What a crazy week for the Aberdeen sisters! Our schedule has been jam packed! We usually didn't get a lunch or dinner hour and some days a breakfast hour. It's a missionary's dream! We are so lucky to have so many people to teach!
We had our mission conference with Brother and Sister Yaggi this week! They gave us lots of really good challenges! One of them is creating each day to be a sacred grove day. Meaning, you make a plan for spiritual growth and then follow it exactly! Our first sacred grove day was my best day out here! He followed our challenge that day with another challenge to message 20 people! He promised one of them would become a new person we can teach! And as promises came I met my new friend Amy! She knows of our church and has had a lot of positive experiences with us. She is battling cancer currently but she told us she knows that us crossing paths was not a coincidence! Please pray for her!
Our good friend Jay brought his three little girls to the chapel tour and AH THEY ARE ADORABLE! He had a lot of questions with the different rooms but they were all answered. He could feel the spirit! He is a single dad and he's trying to make Christmas special for his girls. He is awesome! My comps and I are planning to surprise them with an anonymous christmas! We would love ideas for gifts for ages 5-7!
The longer I'm out here the more I see how each day can have major highs and major lows. But this is the most important work. Knowing that I have an awesome support group and many people praying for me all around the world is my motivation. So thank you!
Our mileage this week was only 664. We drove to Fargo for a Christmas party and then after we had exchanges in Pierre. Exchanges were good! I went with Sister Baldwin to Sister Matthew's down there. I will say when I got there it made me miss Aberdeen!
We had a fantastic lesson with one of our families in the ward! They showed us their tribal clothing and videos of their dances and ceremonies! It was the coolest thing! We are going back either this week or next and Sister Conklin is going to teach us how to make moccasins! It broke my heart to hear this but the way the government is , in two generations the native blood will be extinct. So pray for them! They are going through a lot of heartache!
if you got my letter last week.. yeah.. the weather isn't so good now. We went to the store this morning and my hair was still wet from my shower and... I kid you not... my hair turned to ice! I was scared to touch it because it could break my hair and I'd be bald. Rookie mistake. It's average about 7° but it feels like -2°. We are counting our blessings. The snow isn't super deep yet.
and HOLD ON. Light the world this year is so fun!! My favorite day this week was posting about an ancestor! I was just playing around on my app when i found a list of all the missionaries in my family and found that I had a great-something grandpa who served in the Northern states mission in 1904! I found a map of that mission and it covers the same part of Montana as my mission does! I mean, i'm not there now.. but it's still part of the mission!
I'm grateful to be a missionary at this time. I can feel the love of our savior for his precious people of Aberdeen SD.
The Book is Blue
The Work is True
Moroni's on the Ball
xoxo sister *ice head* barlow
1 we love clear american
2 zoom in if you can. The ice is sketchy
3-4 we made pies with sister Reid
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