HILL, OLIVIA

Hello!!! It has been a crazy week! Transfers are on wednesday and I will be staying here in Kennewick! My trainer Sister Loucks will be leaving to Richland and I will get Sister Thomas! I am excited to be staying here because I loooovvee this dang area. I will be a STL (sister training leader) for the zone, which terrifies me lol, but I know the Lord qualifies who He calls. So I'll keep you updated on how that all goes!  This week was insannneeee. We've been working so hard to find the elect because we know they're out there. But not gonna lie its been hard to find them, lots of rejection. BUTTTT on thursday we found 3 new people!! Which is amazing that it was all at once like that. God truly is a God of miracles. I am so excited to keep teaching them!!  We did lots of bible studies this week which has been pretty sweet, all of the people we've done them with are not fans of our church. So it was amazing to see their hearts soften towards us and realize we're not ba...

Hello everyone! Hope you're doing amazing! I hit 3 months as a missionary wahoooo  Its the last week of the transfer! Almost graduated from being a baby missionary in training haha, I'll find out next week if I'm staying here with sister loucks or if we're getting switched around Yesterday (sunday) our friend from last week, who was smoking in the foyer lol, came again! She sat next to us during church and it was so random but so cool! She kept the sacrament cups in her purse haha and sang very loud, it was awesome. She said they are leaving to go to texas but they thought they'd stop by again and tell everyone who helped them thank you. Super cool, best wishes to Gina and her husband!  Another cool miracle! There is a family in our cottonwood springs ward whose son is dating a nonmember. Her name is Laura and she is super quiet, she kinda gets pressured into coming to church with them, so we're trying not to force ourselves onto her too. Butttttt our bishop aft...

Hello everyone! It's been a good week! I hope you're all doing great! Me and Sister Loucks have been working very hard to find some new people to teach, lots of people weren't interested this week and not super nice haha but that's ok, we're still trying haha. We've been walking a lot & I got tar all over my shoes. Saddd, so if anyone knows how to remove that.. email me haha.  The rest of the missionaries in our zone are seeing a ton of miracles so I'm very happy for them, I know God is ready to help us! We did teach Regan again on Tuesday and it was a great lesson, the spirit was strong even if he doesn't recognize it sometimes. It's so cool to teach people about the truths I've known my whole life and see how it affects them! The gospel of Jesus Christ really is amazing!  There was a lady who came into church yesterday and she had a half used cigarette and lighter in her hand and a coffee cup. She smelt really bad and looked very rough. She...

Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing amazing! This week has been so good & so hot! Also, thank you all so much for the bday wishes this last week! I feel so blessed!     It got up to 120° this week & we about died haha but we're still having a good time! Me and Sister Loucks gave a spiritual thought in front of the whole mission and I was very stressed but it went great! I love being a missionary!      Our girl Phyllis took us out to Olive Garden and ordered so much food. Oh my hahah she is so funny, we love her!      We got together with the other missionaries in our zone and got to have a testimony meeting yesterday. It was late at night so we were all sitting by the temple and fireworks were going off around us and we were all bearing testimony. The spirit was so strong, it was so cool!      Sorry I never know what to put in these emails! I hope you all have had a great 4th of july weekend! I'm grateful to live in this...