Two for One - November 19, 2018

Hey Yall!

What a great week it was this week! So much has happened and it has been really awesome.
We spent most of this week with Joy and Ryan. Since they were both getting baptized we were with them a lot. 

We met with a part member family this week. They are seriously the cutest couple in the world. They are trying to get back into church. With this happening, they decided to feed us. We told them that we don't really get a lot of bbq because everyone thinks we get that so they want to switch it up.... which basically means that we get pasta every night with a few casserole dishes. Its awesome. Anyway, 

Maria and Shawn said that they wanted us to have some good brisket so they bought brisket at a joint outside of the mission and brought it to us. It was amazing haha. After dinner we had one of the coolest conversations I have had in a while. I have been studying peace lately and I have been reading from a talk titled "Peace a triumph of principles". 

It talks about the impact peace has and how even in a world of anger and sadness there is still peace. I felt like I needed to share this with Shawn and Maria. We proceeded to have a conversation focused around God's will and his plan. 

Maria had been praying for peace that same morning and Shawn had lead a bible study that same day about peace. It was incredible. At the beginning, Maria wasn't ready to meet with us but after that meeting she wanted to meet with us and we set up a lesson for Wednesday. I feel very grateful for the chance I have to help others, especially through my studies. 

Ryan and Joy's baptisms went so well on Saturday. Basically the entire ward came. I have never been more proud to be a missionary. I loved watching my two friends enter into the waters of baptism. To make a covenant with Heavenly Father. I am so grateful for everything I have been blessed with and I'm thankful for my family. 

Have a blessed thanksgiving y'all.

Love,
Sister Gray

Short and Sweet - November 12, 2018

Hey my friends!

This is gonna be really short and lame but this week has blown by!
We had two baptism interviews this week which means that Ryan and joy are set on track for baptism this saturday!!!! Yayyyyy!!!! 

We also had a pass off lesson with the Elders this week for Hannah. The lesson went great! We talked about baptism and we set a date with her. We feel really grateful that she moved somewhere in our zone. We have the opportunity to attend her baptism. 

We spent all day Thursday home being really really sick. It's bad enough when one companion is sick, but when both are sick it's really bad haha. So we just crashed all day. 

We had interviews on Friday and they went really well. We learned a lot about planning and it's importance. I'm not great at planning so it really helped me. 

We spent all day Saturday in Euless. The sisters there are having a hard time with finding so we decided to stay the night and help out. It was really fun. 

Well yeah, that is about all I have right now. Sorry this is so short. Not too much has happened besides the intense planning for the people we are teaching. I am grateful for the chance to be a missionary and learn. 

Love y'all! 

Sister Gray


Breakfast in Euless
The mission conference

Sisters ? Naea, Gray, Keller 

Elder Holland Mission Conference
Texas, Fort Worth Mission

Watermelons for Pumpkins - November 5, 2018

Hey Y'all!

I hope y'all had a great week this week with the Halloween holiday. Honestly Halloween as a missionary in the Fort Worth mission is kind of super lame. We aren't allowed out proselyting after 5 so it means that unless we have appointments... we have to stay in. It really is kind of lame. So, because most of the people we are teaching have kids we didn't have too many appointments. We spent the night at a members house talking with their non-member family. It was fun, afterwards we had a Skype call with the some other sisters. It is always fun for us to do those. 

We were going to carve pumpkins as a zone last week for Halloween but we got distracted and played volleyball a little too long. It was still really fun though, we bought a watermelon to carve since I am allergic to pumpkins. We got a text on Tuesday asking if we would come and carve pumpkins with Ryan and her family. We were super thankful that we didn't carve the watermelon early because that meant we had something to do with her! We had so much fun with her as we talked and taught and carved. It was so much fun. Ryan has a set date for baptism on the 17th. She is literally the cutest person I have ever met. 

We attended young woman's with her this past Sunday so she would feel more comfortable and meet more girls in the ward. She came up to us after the block and said that she had a great experience at church and that she was even more excited to be a member. I'm thankful that God works in mysterious ways. One of the turning parts for her was a song we had sung in sacrament meeting.. a secret prayer. She loved it and it answered some of the prayers she has been asking. I love that heavenly father is actively helping his missionaries with the people we are teaching. 

We had exchanges this week. I went to Euless to the Tongan wards. It wasn't too exciting. The sisters didnt' really have anything planned so we spent most of the day contacting Tongan people and planning. It was still fun to be in someone else's area. I haven't done that in a while. As we were exchanging back I witnessed the biggest lighting storm I have ever seen. The sky was very angry and it was lit up all night. It was really cool. 

I feel very blessed to be in this area. The members here are seriously so awesome. They spoil us sometimes haha. For example, we walked into second hour for one of the wards and a faithful member walked up to us. His name is Bro. Moala. He is a convert from Tonga. He has a soft spot in his heart for sister missionaries. He came up to us and shook our hand. He was the most sly person I have ever met. As he shook sister Naea's hand he slid some money in her hand, we tried to give it back and he simply said "Don't take away my blessings sisters. I love you". we were amazed. little did we know that he slipped a 100 dollar bill in her hand. We tried again to give it back but failed. I am thankful for the generosity of the members.

I love y'all so so much. Especially those that muster through and read the whole email. y'all are true friends haha. Have a safe and a blessed week. I appreciate all of the emails and the letters that you send. They make my whole week better and it helps when things get hard. 

Love y'all. 

Sister Gray

PICTURES:

So we had no food in our apartment because it had nothing in it to start and a member decided to give us stuff to make pizzas. She totally followed the spirit because we never told anyone that we had nothing. god is good.


Our beautiful watermelon and terrifying pumpkin


This is Douglas. we do service at a rehab center and they had a Halloween party, we were in charge of painting faces. so, we drew a star on his face and he is our best friend. I miss being in health care but Heavenly Father has provided me a way to still work with my friends in the homes:)

Watermelon Halloween

Pizza for Dinner

Douglas, Sister Gray, and Sister Naea