Monday, August 26, 2013
12 week program is ALMOST OVER!!!!
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Zoe Hart wrote:
CHYEAH BOYYYYYY! finally almost done with training....
FACT: I love school because you get to experience learning from different teachers....I love the mission because Zone Conference and District MTG allows me to learn from different teachers! YES!!!!!
So we had Zone conference this week which was BOMBIN!!!! seriously! I got to see elder waller, Hermana monson, and sister Pike finally made it to ORLANDO! bomb! I just loved it! we learned some great things about working with our members and about how to become better and what not. Also they really cracked down on the sisters to not use backpacks...seriously sisters you're pouting? its unprofessional. end of story. the elders are going to have to have messenger bags too. Can somebody say timbuk2 mission? HA! anyway. so. Uh this week was crazy.
we started out with 2 investigators and ended the week with 8! YES! the church is true! No the best thing was that after being so diligent and trying SO hard to find people to talk to and to teach our members finally pulled through with referrals and we got a LOT of solid gators! I love it! It is when you show the lord you are willing he will enable you to do that which he sees fit for the area. It was really great because sometimes we got out and only talk to 2 people in an hour or bike around for 2 hours and don't see 1 soul on the path but then the lord STILL blesses you as long as you are doing your best and trying to follow his guidance and promptings from the spirit! The work is getting great! Also everything just got really good for DORA! She lost her car, then got a car and all her money figured out for the time. ANd yesterday she was sick and couldn't come to church so Sister P and I decided to check up on her and share a scripture. She was so happy we came by and then was eager for a message but we asked her to say the opening prayer... she was REALLY unwilling and NERVOUS that she would mess up, but we just folded our arms and closed our eyes and waited. then... SHE SAID THE PRAYER! HER FIRST PRAYER! oh my goodness I have not felt the spirit like that in a while! Then she was saying afterwards that she cannot wait to get better at it! Ahh I was soo pleased to hear that! She is really starting to progress! I love her. wellp. its the final countdown in STCNorth and we are not sure what will happen with transfers in 2 weeks. ahh! Whatever happens is supposed to happen... I love the work and love the Lord!
I LOVE ALL OF YOU AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE PRAYERS< LOVE AND SUPPORT!
can you send me addresses for the cousins and other families maybe? thanks loads!
LOVE YOU!
sister HART
Monday, August 12, 2013
HEYO - My name is WO...okay?
received from sister hart 8/12/2013 -- privacy edits by her mom
It seemed fitting because this morning I found out Sister p has totally seen Kung Pow! haha! I was saying "we're children. we're children." and she started laughing her head off because I had seen that movie as well. CRAZY FUNNY! Anywho.
so this week was good. A little bit rough because the ONLY way to find and talk to people is by tracting and we were NOT motivated to do that ever... GAH! I secretly love tracting though because it is HILARIOUS to hear peoples excuses and see people from literally every walk of life - they are seriously all in st. cloud. but we did get to visit some great members, found out sister m worked for heritage press and she gave us these great little typography quotes and such. love it. and i have some rad service opportunities and I am PRO at street contacting... well maybe not pro but I am getting there.
example: The other day we were biking to the library, and I passed a man who said God Bless you as I passed. I said thanks and proceeded across the street to see that he had j-walked to his car and I was there again and stopped to talk to him - sister p had to flip around and so it was me and this guy for a little talking. I told him we were missionaries and bleepblooblee (all the introduction stuff) and he told me that he had SO many questions about our church - BOOMB! President hall said if they ask questions they are ready to receive the truth. RAD! so I got his information - testified of truthfulness of our message and we gave him a bom and a Mormon.org card. SICK. he ran into the library to look it up right then. awesome right? unfortunately he is in the other st. cloud area so we wont teach him but it was still so cool!
Then another day this week we went out and did service for Sister P's recent convert, L***. WE got to GARDEN~! AH! it reminded me of Dad and all of your gardening! sooo fun! I love gardening! and down here there are frogs everywhere so I was soo hoppy to catch some (punny). I also saw a HUGE wolf spider and totally saved L*** and S.P from it. Yeah Sister P calls on me EVERYDAY to do stuff like that - she hates bugs.... After that we walked around Harmony(L****'s little town - google it, its beautiful) and we saw some of our members in a u-haul truck. They offered us water at their new house so they said you could walk or we could have my wife pick you up OR you could garbage man style it? I, without hesitation, replied "oh we'll garbage man style it for sure!" YES! soo funny. And the pictures we took seriously tell you the difference between sister parker and I - she is holding on for dear life and I'm leaning back having a great time. Well once we came to a complete stop I jumped off...not my smartest idea because my ctr ring got stuck on the handle and I pulled my pinky to the point of spraining or something because it is HUGE now... haha. of course I could careless about my finger though and as soon as it happened I was searching ALL over for my ctr ring - that was top priority. I found it thanks to the comp.
OH also Monday when I mailed the packages that I hope you got - I lost my mish debit card.... yikes. we got to walmart to pay for groceries and sister p had to pay for all of them because I didn't know where my card was! I prayed and felt like we needed to go bnack to the post office - where I had to show some id and immediately got my card! I love the power of prayer! I don't understand how people can make of excuses for such a simple act and refuse themselves of this powerful opportunity.
Dad I got your package! I love the Shirt!!!! pictures are coming. and I was literally talking to a member family - S**** B*****- and she was talking about the missionary in the train accident and I asked who it was but they couldn't remember - and sister parker was like Sister hart probably knows them - jokingly but from your letter I guess I sorta do... HA!
Yesterday sister b, hilarious women converted basically by Donny O, told me that He is coming to Tampa in a few months. She asked me to pull some strings and I just laughed. Jessi and Don if you come out too and drive through Orlando look for a super freckley ginger on a black bike... that'll be me. Side note: somehow the Donssica wedding came up and Sister p was like NO WAY that you're sorta related...Its so odd that people make such a huge deal of it to know people - granted because of the opportunity of living aspen grove I was able to meet and get to know MANY cool people but still - people freak out about it.
so whats happening at home? Today I read about Abinadi and King Noah and just thought about how he was called to prophesy to these people and to call them to repentance. He went before the king not knowing that anyone would actually repent and believe his words- and he died before he could find out if anyone did. But after his death there was one who believed - one who repented - and one who began to share the truth. Alma became converted because of Abinadis service and testimony. It is the same for a mission. I have been called to Orlando to call the people to repentance. I don't know if anyone will actually repent and believe and I may not know if anyone will - but this is what God called me to do so I will do just that. Sometimes the fruits of our labors are not so evident, maybe not evident at all, but we still need to do what the Lord has commanded us to do. We need to do all we can to follow his commandments and share his gospel.
Wellp. I would hope that you all pray for something SPECIFIC this week and I know that you will get a specific answer as you listen to the spirit and read the scriptures and the words from modern day prophets. It is by those means that we receive answers. I love the work and love the Lord.
I LOVE YOU ALL! XOXO zozo
It seemed fitting because this morning I found out Sister p has totally seen Kung Pow! haha! I was saying "we're children. we're children." and she started laughing her head off because I had seen that movie as well. CRAZY FUNNY! Anywho.
so this week was good. A little bit rough because the ONLY way to find and talk to people is by tracting and we were NOT motivated to do that ever... GAH! I secretly love tracting though because it is HILARIOUS to hear peoples excuses and see people from literally every walk of life - they are seriously all in st. cloud. but we did get to visit some great members, found out sister m worked for heritage press and she gave us these great little typography quotes and such. love it. and i have some rad service opportunities and I am PRO at street contacting... well maybe not pro but I am getting there.
example: The other day we were biking to the library, and I passed a man who said God Bless you as I passed. I said thanks and proceeded across the street to see that he had j-walked to his car and I was there again and stopped to talk to him - sister p had to flip around and so it was me and this guy for a little talking. I told him we were missionaries and bleepblooblee (all the introduction stuff) and he told me that he had SO many questions about our church - BOOMB! President hall said if they ask questions they are ready to receive the truth. RAD! so I got his information - testified of truthfulness of our message and we gave him a bom and a Mormon.org card. SICK. he ran into the library to look it up right then. awesome right? unfortunately he is in the other st. cloud area so we wont teach him but it was still so cool!
Then another day this week we went out and did service for Sister P's recent convert, L***. WE got to GARDEN~! AH! it reminded me of Dad and all of your gardening! sooo fun! I love gardening! and down here there are frogs everywhere so I was soo hoppy to catch some (punny). I also saw a HUGE wolf spider and totally saved L*** and S.P from it. Yeah Sister P calls on me EVERYDAY to do stuff like that - she hates bugs.... After that we walked around Harmony(L****'s little town - google it, its beautiful) and we saw some of our members in a u-haul truck. They offered us water at their new house so they said you could walk or we could have my wife pick you up OR you could garbage man style it? I, without hesitation, replied "oh we'll garbage man style it for sure!" YES! soo funny. And the pictures we took seriously tell you the difference between sister parker and I - she is holding on for dear life and I'm leaning back having a great time. Well once we came to a complete stop I jumped off...not my smartest idea because my ctr ring got stuck on the handle and I pulled my pinky to the point of spraining or something because it is HUGE now... haha. of course I could careless about my finger though and as soon as it happened I was searching ALL over for my ctr ring - that was top priority. I found it thanks to the comp.
OH also Monday when I mailed the packages that I hope you got - I lost my mish debit card.... yikes. we got to walmart to pay for groceries and sister p had to pay for all of them because I didn't know where my card was! I prayed and felt like we needed to go bnack to the post office - where I had to show some id and immediately got my card! I love the power of prayer! I don't understand how people can make of excuses for such a simple act and refuse themselves of this powerful opportunity.
Dad I got your package! I love the Shirt!!!! pictures are coming. and I was literally talking to a member family - S**** B*****- and she was talking about the missionary in the train accident and I asked who it was but they couldn't remember - and sister parker was like Sister hart probably knows them - jokingly but from your letter I guess I sorta do... HA!
Yesterday sister b, hilarious women converted basically by Donny O, told me that He is coming to Tampa in a few months. She asked me to pull some strings and I just laughed. Jessi and Don if you come out too and drive through Orlando look for a super freckley ginger on a black bike... that'll be me. Side note: somehow the Donssica wedding came up and Sister p was like NO WAY that you're sorta related...Its so odd that people make such a huge deal of it to know people - granted because of the opportunity of living aspen grove I was able to meet and get to know MANY cool people but still - people freak out about it.
so whats happening at home? Today I read about Abinadi and King Noah and just thought about how he was called to prophesy to these people and to call them to repentance. He went before the king not knowing that anyone would actually repent and believe his words- and he died before he could find out if anyone did. But after his death there was one who believed - one who repented - and one who began to share the truth. Alma became converted because of Abinadis service and testimony. It is the same for a mission. I have been called to Orlando to call the people to repentance. I don't know if anyone will actually repent and believe and I may not know if anyone will - but this is what God called me to do so I will do just that. Sometimes the fruits of our labors are not so evident, maybe not evident at all, but we still need to do what the Lord has commanded us to do. We need to do all we can to follow his commandments and share his gospel.
Wellp. I would hope that you all pray for something SPECIFIC this week and I know that you will get a specific answer as you listen to the spirit and read the scriptures and the words from modern day prophets. It is by those means that we receive answers. I love the work and love the Lord.
I LOVE YOU ALL! XOXO zozo
Monday, August 5, 2013
froglegs, gator, turtle, catfish...florida cracker special
received from sister hart 8/5/2013 -- privacy edits by her mom
hello hello helloooo (jim carrey voice from unfortunate events)
so a little update about st cloud: it was one of the prime locations for the KKK - they still have some crazy crosses around in some rather scary looking woody locations. and not too many years ago they stopped doing kkk parades down the main street in st cloud... yeah I'm in the south... also I ate the Florida cracker (clearly southern title) special. Complete with Frog legs, gator, catfish, turtle, and normal fried seafood. HOLY CRAAP! the frog legs were like jumpy and you could totally bend them like ush(usual) and the gator wasn't too bad.
This last week was one of those odd mission weeks - where NOTHING goes as planned. first was transfers and I'm still in St Cloud (the members were soo pleased) with Sister P. My DL is now a zone leader and I no longer have to deal with sister fart...or so I thought. and my new district leader is great and always making us feel good - which is good because s. p. needs that sometimes. She has had a hard time lately with our not so evident success in STC. She really wants to know why she is serving in the area.... unfortunately we cannot always know why we are called to a specific area at a specific time.. that's just how it works with the Lord - but lucky for her the Bishop of the STC ward offered and wanted to give us all blessings! It was one of the coolest experiences because he flat out said what we can be doing to further the work and help each other.... I've been getting a little frustrated lately because when we account for things and talk to others s. p tends to exaggerate a little bit and you know how much I love to be smart alecky and correct people.... its been a trial but I just pray for the patience and try not to correct just tell the honest truth. haha...awkward. anyway. We got to visit with some great people this week and yeah nothing really exciting. one thing I wanted to tell you was that a few weeks ago one of our less active old ladies totally kissed me on the mouth! ahhhhhh! I died. yikes. It was crazy but. fine. I survived. sorry this is short but seriously nothing great...
BUT this week with our PI D** she finally started progressing for reals and really desires more and I like to think its because we watched Elder Holland's talk Safety for the Soul - SO GOOD! watch it! READ it! its BRILLLIANT! she connects better with videos and visuals soo that's what we are doing. I love her she is hilarious....
Challenge for the week: Bro and Dad...and whomever else: read Come all ye sons of God by President Monson! It is spectac! and totally applies to our daily lives! Today I studied from Mosiah 2 and just reviewed the talk Which way is my tent facing from GC. So good - I know my life is faced toward a temple marriage and it is staying there because of my foundation of Christ and my Faith in Him! I read from DC 31 as well. Replace Thomas with my name and that's what im doing in st cloud - helping those in the church because the world isn't ready for us yet.... we are reactivating members and building actives members up so they can begin to share the gospel and begin their missions. I love this church. I love st cloud and the members treat us soo well. This is easily the greatest area and I hope to stay here for a long time... its so great! wellp I love you all sooo stinking much!
HASTA LUEGO! Zoë
ps. any fav scrips that bring comfort, talk about forever fams, or possible quotes I should read? lemme know;)\\
hello hello helloooo (jim carrey voice from unfortunate events)
so a little update about st cloud: it was one of the prime locations for the KKK - they still have some crazy crosses around in some rather scary looking woody locations. and not too many years ago they stopped doing kkk parades down the main street in st cloud... yeah I'm in the south... also I ate the Florida cracker (clearly southern title) special. Complete with Frog legs, gator, catfish, turtle, and normal fried seafood. HOLY CRAAP! the frog legs were like jumpy and you could totally bend them like ush(usual) and the gator wasn't too bad.
This last week was one of those odd mission weeks - where NOTHING goes as planned. first was transfers and I'm still in St Cloud (the members were soo pleased) with Sister P. My DL is now a zone leader and I no longer have to deal with sister fart...or so I thought. and my new district leader is great and always making us feel good - which is good because s. p. needs that sometimes. She has had a hard time lately with our not so evident success in STC. She really wants to know why she is serving in the area.... unfortunately we cannot always know why we are called to a specific area at a specific time.. that's just how it works with the Lord - but lucky for her the Bishop of the STC ward offered and wanted to give us all blessings! It was one of the coolest experiences because he flat out said what we can be doing to further the work and help each other.... I've been getting a little frustrated lately because when we account for things and talk to others s. p tends to exaggerate a little bit and you know how much I love to be smart alecky and correct people.... its been a trial but I just pray for the patience and try not to correct just tell the honest truth. haha...awkward. anyway. We got to visit with some great people this week and yeah nothing really exciting. one thing I wanted to tell you was that a few weeks ago one of our less active old ladies totally kissed me on the mouth! ahhhhhh! I died. yikes. It was crazy but. fine. I survived. sorry this is short but seriously nothing great...
BUT this week with our PI D** she finally started progressing for reals and really desires more and I like to think its because we watched Elder Holland's talk Safety for the Soul - SO GOOD! watch it! READ it! its BRILLLIANT! she connects better with videos and visuals soo that's what we are doing. I love her she is hilarious....
Challenge for the week: Bro and Dad...and whomever else: read Come all ye sons of God by President Monson! It is spectac! and totally applies to our daily lives! Today I studied from Mosiah 2 and just reviewed the talk Which way is my tent facing from GC. So good - I know my life is faced toward a temple marriage and it is staying there because of my foundation of Christ and my Faith in Him! I read from DC 31 as well. Replace Thomas with my name and that's what im doing in st cloud - helping those in the church because the world isn't ready for us yet.... we are reactivating members and building actives members up so they can begin to share the gospel and begin their missions. I love this church. I love st cloud and the members treat us soo well. This is easily the greatest area and I hope to stay here for a long time... its so great! wellp I love you all sooo stinking much!
HASTA LUEGO! Zoë
ps. any fav scrips that bring comfort, talk about forever fams, or possible quotes I should read? lemme know;)\\
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