Monday, December 19, 2016

December 19th - Midland, TX

Howdy Y'all :) 

This week has been a complete roller coaster!! Sunday especially! So many miracles sooo many!! God is so good I hope you all know that! He definitely gives us hard blessings to recognize the good ones that much easier! 

So first off WednesdayWednesday was insane! Almost everything fell through all of our lessons and plans and I felt like a complete chump. It was a very difficult day BUT we had a dinner appointment that night that we were an hour late too because we were teaching a lesson ( the one that we had) and it went pretty well. I personally felt horrible because we were so late! Anyway, we went in and the ward youth were everywhere and the elders were already there. We walked in and they all were so happy and told us to sit down and open our Christmas presents that they had all got for us! BLESSINGS!! Everyone was so kind and loving. God knew we would need that that day and made sure we felt his love! So many AMAZING people here in Texas! 

So fast forward to Sunday. OH MY GOODNESS. CRAZY!! So we were fasting this Sunday for one of our investigators so I'm hungry and not always the happiest when I am hungry....sorry Sister Penner....and Church wow. I love the branch soooo much!! So we invited Mark to church this week and we was yea sure can I bring some friends and we were all like YEA!!! So crazy awesomeness there! And the best part is HE CAME WITH 4 FOUR FRIENDS!! ALL NONMEMBERS INTERESTED IN THE GOSPEL!! WHAT? WHAT! RIGHT! I'm going crazy too!! And then we stayed after and talked with them and got to know them better. 3 of them are deaf and sister Penner was going crazy cause she knows ASL and was super excited to talk to them and get to know them! 

Anyways so yea craziness. Awesome sauce! But wait it gets better!!! So after church we all went out and contacted this girl who never answers and we caught her literally right before she was going to work!! The Spirit is so real guys like oh my goodness! Okay so we finished talking to her and her mom and saw we had a missed call from our neighbor and we were all like hmm I wonder what that is. He left a voice mail and we listened to it and apparently our apartment flooded/was flooding. So we go back to our apartment and were freaking out and trying to think of what we left going and we couldn't think of anything. (background info the day before it was like 80 degrees in the morning and dropped down to 26 degrees! all I can say is Texas) so apparently our pipe froze and burst so that was slightly really unfortunate. 

Anyways we were apartment bound for a while and then finally broke our fast ( it was like 6 I was dying) and then when all was well we went to Family Home Evening and Tony was there. OH MY GOODNESS TONY. I cant even come up with the words to describe tony. HE IS SO PREPARED! Like oh my goodness. If a person could be awesome sauce it would be Tony! We had a great message about Christ and I got to bear my testimony which was gooood. (like good for me to feel the spirit...hopefully it was good to everyone else...) and then sister Thacker bless her soul saved us some warm soup and we sat down and were eating and Tony wasn't there for the dinner either so he sat down with us and ate some delicious soup and then this is where is gets good. 

Somehow I cant even remember now but Tony asked us what our 3 favorite scriptures were in the book of Mormon and we had like this crazy amazing lesson and there was this member there who brought the spirit and Brother Thacker was there like listening in form afar and then jumped and shared this incredible testimony with experience and then the spirit was going off like bombs is was insane. SOO GOOD!!! SO GOOD! And then we asked him if he found out the Book of Mormon was true what would he do and we were like well I'd do what it says ( we talked about real intent and all that good jazz) and then we invited him to be baptized and he was like yea absolutely and I think I died. Like oh my goodness I was having spiritual heart attacks! it was SUCH AN AMAZING LESSON like OH MY GOODNESS!! wow. just wow. So yea that's all I have time for today if you want to know more write me ;)

Love SISTER Allart :)

Monday, December 12, 2016

December 12th - Midland, TX

I apologize I haven't had much time to send stuff and I don't have much time to email today so sorry but ITS AMAZING OUT HERE SOOOO MANY AMAZING PEOPLE!!! 

God is soo good! I am in Midland Texas right now serving in the YSA branch and absolutely loving every minute of it!! Elder Rasband came and spoke to us which was amazing!! So many miracles so many!! Unfortunately i don't have time to write much more than that so if you want to know more write me ;) love you all so much!! i really do!! 

i hope i have more time next week! 

Love SISTER Anneke Allart

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

November 30th - MTC - Provo, UT

First off so so so so so sorry I didn't get the chance to write you all last week!! It's been crazy here!! Always so busy!! There has been so much to learn here!! Hahaha 

I thought I was at least slightly prepared for what I was jumping into but there is no way to be ready for what hits you here! It's CRAZY!!! I absolutely love it though!!! This is definitely were I am supposed to be. I know it! Coming here has made me realize how important it is to rely on the Atonement constantly!! The sacrifice that was required for all of us to come down to earth was beyond what any of us could possibly understand! I have never completely understood the power and love that is in the Book of Mormon. It truly is as Joseph Smith said The most correct book of any book on earth! Any verse can answer a question or lead to love and guidance! I am soooo sooo soo so GRATEFUL for such a opportunity a this!! I love God so much and am so grateful for his help in everything I do! I am so grateful for the Savior and everything he had and continually does for me!! This truly is the Church with the complete fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that can bring us the most joy here on earth and in the life to come! I love you all so much!! I would love to hear from any of you!! 

I am leaving Monday at 330 am for TEXAS crazy I know right!! I am so excited for this opportunity and hope to hear from you all!! 


With too much love for you all,

SISTER Anneke Allart

P.S. Please go to the lds.org website and look up the new Christmas challenge of lighting the world in 25 days with 25 ways!!! I promise you as a representative of Jesus Christ that this Challenge will bring you closer to God and help you find joy in your life!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!! 

P.S.S this challenge is for all it doesn't particularly pertain to people of the LDS faith simply to those who just want to be a better person!