All Hallows WEEK!

So here comes Halloween and I love it!

It doesn't really feel like Halloween time because it doesn't look like fall here, but oh well.

Oh and we found out that on Halloween we have to go to a members house at 6 for the rest of the evening because it's too dangerous out in the world for us. Apparently some people dress up like missionaries for Halloween and yeah...

This week was a good week to be a missionary. We started teaching the sister who decided to come back to the church and found out a little bit more about her situation. So what will happen is that she has to write a letter, the bishop has to write a letter and fill out a request for her to be re-baptized which will have to go straight to the first presidency of the church. The whole process will take about 6 months, and she doesn't count as an investigator, but oh well :)

She is coming back after all, that is just as good as a baptism.

We had our first lesson on Tuesday then she shared something with everyone in Relief Society.

She began to cry and told everyone how touched she was just from the one time we met with her. I started to tear up. I knew she felt more of Heavenly Fathers love for her, it's those moments that I feel so close to God, I feel how happy he is that his children know they are loved. I love being a missionary!

We met a new investigator this past week and are going to meet with her and her friend tonight. She lives in the apartment of one of our less actives, when she opened the door I just began to teach her about the restoration, and she listened, after she told us that she has not found a church since she started school here, that she really needed what we said, and that she is looking for more in life. AAHHHH!!! She's it, the Golden investigator. Unfortunately because she  is ysa age we would have to hand her over to the ysa sisters, but hey same team! :)

One day we were out tracting, we talked to two men who were sitting on their front porch and they referred us to a lady named Kathy. We fallowed there directions as to which house she lived in, or so we thought. We knocked on this door, the lady opened up and we told her that "the bossy twins" (that's what they told us to call them) had sent us. She had no idea who that was but agreed to let us in! We went in and began to talk with her. We quickly found out she was not interested in learning more about our church, but the Lord lead and guided our conversation to the point where we began to talk about family history. She asked about our family History library and resources and of course we told her all that we knew. We then told her a bit more about how we do work as proxies for the dead, and even told her about sealings. I am not sure why I was lead to tell her about those things but she said that was very interesting and she had never heard it described that way before.
She then told us about how one of her ex sister in laws (a sister-in-law from her previous marriage) was a Mormon and was married in the temple but she never really understood. 

We hope to stop by sometime this week and check in on her. :)

Oh so I guess now I should tell you about our lovely Saturday.

We began by going to the Fall Festival. We dressed up as Elders :) We both wore white button up shirts and created little elder stickers to cover our sister on our name tags. We slicked our hair back and had a grand old time. Everyone thought we were really clever. There was a costume parade for the primary and people made us walk across the stage too. It was awesome. 

We had an investigator come to the fall Festival. She is the 14 yr old girl we have been teaching for a little while now. After the fall festival we watched Joseph Smith prophet of the restoration at a members house and then went to a baptism. After the guy was baptized they opened it up for a testimony meeting and I felt like my investigator really needed to hear my testimony, so I got up and bore it. After she began to really open up to us and told us that before she was not really sure if she was completely open to the possibility of our church being true. She then told us that she could'nt join our church because she was afraid of loosing her friends at her church. We talked about how she just needs to trust in God. We created a plan with her where she will read a chapter of the Book of Mormon everyday for 2 weeks and pray every night, asking Heavenly Father if it is true, then on the 9th of November at noon (she had a weird thing with having it be an alliteration) she is going to tell us whether or not she will be baptized on the 16th! I'm so excited for her to receive answers. Oh she also came to church on Sunday and we helped her make friends :)

Today we carved pumpkins!! :) Me and sister Fenn had a joint effort because if ya'll know me well enough ya know I can't carve a pumpkin in one sitting. :)

Tonight we have 3 lessons!! :)

Can't wait!!

Hopefully by the end of tonight we will have a few baptism dates too!

God is Good!!!

I love it!

I Love you!

Love,

Sister Chambers

Sister Chambers would love to hear from you if you would like to drop her a line here is her address 
1505 Fort Clark Blvd
Apt 16-203
Gainesville Fl 32606

                                               Sister Chambers first companion Sister Atkinson

Sister Chamber an her new Companion Sister blatter

We've got a DATE with our GATOR!!

So I picked up my trainee on Wednesday and by that night I already knew she was a good luck charm. We found two potentials that night and then went to the B.O.M. class. After we met with the Bishop and received blessings, then the Bishop told us that there was a lady who had her name removed from the church a number of years ago, but had gotten ahold of the old bishop of our ward and said that she wanted to be apart of the church again. This means that she needs to be taught all the lessons and re-baptized!!! :) So we met her on Sunday and we are having our first lesson with her tomorrow probably! She will be baptized in two weeks. I know that the Lord will bless us when we work hard, even if it's not the way we are expecting him to.

My new companions name is sister Blatter, but the a is pronounced as a long a, more like an o. 

It was funny though when we were getting our new companions. The President said that Sister Atkinson (my old companion) would be training sister Chamberlain... I laughed so hard, and then when I saw she had red hair my laughter increased ten fold. Then it the took off and the President began to announce the next companionship, and realized that he had messed up on the last one. He said oh no, she just trained sister chambers, she is not training sister chamberlain, she is training sister... (I forgot...opps!)

Any who we got that mess all figured out. Then he was announcing others and he said that one sister was training sister Blotter with an o, so then I thought (out loud) "does that mean there is a sister Blatter with an a? wouldn't that make it BLATTER? and guess what, I'm training her! :)

She is great. She just turned 19 and just graduated high school. She is pretty funny and we get along just grand!

I can't wait to see all the miracles that happen during our companionship.

Also there is another set of sister missionaries in my ward. Making 3 sets of missionaries. We have had to split up the areas so now we are getting used to the new area. It is kind of hard to give up some investigators and less actives that I have been working with for so long but I know that the Lord has a plan for them and that these lovely sisters will help them come closer to our savior! :)

Well last night we had a musical fireside and I performed( How can I keep from singing). It was a great night. A few people in the ward had friends with them who were not of our faith and hopefully they will want to know more soon. I think because it went so well we will be having a stake musical fireside sometime soon!

We do need to find some new investigators in our new area so we will be doing a lot of tracting and searching and I know that we will find those whom the Lord has prepared!! :)

Being a trainer is hard because you basically have to do all the planning, and I am no bueno at planning but I know that if we bring our weaknesses before the Lord he will help us to make them our strengths, so hopefully I will be a better planner soon!

OOOHHHH

On Saturday there was an article in the Newspapers about some missionaries in our area! The article was front page and went on to a whole other page! It was the most read and the most shared article this weekend! HOPEFULLY more people will come to us and ask us more about the gospel, that would just be wonderful!! 

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20131019/articles/131019560

I know that the Lord is preparing these people here, just in the past 3 months I have seen some major changes in the peoples attitudes. GOD is GOOD!

Love Ya'll!

Hope Ya'll have the most wonderful and splendid week ever!! 

Love,

Sister Chambers

on to the Evangelists‏ (week11)

So yesterday we went to an evangelical church. It was pretty good, they stood and sang for a long time, a lady shared a "testimony" (it was more like a story) about being a mother. Then a guy read this handout thing which was very very similar to the family a proclamation to the world and then went over the roles of husbands and wives. Then we sang a ton more, than they had a barbeque, but we were fasting so we just left early. Overall it was pretty good!
The lady who invited us came with us to sacrament meeting which was our fast and testimony meeting as well. 

She said it was pretty interesting and then asked me if it was like that all the time, I told her we have a meeting like that once a month but the sacrament we take each week. Something that people do down here is called the Lords supper, which is like the sacrament, but they only do like once a month. She had some more questions but we had to take off to teach gospel principles class. I told her we would love to come by and explain a little bit more if she would like us to, and she invited us over for dinner on friday!! :) Being fed by an investigator, boo yeah! 

ANY WHO, by the end of my mission I will know SOOOO much about other religions! I will be able to ace any religion course! :)

Oh we were running low on miles this month so to save miles we have been walking quite a bit! One day we walked about 7 miles and my feet felt deflated for the rest of the week. Luckily a new month is coming up and we can use our car more. I have never been as appreciative of a car as I am now. I also realized how we can visit SOOO many more people when we can drive to them instead of walking, cars save so much time.

The Relief Society Broadcast was amazing!! we even had a lady in our ward invite a friend who she thinks would really love to be a member of the church so hopefully we can have a lesson with their family this week and have them watch conference this weekend. If you can count on anyone to help people become converted it's the prophet and apostles! It was really interesting how frequently keeping our covenants came up. 

So here is a really cool story for this week...

There is a lady in our ward who we LOVE! She has been having some struggles recently and on Sunday was really stressed out. She could hardly sleep and was in her room crying her eyes out and praying to Heavenly Father. She said that she needed help and he needed to send someone or she wouldn't go to church.

Meanwhile me and my companion were on our way to the Evangelical church (which was on the other side of town) when my companion decides that we really need to go see this member, and I agree.

We knocked on her door and told her that she better let us in. Her young son finally after a few minutes let us in. We walked upstairs and talked to her and talked her out of going to work and made sure that she came to church. 

When we left she texted us what she had been doing not even 5 minutes before.  

It was so neat to know that she really needed us at that moment in time and the Lord sent the impression to my companion to go see her. 

THERE ARE MIRACLES EVERYDAY!

well the trinity is still frustrating me!

How could God and Jesus be the same? 

Why would God say this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased at the baptism of Jesus if they were really the same person?

And who exactly would Jesus be praying to in the garden of Gethsemane? 

GAAHHH!

Mans philosophies.

So now for a funny story.

Last night we were teaching an investigator, he is the one who's girlfriend was less active but is now really active. Any way they have a 7 yr old and 6 yr old girls. We were looking at a picture of the Salt Lake temple and we asked her what she knew about temples. She replied...

"Well all I know is that George Washington is on the top and he's gold." 

BA HA HA

my companion replied,

"yeah, George Washington, angel moroni, same thing."

That little girl is my favorite!

Fall is on its way... for everyone who doesn't live in Florida. For everyone here it's still as green as ever, very warm too. It going to be 14 month of never ending summer... I'm not sure how I feel about this exactly, but I'm pretty sure I don't like it.

Halloween is going to be here before I know it, and then it will be gone.

I think I might go as a missionary this year, or my companion, not sure which one yet :)

I WOULD REALLY LOVE FOR YOU ALL TO SEND ME PICTURES, E-MAILS AND REAL ONES!
 

Especially the Family pictures!!

Well I hope everyone prepares some questions to be answered at conference this upcoming weekend! 

I'm so excited to hear from our prophet! :)

Well off I go to baptize most of Gainesville! 

Have a great week!

Love Ya'll!

Love,

Sister Chambers