4 months!!

November 26, 2018

4 months!!

Hello Hello Hello!!

This week I hit 4 months serving in beautiful Virginia!! Time just keeps going faster and faster! I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving! I'm so thankful for all of you!!❤

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving on a mission is so different than Thanksgiving at home! It was still great, just in a different way! Most of the day was just like a regular day with studies, tracting and contacting people! We had Thanksgiving dinner at the Billescas's house with a few other families in our ward! I'm so thankful for my ward family here in Virginia! They are amazing! We also got to have dessert at the Players that night! The Players remind me SO much of my family! Sister Player is just like my mom and I always feel right at home at their house! I would say it was a successful Thanksgiving!!

EXCHANGES

We had exchanges with the STLs this week and it was so much fun! I was with Sister Gimmeson and I just love her SO stinkin much!! She's been my STL since day number one and I'm so grateful I've been able to get to know her so well! She's just amazing!!❤ We had a lot of fun on exchanges and were able to meet some pretty cool people!

BLITZ

We also had a Blitz in our area this week! Our district is the best! It was POURING rain during this blitz but we worked through the rain and as a district we were able to find some awesome people! It was the best!! I was with Sister Keil and she is so much fun!! She's been out for about 9 months and is such a hard worker!:) We had a lot of fun together!

DAILY MIRACLES

The Lord is so aware of each of us and works in mysterious ways! Last night we had a few hours to go tracting. We picked a street, parked in the middle of it and decided to go up the street instead of down. We started knocking and met some super awesome people. As we reached the end of the street I noticed a house that a guy named Jay lives in. We taught him once a few months ago but then we were never able to get in contact with him again. I forgot he lived on this street but I pointed it out to Sister Church and we knocked on the door. We knocked, then rang the doorbell, then knocked again, then just left a card in the door and walked away! But as we were walking away Jay answered the door and we were able to talk with him for about 20 minutes and set up a return appointment! Little miracles like that make me so happy!!

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT

For my spiritual thought this week I want to share an experience that my family had this week! This is from my beautiful little sisters email this week: "On the drive home we had a pretty cool experience! So as we were driving, it was pretty snowy and slushy but we figured we would be fine. All of the sudden, the car just turned off. So dad pulled over to the side of the road and the car wouldn't turn on and we were stuck in the middle of nowhere. Dad was calling one of his friends who could possibly help us. Fisher (my 7 year old brother) was freaking out and goes "Let's just pray already!", so we said a super quick and short prayer. After the prayer, mom reaches and turned the car right on! It was super cool and really strengthened my testimony of prayer" That experience really strengthened my testimony of prayer too! I'm so thankful that the Lord is so aware of each of us and answers all of our little prayers!

I have seen so many incredible miracles this week and I've definitely seen the Lord's hand in my life! The work is continuing to progress here in Aquia and I have a feeling the next few weeks are going to be incredible! Thank you for all the love and support!

❤Sister Stringham❤