Happy New Year!

Lindsey Roylance to you

 

Well, this Christmas week has been wonderful! Such a blessed time. Christmas day we had a breakfast appt and a dinner appt. Skyping my family was amazing to see them and the little chillins! After dinner Brother and Sister Carroll gave us our presents and stockings. Inside them was silly string and of course we just had to have a silly string war. Christmas night we visited an investigator who we have had a hard time seeing and her sister was there. Barb told us of her reading and she believes it's true and we got to refer her sister to the missionaries where she is from. All in a Christmas day.

Right on time for the end of the year, our mission reached the 300 baptisms for the year 2013. Perfect timing and perfect number. I love how with faith and dilligence that the Lord makes things possible.

Bryan our investigator accepted a baptismal date this week. He enjoyed volleyball Saturday and then came to sacrament on Sunday. The branch loves him and he is doing great.

This weekend, about 85% of our appts cancelled. Must be trying to teach us something, but with extra time we met some pretty great people! Gotta love the work and all the blessings that come with it!

Have a Happy New Year Everybody!

p.s. The picture is of our candy shelf after 2/3 of it was already demolished.

Merry Christmas
Love Sister Lindsey Roylance

Merry Christmas!

Lindsey Roylance to you

 

Merry Christmas everyone! So this week I got a new companion Sister Pearson. She is from Cedar City and we went to college together we found out. She is great and hardworking and I'm excited to work with her.

We were dropped by inv Rose and Beth because they love their church. I wish people didn't love their churches so much!... jk. But they said they will still read the Book of Mormon so we look forward to reading with them!

We have a new investigator Bryan that was so nice to feed us shrimp and little sandwich crackers and hot chocolate at our lesson. He also came to church for the Christmas Program. It was a really special Program and me and Sister Pearson were of course in the choir! Tons of music and the Spirit.

We also met with a less active mom and 2 kids without a car and got them a ride for church as well. Didn't know that would be such a task but we arranged three rides for people just this week. Exhausting!

Last night we went Christmas carrroling to investigators and less actives. Great time and we received a dinner appt out of it. That makes 6 in a week starting yesterday. This time of the year is definitely a blessing!

Hope ya'll have a very Merry Christmas! Remember to put Christ in Christmas this year :)

Sister Roylance

On the 9th day of Christmas...

Lindsey Roylance to you

 

Hello everybody. Good news. I am staying in Stevens Point for Christmas!!! I have also decided to swear off Chocolate come January 1st until my birthday March 24th.

Met a girl this week at the college booth and she came up to us interested in the book of mormon because of the musical. Not sure if that is a good thing or not. Hmmm....

We have a chinese recent convet Tang. There is a language barrier and he doesn't understand everything so he requested lessons from missionaries once a week. Cool thing is, he was going to bring his friend Chris who he brought to church. Chris couldn't come so his friend Davis came instead. I have not met a member who has a backup friend to invite. Pretty awesome!

We tracted on Saturday while it was snowing light and fluffy. Really quite beautiful actually with the sparkly snow. Then the women couldn't talk because they were busy baking. All I want is for someone to invite us in for hot chocolate. oh well, Christmas is coming!

Merry Christmas everyone! Have a great week and enjoy time with family :)

Sister Roylance

Brrrr...........

Lindsey Roylance to you

 

Hey everyone! This week has been pretty awesome as a missionary! But first and foremost, for those that it concerns. Transfers are on the 18th and there is a small chance i could be getting transfered so please hold off packages until then or send them to the mission office (Not broad street. New one is Edgerton somethin) Look it up :)

Well, this week we had a lesson with Rose. William, her friend and recent convert of 1 month, came and the Spirit was so strong in that lesson! William was on fire, with analogies to help her understand the Plan of Salvation better and then she came to the Christmas Party and church.

We also had a lesson with Barb. we tracted into her last week and for our first lesson she had already read to 1 ne 5, just couldn't put it down she said! She also like Joseph Smith has wondered about "one Lord, one faith, one baptism" and a few other things. She is so prepared by the Lord, excited to continue teaching her and helping her in her spiritual progression.

What a blessing it is to be a Missionary and a wonderful opportunity the Lord gives us.

We had a Branch Christmas Party on Friday, never been so excited for a church party! Overall, there were 12 nonmembers there and many less actives and everybody had a great time. Awesome.

Weather update: Saturday we moved a family in the branch in -3 degrees (although some said it was -8). Weird when insides of nose freeze! We've been blessed with snow as well, but it's so cold it hasn't melted into ice so all is well :)

Love ya'll

Sister Roylance

Hello!

Lindsey Roylance to you  

 

Hey everybody. This week was great. First i want to mention (priorities) somethin you should all listen to is "Missionary Next door" by dianna hassler. Amazing and hilarious and inspiring. Hope you can find it on the internet somewhere.

I had exchanges in West Bend this week. Interesting experience to see these sisters in the area that they opened up a couple weeks ago. They had zero investigators to start, a couple formers, and like no potentials. They have to start from scratch. I count my blessings!

We had an amazing member referral from Recent Convert of one month William. he is already a missionary. He referred us to his coworker Rose who we met with twice this week, and she is awesome! Statistics on future baptisms: tracting is 1/1000. member referral where lessons take place in member's home 660/1000! This is what we want!

We had Sister Martin from California's first snow driving experience. Only wiggled a little :) Thanksgiving at the Munk's house was amazing! They stole ideas from the Missionary Next Door and invited a less active family to dinner. He asked us to prepare our experience in deciding to go on a mission. We ate til it hurt but it was probably the most spiritual dinner appt I've been to on my mission. Amazing!

Hope you all have great Holidays and to remember the Savior Jesus Christ in our festivities. Love you all!

Sister Roylance

Picture of me and a 100 year old lady. She's doin great!

 

 

Hey everybody!

Lindsey Roylance to you

 

This week had some great moments. Met a guy named Hanz at the booth who asked us for a copy of the book of Mormon. Get this. He has read it 6 times. 6 times!!! Just wait, he is atheist! So I definitely realize the importance of faith and prayer mingled with reading scriptures. The book of Mormon is such a tool in my life that has strengthened my testimony of Jesus Christ and I know it changes lives. It has changed mine! So with Hanz, he likes the story and he studies theology. Out of all he has studied, he says Mormonism is the most logical and has best standards and what not. That was quite the experience.

We had zone conference on Thursday. Focused on the Book of Mormon and how it strengthens conversion. How reading daily and implementing the teachings changes heart and character. President Bednar once said, "Testimony is what you know to be true. Conversion is being true to what you know." So true and the Book of Mormon is the tool of conversion. This conference someone said, "The capacity to endure is directly proportionate to the strength of your testimony and depth of your conversion." I just love continually learning of the Book of Mormon teachings and the trick is to help investigators see that. Love this gospel!

We received two media referrals this week. Pretty amazing. We aren't the greatest at working at getting referrrals ourselves so thankfully Mormon.org is supplying (hint: we need to get on it!)

The talk I listened to, yes listen is key, is "the First Great commandment" by Holland. So good and inspiring.

Love ya'll! Keep warm and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey er' body

Lindsey Roylance to you

Happy Two Months! This week was a great week. Started off slow but definitely picked up! We met some Jehovah's witnesses. I so wanted to engage in a conversation with them but we were rushed so we only had time for pleasantries.

I learned various things this week. One is that polish ppl have a lot of kids. Stevens point has many polish and we know a guy, our friend Albert who is 1/17 kids!! Oh man. Also I learned that slough (referrring to skipping school) is a Utah word. Definitely confused the Smith family.

This week we did a few hours tracting. Placed 11 Book of Mormons and were blessed with two new investigators, Sarah and Ericka, and a few more potentials. We also met with Investigator Joyce twice. She is a 7th day adventist who believes Sabbath is on Saturday. She loves the bible oh so much, and she has come to love the book of Mormon too in reading everyday! We tackled the Sabbath Day topic and were bold in telling her that if the book of mormon and joseph smith are true (which she believes) then everything else is true as well. She accepted the date of December 28th to be baptized :) She is anxious to keep learning and tackling all the lessons. Hopefully this anxiousness becomes that of her baptismal date!

Recently I read a great talk shared from dear Megan. This talk is amazing and applies to all of us. Good read. "Lose not therefore your confidence" by Holland. Very promising!

Well, have a great week! Love ya'll!

Sister Lindsey Roylance

Hey all!

Lindsey Roylance to you

This week was fun and crazy and we met cool people. First we had a first scary dog experience. Like, we were in the middle of nowhere trying to find a less active. We turn down this road to a barn and field and house. all the sudden these two dogs come running out to us barking. There was no way we were getting out of the car. Luckily it was wrong house but to get out of there we had to get past the dogs and they wouldn't move out of the way!!! So mean! They also attacked the car a bit. Got muddy prints on my side. So close to dying there.

We did a lot of tracting this week. We met some awesome people. met Bill. This man wasn't too interested but when given a book of mormon can't read cuz of bad eye sight and has no internet. Ummm... but he was nice and gave us two huge potatoes. Like bigger than our faces! We of course used these and made a yummy roast on sunday. Yum. We also met this great girl Ranae. She has lost her mom, grandma, and uncle in the past 4 months. She was so sweet and invited us in and we pretty much taught the restoration. We also ran into her again and she said she's been reading the book of mormon 10 minutes a day just like we asked. Oh man cant' wait for our appt. Sadly it's next thursday.

We also do a booth each week at the college. Met some cool people. Tianna was so cute. She had so many questions for us. She also professed that college doesn't mean much she just wants to share the gospel and love Jesus! Can't wait til she discovers this amazing gospel. She also asked us to pray for her to have the spirit and to share the gospel more. She is golden!

Well we got our first snow that stuck today. Worst its been is 27 degrees walking a few miles. eh. Gotta love it!

 

 

Hey everybody!

Lindsey Roylance

This week was great. I am 1 transfer down! We had two second lessons with Glen and Joyce. Love em both. Both talkers so teaching gets interesting and quite the challenge.

Also taught Marissa Restoration, and she is so amazing. She is a 19 year old mother and has been through so much. We are helping her to see that her Father in Heaven loves her and the Gospel can bless her life so much. I invited her to be baptized if she came to know our message and the Book of Mormon was true, she accepted! She is so sweet and has the cutest daughter Molly.

So We had a Miracle, well maybe two. We were at the booth and a lady comes up to us. Wants to know how the Book of Mormon fits in with the Bible and really interested in learning. She took like 2 dvds and a pamphlet. Sadly she doesn't live in our district so we gave her to the Elders in Wisonsin Rapids. They contacted her and told us that "she is an angel sent from Zeus" So I guess she is golden. Also, we were at the library and a man stopped us. His name is Brad. He told us he prayed that we would walk out those doors so that he could talk to us. He is struggling with alcoholism and he just hoped that we (our message) could help him. Oh could it! So we meet with him friday :)

So we had a ward function "Church around the world" tried Spring rolls=nasty. Flan=not great. But the lady from mexico said she saw hundreds of baptisms! Can you imagine! oh man, for one month would i love to be there but i know i am needed in Wisconsin and I wouldn't trade it for anything!

Well love ya'll!

Sister Lindsey Roylance

hey everybody!

Lindsey Roylance

 

This week was crazy amazing! We had exchanges on Wednesday so I got to go to Greenbay home of the Packers! Loved it so much. We walked by the Fox river at night and it was beautiful! So much fun.

1-6 week training was friday so..... I got to see Sister Harris!!!!... and my old MTC district. It was great, we had so much fun catching up and we learned a lot too. Practiced teaching with the pamphlets and the pictures in the book of mormon. Interesting but useful.

Friday night we had an oct-taco fest in our ward for a fundraiser for the young men. Well there was an auction for food items and such but we had to leave early. Lets just say that the branch is amazing and thinks of its missionaries cuz we received most of the food in the next days. Snickerdoodles, zuchini bread, homemade bread, and ghost cookies!

Saturday we had a baptism here in Stevens Point! It was the Elders investigator and we were so excited! It was my first and the Spirit was so strong, William was excited, and such a big event that Elder Warren and Sister Bennett (past missionaries got clearance to come too). We also had an investigator Joyce come to the baptism and she thought it was really neat. Sister Martin also sang and brought the Spirit in Come thou Fount. Amazing night.

Sunday, I spoke in church on the Sermon on the Mount. Joyce came (my first that attended church) so we were pretty stoked.

Stevens Point is weird and exactly opposite of Utah. Each year this city holds its trick or treating on a Sunday. Not on Halloween! weird, so the members drive to Wapaca so they can trick or treat too. Found it interesting. We can't be out past 530 that night so no trick or treating for us or handing out Book of Mormons as candy. :)

Also, challenge. Try Limberger cheese. I did this week brought by Brother Taplin. Well it smells worse than stinky feet. like really, but hey it doesn't taste too bad!

Great week. Lots of great experiences filled with the Spirit. The work is really moving here in Stevens Point!

 

 

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hey ya'll

Lindsey Roylance to you

So this week was much like last week. Full of cancelled first lessons. I know that these people would embrace our message if we can get in there!! Nevertheless, we keep workin. There must be somethin i need to learn here in this experience. Maybe importance of back up plan? Increase faith? But the area is still awesome!

We also decided that potential investigators and others we are trying to track down at home or on the phone all have a secret agenda in avoiding us. We know that one girl was home and didn't answer. We know that one lady has to be home some time, after all we check like twice a week! ha and we are convinced that this less active that we met on the street purposely gave us his first name only so we couldn't look him up and track him down. But no Louis is in our records.. Ha the secret agendas we missionaries convince ourselves of.

This week on the 17th, I hit my month mark. Crazy! only 17 more. It also hit 35 degrees today, we are hitting the thrift shops for coats today. yay! This week we had some library time and I browsed the mormon.org site. Way cool. Everyone needs to watch Brandon Flowers (from band the Killers), Lindsey Stirling (famous violinist), and Larry Gelwix (forever strong coach). Watch their videos. Sweet!

So I met a lady at stake conference. her name was sister nobel. Well, she was saying she was baptized many years ago and still keep in touch with the missionary that baptized her. Even visits him. We asked why, and she said that she was his only baptism. Well we then learned that her daughter was Sister smith from our ward. So because of this missionary's one baptism brought about the Smith family. The smiths are wonderful. They feed missionaries every week. Sister Smith is relief Society pres, Bro smith is ward mission leader, and they are a prime example of a mormon family with good values. All because of a missionary's one baptism! Change one life, you change many :)

Well, love you all. Would love to hear from you guys!

Love, Sister Lindsey Roylance

hey er' body!

Lindsey Roylance

 

 

So real quick! this week was slow and kind of a downer on parts but it was redeemed!! This week we had four first lessons cancel :( Super depressing. We also called all ysa. None answered. We tracked down some ppl. None were there. Great week eh?! However we had some great experiences, thererfore it was redeemed.

So we had a less active Mai come to our first appt with andrew. He didn't show up. But as we were about to leave, our hopes came true. Mai said, "Well you could teach me." Wow! she truly wanted to be taught and wants to come back to church. We taught her the restoration and she has such God given faith its incredible. Sad thing tho is she told us she is going back home two days later. (she has only been here a few weeks) so we set up another appt the next day to get in what we could and she was excited about that! We taught her the plan of salvation. Awesome to see what she remembers and recalls from when she was baptized years prior. So she is back in Appleton and we will try to contact missionaries there. :)

So fun experience, there is an investigator that is getting baptized next saturday. He is on fire and so involved. He watched all 10 hours of conference! Anyway there is a sister in the ward that is single. They are both in late 30s prolly. But point is is that we are going to set them up! we see the connection. We pray for a family to teach, now we are going to make a family! ha but really. Pretty exciting.

I met a lady that is 86 years old. and she has 86 nieces and nephews. Beat that anybody? Ya crazy! think of her nieces kids and grand kids. it prolly goes into the hundreds!!!

Me and Sister martin have definitely hit the gym this week. Well actually, we workout in the skinny laundry room so our neighbors don't yell at us from downstairs. But I'm pretty sure my right splits are comin along and i'm workin on the six pack abs! There will be a further update comin soon.

So best experience was last night. We have a goal of 10 baptismal invites a week as a district. That means 2 for me and sister martin. Well sunday came and we had none. It was hard cuz all our first lessons canceled. so we took it upon us with great faith and strength of the Lord to do it last night. As we were tracting, yes tracting, we found some great people. A few that we will return to and 2 new investigators. One of those, sister martin asked if he found out that what we are saying is true and that the Bom is true if he would be baptized.... Guess what, he said yes. A firm yes. Miracles are amazing. I thot before the mission that baptismal invite in first lesson was crazy and now I have a testimony that it works in tracting as well. Invitation is key. It is key for them to know the goal we have for them, God has for them, and that they can have for themselves. Wonderful experience.

Well I love ya'll see ya next week!!

Lindsey with her mission companion

Fall scenery straight from Lindsey @ Milwaukee Wisconsin

hey ya'll!

Lindsey Roylance

So this week has been grand! I loved conference so much and learned oh so much! I don't have time to tell all the great things i learned so everybody go watch it! but i loved Pres Monsons, hollands, bednars, oscarson's, maynes, and so on!

This lady we went and visited. her name is bessy and she turned 100 this week! Holy cow! She is also living on her own. Oh my goodness. Poor lady has no family left so i want to go visit her again but she is sweet.

We also received two new investigators this week! I am so excited to start teaching them of the message of the Restored Gospel and love them already! One we met street contacting. her name is Saffron. The other we met while doing a booth at the college and his name is Andrew. both promising and i can't wait for our appts!

The humidity this week was unreal. I feel like you could eat the air. It was like misters were going off everywhere. But kinda cool. Also bad news. for conference, no one really showed up at the church building, so me and sister martin each had to eat 4 cinnamon rolls! couldn't let em go to waste....

Also the power of prayer was amazing this week! So we got a new phone (big hassle) and the ups was coming between 2 and 5 for his second visit and we had to be there or it wouldn't be delivered. We really needed the phone. we prayed of course and were going to be there from 2-3. guess when he showed? 2:57! ya that was exciting! Also, we were in a predicament thursdya. it was raining and we were volunteering at the Ymca and Michael said he wouldn't let us walk home in the rain so he offered us a ride. Of course we can't but didn't know how to tell him. sister martin prayed that there woud be rain stoppage so we could get out of there and lo and behold it stopped. However, halfway home it started raining... should've prayed to get us all the way home ;)

Love ya'll and hope to hear from everyone next week!

I'm working on sending pics but my camera isn't showing my recent pictures. maybe next week

Love, Sister Lindsey Roylance

hey there!

Lindsey Roylance

So this week definitely was crazy. Didn't start out too exciting until we had the mission tour in which Elder Perkins of the Seventy came and talked to us. We learned about making good,better, and best choices. that God blesses us good, better, and best by the effort we make. Also this is kind of a duh! point but to receive answers and guidance from your Heavenly Father you have to ask questions! It was so cool! Elder Perkins had us write to questions at the beginning and by the end, everything that was taught either by the Speaker or the Spirit and Revelation would answer those questions. It totally did. So, now in going into meetings like that and General conference (comin up!) start out with two questions or so and see what we can learn!

I also learned about hard work and dedicating your self to the work. They asked "have you paid the price to be guided by the Spirit?" Well, me and Sister Martin took that question and self reflected and we set some goals this week and we have definitely seen the fruits of our labors! We made a goal to be zealously obedient in following all mission rules, to increase personal study efforts, and to sit at the table while having both personal study and comp study. We have worked a lot harder this week and boy have we been blessed!

yesterday, we were walking to an appt at the college and we ran into a girl named Saffron who was raised atheist but is now open to an idea that there is something else. We gave her a BOM and taught her how the Book of Mormon can help her through her hard times and give her guidance and that was exciting. We will call her tomorrow! On the way back, we ran into a lady named Elizabeth who asked "Do I know you?" hmmm... did we look familiar from the preexistance maybe? haha but anyways, she has bible study and we taught her about the Book of Mormon and how it testifies of Jesus Christ and the importance of it and she asked the Golden question. "What store can I get one of those at?" We were more than happy to supply her with one. We were so darn excited!

Then to end the night we went over to Sister Cousineau's an elderly lady who fed us pie. She ended up giving us the whole darn pie and the apple crisp. Ha we gave the pie to the Elders and kept the Crisp confidential. But boy it's a good thing we exercise in the mornings or I would be in trouble. My goal is to come back recognizable. Fingers crossed!

So we also got fed by the Taplins this week. They are recent converts and so nice. They fed us homemade chili in bread bowls and Brother Taplin made me a green bay packer scarf! I was so excited. I feel like I'm finally initiated!

Well, this week was full of experience. We tracted in rain and wind. Received plenty of rejection but could feel the Lord's blessing throughout it all!

Love ya'll

Sister Lindsey Roylance

Also, everyone read Your Wonderful Journey Home by Uchtdorf. It talks about God's plan and how we chose to follow him, and how he just wants us to return to him. It's amazing and my new favorite talk. Love ya'll!

September 23,2013

Hey Er' body

Lindsey Roylance to you

So, this past week in Wisconsin has been great! First I met President and sister cutler and they are such nice people and cook really delicious food. Then the next day, we got split up into companionships and guess who I saw??? Stephanie Harris!!! My Best friend in the mission!!! So that was so exciting! She is actually training my last companion Sister Morales! Wisconsin is so beautiful and has so many trees. Intersections are weird but eh. There are fields with red barns that you only see in pictures and I just can't get over the beauty.

the first night I came, I got fed by a member family, the Thompsons, and they are so proactive about member missionary work.A cool thing we are doing in our stake is actually teachign member families how to teach new member discussions. this way, the ward can gain friendships and connections to those new members who need to feel that love and support. so cool! There are a lot of Less actives which makes me reflect on my ignorance of this while at home. So everyone, look out for those less actives and fellowship them and make them feel loved so that they might want to come back to church!

On Saturday, I gave my first baptismal invitation. This family has had missionaries for four years and I reinvited them to be baptized. The wife has faith and believes this is true as well as the son. They are Armenian and have strong family unity. She told me her husband needs to make that choice then she will follow. So now her husband just needs to come to more lessons! Another blessing, we saw her baby's first steps while teaching the restoration. So cool and he is adorable. It is so hard to not be able to hold children and babies out here. Especially with how much I did at home!

Friday at the Art in the Park festival, we street contacted and the coolest thing was that some people will actually pray with you right in the street. Thought it was weird when sister Martin suggested that but it works and it is like the coolest thing. Last night we went tracting and yes there were two great rejections that I laugh about, and three awesome people who just need to hear the gospel, accept and be baptized! Hopefully when we return they would like to take lessons.

So there is a definite difference in here and in Utah. The distance in this branch covers like 30 minutes of driving. Crazy when i think of two church buildings on the same street. That just means that a lot of people need to hear our message!

So my companion Sister Martin is beautiful and super nice. She is very spiritual and we do great work together. I love working with her and studying as well.

So quick! Everyone needs to write me a letter so I can get a library card= more emailing time cuz I am really cut short! .... plus I would love to hear from ya.

My address is

Sister Lindsey Roylance

1224 A Northpoint Drive

Stevens Point, WI 54487

Thanks!

Also, a great talk to read is His Grace is Sufficient by Brad Wilcox. Let me know how everyone is! Love ya'll