New Comp, Sis. Greenland

Hey y'all! Hope that you had a great week! This week we had transfers and my new companion is Sister Greenland! She is so sweet and I’m so excited to work with her! Not much happened this week just been working to help Sister Greenland get to know some people in the ward and who we are working with. Awesome thing that happened this week was the Kerstetter’s came to the great to be 8 event on Sunday to learn more about the baptism. Even the dad came who is not a member and he sang the closing song I am a child of God! So that was awesome! Here is a pic of my new district sorry it is upside-down hahaha. I love ya’ll.  Thanks for all your love and support!!!!!

Sister Randall

Goodbye to Sis. Dayton

What a week! This week went by so fast! Things are good here, we mostly just started to say goodbye to all the people that Sister Dayton wanted to because we knew that she would be getting the call to leave. So Saturday rolled around and we got the call and Sister Dayton will be leaving tomorrow. We are sad but it will be good for the both of us. We got to meet with the Kurstetters this week and they are doing great. We finalized some of the plans for the baptism and they are excited too! Something crazy that happened this week was we have snow! It was pretty cool. it didn’t stick but we got some! Well this week marks the beginning of the end for me. I cant believe that this is the last 6 weeks of my mission but I am very excited to give it my all and to finish strong! I love my mission and the change it has brought me! Thank y'all for all your love and support!

Sister Shelby Randall

The Start of My Last 6 Weeks of My Mission

hey y'all! hope you had a good week! things here are good just working hard! its crazy that next week i start my last 6 weeks of my mission! really bitter sweet. but this week went well it feels like it went by so fast! we where able to spend time with shelby and answer more of her questions and we had a lesson with the kurstetters and finalized plans for when they go to utah! its been so fun teaching them since they already have such a good knowledge of the gospel we are just there to fill in the gaps. its so crazy that its a new year! but im so excited for the fresh start it gives us not only to set new health plans or work out goals that never really get acoplished but the chance that we have to rededicate ourselves to our savior and come closer to him in the choices we make every day. i love y'all hope that you had a great week! here is a pic of me and sister dayton bringing in the new year! 

Last Call Home

Hope that y'all had a great Christmas! Things here are going good and we had a fun holiday so no complaints there! It was great to be able to talk to my family but crazy that it was my last call home! Christmas morning we opened presents as a district and me and Sister Dayton made muffins and french toast for everyone. Not much else this week just great to celebrate together and take time to reflect why we have Christmas! Love y'all hope to hear from you soon!  

New Investigators

Hey y'all. Hope that you had a great week! Things here have been good! Stayed busy this week! Shelby is back in town so its been good seeing her we are still hoping that we will be able to help her during this hard time. So send lots of prayers her way! We also went out finding this week with a new finding idea that our mission is trying. It went well! We went to a trailer park near our house and in the first 15 minutes we got 2 lessons and a new investigator! But then the manager kicked us out so that was fun hahah! We also went to lights of the south with our ward mission leader so that was fun! We had a good time and we where able to talk to some people there. this week we started lessons with the Kurstetter family. They are the family that is going to get baptized in Utah! It went really well the kids are so great and we are excited to keep the lessons going! I am so grateful for the chance that I have to be a missionary at this time in this area! As the time is getting closer that I will leave I have been reflecting back on the last 16 months of my mission and I wouldn't trade it for the world! Thank y'all for all the love and support! here is a picture of us at the lights of the south and a picture of me and my favorite Sista Folaumahina doing a tim tam slam. Her family is from Australia and Tonga and they sent here these cookies! And you bight of both ends and sip hot coco through it! haha a little fun for the end of the week! Love y'all!  

Blessing for Less Active Son

Hey y'all.  Hope that you had a great week! Things here are good! Had a long week this week but not too much happened! The first exciting thing that happened this week was we got a call from the Stake President about a less active that lives in our area that reached out to him for a blessing. We didn’t have her on the records so we got the address from him and set up a time to go the next day. Her son is really sick and she wanted a blessing for him so we took the elders with us. When we got there it was in this trailer park that we where in the day before. We thought that was kind of funny but they are really awesome they remind me a lot of Connor from Valdosta! We also have been working with a part member family from Utah and all the kids committed to be baptized on February 23! So they can get baptized in Utah when they go see their brother! Any ways it has been a good week.  Love ya’ll thanks for all the support! Here is a pic of me in a abandoned trailer park saw my moms name spray painted in a trailer lol! Have a good week y'all!

Send Some Prayers Our Way

Hey y'all hope you had a good week! This week was a little hard for our district. So send some prayers our way! Not much happened this week just been really cold and wet! Its been raining all week! Its kind of depressing not seeing the sun for a couple days! But on a happy note we got to watch the Christmas devotional last night and it was so great! I love the comment that was made “We celebrate Christmas because of Easter!”  I am so grateful for the chance I have to be a missionary for the Savior and to represent him. This is the best time of the year! Check out the 25 ways over 25 days of service the church is doing! I love ya’ll Thanks for all the love and support! 

Love Sister Shelby Randall