I'm just emailing to let ya'll know that I won't be able to email you again until after march 31st when I get back to Temple Square. It's a mission rule in the Everett Washington Mission, but just know that I'm doing well. My companion is Sister Halladay, who is awesome, and we're teaching a messload of families and individuals. Some of which are really close to baptism, one said she wants to be baptized, and just let us know tonight. I'm over two wards, a hearing ward and a deaf branch, we live with the deaf branch president, so you can write me at that address for at least the next 4 weeks.
233 19 Cedar Way K201
Mountlake Terrace, Washington, 98043
But, after that... you may want to just write to the mission address.
16124 35th Avenue NE
Mill Creek, Washington 98012
I love you all, and hopefully I'll be good at writing individual letters so all ya'all can hear from me. I'll probably write Amy so she can post stuff on the Blog, whether by scanning it in and forcing you all to read my horrible writing, or by typing it up. Hope to get letters from you all, and I love you all. Email you in 4 months!
Be happy and all that!
LOVE!!!!
~Sister Durtschi of the Sarah Sort (AKA Sister 'D' People have a hard time with my name for some reason here... :P)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Important Announcement!
Hi fellow friends of Sister Sarah.
Tonight Sarah's companion called me to follow up on a referral and told me that transfers had been announced and Sarah will be.....drum roll please....
Going outbound, heading to the Everett Washington Mission for 3 transfers (about 4.5 months).
I'm very excited for her! More information to follow I'm sure :)
Tonight Sarah's companion called me to follow up on a referral and told me that transfers had been announced and Sarah will be.....drum roll please....
Going outbound, heading to the Everett Washington Mission for 3 transfers (about 4.5 months).
I'm very excited for her! More information to follow I'm sure :)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Halfway there and still kicking
My dearest family peoples!
I tell you what, wow! Time flies!!! I’ve been on my mission 9 months minus 5 days! I’m half way! That’s SO crazy!!! I can’t believe how fast it’s gone, and yet I can. It keeps on flying in my face every time I think about it that I’ve changed SO much and that I’ve been here for so long. I can hardly imagine how it would be to not be on a mission… Kind of weird to think about. Someone said that at one point in time on your mission you’re afraid that people will answer the door (Or in my case, that they answer the phone or come to take a tour) At another point in the mission, you’re afraid that they WON’T answer. I’ve gotten to t hat point. I still don’t really like calling, but I do it because I want to talk to people and want them to have the gospel. Same with talking to people around Temple Square.
SO many miracles have happened this week. I was on exchanges for some of the time, but when I wasn’t things seemed to fall into place.
On Saturday we went to family search for a while and almost everyone we talked to wanted to talk to us, which doesn’t normally happen. Usually people just kind of breeze by and ignore us, so it was a very nice change. Especially since I ran into several people who served missions.
On Sunday, sister Fellmann was announcing German and wasn’t horribly excited about it. She’s much more confident speaking French or English than she is at German. So the time came around that Music and the Spoken Word was supposed to get out, and a few people trickled out… but they continued singing. We waited and tried talking to people (I and sister Quist who is from CA as well, and actually went to the same ward I did during the summer… she’s the first sister from CA I’ve known before we were on missions. We were going around and trying to find people that spoke Chinese and German, since her companion speaks Chinese and mine speaks German) but it was kind of awkward since the program was going late. Finally It let out and sister Quist and I were able to find a ton of Chinese speaking people, but no Germans. Since being with sister Droege I’m more or less able to tell when people are from Europe by their dress, so I noticed a couple that was dressed differently and we went to talk to them. They were from Oregon. Bummer. They left so she could “Powder her nose” and Sister Quist went back to her companion and I went back to sister Fellmann. We looked around hoping to find someone who spoke German. No such luck, but the couple came back and searched me out, they wanted to take a tour, so we took them around. It was amazing! They both had really good questions, and asked about Joseph Smith in basically the first stop, we were able to explain things to them, and in between stops, sister Fellmann talked with the man (who is a country singer, hence the different clothes.) and I talked with the woman (they work together, and I think that’s it) She asked many questions, and had a hard time with the Bible because it had been translated so many times, so I explained the book of Mormon. In the end I invited her and she accepted to have the missionaries and the Book of Mormon. It’s pretty amazing.
On Tuesday I was on exchanges with my district leader’s companion. We were in Family Search for about 2 hours and we were able to talk to many different people who were going into the MTC and coming back from their missions. One who was going to the MTC was going to California, Signing! She was signing with a deaf man and we were able to chat for a bit.
On Wednesday (which happened to be Sister Fellmann’s birthday) We didn’t get any of the language tours that we had planned for, but we did find people to take around. Two of which both came in through the south Gate. One was trying to figure out the map, looking confused, so we started talking to him. Sister felllmann noticed a young woman that walked in and went to talk with her too while I talked with the young man. The young woman was from England, so she and sister fellmann hit it off, and the young man was from Texas. They had never met before. We asked them if they wanted us to show them around and they agreed, so we did. They both were interested and asked a lot of questions, and both of them wanted to learn more about family and how they could be together with them forever. It was really neat to see people so excited to learn.
We’ve been having a Preach My Gospel Marathon as a mission where every day but Sunday we go at different times and either the Assistants, President or one of the groups of Zone leaders will teach from Preach my gospel, and we’ll all participate. I love it so far! We’re learning so much! And it helps make it so we’re not just bored trying to contact the same guest 50 different times…
Any ways, love you all lots!!! Be happy and all that jazz type stuffs.
~The sister of the Sarah of the Durtschi sort
I tell you what, wow! Time flies!!! I’ve been on my mission 9 months minus 5 days! I’m half way! That’s SO crazy!!! I can’t believe how fast it’s gone, and yet I can. It keeps on flying in my face every time I think about it that I’ve changed SO much and that I’ve been here for so long. I can hardly imagine how it would be to not be on a mission… Kind of weird to think about. Someone said that at one point in time on your mission you’re afraid that people will answer the door (Or in my case, that they answer the phone or come to take a tour) At another point in the mission, you’re afraid that they WON’T answer. I’ve gotten to t hat point. I still don’t really like calling, but I do it because I want to talk to people and want them to have the gospel. Same with talking to people around Temple Square.
SO many miracles have happened this week. I was on exchanges for some of the time, but when I wasn’t things seemed to fall into place.
On Saturday we went to family search for a while and almost everyone we talked to wanted to talk to us, which doesn’t normally happen. Usually people just kind of breeze by and ignore us, so it was a very nice change. Especially since I ran into several people who served missions.
On Sunday, sister Fellmann was announcing German and wasn’t horribly excited about it. She’s much more confident speaking French or English than she is at German. So the time came around that Music and the Spoken Word was supposed to get out, and a few people trickled out… but they continued singing. We waited and tried talking to people (I and sister Quist who is from CA as well, and actually went to the same ward I did during the summer… she’s the first sister from CA I’ve known before we were on missions. We were going around and trying to find people that spoke Chinese and German, since her companion speaks Chinese and mine speaks German) but it was kind of awkward since the program was going late. Finally It let out and sister Quist and I were able to find a ton of Chinese speaking people, but no Germans. Since being with sister Droege I’m more or less able to tell when people are from Europe by their dress, so I noticed a couple that was dressed differently and we went to talk to them. They were from Oregon. Bummer. They left so she could “Powder her nose” and Sister Quist went back to her companion and I went back to sister Fellmann. We looked around hoping to find someone who spoke German. No such luck, but the couple came back and searched me out, they wanted to take a tour, so we took them around. It was amazing! They both had really good questions, and asked about Joseph Smith in basically the first stop, we were able to explain things to them, and in between stops, sister Fellmann talked with the man (who is a country singer, hence the different clothes.) and I talked with the woman (they work together, and I think that’s it) She asked many questions, and had a hard time with the Bible because it had been translated so many times, so I explained the book of Mormon. In the end I invited her and she accepted to have the missionaries and the Book of Mormon. It’s pretty amazing.
On Tuesday I was on exchanges with my district leader’s companion. We were in Family Search for about 2 hours and we were able to talk to many different people who were going into the MTC and coming back from their missions. One who was going to the MTC was going to California, Signing! She was signing with a deaf man and we were able to chat for a bit.
On Wednesday (which happened to be Sister Fellmann’s birthday) We didn’t get any of the language tours that we had planned for, but we did find people to take around. Two of which both came in through the south Gate. One was trying to figure out the map, looking confused, so we started talking to him. Sister felllmann noticed a young woman that walked in and went to talk with her too while I talked with the young man. The young woman was from England, so she and sister fellmann hit it off, and the young man was from Texas. They had never met before. We asked them if they wanted us to show them around and they agreed, so we did. They both were interested and asked a lot of questions, and both of them wanted to learn more about family and how they could be together with them forever. It was really neat to see people so excited to learn.
We’ve been having a Preach My Gospel Marathon as a mission where every day but Sunday we go at different times and either the Assistants, President or one of the groups of Zone leaders will teach from Preach my gospel, and we’ll all participate. I love it so far! We’re learning so much! And it helps make it so we’re not just bored trying to contact the same guest 50 different times…
Any ways, love you all lots!!! Be happy and all that jazz type stuffs.
~The sister of the Sarah of the Durtschi sort
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