Just Sparkle!

March 24, 2014

Just Sparkle!

WELL HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is a special day because it is PDAY!!!! Hip Hip Hooray! In n.o.r.m.a.l. life terms it is like the weekend! ....but not really, because P-day is the busiest day ever. No joke.

This week was full of adventures! All of which were awesome! I am so blessed to be able to serve a mission. I am so blessed to have a wonderful and supportive family. I am so blessed to have angels round about me to bear me up when I need comfort.

I have found lots of spiritual strength in prayer. I know that I can pour out my thoughts, desires, dreams, and fears to the Lord whenever. He in turn sends His comforter to guide me and bring peace. I know that this power is real.

Yesterday night we were eating dinner at the Jones' house! I always feel so much love and they always, always, always lift my spirits. Brother Jones shared a spiritual thought with us instead of us sharing with them :) He told us about a movie called Camelot (never seen it) and how at the end there is a young boy that wants to become a knight. He wants to have honor and fight for the right. One of the knights makes him a knight and the others ask why? He says that this boy will only be a drop in the water...but he sparkles! Then Brother Jones told us that all missionaries sparkle....(I don't' think the elders sparkle but that is a personal opinion :)) I love that! We can just sparkle :)

Here is my week:

Monday:

This was such a busy, busy, busy day! We went to Seagull Book so that Sister P could get some fun church stuff. Then we got a car wash, went to walley world, and then had zupas and then we wrapped up p-day with some good ol' emailing then we started proselyting at 6pm! We went and visited Ashley and Tim!! She is already in 2 Nephi!!!!! She is also going to help fellowship our new investigator Chelsea!!!! Yay!!!! Then we went by to visit the Genobaga family. They are from Laie, HI!!!!! Talking to them always brings back all my Hawaii days :) We also saw a lady named Lily. She is a member and her husband is not. Her son AJ is almost 8 and he wants to be baptized. We are teaching him the lessons in a kid friendly way! Lily's husband sits in and participates :) It is such a blessing! Chermayne told us that she didn't want to take lessons anymore and that was hard.

Tuesday:

WE HAD ZONE CONFERENCE!!! It was the best zone conferenceIi have ever been to! We were trained on how to make green smoothies!!! How cool is that :) It was super fun! We also learned about how to teach better. I am always trying to improve my teaching skills. That same day we had correlation meeting with Bro. Morris and the ward missionaries. They are so so so supportive :)

Wednesday:

WEDNESDAY WAS SO CRAZY FUN!!!!! I went on exchanges with Sister Pulliam. She is the funniest sister missionary in Vegas...(besides me) not!!! We had 7 member present lesson set up! We ran around like crazy! It was so super awesome! I got to teach one of Sister Davis and my old investigators, Carlie. She moved into the other sisters area a few months ago. It was so so, so awesome to reconnect and catch up with her. The highlight of my day was our lesson with Ronnie. He is getting baptized this Saturday and it is going to be extravagant. He wants to have a white carpet leading up to the font...and he wants to have his dog Chipper baptized too. He even got Chipper a jumpsuit with "angel" bedazzled on the back. He also wants to release hundreds of white butterflies right after his baptism. He is super cray cray. It was great!

Thursday:

Was a jam packed day! We taught Dustin and Maddie! They are doing well and Dustin wants to be baptized by April 26th! Thank goodness! We were able to reconnect with a former investigator...Liz! We taught a lesson to her at a less actives home! It was great to see her light up when she saw us! We went by to visit Sister Hymas who just had a knee replacement. She was walking around pretty well! It was super great to lift her spirits. She is so strong! What a great example. :)

Friday:

Today was pretty normal day of missionary life. :) We were able to visit Dustin and Maddie and invite them to a service project at the Pittman Wash. We then were able to visit a member that had just moved into the ward and her name is Alberta :) She is really nice. We then had dinner at the Bybee's house :D They are great!!They fed us Little Caesars pizza! It reminded me of home. We always eat little seizures at home. Yum!! We then were able to meet with a recent convert family and we were teaching there little 6 year old and she told her parents that she is going to get baptized when she turns 8 and that her dad is going to baptize her because her mommy's leg hurts too much. hahaha :) She is super cute!! We then were able to see the lovely Sister Jones and talk to her for a bit :) She is amazing and we LOVE her soo much :) Her daughter is in Scotland right know on a mission and one of her daughters is about to have a baby girl!!! Life is GREAT hear in the Quail Ridge ward!!! The members are amazing and we just LOVE everyone here and the hard work that they put in to help us with the work.

Saturday:

It was a service day all day!! We helped clean out the Pittman Wash :) There was a lot of bottles down there and we found a trash can that was broken. It looked like someone was trying to clean but then got really bored and just left the trash can and mess. Hahaha :) We also helped Sister Morris dust her house :) They made us Breakfast in return! It was delicious :) I love when members make us breakfast, especially when it is for dinner. BREAKFAST DINNER IS THE BEST!!!!

Sunday:

Was a miracle day!! :D SISTER LANEY AND KAYLEE CAME TO CHURCH!!!!! We went to church and we were spiritually re-energized and we got to teach gospel principles and we taught about having agency and the consequences of our choices. It was really fun and then right after church we had a lesson with our investigator Chelsea and we had an awesome spiritual lesson with them and she is going to get baptized on April 19!!!! It was an amazing lesson :) And she even said that we were meant to go to her house. And she has been having a really tough time lately so I am glad we were able to help her a little bit.

Thanks for reading all my adventures! I hope that you all have a wonderful week!

LOVE YOU!!!!

love,

sister tucker