Leaving strong in Kettle

This week was rockin!

We had a great restoration lesson with Tom and Kathy our new investigators. We had found them through offering service and they have bounced between churches and do not have a current church. Kathy asked "Where is God now?" Amongst all the craziness in the world. Through the Restoration, we helped her see that God is very active and continues to guide his people and she can know it by reading and praying. They were hesitant to come to church right off the bat so we arranged to have our next lesson tomorrow at the church bringing a member we feel will connect. We are really excited.

Earlier today we had a great lesson with our investigator Marie and she wants to gain a skills set (christlike attributes) including forgiveness. We taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ with the perfect member Sister Jensen. She was moved by it, found greater understanding of the Holy Ghost and accepted to prepare to be baptized September 27th. I truly feel I was here to find Marie and help her along the path of coming closer to Christ. 

We also had a lesson with Angela and talked about the difference in belief and faith. Faith is acting and how she's kind of been stuck these past 5 years investigating. Also expressed to her the struggle we see in her reading the Book of Mormon and gave her a hard commitment to read daily, pray, and come to the whole block of church. She came to the whole block yesterday!

Well, I'm off the the UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN. Here I come Marquette!!! It's going to be a great winter. The first question everyone asks me when I tell them is "Do you have warm enough clothes?" Yupp. Bring it on!! I will also be in contact with Sister Stephanie Harris. She will be my Sister Training Leader! Crazy eh? Get excited for my Yuper accent!

Love ya! 

Sister Roylance

Pictures of us and Andy with his Mormon hat on.

Also, we went to an old fashioned Wisconsin corn roast. Delicious!!!

Another week in Paradise!


Hey family!

This last monday we went to Holy Hill which makes a crazy day!

So hilarious experience. So Janet, a less active loves loves loves loves the Osmonds. Like 3 days ago was her 39th anniversary of seeing them for the first time and she still goes to their shows. Knows their family history better than her own. etc. Anyway, we were at holy hill looking at all the cool stuff. Went up to the tower to see the gorgeous view and come back down. On our way back we run into someone with a byu shirt. Guess who we run into??? Another set of missionaries. One being Sister Osmond!!!! She's Jimmy's daughter for those who are familiar. Anyway, at this point it feels like a big inside joke b/c Janet is freaking out inside but she doesn't show anything. I am genius and I arrange for us all to take a picture so Janet can have one on file. Most hilarious experience ever!! All she could say after was "Holy Buckets!!" 

We had mission tour on Tuesday and Elder Martino of the Seventy came and was amazing!! It was such a good experience. He taught us so much and made some serious promised blessings to our mission. Ready to step up our game!! Also told us that ipad minis and facebook are coming to our mission the first part of november. Woot woot!

Andy was scheduled to be baptized this saturday. But his dad is against it and him getting baptized. Andy is 50 and his dad is 82 so not sure how much longer we have to wait. But Andy has slight disability. He lives alone, holds a job, and drives own car and such but he's a bit childlike so he would listen to his father's opinion and not want to go against it. So we are praying for his father's heart to be softened!! As well as trying to meet him (he refused once). So hopefully him soon! 

Anywho...Great week!

Also miracle. We drove the distance to Sullivan (town of 669) and we were rewarded. Shannon, a former investigator was home!!! She wants to get back in with us along with her mom to learn and be baptized. Yes!

Love ya'll. Sister Roylance

Wisconsin breeze...and mosquitos!


Hello family and dearest friends. This week has been an adventure.

So much is going on.

We've been planning with Brother Bonner, our ward mission leader, to put together a fireside in a member's home for a few select families and investigators and returning less actives. There's a wonderful devotional by Tad Callister that is absolutely inspiring and a testimony builder! It's called "What is the Blueprint of Christ's church?" Amazing! That will be fun to have our friends to attend.

We taught Andy a couple times this week helping him come closer to baptism. He is such a willing spirit and so humble. Excited for baptism and the best commitment keeper ever! He told Sister Bonner yesterday at church that he's been getting pressure from his father concerning his baptism and becoming involved with the church. We are continuing to pray and have faith and help Andy's faith that he can do this. We also look forward to meeting his father too ;)

We taught the lesson in Gospel Principles yesterday. Best lesson ever! It was on Christ's church today. So basically the restoration lesson that we share every day of our missions plus more! It's amazing to see the truths that were restored through the restoration. We have hope in forever families, fulness of doctrine, and necessary authority for the ordinances of salvation. What a blessing to be a part of this great church!

Brought Sister Jensen to our lesson with Marie. We feel it was inspired. They clicked right away and Marie learned so much from Sister Jensen's testimony. We also were touched by Marie's testimony. She has been reading the Book of Mormon so well (like we invite every single person to do) and she does and boy does she feel the power of the Book of Mormon! She told us that what she has read is tattooed on her brain and she cannot deny the truth of it. Yes! Yes! Yes! So she's amazing. We hellped her see that it's the spirit testifying of its truthfulness that she can feel.

Great stuff is happening. Love the work. Never waste a moment. Off to Holy Hill soon!

Love ya'll

Sister Roylance

My first taste of giolato (italian ice cream) and Amazing!!!

July 28, 2014       

I'm lacking creativity in my titles.

So this week was great!

We stressed personal prep for baptism with Angela.

=she read! + made the whole block of church a priority!...followed through!

Had a great lesson with Andy and taught Gospel of Jesus Christ with newest member of the ward, little 8 year old Talia!

He accepted to be baptized on August 23rd!

Put it on his calendar ;)

Right after watched baptism of 8 year old Nicholas Huntsman

Perfect Andy could be there!

Next day at church told us his father thought we were a cult.

We will have to pay him a visit.

Had a lesson with our favorite person Marie! 

First time in like 12 days.

Read Moroni 7 at her request and learned about the Spirit of Christ that is given to us to judge, and charity is the pure love of Christ and endureth all things.

She's amazing. Excited to continue to help her progress and come closer to Christ.

Pioneer day with the Bonners.

They brought mutual friend of ours, Becca and shared a pioneer story aka most of restoration!

Finna watch legacy with her this Thursday. :)

Love you all!

Sorry for the short statements. 

Have a great week!

Sister Roylance

August 4, 2014

Trees are changing...?

 

Hey everyone! This week we did service for our 98 year old friend Loretta. We cleaned her outside windows...didn't think it'd be too bad. Two things, me and sister kilger have a phobia of spiders and there were so many! Think of daddy long legs X3!!! All over. So that's the first issue. But we very hesitantly at times press forward, get on the spiderwebby ladder and clean the windows. Well, the best part is Loretta. she tells us she doesn't want to hang around and tell us what to do so she leaves us to it. However, every corner we turn, we see her smiling through the windows waving at us hello. She probably thought we were scaredy cats. hehe. 

We taught Andy this week twice. It was great. For our plan of Salvation lesson we sang I am a child of God. We learned later that he has been workin on that song listening to it on his ipad. Nice! We then teach him the Word of Wisdom. He totally thinks it'd be a good idea to follow the prophet and committed to live the Word of Wisdom. He is such a great person that wants to follow Jesus Christ. Excited for him!!!

We also taught Marie this week the Plan of Salvation. She had read "homework" chapters to prepare for our lesson so sshe had many questions. Great! At the end of our lesson, all of her questions were answered and she totally thinks the Plan of Salvation makes sense! She is so committed and reads the Book of Mormon each day. Love her! My favorite person!

As for the title of my email, weather is great here. Not even a hot summer! For which I am grateful. I did hear rumor of an early fall, like really early. And some of the leaves are already changing!!!! Hopefully we don't have a winter starting in October this year. 

Love ya'll!

Sister Roylance

p.s. ever had milk in a bag? Cheapest way to go!!!

p.p.s. Sign on a door we knocked on. hehe :)