I tried to think of a clever hook line for this email, but i couldn't think of anything so.....Sassy sister healy is here to give you an update on this past week in good ol' Scottsdale!

My great companion sister fairbanks and I departed ways on Wednesday and now I have two new companions, sister alexander and sister fisher. Sister alexander is this sweet, tiny little, curly-haired blonde from Virginia and Sister Fisher is a slightly awkward, but great sister from Canada (who took creative liberties and drew me as a horse yesterday. yes, i'm a horse).

  I'm still covering all the less-actives and investigators that I taught before and so it's kind of strange now because essentially I'm doing all the planning each morning and night ALONE. I go on splits all the time too because sister A and sister F still teach who they had been teaching prior, as do I... so I feel like a solo missionary which is interesting! 

On Wednesday, Elder Teh of the Seventy came to our mission and gave us a training and gave a number of different talks as did the stake presidents and mission presidents. President Sweeney, at the end of the day, provided 6 missionaries with the opportunity to speak one on one with Elder Teh and I WAS CHOSEN TO BE ONE OF THE 6. IT WAS SO EXCITING. I think he chose me mainly because I'm (a bit too) confident at times so during Elder Teh's training, I put my MTC memorization of scriptures and quotes to good use and kept answering the questions that he had for us:) Anyway it was great!

We also had great progress with our investigators Megan (the Jew) and Orrin (the Baptist)! The Barron family who has been inactive for over 5 years came to the Halloween party and then to church this sunday! And the husband and wife committed to preparing to return to the temple. CHUCHING!!! We are also teaching a man named Paul, he is this big African-american guy who used to be a member of the baptist church, but says that that church just no longer felt right to him. Anyway,  I had my first lesson with him and at the end of it I asked him if he would be willing to be baptized.... AND THE MAN SAID YES. YES. YES. I was pretty shocked when he said that and then kind of stared at him dumbfounded, so great.

Last little thing, at the ward halloween party on saturday the primary presidency thought it would be HILARIOUS to put us sisters in charge of the kissing booth. yes you heard that right. So we gave kisses out to everyone (they were on a rubber stamp I promise). Definitely the most popular station.

Have a great week and just know that there are so many great missionary opportunities everyday, where we can share what we believe in and serve others. Great scripture that I COMMIT you all to read: D&C 100:5-8. Love you all!

Sassy Sister Healy  

 

BECAUSE its past mid-october, you know what that means..... IT'S CHRISTMAS MUSIC TIME. you should hear me singing on my bike, it's just glorious. i know the residents of scottsdale really look forward to it! This week we had more less active/recent convert lessons than ever before, as well as more investigator lessons than ever before, so that was GREAT. my companion is getting transferred this wednesday to serve in the papago zone of arizona on the native american reservation. Word on the missionary street is that the native americans feed the missionaries dead dog on special occasions, so that should be interesting for her haha! I'm still staying in the scottsdale tempe area of arizona, now working with two other sisters in a tri companionship until the next transfer. Yes we are still waiting on the visas.

 

quick update on this week: hattie is still struggling with the WOW (word of wisdom) so we pushed her baptism back a few weeks so that she can get things into check.  Another one of our investigators, Megan,  wants to committ to baptism but feels like she needs to be perfect before she committs.... MAGIC IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH HER THIS WEEK. i can feel it.  our work with the less active families is also going really well. One family who hasn't been to church in at least 5 years came this sunday; which was exciting. we're going to help them prepare to go to the temple.

 

This week we are having what's called "mission tour" which just means that a member of the Quorum of the 70 is going to come in and teach and train us; which should be pretty cool! The mission president said that on halloween we are supposed to go in at 6pm; so my comp and i were thinking of just being super creative and throwing candy at people from our apartment balcony with the lds.org card attached. we think that will really get the message across! haha.

 

The weather is beautiful here. the other day I actually said i was cold when it was 60 degrees! which is wrong i know. WHAT HAS ARIZONA DONE TO ME.

found a new favorite scripture this week in D&C 78:17-18. SO PLEASE LOOK IT UP and apply it to your lives.

Love you all so so much! Have an amazing week and know that you are always in my thoughts and prayers.

 

Love,

 

Sassy sister healy

with member of ward; super sweet lady

at the temple with her comp

 

Additional stories:

so we have been teaching this less active for a while who went inactive when he was 18. He never believed in the church he said and thought it was just something that people used to fill that "void" they have in their hearts... that void can be filled with other things like their job, money, community service, ect. anyways, in the past missionaries have tried to visit him but he has always rejected them. well we have not only gotten in his house, but we've been teaching him about the restoration and he actually is softening, its pretty great. he's single in his mid thirties and he is becoming a changed man which is super exciting:)!

Morgan wrote a few other funny stories in her letter home, but I'll include those another day.

 

  Please pray that Morgan's visa gets approved soon!

AND.... I'VE BEEN OUT FOR THREE MONTHS!

This week, because of the emergency transfer, we were in a tri-companionship... and WE GOT TO USE A CAR! it was so so great! The sister we were with this week, is named sister alexander. We were super busy and had a number of super cool experiences this past week.

 

sister A and her companion had been working with this one man named rick who has been investigating the church for the past 3 years. he has a bit of a drinking problem so he would never committ to baptism... but sister fairbanks and i had a bit of the magic touch this last week. so in the lesson we were talking about the significance of having faith and how faith is a principle of action. We then used that to segway into a more open discussion about baptism, and guess what?! Good Ol' Rick committed to be baptized on november 25!!!! YAHOOOOO. The next day we had a similar experience with Fran, who for the past few months has profusely refused to be baptized... well last week when we asked her to prepare for baptism, she miraculously said yes and committed to a date. it was GREAT! what else....we've had a couple set backs with a few of our investigators this week but we are going to keep pushing forward.

 

due to the fact that i didn't ride a bike this week, I don't have any near death experiences. yipee!

 

Favorite scripture this week:

 "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for"(Romans 8:24). 

 

Keep on HOPING AND BEING AWESOME!

 

side note: we played flag football as a zone this last week and lets just say that those elders were owned by all the sister. GO US. 

                                                 Meetin' with the members in Scottsdale!!

 

Yet another week has past, and this one we've had some pretty CRAZY experiences. So let's get to it:

 

SISTER HEALY'S 5 HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK:

1. Hattie is getting baptized on October 26th. YAYAY!

 

2. Two Pdays ago after writing our emails we went to taco bell (like we always do, don't judge) and we talked to this man who worked there. When we got to talking he told us that he had been taught lessons by some missionaries a while back but had moved and lost contact with them. Well we jumped right on that and we got his informationa and called it into the mission offfice so that he could get set up with some missionaries. Well guess what, we saw him the other day and because we set him up with those missionaries, he is getting baptized soon!! MIRACLE.

 

3. We crashed a bible study session ( yes thats right). We were looking for this less active wandering around the apartment building... and we see this group of black folks (it just sounds more legit when i include that) studying the bible together. well we go up to them introduce ourselves and then get into conversation about the Book of Mormon. I shared the story of Ammon in alma 26 and then testified of Christ. it was great! they invited us to come back again!

 

4. In sacrament I bore my testimony and sort of mentioned the many struggles i've had with my bike... well the bishop came up to me right after sacrament and said that he would fix it... AND HE DID.

 

5. We taught a LA(less active) family this week who hasn't been to church in years. we focused the lesson on the restoration and their two boys were just eating it up!!! it was great. anyways, the wife calls us a couple days later and says that her son had show & tell at school and that he brought the book of mormon (which he had just learned about in our lesson) and told his whole class about it. He said that he had prayed about just like we had told him to and he had recieved an answer from God. SO CUTE.

 

So much more happened this week, but these were just some good experiences.  Just want to say that I love you all that I'm so gratetful for this church and for the knowledge I have of the plan of salvation. thank you for all you do for me:)  Keep up all the good work and keep doing your best.

 

love

 

sister healy

 

Morgan's AZ address:

Arizona Scottsdale Mission
6265 N 82nd Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85250

Morgan would love a letter, postcard or other :)