Dear Everyone! (April 1)

Okay, so I DON'T have a whole lot of time! Easter was good! We went to three different sacrament meetings and sang in two diff

erent on-the-spot chiors. Crazy good stuff! So, we haven't had any new investigators and we had to hand James and Jun off to the Chinese Elders since they're now going to a Chinese ward. They didn't get baptized on their date, but I have every ounce of confidence that that WILL get baptized! And soon at that!

As far as how the work is going we've been working a TON with less active members! And I LOVE it! I feel like my purpose for being here in Salt Lake is to totally strengthen these center stakes of Zion! And, for some reason or other, I always feel WAY more comfortable teaching less active people than I do with investigators. Maybe it has something to do with having their salvation in my hands and all that. But yeah. It's good!

...I'm trying to think of what else I can say. Hmm. Transfers are coming up on April 10th so there's always that possibility of being transfered. I am WAY OOBER excited for Conference! We're going to go to a family in the ward's house and watching it on their HUGE flat screen. (I'll have to send you pictures of the couple! They're like one of our favorites!). Also, did I mention that my companion's birthday is on the 8th and mine's on the 7th? So yeah. WAY fun! We're going to do all sorts of fun things next weekend! But I am WAY excited for conference!

So we've had a lot of crazy things happen to us -crazy good and crazy bad. Like yesterday, I talked to this woman and she walked up to me, put her hands on my shoulders, looked me in the eye and said: "I HATE Mormons." So yeah, that was weird! But we just brushed it off and kept on going. Later on that day, we ran into several people who were OOBER happy and nice and although few of them wanted to listen to the message, they were very curtious about it. We're currently teaching about six less active members and it's in the works to start teaching more of them. So yeah. Gotta love that!

Other than that, I'm not exactly sure what updates I can give. The weeks are SO full, but when Pday comes around I can never remember all of them... Anyway. I love you all SO MUCH!!! I hope you have a GREAT rest of your week and I hope you think of me as you share the gospel with all your friends and coworkers, etc.

I love you ALL dearly!

All My Love,

Sister Willis

P.S. Happy Early Brithday Jacob!!!

So Amazing! (March 25th)

This week has been SO AMAZING!!! I am SO EXCITED!! The jist of all my excitement comes from what happened last night! Here's what I told my mission president:

 

"Last night was a BIG testimony building experience. My companion and I (along with a member) were able to teach our investigators [Jun and James -that chinese couple] and put them on date. The lesson revolved around our Heavenly Father's Plan for His children and how that plan was the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We talked about baptism and how that was opens that gate on the path back to our Father in Heaven. They understood it's importance and desired to be on that path and to have that enabaling power of the Holy Ghost to keep them on that path. The spirit in that lesson was incredible! My companion and I were SO excited and the member (a young woman who will be leaving on her mission at the beginning of May) felt that same excitement for her own mission! "This is real!" she kept saying. "This is what it feels like to be a missionary!" I loved it!" We have a lesson with them again on Wednesay and we'll have it at the church building by the baptismal font. Aaaand, they don't know it yet, but we're going to drop by tomorrow night and teach them another lesson. I am WAY excited! They are SUCH amazing people!

 

ALSO! Riiiight after that we had a few minutes left of the night and we were driving and the member looks out the window and says "I feel like that house is poking out at me! I feel like we should stop!" So, of course, we did! We pulled over, literally jumped out of the car, and literally ran to the house and up the porch steps. We knocked on the door and a woman answered. She said that she was just getting ready for bed and we told her that we shared a message about Jesus and about how families can be together forever. By the looks of it, the woman was not a member. She said that'd be good and said that would could stop by tomorrow night (now tonight!) and it was WAY good!

 

Also, I can't rememeber if I told you about Yoko. Yoko is the less active woman with the desk. Anyway, we taught her on Thursday and it was amazing! She's been praying and reading her scriptures and she's been taking notes!! She has this binder that she writes notes in and all the things that are happening. I love her so much!! I comitted her to continue reading the Book of Mormon, only this time, she's going to share the stories with her son! She was excited about that and said she'd do it! We'll get to teach her again Thursday and I am SO excited!

 

We've been working a LOT with less active memebers! Yesterday we had a lesson with a young girl who has never been active and it was WAY good too! She was SO sincere and SO desiring to know more and to have that strong relationship with her Father in Heaven! Tonight we have a lesson with a less active family and we had another one Friday! I told my companion the other day that if I never got a single baptism but reactived a lot of people I would be totally and completely happy!

 

I love missionary work! I love my mission!

 

Oh! That reminds me! I haven't heard from Jessica yet and it's driving me bonkers! How is she doing?? Did she write you?? Did she email?? What's going on!?

 

Anyway, I hope you are ALL sharing your testimonies and reading the Book of Mormon every day! I just finished it last week and I've started again and I'm hoping to finish before the next transfer which is just a couple days before my birthday! So yeah, I figure if I read at least twenty pages a day I'll finish. Haha. Yikes! Wish me luck!

 

Hmm.. I feel like I have SO much to say and yet I can't think of anything else! I guess I'll just send this one out there and then send some pictures right after. If I think of anything else to say I'll shoot out another email.

 

So yeah. Rules are I can email anyone I want so long as their not in my mission boundaries. So... you should email me back! I miss ALL of you tremendously!!! Like. It's ridiculous!!

 

I'm sending all of my love in the sunshine!

Love, Sister Willis

Dear Everyone! (March 18th)