Look Who Found Allison

While Allison had the God's Plan assignment, Guess who was waiting for her? Michayla Hassing! That was super cool! She was there with a group of friends, they had traveled up from Provo! 

Back to the Square

Hello!

Wanted to let everyone that I have made it back!

Zone N2

Zone Leaders: Sneddon and Moss M.

District Leader: Gemio

Assignment: Welfare Square round 3!

DA 201

P-day Wednesday

Comp: Sister Bablitz from Kentucky....... I AM NOT A DISTRICT LEADER COMPANION! YAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEH! Wow! That is so sweet! Just a regular missionary! Woot!

And no, we don't all have our own smartphones yet, it is just one per companionship.

It feels so weird to be back. I am not super excited to be back, but I know once I am used to everything again I will love it. The more sisters I see the happier I become. Sister Leavitt was still here when I got back! Do you remember Dan from three months ago? He got baptized! I knew he would! Oh man that is so exciting! He still needs to send sister Leavitt the pictures though. 

Spending the night at the mission home in Reno was such a fun experience. We ate dinner with all the Sr. couples, Pres. and Sis. Chesnut, and the assistants. We then had this mini testimony meeting, and after we just hung out until it was time to go to bed! Sister Smith and I got to listen to the missionaries going home ask questions pertaining to what they should do or how to react to things. Like, "What do I do when they want to watch movies?" Ha! 

Everyone in that mission is so amazing. But as Sister Smith A. and I were coming home, instead of "home means NV, home means the hills" "home means the Square, home means the light, home is the Choir, and sing smile find!" 

 

PERSPECTIVE AND POSITIVE THINKING WILL HELP ME ADJUST! 

We did see Sisters Silva and Kitchen as they come off the plane to NV Reno Mission! That was super cool, and we caught up and told them they were going to looooooove it there. One of them gets to be comps with sister Lovstedt in the Reno YSA ward! 

Catch yall next week! 

Sister Glanzer, WA state

ps. I have to baptize my FB... aka hide everything from the world. 

At the mission home in NV

I am glad I will never run out of things to learn

Hello. This is my last full day out here. I am going to miss is so much! Working with the same people over an extended period of time was so much fun. I am so grateful they let us have this experience. I have talked a lot about building an area, these past months, and Sister Cluff and I did just that. We have found so many people for the 2nd and 3rd wards. 

Serving around elders was pretty fun too! They have a pretty good humor, and all of these elders work hard. 

Funny story from this morning. We were scraping our car, and this little bird hit the car and flew under it, right next to me, not even a foot away from me, because there was hawk chasing it. Almost got hit by two birds!

Anywho, this week we had the 2nd ward Christmas party! There were some less active families that came! We also gained a family of investigators from 4th ward because they moved into our ward, and we are having a 2nd lesson with them tonight. They seem very golden and receptive to the gospel. 

We got transfer calls last night and of course I don't get to know anything, but Sister Cluff is training a brand new missionary! I jokingly asked Elder Bridge if he knew anything about what I was doing. 

We had a lesson with a LA part member family. The son did not want to come into the church, he refused, but his friend that was with him that day was all for it! We watched the 20 min restoration video. The mom and son said it made them feel good, but the friend, who is 12, said, "It gives purpose to life."  He said he was a member or at least his mom was. We took down all his info, and found out he was in the zone leaders' area, and sent him to them! He was just beaming by the end of the lesson! It was so amazing to see!

We finally met a referral that was given to us at the beginning of Sister Cluff being here. Jerry on Spruse. Needless to say, Jerry was interesting and had a lot of WOW issues and just contradicted himself in what he was saying about religion. It was a rather fun and funny experience! He took the Book of Mormon and Restoration pamphlet and we went on our way. The only thing we could say was, "That's Jerry." He was nice.

There was a "Why I Believe" fireside on Sunday, those are just so cool. There were two or three recent converts that spoke and a few returning less actives. We had a less active who came and watched. He is a super nice guy, he was the one that gave us the strawberries. The spirit was so very strong, only six weeks more and more people will attend! 

I love so much missionary work! I love how when I let myself be wrapped up in it I get more and more excited for it, especially the traditional work. It will be fun to be a member missionary and know what I can do better to help missionaries wherever I live. I know that Heaven Father let me grow out here in the High Desert of NV, and I will keep progressing in my faith and discipleship for always. I love the Gospel so much. I am glad I'll never run out of things to learn. 

Catch y'all in a bit,

Sister Glanzer

We had zone activity last p-day, we did Elko Iron Chef, ie made food for the ZLs to eat. My district got 2nd place. Go us. 

Our gifts all wrapped up for 3rd ward white elephant party

There was mounted mouse head. Fun. 

For morning program we got to avoid running into tables. 

We did Elko half zone caroling!

Light the World!

It finally snowed here! Honestly, as missionary I despise all weather unless it is good weather. It was yesterday when snowed. There is an elder from Texas who called it a blizzard..... BAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA. I have seen worse snow in Tonasket, and that isn't even a blizzard. Also, the Spanish elders, the one that is driving companion is from Florida. We don't think he has driven in the snow before. His companion is from Cananda, we don't know if he is able to drive here, but he isn't the assigned driver so he gets to sit back and try not to die! There isn't that much snow.

Yesterday, Sunday, was the Christmas devotional, super good and highly recommend it. The cool part was what happened afterward. Cool for us! It was played at the stake center in Elko and there where like five sets of missionaries there. The STLs call us over to sit in font of them because there is a guy behind them who is a less active member who said he is in one of our wards! We talked to him afterwards. He literally just got moved into our ward because of the boundary changes! He had been inactive for 30 years and his daughter married a less active return missionary and they are all interested in coming back! So cool!   

I also am sick. Wednesday I got face-wash up my nose, that was gross, but it weakened me enough for the illness to attack and take hold. I has been a fun couple of days with that. Six hours of fast Sunday church was a blast. Sister Bates is a member in 2nd ward, and has a son recently on a mission in Georgia Atlanta North mission, she is the best! She has come out with us a few times, and she supplied me with vitamin C and this Zicam stuff! And she is a great person to take out to lessons! 

Oh hey! So here they have late night sacrament meeting for those who work at the mines and such so they can still renew their baptismal covenants! We got to go to it with our investigator, Will! It was pretty small, but very good. What a great thing they have for these people here. 

So I will blame the illness, but I don't remember much of what happened this week.

OH! Tiffani!

So we have a couple people that we are teaching because of Welfare, so we had a return appt with one that we set up in person with her. She told us to text her that day before hand. She didn't reply. We get there and we are parked outside waiting for a member to join us. These two pit bulls come out, that we have never seen before (we have been to her house twice before) and one just hops over the fence and sniffs and marks territory. We are just shocked. Then a guy comes out and gets in his car, we rush over to let him know the dog is loose and he says they aren't his, but the people know. Our member gets there, then another guy comes out we tell him where the dog went. He gets in the car with the other guy and they drive off. We go to the door, some lady answers door. Tiffani isn't there, and the lady leaves and in these HIGH heels, and three bags of stuff, and the other pit bull on a leash. We three are super confused. Every time we go to Tiffani's house there is always different people. So, moral of the story, we need to have better coordination with our Bishop on what they want us to exactly do with Welfare referrals. It was pretty great.

Thursday is weekly planning day, where we prep for all the lessons we will teach and set up and focus on the people we are teaching and how to best help them as they are learning about the gospel and how to keep them involve din the ward. We also had four lessons. We texted to remind all but one. Those three all fell through. So we thought, if we don't contact the last one, it won’t cancel! We get there with the YW president for the lesson........ it cancelled. We were talking with Sister Strong, and she had said she talked earlier that day with the mom, and said she was going to be coming over with us that night. I thought it was a pretty funny situation! 

A few of the less active sisters had babies and we have met a few of the new ones that were effected by the boundary change!

I hope everyone is doing well and accepting the #LightTheWorld Challenge again this year! Seriously, the First Presidency approved it again this year. That is so cool! That means it is even more important for us to participate! 

Sister Cluff and I were able to do day one without realizing it in the moment. A member gave us two things of strawberries. We saw the 1st ward elders and gave them one! Simple and easy. The service ideas are so neat, tomorrow is talk to your parents, but I get to do that one today! I honestly would love to hear how you all are Lighting The World! 

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We have Zone Activity today! Pretty exciting! Tell you about it next week!

This week there was something called Créche, which is a display of a ton of different nativities, our church puts it on, but different faiths come too. I'll include some pictures of my favs.

Sister Glanzer

There was this house that had tons of pigeons around it feeding. "The Birds" is what we thought.

We caught a spider, then fed it a fly

That stuff is is by some apartments in our area

Snow!

          The tolls nativity reminded me of Camille!