Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Happy Valentines Day!!

Another great week! I guess every week in the mission is great though. I just love being a missionary. This week we saw many miracles and blessings. 

Tuesday: We had exchanges with the Cincinnati Sisters. They both came to Hebron and worked with for the day. It was so great to be with them. I love them so much! 

Wednesday: We had to do some training at District meeting on the Doctrine of Christ. The Doctrine of Christ is so AMAZING! It is everything! It is how we do anything. I wish I could jsut tell you everything I know but that would take me a lot longer than the time I have. 

Thursday: We had to go out to Lawrenceburg, Indianna to do the same training for a different District. 

Friday: We had to go back out to Lawrenceburg to move the Sister's into another apartment. 

Saturday: Valentine's day we had a fondue night with some member's of our ward for dinner. It was super fun! I also got a GREAT package from mom and abby! SO funny! 

Sunday: Another great day at church! I felt the Spirit so strong! It was just a great day. 

Today: SNOW! So much snow! haha. It just keeps coming. :) 

Excited for this week! We have baptism coming up this Saturday! Also a social media split. look up the hastags #mormon and #socialmediasplit hopefully you will see some pics on Saturday! :) 

Have a great week! I love you! 

Sista Shaw





Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Crazy it is what we do!

​Man, oh man. I wish I knew where to even start. I think I might just walk you through this week.

Monday: After P-day, all of our appointments fell through... Great... haha.


Tuesday: We had an AMAZING zone conference! My last one. I learned so much from President Porter. I am so grateful for him. He teaches us so much and I always want to improve after I leave a meeting with him. After zone conference, we have an exchange with some of our Sisters. I was with SIster Alley. She has been out for like 3 weeks I think. It is crazy to see her just starting this AMAZING journey  while I am ending it. I think that is why Heavenly Father placed us here together and I get to work so closely with her. she is awesome and she is going to do so many amazing things.

Wednesday: We finished the exchange and we had so many miracles. We talked to 2 families that we had never been able to because they were never interested but they were that day! And it finally snowed like an inch that night.

Thursday: We had a grace member present lesson. Our investigator texted us and told not to  come by because she was tired but we didn't get it and went over and she let us in. :)

Friday: Busy planning day.

Saturday: We found 2 new investigators. They were kids of our investigator and they want to learn about Family History. So cool. Family History is such a cool tool. I love family history!

Sunday: Another grace filled day! We found 2 more investigators, one of which was at 8:45 at night. It was crazy awesome!

This was just an amazing week. Heavenly Father really came through for us. I know we can see miracles every day if we involve Heavenly Father DAILY! Call down His grace. Ask for His help. He wants to help us, I know He will.
I love you all! Have an amazing week!
Love
Sister Shaw

1. Sister Alley and I after exchanges
2. Sister Syndergaard and I getting cupcakes
3. I feel in love with Heavenly Frosted cupcakes! Yes, that is the name of the store! Heavenly!


Tuesday, February 3, 2015

FINAL countdown

​Well, this has been another good week. We had Misison Leadership Council which was AWESOME as always. I am just so grateful for President and Sister Porter and how inspired they are.
But the miracle of this week. It was a blessing. So, so far this transfer SIster Syndergaard and I have been having a hard time finding. We are doing everything it takes to find but nothing seems to be working. :/ So it came down to Sunday and we needed 4 lessons and 3 new investigators.
I am not gonna lie, I was pretty frustrated. I felt like nothing was working or happening. I was done. But of course, my awesome companion got me to keep trying so I did. Between 5 and 6pm on Sunday we found 3 new investigators and had taught 4 lessons. It was COMPLETE 100% grace of God. Not only did that happen but 1 of these investigators seems really excited. They are coming to church this week and just want to know more. It was crazy. The grace of God is real! I know that is comes after all that we can do!
2 Nephi 25: 23
I hope you all have a great week!
Love ya!

WOW

This has been a week to remember! Probably the craziest week of my entire life!

To start off, My new companion is Sister Syndergaard. Syn-der-gaard. haha. not snydergaard. :) She is just so wonderful. She is an INCREDIBLE missionary. She is such a hard worker and we just laugh all the time. I love her to pieces already!

So this week has been nuts. We can not have a normal day for the life of us! It is crazy! We just go about the work like normal and just crazy random things happen! haha. :) Like we gave a pass-along card to a cop, we stopped a bunch of teenage boys playing football and we invited them all to be baptized, and we have had several awkward run ins with members. It has just been crazy fun.

But the thing that is getting us through this week is the Book of Mormon. We are a little of obsessed with the Book of Mormon. We found the Book of Mormon on CD in our car so we have been listening to it. We have been telling everyone about the Book of Mormon. We have been sharing only Book of Mormon scriptures with people. It is kind of crazy. But awesome. The power of the Book of Mormon is so real. Every time we listen to it we see miracles. We won't get out of the car with out listening to it! I love the Book of Mormon. I know it gives us to the power to do all things!

Read the Book of Mormon! Read every chance you get and I PROMISE that if you do, it will make you happier. That is a 100% guarantee!

love ya'll! Have a great week!

p.s. Happy Birthday Mom and Dad!

love
Sister Shaw
#aintnorestfortherighteous

Monday, January 19, 2015

GREAT week bye to the Trio

Well, This was a GREAT week. This was my last week of being in a trio. I am sad to see Sister Chapa and Sister Larsen go but we did have a ton of fun! They will be missed soooo much! I am excited to see what my last 6 weeks has in store for me! I cannot wait!
So this weekend was awesome, we were able to see an 8 year we taught be baptized. Her mom was baptized back in August and asked us to teach her. She was baptized with her 9 year cousin and aunt who the Elders taught. The baptism was so beautiful. The spirit was so strong and so many people came. The support of this ward is amazing and so many people looking into the church came.
I am so grateful to be a missionary. I know that this is the Lord's church on the earth. I am so grateful for the Spirit that testifies these things to me. I love the Lord and will serve Him the very best I can.
Love,
Sister Shaw
#aintnorestfortherighteous

Monday, January 12, 2015

A McDonalds Miracle

Well, this has been a crazy busy week. So many people to see and so little time.
We had interviews with our mission president on Wednesday which was great as always. That was my last interview with him until I go home!! CRAZY! The time is flying by soooo fast! I love being a missionary and I don't want it to ever stop.
But I want to tell you about a miracle that happened this week. So on Friday we went to a lesson that we were having at McDonalds. So we sat a table and this guy sat not to far away. About 5-10 minutes into the lesson I saw the guy looking at us and I got the strongest impression to go talk to him. So I got a Mormon.org card from my companion Sister Larsen and walked over to him while my companions and the member we were with talked to our investigator. I talked to this guy for probably about 15 minutes and he is just so ready for the gospel. It was so amazing to have Heavenly Father choose to work through me. I am so blessed and he loves me so much.
Heavenly Father will work through you if you let him. It is just as prideful to think that He can't then to think that we don't need Him.
I know this Church is true. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the power to change.
#aintnorestfortherighteous
love
Sister Shaw

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Surprise!

Well, this has been a very eventful week! :)

So to start off, There was an emergency transfer this week! hah. Crazy right? So what happened was that Sister Brown and I got moved from Lakeside Park. Everything is fine and ok, so don't worry. Sister Brown is not my companion anymore and she is in the Western Hills ward. She is actually working in the Mission Office. A super cool job, I am little jealous :)

Me on the other hand... I was sent to Hebron with Sister Chapa and Sister Larsen. So you guys probably don't remember Sister Chapa, but she was my Companion in the MTC for the first 3 days until we had to get emergency transferred in the MTC as well haha. So Sister Chapa and I are just finishing out the time we didn't get to have in the MTC. :) Sister Larsen actually goes home at the end of the transfer which is crazy.

And there is one last fun fact....
I am a Sister Training Leader now. That is the position that Briar had on her mission if you aren't familiar. It is fun. We have 2 other sets of sisters in our zone that we have stewardship over and they are just great. Actually, just last transfer one of them was my Sister Training Leader. So if you saw pictures from mission Leadership council on FB, that is why I was there. :)

So yeah. This is the fun and exciting news of the week!

my new address is:
2260 Flicker Dr. # 195
Hebron, KY 41048
But remember, transfers are in 2 weeks! :)

Have a great week!

Love ya!