Future Trainer

Hello everyone! I hope your weeks have been well and all is well in your lives! Everything is doing great here in the FFLM!

On Tuesday we had our finally District Training with our district. We talked about putting on the full Armor of God. If we don't then not only do we not have as many things to fight with but Satan has more weak spots to get us. Don't let it happen. Stay strong and wear the whole thing! We went and did missionary work and knocked doors and then that night we ate dinner on the docks! There is a store here that is kind of like Walmart called Publix and they have the best subs. So we had Pub Subs on the docks and just got to look at the stars for like 45 minutes and watch the boats go by. It was very relaxing for a missionary life. 

 

Wednesday we had service at the food bank and then went out knocking. We had 2 hours to get out and find. We are required to knock for at least an hour a day but we figured we would just keep going instead of visiting a recent convert. Because we kept going we met Rich. He was very quiet but loved hearing what we had to say. We testified at the end of how much God loved him and he started to cry. It was probably one of the most spiritual experiences I've had while out here. I love the people here so much and so does God. That night the Young Women in our ward stopped by our house and made us brownies! They are so cute. 

 

Thursday we did a zone wide exchange. We are the only 4 sisters in our zone though so I got to go with Sister Murdock. It was an awesome day. This is her last transfer so she leaves on Thursday and will be greatly missed. We went back to teach Rich but he read the pamphlet and said he wasn't ready right now to learn more but said he would be some day. I can't wait for that day to come. We taught Shernette's brother Biggy that night. He is fun. It was just awesome and he had really sincere questions. It's cool to teach with the recent converts.

 

Friday morning we woke up and had a scavenger hunt planned for the Elders around our apartment complex because they don't work out. They were not impressed but we had fun watching them run around haha. We had a Sisterhood exchange today! We have like 5 sets of STL's in our mission and they are over a group of sisters. That is our Sisterhood. I got to go on an exchange with Sister Dalton.  She is awesome. She is one transfer behind me. We found a super cool investigator named Rick. We haven't been able to teach him a full lesson yet but he texts us all the time so we are excited to.

 

Saturday Sister Smith came down with a fever so we had to spend the day inside. I did a lot of drawing and coloring and studying and thinking haha. Sister Noftle wasn't feeling well that night so I went to a new member meeting for stake conference with Sister Murdock. Elder Wakolo came and spoke and just answered questions for an hour. It was cool. We stayed for the first half of the adult session because Sister Murdock's recent convert spoke which was cool. Then we went home to take care of our companions. That night the AP's told us they were going to close our area and to get ready to leave. We were so sad.

 

Sunday we went to stake conference. Elder Wakolo is awesome. The temple president and matron spoke as well and they all talked about beginning with the end in mind. That was cool because that is what we talked about at Zone Conference. They also talked about how when we double our efforts to make it to the temple, Heavenly Father doubles the blessings he will give us. So I am giving my commitment early. Go to the temple!!! I promise you that you will be blessed beyond measure. Elder Wakolo took a picture with us after and then we headed home so Sister Smith could rest some more. We went and had dinner with a member, Sister Johnson, and let her know we were both going to leave. She was sad. Then we went over to Shernette's house to teach Biggy and let them know we were leaving. They were sad too. Then we went home for the night. We got a call from the AP's. We were sad. They recognized we were sad. Then they told us to thank Jesus because I WAS GOING TO STAY IN SUNRISE!!!! We weren't sad after that. We called everyone we told we were leaving and let them know I was staying. Roller coaster of emotions. I love this branch so much. 

 

Yesterday we had service at the food bank, did some knocking and had dinner with our district. My least favorite part about transfers is having to make new friends once you finally love the other ones. It will be good though. We found a super cool girl named Kira who was so excited to talk about God. Then we came home and waited for transfer calls. I AM GOING TO TRAIN!!! I am honestly so excited and there is no where I would rather do it than here. 

 

I love the FFLM. I love my mission family. I love my normal family. I love all of you. Most of all I love my Heavenly Father. I hope you all have a great week!!!

All my love,

Sister Beckstrand

 

Florida Sunshine: The swap shop! We drive past it all the time but we finally went last pday. Everything you would expect of a swap shop. If you look close in the picture with the brown sign, it says St. George on it (:

 Publix Subs on the doc. It was a magic night. We got to look at the stars too which was fun.

 This cute chair on the dock and Sister Murdock and I. She goes home tomorrow :( We will miss her so much. She has done so much here in the FFLM

Put on the full armour of God

The awesome Elders in our zone

Our cute Sisterhood

 

Shernette's Fam and Sister Johnson

And our cute last dinner as a district at Las Carnitas

Just an added side note from Penny- 

During Primary on Sunday I got this text...From Elder Wakolo himself!