Whilst in Narnia...

Ok so this weeks title comes from last night! 

We had a very awesome day yesterday. During the day we went out to Newberry and explored some new territory. We found a few complexes that we can knock in and located a few less actives homes. :) 

Later we went to dinner and we were treated to a pre thanksgiving dinner.

After we had two kind of appointments...

We went to the one and taught the lesson on the restoration, got two new investigators!! :)

Then we had a potential to go see, so we plugged that right into our GPS, and it took us to this little dirt road and we followed it... and then BAM civilization. Like a huge whole complex of really nice houses!!! it was like going through the wardrobe and straight into Narnia.

Any who we talked to the potential who became an investigator and we have an appointment to meet with her on Saturday for a church tour!! :)

It was a good time.

Later we had transfer calls, I'm going to stay here! with sister Blatter! So basically ya'll need to send me some more mail.

Any who... 

It's been a pretty great week.

We started that with going to a home that was roach infested. Never thought that I would teach the restoration while swiping roaches off my legs. I kept it together, and then we had to shower right when we got home because it was just gross.

This weekend was pretty crazy.

We had a Free chili stand to help others come to the gospel, we met some people but not really many, we are going to try it again in a week or so...

Also on Friday and Saturday we had blitz's.

All the missionaries in my zone got together and went and seen less actives and knocked some doors. We found lots of gators. 

I loved it. I felt more unified and like a team.

Well sooo.... my mind is going blank.
I'm excited for this transfer. Thanksgiving and Christmas, and skyping!!!

Can't wait, but so excited for this transfer and to take on all of Gainesville (for now, later the whole world).

Well I love all ya'll!! with my whole heart!!!!

Have the best week EVER!

Love,

Sister Chambers

Monday Funday!

So this week was a bit rough, we didn't see as many people as we would have liked to, had many appointments drop, and were not able to contact all our new investigators, but hey we had 2 investigators at church and two members reactivated, that's winning in my book! :)

Me and my companion (Sister Blatter) went to see a potential at the store she owns. She was busy so we pretended to be busy looking around and such until she was available. We happened to find two awesome granny dresses that were only 3 dollars so we bought them! We rock them! :)

OH I'M A FACEBOOK MISSIONARY!!!

so I can be friends with my family, they can follow me, but I can't instant message them or anything like that.

It's pretty awesome, I can now send mormon messages to some of my investigators and have more daily contact to help them progress :) I love it!

So last night I cut 3 inches of my companions hair off (with her permission of course) and this morning she cut off another 3 inches!!! :) I am having short hair envy!

Well I'm not really sure what else to tell ya'll...

Our 14 yr old investigator has not decided to be baptized yet... but she is still reading the book of mormon, progressing, and coming to FHE tonight!!! 

There will be a baptism on Sunday for three kids in our ward. Hopefully she can come and feel the spirit at a baptism again and really desire to come closer to Christ and have that feeling more prevalent in her life.

I have been gone for 4 months!!!!! I really can't believe it, I know that in no time I will be back home in the snow. I'm still not sure if I miss the snow or not. Last week you had snow, we just started wearing light sweaters in the morning. Oh the sunshine state!!

This week should be fun, we have trade offs, and zone conference, and our zone is currently teamed up against another zone in a competition to find new investigators. In two days we (as in our zone) have found 18 people who are interested in learning more about the gospel. I know that the Lord is blessing all of our efforts and softening the hearts of the people here so that they will be able to learn more about the gospel. In fact one of the preachers announced over the pulpit to his congregation that the mormon missionaries are great and to let us in if we knock on their doors... MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!

The work is hard, but the work is really good! :)

I love it!

I love ya'll!

Make this the best week ever!!
Love,

Sister Chambers

Now into November!

So we found 6 investigators this week!!! AWESOME! That is the most I have found in one week! Some may not be baptized but I know that others will!

I'll tell ya about a few of them...

One is named William, we tracted all of Halloween because we didn't really have much time to work any way (seeing that we had to be inside at 6pm). 

We started talking to him about Jesus Christ and the Church that he established and how it was corrupted, when the man began to interrupt us and told us that he was Catholic, and I said oh really? Good strong belief in Jesus Christ? He said well... I am actually not really into church now. I don't like how all churches are just becoming businesses. 

DING! 

That's when me and my companion pounced, telling him about how our clergy isn't paid and how we don't believe in church being a business.

He then talked about how he wanted to really see a church serving others. He said like in Haiti, when the Earth quake hit, I wish I just saw people from a church there helping others out and just giving them food.

My companion was quick on her feet and told about a man from her ward who actually flew to Haiti to help out and how our church was actually the first on the scene, flying their own plane there. 

The man was really interested. We proceeded to tell him about the restoration of the Church, gave him a book of Mormon and told him about how it is evidence that the Church was restored, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet. We were about to invite him to read the intro, and a chapter or two when he said yeah I'll read that in two weeks. We were  kind of confused then he realized he was saying he would read the whole book in two weeks!!!! AAAHHAHAHAH!!! GOLDEN GATOR!

We said a prayer with him and we will be heading back on Thursday with one of our ward missionaries. It's going to be awesome!

So on Friday this week we had a conference with a member of the 70 named Elder Zwick, he was very awesome and super spiritually uplifting. He rebuked us, but in a way that made us want to be better missionaries, and then he gave us tips and tricks to empower us even further to be the best missionaries that we could be. 

We heard from him, his wife, our Mission President and his wife, ate lunch, then listened to them some more. That put us at about 4pm. We had a fireside for all the stake presidencies, bishoprics, ward missionaries, auxiliary leaders and so forth at 7 that night so they wanted us (the gainesville zone) to take some other missionaries from other zones (ocala, and lake city) out to tract with us for an hour, then grab something to eat. 

We took two other sets of sisters with us to an area that was close by and just began knocking. Only three people opened their doors for us, but everyone became an investigator. They listened to our message about the restoration, accepted a book of mormon, set a return date and let us leave them with a word of prayer. 

WAHOO! :)

We did go back and see one of them, he said that he doesn't think this is the path that God wants him to follow right now, but that's ok. We will just get him later. A seed planted. 

So that leads us to Sunday. Last week we got a call from our bishop saying he had a new investigator for us. We got ahold of them and set up a time to meet with them yesterday after church. 

The guys name is Dillion, and his fiancé is marissa. Marissa is a member and the two of them will be married in January by our Bishop.

So we talked with them for a bit, found out he had received some of the lessons before but had felt too pressured to be baptized so he stopped investigating until now. 

He wants to know more about the teachings of the church, so we will be teaching more about the gospel of Jesus Christ next week. He is going to read a chapter of the Book of Mormon and said that they would be at church on Sunday!!! :)

AWESOME!

We talked a ton about how if they build their marriage on Jesus Christ it will not falter or fail. We shared with them the scripture Helaman 5:12 and just applied it to marriage. I think they are really excited to be married, and I think she is really excited that he is willing to listen and investigate the church again. We will meet with them next Sunday and I am really really excited.

We are seeing some awesome miracles here! I was having a hard time a little bit ago to keep pushing myself, I knew I was having a trial of my faith, but after the trial comes the miracles in full force!!! :)

Something that I liked that was said at our conference was that Hard things are not bad, they are just hard.

I know that! I know that as we push through our challenges and plead with our Heavenly Father for help, he will help us. He will bless us and strengthen us to overcome the challenges. He never makes our challenges lighter or easier, just strengthens us to be able to endure them and become even stronger from them.

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!

I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!

I LOVE FLORIDA!

I can't believe we are half way through another transfer. Our next transfer will be the day before Thanksgiving. YIKES! If I leave I don't know what I will be doing for Thanksgiving, but I know it will be awesome!

Oh also our ward fasted and prayed for missionary opportunities this week. I know that there will be a huge amount of opportunities coming to them, and eventually to us ;)

Well now I am just kind of rambling on. 

I hoped all Ya'll had a great and wonderful week, and that you are keeping your eyes open for missionary opportunities as well! 

Love ya'll!

Rock hard,

Rock on!

Love,

Sister Chambers