New week

Hello Family and Friends!!

I hope that you all had a fabulous week! I know that we did! We were able to see Heavenly Fathers hand in our lives this week. Even though it has been really cold this week, (yes, I'm turning into a Florida wimp), we were able to get many things done this week.

Church yesterday was super great!! We were able to listen to a returned missionary speak today in our ward!! He just got off of his mission in Ohio just last Wednesday! His testimony was amazing and you could feel the spirit in the room! He talked about the atonement and how it blessed him and the people in the mission. It is super cool listening to a RM speak when you are a missionary. Because everything that he said about being a missionary was so true! I was nodding my head a lot during his talk. It was just peachy!:)

I can't remember if I've already told you this. But, We have been blessed with another family to teach! His name is Daniel. He just showed up to church a few weeks ago and he has loved it. How he came to know about the church was through his job. He went on a business trip to Utah, and one of his co-workers invited him to church and he loved it. He loved how the families were living, and he decided that he wanted that for his family. He came to our building and we are able to teach him now! We found Meet the Mormons on his cable on demand, and he and his family are going to watch it. I'm super happy that this family has the desire to change! They are an amazing family!:)

I love this mission! It is so fun to meet new people and to help them to come closer to Christ! I love teaching! We are able to see so much happiness grow in their lives. Liz is a great example of this. When we first met her and stepped foot in her house, we could feel the contention in the home. But as time went on as we were teaching her, her home's atmosphere totally did a 180. And you can also see it in her family and how much it has helped her to keep her family together. Having the Holy Ghost in her life and her home has helped her to be able to be a good example to her extended family. She has taken all the pamphlets and everything with pictures of Jesus Christ on it, and has put them up all over the house. She is making her home a place where the Spirit can dwell at all times! She always reads her Book of Mormon and the Bible. She is doing everything that she can to come closer the Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. She is being a good example to her husband and she is helping him to progress toward his baptismal date!:) I love her!

I hope that you all have a fabulous week! Keep on being good examples to others around you!!:)

I love you all!

Love

Sister Salmond

New hair cut

 New companion

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Hello Family and Friends!!!!

Due to yesterday being a holiday our p day was moved to Tuesday (today). Well Hello! And HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!! The day of love! Gross.... ;) Well, I will be hitting my four month mark here soon! AHHHHHH!! Time flies when you are having fun!! When you lose yourself in the work, the clock just turns faster! Anyway..... back to the bestest things ever.

This week has been a little crazy. Since Sister Clement came to me at transfers with the flu, guess who got it this week.... me. It was awful. BUT, we got to go and work at the end of the week and Heavenly Father blessed us with New Investigators and with meeting more members! Yay!:)

One of our investigators was actually a former investigator of mine. Mama Sinclair and her Kidz!! oh man, I love this Family. We were wondering who we should go and see since an appointment fell through, and I had the feeling that we needed to go and see Mama Sinclair. We went to her house and she was so excited to see us! She asked us where we went and that she saw our car around the neighborhood and she was wondering why we weren't at her house. She said that she wanted to be baptized and that she would come to church! AHHH! I'm Super excited to start to teach her again. She is the BEST!

Another one of our investigators randomly came to church one sunday because he had a dream that he needed to come to church. Wow. He is now our new investigator and we are SO excited to get to know him!:)

The greatest part about being a missionary is meeting the different people and to learn new things. There is a song that I know you all know that we listen to all the time that I'm sure you all know, Through Heavens Eyes. I love that song SOOOOO much. (It is a recording of it with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, so we can listen to it.) Every single time I listen to it, it reminds me of how much you can love a person by looking through heavens eyes. Being here in Florida, with the many kinds of people, you can't judge people by how they look or how bad of a person they are. Being a missionary, whether in the field or not in the field, you should always look at a person and see how much potential they have of changing and being better. Seeing that some of you are taking the opportunity to have some missionary experiences is wonderful! When you help the missionaries to teach them, your job is to share your testimony and to help the investigator to see their true potential. I have seen so many people become truly happy and how much the gospel can help them to be TRULY happy. Be an example and LOVE them! They see a difference, and they want to know why. Loving people is the best!:)

I love you all!! Have a fantastic week!!:)

Sister Salmond

Transfer #3!

Hello Family and my dear friends!!!:)

Oh my goodness gracious! I cannot believe that it is already transfer #3! Man, that flew by..... well... time flies when you are having a great time!:) 

So the moment you all have been waiting for about my new companion. This is my 3rd companion in 3 transfers... which does not happen very often AT ALL, especially since I am still a "greeny". But the wonderful companion that is "greeny breaking" me is Sister Clement. Oh my goodness, she is the best! I love her to bits and we have become super close over the last week. The story is, is that when I was told that my companion was going to be her at transfer meeting, I was SUPER excited!! I looked around for her but she wasn't there... I was like, what? where is she?... Sister Richardson said that she would talk to me after the transfer meeting.... uhhhh.... why? Well it turns out that Sister Clement was super sick with the flu that has been going around in Florida.... so she was at her apartment. I then went on exchanges with another sister and we drove over to Coral Springs to pick up my extremely sick companion!!:) I picked her up then took her home and got her into bed. Those next two days we were in the house all day long. I have never been so excited to go outside and work in my whole mission! Our house is so big, it got super lonely, but, I got to read lots of ensigns and watch the church movies a lot.:) But, we also got to talk a lot and to get to know each other. We had a party at the house!:) My companion is the best and she is super happy all the time!:) We are going to do amazing things in this area!:)

We were blessed yesterday (Sunday) to see Liz and Nicklus get confirmed!:) They have the Holy Ghost in their family now! Having that in their family will be a total blessing for that family!:)

Sister Clement and I were also able to have a few of our Less Actives come to church Yesterday!! It always makes my Sunday 50 billion times better when I see these people come into the building! I cannot express how much I love these people! It is always such a joy to see them at their houses and to help them to remember what it is like to have the spirit in their homes. I been able to see a difference in their countenance since they started to come back to church again. I love to see that!:)

The most meaningful part in all of the emails that I received, was the fact that Katie Fackrell asked Jack to Sweethearts! I'm so excited for him to be able to go on a date with Katie! She is so sweet and he is probably SUPER excited!;) His friends at Mountain Crest love my brother and they want him to have fun and to be ok. I love that! That made my day.:)

I love you all and hope that you all are going to have the best week ever!! Always trust in Heavenly Father that he will provide you with the things that you need, both spiritual and temporal. AS LONG as you keep His commandments. He always provides a way!:) I'm super grateful for the opportunity to serve a mission. I know that I say that every time but I really mean it. These last few months have truly been the hardest AND best time of my life, but, it is worth it. It is SO worth it to see the happiness of this gospel change people's lives entirely. I have seen many blessings that I would not give up for anything.:)

Have a blessed Week!!

Love Ya!:)

Sister Salmond

Transfer week! AHHHHHHH!

Hello Family and Friends!!

Let me first start with how intense last night was. OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!! Last night was transfer calls and that was crazy! We were going through the whole day yesterday talking about what was going to happen to us in our zone. Well, my companion, Sister Ferrari, is transferring and I am staying another transfer in Royal Palm Beach! I have had 3 different companions in 3 transfers, which does not happen very often AT ALL. But, with everything that has been happening in the mission, we all knew that this transfer call would be crazy. We had an addition to our mission from the Tampa mission, Fort Meyers. And then we have 21 new missionaries coming in. CRAZY TRANSFER!! I get to go to transfer meeting though! I love transfer meeting!! It is so fun and you get to see everybody!:)

Anyways, this week has been crazy. We have been trying our absolute hardest to finish up the week strongly since we both knew that we wouldn't be staying together. But, Sister Ferrari and I have been SO blessed to have this transfer together! It just flew by... apparently we were having too much fun with each other and with the people in our area. I am also super excited to see who my next companion is going to be and what Heavenly Father has in store for us this transfer!!:)

This week we have been meeting with many of the members in our ward. I love going and seeing those amazing people. They are always VERY welcoming and loving. We got to visit and then Sister Ferrari and I were privileged to teach them about the Restoration of Jesus Christ's Church. I love teaching that lesson. It really shows how much our Heavenly Father really does love us, and how much He wants His children to progress and to know of the truthfulness of the gospel. Just by teaching about the First Vision, I have gained a stronger testimony of the Restoration. And every time that we teach it to members, it helps them to feel of the special spirit that comes from the Restoration. We then asked them how having the restored gospel in their lives has blessed them. They have always said that the gospel has been so helpful for them and the fact that it makes them truly happy. Since it makes them truly happy we tell them that thereare some people in the world that need that happiness and guidance that comes from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have been asking members to pray for that opportunity to find someone in their path that needs the gospel. I love the members in our ward and I am excited to be with them for another 6 weeks!:)

A miracle that we have seen this week was by following the council of Elder Zwick when he came to our mission. He told us sisters that our main focus should be on the Prospective Elders in our wards, because it seems that we have a special "power" that softens their heart to help them to come back to church and to stay active. Sister Ferrari and I decided to go and see a man named Kyle. He is a nice person, he was welcoming and was very receptive. We testified to him the importance of church and how it would bless his life, and we invited him back to church. And guess what.... HE CAME!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were so excited and the ward was so excited to see him at church on Sunday. They just took care of him. I love the fact that our ward was super excited to see Kyle at church!!:)

I love you all and I love being a missionary!! It may be hard at times but with Faith in our Heavenly Father.... ANYTHING is possible! I hope you have a great week!! Next week I will report on my new companion!! LOVE YOU!!!!!!:)

Sister Salmond

Last P-Day together

P-Day Lunch

She's still alive!!!!!!!!!