Well, This has been a fun week. We have been working hard and having fun at the same time. We found 2 new investigators and actually got some members to come teach with us. That was great.

We have a great ward. They work so hard and they are so fun. 

Sister Brown is awesome. We are working hard but also having fun as you can tell from the pictures :) I love being with her. I have just loved being a missionary. Even though this is so hard, it is totally worth it. 

Yesterday I had to give a talk in sacrament meeting about Gratitude and I talked about being grateful in our circumstances. It is hard but totally worth it. That is how we find true joy and happiness. I hit my 15 month mark this week and I was reflecting on what I had done. I began to feel very sad and unaccomplished. I just felt like I was an awful missionary but then I remembered that God has given me my mission for me. He knows exactly what I need and loves me so much. I am so grateful to Him for giving me the mission I need to prepare me for the rest of my life. I need to remember that I have help more people than I know. I have helped many youth and members of the church and I am forever grateful to know them and to work with them. 

I am grateful for my God for loving me enough to cut me down, to hurt me. I know that is for my good. I love my mission. I love those I have the chance to serve. I am blessed and loved.

Have a great thanksgiving week!

I love you! 

love

Sister Shaw

We Laugh we cry we dumpster dive

Man, this has been an interesting week. Lots happened. 

So on Tuesday I got to spend the day in the Northern Kentucky Ward with my Sister Training Leaders. It was so much fun. They are so much fun. :) 

Then on Thursday we had a mission Tour. So a mission tour is when some one comes out and sees our mission. Looks at a what is going on and the work we are doing. So Elder Wilford W. Andersen of the 2nd Quorum of the Seventy came out and spoke to us. It was really cool. I got to see a lot of my old companions and friends :) It was so fun. 

Then on Friday, our sister training leaders called us and asked if we were by the church and we just happened to be, we are never up at the church. So they asked us to check the church for Sister Corbridge's camera because she lost it. So we did. We went all out. We looked everywhere! In every thing! Including the trash cans and dumpster! 

Then on Saturday, one of the sets of Elders had a baptism. We were asked to come and the missionaries in the Lakeside Park Ward (us, and 4 elders) sang When I Am Baptized. So we decided to practice before the baptism. So I played the top hand for us while we sang through it once. Then I decided to play a quick song on the piano before anyone got there and OF COURSE people came, so I played the prelude of the baptism for 40 minutes! hahhaha. It was soooo terrible! But I did play Joeph Smith's 1st prayer, Sweet Hour of Prayer and Nearer My God to Thee without messing up. I am counting the whole experience as a success! :) 

It has been a great week. I love you all! I hope you have a great day! 

love 

Sis Shaw

#aintnorestfortherighteous

#ClimbThatLatter

#Livin'TheHighLife

#DumpsterLivin'4Life

Satan in on the LOOSE

This has been a week to remember!! Holy cow! 

We have had soooo much opposition haha. It is actually kinda funny!

So have been working with a crazy member who has been working up so much drama. She is driving the ward crazy and is driving us crazy. I don'y even know what to do anymore. I just keep praying that Heavenly Father will tell me something to do... 

We also have run into a lot of people that just have not been very nice 

And lastly to top it all off....

WE GOT BED BUGS!!! 

Satan is REAL! He is out to get us. The work is hastening and we will win! No matter what Satan does, HE WILL NEVER WIN! We are going to come out on top! 

#AintNoRestForTheRighteous

#RestWhenIAmDead

#SatanIsGoingDown

#BringItONSatan!

#BgingTheWorldItsTruth

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Well, I know you are dying to know where I am... I am in Lakeside Park, Kentucky!!! Yup. Good ol' Kentucky! The promise land! It is awesome here! The ward is not very big but they are fun. We had 2 sets of elders and 1 set of sisters. So it is flipped from my last ward. 

Well, my new companion is Sister Brown and she is from Eagle Mountain, Ut! She is from Sis Fausett's ward! So nuts because her ward is her street! So they live on the same street! SSOOOO crazy!!

And guess what! I was doubled in again! All 4 areas, doubled in every time! It has been an adventure! :) We are having a lot fun. Sis Brown is so stinkin cute. I love her to death. We are having so much fun. I am so blessed and so happy.

I am learning right now how to rely on Heavenly Father. He is the best. He knows what is best for us and he will bless us when we do his will. I am so blessed to be in the greatest mission in the entire world. To have the THE MOST inspired Mission President ever who builds my faith every day. I know that the Atonement is real. It can change us forever and we can become new. I know it because I have seen it. 

I hope you all have a great week and continue to look for the hand of the Lord! :) 

I love you but I don't miss you ;) 

love

Sister Shaw

Well..... I am getting transferred tomorrow! I can't believe it! Sister Porter and I have only been companions for a transfer! I don't want to leave! It has been breaking my heart all day. I knew it was coming though. I wish I could stay though. This is going to be a crazy big transfer! AH!

But yeah. This week we went to the temple. It was AMAZING like always. I learned so much and I am just happier than ever. I feel like I get re-boosted every time I go. It is so nice. 

Well, our investigators are doing well. It was a hard week with them. We didn't get anyone to church and it has just been frustrating. No one really moving so I knew that my time was up. I have done everything I can here. I have helped in every way possible. Hopefully I can continue to help in my next area. We will see what happens :) 

Be a light to everyone around you! 3 Nephi 12:14-16

I love you all! I hope you all have a great week. 

Just keep swimming......

Well, This has been a pretty weak week. haha. Funny :) 

No but really. This has been a week to remember. Not a lot happened. Satan is so real. I know because of this week. He has been working really hard. Which I though was just on me. But no. I was WAY off. Not only was my companion having a hard week, but so was most of the mission.

Our mission President sent out a voicemail yesterday telling us to keep going. It is hard right now because Satan is trying to stop us. We are doing super well I guess for how young of a mission we are. So Satan is trying to bring us down but jokes on him because we aren't going to move. 

I am so grateful to be learning all of the lessons I am learning here. I know that I am here in Cherry Grove with Sister Porter for a reason. I love this ward. I love my companion. Life is great. 

Just keep going because it is always the darkest before the light comes. :) 

Shine Bright! 

love

Sister Shaw

Remain at your post

Hello! :)

Well. I hope you all had a great week like we did. We have been having so much fun and things are just going very well. We had so much Grace from Heavenly Father this week. It was so great. I am so blessed to see so many miracles everyday! :) 

Well, the reason I did not write yesterday was because we had a Sisters Conference. It was so great! It was exactly what I needed. I got a lot of answers to questions and just feel so uplifted by the Spirit. :) The thing that I learned the most was that Heavenly Father has a plan for me and how important it is to have faith in His plan. President Porter read some verses from Alma 56 with us and it was just so perfect. That is the chapter about the 2000 Stripling Warriors and how they knew their mothers knew it. I had the thought that I wanted to be like that. I want my children to know that I know. Then the Spirit taught me that if I want them to know that I have to exercise my faith. I have to take bigger leaps of faith. I have to completely trust in the Lord. I have to show that it is possible because if I don't, then who will? 

I know that people need our examples. I know that I am setting an example for my future family and whatever else Heavenly Father has in store for me. Heavenly Father loves me. He will take care of me if I trust in Him. :) Always turn to the Lord and He will direst thy paths. You will have no need to fear :) 

I love you. Have a great week!

love

Sista Shaw

1. Sis Low, Sis Porter and I. Love these sistas so much! Friends FOREVER :) 

2. S'mores! The kitten we found out side our apartment so I made him a home outside. He only stayed 1 night.

3. Sis Christensen and I. We are going to AZ together. BFFs :)