Look before crossing the road or you might get hit by a fire truck

This week has been quite eventful. We have been so busy trying to see
every Less active or potential investigator to invite them out to the
Luau that took place on Saturday.
The Luau ended up being a hit!
We had a whole smoked pig (which the church still smells like...) and
lots of fun.
We were able to have two less actives join us and 3 investigators. One
of our investigators competed in a hula hoop contest and won!
After the Luau we took them on a tour of the church, and they seemed
to like it a lot and wanted to come the next day. Unfortunately they
had to cancel at the last second, but they may be more inclined to
come now because they are familiar with everything.
Oh and sorry I forgot to tell everyone that this was transfer week...
that's why I didn't send out my usual e-mail yesterday.
Any who, a few weeks ago we invited a guy and his sister out to church
with us, and they came and we were super excited. Well we went back
last week to invite them to the Luau. The Brother was not there but it
was perfect because we finally had time to talk to his sister and see
if she had any questions. She asked us a few questions and then she
got to the Book of Mormon and was asking a bit about what it was, she
said her brother had told her some things about it. So we asked her if
she wanted a copy of her own. She got so excited!!! So we gave it to
her. She told us that she was going to put off all other reading until
she finished the Book of Mormon. Yipee!
We will be seeing both of them on Thursday to finally go over the
restoration in full.
With trying to see so many less actives we have been able to have
lessons with a few less actives that it is usually hard for us to get
ahold of. It has been so neat to kind of watch peoples lives from a
distant and see the Lords hand in everything. I have learned that he
continually gives us MULTIPLE chances to accept to live the gospel
more fully in our lives. He opens the doors for these less actives
time and time again. Now whether they walk through the door or not
that is their choice and their agency. BUT it's always open.
God is so Good. He is always in the details of life. If you can't tell
why something is happening you just have to take a step back an see
the bigger picture, or get a little closer to notice a detail about
something.

Oh so here is a story for all of ya'll....
Yesterday we drove up to a potentials house and Sister Shumway almost
parked in front of a fire hydrant, but then I pointed it out to her
and she moved the car up more away from it. Right after she parked the
car a fire engine came bolting down the road. She looked at me and
said moving away from the fire hydrant was a very good idea. We got
out of the car and started to cross the street when we got honked at
by another fire engine making its way down the street. (It scared
Sister Shumway pretty badly) So 6 fire trucks later we were really
curious as to what was happening. They were over by a potential, two
investigators and a members house so we were really interested. We went
and found out it was different house that had caught on fire. Everyone
made it out safely and they quickly got the fire contained. Though it
was scary it was a good opportunity to meet some of the people in the
area. It seems like no one here knows their neighbors, until there is
a tragedy, then everyone comes out of the woodworks.

Online work!!!
It has been so grand to have the facebook events up and running each
week. I have been able to send missionaries to a few different people
and send out some more copies of the Book of Mormon. Yesterday I even
posted a post with a quote from President Monson and a non-member
shared the post on her wall. Ha it is so neat! The Lord is really
hastening the work. We just have to keep our eyes open for the
opportunities to share this wonderful message with those around us.

So I'm not being transferred. Actually all the Missionaries in our
ward are staying in our ward. There seems to be some big changes
basically everywhere else though. We have so many new people in
leadership positions. It's interesting to see how things pan out, who
goes where and who ends up with who.

Another weird story...
We went to a members house last Monday. She offered us an apple so we
took her up on the offer. As she closed the fridge door I noticed
something. On her fridge was a picture of LINDAY FULTON! A wedding
invite. In Florida. Well turns out that she married the members,
husbands, best friend... if that makes any sense.
So it was a weird moment when the world became a lot smaller than I
thought it was.


I'm not sure what else to inform ya'll on. I hope that everything is
going well for you and that your summer is not as sweltering as it is
here. But at least we get a few rain storms each week... well it
doesn't really help because it just makes everything really humid, but
oh well. We love the lightning storms they bring.

Love ya'll!
Love,

#discoverthebook

Dear family and fiends how all ya all doing

So this week launched our facebook campaign #discoverthebook which
many of you may have seen or heard about. Well it was super
successful. We were in the Deseret news, and Mormon.org did a write up
on us. We are starting to get peoples attention. BUT this week is part
two. Tomorrow is the event #searchthebook. We want everyone to post a
picture of them reading the Book of Mormon in their favorite reading
spot. Make it your profile picture for the week, so more people will
have the chance of seeing it! The other facebook missions are joining
with us and hopefully we will have 100,000 people invited to attend
this event, but we need your help. Please look up the event on
facebook and join it since I can't personally invite you on facebook
to do that!
But we have seen MIRACLES from it! Me and Sister Shumway have been
able to send out 3 copies of the Book of Mormon to people. One in
Ohio, one in Arizona, and another to North Carolina. People are
interested in reading it. Also a girl found me and we have been
teaching her a bit. She just started meeting with Elders but after a
lesson or two with us she had decided to be baptized!!!! This week she
is praying about when. Super excited. Too bad my mission president
won't let me go to Canada to see it :/ ha just kidding. :)
But with the online miracles comes some of the online crazies. One
lady told me that Joseph Smith was taken over by the angel Mormoni. I
had a good chuckle at that one.
Our investigators are kind of at stand stills right now. So we are
taking a big leap of faith and dropping those who are not progressing,
and trying to find people who will progress. We need to find those who
The Lord has prepared to learn about this right now, and just let the
seeds we have planted in others grow for a while.
We have been doing a lot of tracting and have met some very
interesting people. Most of them have been nice this week. One lady
even gave us some mimosas and peaches from her front yard. Mimosa
smells so wonderful! The south really does beat us when it comes to
lovely smelling flowers.
I gave my first training in district meeting. It  was on the Book of
Mormon. I have come to love that book soooo much more than I even
thought was possible. A lady this week asked us why we carry around
the Book of Mormon and not the bible. Well I realized a bible wouldn't
do us much good here any way because everyone already has one, and
they all interpret it differently. The Book of Mormon is so important
because it really does show us that we have the priesthood power in
our church. THE PRIESTHOOD it EVERYTHING! It's the most important part
of the religion. If it wasn't for that we would just be another church
without authority to perform saving ordinances.
So many people just go for socializing down here. Its pretty crazy.
Oh I don't know if I mentioned this but our President has asked that
we ask our friends and family back home to join us in praying and
asking Heavenly Father to help us achieve our goal of 1,000 baptisms
this year. We need a lot of help and a lot of faith that we will be
able to do this. Each missionary signed a banner with their name and
how many they say they want to baptize this year, I will send a
picture later.
We also attended Emma's baptism this week. She is already a member of
the ward, but we took our investigator and taught the restoration. It
was fantastic!
I'm not sure what else there is to share except pictures! :) have a great week!
Love,
Sister Chambers

This is going to be BIG

Well I will just jump right in I hope all ya all that is family

and friends are doing well

So this week our mission is launching a huge facebook event called
discover the book and I need everyones help! Join the group called to
share and invite ALL of your friends. Then Tomorrow at 11. we need
everyone to post a picture of themselves holding the Book of Mormon
open in front of your face. We are trying to share this all over the
world and need everyone we know on board. All 26 facebook missions are
helping us and we have even gotten a hold of some very famous Mormons.
I will send an attachment of my Picture I will use.
This week has been a test of faith, but still good none the less.
All of our investigators dropped us but one, and on tuesday our zone
leaders said that they prayed and they felt prompted that all of us
should commit to a baptism this month. Well we don't have many gators
so we know that this is going to be a miracle, and only by the power
of God will this happen. So each ward fasted for one day last week to
jump start the month, and then this week, everyday we are fasting from
a different thing like music, candy, mail, and other things.
Our mission is trying to expand its vision. As part of that our goal
is 1000 baptisms this year. So Our president has asked that we invite
all our families and friends to pray with us that we will be able to
find those 1000 people who The Lord is preparing to hear the gospel at
this time. It's pretty exciting, but we need all the help that we can
get!! :)

Lot of things in the works here, including a southern luau.
The other sisters started heading this project, but have gotten so
busy with facebook that it has kind of been handed over to me and my
comp. So we are putting on a luau!! It will be awesome, we are even
having a full sized pig there and hawaiin dancers. The young men are
performing the hawka, and its just going to be fantastic.

I also had a surprise tradeoff this week. The sister training leaders
forgot to tell us, but it was awesome none the less. It's good to kind
of get away.

We had presidents interviews on Friday and it was so good to sit down
and talk with the president and his wife. they are super sweet and I
know that they are my mission president for a reason.

I also want to hear from everyone what their favorite Book of Mormon
scripture is and why... EVERYONE has been slacking at this. PLEASE can
I hear them? :)

Well we have a very busy day today and we must be going. So I bid you adieu.

Love,
Sister Chambers

yellow flies and yucky guys

Dear family and friends 

I hope you have had a wonderful week here is my adventure for this past week

So I have discovered a new insect, Yellow flies. They are
horrible. They follow you around and bite you and are just not very
nice. We accidentally walked into a group of them and they stayed with
us all the way home, which was about a mile from where we ran into
them.
The yucky guys part come from the ward members. Saturday night there
was a relief society event, a pintrest party, and everyone had their
phones out showing me pictures of different guys they want me to
marry. I don't think I will have any problems finding a date when I get home.

Any who this week has been interesting. Actually pretty hard. We had 2
nearly 3 people drop us this week and our investigator who was
supposed to be baptized called it off. BUT good news is she is still
investigating, and now the ward wants to get more involved to help her
get to her baptism.
With all these tough things happening I realized that something
wonderful MUST be coming our way, or else our faith wouldn't need
testing right now. :)
But on the plus side...
It was fun to see all the pictures of graduation this week, congrats to ALEX!

Not too much happened this week that is note worthy. Oh we did go to a
priesthood training meeting on Saturday, and it was strange to be in a
sea of white shirts. But they fed us pancakes, with ice cream on top,
so it was totally worth it.

One thing we are focusing on is family history. There is a sister here
who had to go home early because of health problems but has been able
to come back out, any who she said that the only thing she could do to
stay in the missionary mindset and feeling was to do family History.
One thing that I didn't realize that we could do is upload stories and
photos of our ancestors. I know that we have some lying around
somewhere, we need to get them into the system so I can show others
where I come from :)
It's amazing how quickly Family History softens the hearts of all
those around us. It's like magic.

Well, running out of things to say. Hope ya'll have a great start to
your summer! Love ya!

Love,
Sister Chambers

Mango Mac n cheese

hello to all the people I know

So Yesterday I had some great Mango mac n cheese. I was kinda nervous
to try it, but now I am a big fan and will have to make ya'll some
when I get home! :) I also had dolphin, doesn't make me too happy...
but they said it was an ugly dolphin. ?

This week was good...

Highlights include:
Finding Wild Blackberries,
3 investigators at church,
Zone conference,
Chinchilla,
and 2 parties!

The 3 investigators that we had at church was such a miracle. One day
we were going to go pick up something from a member, who happened to
not be there, so we turned around and were walking back. Along the way
we met a man walking his dog. Well he had a giant tattoo on the back
of his leg with 4 nails making a cross, so I asked him about it. Turns
out he loves Jesus. Also turns out that he and his sister are church
shopping currently. We invited them to come to our church. He said
hmm, ya know what my sister was just saying the other day that we
should try a local church. :) We got his contact info and he and his
sister did come to church! They sat behind us, and then our gator with
a baptism date came in late and sat down next to us. After the
sacrament our bap gator turned around and freaked out. The sister was
her music teacher in Middle school, how neat! So we invited her to the
baptism, and I'm pretty sure they are coming. Church was pretty great
because it was a missionaries farewell, he is going to Australia
speaking mandarin, so the whole day was mission themed, and the gators
have a few questions to ask us so we are going back! :) Miracles do
happen!

Zone conference was wonderful! We focused on a talk entitled the
consecrated missionary. It was neat because I don't ever remember
reading it officially, but many things stood out to me like I had just
read them recently. The talk was very straight forward about how we
need to really do our best and be exactly obedient, why? Because we
love The Lord. This has stuck in my head whenever the natural man
tends to ask why we are doing something. Any who, I loved conference
and being able to hear from our leaders and get ideas about how to
better help our investigators. Our focus right now is GENEALOGY.
President feels like this will be a huge thing that we can do with
people so that they can feel the spirit of Elijah, and their hearts
can be softened so they will be open to receiving the gospel
themselves. Actually that is how our investigator decided to be
baptized. We taught the plan of salvation and told her about spirit
paradise and prison and how all our ancestors who where not baptized
wait there for us to be baptized for them. BUT in order to be baptized
for them we must be baptized ourselves. Well that is when she knew
that she had to be baptized, so that she could help her family. It
just makes me so happy.

Chinchilla! One of our new investigators has a chinchilla, and I got
to hold it! Man that thing was so soft! I was kind of nervous to hold
it because it just looks like a hybrid of a rat and a rabbit, but it
ended up being pretty friendly. Pictures to come.
But our new investigators love learning about the church. We taught
the plan of salvation and they just soaked it up like little sponges!
Hopefully they will be able to come to church this week.

Parties! We went to two of them this week. One with all the people who
live in our area of the ward, and the other with the young women. They
are selling lumpia, which is like egg rolls, for their camp
fundraiser. We went over with our gator to help make them. The young
women are so amazing. I'm grateful that I have spent more than half of
my mission in young womens with an investigator.

Oh also yesterday we had 2 less actives at church. One had her baby
blessed and the other is trying to come more regularly, which is just
blessed!

Well I feel like time between p-days is just getting shorter and
shorter. Didn't I just write ya'll last week. Time is flying by!

I love ya'll and hope that you are having a great Memorial Day!
Love,
Sister Chambers