Hellloooo chat! I hope everyone is doing soo good!

Ok so i won’t bore you with “today was a long day” because that was every single day so im going to give some highlights this week!!

– ok so this will be my half spiritual thought half story. So basically we were having a rough day, just so much knocking and nothing, our goals weren’t going well, nothing was going our way and i said such a sincere prayer to God just to help us, i just needed a little boost of something right… so we go knock this door and im like ok I’ve got faith like this is them… no, genuinely one of the most unkind people ever… and usually its like water off a ducks back (as they apparently say) and mean people dont bother me but this one did. And i was not happy and i was just so upset and like asking God why like i am trying to help this work and i asked for help but ran into this super disrespectful guy… anyways it was not a good moment… and then we go about our day and i just wanted to give up, but i didnt and the last probably 30 mins of the day we ended up finding 2 people and like gah it was a miracle! It meant so much more to me going through those hard experiences and being able to find these people at the end!! God taught me so many lessons that day (even when i get a little mad at things He always comes through)

– OH we had EXCHANGES WHOOT WHOOT and sister martin was on a bike and yikes holy humbled we almost died a few times haha but it was so much fun! Prayers up to the biking missionaries I was with sister lindsey and shes the best! But yeah my bike got a flat :/ so thanks to the elders they took it and fixed it!! But yeah exchanges were so fun and we saw so many little miracles!

-Wow also the way to amelias heart is through packages for sure haha been blessed with fun packages from my parents and grandparents this week!!!

– sunday we went to the kirbys again! (I think brother kirby is just lonely and his wife has a ton of health struggles so he just needs friends and someone to listen to him!) But it always fills us up when we go there!

Love you all so much Go to sleep early tonight!!

Byeeee

Hello hello another long week in oregon 🙂 and holy moly it is freezing here

Tuesday highlight of my day/week was having dinner with the Bells! Aka my MTC teacher and her husband and in laws!!! It was so fun and honestly like healed my soul! It just felt like i was sitting at a table with family! I love them definitely God giving me some boost of goodness

Wednesday was a long one! So we have a limited amount of miles to drive per month and since its the end of the month we have like none… so we have been walking a ton!!

But then we had the Turner ward trunk or treat and chili cook off! Oh and i was a judge for the chili lol super fun!! And there was a deer chili so that was interesting

Thursday lots more walking! I need a step counter lol

But basically the whole day consisted of finding

OH AND a little tender mercy at the car wash (its in the Gratitudes part)

ALSO i made a rookie mistake… i forgot my rain coat and thats a no go in oregon and i got soaking wet and my mom raised me right so im too stubborn to use an umbrella

But we ended are evening at the Kirbys and i was still wet from the day and they had the wood fire place going and they draped a blanket over me and he taught us about the plan of Salvation and reminded us of how good we are doing love them its like going to grandma and grandpas house there it was such a tender mercy

Friday was zoco!! And sister parker pulled me and my comp off to the side after for like 30 minutes and just talked with us and it was so kind of her. I love her! She talked some things over with my comp it was a good little chat for everyone iykyk 😉

Saturday HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! We had to leave the apartment early and be back by 5:30 so we grinded all day! We got to help someone pack to move (we think she got evicted because she had to move out in like 3 days before the month ends and tbh we dont think shes going to get everything out in time lol it was crazy) but yeah then we came home and clean the apartment like no tomorrow! For 2 hours straight haha much needed tho!!

Sunday was a busy meetings day and lots of knockin doors ️️

So when i was at dinner with the bells we shared the most fire spiritual thought, but i ended with reading this verse (and it was tender because it was one sister bell shared in the MTC and she told about an experience with that verse and in the mtc it hit me so i wrote her name next to it, not knowing i was going to get to teach her while on the mission!!) But anywho it just gives me a better perspective when looking and working with others. It in Enos (oop slay enos 2 weeks in a row) its enos 1:27 and it says, “Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father. Amen.” God had prepared a place for each of us no matter what. We are all His children. And sometimes i go knock on a door and im like i dont want to talk to this person but remembering that God has a plan and a place for them and maybe we had a small important role in helping them get to that place! But also remember this for you! GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU and its going to be the best thing for you!! Keep going twin

Ofa atu

– sister martin

Lets just say i love transfers but i HATE THEM TOO but I still love them you know

Its very much a love hate relationship haha

Happy transfer week and sister martin is out of here i think my toxic trait is i get too attached to things and people lol so it was a sad one to leave salem 1st! Its been suchhhhh a fun area to work in and i love the missionaries and friends i got to work with

Im headed over to south salem and turner to the turner and creekside wards! Im in the salem zone now! (RIP keizer zone ily)

Ok but turner is actually so cool! Its the booshie boonies!!! And like when you think of oregon turner is what you’d expect! So many trees and everything and hills and yeah and everyone here is rich lol  Oh and my new comp is sister stephens 🙂

Ok but before transfers happened…

Tuesday my last district council with the sunnyview district left with a bang might have been the most unhinged district council ive ever had but it was so much fun we just cried laughing the whole time!!!! GAH IM GOING TO MISS THEM

Wednesday said bye to my favs! But be so for real, how many times am i going to say bye to ryan and bina lol! Im going to miss them 🙁 then said bye to vickie she was a funny lady we semi taught hahaha going to miss her but not smelling like smoke everytime i leave her apartment lol!

Thursday was transfer day!! And i spent most of the day with sister mears (aka my p-day pickle ball partner lol) and then i got dropped off with my new comp!! And yeah 🙂 sister stephens is from texas and yeah we are quite different people lol but thats what i say about most of my comps haha it will be interesting heh

But then we went to a members house in turner in the middle of nowhere and they had just started a wood fire in their fireplace and gave us hot coco and told us stories and it was really nice after a longggg day!

Friday was a long day again and its just hard adjusting to new area and comp and people, the beginning of transfers always seem to be rough for sister martin lol not loling

Saturday, worked some cold call magic and found someone ️ you know me and cold calls

Sunday lots of meetings! But creekside ward had their primary program super cute! Then we had turner ward council! Super nice ward!! Then CRAZY TURN OF EVENTS GUESS WHO IS IN TURNER WARD!!!! SISTER BELL?!!! MY MTC TEACHER!! like hello what are the odds but anyways that was funnnn i love her sm! But yeah did lots of work in turner Sunday 🙂

Oh also kinda crazy miracle, we knocked a less active members door and invited him to church, he ended up coming and said the last time he went to church was in 1974 woof so that cool!

Ok so in Enos (one of my favorites) he talks about the “wrestle he has with God” and im like me too though you know! We all have our own little wrestling match with Him. But i think the important part is what Enos does after…. he doesn’t leave God and go the other way, he asks God. Enos humbles himself enough to kneel down and cry to God. Its ok if we have questions or doubts but its what you do about them. Do you turn away from the only way you can be forgiven, or saved, or helped? Or do you run to Him and humble yourself to God and Jesus Christ? So next time you are wrestling with God, kneel down, pray, and ask

Please email me if you want me to pray for anything or anyone specific! Love you all

<3 your fav sister martin

HELLO HELLO HOWZIT!

so it was a good week so i kind of wrote a lot so blessings up to all who finish haha but anywho…

Tueday cooooked us! We had like 7 lessons set up with members and all of them fell through 🙁 but you know what it ended up alright

This is a super random side note but there have been SO MANY POLICE CARS EVERYWHERE like its gotten insane this week, like when we leave our complex there is always just like 3 police cars here and there’s always sirens going off all around salem anywho stay safe yall

Wednesday:):):) guess where i got to go??? A football game whoot whoot! We knocked one of our less active members door a few days ago, brother kalamafoni! And he invited us to his sons game so you best bet we went! And ya it was so fun i enjoyed myself too much but dont worry we got a lesson in there at the game and hopefully we will be teaching his unbaptized kid soon

Thursday oh it was a good dayyyyyy!!

We found 3 super cool people whoot whoooot miracle filled day! ya it was just a good day!

We had a lesson with our friend Sarah and her daughters ended up being there and were asking tons of questions!

And the other one was this lady who was painting her door orange on a whim so we just yapped with her and we feel like she will actually progress!!

I’m just going to skip to Saturday!!!

Wowooww what a day for everyone!!!! Happy espn college game day with the cougs and AMIRAHS BAPTISM DAY!!!! After the 30 minutes pre baptism of me and my comp RUNNING around the church building trying to figure things out everything went sooo well!!! It was such a spirit filled experience!!! We played a cutie little musical number ( not my best work but ) but ya it was just a super cool experience seeing someone who i was able to help teach make promises with God and be confirmed as a member of this church!!

And you know how sad i was missing this byu vs notre dame espn college game day game but i was sitting at the baptism while they were changing and a lady was playing the piano i felt the spirit so strongly tell me “you are where you need to be” i needed to be here, i was able to witness someone make covenants with God!!!!

Then wow we had stake conference and it was soooo good! Like wow oh and i got to see all my weird royal oaks people lol jk they not weird just funny! And the parkers and lots of missionaries love! AND beau-shauty my queen! But the conference was so good

Sunday was stake conference pt. 2 and then a banger lesson with ryan and bina they are so much funnnn yessss. But anywho yeah!

And we knocked this door and this lady thought my comp was my daughter i was like urmmm nope…

But last but not least –> The theme of the Keizer Oregon stake conference this conference was JOY! And so many people talked about joy! So I’ve been thinking a lot more about it 🙂 president Nelson said, “The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.” When we focus our lives on Jesus Christ and focus on seeing the light of Christ in others, we will find more joy. This is so true in all of our lives because we need more joy and more Jesus and our focus is how we get more of both! I know so many people out here who are going through super hard things but are so happy because they are choosing to focus on Jesus Christ!

FOCUS ON THE JOY THAT COMES FROM HIM!

LOVE YOU ALL!

SISTER MARTIN

Wow whiplash week its been a roller-coaster ://///

Tuesday went by quickkk but it was a good day! We had a lesson with Amirah! We went over the baptismal interview questions and she got interviewed on Thursday!!!! And her baptism is Saturday whoot whoot  

Wednesday – another lesson with Amriah and we’re starting to plan everything!! 

Thursday we had exchanges with the STLs! I was with sister collinwood in woodburn! Its like a little city north of Salem! Sister collinwood is the best! She reminds me of sister evans sobs miss her but ya we had a good time 🙂

Oh glory, guess who we had a lesson with on friday?!?!? Ryna and bina!!! They are backkkkkkk so basically their phones just turned off so we couldnt get ahold of them so we started knocking on their door and they were just always gone when we went but then they called us on monday night lol and were like hey so sorry we ghosted you lol but wow such a fun lesson with them! Dont worry i told them how devastated i was thinking they blocked us and they were dying and were like why would we ever do that lol!!! Sobs love them 

Also we heard the loudest gun shots or fireworks ever and they were super close and lowkey it was scary and so we scurried out of that neighborhood heh…

Ok Saturday wow long day! Also God works in crazy ways (and my mom must be in tune with the spirit) but i was just having a rough rough time friday night on Saturday and Saturday night i got a massive package from my fam and it just made my day!!!

But then the most devastating thing happened and im still upset. So basically the marshallese sisters are trying to steal ryan and bina and her sister….. and they are trying to get them to come to the marshallese ward BUT THEY TOLD US THEY WANTED TO KEEP GOING TO SALEM 1ST and the other sisters are gaslighting them trying to get them to come to their ward. 

So im just not happy and they know it. But ryan and bina said they will stay with us so boom  

Sunday we had a few friends at church anddd we had this cool miracle, we prayed before we went knocking to find someone and hit our goal, and this neighborhood we knocked was NOT SUCCESSFUL… so i was like sister lets go visit vickie right now so we drive over to vickies and we pull up and we get a referral… guess where she lives eight doors behind vickie and we were like oh my goodness…. so we go knock on her door and we found her!!!! So we hit our goal and ya were going back this week!!

You know honestly this week has just had some super not fun moments. And its often really hard to get through. But my favorite quote from Elder Holland says, “How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?” It never was easy for Jesus Christ. He hurt. He wanted to go home i bet but He knew why He was there. And why would it be easy for us, its not supposed to be easy, we’re not always going to want to be here. We just need to rely on Jesus Christ. And maybe i need this reminder more than you but Jesus Christ knows you, He knows how you feel, so take hold of that, take hold of Jesus Christ.

Love you bye 

<3 Sister Martin

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE ITS ME AMEL aka sister martin!! I hope everyone has had a good week :)) she wrote an essay today so bless up 

Tuesday what a wild ride!! So basically we got a district plant so we can be unified lol so at district council we literally spent 10 minutes voting on names haha it was soooo funny and now his official name is Quantavious Demetrius Demarcus III so yep! And every week it goes to a different companionship lol. (Let’s just pray the elders dont kill it…) 

I also got clawed by a cat at our member meal 🙁

Wednesday we were knocking a door in downtown salem and then this guy yelled at us wanted to hear a message and so we shared a scripture and mid testimony he took a picture of us (tried to be sly but it was very obvious) so that was interesting and we very quickly sent him over to the elders lol…. but then told the elders he didn’t want to talk to them… awko taco

We then had interviews with Prez!!!! So fun love the Parkers! 

Then we had dinner with the Goeschs (our ward mission leader and his wife) and the elders! It was so much fun we had a good time :)))))

Thursday was a looonggg day!! Lots of knocking and talking oh and we had to teach the Thursday night Topics class about general conference!! Yep so that was fun :))) 

Friday… i think everyday im just going to say it was a long day but friday was wow so long im getting over my fear of talking to people but still cant seem to find people who want us around but we went and did service for one of our friends and i washed nasty dishes for an hour straight that have probably been sitting there for a month growing mold and being swarmed by nats 🙂 so that was an experience… and we left and the front of my dress was COVERED in water ig i was getting too aggressive lol 

Saturday General Conference started whoot whoot!! We watched the first session at the Blakes house with some members of the ward and sister Blake made the best breakfast! Then we just watched the next one at the Stake Center! And usually i would sleep after but we went and knocked some more doors and did some service for a less active member 🙂 it was the most dusty cat haired house ive seen 

But also go cougs working hard (also shoutout my sisters for always keeping me updated haha) 

Sunday! Conference pt. 2! At the Stake Center! (None of our friends came but a bunch of them were able to watch on their own!) But then at the beginning of the last session the parkers showed up lol! Took us very much by surprise and we just had our snacks spread out and stuff haha but we got to watch it with them for a bit!! 

also everyone pray for ryan and bina we haven’t had contact with them for a few days and maybe i just worry about them too much but we’ve never not gotten texts back and they have never not answered the door 🙁 but you best bet i am on their doorstep every day until i talk to them! Im praying so hard for them  

One of my favorite talks at General Conference was Gabriel W. Reid! Super cool guy! But one of my favorite parts of his talk was when he talked about following the Savior’s pattern of loving! God gave us a blueprint, he gave us someone to be like, He gave us Jesus Christ to be an example to us! As we follow Jesus Christ’s example we love better, we learn better, we teach better, we become better! I know Jesus Christ has perfect love for each one of us and as we share that love with others we can become more like Jesus Christ and help others come unto Him too! I love Jesus sooooo much and hope you do too!!!! 

So sorry i wrote a book this week! Anyways

Love you bye

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