already know we pulled up. HYPEST WARD PARTY I HAVE EVER BEEN TO. I am sorry to every other ward, but they just knew how to do it. Were we out of place there? Yes. But it was still the funnest thing ever. I wish I took more pictures... I will try to be better at it HMM... WHAT ELSE? I honestly don't know what else to tell yall... sorry this is boring BUT I'll have a little Pday talk with yall. Pdays are hype cause we always hang with the zone and it's so fun. Ontario zone is one of the bigger ones so it's a PARTY. Today we hiked a mountain and me and Hermana Morse did parkour + spin jitzu until that was banned. Then we only did parkour :( it was a party, right now we are headed to the church to play some games. Secret Hitler is our top favs. Oh me and Hermana Longhurst my trainer have THE WORST LUCK, we got a flat tire this week and 80% of our lessons cancelled... BUT we did have 7 friends at church. So it all evens out in the end. READ. READ. READ. READ. READ. X10 THIS WEEK... there was really only one thing I could talk about. Sooooo... Let's talk about the scripture example of... ABISH . An amazing example of member missionary work. Little background... the first 2 weeks we struggled with member realtions because the past companionship was here for 6 months! SO we are a lot different and it took a little getting used to I think. We made an effort this last 2 weeks to work with members. LET ME TELL YOU!!!! OUR WORK EXPLODED. The amount of influence members have on missionary work is more than you can imagine. We have so many awesome members in our small ward that have... invited our friends to church, given then rides to church and our English class, come to the essons with us, testify, invite them to come over for FHE, move from their family to sit with our friends that sat alone, and SO MUCH MORE, little and big. So let's see what we can learn from Abishs example of missionary work when you're not a full time missionary... Alma 19:17 "Thus, having been converted to the Lord , and never having made it known, therefore, when she saw that all the servants of Lamoni had fallen to the earth, and also her mistress, the queen, and the king, and Ammon lay prostrate upon the earth, she knew that it was the power of God; and supposing that this opportunity, by making known unto the people what had happened among them, that by beholding this scene it would cause them to believe in the power of God, therefore she ran forth from house to house, making it known unto the people. " FIRST... I love the first bolded part, ITS SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU ARE CONVERTED FIRST!!! You need to make sure and CONTINUE to fill your own buckets before you can help others fill theirs :) SECOND... I love how she took that situation was that she needed to go tell everyone!! She ran house to house telling people what was going on so they could see for themselves! We can all do that more!!! If you're truly converted to the Lord, you will WANT people to come and see for themselves! SO... go help the missionaries, open your mouths and TELL THE WORLD ABOUT JESUS and all the goodness He can bring into this crazy crazy world :) Go spread some JOY I love all of you awesome people MUCHA AMOR -Hermana McOmie <3 Previous Letter Next Letter

0292e431-47a9-4efa-9a08-f863dfb00440 Sister Taylor Waite Back to Missionary Letters My final zone conference: something i never thought it would reach. this is the group of all the departing missionaries in our zone. we each got to bear our departing testimony during zone conference and it was such a sweet moment. I love and have learned so much from these missionaries. they are examples of people who have sacrificed everything and become truly converted unto the Lord. what a blessing it has been to be surrounded by such spiritual giants. Previous Letter Next Letter

9089242d-a0aa-401b-a1b1-7c3507be2aa1 Elder Keith Rushton Back to Missionary Letters Watermelon Mtn. Dew! Hello everyone! I hope it has been a good couple of weeks since my last email! The holidays are over and we're jumping right in to a new year! I hope this one isn't as wack as the last one 😂 It has been a surprising past few weeks! This past Thursday was transfers, us 4 elders in Roch 5 weren't really sure what was gonna happen with us, but we knew Elder Alcorn would leave for sure. We were right on that, he got shipped off but Elder Soter and I both got transferred as well! We left Elder Blaylock down there to get 3 new companions and we all went our separate ways. I am now in the Andover area in the Anoka zone, Elder Alcorn is in Shingle creek also in the Anoka zone so we'll get to see each other a little every once in a while! And Elder Soter is with some Zone Leaders in Minneapolis until he flies down to Africa on the 21st! Pretty exciting stuff! So with our area, the transfer boards showed i would be in a trio with Elder Sowards and Elder Lott, but on Thursday we got a bit of a surprise! So one of the Elders in the Roch 4 area, Elder Wright, was called to the Congo mission in Africa and he was supposed to fly down Thursday morning, but before he could check his bags, they got word from his mission that they're closing it down cause an elder there got covid. So Elder Wright ended up getting put with us 3 here in Andover and will technically be my companion until he actually gets to leave. We aren't sure when that will be but it could be anywhere from 2 weeks to a whole transfer, but probably only 2 weeks! So we had to split up our ward and area between the 4 of us, which luckily went pretty smoothly! But regardless of the surprises I'm pretty excited about the situation! These are some good guys and i think we'll have a good time! The area has lots of good members and quite of few investigators we can teach! I have some pretty high hopes for this transfer and i doubt I'll be let down! And this apartment is bigger and nicer than the Roch 5 apartment! 😂 The covid restrictions up here are still pretty much the same but we just got word we can eat inside of restaurants that are open now! But only with our household and one other missionary household in our district, but still that's way better than having to ask to do 4 separate orders in a drive through! 😂 We still do church through zoom up here as well, hopefully the in-person stuff can come back soon! I hope you all haven't had too many issues with covid and it all just goes away soon! Recently in my studies i have been looking at all the different names or titles that Christ has, it has been really cool and definitely helpful so I would recommend taking a look at that in the Bible dictionary, but there was one name with a scripture connected to it that stuck out to me! So the name is Captain of Salvation, and the scripture I'd like to share is Hebrews 2: 9-10 "9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings" These verses as well as the rest of chapter 2 of Hebrews are very interesting to me! It really focuses on how the Savior was sent to the earth to experience our sufferings, to go through our pains, and pay the price for our sins! Christ held a high position in the premortal life and by coming down to earth the way he did, spending time with the people He spent time with, and being the humblest example, He condescended to the lowest of lows so that He could then rise above all things and fulfill the plan that was made on all of our behalfs! He felt everything we have or will ever feel, paid the price of everything that we will ever owe, was killed for our sakes and rose again to then become the Captain of our Salvation! This allows us to go through our lives with the ability to receive enough guidance and strength to get through it all, and ultimately return to our Father in Heaven with the price of all our mistakes already paid for! Christ is our Savior! His purpose has been fulfilled and He has shown us the way! All we have to do now is follow Him! I love you all! I'm so grateful for you all and the support i have from you! I am so grateful for this time that I have to be a missionary for the Lord Jesus Christ! I am so eternally grateful for His gospel and the numerous blessings that continue to flow because of it! I hope you all continue to come closer to your Father and Heaven and His son, your Savior! Stay safe and have an excellent week! ~Elder Rushton Previous Letter Next Letter

54f5085d-4921-4003-8bfb-08f387cf5edc Elder Stetson Ludvigson Back to Missionary Letters What a memorable week we had this week! So we started the week off with a split to Manado, which is about a 3 hour flight from Jakarta. My companion used to serve there, so he knows all the members, and a member family said that they would takes us to dinner when we land, we land about 5:00 and head to dinner with the family. They take us to this super cool reasturant where the tables are on little docks in the middle of a lake, and in order to get to the table you have to walk across this little wooden bridge. This family has 2 little kids about 7 and 8, so we sit down and eat and had some amazing fish, after that we were sitting talking while the kids were playing. One of the kids thought it qould be a good idea to sprint full speed across the little bridge, and to no suprise "splash" he falls in the pond. Luckily it was shallow and he was able to just stand up and walk out and laugh about it. It was pretty hilarious and we all got a good laugh out of it. The split to Manado was amazing, we went to a village up in the mountains where some members live, we were able to visit 4 different member family in the village which consisted of a lot of hiking through the mountain, it was super pretty, and an amazing experience! Also at one of the members homes we had some smoked fish, and here they smoke their fish with coconut shells which makes it super good! This week we also had some amazing lessons, we had another lesson with Sis Rose we were able to teach the restoratuon and the spirit was super strong, after that she gave us a tour of the school she owns, and it was super cool! This week we also had our english conversation class which is actually super fun, the people here love trying to learn english so its pretty easy to get people to come! This p-day we had quite the adventure, so first we were planning on going to a zoo but we get there and find out it was closed on Mondays, which sucks, but we decided to go to this park place instead. We had no clue what it was really, but we pay and get in and are trying to figure out what to do and we see they had like a reptile museum so we decide to go there and check it out. At first we only though it was a little building with no live animals, after we walked around the building and came out we were getting ready to leave a little disapointed but then Elder Mocodompis spotted something, around the side was some glass boxs with some lizards and stuff. And as we continued around the side it kept getting better and better, we saw komodo dragons some massive alligators some huge snakes. So we were then satisfied and ready to leave, and at this time the park was about to close, and there was like no one their, it felt like a ghost town. But as we were walking out one of the workers waved us into this glass room. And here we got to hold a baby alligator and some giant snakes. It was pretty sketchy but also super fun! And thats all folks, love yall keep increasing your faith everyday! 1% better! Sampai Jumpa Previous Letter Next Letter