Sister Emma Petty Charleston West Virginia

  Oh my goodness hello all you amazing people!! Agh, I just love you all so much :) I can't say it enough! Today we went on a nice little run and this old man stopped us and talked for a while... then he proceeded to follow us on his bike- bashing the church, trying to tear down our faith and everything we believe. So that was an odd workout!! I realize it's not everyday we are chased down by old men and forced to stand by our beliefs, but the principle is the same: When people tear you down it does not feel good. It just doesn't :/ So that is where we get the responsibility to BE A BUILDER!! This life is hard enough, we don't need anyone else tearing down. Mortality has that covered. We get to follow Jesus Christ and focus on lifting people back up :) Here's a couple quotes I like about building! " Being happy doesn't mean to slap a plastic smile on your face no matter what is going on. But it does mean keeping the laws of God and building and lifting othe...

  Hey yall! This has been such a good one! And I'm so sorry- I'm out of time so I apologize if this makes no sense at all! But here we go anyway! But this week we accidentally went to a concert... but then it worked out because we got to dance with these cute girls who said they were "very interested" in learning about our beliefs- yay!! Oh, other miracle, I've been having these really bad constant headaches that NEVER go away (kind of the most annoying thing) but for some reason every time I teach someone my pain completely goes away! Isn't that so cool?? I think it's the best tender mercy ever :) We had so many other good things, but I just want to share the biggest thing I learned with you- how to turn to the Lord in the good AND the bad times. Sometimes I focus on what we can do when things are hard, but lately I've been wondering what it looks like to lean on the Lord in your good moments too. And here's what I got: GRATITUDE!! We don't ju...

  HELLO AMAZING PEOPLE! How are yall doing?? Agh I just hope that life is treating you so well :) This week has been exciting for sure! Just so many good moments and exciting things- we got to drive on the Martinsville Speedway (SO FUN), I sat on a bee, we went to some festivals, dealt with an awful spider that keeps making webs all across our front door, and met a guy who pretended to be the cookie monster then tried to bite my companion's hand off. So looking back on it I guess it was a pretty typical week. You know what I learned this week?? Never EVER complain about not having enough time. Earlier this week we were looking at our to do list and I just thought- there is no way. NO WAY we could get it all done! You know what happened right after that?? Literally back to back we received calls asking us to teach the District Council Lesson, speak at church on Sunday, and run the new mission facebook page (the previous six are being combined into one with us and another set of miss...

  H ey hey yall!! This week has been one for the books :) We had a TON of things happen, even though we had a few things slow us down... we got locked out (guess whos fault that was. Yep, mine!) and Sister Collotzi had to ram the door down. But by the power of God we got back into the apartment without calling a locksmith! Yay! Also by the power of God we have survived over a week of driving on a flat tire, so that's pretty cool! Didn't slow us down one bit!  This week we realized we needed to do a whole lot of finding, so as we were praying to be led to those who were prepared we got a referral for a man named Wilbert! We showed up at his house and... he was absolutely NOT interested. But instead of giving up, we found that the rest of his family was! We were so excited!! We've met with them a couple times this week and they are really progressing. I know they were so prepared :) It's amazing to me to see the effect missionary work can have on a life. It's affected...