Humidity has fried my brain.


Ummm... trying to recall this week. Crazyness!!! I tell ya, keeping track of investigators progress can sometimes be a real trial.

Marie, our miracle-super-prepared investigator, we had a lesson with on Monday. First half of the Plan of Salvation. Went well. Really great, accepted everything. Is reading everyday. Well, We have not heard from her since Monday!!! Quite unusual and worrisome. Even her friend Sister Lima no luck. Tried throughout week. Dropped by a note yesterday. Really hoping she is physically okay in that big home of hers in which she is living alone. But......we heard news last night! She has been terribly sick. Bad infection. Didn't want to scare us.. Basically we and she knows that Satan is fighting against her and she needs to fight it. We'll have the Elders give her a priesthood blessing :)

Our investigator Andy. Oh man. He is my favorite person! We teach him on Saturday. Show up, he meets us at the door with this white baseball hat on that says MORMON. Oh yes. We asked where he got it, he ordered it online. Nice! We read with him in the Book of Mormon. Downloaded ldsgospel library for him. Really loved that! Then he came to church sunday. Had lesson on baptism in priesthood. Asked Elders how we are baptized and we showed him the font. Exciting!

Played croquet and bacci ball last p-day. Bad luck. I happened to break the croquet stick and Elder Steiner broke the bacci ball. How do you break a bacci ball in half??! 

Also, we walked the Oconomowoc Lake Walk. It's official. Hundreds walk each day. Great way to contact! Miracle actually. We met the son of a potential investigator. The PI told us he wasn't interested so no reason to go back. So...Heavenly Father placed the son in our path and he was actually looking to get a Book of Mormon. Hey look! We happen to have had one :) Passed this beautiful sunset on the way home. Ahhh...Gotta love it!

Safe at last...       

This week has been a little worrisome with not knowing whether I would be leaving or staying in Kettle Moraine.... I am staying!!! So happy :)

So this week, we taught our dearest friend Marie the Restoration. She is continually impressed with the church and the members of the ward. She is so sincere in wanting to know if this is true and doing what she needs to to know! She loves how we ACT  on what we believe. Elder Holland said this in a conference the year I was born. “they which preach the gospel should live … the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:14). Beyond my words and teachings and spoken witness
, my life must be part of that testimony of Jesus. My very being should reflect the divinity of this work. I could not bear it if anything I might ever say or do would in any way diminish your faith in Christ, your love for this church" Love it!!!

We also taught Andy this week with the perfect member! We reviewed the Restoration with an amazing object lesson that shows perfectly what Christ's church looked like, how it was lost, and is now restored! He prayed at the end of our lesson=favorite part of missionary work. His prayer was so humble and sincere and he asked to know if what we taught was true! After the prayer he asked how he could receive a "membership number" essentially asking how he can become a member. We told him through baptism! He wants to be a member :) We Love Andy :) Such a nice guy. 

Met a less active member Donna this week. She is so kind and, as we found out, sensitive spiritually. She can really feel the power of the scriptures. We asked if she had read the Book of Mormon. "Oh yes. Once I open the Book of Mormon comes the spirit. My testimony's just on the next page." Wow. She also expressed her faith in the priesthood and power of prayer. She has not read the Book of Mormon in some years probably because she knows what will happen once she does. The Spirit will come and flood her life once again and she'll come back!!! hehe. That's our plan. So she accepted our invitation to come and read with her :)

Had some revelation this week while journal writing/reading the Book of Mormon. hint hint. I feel I can relate to Alma who wishes he could just declare repentance with a trump as an angel! He just wants to share with everyone but he realized there's a principle of agency in people that we need to respect. He discovered he needs to be content with what the Lord had allotted him and why would he desire more than to perform the work to which he had been called. 

We continue to be blessed in this area to be able to help our new friends Marie, Andy, Angela, and many other wonderful people to come closer to Christ and for the rest of the time I am content in working hard and meeting as many people as I can to plant seeds for others to come along and find! 

I'm so grateful to be here. To be a part of this great and glorious work. I have such a testimony of the gospel and can feel the power of it each day! 

I love you all and hope you can feel the truth of this gospel too!

Sister Roylance

p.s. Pic of my new dress I got for 5 dollars at St. Vinneys!!!

p.p.s. Picture of object lesson of Christ's church. All crumbles when apostles are taken out!

July 7th, 2014

Oh dear. So much goodness!!!! I can't even express. Let me just say that.

Marie is our new investigator and top dog. She was our most promising before she was even an official investigator. Thursday we spent some time with her smoking meats, baked a cake, and made a salad for the ward 4th party. Friday she got sick and couldn't even make it! Sunday she came to church!!!! With her friend Sister Lima. Well, all week we have been getting closer, preparing to ask Marie if we can teach her. Well, we did and boy she is sooo ready! This lady is wealthy beyond measure but that is not what is important to her. I talked to her on the phone yesterday and she told us that all she wants, all she wants, is to come closer to her Savior Jesus Christ. She wants to learn about forgiveness and about the Holy Ghost. She sees this church and sees goodness. She sees us sisters and sees purity and light of Christ. She wants that! She told me "If this church represents what I think it represents, then I want in" She then asked if there's a reading assignment that can help her to prepare for Tuesday when we teach her. 

Ummmm.... prepared much? Ahhhh!!!!!!! So excited to teach her!

Andy is another amazing person. He has been reading the Book of Mormon everyday. Came to the 4th of july party and to church. He has such a pure heart. We will teach him Saturday. Cutest thing. Andy is a bit childlike, and he came to the 4th party with a nametag on his shirt so he could introduce himself to all those he didn't know. So cute!

Third miracle of the week. I wrote Bryan (investigator/recent convert from Stevens Point) and he wrote back!!!!!!! He called me the "original missionary" haha. Also expressed some things he has learned and that he bore his testimony in church yesterday! Can't wait to go back and visit one day. :)

All in all, great week. Not the best numbers wise (missionaries will understand that) but miracles!

Love you all! 

Have a wonderful week and always remember to rely on our Savior each and every day!

Sister Roylance

P.s. picture of us at the Lake we couldn't get in :)

Miracles!       

Okay this will be quick...maybe! just a few miracles happened this week. All of them (that I can think of) being yesterday! 

So, we helped a Sister Lima in staging her home to sell and she sent us over to her friend Marie who is also selling her home for 4 million dollars! Anywho, Marie is super nice and the first question she asks is "what time is church? I will call Sister LIma for a ride" Ookay... sweet! Well, she came on Sunday and it happened to be perfect. 1. because I was speaking on the Atonement of Jesus Christ but 2. is more important. Marie had a daughter die 3 years ago in a car crash and hit a tree. Well, brother burniston spoke on what was supposed to be obedience but that was not what came out! He told a story of a young kid who just graduated high school and then crashed and hit a tree on Friday and died. :( So sad but then he bore testimony of the knowledge he had that we can see our families again and we can be together forever!!! It was perfect for Marie and I believe the Lord helped her to be there that week. 

Do you remember in the Best Two Years when Elder Rogers is teaching the lesson and he says "This is why I'm here". Well, let me tell you I had that moment yesterday! We were teaching Angela who just really needs to be baptized already! Her husband is waiting and waiting. So we taught baptism being the gate to the temple, used pictures and everything and brought a wonderful couple with us. As I was testifying that I know they can be sealed for time and all eternity, I teared up, choked and said "this is why i'm here" to help families be sealed together forever. After that there was no way she could say no to being baptized! So she accepted August 9th :)

also, our new investigator Andy showed up at 11:56 right before church ended at 12. Surprise! We had no idea he would show. We didn't even happen to invite him! but he wanted to check it out. So we gave him a church tour. 

#miracles.

Can't remember much else. All is well in Wisconsin!

Love ya'll. Have a happy 4th!

Sister Roylance

Pics of beautiful Wisconsin and red barns. (We tracted into this nice guy. We were super nice of course and he let us take pictures!)

Sister Roylance is green and about to dominate the world!