Hello hello! This was a longggg week with longgg days but it was good! Saw lots of little miracles ️ 

Tuesday was an interesting but good day! Nothing really went according to plan but it all mostly worked out lol we had a lesson with Amirah our friend on date and that went super good! She is awesome! 

Wednesday — we got a text from our vehicle coordinator and he was like you need an oil change take it in like in the next few days and it just didn’t work with our schedule at all except for right then so we had to go over to les Schwab and do that, twas scary but they knew exactly who we were lol so it worked out! And our member made us fish for dinner… and im not the biggest fan of fish unless its mikunis (rip i could go for that right now ) and it made me ill but im fine now, bless!

Thursday!! My mom and pops anniversary!! Whoot whoot!! Oh my eddie heckard! We had a lesson with Ryan and Bina! It was so much fun! I didn’t realize how much i missed them, but i actually did lol! Its kinda sad because ryan is kinda sad leaving royal oaks ward because he made so many friends but then queen bina was like well bro God sent sister martin AND us here so we can all go to church! And im like period bina! But anywho it was soooo fun and we laughed a lot and im just obsessed with them! So welcome back to hearing about them every week

Friday — we had this cool lesson with Jessica (the APs found her and lets just they find lots of people for us but most arent interested lol) but we had a good lesson with her 🙂 but she didnt come to church gahhh. we had a lesson with our friend Vickie and we leave smelling like smoke its so bad like we reak after like its in my hair and all my clothes and so we wipe our clothes and arms and hair with wipes because its so bad….and she said she has 200 porcelain dolls….we also knocked on this lady’s door and she was so old and yelled ” i know you the Jehovah witnesses and i know you’re not good people” and she shut the door lol 

Saturday was longggg we did like 5 hours straight of just contacting previously taught people and knocking… but we found 2 people which is good! 

Sunday we had some good friends at church! And for half of second hour there is a gospel foundations class that someone teaches for new members and friends and the teachers didnt show up….. so yay that means the missionaries have to teach so us and the elders taught a fire lesson kind of….we did our best lol! 

Then after church we literally just yapped with the elders for like 30 minutes but ya super chill 

And bless their hearts their bikes broke so they have to walk everywhere and we just drive past in our rav and honk and wave lol

We then visited this in active lady and she talked to us for like 45 mins and her house oh glory was nasty like we smelled so bad after then we wiped down with pineapple clorox wipes and roll all the windows down and we just smell like 20 different smells… pray for us  

I finished the Book of Mormon this week!! Whoot whoot! And i love the Book of Mormon! Every single day i am given time to study out of it and every single time i read from the Book of Mormon I feel the Spirit and my testimony gets stronger! I know that it is another testament of Jesus Christ and by reading it and praying about it we can know Jesus is our Savior and that He lives! Everyone needs to read the Book of Mormon because it was written for YOU!! But yep! I love the Book of Mormon and i know its true! and i hope you take some time and read it too! 

Sista Martin :))

Oh my glory people! This has been a week!!!

But i need to start with the wildest news every GUESS WHO MOVED INTO MY AREA????????

RYAN AND BINA AHHHHHHHHH THEY’RE BAAAACKKKK!!!!! WOW God must really know i need them in my life!!! 

Anywho …..

Also i never knew but if your wondering oregon has sooooooo many squirrels its crazy so ya 

Tuesday was a day… we were running around all morning because all of our lessons were like on opposite sides of the area heh! We had District council and we are the only sisters and we have 4 elders and they are a bit contentious so we’re making plans on how to help our district out lol they need some fr help! 

Wednesday hmm we had a lesson with our friend on date Amirah! Shes awesome! 

Thursday oh my goodness! This day was one of the most spiritual experiences of my life. For zone conference we had a general authority come visit our mission! Elder David P. Homer! And part of this, president chooses like 5 missionaries out of all 3 zones to have an interview with Elder Homer! And the night before i got a call from president asking if i would meet with him! So Thursday morning i met with elder homer and the Spirit hit me like never before! He said everything i needed to hear and i was just overwhelmed by the love that i felt from him and from God! It was such a cool experience! Then we had the regular zone conference and it was also just sooooo good like the whole day was just filled with the spirit! Urgahhh it was such a good day! I wrote like 8 pages of notes!!!! 

Friday we were walking in down town salem in an alley way thingy (sounds safe doesnt it lol :0) and this dude in a garage stopped us and was talking to us and he told us he sings and so he asked if he could sing for us and we said ya and so he full throttle sang it was wild peep the google photos for a video of it lol (found out later he is a super less active member lol) 

Saturday was a longg day! Lots of knocking doors and calling people but we went and got sandwiches for lunch whoot whoot 

Sunday was such a good day! We had church!!! It was actually great meetings so thats good!! And we had dinner with the elders and some members so it was a gooooood time! And we had a lesson with vickie. her house smells awful we choked the whole time… she said next time she will give us a porcelain doll so we will always remember her….

Anywho good day 

Im not sure if I’ve shared this scripture before or not so i hope not lol! But at the end of Ether 12:6 it says, “…for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.” And i think this is just soooo cool but also sooo hard because we need those moments where we are a bit shaken up on the play to have that witness of the miracles God brings. This is kind of whats playing out in my mission, like the beginning of this transfer has been rough (seems like they always are heh) but what Elder Homer told me and what I felt at zone conference was a witness of Gods miracles to me. Sometimes it seems like the trial of our faith lasts forever but because of Jesus Christ our best days are ahead and our witness of Him will come!!!!! Just keep going

Ok love you bye! 

Sister Martin out

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