Transfers and Weekly Training... February 9,10 &11

Transfers...

                                        

Sister Williams finished her mission!  We will

miss her terribly!  She was a great missionary

and a wonderful leader!  We love her very 

much and wish her the very best!!  Our hope 

is to stay connected always!!

Sweet Sister Williams!

Sister McBride will be missed at the Visitors' 

Center.  She got transferred away from the VC 

and went to another area in the mission.  She 

did a wonderful job at the VC!

Sister Johnson is another one that has

left the VC for full time proselyting. She's a

sweetheart!

...and Sister Mudrow...We'll miss her smile and

positive attitude!

...and Sister Bishop... She has also

been asked to be a Sister Training

Leader in her new area... She's so good!

...And Sister Farnsworth!  However, she transferred

to Historic Liberty Jail so we still get to have her 

with us! Yes!! She does a great job!

And Sister Wilkins was transferred from Liberty Jail to

a full proselyting area!  Sorry to see her go!  She's a lot

of fun and works hard.

Sister Murphy left us too!  She's transferred to another area! 

She hasn't been here long...She came just a couple of weeks 

before we got here!  She was not actually called as a VC 

Sister.  President just put her there for one transfer!  We'll 

sure miss her!

We certainly will miss them all!  It's pretty tough to let them 

go!  We get attached to them pretty quickly! :-)

 We then had a quick Orientation on Thursday with the new Sisters 

at the Visitors' Center and Liberty Jail along with their trainers.  

We basically just introduced them all and reassured them of 

their call.  I passed out the sight guides and reminded them

that the resources for our teaching is the scriptures, PMG, 

and the Historic Site Guide book.  They do not have to learn it 

all at once! Just study everyday and it will come.  They can

do a lot of practicing presentations and study.  They should 

be ready to do a presentation right away!   I shared a quote

 for them from Mormon.org, "The journey to become our 

very best self (as a missionary) isn't one we have to take by 

ourselves.  God can help us along the way. Remember, He 

doesn't get impatient when change doesn't happen all at once,

 and neither should we.  When we commit ourselves to small, 

continuous progress, God will take our efforts and make 

them add up to something greater than we could ever 

accomplish alone."  George took them around to the different 

areas in the Visitors Center where they teach, not only 

history but the Doctrine of Christ, about the Restoration 

and Joseph Smith.  They all seem so excited and well 

prepared!  I'm anxious for them to have a positive 

experience here and in their areas. They go to their

  assigned areas for half the day and teach people there...

  and go to the Visitors Center or Liberty Jail to teach people 

the other half!  They have one day a week where the teach in

their area the whole day (full proselyte) and one day for off 

(P-day) where they can do their cleaning, shopping and other 

activities to help them be prepared for the upcoming week!

In our Weekly Training on Friday, February 10th at the 

VC and Saturday, February 11that Liberty Jail, I taught 

about our Faith in Jesus Christ.  We will be challenged

on our missions which can cause our faith to waver or 

weaken...  It might be discouragement because of 

rejections by those we teach, homesickness, realizing some 

weaknesses we never knew we had, etc.  In the scriptures 

the Savior often makes reference to the faith of those he is 

addressing.  Such as, to the woman who came to the Savior to 

have Him heal her daughter, He said "O woman, great is thy 

faith...", to His disciples after calming the storm, "...where 

is your faith?", in His Sermon on the mount, "Oh ye of little 

faith..." and of the centurion, He exclaimed, "I have not 

found so great faith, no, not in Israel. We might ask 

ourselves, "How does the Savior se your faith?" However, 

I reminded them…He has given us this promise:  “Whosoever  

... shall confess me before men, him will I confess … before 
my Father … in heaven.  I know that as you pray often 
and sincerely for opportunities to “stand as a witness of 

God,” those opportunities will come, and those who seek 
more light and knowledge will be put before you. Please 
don’t see your efforts to share the love of the Savior with

another as a pass/fail test with your grade determined by
how positively your referrals or investigators respond
to your teaching and testifying. As Elder Neil L. Anderson
once said, “With our mortal eyes, we cannot judge the
effect of our efforts, nor can we establish the timetable.
When you share the love of the Savior [and his teachings] 

with another, your grade is always an A+.” 
George finished his teaching about the Doctrine of Christ
and the importance of getting that message to those we 

those who come to the Centers and in our areas.  He then
taught the Parable of the Pearl and the Box.  The merchant

who acquired a pearl of great price had the finest craftsman
create a beautiful, magnificent box to display it, and then

observed that people who came to see it marveled more
in the beauty and workmanship of the box than of the 

Pearl of great price!  So it is with us...Our Pearl of great
price is the Doctrine of Christ and the Restoration of His 

gospel in these latter days.  That is more important than
any history or other principle that we could teach in these 

Centers or in our areas.  All of these things are great,
but we should always relate it back the that "Pearl", so
to speak.  It was a powerful message and we then

did some practices teaching with that parable in mind.
Wonderful training!