Sister Emma Petty Charleston West Virginia

  Hi everyone!! I hope you are having the BEST day and that you are getting so hyped for Christmas!! I am for sure! This week was really good for us! We got a lot done and we felt a lot of joy in the work which is huge :) I was able to see so many people that I love, from past areas too, and that made my heart so happy! But this week was also really hard, and it tried my faith maybe more than my entire mission combined. I've been having some health problems over the last couple of months, and this week President Lindahl called me and told me that I need to think about going home. And I don't know if you can tell, but I really love my mission and I do NOT want to end it early. So I fought him on that pretty hard, haha.  But after a few days I got over myself and I am now learning to be more humble and submissive to the Lord's will. I'm learning that this trial, whether or not I am sent home, is bringing me closer to God. It's growing me as a disciple of Jesus Christ....

  Hey everybody!! This is gonna be a short one, I definitely procrastinated writing until the last minute, hahaha. But this week has been a little hard and it's hard to look back and see what I learned from it, but I'm gonna try! To be honest with you all, it has been quite a discouraging transfer. It feels like we have been quarantined for most of it, and when we weren't quarantined we were trying to catch up from when we were sick... the few days where all of us felt good weren't all that successful either, so it has been really easy to just look at the dark side the last couple of weeks... Yesterday we got to speak in church and I talked about how Christmas comes at the darkest time of the year, and as I was speaking I realized that the same thing is true in our lives. In the darkest seasons, the ones where we feel like all hope is gone, that is when Christ comes in.  Into the story you thought was past repair, that's where He comes to breath life and light and h...

  Hey hey everybody!! Hope yall are having the BEST day!  This week was a little interesting at first to be honest. We kept having really good first conversations with people while street contacting, and then they would disappear and we would never see them again. It was crazy! It happened back to back like 7 or 8 times. I'm not even kidding, I would look away for a second and they would be gone.  We walked away after one and I just said to my companions, "maybe we just need to learn that we only have one shot so we need to make it count" a few minutes later she walked by us again and we were able to give her a pamphlet with our information! Right when I saw her I felt the spirit whisper that  this is not a one shot gospel. Jesus teaches second chances . And third. And fourth. And as many as we need, as long as we are trying.  That has brought me so much peace!! To know that when my heart is in the right place God really can work with that. Even if I miss the fi...