Hello hello! Its transfer week and byebye royal oaks its been fun!! Love these weird people here

Im here in Salem 1st area (still in Keizer Zone) its literally just the area right next to royal! Im with sister shirley and shes this is her second transfer so technically im training her (idk who thought that was a good idea ) 

Shes very awesome tho! 

(Sister beauchat is training in royal oaks so prayers up to her haha)

Butttt last few days in Royal oaks went like this —

Tuesday – saw many little miracles! I saw this random less actives name and told my comp to call him and he was super happy to hear from us and later texted us and said he usually doesn’t answer unknown numbers but felt he should, and he said now he’s going to start coming back to church!!!! 

Wednesday was so sad! Had to say goodbye to some people well only like 3 lol but we went and said bye to ryan and bina and glory, it was so sad 🙁 they have just been such a blessing in my first 2 transfers of my mission! Bina said a prayer for us and it was just a super special experience hearing her pray for us! They kept being like are you ever going to come back and i was like oh my ya just to see yall! Anywho im going to miss them so much

Thursday was transfer day! And it was such a long day but its been hard because all i know is royal oaks so now im kind of going into everything not knowing anything and i dont know how to like best help becasue i dont know this area you know but im still driving which is fun! And the Willamette river goes all through this area and we go do our morning calls and studies there so thats pretty but makes me want a fishin pole and i want to catch some fish lol 

Oh my glory also they have the cutest church building here!!! I have a pic of it in my photos! Its so darling i love it 

Friday started the day off strong lol then we had a member lunch at a lil mexican restaurant and my comp has celiac and turns out she ate some gluten we didn’t realize and then a few hours later she just got more and more ill then she was like bout to barf and i said not in the car so i skirt skirted my way over to the church and kicked the elders out and she sat on the baño floor while i called our member to cancel dinner then the elders to come back for a priesthood blessing then a member to help with the blessing then the elders to tell them to wait anywho i was like cooking it up and then she got a blessing and we came home and i cleaned and read the scriptures lol 

Saturday was good and busy im just trying to figure out what im doing again lol

Sunday had church, this actually a good ward too!  

Met some people that lived in Loma Rica for a lot of years! The Fuentes’ so thats cool got to talk about a lot of people who we both knew!

Its also fun because one of the elders we ward share with was my first district leader elder wagner so its fun 🙂 

I’ve been thinking a lot about our covenants at baptism. The one that has been standing out is take upon the name of Christ. And sometimes i feel like it can be easy to just hide it, easy to just live a life not fully taking upon the name of Christ. And a scripture i read recently said, “Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ?” And this made me think, why, why would I be ashamed, Christ loves us so much that He died for us! We need to take His name upon us because He took our name upon the cross and gives us the opportunity to be made clean, to live with God again, and to be resurrected! So this next week make an effort to more fully take upon the name of Christ in your life!

Well… i love you all bye 

– sister martin

Howzit! 

Not the craziest week but heres some highlights ️

Tuesday every week we have District council and we have too much fun in there me and sister beauchat are always just bouncing of the walls in those meetings so that happened lol 

Wednesday (shout out anna perkes happy bday) anywhooo it was soooo rainy and we were soooo excited and then we made our first 3 visits and were soaking wet and dripping every time we knocked on a door and our hair looked insane and we were like yikes its going to be a long oregon fall and winter and spring… 

But it was still fun. Everyone just kind of gives us weird looks when we are walking down the street in a torrential downpour 🙂

Thursday it was also rainy and super cold again but we talked to a lot of people (most of them weren’t interested but just talking to people is a win right now!!) 

We also went to a churro food truck and got filled churros and they were sooooo yumm!!! 

Friday miracle -> our baptismal date friend David has been ghosting us but we finally got back in contact with him hallelujah! Anddd ya

Saturday was a good day 🙂 had some little miracles! Got in contact with people who seemed to have fallen off the face of the earth! And a fire member meal!! I started an uproar in the zone chat 🙂 lol OH AND the clouds on Saturday oh my glory like i cannot even describe how amazing they were like it was insane. 

Sunday was pretty good! Just veryyyy long but we had some friends at church! We sat behind Ryan and Bina and Kingson and Kiyogi and the whole time kingston who turn around and wave at us! He’s actually the cutest little kid ever!!!! And we had the best lesson with them that afternoon! We told them transfers were this week and they both were like WHATTT and they were not happy lol! Like you all need to meet them! I love them sm

So if you know me you know one of the biggest sacrifices for me going on a mission was football and this week was the BYU home opener at LES and i wanted to be there so badly 🙁 so i took some time and i thought about why i am here. Why did i choose to leave my family, friends, and football? 

This is why – i know its true. I know this is Christ’s true church on the earth. I know the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ. There is no doubt in my mind that God runs this church and He needs me here. 

Joseph Smith said, “no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done”

Nothing can stop this work from going forward because we each need this Gospel. We need our Savior Jesus Christ. I have seen sooo many blessings in my life and in my family because of this church and this Gospel. Everytime I think to myself why am I here, I remember what I know to be true and I wouldn’t be here if i didn’t 

This is my Y 

I know it’s true and i hope you do too

Go cougs! 

Sister Martin