It's An Art...

Hi everyone! 

Hope you all had a great week. 

Everyone here is either on vacation or in the air conditioned house. 

 It makes contacting hard because no one is out side. 

But we came up with an alternative and now we've got it down to the art -- 

 we go biking around seven at night --- 

usually everyone is outside doing something -- 

so we can go contacting and it can be effective.

We found two new investigators 

in the Anatolia Ward ! 

I am so excited -- because it is 

really hard to find them in that area. 

It happened with the help of the missionaries I served with. 

We all worked in my area for a few hours and it helped us a lot. 

It was also fun! 

Did I mention, Sister Baol 

is an amazing missionary! 

We had to last minute teach in the 

Mather Ward for Sunday School 

about our Heavenly Family. 

She is such a pro! 

We also taught a little bit to the Young Women about ordinances 

and how we explain them to our investigators. 

I had to teach on the fourth section in Doctrine and Covenants.  I thought it went well. 

It helped that we recite that section every week.

We met a lady named Rachel this week. 

She was really busy but she accepted our information and set an appointment with her. 

We went back later that week and let's say her kids are crazy! 

So we set another time to meet.  

She felt so bad but she looked so relieved and grateful 

when we said we can come back another time 

and that we understood.  

Jobe and Jesse came to church! 

They looked really nice with their big happy smiles --  in their white shirts and ties.   

Jesse and I even made a handshake. 

One of the greatest things that happened this week 

was when I got to go see Kirk (my former investigator) get baptized!!! 

The look of him after he came out of the water --

 reminded me more of why I am serving a mission 

 When he came out his face showed that he felt happy, and clean! 

It is a great memory!!

 Love you!!

Bunkers -- BlueLight -- Trikes and MotorBikes -- (Random Pictures)

Shea? Do you know what that is?  

Some Pday fun -- just putt'n a round

Sister Biker Babe 

"A bit more my speed -- reminds me of Leavitt"

Harvesting, TriPANs and Transfers

This week was so busy and we worked a lot  -- when the day is done we get home quickly plan for the next day --  I wash my face -- say my prayer and 

 I am asleep before I hit the sheets

SOOOO, our group of missionaries who are inthe Sacramento - Ranch Cordova Zone --  made a goal to help 6 people to be baptized in the month of June. 

We fast and prayed for each and every person that we believed were ready for baptism and we prayed that they would have the chance to experience the  miracle of being baptized. 

Ready to HARVEST

.... WE MADE THAT GOAL !!!!!

Six amazing people came to the waters of baptism! 

I am so proud and feel blessed to have served 

with those missionaries!  

Our Stake Leader that has the authority to lead over the Rancho Cordova part of Sacramento provided dinner for the zone to show his appreciation. I thought that, that was really nice of him. We were able to also discuss about some of the things that Elder and Sister Lawerence talked to us about last week. 

I also showed up wear the exact same skirt that two other sisters were wearing too. Funny huh?

I was in a tri- pan this week. Sister Christensen was with us and it was a lot of fun. We we talked to a lot of people. But in lessons it was a little weird to juggle or balance it because we had an extra person to help teach to but by the end we did alright.


We are beginning to teach this wonderful girl,  Lilly, the rest of her new member lessons. She has such a strong testimony of the gospel. She is going to come out with us next week since she is sixteen now and wants to serve a mission. She is a great example to me.


We extended a date for Michael to be baptized on the 30th of July. I
am really excited for him! He has gone through a lot and is making
great progress!

Happy Forth of July!! 
I got to see some fireworks as we were driving home! 
That was nice!


We had Transfers!! My last companion - Sister Cundick got a call to train a new missionary so now she is in ElDorado Hills and I bet is doing a great job there. Now my new companion is Sister Baul!

She is the cutest greatest little thing! She is 21 
and very 
talented. 
She is from the Phillipians and you all should meet her. 



I know that we are going to have tons of fun here serving in the Anatolia and Mather wards. 

A lot of our leadership in both words are gone because it is the forth of July week and vacationing so I feel bad that she hasn't met them yet. They are great people. For the forth of July we had to be in a meeting at seven to nine to make sure we all are safe. And the meeting was amazing ! 

There are a lot of new faces to the zone and new missionaries too. The Lord is preparing more and more amazing missionaries.  


Hope that everyone had a great weekend!

Love you all !

Horrah for Isreal!!!!

Fathers, Headaches and A Beautiful World

Ok everybody --  this week has been soooooo busy. Doesn't even feel like

it has been a full week.  Sister Cundick and I cover two wards and

they are exploding with missionary work we have appt.s  with members

who want to know what they can do to help us in missionary work and

hen tell us that they are going to invite people for us to visit and

meet that maybe perhaps they would hear a message from us that bring

blessings in their lives. I am so blessed right now. It us hard but

good. Sometimes I really want to take some cat naps but I dont have

time for that.

Summer time I feel like it hard for missionaries to teach because

everyone still as lives and want to do everything for vacation all but

listen to us but then that's when families are home and we meet so

many people out side BBQing or walking their dogs etc. It is

definitely pros and cons to this.

Jobe is this 11 year old boy who finally decided that he wants to be

baptized!!! He is amazing, he loves talking about sports so him and I

contented  real quick but I let him down not knowing a lot about

basketball teams. Sad but true. But we were talking about the last two

dates in July but some hills came into the road and now he is thinking

about December. Anyway I am still glad that he is wanting to be

baptized! Then there's Michael, after teaching the Restoration he has

agreed that this is for him and that everything that we taught is

true. He wants to be better and it is truly amazing!!

It was also Father's Day! Love you Dad! We share the video earthly

father Heavenly Father. I know that is how our Heavenly Father feels

and thinks about us and I know my dad does too! 

Love you Dad!

This week I was also privileged to hear from Elder Lawrence and his

wife . He gave the amazing talk What Lack I yet and he is an amazing

speaker. At Stake Conference he talked about Satan in a way that

allowed us to know him better and his role. Since we learned that he

continued speaking how we can not be influenced by him. Sister

Lawrence was an amazing speaker too! She talked about the plan of

Salvation but in a way that everything makes sense especially life

after death and what we need to do to prepare for it.  There is just

sooo much!

 Then Yesterday we heard from them again as a mission well half of the mission. Before sister lawerence got up to start her talk elder Lawrence got up and said that what she is going to say is meaty stuff

and that we should take lots of notes. That is what I did. In the scriptures it talks about how we need to have a spiritual feast, that is what happened. I wanted to know more and more and more and more and

more but because of time at couldn't happen. I really understand now why I am here on a mission, what my purpose is, what I did before earth life to be here at this time at this spot and being me. 

I know what I have to do .... So much stuff! 

After her amazing talk/discussion with us elder Lawrence got up and started to expand on it

but brought in sacrifice. 

He told our mission that we are doing a great job and that is showing. He can tell of what he has seen and

discussed with the he leaders that we have desires to be obedient, to invite others to be baptized to do the lords work to do whatever it takes. He said we have the means for so much. He said ... With that

brings sacrifice . We have sacrifice a lot but are we willing to do more. Personal sacrifice . And really plead with the lord to what we need to give up individualy. He invited President and Sister Jardine to

give a few thoughts and sister Jardine said this ... Sacramento Latin base word and what the Indians called it is sacrifice : the outward and visible sign of spiritual grace. What are we wanting to show to

our Heavenly Father to want spiritual grace ? ...

 I had the biggest spiritual headache ever! Loved it !

There is so much more I want to write but not enough time.

All I want to say is that I know we have a Heavenly Father who loves

and that He has created a perfect plan to allow us to grow and gain

experience and become better and most importantly to come back to him.

Hurrah for Isreal!

2nd Week in June

This week has been super busy, exhausting and fun! We did a lot of finding and talking to people on the streets sharing the hallelujah video and the earthly father Heavenly Father video. I love these two videos so much and it makes them really think about how much our Heavenly Father loves them and how much our Savior Jesus Christ has done for each of them. I love to see the light bulbs turn on and see them start to think of those things. We biked a lot this week and we did get some doors in our face but it was made up for those that wanted to hear our message that we want to share with them.  

Casualties of the Crusades

Sister Cundick and I had exchanges with our sister Training leaders and I left with Sister Thomson back to north sac.  Sister Cundick stayed here in our area with sister Stout. Before I get to the miracles that happened in our area I'll tell you some things that happened in North Sacramento. First I was in Spanish work and boy it is really hard to keep up with them when they speak. Right when I can kinda put together what they are saying they switch the conversation. But sister Thomson and I were able to teach Luara. I helped teach her before on my last exchange and it was really cool to see how much she progressed. And to see the amazing work of the lord and sister Thomson and sister Stout!  Then after that appt. we went to see this other lady. She was just amazed about how tall I was and my blue eyes. It was super funny! She then said that I would marry a little man so I can slap him around when he does something wrong. There I lost it and started to laugh. Shared a message about our Heavenly Father's love for her.  When I got back to my area sister Cundick and I only had a little time to proselyt so we went to an area that we haven't spent some time in a part of our area. So we went prayed about a specific
street to go tract and knock doors ... Three doors later we meet Eric ... He is very interesting but at the end we gave him a Book of Mormon and he committed to read and to pray of the truth of it. We go back this coming week to see if he has done it! Ok so for our area sister Cundick and sister Stout found 5 new investigators! Two of them even said yes to baptism!

I was able to meet one of the two who said yes to be baptized -- Michael,  and he really wants to be baptized
and meet with us! He really has that true desire! I am really excited!! We taught him a little bit more about the Book of Mormon and about baptism. Todd who is a fellow southerner and makes the best bbq!! His wife was a potential investigator and now they all want to know more. I was just amazed that they invented us for dinner.  

Also on Sunday we had to teach Gospel principles in the Anatolia Ward. We a taught about the gift of the Holy Ghost. Sister Cundick and I have been very bold in our teaching so we didn't sugar coat anything. At the end of the lesson I said a quote from one of the 12 apostles about how if we want to live with our Heavenly Father again then we need the gift of the Holy Ghost and strive to have it with us always. I thought the whole class were members but one of them wasn't ---. So at the end of church Enrique was waiting outside the Relief Society room and asked if we could set up a lesson for us to teach him the discussions. He wants to have the gift of the Holy Ghost all the time and inside my head and heart I was jumping and shouting for joy!!!!  

Today for pday we went shopping and this young man comes up to the cash  register and says - sisters I am going to pay for your groceries. ..... What! His name was Eric and he served his mission in Utah two years ago. We got to know him a little bit and then he asked if there was anyone that we were teaching that he could pray for. I love it when members are so nice to us and are awesome at missionary work. We have great Ward missionaries who do the same thing and even members who pray for those we teach and come I contact with.  

We also have old Sacramento town in our area so we went. It was so much fun.  Cute little stores and such. I love it. It is really cool when people look at us and say hi missionaries ! Now is the time for sports!!!

Horrah for Isreal!

Prayers and Little Miracles

Today was so much fun!

We went to Coloma.

 It was a place where the gold rush was discovered and where the members of the Church of Latter Day Saints played a big role as well. 

If you visit a gold site you need to pan for gold. 

I didn't strike it rich but came a way with some flecks and other valubale mineral things! 

Yay!! 

I love history 

and being outdoors. I want to go back because we didn't get to do a lot of things that was offered there because some things required us to go in the river but we cant go into the river as being missionaries and 

there were a lot of sites. 

Anyway it was a lot of fun!

This week was a good one.

It was a result of a lot of prayer from last week.

Last week, I had prayed really hard to Heavenly Father that I'd be able to see His hand in the work AND.....

this week I have been blessed to see my prayer answered -- 

So many people are being prepared by Him

 and I am witnessing little miracles! 

Sooooooooooooo.........

Guess what happened???!!!! 

We found three new investigators 

-- Jamie, Joe and Julie.   

Joe and Julie are the parents of a family. 

We knocked on their door and Joe said, 

"Wait.  I need to tell my wife that you are here." 

 And "WOW... you girls actually came! Do you need water? I"ll get you water..." 

We stood there in awe  -- BECAUSE THIS NEVER HAPPENS TO US!   

He came back with the waters, his wife came and then he started explaining 

that he has already been changing for the better 

but knows there is more to do and 

he needs to find the church that can help him to do so. 

Then Julie and he said that they really wanted to know what we had to say... 

they wanted to hear about our lessons and he his cousin could hear what we had to say too. 

They invited us over for dinner on Saturday -- but called it off at the last second because of family problems. 

BUT hey things happen and that's okay because they really want us back to talk more about the gospel!!

This week was really hot!

 It got up to 108 everyday most days it was higher.

 We tried to bike but no one was out 

so we rode in the car to 

visit potentials investigators and 

members that are going through hard times 

to share a up lifting message.

 I am actually starting to like the heat.

 Sister Cundick, 

is an amazing contacting a smart missionary.

 I am learning so much from her. 

HIGHLIGHT of this week ...

Spencer be baptized! 

A lot of members of the ward showed up for support. 

It was amazing! 

And then the lesson on baptism 

made it doubly amazing!   

Spencer shared his thoughts about how 

he felt about being baptized.

He truly is an amazing child of God. 

To top things off, 

we are going to start to teach his younger brother, Kolby. 

On Sunday night we invited 

Jobe and Jessie to be baptized.  

They said "YES!"

They have been taking the lessons with the sisters 

for a while

 and they were already invited to be baptized before

but had said that they would pray about it 

... that is kindof how things were left.

So, when we met with them, I just started asking them questions  -- just to get to know them.  

THEN surprisingly, I asked them 

what was holding them back from being baptized. 

Jobe replied and then we just talked about 

baptism, faith, repentance and the Holy Ghost. 

These boys are amazing!!

I can truly say, my confidence in myself has grown and 

my confidence in the Lord has too. 

Thank you 

for all those letters and emails.  

 I felt very loved this week.

I hope that you have a great week!! 

Sister Hyde