Week 67 Transfers!!!

 Hello! This week was transfers. I don't know what transfer I am on, but today is my 16 month mark being a missionary.

So.... *drumroll* I stayed in Bennington!! Sister Larsen got transferred to Delhi, which is hilarious because they are our tech specialists, so we talk to them a lot.

I got 2 Companions! Sister Sanders and Sister Godfrey. Sister Sanders was actually my sister training leader when I was in Plattsburgh AND we went to high school together AND I had her dad for seminary! It's awesome

Sister Godfrey is great too I love them both.

Transfers are always an adjustment though. 

We still have 5 friends on date and have some really great friends progressing.

We are teaching a woman named Catherine! She is so humble and soooo elect! She loves President Nelson and she is waiting for her Book of Mormon in the mail, so pray that comes to her quick.

We had 5 people come to or watch church! It's amazing! I also gave a talk, and that went super well

Its been really, really cold here, but the snow has been gorgeous!

My Spiritual thought is from my talk which I based off of President Nelson's article in the Jan 2021 Liahona magazine.

President Nelson talks about the pattern for receiving revelation, but he shares this beautiful quote:

"If something is stopping us from opening the door to heavenly direction, we may need to repent. Repentance allows us to open the door so we can hear the voice of the Lord more frequently and clearly.

 “The standard is clear,” taught Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing. If that which is intended to entertain, for example, alienates us from the Holy Spirit, then certainly that type of entertainment is not for us. Because the Spirit cannot abide that which is vulgar, crude, or immodest, then clearly such things are not for us.”"

I really liked this quote. I know, sometimes we wonder why we aren't recieving answers and we should take a look inward at anything that may be keeping you from receiving revelation through the Holy Spirit.

That's about it for this week! I have some pictures this week.

Love,

Sister Thacker

Pictures

Sister Larsen and I saying goodbye, it was freezing!!

A small stop sign

Gorgeous drive to transfers through the Adirondacks

My cute new companions

Week 68 Weekly Email...

Hello! Another week has come and gone... transfers are this week, so stay tuned next Monday to hear the news.

2 transfers remain

This week we put 3 people on date for baptism!! Kelly, Garth and Stephanie.

Kelly is adorable. We had a lesson with her Monday night and we finished teaching her the Plan of Salvation. When we talked about the Celestial kingdom, she said she wants to live there. So we felt prompted to ask her if she knew the Book of Mormon was true. She said yes. Then we said, if the BoM is true, then that means this is Jesus Christ's true church on the earth today. She said, yeah, that makes sense! So we invited her to be baptized and then we invited her to pray about it right then. She said a beautiful closing prayer and in the middle of it, after she had asked the question, she said, "I think we already know the answer to that one." Then she got teary-eyed and said, "I think this is what God wants me to do!" She is so sweet and is really excited about baptism! We put her on date for March 13th!!!

We also officially put Garth and Stephanie on date. We taught them the Restoration and Stephanie loved it! She said she is ready to give her life to God! We also sent her the 20 minute first vision video and she said it was very moving. They are amazing!

We tried a new finding method. Basically we just pick a number in our area, for example (802) 733- then we just start at 0000 and go up from there... now this area is very rural. So 68 of the 69 calls we made during that half an hour were disconnected... it was a little mind numbing. The next day that we did it, we started at a higher number and we have talked to a lot more people, or rather left voicemails instead of calling and hearing *beep beep beep* or "the number you dialed is not in service". So that was nice to do something new.

That's the major stuff from this week.

Love,

Sister Thacker

Week 67 Hello again🖐

I have officially passed 100 days left... craziness!

Huge miracle this week! We were going to teach our friend Garth about baptism, so we call him and his girlfriend Stephanie wanted to join in as well!! So we got a new friend and invited 2 people to be baptized in one lesson!! They are amazing!! Stephanie loves the feeling of church and the wonderful community that we have  they also came to church on Sunday!

Our returning member Chris came to church again! And the members talked to him so much again, it was awesome

We had a good week and were able to tell people about the Book of Mormon and they are going to check it out! One man is getting one in the mail!

Spiritual thought for this week from an article in the Ensign of Feb 1984 by Elder Holland, "The Inconvenient Messiah"

"Cherish your spiritual burdens because God will converse with you through them and will use you to do His work if you carry them well."

I love you all

Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Thacker

A gorgeous sunrise from the other day

We also made bacon-wrapped little smokies🥓

bunny tracks in the cemetery

Week 66 2020 is Finally Over

Happy New Years everyone! I hope you all had a safe and fun holiday!

Some exciting things from this week:

- We talked to Peter again and dropped off some children's Book of Mormons for his kids. He said he will let us know when he is available to have lessons again! Keep praying for Peter.

- We had our district P-day last week. We played foursquare at a park. It was nice to be outside.

- We talked with an inactive member and invited him to come back to church. HE CAME YESTERDAY!!! He was welcomed by the Branch and he said he is excited to come back next week.

That's about it for this week... We did a lot of finding and worked hard. We are going to take a nap today and we are so excited!

My spiritual thought for all of you is to read the talk by Matthew Holland from this last general conference called, "The Exquisite gift of the Son of God". Its really, really good.

I love you all and I hope you have a great first week of 2021!

Sister Thacker

Sorry, we didn't take very many pictures this week that I felt like sharing... more to come next week, I promise!