Oh hey its me again 🙂

So heres my week! I hope you enjoy 

Tuesday- so since im in in training for 12 weeks, I do zoom mentor sessions with my mentor once a week! And tuesdays was my last one rest in peace Brother Peck but we had an awesome lesson once again with Ryan and Bina! They ask so many questions about missions and Binas always like i want to go on one and im like girl you gotta get baptized then lol 

Wednesday– we woke up at 5:30 and went to the TEMPLE!!!!! Oh my it was much needed. It was so cool though because right as i walked in i just had the strongest feeling that i was home, which i haven’t felt for a few months 🙂 so it was a super special experience! 

Thursday was a whiplash day holy moly! So we started off the day with a phone call lesson with David Garcia and we planned on teaching the divine mission of Christ and Faith in Christ. And then as we were talking i was like in my head why aren’t we teaching baptism right now. *most definitely the Spirit* So i pointed at the word baptism in my book, looked at sister beauchat and shrugged and she mouthed “you want to?” And i nodded yes, we ended up talking about it and he accepted our invitation to be baptized!!!! We put him on date for September 27th and we will probably get to put his son Izaac on date too!! 

Ok but on the other side of things our friend Byron, remember him? ( he’s been taught for a year and a half, 274 lessons, and has the most interesting questions, and is just an interesting old dude and basically the whole mission knows him because he’s been taught for so long)

HE DROPPED USSSSSSSSSSSS he went around us to our ward mission leader and told him he is fully stepping away from the church   So that is the most wild thing every and very many missionaries are going to be depressed but he has his agency 

Friday my dream came true i was Hermana Martin!! And lets just say going spanish isnt my dream anymore lol i had no clue what anyone said… We had exchanges with our sister training leaders and so i got to go into the spanish area with hermana griffin!!! She used to be my roommate last transfer so we had a gooood time! It was so fun! We helped a member move and tell me why it took 4 elders to take apart a bed frame all while me and hermana griffin sweated it up going up and down the stairs moving mattresses, tables, nightstands, tvs, and bags and bags of stuff to the trailer and we organized the whole trailer. And we were in our dresses lol. I had fun though 🙂 

Saturday was a good day! We talked to lots of people and had an interesting member meal as always! Oh my and the clouds looked spectacular! Wow im obsessed!

Sunday only one friend came to church but that’s ok because as my mom says we do it for the one! But i hope you all had a good sunday and were able to go to church! 

Gratitudes

Ok so a popular scripture that i read in my personal studies this week is 3 Nephi 5:13! It says, “Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” Boom! And i KNOW this applies to all of us, we are all disciples of Christ. But i got thinking on what that actually means and if I fully live my life as His disciple! I wondered, how would my life need to change if I fully took on the responsibility to be His disciple. 

Then i was reminded of one of sister evans’ (may she rest in peace) favorite quotes, it says this at the end, ” I cannot fully be His Special Witness unless my life is fully special.” 

As Christs disciples we need to be His special witnesses which means we need to live special lives so we can be on the Lords errand having the desire to invite all to come unto Christ. 

As I go through everyday of my mission and for the rest of my life I am trying to fully dedicate my life to be Jesus Christs disciple and His special witness. And I invite each of you to do the same with me, because the blessings from heaven will be dumping on us! 

I love you all and don’t forget that! 

Hermana Martin 

Ok wow what a week this week was!! Heres just some highlights! Its kind of all over the place haha so good luck

Miracle from Monday and tuesday — missionaries have been trying to get in contact with a less active member Jennifer for MONTHS (a member in Yam Hill knows her from work and asked the missionaries to reach out to her months ago) and we finally have been able to meet with her 2 days in a row and shes awesomeeeee and we’re going to start teaching her son channing! 

Every wednesday we do weekly planning (3.5 hrs of planning our week) and we have been doing it at barns and nobel and now we are friends with the cafe dude (hes like 20 lol) we besties now haha (dont worry we invite him to church everytime but he says no :()

Thursday we found this super cool dude named Saron and he has the cutest little kids. He wasnt home tho on Saturday for the lesson we scheduled rip …

Friday we taught this guy over the phone, his name is Ranjit. And hes from india and speaks punjabi! He said he was a part of the Sikh religion so i asked him if hes been to the Sikh Parade in Yuba City and he was like ohh yus ive been to that and the temples there in yuba city! I was like yusss Ranjit! I also have to do all the talking because my comp cant understand his indian accent lolllll 

Ok Saturday was genuinely the weirdest day and experience of my whole mission. 

And if i tried to put it all in this email we would be here for hours. But basically we got this referral Estella and she lovesss Jesus and God right BUT apparently she is “the chosen one the north star” like obviously why didnt i realize that but not only that, she is always being followed and can make the trees move and once her soul left her body and was spinning in circles in the air and the earth shook. And another time these demons in a metal ship in the air grabbed her jeep and she yelled at it about how she was the chosen one and the demons left. Oh also she has seen Jesus at 7-elven! 

If you want more, email me and I’ll send the whole story hahaha

And thats not it for Saturday… i got stung by a bee twice and attacked by a spider and saw a bull in the back of a guys pick up truck. 

Anywho 🙂 

Sunday we had a wonderful lesson with Ryan and Bina! And my bestie kingston was having a good old time digging through my bag. Haha

Ok thank you for reading my rants everyone!

Duces

+ sister martin 

Hello there

I hope you all had a super duper week

Tuesday one of our new friends Julio came to our Book of Mormon study whoot whoot and our less active member betty took us out to get blizzards. She’s like 80 and said she gets a large blizzard everyday i was like uhh probs not the best idea …

Wednesday im just going to skip because i have the memory of a fish and even though i wrote in my journal it didnt help

Thursday we had interviews with President and Sister Parker! It was a good time we talked about Spiritual CPR! It’ll save anyone! Church Prayer and Reading the Book of Mormon!! Try it!

Friday was the annual Royal Oaks chicken and corn feed. Literally we just ate chicken and corn. And you best bet i mopped that gym floor clean 

Saturday holy moly this day was cooked! We knocked on probably 100 doors and called 200 people jk but not jking. We worked so hard and didn’t talk to many people but we tried our best. But our member got us orange chicken from love love teriyaki dab 

Sunday was a long but good day! Church was actually so good the speakers talked about miracles and in our sunday school class we talked about why bad things happen to good people and we talked about continually staying with God even through the hard but ya! Oh and also almost got hit by a bus! We had to do some driving on a sidewalk lol but were fine just a bit of ptsd lol 

Gratitudes

– people who answer the door or the phone 

– Sleeeeeep 

– The clouds!! ️ 

– safety lol 

One of my favorite quotes (hopefully i haven’t shared it before) but its “Joy is not the absence of sorrow in your life; it is the presence of Christ in your life.” I know that when I have had Christ in my life and held onto Him, i still have sorrow and sadness but I can have joy because I know Christ is my Savior and He knows what I am going through and He knows how to get through it. So continually hold onto the Savior in your life because He can be your rock!  

Well love you all and miss you  

• sister martin 🙂

dravstvuyte

(I tried to learn russian this week because we were visiting a man who only spoke russian…he didnt answer the door…) anyways 

Tuesday was an interesting day lol! Salt Lake was transferring our phone carrier from at&t to tmoble so our phone completely stopped working and we got lost. It was like a super long story but it was crazy!

Wednesday and Thursday was lots of visits and trying to find people to teach! 

Friday we had zone conference and it was so fun i love zone conference!!!! We talked so much about the Book of Mormon and it made me soar happy! Then we had such a spiritual lesson with ryan and bina and curve ball ryan might already be baptized its a whole long story! 

Then at midnight i hit a pinata! And Saturday was my birthday whoot whoot! Thank you everyone for the birthday emails!! It was actually a super fun day!! I cant even remember what we did but we got wing stop ofc! And we had some cool phone call miracles and talked to missionaries in San Francisco and new york so that was cool! The church is truly everywhere! Our inactive member bought me a mini cake and lit a candle for me and i got to talk to the family and open packages whoot whoot!!!

Sunday we had 4 friends at church. Ryan and bina couldn’t make it but they were like can you come over and tell us about church and what was taught so ofc we said ya! And we went over and we had an hour lesson and it was just the most spiritual thing ever like talking about temples and sealings and baptism and genuinely my favorite lesson ive had! Like it was all over the place but it was so cool and they were eating it up! They are the best you all need to meet them!!  

Anywho 

Gratitudes

Im grateful for you all!

Don’t forget to smile because God loves you!!

love, sister martin 

Wow this week has been a roller-coaster…

Im still in Royal Oaks ward 🙂 with sister Beauchat and this is her 3rd transfer so we both don’t really know what we are doing its fun… kind of… and its funny were both 18 (for now) and so we just got 2 little 18 year old girls running around trying to get people to church heh  

Tuesday we had a lesson with Ryan and Bina. Oh my they are genuinely soooo great! Like they are just so excited about the gospel and they always say ” we are so happy we found our church” sobs

Wednesday was so busy because sister evans had to say bye to so many people but also we had so many people to teach!!

thursday we cleaned allllll morning and had to go drop sister evans off and then do some work and then pick up sister beauchat! Also im the driver now which is fun but ive never had to worry about how many miles i drive everyday 🙂 but i love driving so   

Friday was a day… our phones stopped working. We aren’t able to receive any texts and in missionary work thats the end of the world right there. So we call Prez and he wasnt flustered like i was and he didnt know what to do so yay

Saturday we were on the phone with elder boggs the senior missionary over cars but he got thrown into IT stuff this week and trying to fix our phone for an hour. Still doesn’t work. So prayers up because we called so many people and many people were annoyed because we are “ignoring their texts” smh 

The only thing that kept me going Saturday was prayers and wing stop 

Sunday was good! We went with Ryan and Bina to a baptism and it was so great! I love going to baptisms and Ryan and Bina lovedddd it! And I just played with their son kingston the whole time haha it was wonderful

Gratitudes

– prayer

– Having a car is greattt 

– i love food and ya

– my family miss them lots  

It has been a hard week but 1 Nephi 3:7 always comes back to my head. Nephi said “…for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them…” There is nothing God gives us that we can’t do with Him by our side. And its hard to remember that but we just have to keep going and building our boats like Nephi did. Only trust in God! And His timing! And His love! And His help! And His strength! 

Bye bye 

– sis martin