Gone fishing

Hey everyone! This will be quick b/c we are going fishing with a less active member Sister Beseler! It'll be grand I'm sure. Even with the 10 dollar fishing licence we have to buy!

Had exchanges this week and Sister Stephanie Harris was my companion for a whole day!!! Best thing ever and such a Tender Mercy of the Lord that we got to be companions even for a short time. We always thought there's a reason we got put in the same mission. Anywho, she's an amazing missionary! I learned lots from her!

This week we taught Peggy the Word of Wisdom, Law of Chastity, and Sabbath Day. She accepted to live it all! She has such great faith and is really getting excited for her baptism. What's amazing is she's been sharing with us specific blessings the Lord has given her recently and we've been able to promise her that those will continue as she follows the Lord and His teachings.

We taught Cheryl and Charlie the first half of the plan of salvation and asked them if they desired to follow all of God's commandments. Cheryl has been baptized, Charlie has not. We extended him the invitation to be baptized and he accepted. They are also getting married next month so we don't have to worry about the Law of Chastity anymore! #miracle They've been giving us excuses of not getting married forever! Saturday they randomly called us over and gave us the news!

Ed, our investigator, has been really busy and then went to spend 5 days with his family. He went from super awesome and progressing to just fascinated by the Book of Mormon and not wanting to make commitments. We are stopping by tonight to find out what happened and to
help him remember the answer he has already received. Family=not always the greatest influence!

Well, hope you all enjoyed the Ogden temple dedication!!!!!!!!! So exciting! Definitely where I want to be married. (yupp, not San Diego anymore)

Enjoy!

Sister Roylance

Expect Miracles

Hey family and friends!
This week was awesome. Can't quite convey the joy I have while in the service of the Lord. But it is immense! We see how much the Lord loves and cares for his children and prods them along.

So recently it seems we've given all of our people to the Elders to teach. It's all for their better anyway. But the Elders months ago seems to have tracted in our area and now gave us those people's information. We went and met two of them randomly and they both want to learn more! #miracles

One is named Leena who is Native American and lives on the reservation. She is Christian though and we taught her the restoration. We rescheduled for a time when her husband can join us! So great.

Another is Stacey. Randomly we knocked on her door at 845 at night. Baby in hand. We asked her if she would still be interested in learning. "Actually, Yes I would be" Yes!!! I love families.

Peggy is preparing well for her baptism. She's a really neat lady. She thinks of us as her daughters. :) Both her mom and her son are members. But her son is Less active. So sneakily peggy invited us over when her son would be there. We brought an awesome member that helped with family history AND connected really well with her intellectual and critical son. She answered some of his questions about the church. Yes!!!

Had a music night with the ward. More than half of them were nonmembers from the community! But this ward, let me tell ya, is so talented. There were bands from the community but quite a few were from our ward. Like 4 of them were old men but legends within the musical community. Sweet!

So this older lady, Sister Salani has brought her friend Patricia to church the last two weeks. We talked to Sister Salani and I guess Pat wants to meet with us and get baptized....What??!!!! Sweet! But, they are finding a time to meet mid October! No no no. This is not right. We should act now! Ah the impatience of missionaries. :)

Spoke in sacrament on My covenants I made as a missionary. Really helped me reflect on that and now I turn it around to all of You. What did you covenant to do when you were baptized???

Love ya'll!

Sister Roylance

Greetings from Michigan

This week we were very busy. Which is great! We saw Peggy our investigator twice. She's amazing. Taught her the restoration and plan of salvation and she loved it. Thought it made a lot of sense!. Came to church yesterday and great fellowship thanks to awesome members. She will be coming to the relief society activity on Tuesday as well! And...her son is a less active member. She has developed this plan that we will go see her on friday when he happens to be there. Nice!

We also taught Ed the Word of Wisdom. He struggles with coffee and smoking but has agreed to begin to stop those addictions. We've been having daily contact to continue to support him and told him about fasting for fast sunday! Funny and very real, but when we taught him he was most worried about coffee. Not smoking! Yes, coffee causes REAL addiction.

Audrey we also taught the word of wisdom. Good thing she is 17 and dislikes all of those substances!

So we visited this less active Jack who I saw my first day here. Completely normal. But we got a call from him a few days ago that he's in the psychiatric ward at the hospital and to bring him his Book of Mormon. Oh my goodness! We visited him, found out his issue with alcohol, shared God's love for him, his ability and potential to change, etc. Poor guy. He has the worst conscience when he does wrong and has no hope!. Also, they were giving him a lot of drugs which attributed to the loopy ness. But he was the most normal one there so when we introduced him to another lady we know there, and visited her. He tucked her in and made sure she knew that God loved her and that Jesus loves her. Oh man, what a guy!!!

Hit my One Year anniversary this last week! Weird!

Anyway, love ya'll!

Sister Roylance

Please everybody. Obey the commandments. It leads to happiness I promise! Even better the Lord promises! As seen from my email, disobedience causes unhappiness and lack of blessings. Just sayin :)

p.s. This castle is a real house in a normal neighborhood. Super legit! We definitely knocked on it.

Yooper town!

I am up in Marquette Michigan. My new address is 415 Radisson Dr. Marquette, MI 49855. Everyone send me a letter so I can get a library card!!!
Also, I'm in the next time zone so now two hours ahead of ya'll so don't be procrastinators in email!!! :)
Well, I made it here safely. After 8 hours of travel from kettle to milwaukee. milwaukee to oshkosh. oshkosh to greenbay. Greenbay to marquette. Oh the travels.

Last update with my favorite investigator from Kettle. Marie feels the word of wisdom is inspired and will live it! She is going to post signs all over her mansion saying "Do I really need this cigarette?" We taught her at night and she told us she couldn't do it that night but GIVE HER A FEW DAYS AND SHE'LL HAVE IT. What? Most people want to take months. Marie has faith in days! I know it must be a trying time for her right now, but she wants to make this change for the gospel's sake and I just love her!

So marquette is a bit colder. Borderline jacket weather here since I've been here. It's been really rainy. Also, the basement I live in is freezing!!!!! Ah well, missions toughin you up ;) But we get an awesome 2014 truck so we can make it through the snow. (elders get a car)

Our investigators are awesome! Ed had an experience last week reading the Book of Mormon and got his answer that this is true. We taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ and moved his date to the 27th of September so he can better be prepared. He was called on two jobs very far away on Sunday but his break in between was coming to Sacrament meeting. How faithful he is! He reads every day.

We also saw Audrey. We taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and sabbath day holy. We committed her to live it.She is a cute 17 year old and I just see so much in her :)

Peggy we taught the Restoration. Her mom is a member in Washington and desires Peggy to learn about the church. Peggy loved the restoration and definitely saw the truth in it, especially the apostasy. She broke down crying a few times and is really struggling in her life. We told her the gospel brings the happiness she desires and the inner peace that only Jesus Christ can give. Excited to help her come closer to Christ!

Hmmm... any funny moments. We write down tender mercies of the Lord each night and a good portion are food. I ask people how long they've lived in Wisconsin and they correct me "Nope! This is Michigan" oops.

Love you all!
Sister Roylance
pic of Marie!!!