Week #30

Sah fam.

What's up? It's been a good week. My mission is getting Facebook. That's cool. We are being trained on it and I think it's going to be an effective way to share testimonies and gospel messages.

 We had a district activity in the woods today. I got a poison oak rash on my arm.  Awesome. It's been a pretty normal week full of knocking and teaching. One of our new investigators is named Aaron, and we finally got him to start reading the Book of Mormon!! He loves the old testament because of how insane and violent it is. We got him to read the Book of Mormon cause we told him it was even more violent than the Old Testament. He texted us one day after reading and said "LABAN GETS HIS HEAD CUT OFF WITH HIS OWN SWORD. NEPHI IS TOTALLY BADA**!!" Same Aaron. Same.

Good news, September 1st happened and the weather dropped 20 degrees and I'm loving life. We had a crazy homeless man follow us around this week, and then he tried to break into the church building while we were using the bathroom. That was pretty fun. President is now making us carry Mace with us.

 shout out to Courtney for turning 27 years old today and to Bowen for being 16, single, and ready to mingle!!! I hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day!!!

Ether 12:27

Love,

 

Sister Hannah Thomas🖤
1575 Yauger Rd #24 
Mount Vernon, OH
43050

Week #29

Sup world? How goes it?

Its been an amazing week here in the Great OCM...some really awesome news is coming up in a few weeks...STAY TUNED lol.

President Stratford has set some new rules about temple attendance for missionaries. We get to go on our 6 month mark, one year mark, and 18 month mark, so since I hit 6 months several weeks ago, (woot woot) we get to go the temple today!!!! Yay!!! That is why I am emailing on a Tuesday, we worked on Monday. I ain't apostate, just going to the temple lol.

Sister Steinagel and I have worked our butts off the past couple of weeks, so ya know, we have seen lots of miracles. A new family moved into the ward and the mother is less active and one of her daughter's is not a member, so we are now going to start teaching her daughter!!!! She is so cool, and she let us hold her cute little pet snakes and now I think I want one. 

We have been working a lot with less active members and trying to resolve concerns and help them be "rebaptized through the sacrament" lol. We have been teaching a member named Glenn who was baptized in the 70's when he was a teenager because his whole family was being baptized. He knows little to nothing about the church, so we have been teaching him.  We had an awesome lesson with him and some members in the ward and he FINALLY committed to read the Book of Mormon!!! Yay!!

We also had an amazing lesson with our investigator on date, Kim. Her husband is a less active member who is finding his way back to church. We talked with them about temples, and eternal marriage, and it was the most spiritual lesson I have ever been able to be apart of. (': it was tender to hear Kim's husband testify about the temple and express how he can't wait to be sealed to her there. I cried. It's fine. I have become the softest human being in the entire world. I'm like the Grinch.  The mission has made my heart grow 3 sizes and I just cry all the time now.

Sister Steinagel and I were asked to teach Young Women's this past week, and I thought they were gonna ask us to teach about like missionary work or something, right?? WRONG. We were asked to teach on chastity and dating.  I 'm just an awkward soul, so you can imagine how the lesson went. All the girls asked us if we had a boyfriend back at home or a boy on a mission that we were writing, and I got all awkward cause I am scared of boys cause Elders smell bad, so I kinda just looked at them and said, "haha. No..." NONE OF THEM BELIEVED ME (Which was kinda flattering I ain't gonna lie) BUT NOW THEY ALL THINK I HAVE SOME NICE BYU BOY BACK AT HOME. Yikes!!! They keep asking for photos!!!! I don't have a boy at home!!! SOS!!! Who's gonna tell them, cause I tried!!!! It didn't work!!! Sister Steinagel told me to show them a picture of Shia LeBouf because thinks he would be my "celebrity boyfriend match."  Ummmm....no!

Anyway, the work is good.  I love you all. God is so good. He truly loves us all. I see how His love changes lives everyday.

Have a good week and be nice to each other!!

Ps. Everyone go on your gospel library app and go look up the Religious Freedom tab and watch all the videos. They are AMAZING!!!

Sister Hannah Thomas🖤
1575 Yauger Rd #24 
Mount Vernon, OH
43050