tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81607013824077390802024-03-13T03:48:57.521-07:00There and Back Again - A Sister's TaleMy Adventures as a Sister Missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Virginia, Chesapeake Mission.SusilFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09951041987502738928noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-91207439679521479492016-05-23T22:23:00.000-07:002016-05-24T22:29:09.478-07:00Words "as if from the dust"<br />
<br />
Hello friends!<br />
<br />
Well, this is it. This is most likely my last blog email. Weird. I'm dying*, it's for real!<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
We had a great week here in Clayton! We saw a ton of miracles! We even ate dinner with Sister Miracle! We had exchanges this week with the sister training leaders and had a really great day. We found a new investigator, we got to do service AND we finally met a less active we have been trying to meet for forever (seriously, Hna. Reed has been here 9 months total and she just barely met him!) and that same less active came to church on Sunday!!! Miracles.<br />
<br />
The biggest miracles happened yesterday at church. Guess who passed the sacrament for the first time?! Peyton, his dad, and Ted!!!!!!!!!! It was the proudest moment of my mission!!!! And just when we thought that no investigators were coming, in walked 3 of them that we weren't expecting! It was a huge miracle! <br />
<br />
So, like I said earlier, this will most likely be my last blog letter. I just want to finish it off with my testimony. I have learned so much in the last 18 months, and the most important thing I have learned and had solidified, is my knowledge that we have a loving Heavenly Father. The creator and governor of the universe is our fFther, and He really loves us. He loves us so much that He sent His Son to atone for us and to save us. I know that the only way to gain access to that atoning sacrifice is to follow the example that Christ set for us. I am so grateful that God loves and trusted me enough to let me come and serve Him for these 18 months. I have loved sharing this message with the people in the Virginia, Chesapeake Mission and I'm so excited to continue serving Christ for the rest of my life!!!!<br />
<br />
La Iglesia es verdadera. Never forget that.<br />
<br />
I love you all! See you in a week!<br />
<br />
Hermana Fields</div>
<div>
*Dying=coming home/returning from mission ;)</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-68393907987003798192016-05-16T22:18:00.000-07:002016-05-24T22:19:58.991-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello friends!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I hope y'all are having a great week!</span></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a really great week out here in Clayton!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't have very much time to write, but a big highlight from the week was our very last conference with President and Sister Baker! It was on missionary wellness! We had three workshops, one where we talked about mental health and took the color code test. I rediscovered that I'm super blue. No surprise there! Then we learned how to budget and be self-reliant and then the best part, we got to play oompa loompa! It's this weird sport some elders made up a long time ago. It's basically basketball and ultimate frisbee mixed together and played with a football! It was really hard to keep up with all the elders, but it was fun to be up and running around. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone is doing great here! We unfortunately didn't have a ton of lessons this week, but we'll have more this week!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Les quiero!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-63025788633918613812016-05-09T22:15:00.000-07:002016-05-24T22:16:18.890-07:00Happy Mother's Day<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello friends!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry it's been a few weeks! Things have just been boringly crazy here! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have been doing well out here in Clayton! Hermana Reed and I have started the month of </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"lasts", last transfer, last month, last fast Sunday, last zone meeting, last deep clean day, last phone call home, last everything! We're surviving though! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a wonderful Mother's Day, yesterday! The primary sang a beautiful song that I had never heard before. The best part was when one of the little boys marched himself up to the microphone, adjusted it so it was right in front of his face and sang that way the whole song. His dad is newer so I was worried that that would stress him out, but I looked over and he had a big smile on his face! The little boy walked back after the song and said, "I just wanted to sing!". It was really cute. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Skyping was ,for some reason, very difficult due to ridiculous technical difficulties. But, it all worked out in the end and we had lovely conversations with our families. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> It was rather trunky knowing that I will see them in 3 weeks though, haha!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The work is still moving forward! We have three wonderful people that are currently set for baptism and we're so excited for all of them. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The only sad part is that I won't be here for any of them. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:/</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> At least they are coming to Jesus, though! That's all that matters. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday and that this week is a good one!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">La iglesia es verdadera!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZYrDcJvK_KY/V0Uyv7SiBiI/AAAAAAAABkY/LBiWpTx8Qgc9b6lIPCqr0V2aZBhO82I3QCLcB/s1600/101_0242%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZYrDcJvK_KY/V0Uyv7SiBiI/AAAAAAAABkY/LBiWpTx8Qgc9b6lIPCqr0V2aZBhO82I3QCLcB/s400/101_0242%255B1%255D.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Look at this cute thing Hermana Bills made all of us "dying" missionaries! </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ggxAFn5Xt2k/V0UzwOtpxVI/AAAAAAAABko/jmsVXd-lEf0hIKQxsux_hrwxo4F8EhJ2gCKgB/s1600/travel%2Bplans.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ggxAFn5Xt2k/V0UzwOtpxVI/AAAAAAAABko/jmsVXd-lEf0hIKQxsux_hrwxo4F8EhJ2gCKgB/s400/travel%2Bplans.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Also, look at my flight itinerary that I got last week...</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1E406ZIY4M4/V0UyloXB2HI/AAAAAAAABkI/E0Y9QDhc_QYJgVLHe3aUohA8bzoAEqzWACLcB/s1600/SAM_2536.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1E406ZIY4M4/V0UyloXB2HI/AAAAAAAABkI/E0Y9QDhc_QYJgVLHe3aUohA8bzoAEqzWACLcB/s400/SAM_2536.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Pd_5oYJkMA/V0Uyp7UrKMI/AAAAAAAABkM/iR-XEamXnzIAskgUxOZifRYaAuDYKudxgCLcB/s1600/SAM_2541.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Pd_5oYJkMA/V0Uyp7UrKMI/AAAAAAAABkM/iR-XEamXnzIAskgUxOZifRYaAuDYKudxgCLcB/s400/SAM_2541.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pHs_HBW_8Nc/V0UyuqkKz_I/AAAAAAAABkQ/2MCsKaimXSEUJhgTTB04DhxFurAtoGvqACLcB/s1600/SAM_2544.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pHs_HBW_8Nc/V0UyuqkKz_I/AAAAAAAABkQ/2MCsKaimXSEUJhgTTB04DhxFurAtoGvqACLcB/s400/SAM_2544.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="goog_1529293994"></span><span id="goog_1529293995"></span><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-14496373025245742522016-04-25T21:54:00.000-07:002016-05-24T21:57:41.867-07:00Ted's Baptism <div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<br /></div>
<span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Sorry! Short email today!</span><br /><br /><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Ted got baptized!!! And, it was beautiful:)</span><br /><br /><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Got a new companion! She's from New York! Sister Zsembery</span><br /><br /><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">The end!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Love Y'all!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W18mZVvSeHQ/V0Uv9n-iz0I/AAAAAAAABj0/DOvmw7P7JyonAeDop8CmgTEqdiL6eK4ZgCLcB/s1600/SAM_2525.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W18mZVvSeHQ/V0Uv9n-iz0I/AAAAAAAABj0/DOvmw7P7JyonAeDop8CmgTEqdiL6eK4ZgCLcB/s640/SAM_2525.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-56362264346646277372016-04-18T22:52:00.000-07:002016-04-20T22:56:23.205-07:00Last Transfer<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello again!<br /><br /><br />Well, today marks the official first day of my last transfer as a missionary. Weird right? I don't understand what happened... Anyway, we got our call on Saturday and guess what's happening? HERMANA REED AND I ARE DYING TOGETHER!!!!! (#BirthToEarth) We are so excited! In our interviews President Baker told us that he didn't want to move either of us, but he also didn't want to white wash our area when we went home, so the solution that he came up with is that he is sending in an English sister to be in our companionship. That will be an adventure! This will be my 4th trio! That's just my life I guess, haha.<br /><br /><br />This week was one of those weeks that is just gone before you can blink. Weeks seem to just keep going faster and faster the closer I get to the end of my mission! We had some great successes and saw some miracles, though! <br /><br /><br />A few weeks ago we received a phone call, but missed it. In the message the woman introduced herself, but all we could understand was her name and that she needed the address of the church. Sometimes Spanish is really hard to understand over voice message... We thought she must have been a member visiting, so we texted her the address and figured we would meet her at church. She didn't show up at church and with all of missionary life going on we kinda forgot about it. Later last week we kept getting this weird call that we missed every time and every time there would just be a message left with an electronic voice giving the number. It was pretty weird and by the third call we were a little freaked out. The last time it called, we were listening to the message, and for some reason we decided to listen to the rest of our saved messages. That message from a few weeks ago was still on there. We decided to call her back and figure out who she was. I am so happy that we did. She is not a member and her friend, who is a bishop in Texas, has been talking to her about the church and she is super interested! It also turned out that she did come to church, but too late and so she thought there weren't Spanish services! If we hadn't have called her she would have been lost forever! She lives in Smithfield, so we gave her to the Smithfield sisters and they taught her. She loved it, committed to baptism and came to church! It was perfect because after this transfer this area is becoming English so it was good that she lived in Smithfield not Clayton. However, d to the extreme shortage in Spanish sisters, Smithfield area was closed. But! President Baker gave us permission to go down and teach her!!!!! Another miracle is that she already wanted to have her lessons on Fridays at 1:00 so we can just go over after district meetings and we don't have to make another trip down!!!! Heavenly Father really does work in mysterious ways:)<br /><br /><br />That is about the biggest excitement this week:) Oh that and we have a baptism coming up on Saturday! We're so excited! I'll give more details next week:)<br /><br /><br />Well, I hope you all have a beautifully blessed week:) Love y'all!<br /><br /><br />Hermana Fields</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-39361100553840669622016-04-11T11:38:00.000-07:002016-04-11T11:38:25.203-07:00EmmaHello Friends!<br /> We had another great week in the Clayton Ward! Things are going well. :)<br /> We had interviews this week with President Baker. It was weird, though, because it was my last interview before my exit interview!!! Also, this was the Baker's last round of interviews before they go home, too!<br />
Miracle of the week: Emma got baptized! When I was in the Smithfield Ward I taught her for almost a transfer. She is this cute little ten year old that knows the gospel way better than I did when I was ten! She had a problem getting baptized though because she didn't know any men that she trusted enough to baptize her. It took a lot of work, but she was finally baptized! It was such a beautiful baptismal service, too. The spirit was so strong. I could just feel how happy Heavenly Father was, and I could hear it too through the blessing she was given when she was confirmed. I was so grateful that I was able to have a part in her coming to Christ through baptism. At times in my mission I have been so discouraged because I haven't had lots of "baptisms". That whole counting your baptisms thing has always bothered me anyway, but I really realized this weekend that the number of my investigators that I have seen baptized doesn't matter at all. Emma didn't count as "my baptism", but I am just so happy that another precious daughter of God took an enormous step towards Him, and I'm happy that I was able to play a part in that! I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have to be a missionary. I have never felt so much joy in my life. I know that the joy I feel is only a tiny little piece of the joy Heavenly Father feels when his children come to Him. I'm just so grateful that He lets me have a part in that!<br />
<br /><br />I hope you all have a beautifully blessed week!<br />les quiero! <br /><br /><br />Hermana Fields<br /><br />
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BYa1CgFiXrY/Vwvt_YvYbeI/AAAAAAAABXA/Vf8_N0Dd5RM-wP3Fk9USue245_dVora0A/s1600/Emma%2B4x6.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BYa1CgFiXrY/Vwvt_YvYbeI/AAAAAAAABXA/Vf8_N0Dd5RM-wP3Fk9USue245_dVora0A/s400/Emma%2B4x6.jpg" /></a><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-25YhOVO3PkQ/Vwvt-2CRg2I/AAAAAAAABW8/g0lRH0UIeZA7I6J-FKwxyihtJZ7AhzfYw/s1600/nothing%2Bcompares%2B4x6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-25YhOVO3PkQ/Vwvt-2CRg2I/AAAAAAAABW8/g0lRH0UIeZA7I6J-FKwxyihtJZ7AhzfYw/s400/nothing%2Bcompares%2B4x6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1NOGEptdi8k/VwvuBMjYR5I/AAAAAAAABXE/NB4IimO7f58HUcc29f3I8lgSN6Acg2jzA/s1600/puppets%2B4x6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1NOGEptdi8k/VwvuBMjYR5I/AAAAAAAABXE/NB4IimO7f58HUcc29f3I8lgSN6Acg2jzA/s400/puppets%2B4x6.jpg" width="266" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> </span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-36778357186910366792016-03-21T20:09:00.000-07:002016-03-23T20:09:55.580-07:00Peyton's Baptism :)<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello friends!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I would like to tell y'all the very moving story of a young man named Peyton.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peyton, is a 15 year old, and super cool. One day we are all going to see him playing MLB. This year Peyton made a decision that has changed his whole family. He decided to take early morning seminary. Peyton's family hadn't been to church in a loooong time, and so he wasn't really raised in the Church and didn't know very much about it. But, because of the amazing examples from his neighbors, when they asked him if he wanted to take seminary, he said yes. One day, the sister missionaries knocked on the Richards' door and sat down for a visit with Sister R. She then told them that her son had been thinking a lot about being baptized. He started taking the lessons and ever since then his family has come to church faithfully every week. Peyton was baptize on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday, and will be ordained to the Aaronic priesthood next week. I can't even tell you all how proud I am of this kid. He has changed his family because he decided to be baptized. He didn't do it because his parents wanted him to, or because it's just what everyone else was doing. He did it because he knew it was right. This amazing family is well on their way to becoming eternal and I am soooo proud of them! Right after Peyton was baptized, the old relief society president leaned over to Hna. Reed and said, "Their names have been on the roster a very long time." This baptism was an absolute miracle. All of you youth out there, you can have a make a huge difference in your families! So basically this weekend was a very happy one for the Clayton ward</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week we saw so many miracles that they all ran together and basically just turned into one big miracle week. Right now our ward is doing a 40 day missionary fast. Each day for 40 days a different family has signed up to fast for the missionary efforts on the ward. At first I thought that it might be good, but we didn't see anything. In the last few weeks it feels like this ward is on fire and everything is moving in the right direction! This week in sacrament meeting there were around 160 people. A few months ago there were about 130 on average. This ward is going places! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I literally have never been so happy to be a missionary. Sorry Mom, but I might not come home! Just kidding, I will. But I just don't know how I'm going to be able to say goodbye to these people! I've only been here for a little less then 4 weeks and I already love them so much!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, that was our week. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember that the Easter Bunny isn't real, but Christ is and through him we can find new life!:) #Halleluja</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope everyone is alive and well! I love you all! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pahJF8fyD0o/VvNZfO6jgBI/AAAAAAAABV8/0griOdYLSmE_EFs5f_WLVllLdH0XkAhIw/s1600/baptism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pahJF8fyD0o/VvNZfO6jgBI/AAAAAAAABV8/0griOdYLSmE_EFs5f_WLVllLdH0XkAhIw/s400/baptism.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Baptism!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E1yDRYLYAfg/VvNZo76R3sI/AAAAAAAABWE/XXYmSJ5ffY0SmfL9e9pvw-l6JhTnETgWQ/s1600/puddles%2Bof%2Bpollen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E1yDRYLYAfg/VvNZo76R3sI/AAAAAAAABWE/XXYmSJ5ffY0SmfL9e9pvw-l6JhTnETgWQ/s400/puddles%2Bof%2Bpollen.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pollen Puddle <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:/</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qljPuxcjyt0/VvNZo6FewSI/AAAAAAAABWA/c2NB-AD_W5Q02MvWVrpuC86zsSeE3Nz0g/s1600/story.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qljPuxcjyt0/VvNZo6FewSI/AAAAAAAABWA/c2NB-AD_W5Q02MvWVrpuC86zsSeE3Nz0g/s400/story.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A story our investigator Caelem told us <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:)</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-81171099395547202322016-03-14T20:41:00.000-07:002016-03-18T20:55:50.520-07:00Springtime Miracles :)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hola amigos mios!!!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Spring has sprung upon Clayton, North Carolina. The trees are blooming, daffodils and tulips are springing up, and there are bugs spattered all over our windshield. Gotta' love the bugs of good ol' NC!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week was great! We saw sooo many miracles! Our investigator passed his baptismal interview, (he's getting baptized <u><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1077244330" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Saturday</span></span>!</u>) And, we have another investigator, (that is a member referral) that was set with a baptismal date in his first lesson! We are being so blessed!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also, exact obedience miracle! As a companionship, we decided to be more diligent in how clean we keep our apartment, and guess what happened this week? We unexpectedly had everyone and their dog staying in our apartment! 1st,our sister training leaders surprise attacked us with only a couple days warning for exchanges. 2nd, the night I got home from exchanges in Goldsboro, I found out that the Hermanas in Smithfield moved into a different apartment and a crazy weird thing happened and their water and power got shut off.... So they lived with us for a few days! I felt like we were running a boardinghouse! If we didn't keep that apartment so spotless, it would have been pretty embarrassing! </span></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This area is doing so great! I'm so grateful to be here with Hna. Reed! We are really trying to work our hardest and we are seeing so many miracles for it! Oh, and a pretty neat miracle we saw this morning. We found a member in the gym! Normally we can't work out in the gym because there is a man that works out there every morning, but today we had the sisters from Smithfield with us because of their housing situation, so we could actually go in! So, we walked into the gym and all the Hermanas went and got on the treadmills. For some reason, I decided to stretch for a little longer and a random guy walked up to me and said, "Sisters! Where are you serving?!" He had apparently just moved in, but couldn't find the ward online for some reason! He's a super cool guy, too! He's a pilot from Costa Rica and he went to Georgia on his mission! His wife is moving here from Peru in a few months! If we didn't have the other sisters staying at our house we never would have met him and he still wouldn't know where to find the church! God works in crazy ways!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That was our adventurous week! Oh, and we also had a super great zone conference with the Bakers! I love being a missionary. :)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, and if you haven't yet, go watch the new Easter video! <a href="http://followhim.mormon.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">followhim.mormon.org</a> !!!!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a blessed week! Que Dios les bendiga! </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermanita Fields</span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4PNFARbjVuI/VuzMj4XHvxI/AAAAAAAABVg/fS7uABX96qcUxAlYZ90-xUFqLBKOvDP7w/s1600/101_0143%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4PNFARbjVuI/VuzMj4XHvxI/AAAAAAAABVg/fS7uABX96qcUxAlYZ90-xUFqLBKOvDP7w/s400/101_0143%255B1%255D.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Us with our campions LAST transfer</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S4tKkH5rnqk/VuzMjCezh8I/AAAAAAAABVc/8_x5U6ny9KQ7HqfiDs92jQt90hOJf2Low/s1600/101_0144%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S4tKkH5rnqk/VuzMjCezh8I/AAAAAAAABVc/8_x5U6ny9KQ7HqfiDs92jQt90hOJf2Low/s400/101_0144%255B1%255D.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Us with our companions THIS transfer. We literally all just switched companions! #HermanaLife</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-84570901348363216912016-03-07T20:46:00.000-08:002016-03-13T20:46:46.030-07:00Clayton, NC and 3rd Time's the Charm ;)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey y'all!</span></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry I wasn't able to write last week! Things were a bit crazy because I got transferred! Hermana Nyre stayed in Smithfield and I moved up the road to Clayton!!! This place is the promised land! We're the only missionaries in the Ward, so we teach English and Spanish, which is kinda' weird, but great! Guess who my companion is?! Hna. Reed! Haha, for the third time!!! How crazy is that?! Who's companions THREE TIMES?! Us, apparently. Good thing we get along!!! At first we were both a little worried that our companionship would be trunky city because we're both going home soon, but we've made a goal to push each other to work harder than ever. So far, I feel like I have been working harder than I have in a long time. It feels great, and we're seeing so many miracles, and it has now been 21 days since I have had a bad day :) </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Something not so great happened this week, though. There is a family here that the sisters had been working with that was set to be baptized this Saturday. Everyone was so excited because they seemed so converted and excited. They had even already started sharing the Book of Mormon! This week though, we got a text that said that they didn't want anything to do with Mormons in their home. He had talked to someone and they had been convinced that Joseph Smith was a false prophet and that only Christ was going to restore his church and a lot of other very not true things. We were devastated. It was so sad that they could be influenced so easily! However, it turned out to be something that really strengthened my testimony. The more I thought about all the things they told us were wrong, the more it didn't make sense. I reflected a lot on the truths that I have held dear since I was little and realized just how grateful I am for the knowledge I have. The more I learn about the gospel, the more I see that it just makes sense! People always tell us to not be blinded by what we grew up in, but it's really because I grew up in it that I can't deny that this is the true church of God. I have seen and felt so much that I just can't deny it! I have studied the Book of Mormon, I have had countless answers to prayers, I been in the presence of men I know are prophets of God and I know without a doubt that it's all true. So, the whole thing was both good and bad. I'm grateful that the Lord helped me turn it into a learning experience instead of a faith weakening experience. </span></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, that's basically our week! A lot more happened too, but I don't have time to type it out...</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a blessed week!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-85187676715351362482016-02-22T20:49:00.000-08:002016-03-13T21:00:37.759-07:00We Saw Ourselves a Live 'Possum!!!!!<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello friends!<br /><br />Well, first things first. This week one of my number one bucket list items actually happened. This is what my bucket list used to look like: 1. Be in a hurricane, 2. See a lighthouse 3. See a possum living and breathing. This what it looks like today 1. Be in a hurricane 2. See a lighthouse. I have seen more dead possums than I can count, but this week we saw the real, ugly little thing run across the road in front of us!<br /><br />This was a miracle week! Last Monday evening, all of our plans had fallen through and so we were driving to find a less active. I felt a little miserable and I thought back to your email from last week. At that moment I decided that I don't have time to have bad days! I only have 2 transfers left! So Hna. Nyre and I made a goal to not have any bad days for the rest of our missions. We made a sign on our white board that says, "number of days since our last bad day" and then the number. We are up to 7 days. :)<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I could sit here and tell y'all miracle stories from this week for days, but I only have an hour and a half to email, so I'll leave it at: We had a ton of miracles and Jonathan came to church this week!!!!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, though one miracle that I do want to share happened on Saturday. So, there was a trailer park out in the country that we wanted to go visit so we started driving to where we were POSITIVE it was. Well, we didn't find it so we thought it must be the other way. Because we were in the country of North Carolina, there was absolutely NOWHERE to turn around! So we ended up driving around a couple miles trying to find somewhere we could turn. Before we knew it, we were out by the Relief Society president's house. Hna. Nyre had the thought that we should stop and do "secret service" so we went and it turned out she was rearranging her kids 'cramped room and was about to scream with frustration as her children ran around her legs getting into things! Perfect timing. As we were driving back to our next appointment what did we see? The trailer park that Heavenly Father blocked from our vision before - right where we drove past earlier that day. God works in mysterious ways! </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Changing our attitudes has made such a big difference for us. We had a couple times this week when things didn't go how we planned. Because we didn't get grumpy and upset, we were still listening to the spirit, and more than once we were put in the path of someone that needed our help. It was pretty amazing.<br /><br />The Lord is truly blessing us in our area. A few weeks ago we only had two investigators and neither of them were progressing at all. As of today, we have 9 active investigators and a lot of potential investigators to contact this week. Sometimes I really don't feel like I deserve so many blessings, but I'm so grateful for them nonetheless!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the Lord's work and His hand is always here helping us along. I'm so grateful to be a missionary!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a good week!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermanita Fields</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WJEc_nbg2k8/VuY29N7YxWI/AAAAAAAABU4/_jbdtqFXIKgMGV2i3wSxhMPo8aeqw0Ntw/s1600/101_0069%2B%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WJEc_nbg2k8/VuY29N7YxWI/AAAAAAAABU4/_jbdtqFXIKgMGV2i3wSxhMPo8aeqw0Ntw/s400/101_0069%2B%25281%2529.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fDm-9OUKAL4/VuY28Y80C0I/AAAAAAAABU0/PTNuvj6_vQY1qjX81eUfnt517pGQFPB6A/s1600/101_0079%2B%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fDm-9OUKAL4/VuY28Y80C0I/AAAAAAAABU0/PTNuvj6_vQY1qjX81eUfnt517pGQFPB6A/s400/101_0079%2B%25281%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-83209746735845123422016-02-15T21:09:00.000-08:002016-03-13T21:13:34.407-07:00Stake Conference<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello friends!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have y'all had a good week? I hope so!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We had a great week here! </span></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />This week we had a specialized training with President Baker. It was so good! We talked about the importance and benefit of role playing lessons. President opened the meeting by saying, "We're going to role play our little hearts out today." And we did. In total, we did 8 role plays of the Plan of Salvation and Family History and we watched 2 more. By the end of that 2 and a half hours my head hurt so bad! But it was really good!<br /><br />We had the best miracle happen last week! We found a whole family to teach!!!! On Wednesday night we had planned a lesson with an investigator and found the perfect member to come with us and everything was going to be perfect! But then we got to her house and she wasn't home. I was so upset, I partly blamed myself because she asked us to text her an hour before the appointment and remind her, and we had totally forgotten. So, we started for our backup, a couple the we had met a few weeks ago Jose and Maria. I was still upset and didn't really want to go see them because they hadn't shown very much interest the times that we had talked to them before. Thank heavens I have such a great companion that made me get out of the car, because they were both home and they let us right in! We had a really great lesson with them and we found out that the wife had already been taught before and even had a Book of Mormon. They had a lot of questions about things like babies being baptized and why The Fall doesn't apply to kids under 8. We told them that we would come back with more answers. We are planning on showing them how to find the answers to their questions through the Book of Mormon in our next lesson. It's so perfect! It's incredible because I had just fasted the Sunday before that we'd be able to find a family! It just reminded me again, that I can't ever judge who I think is interested and who isn't.<br /><br />The next day, we were eating with the Johnston family. Just a little over a year ago Sister Johnston was completely inactive and Brother Johnston wasn't a member, now they are both fully active and they just got sealed last week. While we were eating, Sister Johnston said, "I just can't even imagine if those missionaries never knocked on our door." That made me think a lot. I have only helped one person be baptized on my mission, and sometimes it's really hard to want to keep going when I feel like everyone always says no and closes their door, but I don't know what my actions will lead to. I can't stop just because <i>I</i> think the people will say no. Only God knows and maybe one day the people I have taught will accept the gospel, but if we don't try to share it with them we will never know and they will never have the opportunity to use their agency to choose.<br /><br />We had Stake Conference this week! It was so amazing, I love stake conference! I theme that I noticed was charity. That's probably because I really just need to work on it and God was trying to give me a hint because the conference was actually about the 10 commandments...<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">President Baker said something that I really liked though, he said, "We all need more coaches and cheerleaders and fewer critics." That is very true. He also talked about the huge expression of charity it is letting others change and grow. I think that goes a lot back to forgiveness too, we all make mistakes and it's a huge comfort to know that I can forgive and forget about it because Jesus Christ, through His atonement, will make everything right in end. Anyway, conference was super good! The spirit was super strong and I learned a ton!<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are a few quotes from our hilarious leaders:<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"I'm so grateful that we get to sleep, because everyday I get to wake up and try again. Sometimes I wake up and say, "Get up and try again, stupid"." -Pres. Baker<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"...I clutched the bag of chocolate covered potato chips to my chest and then thought, "how did I get to this point in my life?"" -Pres. Judd (stake president)<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Bears are big and mean and they have big teeth and claws and are all growly. Growly!" Pres. Judd<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Mom, I have fallen in love with the people of North Carolina!" -Sister Baker<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Last year I was at a Stake Conference and I reached out to give a sister a handshake and she pulled me into a hug and said, 'You're in the South now honey. Here we give hugs!'" -Sister Baker</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Good times... The best part is that President Judd is one of those people that says the funniest things with a completely straight face and just keeps going with his talk.<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So anyway, it was a good week. I hope y'all had a great Valentine's day! We did! We watched the Restoration, in Spanish, and ate chocolate for language study;) #sistermissionarythings<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a great week! </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love y'all!<br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C446uE1FkV8/VuY5-DvfsdI/AAAAAAAABVE/sAx5p6pIj1gWzn01zmVY7iQWbEBgF7X4g/s1600/101_0067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C446uE1FkV8/VuY5-DvfsdI/AAAAAAAABVE/sAx5p6pIj1gWzn01zmVY7iQWbEBgF7X4g/s320/101_0067.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"And then there's our old friend the fat man walking"</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-71585602084233515692016-02-01T20:58:00.000-08:002016-02-01T20:58:12.836-08:00Sacrament<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello friends!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week was a pretty good week. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">:)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> We went from freezing iciness, to 70 degrees today... It's pretty great!<br /><br />I got some great news this week! I got accepted to BYU-I!!!!! I'm freaking out a little because school still really scares me, but I'm excited!<br /><br />Here's my spiritual thought for the week:<br />This week I really learned the importance of the Sacrament. Our ward, like a lot of wards around, cancelled church last week because of the crazy storm. At first I didn't really notice a difference, but then I just kept feeling worse and worse all week. It wasn't like it was an awful week, things just never seemed to go well, and I just didn't feel like I had the spirit as much, and I was having a hard time wanting to be a missionary. Everything just felt too overwhelming! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1765708858" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> finally came back around and we had the amazing privilege of renewing our baptismal covenants. It was the best feeling ever, it was like the spirit flooded back into my soul. It wasn't because I was doing bad things all week long or anything, I just needed that renewal and cleansing again so that I could keep going forward. Because that was the first time in over 14 months that I have gone without the sacrament, I really took for granted the difference it makes. This work is so hard and I need the Lord's help every day to do it. I am so grateful to Heavenly Father for the opportunity that we have to be renewed every week and realign ourselves with Christ, and I'm so grateful to the Savior for making it all possible!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope y'all have a spectacular week! La Iglesia es verdadera!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Les quiero!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PLiWPzHXXXA/VrA2yjT0GYI/AAAAAAAABUU/iLlIJGm0Be8/s1600/North%2BCarolina%2BSky%2Bon%2BFire%2Bpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PLiWPzHXXXA/VrA2yjT0GYI/AAAAAAAABUU/iLlIJGm0Be8/s400/North%2BCarolina%2BSky%2Bon%2BFire%2Bpic.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North Carolina Sky on Fire</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-2944486325212842202016-02-01T20:50:00.000-08:002016-02-01T21:12:07.182-08:00Frozen<span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Something really awkward happened last week.... I never sent this email! I got on today and it was in my drafts... Sorry folks! Here it is a week later!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello friends! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Buckle up! A lot happened this week!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So first off, we had an ice storm. I don't know if any of you have ever been in North Carolina in the winter, but whenever this sort of thing happens the whole world shuts down! They even cancelled church! The ice hardly touched the roads, so we were still out, but a lot of people were out of power this weekend because of all the tree branches that fell everywhere. The roads were fine, but everything else was COVERED in ice. I felt so bad because there isn't much I can do to help anyone in a power outage! I wanted to invite everyone over and buy pizza, but that wasn't really an option! We all survived though. :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This was the craziest week of miracles! I said that last week, too. But the Lord is blessing us more and more every week! We currently have 6 referrals from members! We are going to work really hard to help them to all become new investigators this week! How did we get so many referrals? We met with 11 active families last week. The funny thing is that not all of the referrals came from when we were at their houses, some of them just sorta came out of nowhere! I know we have been so blessed because we are working hard to find investigators through our members. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Examples: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">One night, while we were planning, we felt like we should go visit an active member named Sister W. She's old and lonely so we visit her every so often, but we weren't going to be in her area that day so we decided against it. The next day, while I was studying, I felt again like we needed to go see Sister W. Then, we were doing some service for another member and Sister W. called us! She just wanted to make sure we were doing okay in the weather, but she was doing just fine. Later that day we felt again, like we needed to go see her! So, we finally did. She was just fine. I was a little confused why we felt so strongly that we needed to go see her, but then as we were visiting, she told us about something that had happened with her next door neighbor earlier that day. She told the story and said, "I can't understand them very well though because they are Spanish." We have never knocked, or for some reason ,ever thought of knocking that neighborhood! So we said that maybe we should go knock on their door and she got excited and thought that would be a great idea. She then told us that they have really big family of 12 that almost all live in that same neighborhood! If we hadn't gone to see her that day she probably wouldn't have mentioned those neighbors to us! It was pretty amazing! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another evening, we were eating dinner at a family's house and there were some random kids we didn't know. After we shared our message we asked who the kids were and the mom told us that their dad had gotten in an accident that day and so she was taking care of them while their parents were at the hospital. She also said that she really wanted to take us over there to visit them when they got home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last night we got a call from the elders in our ward telling us that they had just given a blessing to a member's grandma and that we should go try her. Apparently she only speaks Spanish! We didn't even know that member had family around! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So great things are happening, and this week will be a whole lot of following up and teaching first lessons!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week we also had a world wide training from the General Authorities. It was sooo amazing! A lot of people gave trainings, but something that I really loved was a story Elder Anderson shared about an experience that Elder Scott had when he was at a stake conference somewhere giving a talk, and afterward a women shook his hand and gave him a letter. In the letter she told him how much she loved what he had said and thanked him for his remarks, but then she said that she had come a long way to hear his witness of Jesus Christ and he didn't give it. He realized that even though he had talked about a lot of important things, he forgot to testify of the Savior. After that, he made a goal to always have the Savior's name on his lips. One bit of revelation that I received was that I need to cut out Babylon. I have a really bad habit of quoting movies and just being distracted by stuff like that. So, to be able to have Christ's name always on my lips, I need to get Babylon off. So I have been working on that this week. It's amazing how much more focused on the work I have been! Hermana Nyre and I have made a deal that if either of us starts quoting anything worldly we start singing, "Oh Babylon, oh Babylon we bid thee farewell...." and that puts us back on track! I have also made the goal to always have Christ's name on my lips. Sometimes it's easy for us to get distracted by all the things we have to teach people about, but the foundation of it all is Jesus Christ and I need to always be testifying of Him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
So, that is my week at a <u>long</u> glance...<br />
I hope you all have a wonderful week, and that you all stay warm! (except you, Andy. You need to stay cool! <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">;)</span> )<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">La iglesia es verdadera y Jesus es nuestra luz en la obscuridad! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Les quiero!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zXskwfTVXSY/VrA1GERfFNI/AAAAAAAABUE/I4n0yfymFqY/s1600/frozen%2Btrees.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zXskwfTVXSY/VrA1GERfFNI/AAAAAAAABUE/I4n0yfymFqY/s400/frozen%2Btrees.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WAB1po6JESE/VrA1FTTxkiI/AAAAAAAABUA/I35p5bexOOI/s1600/red%2Bberries%2Bpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WAB1po6JESE/VrA1FTTxkiI/AAAAAAAABUA/I35p5bexOOI/s400/red%2Bberries%2Bpic.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sTQUt-9bmkA/VrA1D65sB6I/AAAAAAAABT4/aTrh6A1BbVw/s1600/sun%2Band%2Btrees%2Bpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sTQUt-9bmkA/VrA1D65sB6I/AAAAAAAABT4/aTrh6A1BbVw/s400/sun%2Band%2Btrees%2Bpic.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-88425653964877016702016-01-18T11:52:00.000-08:002016-01-25T11:52:44.659-08:00Miracle Week!<div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello friends!!!!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> How have y'all been this
week? I've been cold... that's a change! Something that hasn't changed
though is our companionship! We didn't get transferred! I'm super
excited:)<br /><br /> This week was a miracle week. The Lord is blessing us so much!<br /><br /> Miracle
#1. Golda. We had taught her a few times, but she
didn't show a lot of interest and after a while wouldn't really set
appointments so we stopped focusing on her. Well, about two weeks ago we
were out one night and all of our plans had fallen through, and we felt
like we should go see Golda. We did and taught her the Plan of
Salvation. By the end of that lesson there was more light in her eyes
and she told us that she wanted to come to church and also our English
class. Sunday came and she didn't show up to church because her daughter
was sick, but she did come to
English. That was huge for her, she met a lot of the members and one of
the sisters invited her to church! We set another lesson with her and
made sure that we brought members with us this time. We did, and we had a
great lesson mostly thanks to the couple we brought with us! And then
guess what happened? She came to church this week and had a really great
experience! We were running around like chickens with our heads cut off
for most of church trying to get translating stuff set up, but all the
other Hispanic sisters helped us out so much and were so loving and
reached
out to her and made her feel right at home. It was a huge testimony
builder of how important members are to the work!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Miracle #
2. There is a 9 year old girl in the ward named Emma that swore she
wouldn't get baptized until she was 47. Well, about a month ago we were
having dinner with her mom and she told us that their cat had run away
and Emma told her that she would get baptized so that she could see the
cat again in the Celestial Kingdom, but only if that cat was still gone
after a month. This Sunday marked one month since the cat ran away, so
we got a text from her mom asking us to come start teaching her:)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> So it's been a good week:) and this week will be super great too! </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Well,
I love you all, have a beautiful week, and always remember that
Heavenly Father loves you and wants your happiness and that la iglesia
es verdadera!!!!!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Les quiero!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KRUns7EJNOI/VqZ8SbORIeI/AAAAAAAABTM/AbmmBw1b-UY/s1600/100_9999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KRUns7EJNOI/VqZ8SbORIeI/AAAAAAAABTM/AbmmBw1b-UY/s400/100_9999.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How I Feel About My Mission</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4CrlXN9m5j8/VqZ8PRNQQQI/AAAAAAAABTE/drlcmK-fGHE/s1600/101_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4CrlXN9m5j8/VqZ8PRNQQQI/AAAAAAAABTE/drlcmK-fGHE/s400/101_0003.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Super low gas prices (what's it like in other parts of the world?)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PAlpeGfUa58/VqZ8WFpmNxI/AAAAAAAABTU/4eYQN4ZByzk/s1600/101_0010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PAlpeGfUa58/VqZ8WFpmNxI/AAAAAAAABTU/4eYQN4ZByzk/s400/101_0010.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What happens when the plants think it's spring, but then things freeze</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-71431018840503163072016-01-11T11:35:00.000-08:002016-01-25T11:38:53.845-08:00Happy Spring! Just Kidding...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello people!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Happy spring! Just kidding, I forgot, it's just that way here. It has been so warm out here for the last month that all the plants and animals are confused and think it's spring! All the trees have little buds coming out and there are even a few daffodils coming up! Also, the robins have already started coming back!!! It's started to get really cold again though, so maybe they'll leave and come back later!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Well, this week was a pretty good week. We had interviews with the mission president this week! Those are always the best to help you keep going. We got some super great council on how to help our area:)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Unfortunately, Hermana Nyre got a really bad cold this week, so that grounded us for a couple days, but don't worry she's recovering very well. :) There's a bunch of crazy viruses going around this place! Almost all the sisters in our district are sick! I've been taking vitamins like mad. I don't want to get sick again!!!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> So, I cut my hair today... I don't have a picture yet, but just know that it's shorter... Just kidding, it's not that much shorter. :) Just a lot of layers! My head feels about ten pounds lighter!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Let's see, what other random subject can I jump to? Oh! We started studying Preach my Gospel as a mission. It's probably the best thing ever! I have learned so much just in the last 2 weeks!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways, sorry this is a scramble, not very well put together email... That's basically just how my brain is working these days.<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Que tengan una buena semana!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OPg8M4uH0cQ/VqZ2kCYVGWI/AAAAAAAABSk/_oBU9zkmtEk/s1600/100_9993.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OPg8M4uH0cQ/VqZ2kCYVGWI/AAAAAAAABSk/_oBU9zkmtEk/s400/100_9993.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carolina Sunset</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whFcJuzfAdY/VqZ4Bfl5JSI/AAAAAAAABSw/4VGeJZR6n1w/s1600/confused%252C%2Bgreen%2Bgrass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whFcJuzfAdY/VqZ4Bfl5JSI/AAAAAAAABSw/4VGeJZR6n1w/s400/confused%252C%2Bgreen%2Bgrass.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bright Green, Confused Grass</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: right;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-52288757914199732312015-12-28T18:47:00.000-08:002016-01-03T18:48:20.077-08:00Feliz Ano Nuevo!!!!<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! We definitely did here!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Last week started out a little rough, because I got sick, but I was in perfect health by Thursday. :) We had our Christmas Conference on Tuesday, and it was the best thing of my life. We got to watch the Muppet Christmas Carol! - One of my all-time favorite movies!!!! Plus, I was missing watching it with my family on Christmas, but I got my wish! After that, we had a devotional. President Baker, Sister Baker and the stake president from the Kinston stake, President Walker, spoke. We also had a ton of musical numbers from the missionaries. It was incredible, the spirit was so strong!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Christmas Eve wasn't the most exciting day, because we weekly planned for a lot of it, but we went caroling as a district that evening and that was super fun. It was so hot, though! It was 75 degrees and HUMID. It did not feel like Christmas eve!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Christmas day was great, we went for a nice Christmas walk for exercise and then came home and opened our presents. :) I just want to say thank you to everyone that sent a little package or a card! You really made me feel so loved!!! We had a conference call with the whole mission at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1566115530" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7:30</span></span> to start off our Christmas, and it was incredible, President and Sister Baker are my absolute heros. They have such strong testimonies and love for the Savior. It really was the perfect start to the day. We had breakfast with an amazing sister in our ward named Sister Basset. She's seriously amazing. And we Skyped our families at her house. Seeing my family was so great. I love them sooo much! So that was pretty much the best. That day was a lot of running around making cookies and then delivering them to people in the ward. :) Oh, and that evening we had a spa night with the Hermanas from Clayton, that was nice, not super long, but nice. :)<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So, that was my Christmas. :) I have loved so much that I was really able to focus on the Savior this Christmas. I am so grateful to Him, I can't even imagine what any of our lives would be like if He was never born. I know that He is our Savior with all of my heart and I am so grateful that I get to share the joy that He has brought into my life. I really wouldn't have chosen to spend it in any other way. I'm kinda sad that I only got one Christmas in the mission-field...<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well, until next week. I love you all! Stay safe this week!<br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hermana Fields</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-90745116344499739942015-12-21T18:41:00.000-08:002016-01-03T18:42:30.508-08:00Feliz Navidad!<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hello Friends!!!!<br /><br />This was a good week! We found 5 new investigators! We're so excited! I'm pretty sure that was one of Heavenly Father's Christmas presents for us this week:)<br /><br />We had a really good exchange this week. It was a little different because we had a double exchange because our sister training leaders are over soooo many sisters. So, one of the sisters from Wilson and I went to Goldsboro with Sister Brewer and the other sister training leader and other sister from Wilson went with Hermana Nyre in our area. I learned a TON from Sister Brewer and Sister Young. Sister Brewer is the least trunky, most dedicated missionary I have ever met! I didn't even realize that she only had one more transfer left until someone mentioned it! I want to be like that!<br /><br />While we were on exchanges we had a super great lesson with a member. We just dropped by to share the Christmas video with her. When we went in the sister told us about her day fbeing full of getting Christmas stuff done and how she was just about to start vacuuming. So immediately Sister Brewer dropped her bag on the chair and said, "Where is your vacuum? We can do it!" and so we vacuumed and dusted! The member was so grateful. After that we showed her the video and had a discussion about the love of God and Christ. It was incredible how strong the spirit was as we all shared our testimonies, and I was so happy to be able to leave that spirit in her home as we left. I really believe that a huge reason why we were able to have such a great, very short and simple lesson, was because Sister Brewer was loving enough to offer that service as soon as we walked in the door.<br /><br />I feel like the whole theme of that exchange was service. Later on that evening we passed a car with its hazard lights on and a little later down the road, a man walking. Without hesitation, (I was hesitant because it was dark and the middle of nowhere), Sister Brewer pulled over and asked if he needed help. The man's car was stuck in a muddy ditch so we turned around and we were able to help him push it out (and don't worry Mom, we listened to the spirit to make sure it was safe). The man was so grateful. When we were leaving he said, "I'm going to go back and tell them that out of all the men that past me on this road, it was three itty bitty white ladies that stopped to help me!" It made me so happy that we were able to help him and be an example, that I didn't even care that one of my shoes was covered in mud! It was a great feeling! I want to learn how to better see those service opportunities all the time!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We were also able to help a sister in the ward set up for her Christmas party! It was so fun! We made these cute drink labels while she ran around getting everything else done. It really made me remember how much I want to make cute, crafty decorations for parties all the time and how much I want to do weddings... We'll see where life leads me! Anyway, it was a super awesome, service-y week. :)<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well, I love you all dearly and I hope you have the most wonderful, Christ-centered Christmas you have ever had!!!! Remember that Christ is the reason we celebrate!!!!!!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">La iglesia es verdadera!!!!<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Les Quiero!!!<br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hermana Fields</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hSBketKY8h0/VonbZLrcTjI/AAAAAAAABPA/0BCpk2ixCPs/s1600/100_1267.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hSBketKY8h0/VonbZLrcTjI/AAAAAAAABPA/0BCpk2ixCPs/s320/100_1267.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EWNgT7cduxQ/VonbaIrrdYI/AAAAAAAABPE/VXth9wlUd44/s1600/100_1270.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EWNgT7cduxQ/VonbaIrrdYI/AAAAAAAABPE/VXth9wlUd44/s320/100_1270.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-YPDLf7_Mg/VonbVPF9hXI/AAAAAAAABO4/xwin7gsbevA/s1600/SAM_9872.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-YPDLf7_Mg/VonbVPF9hXI/AAAAAAAABO4/xwin7gsbevA/s400/SAM_9872.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-15165677893183361082015-12-14T18:26:00.000-08:002016-01-03T18:42:59.556-08:00Transfer!<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hello friends!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sorry ! My consistent writing skills have been lacking lately. Things have gotten very busy around here! For those of you who don't already know, we closed our area in Virginia Beach, and all 3 of us moved to North Carolina. I moved to Smithfield, Hermana Reed to Clayton (which she opened last year), and Hermana Child is opening an area in Mt. Olive. So, here I am in North Carolina again! With Hermana Nyre again! It's been super weird being companions again. We were only not companions for 12 weeks, but for some reason that was a long time! We're both so different, but the same... It's weird stuff!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The weather here is SUPER different. It was getting pretty cold in Virginia, but here it's still in the 70s and high 60s. It definitely does not feel like Christmas!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This ward is HUGE! Well, maybe it just seems big because I'm so used to tiny Spanish branches... We just have a little Spanish group here in a big English ward, which is super different for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That's about all I got for this week.... I love you all! Stay warm and safe!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Feliz Navidad!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hermana Fields</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fR9zX7yaCfs/VonXPgJi3RI/AAAAAAAABOg/Vq4xv839xSw/s1600/100_1182.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fR9zX7yaCfs/VonXPgJi3RI/AAAAAAAABOg/Vq4xv839xSw/s400/100_1182.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Virginia Beach Compañeras</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v3KHdQ7XGsI/VonXITf3RII/AAAAAAAABOY/iOeL279CzKw/s1600/100_1253.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v3KHdQ7XGsI/VonXITf3RII/AAAAAAAABOY/iOeL279CzKw/s400/100_1253.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Smithfield, NC!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pm-F5OFRA10/VonXTPhRlyI/AAAAAAAABOo/c9Gu5FSCFRw/s1600/DSCF4355.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pm-F5OFRA10/VonXTPhRlyI/AAAAAAAABOo/c9Gu5FSCFRw/s400/DSCF4355.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New/Old Compañeras</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o3dhaoFKzmE/VonWH6u8-MI/AAAAAAAABOQ/n1DZ1kCBtXw/s1600/100_1245.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o3dhaoFKzmE/VonWH6u8-MI/AAAAAAAABOQ/n1DZ1kCBtXw/s400/100_1245.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Going back to North Carolina :)</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-54670551297432480302015-11-24T17:39:00.004-08:002015-11-24T17:39:28.612-08:00(One Year)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hola!</span></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How is everyone doing?! </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">HAPPY THANKSGIVING!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well, it's starting to finally be wintery around here and I finally had to get out my coat!!! Sorry, it's been a couple of weeks since I have written. Things have been pretty crazy around here, and I've been trying to figure out college stuff. </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This was a good week; we had a miracle! There is a sister that we have been working with for a long time that takes care of her non-member "companion's" (not boyfriend because they are both older people) two grandsons. The older one is 8 and a super sweet little boy. We have been thinking about asking if he would like to be baptized for a couple weeks because he goes to church every week, and he loves it. So, this week we went to teach and right after we walked in the door Lemuel says, "Guess what sisters!? I'm 8 and I'm going to get baptized!" Later on in our lesson he came in so we asked him about why he wanted to get baptized and he said that he had thought about it for a long time. Margie asked him what made him decide to do it and he said, "I thought and I thought and thought. Then one day you asked me grandma, so I knew that I should!" This is a little 8 year old! So we told him that our job was to help people get ready to get baptized and we asked him if we could teach him about it. He told us that he would have to think about it. We told him he could pray, too. So he went upstairs and at the end of the lesson he came back down and said, "I decided. Yes." It was the cutest thing I have ever seen! This little boy made that decision all on his own! We are already seeing blessings from trying to work through members more!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So, I didn't have time to write last week, but we had a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy come do a mission tour this week. It was amazing. It was Elder Mervyn B. Arnold and his wife. He talked a lot about working with members more. He also had a special devotional for our Spanish branch and the branch in Newport News. It was sooo great to see everyone from my old area again! I miss them so much!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well, I've got to get going, but I hope you all have a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">La iglesia es verdadera!!!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hermana Fields</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-60599614927364390292015-11-09T20:07:00.001-08:002015-11-09T20:07:28.687-08:00"Noche de la Hispanidad"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hola!</span></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How is everyone doing this week?! </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Things are going really well here. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">:)</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> I can't believe that I've only been here in Virginia Beach for two weeks. It feels like forever already! I don't mind though, because last transfer went way too fast and I want all the time I can get doing this amazing work!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This week in the ward we had a "Noche de la Hispanidad." It was the funnest. Because there are people from so many different countries in our branch, we had a big dinner where they set up different tables with food from all the different countries. Then later they did some dances from Mexico, Ecuador and Honduras. All the Mexicans, as you can see in the picture, went all out on their table!!!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Afterwards they moved all the tables and everyone just danced! It was super fun to watch! Too bad we're missionaries and can't dance.... And, our investigator came!!! And also, one of Hermana Reed's long lost cousins came, too! </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This week, I have been reading the book <i>Our Heritage</i>. If you don't know what that is, it's a short(ish) history of the church. Those saints in the beginning went through so much!!! Now, I'm just super pumped to keep carrying forth the work they started!!! If you haven't read it, I encourage you to do it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">:)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Got to go, but I hope you all have a blessed week!!!!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">La iglesia es verdadera!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hermana Fields</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rQhwPsEwhVs/VkFszgkNyqI/AAAAAAAABJU/AOYncqws1pQ/s1600/noche%2Bde%2Bla%2Bhispanidad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rQhwPsEwhVs/VkFszgkNyqI/AAAAAAAABJU/AOYncqws1pQ/s400/noche%2Bde%2Bla%2Bhispanidad.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noche de la Hispanidad - Mexico</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GeSZ7CTweMU/VkFszvnhjGI/AAAAAAAABJY/lg9gAwm3gAM/s1600/district.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GeSZ7CTweMU/VkFszvnhjGI/AAAAAAAABJY/lg9gAwm3gAM/s400/district.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J_29wHjJuW8/VkFsy5A0ZvI/AAAAAAAABJQ/0pbB9ossHRc/s1600/susi%2Band%2Bcutie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J_29wHjJuW8/VkFsy5A0ZvI/AAAAAAAABJQ/0pbB9ossHRc/s400/susi%2Band%2Bcutie.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>
<div>
<br /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-65588511879974431722015-11-04T18:40:00.000-08:002015-11-04T18:40:29.596-08:00Virginia Beach!<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hola friends! I hope you all had a very safe, happy Halloween!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">After the longest week of my life, I made it! Here I am, in Virginia Beach. Our area is massive. It covers all of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake and Portsmouth. Thank heavens we split it with Elders!!! Sometimes when you have been on your mission for almost a year, you start to feel really old, so Heavenly Father gives you a big new area to make you feel dumb again:)</span></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I realized that I forgot to say who my new companions are! Surprise, I'm in a trio! again! I'm with Hermana Child and Hermana Reed, my MTC companion!!!!!! We're so excited to be spending our 1 year mark together this month:) Can you believe that it's been a whole year?! It's been pretty cool to see how far we have both come in the year since we were companions:)</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We didn't do anything for Halloween, we had to be inside by dark so there wasn't much to do. We thought about tracting and seeing if we could get any candy, but we decided against it. Some little girls ran up to us and said, "What are y'all for halloween?" We told them that we are missionaries and they said, "Oh!" Then one of them said, "I do NOT go to a church." And the other one said, "She is NOT my sister if you were thinking that she is. She's not." It was hilarious.</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry this is a short email this week! I'll let y'all know more about what's going on here when I get it figured out!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a wonderful week!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">LA IGLESIA ES VERDADERA!!!!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-62410596645616914972015-10-26T18:35:00.000-07:002015-11-04T18:36:41.465-08:00Transfers<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, </span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> It looks like I'm saying goodbye to Newport News this week. After six months, it's definitely hard to say goodbye to all the people that have become your family. But, when God (as in like, you know, <u>that</u> God that created and runs the universe) tells you that you need to be somewhere else, you kinda' have to listen. So, this week I'm packing up and heading to Virginia Beach:)</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, after that dramatic intro.... We had a good week here! Our mission finished the Book of Mormon this week, which was just the best. I have never read the Book of Mormon that fast and probably won't again. We also had interviews with President Baker this week, which were also just the best, President Baker is soooooooo inspired. He and Sister Baker are just the best.</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This week I have decided to "ponderize" Matthew <span style="color: navy;">16:25.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> "For whosoever will save his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>life</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>shall</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lose it: and whosoever will lose his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>life</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for my sake<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>shall</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>find</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>it."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I realized last night that I really don't have that much longer to be out here on my mission and all I want is to learn as much as I possibly can. I don't want to go home even close to the same person. So from now on, I'm going to try my hardest to completely forget my own life and serve God and everyone around me, because I know that if I do, I'll come out of the end of this mission thing exactly the kind of person God wants me to be:)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope you all have a blessed week!<br />LA IGLESIA ES VERDADERA!!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PS sorry I don't have any pictures, this computer can't find my camera...</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-88093850591641770382015-10-12T21:50:00.000-07:002015-10-12T21:50:51.177-07:00Birthday and General Conference<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sorry it's been a little bit!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Things have been going spectacularly, here. :) We had a really good week, working really hard, and Heavenly Father is blessing us a lot!:)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">General Conference was, of course, incredible! It amazes me every time how Heavenly Father can answer prayers through those inspired men and women! President Uchtdorf's talk was written for me, just so you know. I also want you all to know that if you ask God, "What lack I yet?" He will answer you. I tried it, and He told me that I need to be more on time for everything. Yup, that's what I'm working on this week!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I had an amazing birthday last week! Thank you so much to all of you for the birthday wishes!!! The amazing relief society presidency planned a surprise dinner for me complete with "Chocoflan" cake. (Chocolate cake with flan in it.) It was pretty dang good. And fun, we got to teach the kids about following the prophet,after ,and it was just the best:</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sorry this is a short email! But, we had a really good week last week, and we found a lot of new potential investigators. And, we were able to meet with a lot of people that we haven't been able to in a while. :)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I hope you all have a fantastic, blessed week! La iglesia es verdadera!!!!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hermana Fields</span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orHvMKGXVhI/VhyKiLbLqPI/AAAAAAAABHY/wEB5f72pYOc/s1600/20th%2Bbirthday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orHvMKGXVhI/VhyKiLbLqPI/AAAAAAAABHY/wEB5f72pYOc/s400/20th%2Bbirthday.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chocoflan Cake from the RS. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Gracias a Hna. Piggott for sending me this photo. ~Angela)</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wpQMLflQOlE/VhyKtapnFrI/AAAAAAAABHg/g945pruSB1E/s1600/cropped%2Bbday%2Bfrom%2Bcompaneras.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wpQMLflQOlE/VhyKtapnFrI/AAAAAAAABHg/g945pruSB1E/s400/cropped%2Bbday%2Bfrom%2Bcompaneras.jpg" width="346" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happy Birthday from las compañeras</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j7Ewt0bXGII/VhyKzCTtl3I/AAAAAAAABHo/e-vzKrmCz3U/s1600/more%2Bcolor%2Bbox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j7Ewt0bXGII/VhyKzCTtl3I/AAAAAAAABHo/e-vzKrmCz3U/s400/more%2Bcolor%2Bbox.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Birthday package from home.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kOP_PPBF7Z0/VhyLE_kWqdI/AAAAAAAABHw/x2hwKezGt3Q/s1600/100_1051%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kOP_PPBF7Z0/VhyLE_kWqdI/AAAAAAAABHw/x2hwKezGt3Q/s400/100_1051%255B1%255D.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Birthday signs from home.</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><3</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-31571000469755473832015-09-28T12:57:00.000-07:002015-09-28T12:57:54.894-07:00"The cockroaches are coming! The cockroaches are coming!"<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This has been a crazy week, people! The good news is: We made it through and we're all alive!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I guess I should explain my heading.... Our apartment is overrun with nasty little beasts... Not that I'm complaining. I just didn't realize that I would have this problem as a stateside missionary. I guess it just adds to the adventure! We actually had to sleep at our sister training leader's house last night because of it. Hopefully, we can get that fixed soon...</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This week we had zone conference, which was incredibly inspiring. However, we got Tiwi's put in our cars at the conference... For all of you who don't know what that is, it's a monitoring device that yells at you if you speed, or go over a bump too fast, or anything like that. Not that that should matter because I'm an amazingly safe driver, it's just kind of obnoxious.... We also got our car inspected, and guess what companionship won cleanest car in the Zone? Yup. We did:)</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We also had exchanges and the broadcast of the General Women's Meeting this week. Exchanges were pretty crazy. Hna. Buchanan and I stayed with Sister Carlson. By the time we were done with studies and lunch, every appointment we had had texted us and cancelled... and it just sorta went downhill from there. Since it was such a crazy day, we decided we needed to go to the newly opened Café Rio for dinner. Being in that building is like being in Utah again, people. It's the only one for miles, so it's always full of members. Why do Mormons like Café Rio so much? I have no idea, but it's great. So we were standing in line and we saw a member from one of the wards. He came over and talked to us for a second and then handed us some money and told us to buy our dinner with it. That was the biggest tender mercy of my entire life!!!! And then, to make sure I really knew that God still loved me, He sent TWO more people to offer to buy our meals! Can you believe that?! I was sooooo grateful to those kind souls! It made my entire day! And then, of course, after that we watched Women's conference, which was absolutely amazing!!!! I see a book coming out any day of Pres. Uchdorf's parable.</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, I hope you all have an amazing conference weekend and that you all watch it and learn a lot and feel the spirit:) Have a blessed week!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160701382407739080.post-77544682001115045502015-09-21T14:04:00.001-07:002015-09-21T14:04:33.785-07:00On Being a Trainer<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hola!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This has been a crazy week. Driving for the first time in 10 months, leading an area and training is a little scary, but we made it and we are alive! My new companions are Hermana Mardis, like I said last week, and our new missionary is Hermana Buchanan! There is a picture of us below. I just love these two beautiful women so much! They are the best! Hna. Mardis is from Cedar City and Hna. Buchanan is from Layton.</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a pretty great little miracle happen this week. We have really been struggling in our area to find anyone new to teach, so we went tracting in a trailer park that hasn't been tracted in a long time. On the third trailer we walked up to this man. He comes over and starts talking to us through the screening around his porch. He was kinda being weird and grumpy. He kept saying stuff about how there is only one God, but we couldn't really understand what he was getting at because his English was kinda broken. So I said, "This is a ramdom question, but, where are you from?" He said that he was from Guatemala. So I said, "Entonces, habla e<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="es"><span class="hps">spañol</span></span> ?" He nodded, and I said,"Nosotras tambien!" When I said that, he completely changed. There was suddenly a smile on his face and he asked us to come in and if we wanted anything to drink. I had to try not to laugh, he went from grumpy and closed off, to open and super nice in less than a second. We taught him the Restoration lesson and he said he would really think and pray about it. We'll see what happens!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope you all have a fantastic week! </span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember that God loves you!</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, </span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hermana Fields</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G6RS8NSSMus/VgBv1qdRn5I/AAAAAAAABFs/wWL7EiCF8vU/s1600/4x6%2Bhnas.%2Bmardis%252C%2Bbuchanan%252C%2Band%2Bme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G6RS8NSSMus/VgBv1qdRn5I/AAAAAAAABFs/wWL7EiCF8vU/s400/4x6%2Bhnas.%2Bmardis%252C%2Bbuchanan%252C%2Band%2Bme.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hermanas Mardis, Buchanan and Me!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x1iFuQDzq5E/VgBvzhPkRGI/AAAAAAAABFg/e1ZGllU5qS4/s1600/4x6%2Bmy%2Btostada%2Bhamburger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x1iFuQDzq5E/VgBvzhPkRGI/AAAAAAAABFg/e1ZGllU5qS4/s400/4x6%2Bmy%2Btostada%2Bhamburger.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Hamburger "tostada" - #ThatGlutenFreeLife </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PpSJsJY8Bn0/VgBv1Kiv2jI/AAAAAAAABFo/bjf3S6oWz94/s1600/my%2Blast%2Bdistrict%2Bcropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="281" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PpSJsJY8Bn0/VgBv1Kiv2jI/AAAAAAAABFo/bjf3S6oWz94/s400/my%2Blast%2Bdistrict%2Bcropped.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My last district</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792729142305289418noreply@blogger.com0