Showing posts with label Mulberry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mulberry. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Week 26 (9/30/13)


So. I am living in Duck Dynasty. Just to let ya'll know. Oh man. ya'll just came off the page. That was crazy. Apparently we are now in the bible belt. Being more up North in Florida is really fun :) it's very south! Nothing in Naples was South. But everyone and everything here is. It. Rocks.
We had a cool experience this week (let's be honest, what's new? I have one of those every single day). We have an investigator named Felisha. She is AMAZING. We taught her the first lesson and she said the spirit was like pins and needles stabbing her! She loved it! Then she texted us on Saturday and asked us if we wanted to come over! Of course we said YES! So we went over and she told us that she got this job she had been applying for! So she's a nurse right now. She has 3 kids and wants to spend more time with them. So she applied to be a bus driver cuz she did that a while ago and loved it. She applied right after our lesson with her and Tuesday and they called her on Saturday and told her that she got the job! She was so happy and wanted us over so that she could tell us. She said that we were angels sent to her and that she knows she was blessed with this job because of us and what we were teaching her! We told her that was exactly it and that she was being blessed because of it! Oh man. We love her so much! She gave us some pretty jewlery and we are going to her sons birthday party haha. She is honestly the best and I love her so much!
I absolutly love my mission! It's the best thing that I've ever done! This gospel is real and it is so amazingly true! It changes peoples lives. It's amazing. I love it more than anything in the world. I love seeing how people remember what we are teaching them. We have heard people say- "I've heard this before" more than once. Because they totally have! I am learning and growing so much every day! There is nothing that can turn you more Christ-like than going on a mission! Every day I am seeing more like our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ does. I can't believe that I have been out for 6 months already! It goes by way too fast! I miss my family and everyone like crazy! But I would never trade this for anything! I know this gospel is true! And I know that Heavenly Father knows us each individually and loves us more than we could ever comprehend! Don't forget about General Conference this weekend! We are SO excited to hear from our prophet and apostles! I know if you have a question in mind that you go with, that it will be answered! Watch all sessions! Then watch them all again! This is the greatest opportunity we have!
 
Love you all!
 
Love, Sister Calder :)
 
P.S. This is the Florida Tampa Mission Facebook site! So instead of a blog like President and Sister Summerhayes they are doing this!
 

Monday, September 23, 2013

Week 25 (9/23/13)


This week has been insane. After contacting on campus for a couple hours on Tuesday with some other sisters I found out that my new companion is Sister Ochsenbein (Oxen-bine) and that I was re-opening an area with her in Lakeland/Mulberry. It's about an hour East of Tampa.... so no more beach. :( which stinks... cuz I totally got to go there anyways haha weird. President laughed pretty hard at my face when he told me what I was doing. It's been really challenging, but really fun! Let me explain.... So it's called white washing. Usually just one companion leaves the area then the one knows what's going on. But they had to re-open it because one sister had to go home, so we both went in totally blind. I've been loving meeting new people, even if half my heart is still in Naples :(
We had a cool experience. A member had us over for lunch on Thursday. That Wednesday she called us and said that she had met someone at her Physical Therapy that she would like us to meet. So Thursday we met her at lunch. AWESOME. No joke. Her name is Sher. She came to church on Sunday and is reading the Book of Mormon. It made me SOOOO happy! Member missionary work. I'm telling ya. It's the greatest!
Thanks for all your support and letters!
My new address is:
5921 Topher Trail
Mulberry, FL 33861
Oh yeah I forgot to mention the best part! Can you tell by my address? It's a really small country town :) I LOVE IT. Topher and Mulberry. Let's be honest. :)
:) look it up fellas :)
Love, Sister Calder
P.S. Sorry that was the most boring letter EVER!