May 30, 2017 P-Day #57

Hey hey! Happy Tuesday!!

The past few days have been BUSY!!! Wow!! Whitewashing is always hectic, but doing it in the city is even crazier!

Since I am back in the metro I got to go to the temple when I came in!! WOO it was SO wonderful!!! I sure missed the temple! Everyone take advantage of the temple for me!(: 

We have just been working like crazy to meet all the investigators the sisters had before we both came in and find new people to teach! 

We also came  into a talent show run by us!! Haha so we had to pull all that together!! Its been an adventure for sure!! 

Sister Osborn and I are having SO much fun! It’s always a party!! 

I am so happy to be back in the city!! I missed it SO much!! It is really fun because we are stl's over the Halifax Sisters so I get to hear about all my people in Halifax!!! #blessed

The investigators we have here are SO cool!! Sister Osborn and I have decided we are having two baptisms this transfer and I KNOW we can make it happen!!

We got three new investigators on our first full day in the area! This area is just booming and we got lucky enough to be here for it!!! 

The members in the ward here are just amazing!!! They do SO much for the missionaries!! They are amazing member missionaries!! I am really excited to be working with them!! 

LOVE LOVE LOVE you all!!!

Have the  bestest week!

-Sista Hird

   xoxo

Shout out to my best friend Kara who enters the MTC this week!!! Woooo!! She is going to do wonders in North Carolina!!! LOVE YOU KAR!!!

May 24, 2017 P-Day #56 Transfers!!

Transfers are in AND SURPRISE my (short) time in New Glasgow has come to a close! I will be heading back to the metro! I am going to Sackville, Nova Scotia.  I will still be an STL and I will be companions with....Sister Osborne, yes...it will be a high school reunion (: Crazy crazy! She is new to Sackville as well, so we will be whitewashing the area! Woo! Three transfers in a row with a new area and companion! I am sure learning packing skills, and how to get rid of things hahaha! I am excited to be back in the hustle of the city and see the ocean everyday again!  (:  Sad to be leaving here so soon though! BUT I am lucky and Sackville is the ward Jackie and Steve go to!! So I will get to see them every Sunday! WOO WOO!!

Well my week, well...my last two considering I missed last week haha! 

We did the Cabot Trail up in Cape Breton for P-day!! Which was SO FUN!!! I have lots of pictures this week to prove I do in fact have the most beautiful mission!! 

All our investigators are doing really well! Jason is SO ready!! We asked him about his baptismal date and he said, " I have been praying about it and I just feel good! I don't see why I wouldn't do it, only good can come from it." He is just so cool! Since I will only be about an hour and a half away and the baptism is so soon, I should be able to come back for it! WOO

So yeah!! Thats my life at the moment (: 

LOVE YOU ALL!!! 

-Sista Hird 

     xoxo 

Sister Hird and Sister Kiser 

Cape Breton

May 16, 2017 P-Day #55 No Time to Write ;)

I'll read and respond to everything next week sorry!!! Crazy day we did the Cabot trail in Cape Breton so no email time :( LOVE you!!! I didn't respond to anyone this week so if you wanna post a group blog post and say I didn't email you can!!! Sorry!!!

May 9, 2017 P-Day #54

What a week!! 

We were all over the place this week!! 

We were in Truro all day Monday.  Then Wednesday we left New Glasgow at 6:30 am to travel 4 hours to Cape Breton to go to our district meeting from 10:30-12:30 then we traveled another 4 hours back to New Glasgow where we were for a few more hours. Then Thursday morning at 6:30 we left again to go to New Brunswick for a leadership counsel. This is when all the leaders in the mission (stls, zone leaders and the Pratts) meet together to discus the needs of the mission and how we, as leaders can help the missionaries. We were there from 9-5 in counsels and training's and then we packed up and headed home and arrived just in time for bed (: Sooo busy busy few days! 

Inspite of all these things going on we were still able to meet with all our investigators.  We met with Patrick in Truro and that went well.  Then Bernie, who is SO cool!! He is just like a sponge! He absorbs everything we teach and asks so many good and genuine questions! I just love teaching him! 

We also were able to meet with Jason 3 times this week!! I love when we have investigators that are willing to meet more than once a week!! It helps them to progress so much more! We had some really spiritual lessons with him! He knows he doesn't know much about God, but he also knows that he really wants to.  So he is willing to act and do what he needs to to get the answers he is searching for! He related to the Joseph Smith story SO much! It was sooo cool!! When we read James 1:5 (If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.)

And he explained (perfectly) what that scripture meant and then he said, "this makes me think...if God would answer Joseph Smiths question, he would answer any question we have for him. 

It was like...WOW this kid gets it!! It was awesome!! I love teaching him! I can just seem him in a suit with a badge one day...(: He'll be a killer missionary! I know it! OH OH OH and he's on date for May 30th, that's coming up quick! He even picked the day himself!! 

On a sad note...Steve Aucoin is in the hospital, it happened yesterday so we spent the whole day with Jackie (that's what president asked us to do) And he is doing much better, but if you all would pray that he can continue to recover quickly I know that would help so much! 

I love love love you all!! Have the BEST week!!! 

-Sista Hird 

  xoxo

We went Canadian bowling!! Woo! The balls are tiny! Sorry America...Canada's bowling is better(;

Sister Kiser and Sister Hird "Bowling"

May 2, 2017 P-Day #53

What a rainy week here in Nova Scotia!

We met with Patrick down in Truro, Monday.  It went really well! He accepted living the law of tithing and he has now been to church two weeks in a row! He is progression to baptism, slowly but surely. I really like being able to go up to Truro once a week! We go every Monday and do all our skype calls, then we have lunch with Jackie then we go visit people, then a lesson with Patrick and then dinner and a lesson with Jackie and Steve (: Mondays are always fun! I love the Aucoins!! They are too good to us!!! 

We were able to meet with Jason and teach him the restoration and went so well! He is cool! He just listens so intently to what we say and takes it all in.  Sadly, Kesteal couldn't meet this week! She is really sick :( 

Saturday we went and stayed in Dartmouth with Sister Richardson and Sister Anderson (yes, my trainer) and it was a blast! They are the STLT's (sister training leader trainers) So, they are the STL's of the STL's (: I always love doing exchanges and learning skills from other sisters, especially when one of them is my mission mother (: 

Love you all!!! You are the bestest

-Sista Hird

      xoxo

We found this really cool red wall this week...so obviously we had a mini photo shoot (; 

We tried to take a selfie and I forgot I had the camera all zoomed in...but I think the picture turned out pretty cool (: 

Sister Kiser and Sister Hird

April 25, 2017 P-Day #52

This week was SO good!!! 

Patrick, Kesteal and Jason all came to church!!! 

We met with all of them all this past week and it was really good!! After church Jason text us (and we didn't even text him first) and thanked us for inviting him to church and told us it felt good to be there! WIN!! We were so happy!! AND while he was at church he slyly mentioned, "yeah I'll probably be baptized" WHAT?! Is this real? It really is! We are so excited to work with him! 

We also got a new investigator this week named Bernie. He is SO cool! He is originally from Newfoundland (so that must be why he's so awesome) He is in his 60's and has such a strong testimony of Jesus Christ. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he just really wants to do what God wants him to do. So he committed to being baptized on May 20th!! AND when he said the closing prayer he specifically asked to know that that date was right for him!! 

Sister Kiser and I are loving being together! We teach really really well together without even trying, its a dream (: 

I am loving it out here! I can't believe I only have 6 months left! Time flies when you're having fun 🐦

Love love love you!!! Have a magical week! 

-Sista Hird 

    xoxo

"four eyes, four eyes, you need glasses to see!!" 

April 19, 2017 P-Day #51

Whatta week!!!! 

Well it’s happened, we are all moved in to New Glasgow!!! We went to church there for the first time this Sunday and the branch was SO welcoming!!! Two new Sisters and they were great!! AND best Easter surprise ever.....The Morphy's showed up in New Glasgow!!! They have family in Truro so they go there once a month and with transfers they found out I would no longer be there, but that I would be in New Glasgow (about a hour farther) and so they came there instead!!! They walked in the doors and I was like, "WHAAAAA!! What a coincidence!! Why are you here this week?!?!" And Sister Morphy goes, "um because you got transferred here!!!! DUH!!"  BEST. DAY. EVER. I was so surprised...and I may have teared up...it's fine (: 

They were working with some amazing people up here!! There is a recent convert husband and wife here, Daryle and Sharon that we get to have lots of lessons with which is great! There two kids are now investigating the church! Their son Jason is 17 and their daughter Kesteal is 15, they are so awesome!! And they just started being taught so we will get to go through everything with them (: I always have the teen investigators...and I LOVE it!!! 

We also had our zone conference this week! It’s really fun to be able to gather together with lots of missionaries and discuss and be trained on how we can continually refine our skills to be better at what we are out doing all day everyday!

We also go the gift of the wonderful "tiwis" Which is just basically a car nanny (: (: It monitors our speed, how fast we accelerate, if we stop too fast, or go over big bumps at high speeds....then it reports it to our car coordinator and if we aren't driving well, they take away our car privileges (: Its fine...I didn't want to be able to drive a car anyway hahah (;

Life is really good here in New Glasgow! Sister Kiser and I get along really well! We are laughing lots!  

I hit my year mark tomorrow! WHAT?!?! How did that even happen?? 6 more months! I can't believe it's come so fast!!! Thank you all for the love, support, letters and e-mails (: They mean so much to me!! You all got me to this point!

I love you all!!! 

Have the best week!! 

-Sista Hird 

   xoxo 

The elders even surprised us by decorating our house for us before we moved in.....yes, yes those are poop stickers...and yes, yes they are ALL over our apartment (: They even completely saran wrapped the fridge and tied our toilet shut...what nice guys (: 

One year older and wiser too....

The Morphy's

Their apartment “decorated” by the Elder Leroy and Elder Fairbanks (: