13 Months and a new companion!

​Well, I know you all want to hear the exciting news of who my new companion is... But you will have to wait a little bit. :) I want to tell you who else is serving with me. So This week we got a new sister in the zone and a new zone leader. And guess what! They are Sister Anderson and Elder Christensen from Kettering! It has been so fun to have them here! I was in shock when I heard that they were coming here. They both followed me. If you don't remember who they are, Sister Anderson was my 2nd companion in Kettering, and Elder Christensen was in Kettering for 5 of the 6 months I was there. 

But yes, now the real news. My new companion is Sister Porter :) haha. Yes. She is my mission president's niece. She is 19 from Morgan, UT and we just have a great time together. She is just super fun and loves to laugh. We just mess around and have a great time. :) I am sad not to have Sister Fausett with me but I think Sister Porter is a great companion to have right after her. :) I am just happy. Sister Porter is AWESOME and such a hard worker. A lot of good is going to happen here in Cherry Grove with her. 

Well, I hope you all have a great week! 

love

My new Companion: Sister Porter!!

Bye Sister Fausett......

13 months!!

Short and Sweet....

This was a great week! We had lots and lots of success. Sorry I don't have time to email. I am helping Sister Fuasett pack today. She is leaving and I am not. The REDS game was AWESOME! I had soooo much fun! Here are pictures. We have an investigator getting baptized on October 11. Pray for him! 

I love you! Don't miss you! 

love 

Sister Shaw

Miracles this week!!!

Wow. This has just been a WONDERFUL week. I am just so blessed. Yet again I have learned that after the trial of your faith that the miracles come. I can never deny the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon because of Ether 12:6 and Ether 12:27 :)

So after a week of NOTHING happening. And when I say nothing. I mean N-O-T-H-I-N-G! We had a amazing week. We hit a the highest standards in the mission and we just worked really hard. I have learned a lot about the importance of diligence, humility, and patience.

We are just so blessed. Heavenly Father wants to bless us. I have noticed that with each trial I am becoming stronger. I am learning more and more what it is going to take to be the person that God needs me to be when I get home.

I know that the church of Jesus of Christ of Latter day saints is Jesus Crhist's church. I know that it was restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. I know that we have the power that is decribed in Mattew16:19, to seal families on earth and heaven.

I am so grateful for all of the support that I receive from everyone.

Thank you so much. I hope you all have a wonderful week.

love

Sista Shaw

pictures:

1. Siser Fausett, Ashley Rupp and I. Ashley Rupp is AWESOME :) I miss her.

2. Sister Herndon and I. My sister Training Leader from Carlsbad :) We are going to be EFY counselors together.

3. We had a car wash yesterday. Went SUPER well. Lots of fun :)

4. My Twin Sister Crhistensen. I have NEVER met anyone so similar to me. We are basically the same person ahha. We have so much fun together!

One year!!!

​This has been a week. We are working really hard and Satan has been working really hard on us. I hope that we can see a little more success next week. It has been really HOT so not very many people are out side and we are not allowed to tract so it has been... fun... ahah :) 

Well. I hit my year mark and it was CRAZY! It goes by so fast! Gosh. I just want it slow down. But yeah. This has been a week. Not much happened. We went to Stake conference though. That was fun! I got to see all of my WEST CHESTER/ MASON friends. It was AWESOME! I loved that.  People actually remembered me. I was suprised! But yeah. I have to go. Sorry this is so short. But I love you all! 

love

Sister Shaw

It isn't work it is FUN!!!

Hello Everyone! 

It is great to hear from you again. This week has been good :) It has been so cool to see miracle after miracle. Heavenly Father has His hands in the work.  Heavenly Father knows what He is doing. It has been so cool to realize that whatever I choose to do I know that Heavenly Father will consecrate my efforts :) 

What makes me think of this the most this week was one event. So on Wednesday Sister Fausett and I were given the assignment to go to the store and get Sister Low, a sister in the zone, a birthday card for her birthday on Friday. So we went to the store on our dinner break. While we were at the store a guy came up to us and was like, Hey are you Mormon? and we were like... Yes... Are you? and He said yes. He had just recently moved to Cincinnati and couldn't find the Church of anything. So we gave him the information and he came to church on Sunday! It was so cool! We went to the store at the perfect time to meet this guy. 

I know that Heavenly Father has a plan for every moment of our lives. He wants to help us and He loves us. He wants us to be a part of His work. The elect are all around us. We jsut have to talk to everyone and the elect will show some interest. Pray for opportunities to share the gospel. I know there are people all around us ready to listen to the gospel.

Have a great week! 

I love you!

P.s. The card we got was AWESOME! Sister low is from scottland so I got her a Brave card that played scottish music. She loved it. It was awesome. :)

PEACE!

Miracles...Miracles...Miracles!!!

ood morning everyone :)

I hope you all had a great week. I know I did. It was so crazy amazing. We reached so many of our goals and exceeded a lot of them too. :) It was just really cool. 

So to start off, we found 4 new investigators when we were shooting for 2. We found a couple, an older man and a single mom. It was crazy. They all came from just talking to everyone we saw. I have really gained a testimony that the Lord places people in our path so that we can help them find the joy that comes from the gospel :) 

We also reached our small goal of having 3 member present lessons this week. Now this is where the miracle is. It was so cool! Ok, So we were out with a recently returned missonary on Saturday. So we went over to our appointment and she was just leaving! So we talked to her and got her to sick around just enough so that we could teach her a little and she invited us to come back next week. So we looked at our watch and saw that we still have Sister Rupp with us for about 45 minutes. So we went to her car and prayed to see where we should go and we all decided that we should go see another investigator. So we went over there and found her by the pool. (That sucked for me because swimming is one of the things I have missed the most!) So we talked to her and she has so many questions of the soul that we can answer with the Book of Mormon and she told us to call her next week so we can come over. :) then we saw that we had to go home sadly, and we were one lesson away from our goal. But as we looked around we saw a lady sitting with a bunch of kids and as we talked to her she said that she had to go but we got her information and she said we can go back this week also! 

It was so amazing to see all of these miracles. I know miracles are a reflection of our faith. I know that this is the Lord's work. He loves all of us and wants us to succeed. He loves us all and wants all of His children to part take of the gospel. Help the missionaries find the elect! <---D&C 123:12

I love you! Hope you all have great weeks this week! Keep praying! :)

Love

Sister Shaw

#aintnorestfortherigtheous

Staying!!!

Well, for the news of what is going to be happening for the next 6 weeks, I am staying here with Sister Fasuett :) I am so happy. We are going to have so much fun! I could not believe we are staying together again! So awesome! :) 

Well. This was a good week. We had lots of lessons and lots of fun. We are working really hard on getting this area to move and I know these next 6 weeks are going to be FULL of miracles! We are working with a family right now that we are hoping will get baptized soon. They have needs that we cant find yet but we are still looking! But other than that, we are just having fun :) 

I know that missionary work is the Lord's work. He has chosen each of us to be where we are right now so that we can help all those around us move closer to the Savior in one way or another. I know that the Lord works through the weak and that is why he has chosen me! I know that through Him I can do anything. I love this gospel and I love being a missionary. I will be so sad when my time is up.

Sorry I don't have much to say. 

I love you! 

-Sister Shaw

#aint no rest for the righteous!