BAPTISM!  BUSY BUSY BUSY J

It was a great week! We had a baptism on Saturday for Gretchen! She is amazing and was so prepared. The spirit was so strong. Her countenance was beautiful and she is so full of light!

This past week we have been doing service for a woman we are teaching, Kamala. She is older and has horses and chickens, she needed some help.  So we have been going over twice a day and feed her horse and chickens and scoop some manure!  Ha it’s been good because it’s creating a great bond and friendship with her. We are only doing it for a week but it has been fun!

We also had another great opportunity to do service this week. We were able to go to

St George and help out at a Big Halloween Carnival. It was fun to be around a lot of other missionaries and meet a lot of people. It’s fun/funny because everyone here loves missionaries!

On Wednesday went on exchanges with other missionaries and we spent the day in Parowan. The missionary work is struggling in Parowan so we did lots of walking and meeting members to help meet people. The whole day it was raining and freezing. But we met some really great people!  It was a fun day to be on exchanges!

We have been really busy. We go on splits (taking members with us to help teach) a lot because we have too many appointments to do by ourselves...which is good!  We barely have time to contact all of the referrals we have and find new people to teach

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 But, I have seen that when we are obedient and when we work hard...miracles happen! We have had two new investigators this week that have literally fallen into our lap! It was truly a miracle!  We were asked to speak in a church on Sunday. In my talk I focused a lot on how we can sometimes feel like we are in darkness but the Savior is the light. And while I was talking, this woman in the congregation with tattoos and dreadlocks was staring at me and listening intently to my talk. Afterwards, she told me how much she appreciated my talk. She has been very less active in church in her life and she wants to change. We will start teaching her this week!  Miracle!

The Savior and his teaching are truly that light that will help us out of darkness. Just as when Joseph Smith was engulfed in darkness while praying, he saw a pillar of light exactly over his head. The light of the Savior dispelled the darkness that Joseph was in. Christ can do the same thing for us when we are in "darkness". The Gospel of Jesus Christ is so true! And I love my job!

Sister Titensor

DAMMERON VALLEY       

Well St George North is an amazing area! We cover the whole Stake. It’s hard to explain what the area is like but it is SO BEAUTIFUL!  We cover several town/communities. Winchester, Dammeron Valley, Veyo, Brookside, Central and Pine Valley. It’s very spread out so we drive a lot!  The members here are amazing and help out a ton.

My new companion is Sister Gearheart! She is from Washington State. She and I get along really well and we have lots of fun together.

I’m really excited for this transfer.  We are teaching some amazing people!  Gretchen is one who is preparing for baptism soon. She is very humble and she has such a strong understanding and testimony of the gospel. We are teaching a new person we met this week her name is Kamala. She is older but she is very spiritually in tune and wants to learn! The thing that got her interested was the visiting and home teaching program in our church. She loved the fact that members of the church really look out for each other. It’s amazing to see her progress and she loves attending church. 

 There have been some stressful things ha ha… we are limited on how many miles we can drive(tracking mileage) a lot of times we  have to ask for rides from members to save on mileage. It’s sometimes hard to find house addresses in these areas so we get lost a lot ha!  And we have had some training meetings in St George and also several exchanges (trading areas and working with other missionaries). So, we have been super busy, but we have fun and miracles happen! With the Lords help, it all works out - I have really seen that happen and it is amazing!  I’m really happy and I know it because we are (trying) to do what the Lords needs us to do. I also know when we fall short, he is always there to bear us up!   

I love my job!

Sister Titensor

TRANSFERS!! GOING TO ST. GEORGE NORTH ...

Well my time has come to leave Kanab! i have loved serving here for the past six months. I have seen miracles time and time again! The people here are amazing and I am sad to leave them. I am being transferred to the St. George North area...which actually isn’t in St. George at all. It covers Dammeron Valley, Pine Valley and Veyo! So that will be interesting. I'm also assigned as a STL (sister trainer leader). So I will travel a lot again and be going on exchanges with other sisters in the mission so that will be fun :)

Well we had some really great lessons this week. We drove up to Alton to teach Mike another recent convert lesson. He is doing great and his testimony is so strong.  We are also teaching this less active family with 2 kids that haven't been baptized and they are doing awesome. Anne, another investigator is also doing great. She LOVED conference! She has a great understanding of the gospel and really recognizes the feelings of the spirit in her life. She is worried about being baptized because she doesn't like to be in front of people, she gets nervous.  But she will get baptized eventually!! I just know it :)

We also had the opportunity to volunteer/work at “Best Friends”. If you don’t know what that is..Google it. Ha-ha its a huge "animal sanctuary" and they have tons of animals. People come here from all over.  A bunch of people who are not members of our church work there so we went and volunteered. We helped clean some cat rooms. And we even took cats out for a walk in a stroller. No joke...they have a stroller that they zip the cats in!!! Ha-ha it was fun and funny!  And we made some great friendships with some great people. . It was fun!

Well I have felt a lot of doubt about myself and my own abilities throughout my mission but I loved what President Monson said in his conference talk! He said "Remember that faith and doubt CANNOT exist in the same mind at the same time for one will dispel the other" And that is so true!! We let our faith in Jesus Christ dispel our doubt. And I have seen that first hand!

The gospel is true and I love my Job!

Sister Titensor

Pictures:

-Our district

-painting nails at the nursing home

-volunteering at Best Friends! Animal shelter

-walking the cats haha

OCTOBER!!                                                                                                                                    10/5/15                                     

General Conference weekend was amazing! Really Inspiring!! It made a week full of cancelled appointments so much better!  We have high hopes for this week! Good things to come.

The weather is finally starting to cool off! And the tourism here is starting to slow down. But now…hunting season is starting and that’s a really big deal around here. We even had some elk ribs the other day! 

One day last week, we were walking and this random older lady just opened her door and invited us in! Ha-ha her name was Martha and she is actually studying with the Jehovah's witnesses right now. She is thinking about joining them. But, she wanted to talk with us and was asking all these questions about how there should be just one religion and it shouldn’t be this confusing to find it. In fact the way she was talking she sounded just like the young Joseph Smith. It was amazing to hear her story. She is one who is prepared! So’ we went and visited her a few days later. She wasn’t feeling too well at the time. So we just asked if there was anything we could do for her. She said yes actually. She had a Jehovah’s Witness party and she needed to bring 3lbs of coleslaw to it. Ha-ha! She gave us $20 and asked us to run and get it. She’s older and her knees are bad so it’s difficult for her to get out. Of course, we said yes.  But, we couldn’t get to the store, do we asked a member of our church to help and go and buy coleslaw for us. (They were happy to do it)  It was all quite funny but hey it was an opportunity to serve! Ha!

Anne, who we started teaching last week, is doing really well. She loved watching general conference and is so amazed by the spirit that this gospel brings. She is really an awesome person! This gospel can change so many lives!  But many people don’t realize it. When people slam their door or are just flat out not open to us... sometimes I wonder, do they realized what they are missing? Do they realize that we have the most amazing gift to share? We will do all we can and people will still reject or turn away from the gospel. It breaks my heart, but we just keep moving on serving and finding those who will embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ! The mission is the best thing ever and I love my job!

Sister Titensor

“AND I WILL GIVE UNTO YOU SUCCESS” Alma 26:27

Hi All,

Let me tell ya, it’s amazing how the Lord works!!
We have really been struggling finding new people to teach.
 We haven't really found a new investigator for a while!
Thursday we had our district meeting.

 Our district consists of one set of Elders in La Verkin
the other set of Sisters from Kanab, and us. So long story
short, we were all struggling with finding new people to work with. We had
until Sunday to reach a goal that we had made earlier that month. So
we had 3 days to find new people to teach but we new miracles could
happen!!  In 3 days we ended up meeting 5 new people that are interested in learning more about the church!! It was a miracle worth waiting for!

Friday we started teaching a 12 year old girl who randomly came up
to us and wanted to be baptized. ha!  Then Friday we also started
teaching this older lady. She is awesome, but quite stubborn but it was a
really spiritual lesson!  I know she felt the spirit!

Saturday were able to meet the lady from the miracle phone call we got last week.

 She moved here a few months ago. She wanted to come to the
General Women’s Broadcast. So we met her for the first time and watched
the broadcast at the church with her. She loved it!  the spirit
was so strong.  Afterwards we taught her the restoration lesson.  it is
amazing how prepared she is for learning more about the gospel.

She kept talking about the spirit that she felt.  It is a great experience to teach her.
And I’m excited to keep working with her!

Sunday we had an appointment set up with a less active family and
they have two kids who want to be baptized. It was a crazy lesson with
their 7 kids running in and out haha but it was fun, and they are a great
family. We look forward to teaching them.

Everyone of those new investigators the Lord has been preparing for
this time. These last few days have just been full of miracles!

Our recent converts are also doing really well. We had a great lesson with
Mike and he has been passing the sacrament every week. It sure made me
happy to see Mike in his white shirt and tie passing the sacrament.
Its truely been an amazing week.  It makes all the hard times worth the effort.

"Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back,
behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brotheren, the
Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give
unto you success"
(Alma 26:27)

I LOVE MY JOB
Sister Titensor

Pictures: we went to the sand dunes for pday. Super fun! ( we are
those tiny black dots at the top of the sand dune)
Oh and we thought it would be a cool picture to throw sand...ha! Til
it was blown back in our faces. So there are the before and after pics of
that....

MIRACLES HAPPEN!

Flash Flood, Kanab Cowboys Homecoming, Apple Festival,

This week was all over the place...! A definite low was the Flash Floods in Colorado City and Zion.  It really affected the community here. All the deaths and destruction was truly tragic.

We had sooo many service opportunities this week!!  We helped make a ton of  blankets for a Humanitarian project which is always fun. Then, this week was homecoming for the Kanab Cowboys! So we got to see the cute little homecoming parade and on Friday night, and we were asked to help in the concession stand during the football game. I swear the whole town came out for the game! Ha! But, it was way fun and they sure kept us busy! Then, on Saturday we were asked to help out at the Apple Festival in Glendale. It was really good to do service and so meet so many new people!

So funny/awkward story. We were walking one evening and we went and knocked on this a door , and this older woman opened the door. She wasn't overly nice and she said she wasn’t interested and then just shut the door. I remember walking away wishing I would have at least said something, anything about the gospel. But she really didn't give us a chance to talk. So then fast forward to a few days later...We live in the side apartment of one of our ward mission leaders home. So we went home for the night and we had to ask him a question. So we went to his side of the house and you will never guess who was over at his house at that very moment...it was the lady who we had knocked on her door only a few days before! haha! She was over helping our ward mission leader and his wife with something. It was a little awkward at first.... But we were all visiting and I sat down next to her and was able to have a good long conversation with her. It wasn’t about the gospel at all, but I just got to know her, and she was great, and hopefully she could see that we were nice normal people! It’s amazing how the Lord works!  Maybe next time she will let us in.

We have started teaching a man who is no longer a member of our church.  He is a great guy, and sadly he has throat cancer. But we invited him to church and he came!!! It was the first time he had been to church in forever!!  It was great to see how happy everyone in the ward was to see him!  Also one of our younger investigators that we have been teaching finally came to church!!!! We have been trying to get him to church for 6 months and he finally came! We almost died when we saw him in sacrament meeting! It was a great sight!!  We were so happy!!

Sunday evening we went with some members and our investigator, who is a 12 year old boy, to St. George to see a performance by the Navoo pageant people. It was a great

little performance...not sure how much our investigator (12 year old boy) liked it, but I think he had fun.   ha!  but it was a good experience!!

Well we have really been working hard finding those who are looking for the gospel. I feel like we are constantly doing things to meet and find those who are prepared! Well a miracle finally happened! We got a phone call and there is a woman who has been reading the Book of Mormon, she wants to come to church and be baptized!  We haven't met her yet...but that call was a miracle!  An answer to our prayers.  Don’t know how it will go...but it gives us hope because I know there are people here who need and want the gospel in their lives!  

The gospel is true and I love my job!

Sister Titensor

DEMOLITION DERBY!! 


   

                          9/7/15

Hi All,

This week had its ups! and downs for sure :)   And, we did get a new investigator this week...she recently moved here from Connecticut and she had contact with the church  there. She is so excited to learn, we are excited to teach her, there are good things to come! We are also working with this older man...he is awesome and he will do everything we invite him to. He loves reading the Book of Mormon and everything !! BUT he will NOT pray!!! AHH Its crazy....I know Heavenly Father loves him and He just wants to hear from this man...but he will not pray. Prayer is so - powerful but we must actually do it and have faith!!!

Saturday night we had the opportunity to do a really cool service opportunity! One of the small towns that we cover, Orderville, has a Demolition Derby every year!  Ha! And they needed help in the concessions stand, so we got to go help out with that!! It was crazy how packed the Place was...people came from all over to see the Demolition Derby!  I guess it’s a big deal around here.  It was really fun and we got to meet new people and see a lot of people that we are already working with so that was a plus!

Sunday, we were sitting in one of the ward's fast and testimony meetings. All the sudden this woman (a visitor) got up to bear her testimony. She was just visiting Kanab from Poland and she had wanted to go to a church. So she found this one and went to it. She didn’t speak too much English but she shared her love for Jesus Christ!  After the meeting we ran to talk to her...we caught her just as she was on her way out!  Her name was Ewa. We told her that she could find this same church in Poland. We took her across the street to the Family History Center and got her a Polish Book of Mormon! We even looked up the closest LDS church building to her home. She left with the address to the building and a Book of Mormon in her own language. She was really excited!  It really reminded me that by "small and simple things great things are brought to pass". it’s the small moments the when we share that gospel that count. A lot of times we get to share the gospel but we don’t see that much happens from it. But it’s planting seeds for when the time is right for that person. The Lord has His own timing but, when we  do even the small and simple things it further prepares His children to hear the beautiful message of hope that the gospel brings!! 

Thanks for all the love and support!

I LOVE MY JOB

Sister Titensor