Heart Break

Hi. I don't know if I ever want to live this week ever again. DJ told us he didn't want to meet with us again. It broke my heart. But that's okay. I'm going to focus on the good just for my own sanity. We met this girl named Elijah she is sweet. We taught to her how praying to God can help us be happy. She told us that most of the time she just puts on a fake smile so that no one can know that she is really sad. We asked if we could come back and talk to her again and invited her to pray every day before we meet again. She is 15 and didn't know how to pray so we taught her how and she said she would do it. When we came back some thing was different about her something good. She had a real smile on her face and was truly happy to see us! We taught part of the first lesson and as we did her smile got brighter. She told us she was having a bad day before we came but as soon as she saw us it made her day. She told us she was praying and each time got easer to pray. We told her there are ways she could feel happy even when we are not there. Through prayer and reading the Book of Mormon. She was staying with her sister for a few weeks and would be going back to Garden Grove at the end of the week. We told her to find the missionaries over there and they will help her be happy.

I am so thankful that I am here and get to help others feel of God's love. I love you so much!

                                                                                  

Till we write again

Sister Henderson   

   

Blessed

Hi,

          This week has been just as crazy! but good. Oh my, congrats to DJ!!!!! I get home the day before he leaves! Crazy that is not too far off. So funny thing - we have an investigator named DJ and he is super!!! We set a date for him to be baptized on September 7th. He knows this needs to be the next step in his life!

          Sister Pendleton is from Mapleton Utah. I love this area a lot and despite all the craziness the Lord has truly blessed us. We are finding many people and they are truly prepared. I love my mission it has been the best choice I could have made. All the people I have met and come to love.

          Way to win the blue ribbon. I'm going to have to try some of this blue ribbon cobbler some day! Good luck with school every one, and mom. I love you lots.

                                                                                        

Till we write again

Sister Henderson

Whittier

Hi,

          Sorry we Email earlier now. Hope the lodge was fun! This week was super fun and long. We whet on two exchanges this week. It felt like I wasn't even in my area for half of the time. But that's okay. I got to know more of the sisters in our mission that I didn't know very well. One may be a roommate at school!

          So yesterday we met this man that was missing a few marbles. It was a little scary/ funny but we luckily had a brother from the ward with us. But this man was telling us that we were going to burn, then the next second he decided that I was the one for him and wanted me for his bride. I told him I was already taken and we got out of there. The Church is true and God loves you! Sorry this is super short but I love you all so much!   

                                                                          Till we write again

                                                                               Sister Henderson

Oh life is good

Hi,

          It's sad to hear about great Aunt Wanda. I think she's great.

          Well this transfer has been super good. Yes it means we have less time to work in our area. I just Love my companion she is a super star! This week has been crazy busy and fun. It also has been super hot and humid even more so than in the last area. Whittier is the hottest place in our mission! I don't think I have ever sweat so much in my life. But loving every second of it. There is a lot of great things going on over here. This week we had dinner with this family were the mom is a member and her husband and daughter are not. They are a fun family. We asked if we could teach them the lessons and they agreed. It will be great to see this family grow.

          Really cute story we were biking along and saw this lady with her grandson in the front lawn. We stopped to talk to them. We asked her if she knew of any one that needed a message of hope. She looked around and then pointed to her grandson. Told us he needed one. He is 6 years old. She told us that his dad had to leave for two years and would have no contact with him. He was in the blues about that. But it was really neat to talk with him, and talk about Gods love for us and how we can feel it. By the time we were done he was much happier about things. The grandma thanked us and told us that God does his work through people, and she knew that God had sent us at that time. I know that as we do our best we are in the right place at the right time. The Lord is truly blessing us in this work! I love you all and have lots of fun at the lodge for me okay! OH check out the new mormon massage on lds.org it's a good one and everyone needs to see it!!!!!!!

                                                                                  

Till we write again,

Sister Henderson  

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Transfer

Hi,

            You're right, transfers are here and I am being transferred to Whittier on the other sided of the mission. First time out of Huntington Beach! Also I have been called to be a sister training leader. Kinda crazy!!! What a sister training leader does is goes on exchanges with other sisters and is a sister they can go to for help. My companion's name is sister Pendleton. She is also a sister training leader. 

            It's been really hot and humid lately. Just thought you would like to know! 

            So yesterday and today I have been saying bye to people I have come to love. I almost started to cry when I said buy to Marco. He told me to keep in touch with him. He told me that we are family now. My heart was and is filled with so much love for him. He doesn't have any family and we have only known him for three weeks but he is searching for the truth and wants to know what God wants him to do. Hopefully, he can enter the waters of baptism soon. It's sad to say bye. 

            But I know it is time for me to go. I will go where he wants me to go. I will do what he wants me to do! I love the Lord and his work.

                                                                                       

Till we write again, 

Sister Henderson  

FHE and Fasting

Hi, 

   Thank you so much! 

   So this week has been really good. It started out with having a family home Evening with our little investigating family. We had a little lesson on honesty and played a little game to go with it so that Serenity could stay involved. We are hoping to do it again tonight but with some help form a family in the ward.

  We had a ward activity this last Friday and it was a great turn out. We had three investigators come and a less active member come with her nonmember boyfriend and the best part was the members greeted them with arms wide open. It seemed that everyone had a great time!

   Then Sunday, sister Curtner (one of my favorites) spoke in church. It was great. She had been working on it for a little bit. She has been returning to being active at church. So this was a big step for her! We also had Marco at church for the first time. We found Marco about two weeks ago. We came out of a lesson one night and were on our way back to our car and we almost past him then decided that we needed to talk to him. He is so great. We had a lesson on fasting in Sunday school and at the end he said that he had fasted to come today and he told us that he liked it a lot. He told us he felt a strong connection with us two! and again the members were so kind and loving he felt so loved! I LOVE MEMBERS!!!!

   We worked really hard this week and all the weeks before and we are seeing the fruit now and how great the feeling is!  Thanks for all the prayer. I pray that this next week is super for everyone!

                                             

Till we write again,

Sister Henderson   

Good Week

HEY This week is super good. So today we got a mini missionary! Here in our mission they let some of the youth come and be missionaries for a week or to during the summer. I think it's to help them see what missions are like. It's fun! Her name is Sister Pineda. She will be with us for the rest of the transfer.

 So this week I had a meeting with President Tew. It was good. At the end, we got talking about Wyoming and when he was younger he remembers going to Pierre's Playhouse. It was funny, he was telling me about how the villain would give a monologue at intermission. 

  So this week we had a lesson with our little investigator family, and how important it is to strengthen our relationships. We went over The Family: a proclamation to the world. They loved it. At the end, Donovan, the dad, helped his little girl say the closing prayer. It was one of the sweetest prayers. He prayed that they could get baptized so that some day they can be sealed for eternity.

    We meet this family from Egypt. It  was cool. They said we can come back.

This day is crazy, but good. I'm glad every one is having fun!  Love you forever!

                                                                                                           Till we write again,

                                                                                                                  Sister Henderson