This Week Was Great!! November 30, 2015

Now as for this week, it has been great!! (: We weren't able to have a lesson with Nayomi this week because she had to work, but we had a chance to stop in at the small grocery store that she works at and chat with her a little. It was so amazing to listen to her tell us about her life and all of the crazy hard things that no 17 year old should have to deal with EVER and how even though she has had such a hard life she still has the best attitude ever!! After she told us about her family and all the things that have happened to her I told her that no one should have to go through half of the things that she has. And she looked at me and said, "Life is a learning experience" and she continued to talk about what she has learned from her trials and how she has grown! (: Talk about amazing! I was so inspired after talking to her! She really made me think, we ALL struggle, but the Savior is here for each and every one of us! Just like it says in the poem "Footprints in the Sand" we are never alone the Savior is always at our side, and when we can't walk any further, the Savior will carry us! I am so grateful for the love the Savior has for each of us! I know that He knows us each personally and He always has His arms outstretched to us! I am so grateful for the Love that I feel from the Savior and for His willingness to always walk by my side, and for all the times that I thought I couldn't go any further when He carried me! 

Now being out of the city I actually see Animals!!!

The wind blows a lot here and these windmills are how we get 

a lot of our energy

This is as big as the mountains here get!

After getting stuck in the snow with Sister Freeman while we were on 

exchanges and were rescued it seemed like a great time for a selfie!!

This is the first Dairy Farm Sabrina has seen!!

Sabrina and Sister Lyu after helping the Waltons decorate for Christmas!!

Another Great Week In Canada! November 23, 2015

This week has been another great one!! (: So we had another lesson with Erin this week, she is such a sweetheart! We talked to her about the Plan of Salvation and how it is for each of us individually and we answered a bunch of her questions! (: At the end of the lesson she told us a story about how one of the more "crabby" ladies that she works with was chatting with her the other day and told Erin that she could see a "difference in her" and she said that Erin seemed so happy!! Oh isn't is just so amazing how much joy living the Gospel can bring into our lives!! Our countenance truly does shine when we are living the Gospel and when we feel the love that our Heavenly Father and our Savior has for us!! It is so amazing to see how much Erin is growing and how close she is coming to our Heavenly Father!! It is such an amazing experience to see the Spirit working within people! (:  And the kicker of the lesson was at the ended we set a date for her to get baptized!!! (: Oh we are just so excited!!! (: Another thing that happened this week was Zone Conference!! (That is just when two zones from the mission get together and the Mission President comes and talks to us and all that good jazz!) (: But it was so powerful!! We talked a lot about being diligent and making every day count!! And that really opened my eyes because it is truly so important to make the most out of every wonderful day that we have both in the the mission and in life!! Just like Devin G. Durrant says, "Small efforts sustained over time can produce significant results." As we do the small and simple things every day we will grow "line upon line precept upon precept" and we will Become who Heavenly Father wants us to be through our diligence and the help of our Father in Heaven! (: Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have given us so much, we show how much we appreciate all that we have been blessed with as we follow the example of our Savior and do the things which they have asked us to do, weather great or small! (: I'm so grateful for the Savior! I'm so grateful to be a missionary and have this amazing opportunity!! (: 

 A tree in their yard

Sabrina & Sister Lyu in front of the Cardston Temple

Another Great Week! November 16, 2015

This week has been filled with MIRACLES!!! (: So this past Tuesday we got a random call from one of the members in our ward and he told us that his employee wanted to take the missionary discussions!!! We were so stink'n excited!!! So we had our first lesson with him on Thursday and we will be seeing him again this week!! It was such a blessing! It is so neat to see how Heavenly Father prepares both the investigators and the members!! Oh I'm just so grateful to be serving in these wards!! Also this week we had a lesson with the McCarthy couple! They are in their 60's and they are so so sweet! They have been like grandparents to us while we are here! So we really wanted to help them understand the importance of The Book of Mormon, so we marked some of our favorite scriptures and wrote our testimonies in the front of the cover and gave them each their own copy! Then we began our lesson and at the beginning it was a little rough... but Sister Lyu and me just kept praying, and praying in our hearts to have the Spirit with us! And as we kept going the lesson made a total 180 turn!! The Spirit was so strong and as we were sharing our testimony's Sister McCarthy started tearing up, it just turned out to be one of the most memorable lessons that I have had the opportunity to be in!! (:  It is such an amazing experience to be able to see the Spirit touch peoples lives!! I just wanted to share a quick quote from President Eyring it says, "With a prayer of faith, God can grant us power... for whatever circumstances we may be in. It simply requires that we ask in humility for the Spirit to show us what God would have us say and do, do it, and continue to live worthy of that gift." Prayer is such an amazing blessing to each and every one of us! As we turn to our Heavenly Father and ask Him to guide us He will!! But after we receive our answer, we are responsible to ACT and do what the Lord needs us to do!! I know that Heavenly Father hears and answers all of our prayers, it is just on His timetable, not ours. Words honestly can't express how grateful I am to be a missionary!! 

A Poster Sabrina made for a Stake Activity

They made the Crawford's whiteboard!

This Week Has Been Amazing November 9, 2015

This week has been amazing!! (: So we went to a dinner in Coalhurst, nothing out of the ordinary just with a member family and it turns out that one of her daughters has a non-member friend that is living with them!! Her name is Nayomi, and we were able to chat with her and get to know her more and then the member asked her if she wanted to take the discussions and learn more about the gospel!! At first she said she wasn't sure... and then we talked to her more and said that we will just start with the first lesson and take it slow and just see how she feels... and she said that sounded great!! So now we are starting to teach her the lessons this week!! (: Oh it was so neat!! And it goes to show truly how important members are! Speaking of how amazing people are... we had some Tim Hortons ( the Canadian donut shoppe) and Subway sandwiches just randomly left on our doorway this week! And it turned out to be our sweet non-member neighbor that lives upstairs from us!! It totally made our day!! It is so neat how such simple things make such a difference!! (: Also we had the opportunity to help with achievement days, and after the sweet girls put on a play for us!! (: haha it was so fun to see how creative they all were and how they all worked together!! I loved seeing how positive they were to one another and how much they supported each other!! (: I think that when the Savior says that we must be as children that is because children have such sweet and loving spirits about them! I learned so much from those young girls! Their examples really did touch my heart! (: I'm so grateful to have to opportunity to serve the people here in Canada, and see the Spirit change peoples lives!! (: Oh random side note... It is snowing here in Canada!! Winter is finally here!! (: Whoot Whoot!! (: 

Sister Lyu in the snow

Sister Creech, Sister Kolodisi, Sister Anthian

Sister Lyu, Sister Trimble

Cool Little Story November 2, 2015

So this week I wanted to share a cool little story! So Sister Lyu and I were walking around just making a few stop bys to people that we didn't know yet. We passed this house where some less actives lived and we had actually already ran into Bro Caldwell one day while we were walking around before and started talking to him like he wasn't a member and after a few minutes of chatting and asking about if he had any religious beliefs he told us that he was a Mormon! haha But he said that we were more than welcome to come back. So when we passed the Caldwell's house this week and noticed that Brother Caldwell wasn't home we weren't sure if we should stop in or not because we weren't sure if his wife would be as welcoming as he was... anyways so we just passed their house on our way to someone else when we just stopped and decided that we needed to pray and ask Heavenly Father if we should stop by, and we had a feeling after our prayer that we should even though we didn't know if Sister Caldwell would let us in. So we knocked on the door, a little nervous about what was about to happen... and she let us in with warm smiles and it turned out that she was canning carrots and she was running short on time and she wasn't sure if she was going to be able to do everything that she needed to do on her own! So we jumped in and helped her can all of her carrots and chatted with her about her family and life and about the Gospel!! It is so neat how Heavenly Father knew that Sister Caldwell needed help with canning, and as we were walking by her house we felt prompted to go back. I just love to see how Heavenly Father truly does care about all the little things in our lives! Whether we are canning carrots, looking for something we lost, or making a big life decision, Heavenly Father takes the time to answer all of our prayers! Now that doesn't mean that the answers will always be when we want or what we want... but we will always get an answer because Heavenly Father loves each and everyone of us so much! I am so grateful to be here on a mission and to have this amazing opportunity to see the Spirit working in peoples lives everyday!! 

Great Balance!!!