Week 35: Plan of Salvation and 5000 views

So this week was a bit different than usual. For the month of February we are focusing on finding families! So we are calling this month Finding February. We have been finding so much lately so we decided to take a new approach with finding. We drew out a giant plan of salvation and took a video of me explaining what it is and why it is important. We weren't sure how much success it would have, but right now there have been over 3,000 views in just a couple of days! It has been so cool to see the benefits of using technology to share the message of the gospel. All it takes is some chalk and a desire to share the gospel. We actually made 2 other plan of salvation drawings in other locations, and so many people would stop and ask what it is that we were drawing. We left our phone number at the end of the video and I've already had people call me asking questions about the video!!

Another success story from this week has been teaching English. Our English class is really starting to grow. We had about 25 people come on Tuesday which was awesome!! We have also visited some people and have had the opportunity to serve them by teaching English for about 20 minutes. 

Lately I have been given the opportunity to give a lot of blessings in Thai and English which has been awesome. To be able to use my priesthood to help others is just amazing. 

But to be honest, it was a tough week and consisted of so many disappointments. Appointments fell through, we couldn't find anyone that was interested this week, and only 1 person we are teaching came to church this week. 

Elder Lowe 

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Plan of Salvation #1

Plan of Salvation #2

Video of Plan of Salvation #3

Week 57 - Happy Fourth of July

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE!!

We will be in the 4th of July parade here, so there will be extra pics in this email. Also today (Tuesday) is Pday instead of Monday so that's why I didn't write:)

I hit my 13 months of being on the missh this week... why does time go by so fast?

Lots happened this week, so here are the highlights:  First Freddy was baptized!!! Woot! It was a great day and the spirit was definitely there. He was so happy and I'm so happy he made this decision to come closer to Christ.

We had some lessons with Jackie. She told us she went to Starbucks and ordered a hot chocolate and the workers were so shocked because she is a regular customer there. She told them she has given up coffee. So proud of her!! We took her and her husband, Bryan, to the temple to just walk around it. We had a lesson in the waiting room and as we were leaving Bryan told the front desk guy, "We will be back in a year!" Aweeee! I just love that they have this goal to go to the temple and to be sealed forever! I can't wait till Jackie gets baptized.

Jackie and Bryan at the Logan Temple - she can't wait to be baptized

Marissa and Sister Davis with Jackie at the Logan Temple

We had a blitz in Hyrum and we found two new investigators for Sister Segura who is over that area. One lady we met was named Carol. We scheduled a lesson for Friday night, but turned out Sister Segura had something at that time already so we just went to the lesson without her and it was an amazing lesson. Carol opened up and we invited her to be baptized on July 29th and she said yes! Sister Segura still hasn't met her and she's her investigator but now she's already on date. Sweet!

We had a blitz in our area. The ZLS, DLS, and another Elder companionship came to Nibley and we gave them people to go visit. They found us two new investigators!! Woot woot! Our mission president challenged the whole mission to find 3 investigators per companionship this week. Our mission found 259 investigators this week!! WOW!

This week we moved. We finally found a new place to live and it is so nice! I love it here. The people we live with are the Saunders and they are the nicest people ever. They just keep giving us food and supplies. They have an underground trampoline and a soccer field they said we can use. I love it here....but I hate packing (worst part of the mission is packing, haha, but I did it).

President Nielsen came again to film us for this video that he is making about working with Ward mission leaders, So he videoed us knocking on Jackie's door with the Ward mission leader and then videoed us teaching Jackie. Jackie thought it was cool she was getting filmed. I'll be happy when all of this video stuff is over... it’s kind of stressful, haha.

At the Mission Office

Sister Davis and Sister Lowe - best companions

 Getting ready for 4th of July!!!

Well it was definitely a better week for us. We didn't even have a lot a time for tracting this week which was unusual, but it's great to be busy. Transfers are Thursday...so we will find out what happens soon. I've loved it here in Nibley and hope to stay. I've loved my comp, it's been a great time with so many memories. I love this gospel so much. It brings me so much joy and happiness. It truly is the best gift I have in this life and I love being able to share this gift with everyone we meet.

Sister Lowe

Week 53 - One Year Mark

I hit my year mark this week on the mission... crazy stuff. I can’t believe a whole year ago I got on a plane, said goodbye to my family for 18 months, entered the MTC, and started being a missionary. This truly has been the best year of my life. Heavenly Father has blessed me so much this year with so many miracles and my testimony in the gospel has never been so strong. I'm so grateful to be here:)

Okay so this week highlights:

We had some lessons with Jackie and she is doing so great. She read 1 Nephi 1 like we asked her to and she said she felt really peaceful while reading so we asked her "why do you think you felt that?" And she said "wait is it that thing you guys were talking about... the Holy Spirit?" And we were like "yes that's the Holy Ghost testifying to you that the Book of Mormon is true!" It was a neat moment. We also taught her the word of wisdom and she told us she has a strong coffee addiction...but her faith is so strong. She said "but if I have to give it up so I can live in the eternities I'm gonna do it." These people's Faith! I can't believe how much faith these people we teach have and there eternal perspective, they truly are amazing. We had some lessons with Ida and she said "is it okay that I'm excited for baptism!" She's so cute! She's made such a change in the months we've known her. She used to be so scared of even the word baptism and now she's excited to be baptized! I can't wait.

Okay so this week we received quite a few referrals! We received one of a girl named Allie but with no address, all it said was: lives in town homes. So we started there. We were walking and we saw this girl on the other side of the street and said hi and she waved back but kept going. We then thought what if that was Allie, we then heard someone yell Allie. So then we were like that's probably her! She had already left our sight so we still didn't know where she lived. So we went to the beginning town homes and met this lady outside on the grass who was a member and asked her if she knew an Allie Brooks and she said that she was her neighbor! Miracle! So now we have her address.... sometimes missionary work is like detective work, haha. 

President Nielson (first counselor in the mission presidency) called us and said he's coming to Nibley to video us and the high council men over missionary work and some WMLs for a new Logan mission video. So I was video interviewed and it was pretty nerve wrecking but I think it went well. This will be my third video I'm in for the mission...hopefully the last!

We had exchanges this week with some sisters in our zone. Exchanges always bring miracles! We came to our area and found a new investigator! We were walking down the street and we passed this White House and as we passed it I couldn't stop looking at it. I had this feeling to go knock it even though it wasn't in our plans. So we turned around and did it anyway and found a new investigator named McKenzie! The Holy Ghost rocks and I'm glad I listened to that prompting!

Presents for my one year mark from my trainer,
best friend and first companion, Sister Brunt

So for my one year mark my old senior couples (the Sampsons and Roylances) through a little party for me and had sister brunt there too! We went to the Sampsons house and we had amazing lunch there. It was such a great time. I miss them all so much and it just felt like home at there house. It brought back a lot of memories. They were my senior couples my first transfer out...and now I'm at a year, time flies. I also got to see my wonderful trainer sister Brunt! She got me New Zealand chocolate and it is so good!! Like best chocolate in the world. I don't think I'll ever eat Hershey again. I truly love the people on my mission. So many amazing friendships I have made here.

Okay last thing... so this week was stake conference. So on Sunday since there are 12 wards in Nibley they have to broadcast stake conference to some buildings so that everyone can watch it because not everyone will fit in the stake center. So we decide to go to the 2600 building with Jackie and her husband and we watched it on the screen. Well president Farnsworth acknowledges that President and Sister Allred are there. So I get this feeling to check the phone. I look at it and we have two missed calls and two texts from president. We then get a call from our zone leaders saying president wants us to be at the stake center to give 4 min Resto. So we tell Jackie and Bryan we have to go and we grabbed someone from the crowd and asked if they could drive us. She drove us and she was going like 65 in a 25 mile per hour zone. We got there just in time and he called us up (he was the first speaker). We shared Resto and everything went well! After stake conference president came up to us and said he forgot to call us to do this and said he thought it was strange we weren't there, haha. All went well, but it was a stressful time.

It's been a great week! Lots of lessons and investigators coming to church. Couldn't ask for a better way to end the week! Love you all!

Sister Lowe

2014 High Adventure Video