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

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

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!

 

Merry Christmas!

Well, like all of you, I don't have much to say since I just saw you...

But it was great to Skype. I loved seeing everyone and getting to talk to you all. :) It was the best Christmas ever! The music video was seriously the BEST present I could have ever gotten!! :) 

Well, I wish I had more to talk about but nothing has happened this week... Sorry!!

I hope you have a great week! 

I like the finer things in life......

(Read in a British accent)

Well, this week has just been grand. I had the wonderful Christmas conference and received great gifts. Thank you very much, they are verrry appreciated.

But Friday was a day that will never be forgotten! This is where my newly found life begins. I only like the finer things in life now. I only do ritzy things and only enjoy the best of things. On Friday night we went to the most glorious restaurant. It is called Three Sixty. The restaurant is at the top of a hotel on the Ohio River and it turns in a circle. It is marvelous and the view is spectacular! These are just a few of the nicer things that I have done now.

I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Merry Christmas.

Feliz Navidad! ( I speak Spanish now, don't you know)

Love

Sister Shaw

Together for 6 more weeks!!

Wow. Another transfer has flown by! We had a great week to finish it off! :) We had a lot more success this week. Heavenly Father has just really been looking out for Sister Brown and I. We are so blessed. We are also blessed to stay here another 6 weeks! I am so excited to spend Christmas and new years with Sister Brown and here in Lake side park! :) 

The miracle of the week:

This is more of a funny one but great none the less! 

So on Friday or Saturday I got my package from you mom, with M&M's. I was so excited and I put them in the car to munch on while we drive. The car is where we spend most of time because we have to drive a lot to get places. So I put them in there and totally forgot that it wsa going to be fast sunday yesterday. So fast sunday came and the M&M's jsut sat and stared at me ALL DAY! I was so sad that I could eat them but I was not going to let Satan's temptation get the best of me. So I made it to dinner successfully. Keep in mind that we also went and took cookies to come people. Excellent self control if I do say so myself. So I ate a wonderful dinner with my favorite family in the ward when they brought us my favorite thing... dessert! I took one of the small chocolate cookies and died. The miracle is that I didnt actually die! :D no just kidding.... So as Sister Brown was about to take a cookie she noticed something.. a nut. Thats when everything came to a stand still. SHE IS ALLERGIC TO TREE NUTS! (Imagine this next sentence in slow motion) So I slapped the cookie out of her hand! ok... That didnt realy happen but it would have been funny. So Sister Brown couldnt eat the cookie, no dessert for her. So we made it back to our car when I remembered that I had M&M's! So, there it is, a true Christmas miracle! Thank you mother for loving me enough to send M&M's that my companion could eat for dessert yesterday!

Hope you all had a great week! 

I love you! 

Love 

Sister Shaw

Happy Thanksgiving

Well. Just another great week out here in Kentucky! Just living the high life. haha. It has been great. The weather has been wonderful! No snow! lots of rain though which I am perfectly happy with! I am just grateful that my mission president has ever sister companionship in a car! :) 

I hope you all had a great thanksgiving. I had a wonderful dinner with a family. It was yummy and so fun! 

Things are going great here. Sister Brown is AWESOME and we are still having a lot of fun doing the work of the Lord. This is the lord's work. He has a plan for each and every one of us. It is our job to figure it out though! 

Miracle of the week:

We have been teaching a woman who wants to get baptized but her husband wont let her. So every fridaywe go to lunch with her and her husband to soften his heart. Well... it is working because he opened up to us and is going to let us work with him now and THEY BOTH CAME TO CHURCH! 

Miracles seriously can happen! Only by the grace of God!

I hope you all have a great week! 

I love you all!