July 10, 2012
July 2, 2012
Hola Familia y Amigos,
Another week come and gone. I'm feeling less pathetic then last week. This week was good. We are having lots of success with reactivating two families and preparing members of their families for baptisms. We are also trying to find more families to teach. Our mission is really pushing to find families and baptize families completos. Really it's much better that way. If we baptize just one person in a family it's a lot harder for them to stay active. Plus seeing as the family is central in the Plan of God and in the gospel of Christ we really should work harder with families.
Things with Hermana Supo. . .ha-ha . . . well they haven't changed but I am getting better at dealing with it. Tuesday I was having a woe is me day. She was "sick" again and I was able to leave and work with a member during the day but I couldn't find anyone to come with me at night, so I was stuck in the house. Feeling frustrated I decided to pray and then read my Ensign of the conference talks that my family had sent me. In my prayer I asked that something in the conference talks would give me the comfort I needed. Well I found what I was looking for but not exactly in the way I thought I would find it ha-ha. In a Talk by Henry B. Eyring called "Mountains to climb" he talks about the importance of trials in our lives and how they make us stronger. There was one part that really stood out to me it says "There is someone you can forgive, there is someone you can thank, there is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it Where ever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel." Wow. It was like a spiritual punch in the stomach. I'll be honest I was feeling pretty sorry for myself. Thinking I'm in the Middle of Peru. My family and friends are a world away from me and I have no one to talk to. I felt pretty alone and deserted, but the Lord so kindly reminded me that the only thing that can make us feel better in our lives is to forget ourselves and serve others. Which I knew before reading the talk, but what I realized is that it's not just serving the people you want to serve but they people who are most difficult for you to serve as well.
So I am trying REALLY HARD to be a better person and a better companion. I remember when I got set apart as a missionary my stake president told me that my mission was to prepare me to be a better Wife, Mother and Church Leader. I guess If I want to be a better person I need to have a better attitude and learn from these mountains to climb. The Lord is giving me opportunities to improve myself. I should be thankful.
So that's about it for my life. I hope these emails are interesting ha-ha. I'll try to throw in more fun facts on culture and what not next week.
Love you all!
Hermana Sadie Jean Taggart
Another week come and gone. I'm feeling less pathetic then last week. This week was good. We are having lots of success with reactivating two families and preparing members of their families for baptisms. We are also trying to find more families to teach. Our mission is really pushing to find families and baptize families completos. Really it's much better that way. If we baptize just one person in a family it's a lot harder for them to stay active. Plus seeing as the family is central in the Plan of God and in the gospel of Christ we really should work harder with families.
Things with Hermana Supo. . .ha-ha . . . well they haven't changed but I am getting better at dealing with it. Tuesday I was having a woe is me day. She was "sick" again and I was able to leave and work with a member during the day but I couldn't find anyone to come with me at night, so I was stuck in the house. Feeling frustrated I decided to pray and then read my Ensign of the conference talks that my family had sent me. In my prayer I asked that something in the conference talks would give me the comfort I needed. Well I found what I was looking for but not exactly in the way I thought I would find it ha-ha. In a Talk by Henry B. Eyring called "Mountains to climb" he talks about the importance of trials in our lives and how they make us stronger. There was one part that really stood out to me it says "There is someone you can forgive, there is someone you can thank, there is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it Where ever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel." Wow. It was like a spiritual punch in the stomach. I'll be honest I was feeling pretty sorry for myself. Thinking I'm in the Middle of Peru. My family and friends are a world away from me and I have no one to talk to. I felt pretty alone and deserted, but the Lord so kindly reminded me that the only thing that can make us feel better in our lives is to forget ourselves and serve others. Which I knew before reading the talk, but what I realized is that it's not just serving the people you want to serve but they people who are most difficult for you to serve as well.
So I am trying REALLY HARD to be a better person and a better companion. I remember when I got set apart as a missionary my stake president told me that my mission was to prepare me to be a better Wife, Mother and Church Leader. I guess If I want to be a better person I need to have a better attitude and learn from these mountains to climb. The Lord is giving me opportunities to improve myself. I should be thankful.
So that's about it for my life. I hope these emails are interesting ha-ha. I'll try to throw in more fun facts on culture and what not next week.
Love you all!
Hermana Sadie Jean Taggart
Pictures
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| We got a new north American the Last transfers. Hermana Bambrough. I feel like as north American hermanas we just have kind of an instant bond because we know what one another are going through with the new language new culture and everything |
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| Hermana Supo |
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| Last Day in San Felipe with Hermana Campbell and my favorite member Ana |
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| Pictures from the service that week did in el Cerro |
June 25, 2012
Hola Familia y Amigos
This week was really good as far as the mission work goes. Ruben came to church! What now! And he LOVED it! It was a really great experience for him. He has desires to progress. We talked to his wife after church and she told us some of the comments that he had made. So during the conference one of the speakers talked about the importance of tithing and how we can't afford to not pay our tithing because we need the blessings from the Lord. After that talk Ruben leaned over to his wife and said that he wanted to start paying tithing . . . . ha-ha . . . it's not every day in the mission when someone tells you that they would like to start paying tithing. Basically I'm still really excited for him. He is such a good man with SO MUCH potential. I'm so excited for him.
This week we worked a lot with the menos activos and families where not everyone is members of the church. We were able to meet some great people with desires to learn more and come to church and we have two people who are currently preparing for baptisms.
As far as my week went . . . . personally . . . . well . . . . let's just say I could really use your prayers. My new companion is really testing me. Really the constant negativity and moments where she won't leave the house are obstacles but I kind of like the chalenge of having to be positive. The thing that is killing me is that she won't talk to me. I mean seriously. Won't talk. I've tried every conversation under the sun, from the churchiest questions I could think of, down to the super trunky questions, Just anything to get her to talk to me. I wish I could say that she is just shy. I like shy people. I like the challenge of getting them to talk to me. Sadly that is not the case. . . .she just hates me ha-ha.
Really though the only thing that is phasing me is feeling super Lonely. We don't have Hermanas in our zone so there isn't even someone to talk to on Mondays, and I refuse to bother the Elders in our zone by talking about something as petty as the fact that my companion won't talk to me.
Thankfully I have the Lord. Seriously. Prayer is probably the only thing that has kept me calm. Any time I've felt like crying, yelling or slamming a door I just say a prayer. I know that the Lord never gives us anything that we can't handle and I believe that is true even down to companions, He will never give us a companion that we can't handle. . .
The good news is that she was a bit happier and we were able to leave the house and work every day.
I still feel really positive about the area. There is lots of potential. I'm just trying to believe that I can go six weeks without having some form of a freak out ha-ha.
But yeah. . . I'm trying not to be negative. That's just how my week was. But I'm sure things will get better.
Love Hermana Sadie Taggart
This week was really good as far as the mission work goes. Ruben came to church! What now! And he LOVED it! It was a really great experience for him. He has desires to progress. We talked to his wife after church and she told us some of the comments that he had made. So during the conference one of the speakers talked about the importance of tithing and how we can't afford to not pay our tithing because we need the blessings from the Lord. After that talk Ruben leaned over to his wife and said that he wanted to start paying tithing . . . . ha-ha . . . it's not every day in the mission when someone tells you that they would like to start paying tithing. Basically I'm still really excited for him. He is such a good man with SO MUCH potential. I'm so excited for him.
This week we worked a lot with the menos activos and families where not everyone is members of the church. We were able to meet some great people with desires to learn more and come to church and we have two people who are currently preparing for baptisms.
As far as my week went . . . . personally . . . . well . . . . let's just say I could really use your prayers. My new companion is really testing me. Really the constant negativity and moments where she won't leave the house are obstacles but I kind of like the chalenge of having to be positive. The thing that is killing me is that she won't talk to me. I mean seriously. Won't talk. I've tried every conversation under the sun, from the churchiest questions I could think of, down to the super trunky questions, Just anything to get her to talk to me. I wish I could say that she is just shy. I like shy people. I like the challenge of getting them to talk to me. Sadly that is not the case. . . .she just hates me ha-ha.
Really though the only thing that is phasing me is feeling super Lonely. We don't have Hermanas in our zone so there isn't even someone to talk to on Mondays, and I refuse to bother the Elders in our zone by talking about something as petty as the fact that my companion won't talk to me.
Thankfully I have the Lord. Seriously. Prayer is probably the only thing that has kept me calm. Any time I've felt like crying, yelling or slamming a door I just say a prayer. I know that the Lord never gives us anything that we can't handle and I believe that is true even down to companions, He will never give us a companion that we can't handle. . .
The good news is that she was a bit happier and we were able to leave the house and work every day.
I still feel really positive about the area. There is lots of potential. I'm just trying to believe that I can go six weeks without having some form of a freak out ha-ha.
But yeah. . . I'm trying not to be negative. That's just how my week was. But I'm sure things will get better.
Love Hermana Sadie Taggart
June 24, 2012
Fathers Day Letter
Hola Familia y Amigos! ¿Que tal? Ojala todo esta bien.
So this week was my first week in Santa Isabel. It's a lot like my last area seeing as they are right next to each other. The only difference is that we have a huge section of serro or hills. They are basically giant dirt hills where the houses are a lot more humble. One day when I am feeling brave I might take my camera up there so you can all see what it looks like.
This Saturday we did service in a house up there. My job with to take a giant pick ax and hack at the ground to make stairs up to their house, then we used the dirt and rocks to level out the floor of their home. I'll be honest I loved doing service. I could do that all day every day and be so happy with my life.
This area is good. I feel like there is lots of potential. I just have to help my companion feel the same way. She is really depressed, I think she is just letting the constant rejection get her down, which I understand, but the thing is that the mission doesn't get any easier if we sit in our house and cry all day. We aren't going to be blessed with succees if we don't go out there and work hard. Familias de oro aren't going to come knocking on our doors, We have to go out and find them. So that's something I think we will have to work on. My goal is to be super positive. Shower her with compliments and help her have the desire to work harder.
Just don't judge me if this cambio I get fat. I'm trying to leave the house and go running, but sadly I can't leave alone.
I'm actually really excited to work in this area. On Sunday we talked with the Bishop. He told me that this ward has only had two baptisms this whole year and he is really concerned. He is a really good man and has a desire to help the people in the ward. I was really impressed when I asked him "What can we do to help you?" He looked at me and said "Baptize Families." Well then that's what we are going to do.
We meet a women named Maria, her husband (Denis) is an inactive member of the church, She has wanted to get baptized for a long time but she doesn't want to go to church by herself. Her sister in law (so her husband's little sister) is currently on a mission. This has softened Denis´s heart and he is willing to meet with us and to start coming to church. The good news is that they are MARRIED!! Which is a really a big blessing ha-ha. So I'm sure we will be able to help Maria progress to baptism while at the same times bringing her husband and children back to the church. There is nothing better than helping a family become stronger in the gospel!
Father's Day I had a really great experience. I'll be honest I don't like Fathers Day. This Sunday was my first Sunday going to church on Father's Day in 5 years . . . . I was worried how it would be but it wasn't bad. Then Sunday night we had a lesson with a member who has just been coming back to church for about a month now with her husband. I had never meet them before and really knew very little about their situation. My companion just told me that they had been teaching him for about a month now and he just doesn't have the desire to come to church.
Before leaving the house I had an odd impression that I should grab the picture I have of my baptism. It's me and my dad dressed in white right before my baptism.
We got to the lesson and it became obvious why. We taught Ruben the Plan of Salvation again, but this time we focused on his role as a father in this great plan. Then I felt impressed to take out my picture. I told him about my Dad. How he was a convert to the church and how his choice to leave behind the things of the world had blessed my life. We then explained how baptism was an essential step in our progress to live with our heavenly father, and how he could help his daughter who just turned 8 take that step. He was SO excited. He looked at me then at the picture then at me again and said. "What do I need to do?" For me it was a really beautiful experience. Defiantly the best Fathers Day I have had in the last five years.
It's wonderful because right now my Dad isn't here with me, but thanks to the gospel of Jesus Christ I know that I can be with him again, and thanks to the Power of the Priesthood we are an eternal family. It really was a wonderful experience to look at another Father and Daughter and realize that I could be part of the process to help them have the same blessing. HAPPY FATHERS DAY! Seriously could there be a better gift or message then that. (only problem is we have to get him to come to church, get married and then baptized.) But I'm not worried. He is a good man, who loves his family. He has the desire. I'm really excited for this family.
So basically all is well. Pray for me. I'm going to need a lot of patience .
I love you all very much!
Till next week.
Hermana Sadie Jean Taggart
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