I Want To Hear All My Families Testimony

Hola!!

Well this week was awesome and super busy!! Loved it!! Way excited for this transfer!! We are now officially over the whole Denton 4th we got the elders area book and all there information which adds up to like nothing.... haha what weasels. So we have a lot of work to do to get it organized but very excited to work in that area, there is so much potential!!:)

What we do on our lunch break.

 This week we found a new investigator. She came to the relief society activity Friday and church on Sunday which was great! She is 70 and a chain smoker haha but she really liked it, she is hard of hearing so it's kinda a challenge but we are praying for guidance for what to do!! I was thinking this week, that is so awesome that we can pray to help us know if the decision we are making is right. That gives me a lot of peace!! We are blessed!

Coming home from Mission Leader Conference

J had her baptismal interview and will be getting baptized on Saturday!! Yay:) the other day she was like "I can't believe that this is my life, how did I ever live before?!" haha she is so cute!! We took her to President Ames fireside in Hurst last night too and she asked some good questions and really loved it and got her super excited for Saturday, she even is handing out invitations!!

Our Ward Mission Leader had this printed up and put in the programs so people know how to get a hold of us, help and pray for us ;)

We had MLC this week and it was awesome. So this is what I am most excited about, starting Thursday, the mission is going to place 10,000 Book of Mormons in 65 days, that equals two a day per companionship. We are also going to read it in that time (8.7 pgs a day) sister vaha'i and I are going to read it aloud together we think it will bring such a great spirit and unity and so much unity in our mission as we do this!! By the way Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon in 65 days:) I love that book!! I'm in 3 Nephi right now but I guess I'll just be reading it in two different places, but that's ok:) The amazing thing is that as we are driving home from our meeting a ward member called us, she was speaking on Sunday and she was speaking about the BofM and wanted to invite the members to write their testimony in a BofM and give it to a friend!! Then we had like 5 minutes before our dinner and we had all this excitement about the BofM so we were like let's go place this Book of Mormon so we knock on this door and the lady who opens daughter is a member of the church and has been a few  times and we asked if she'd read the BofM and she said no, no ones ever given me one, so we definitely did and we will follow up with her this week!! How cool!! These kind of challenges get me so pumped!!!

Like my outfit?

Sister V being weird while I work hard!

Anywho, we were talking about all this and one elder said that his whole family sent him their testimonies of the Book of Mormon and it really inspired him to share it with more people and I was like that's awesome I want to hear all my families testimony of how they know the BofM is true!! So will you do that for me?? Thanks I will follow up next week:)

We are excited for this week!! I pray for y'all every night and appreciate all of your prayers for me!! Love you!!

Sister Wells

Answers to Prayers in Texas

Once again I can't believe how fast the weeks fly by and that it is now February!! Goodness! Dads experience sounded awesome!!! I love y'all so much!!

Practicing my starts! :)  At the RS President's house

We had some sad things and some exciting and crazy things happen this week!!

Monday: Sister V made me pani popo what a little sweetheart!! That stuff is the bomb! We had dinner with the H's an awesome couple in our ward, their son who's in his 30's is less active was there and we found out that that night when he went home he had a heart attack and was put into a medical coma and he passed away just a few days ago. We didn't know him well, but it really has been hard on our members and really sad for me as well. But I know that the Hoff's are comforted by the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation, they are amazing people.

Tuesday: Last district meeting for this transfer, it was really good!!

Wednesday: Served at Our Daily Bread again! and we met this new lady in our ward a less active it was awesome. She is like in her 60's and she dresses like she's from the 60's its awesome. She had her hair in pigtails and was smoking and just kept saying that she was blessed, I'm trying to add that word more into my vocab:) She said that she felt the bible was sufficient but we talked with her about the Book of Mormon and she said that she would be willing to give it another try:) That was cool!!

Thursday: I can't remember that day we went on exchange with the sisters from Decatur and Sister K from the Marshall Islands is so funny she drank 5 water bottles in the morning before we left to go out to work....... hahah we had fun and she taught me a lot.

Sister K, she's awesome!

Ok I can't remember what happened on what days, but I think on Saturday us and members of our ward helped Q and the kids get everything packed up, they are driving to Odessa today:( ahh I love them so much and they love the gospel she was just working on quitting smoking!! But no worries we sent their info to the missionaries over there and our bishop is calling the bishop where they will live to help them move in! That will be really good!! On Friday we brought the kids to a baptism that the Spanish ward had so that they could see what it was like and of course feel the spirit which is always there! I haven't been to a baptism since Copperas Cove and I missed it! The spirit is so strong there what a special and sacred thing. They handed out cards to write a note to the people who got baptized to congratulate them and stuff and Br who is 8 wrote "I wish I could walk in the door, put white clothes on and get baptized too. But I can't. I wish I could give you a gift, but my mom is not here. I love baptism. Love. Br Bt. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen." isn't that that cutest thing you have ever read?!! Made my day:)

Love them so much!  Going to miss them.

Fast Sunday was good! Fasting really brings miracles, and this time my prayers and fasting were answered like immediately I can't wait to tell you!! So S our investigator I've told you about with the cat problems, well yeah he stresses me out, so I've been praying so much to know what to do for him and what to do with him and yesterday we found out that his cat died! I know that is sad to say that is an answer to my prayer but it kinda is, because that has literally been his life the last month. Cat doesn't eat, he doesn't. Cat doesn't sleep, he doesn't. It was just getting ridiculous so now he can mourn and then get over it hopefully:) Next I've been praying for what to do for this area, it's just hard and feels like we are just stuck. We just found out that the elders in our ward are be taken out and we will now cover the whole ward. There's another answer haha its gonna be a lot of work, but Sister V and I are really excited we know that there are miracles ahead and being busy we love it!! So yes transfers are Wednesday but we are both here still. So we are looking forward to this transfer, lots to do but lots of fun!! Oh and J who is getting baptized next week bore her testimony yesterday! so cute!!

Going on exchanges.

I love you so much!! Have the best week ever!!

Hurrah for Israel!!

Sister Wells

Do You Have A Mission Plan?

Howdy howdy!!

I always love hearing from y'all and seeing your pictures you all look great!! I was honored to have Zach congratulate me on not being "tubby" haha :)

Zone Conference

Wednesday: We served at Our Daily Bread in the morning which is always fun, I got to serve everyone desserts! Some are so grateful others are so not! And this crazy guy asked me, "has anyone ever told you you look like a farmer girl?" weird. We also were able to do family history for a little bit, I'm so bad at it, but the ladies in the center are pro's and they help me! Are there classes to take on how to do family history? I def have to take them when I'm home. We had dinner with this great missionary family! We are talking with all the members to make a family mission plan for this year of 2015 and theirs is awesome! And has specific assignments for each child! Do you guys have one for this year? You should!!:)

Serving at Our Daily Bread

Thursday: Every Thursday is planning day, it takes 2-3hrs and we do it right after our studies to plan for the coming week! Then I went to Justin because we had another exchange with the sisters there! It was fun and as always I learned a lot!

Friday: Still in Justin we went to the care center to paint old people nails... haha it was fun. I guess they do that every week but the cool thing is we got to talk to the workers there about what we do:) Then we exchanged back and had some lessons and went with some members to see some of the less actives!

Exchange with Hermana J - Love her!

Saturday: Our ward mission leader had us all over for breakfast! The M's are amazing! All of them!! We are so blessed to live in their barn:) our ward mission leader has great ideas and it really is getting our ward excited to do missionary work as well!! We also saw C a less active who is now active! I can't remember if I told you, but she got a calling and is getting her patriarchal blessing on Sunday!! Wow it's the most exciting feeling ever!!:) Then we had dinner with more M's:) and went on exchanges with them that night! We saw the H's, J is getting baptized on the 14th:) they are Awesome and loving everything about the gospel!! And we saw Q and the kids, they haven't moved yet and they are so shaky on when they are so we will just keep teaching them!!!!!!

Just being McKenzie :)

 Sunday: We went to ward council which was good, now that I go to them I always wonder what the ward councils are like in yalls ward? With dad in it and everything! Everything is basically about missionary work in the auxiliaries and as a whole! It's awesome! Because this ward had 4 baptisms last year and their goal is 22 for 2015 haha a big difference, lots of work, but we are all putting in the work to achieve it! We need it!! Q came to church and in the evening the G's (my faves) had Q's fam over for FHE it was so wonderful! So sweet of the Gs and she made Texas sheet cake it tasted just like yours mom! So yum!!!

S. Giblette

That is the play by play of the week kinda but we did lots of other lessons and finding inbetweeen, always busy:)!! I am continuing to read the Book of Mormon and I never want to put it down haha I just wanna keep on reading and finish it all the way through! I'm in Alma 52 right now!:) It's so amazing how everytime I read I get more meaning out of different verses!! It's so amazing!!!

Ofa atu

Hurrah for Israel!!!!!

Love,

Sister Wells

Don't Be A Robot :)

I'm glad Vegas was fun and that dad and Zach were able to get along by themselves! I am also so excited to hear where Sadie will be called!! Maybe Texas?!! haha

At Zone Conference

Every week just seems to zoom by and I can't remember everything! Good thing I have a journal! We had zone conference this week and we talked a lot about working with the members, and how we can use them more effectively and help them to share the gospel with their friends. Sister V and I have been working on that a lot and still have lots to improve, but we have seen a change in the ward which is really cool! Three members had us over for dinner and one even had us over to do nails haha but brought their friend so that we could meet them. One of them is really awesome and prepared for the gospel and we should see her again! The others may not be ready right now, but I know that it was a really good experience for the members and their friend! It's cool to see that change and see that the members really do trust us with their friends!

Outside my barn

Inside my barn

We continue going on exchanges every week and I'm actually on one right now with the hermanas. I'm so excited to sit in the Spanish lessons. I wish I could speak it! I'm learning a little! And I'm learning a hymn in Tongan and know some Samoan so that's pretty cool I guess ha:)

We also were able to see S this week! Finally! He is recovering from all his cat drama #prayforkiki and we talked about building our foundations on Christ Hel 5:12 so when the winds come that we can stay strong, and its doing the simple things pray, read, and go to church! He really loved it and was taking notes on everything ha  A member took him and his cat to the vet! His sight is still set on baptism but its just going to take some time!

Another cool thing that happened on Saturday was we did service raking leaves for some members neighbor and then she invited us in for breakfast and we talked about fam history and she was wayyy interested and said she would come to the family history center! Then later that day we went to visit a referral and she loves family history and wants to come to the center with us and have a tour of the church! How wonderful! I know that she'll feel the spirit so strong! Things are going good, its different than in Cove, we are trying to find really hard haha!! 

Sister V and I have so much fun together we laugh a lot and one of the zone leaders asked me today if my face was glued into a smile because he said I am always smiling "on the real" whatever that means haha! But I'm glad! I remember what Brady said a few years ago when he got home from his mission and he was like don't be a robot! I know what that means now, I've seen robot missionaries and it doesn't look like fun! I try to help them see we have fun while we work hard we should enjoy ourselves because our message is quite enjoyable! I know I've said that before but that's what this area needs to hear haha!!

Well I think that's everything! I love y'all lots, thanks for all the emails and prayers I really appreciate them:)

60 degree weather in January!

Sista Wells

I Am So Grateful To Partake of the Sacrament Each Week

Sounds like yall have lots of good stuff going on and lots of good stuff coming up!!!

With Sister V after a temple sealing of members she worked with.

I'm sitting here trying to think about what all happened this week but I can't it just goes by so fast and its just a blur but of goodness!! Last night we went to the mission President fireside and brought one of our la and investigators which was really cool!! It was nice and I saw sister t again:) Church was also very good! I don't know if y'all have already read this months ensign, but one of the articles talks about the sacrament and how it can be the hour that we give to the Savior.

Elder Holland relates a dream Elder Orson F. Whitney had in which he saw the Savior in the Garden of 

Gethsemane. Elder Whitney described the pain and suffering he saw the Savior bear. Then he wrote:

     

“Presently He arose and walked to where [the] Apostles were kneeling fast asleep! He shook them gently, awoke them, and in a tone of tender reproach, untinctured by the least show of anger or scolding, asked them if they could not watch with Him one hour. …

“Returning to His place, He prayed again and then went back and found them again sleeping. Again He awoke them, admonished them, and returned and prayed as before. Three times this happened.”

As I read this, the spirit of revelation entered my mind. In that instant, I realized that the way I could “watch with him one hour" was in the way I approached Sacrament meeting each Sunday. Since then, I have learned that this is an hour in which we can pray to our Heavenly Father in a more meaningful way. Prayer is fundamental at all times, but the spirit present in that hour of the sacrament is an opportunity to elevate ourselves closer to our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ. When we focus our thoughts on the Lord, it is, in a way, accompanying him at the moment of agony He endured when taking upon Himself our sins. It is a time to acknowledge the pain He suffered for us.

I loved that so much I am so grateful to partake of the sacrament each week!!

Elder friends from "the South"

Sister V and I continue to have lots of fun together. She's never had pancakes, I made her some and now she makes them every night haha and she'd never had syrup and she's obsessed so I made her French toast and now she loves that it's hilarious!! She says that I've changed her life!! haha

Love yall have the best week ever!!!

Sister Wells

Sister C and I at our 7 month mark.

I Wouldn't Wanna Be In Any Other Place in the World!

Looks like Arizona was super fun I loved all the pictures!! Mom you need to be careful you're making me worry! I hope you heal soon!! New Years for us was really just nothing different just continuing to work!! Love it! And I'm way excited that yall are going to read the Book of Mormon again!! I just finished the NT this week so I was excited!! It was way good.

So S -- I don't know how to explain everything. He had a meltdown like his cat isn't eating #prayforkiki and it's stressing him out, he takes 600 mg of morphine for his back pain which makes him nuts, so we are just letting him relax and stuff like this week was NUTZ but it's ok I know there is a reason for everything and Heavenly Father is definitely helping us.

Janessa aka Sister Wells :)

But on the bright side of things!!! Q and the kids came to church and sacrament (usually they are late and miss sacrament) booya  she only has 4 cigs a day now which is good, they move the 15th I'm heartbroken because they are doing really really well!!!  But, some less actives the Sk came to church so did Sister H and Sis W and we taught Sis H granddaughters when we were over and they asked for a Book of Mormon and they came to church that's why Sis H came!! and they want us to come over tomorrow (they aren't members)!! So that is cool! Our other investigators are sick and the others mom just died... so like I said its been crazy! but we should see them this week!! We also are really working on the referrals from caroling following up with the members and stuff which is good!

As I was setting goals for 2015 I was thinking about where I was last year at this time when I was in Puerto Rico with the swim team and going to BYU and I was thinking those were some good times and at the time I felt like I was way happy, and I was, but I look at where I am now and I know that I am even more happy! I wouldn't wanna be any other place in the world! I love my Heavenly Father and I love my brothers and sisters and that is why I am here, to bring the world His truth!!

I love yall

Sista Wells

We Aren't Getting Taken Out of Our Area!

Hey y'all!! Sounds like you had a good fun week!! I can't believe Angela's already going home!! That's super exciting!! This week was super awesome here in Denton!!

Monday: P-day was fabulous I even went thrift shopping for the first time, I guess that's the thing to do here in Denton, its so hipster haha.  The other sisters here love it!! Then we went on exchange I got to be with my mtc companion Sister C it was a partay, I love her so much! And I love going on exchanges with the sisters because I learn a lot everytime.

Showing off her mad gymnastic skills!

Tuesday: I was with Sister C doing YSA stuff which was great until the evening and our whole district went caroling, trying to visit all the referrals the members gave us, which is like 70!! That's way good though, but takes lots of time so we have done that quite a bit this week!!

Wednesday: We did service at Our Daily Bread! But on the way there in the car I felt something weird on my head, I thought it was just my hair but then no --  a HUGE spider fell on my lap!! How did it get there? I don't know but I screamed it had the longest legs ew I was in shock for awhile haha. Sister S had her final interview with president so her and Sister J went to that and with the driving and all it took like 3 hours so I had H G as my companion (she's the one that just got home from Boston) The Gs are so awesome, they had us for dinner that night too!! Then we caroled!

Thursday: Planning day. Then this is where it gets good. I can't remember all that I told you about S our investigator, but while I was on exchange the sisters taught him the Restoration and he said, "I don't care how Joseph Smith got his answer, I just know it's true!" When I called him the night before to confirm for our lesson the next day he was talking about church and said when he walked in his heart tightened and he felt the spirit so strong and that he wanted to cry but he didn't want everyone to think he was weird.... amazing right?! So we had another lesson and I got to be there:) And we taught the plan of salvation, he was taking notes the whole time and just soaked it all in! He's started reading from the Book of Mormon and loves it! He is so amazing ah it kills me I love him! And he was found through a member!! It's just the best when it's through a member! By the way I was thinking the other day how that one year we studied Preach my Gospel as a family, that was so awesome!! I should've taken more advantage of that!! Y'all should do that again!!!! Seriously!!

Friday: Went on exchange with the Decatur sisters!! and caroled there! oh oh but I did find out that we aren't getting taken out of our area, and I know who my new companion will be, she is from Tonga!! She came out one transfer after me! We will no longer be in a trio. I'm so excited we are just gonna rock it! I love the Polynesians and they just love me:) She'll be here on Wednesday!!

Saturday: Saw some recent converts and caroled that night. haha nothing very exciting!

Sunday: Yay!!! J 10, B 8, C(their grandma), S and J all came to church!! It was so exciting!!! And our meeting and lessons were just amazing it was so great!!! There are miracles happening here!! And we went to the Denton Stake Christmas concert and is was so awesome they are very musically talented:) It was a nice day:)

I've learned a lot here with my Sister S and Jand I will miss them lots, but I'm excited to learn more and more!! And I'm super excited to stay in this area, I love it here!!

Oh and cool thing I learned this morning as I was studying about charity, in 1 Peter 4:8 its says "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins." Charity preventeth a multitude of sins! I never thought of that before that is so awesome!!!!

Anywho I just love yall so much!!! Have the best week ever!!!

Sister Wells

Old photo with Sister T.  Blue Bell ice cream is made in Texas and is supposed to be super yummy!