I wanna be a skinny girl right now. I don't wanna wait until I'm home! (To the tune of I want to be a missionary now!)

Monday- we had a lesson with Grandpa Lloyd and finished the Restoration. He had NO problems with any piece and seemed to understand it all! :) 

Tuesday- we read the Book of Mormon together to help him understand a little more about the story line. He was completely enthralled the whole time! :) 

Wednesday- on exchanges Sister Tui taught faith, repentance, and baptism! Heralded the whole time about how excited he was for his re-birth day :)

Thursday- he didn't answer the phone....

Friday- his Sister from Utah called us and explained his hard situation. She went into details about his past and how he really needs the gospel in his life. Se cried and thanked us for all the help we have been. Patty called us guardian angels multiple times! It was incredible and Sister Tui and I were built up so much:)

An hour later Grandpa Lloyd called and dropped us...Sister Tui and I just sat in the car and cried. There is one thing in missionary work that you can never get over and that is being dumped when you know someone KNOWS that what we share is true. Rejection? That gets easy after the first month or two. Being tired? Your body adjusts to the schedule. Missing family? I've never loved Christmas so much. But when things like this happen it's so....heart breaking. Especially after praying and fasting for so long to find someone like him. He really needs the gospel, and it really needs him. We just love him with our entire hearts! It's weird to explain. I'm am so sure that Christ spent his whole life heart broken because He really could tell what this could do for people. 

Anyways- that was a hard thing.

A highlight of the week was exchanges! Sister Rebekka Schenk is literally one of my best friends! She taught me how to get control of myself and how I can make myself happy.

SPEAKING OF HAPPY! Today for P-Day we went to play mini-golf and laser tag... I felt like a real person for a second. It was weird. Ad it was fun! I love our zone seriously. I think in real life we would all try to be friends... But not really. Anyways. I wish I could explain the feeling.

I am doing well. The weather is bearable but extreme! My clothes fit. I don't smell. All is well, all is well!

Sister Molly Fields

MAN, I JUST LOVE THE LORD'S HOUSE!!

Let me start off by telling you about last Monday. After the P-day part of the day was over, we went to contact a referral we got while we were playing sports [which we did for 2 and a half hours last week... my face was lobster red of course] earlier that day. The name was Lloyd Coffing. The only information we had was his address, his age, and "he needs help."

At 7 we had a member with us, MaShae Lee whom I love! We knocked on his door and he answered asking if we were from the Mormon church. When we answered in the positive he started crying and opened the door. We sat down, and he told us his story. Earlier that weekend he was visited by his sister and brother-in-law who are active members of our church. They knew he was going through a hard time so they told him us. We got there 4 and a half hours after the referral had been sent in... that is SO rare! We usually take 5 or 6 days to contact people. We were all at the right place at the right time!

We taught Grandpa Lloyd the first lesson and invited him to be baptized on August 9th and he said YES!!! It was seriously one of the most powerful lessons I have been a part of! :) He is such an incredible little man that needs a lot of help from the Lord and he is getting it!

Also, on Friday we went to the temple for new missionary temple trip! I told Sister Tui about the talking trees (which I will show you when you are here) and since it was President and Sister Snow's first time to the temple I told them about it as well.. I felt like a cool kid! They were so sweet to be so excited and share that with all the new missionaries :)

AND SATURDAY I went to the temple for JOE AND MARILYN THAYER'S SEALING!! Their endowment session started at 12:30 so we got there at 12, when in walks ALLI BERGER!!! My trainer! Man, I just love her. She and I started teaching them March when I got there. And they were baptized  in June with Sister Pence and I as companions. All of us where there for them and I promise you I have never been more happy in my life! It is a weird feeling to try to explain. I was just so happy that I could have burst at any second. Now Joe and Marilyn are sealed for time and all eternity. I felt all the sad things that happened on my mission just melt away the moment they said "I do." It was just the most sweet thing... They were teary eyed and they were just glowing from the spirit! It is SO rewarding to be a missionary and to see someone desire to continue in the gospel.

They are so sweet to me! I loved to hug them and feel of the joy that was just so packed inside of them :) I love the gospel so much! :)

This was a great, spirit-filled week! It really, really was.

~Sister Fields

possessed cats and silent dogs, fireworks and snow! You're gonna LOVE my week!

Alright! I hope that you all had a safe Independence Day and were able to think of all your solider friends. I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt that said "The home of the free because of the brave" and just loved it! I have CEOs to be very grateful for the freedom we have in this country. I am grateful to live in the land the gospel was restored on! :) It rained on the fourth for the first time in 2 and a half months. People had just started to panic because of the drought. After our planning that night we stepped outside and could see the WHOLE valley. There were so many firework shows, and the weather was relatively cool. It was a good night!

This was a pretty hard week for me. I don't know why but I was just in a funk. I was having a hard time staying motivated to work and that is something I have never found hard before. Sister Tui really helped me. We talked through a lot of things that I could hardly find words for. I just felt... Weird. Speaking of weird!!! We had a lady call us last night on a restricted number. I tried to ask who she was but she asked to remain un-named. She told us she was hearing voices, and she thinks her cat was the one talking. She thinks that her cat is possessed. She wanted advice on what to do. I offered that we come over  and say a prayer with her and her cat and she hung up! It was so funny when we knocked on the next house's door and a cat meowed pretty loud. Sister Tui jumped, right out of her skin!! I hope that lady and her cat are doing alright. :P

We had zone training meeting this week.  One of the zone leaders gave an awesome and incredible training on the gifts of the spirit and how we need to be accessing more of our potential. We read about miracles that happened in the the Bible and the Book of Mormon and talked about how the same authority to perform those miracles is on the Earth today! I left so pumped!! I think I was shooting for raising someone from the dead with my shadow... But I was able to see a tiny piece of what The Lord has in store for us missionaries when we were in a lesson with Selena. We were talking about prayer and how there is real power in it. We asked her a few questions about what she wanted us to included in the prayer. Her dog was in the other room barking like someone was beating it, I swear. I was starting to get frustrated... Anyways. In the beginning of the prayer we prayed for the dog by name and asked God to comfort him so he will know we are friends. The dog literally stopped. In that second. You say coincidence and I say BLESSING!!! It was pretty legit. Selena even noticed it. She said she felt God's presence calm her and her dog. That's a modern-day miracle. A silence chihuahua!

And last but certainly not least I met the Snows this week. They are our new mission president and mom! They are so tender-hearted and have brought so much energy into this mission. They are really concerned about individuals and not a whole crowd. I am so grateful to have felt their love this week. I was able to talk things out and to feel a unique peace. I love them, and Las Vegas is lucking to have them. 

I'm glad I got to write a little this week :) I love being a missionary. I can't believe it had been 16 months since I have been a real person. I am grateful for this little habitat that I have become strong in. I can't wait to conquer the WORLD! Hug Mom for me.

-Sister Molly Fields

Even the fireworks in Anthem loves us!

From my balcony

I don't know which gave it away faster. The BYU license plate cover or the Star Wars Family.

Man, sometimes too hard just feels so good.

This week has been a stretch. I wish there were words for the tired that I feel. I have been out for 16 months now (my stomach drops when I say that... every time) and I have worked all that I have for that long. I am emotionally, physically, spiritually and emotionally exhausted and I LOVE it. I just keep falling into my next step and I really truly believe that it is by the grace of God. I am so grateful for the knowledge of the truth that I have that fuels me to just keep going. We have set some pretty high goals for the next two and a half months that really need your prayers and your faith to accomplish. 

Sister Tuimaualunga (Sister Tui for short) is my new companion. She is here straight from the MTC! She is a fire ball! I love to feed off her fire. She is from American Samoa, so sometimes we need to just agree that neither one of us understands what the other is saying. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn and love her culture in our home. 

This week we had a miracle lesson with a new investigator. Her name is Brett and she is a college professor. We knocked on her door and she opened it and let us in like she was expecting us. She asked why people are baptized and what it takes to be baptized. We taught the restoration of the gospel and it seemed like right before every point of the lesson SHE asked a question that led up to it. You can really tell that God has been preparing her to learn what we taught her that day.

Also, yesterday in church we had a musical program the last hour! It was cool to hear people bear their testimonies through song! I have found that music is really a perfect conduit for the spirit! I love to listen to the words of the hymns in church now- they share a unique message that I hadn't noticed before listening to the services with investigator ears again! 

I hope that each of you are happy this Independence Day! I am grateful to be serving in the Promised Land! One nation

under God, with liberty and justice for all has proved to ring true in my ears! I love my Savior, and I am grateful for Am'ricuh!

;) With all my love,

 Sister Fields

Meet Sister Tuimaualuga

 

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