Week 57, October 19, 2015, BAPTISM!

I hope your week has been going well!
it has! :)

Who got baptized this week?

a little boy named Vaughn.  his family are all members, but he is 9 so we taught him all that he needed to know about the Gospel.
We had a great baptism, and although there weren't many people there, Vaughn had a great experience. 

This week was a little hard, we were struggling to find people, and keep working, but Sister Polakoff is helping me to see what I can do to more fully rely on the Lord, and let HIM help me.  We just need to get out, and work hard, and PRAY.  Heavenly Father will help us with our challenges.

We had an Awesome miracle yesterday.  Spirit led lessons are great, especially when you are led to the person you need to teach!  We met this random lady, who had gone on a soul searching journey, and she was getting answers.  We really helped her.

This week is looking up.  We are finding new people, and going to contact a lot of potentials.   We gave talks in church, and we didn't even TRY to make them go together, but it was AWESOME.  Sister Polakoff talked about the blessings we get from opening our mouths, and I talked about Elder Bednar's talk from Oct 2014 about Wanting to share the gospel (come and see) the ward was super missionary mined for the rest of church, which was a great thing!  hopefully it will continually last!

Have a great week! I LOVE YOU!!

~Hermana Riddle

Vaughn's Baptism

Sunset

Week 56, October 12, 2015 Ponderizing Lovelock

Our Zone!

This week was good. we went on exchanges, and I feel rejuvenated. I am really pumped to keep working hard in Lovelock, and to be able to see the miracles that will come.

We had some awesome active member lessons with the ward council, and we are tracking our miracles each day, to keep ourselves motivated. its super cool!

We also have a baptism at the end of the end of this week! we are super excited for him, and hope that it will be a good memorable experience, and we know that the Holy Ghost will guide him throughout this experience we call life.

Last week I ponderized 3 Nephi 27:6. it was really cool to remember that the Lord will always help us endure to the end, because we have covenanted with him that we will do our very best to follow him.

THIS week, my ponderize scripture is 4 Nephi 1:18  there are so many scriptures in the
Book of Mormon, I don't even know what to do.  I am so excited to be able to do this, and to keep up  my focus on the scriptures. :)

~Hermana Riddle

funny quote from exchanges, on the STL's desk

Sunset

Awesome car

Week 55, October 5, 2015 LAST CONFERENCE

Where were you for conference?  Did you get to see it at someone’s home?  What was your favorite talk or theme?
How was your week?  And how is Sister Polokoff?  Tell me about her and where she is from.  Have you learned a good routine between the two of you?  I’m sure it is different with each companion you have.

Something I learned from General Conference is how I feel the spirit. I sometimes feel that I cannot determine if I feel the Spirit, if I don't have some sort of spiritual spike. I really liked what Henry B Eyring shared in his talk, that "you have felt the Spirit today." It helped me realize that as long as I am consciously trying to feel the spirit, I will know that it is there. I just need to work on always keeping that at the forefront of my mind.

I am so excited to be here in Lovelock with Sister Polakoff! She is super great. She is from Gilbert Arizona, and she is AWESOME.  We get along really well, and she has big plans for the area. I hope to be able to help her, and the area seems to be growing already! We haven't been able to teach too many lessons so far, but we are attacking the ward list, and contacting everyone on it, to make sure our records are up to date, and that we know the members, and they know us, and are more willing to help us. We already have had people sign up on our dinner calendar to have us in their home, even though they didnt sign up when it was passed around church.

I hoe you all enjoyed conference, and that you have a great week!  (if you haven't watched conference, watch it.  it was the best I've ever heard.  YOU are AMAZING!  The Lord loves you, and so do I.

~Hermana Riddle

All the places I love

Sister Polakoff and Me

Week 54, September 28, MIRACLE WEEK

This week has been really good. we have been a little stressed out, but we are super excited for this NEW transfer.  We saw lots of miracles this week.  We were able to find one of our investigators and commit her to be baptized.  it was AWESOME.  we talked to her a little about the law of Chastity, to help keep her safe, and we were supposed to go teacha preach my gospel class, but the spirit told us that we needed to stay and talk with her, so we helped her to PRAY! OUT LOUD! and then we invited her to be baptised, and she said yes, once she learns more! it was A-MAZING

I am excited to be able to stay here and help her, as well as our other investigator, Vaughn, to be able to feel the spirit and keep working toward baptism, and that eternal glory that comes with enduring to the end.  I hope to be able to help Sister Polakoff work hard here, and see even more miracles, in all that we do.

oh yeah! TRANSFERS!

Sister Liddle is going to ELKO!  elko 2nd and YSA.  she will be with our STL, and another sister.  TRIO!  Sister Polakoff will be my companion here in Lovelock.  she was with Sister Liddle in the MTC.  I am really excited for what will come next!  sorry about the lack of pictures, I will send some next week, I promise!

Week 53, Big week and unbaptised members

This week has been AWESOME!  My Birthday was GREAT!  Thanks!

This week we had Zone conference.  We went to Winnemucca and our Mission President, and the Assistants to the President and our Zone Leaders all gave training's, and we were able to learn a LOT.  I learned so much about the Atonement, and about how merciful the Lord is.  

I am so grateful that I am able to be a member of this church and to have the knowledge that I have of our Heavenly Father and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

During our Zone conference, our mission President challenged us to go to our ward, and to find all the people who are over 18 and not Elders, all of the families in which one member of the family is not a member of the church, and people over age 9 who are not baptized.  we found one at our dinner that night!  it was AWESOME!!

I know that as we rely on the Lord, that he will help us with EVERYTHING!!

~Hermana Riddle

Birthday!

I love the Book of Mormon!!

#LOVELOCK

Birthday Treat! #caffeineFREE

Week 52, September 14, 2015 AWESOME WEEK!

This week has been good! we went on exchanges, and its was awesome!

In church yesterday we talked a LOT about the law of chastity, and I really learned a lot.  It is so important that we teach the newer generations about things they should and should not do, and, the family is SO IMPORTANT!  3 of the 4 talks on the cover of the Ensign are about marriage, and the 4th is on the family proc.

WE HAVE A NEW INVESTIGATOR.  she is awesome, her name is danielle.  I am SUPER EXCITED to teach her.  This is what happens when you know someone in need (spiritually, mentally, emotionally), and refer missionaries to them!

I'll send pictures next week!

FYI:  it is Hermana Riddle's 21st Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOWBACK!

Week 51, September 7, 2015 Sodom & Gomorrah

HI! How are things?  How is Burning Man?  I'm sure you have seen an influx of people there.  People have been asking what that is all about, and we just say it's like Sodom and Gomorrah :)

How is the small town, and how often do you travel?  What does your surrounding area cover? Tell us a little about sister Liddle?  Can you send pictures of what you have been doing?  Are you mostly tracting, teaching, reactivating?

things are good!  Burning Man is not actually that bad, because Lovelock is really small, so people just go through Fernley.  Pretty much it IS Sodom and Gomorrah.  We have heard some WEIRD stories.

We drive to Winnemucca once a week, for district meeting.  Sister Liddle is a lot like me, but also kinda shy.  She is so cute though!  We have been trying to find people to teach, and trying to help people remember who they are, and how they felt when they first became a member.

I want to be able to help EVERYONE, so I hope that I can help them feel of teh spirit, and know how true the church is, the Book of Mormon is, and how REAL THE ATONEMENT IS.

~Hermana Riddle, 20 year old Sister Missionary

PS: I was trying to get some Drivers License stuff figured out today, and this was ALL OVER the website:

www.mormon.org/chat

https://beta.mormon.org/beliefs/the-book-of-mormon.php?gclid=COeft63N5ccCFRRlfgodyfwL-g&cid=99115127&s_kwcid=AL!3737!3!68400564015!!www.dmv.org!d!!&ef_id=UuaoHwAABFr59hd3:20150907185827:s

lovelock at night