Oh my goodness, so much good news
this week!!!!
Ok so first of all I PASSED MY
THEORY TEST!!!!!!!!!!! whoop whoop!!! :)
Next—J. PASSED HER BAPTISMAL
INTERVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The highlight this week was stake
conference!! Dad, I remembered you telling me that story about having a
snowball fight with Elder Christofferson, and a few other stories and I really
wanted to meet him but I didn't think I would get the chance because he is
really busy.
So Saturday we arrived early to
stake conference to save seats for E. and S. - so I wrote Elder Christofferson
a little note just to say the Monroe’s from Tennessee say hello- I told him
that I was related to Jimmy and Peggy and that Ricky was my dad- I even threw
in Johnny- I told him the snowball fight story and just a hello. I gave
it to President Cawthorn and I didn't think anything about it. Well a few
minutes later President Cawthorn comes up to me and says Sister Monroe follow
me and bring your companion. Oh no I knew where this was
going! We got to talk to him for a while!! Then he went to get his
wife and we talked to both of them!! He is SO nice!! Then randomly
S. walks up!!! So S. got to shake his hand!! It was so great!!! I
was so excited- then he gave me and Sister Peck chocolate and said blessings
for coming to church ;) haha but he was really funny and we were joking around-
I asked him to ask President Monson if Sis Peck and I could extend our missions
;) hahaha
The conference was amazing!
The Spirit was really really strong- oh man get this- in his talk he started
talking about this Bishop in a little ward in Tennessee that he was over when
he was the stake president. Then he said
Sister Monroe here in the audience it is actually her great-uncle! Oh man
after conference everyone went nuts! All my Newcastle and South Shields family
ward members and ALL of the missionaries. But it was really cool to hear
him talk about Johnny!! It was one of the main points in his talk- he was
talking about how this work is for the individual- one by one we bring people
into the church. :)
After the Saturday session, E. loved
it so so much, she had felt the spirit so strong and she said I want to meet
him! So she went straight up and shook his hand! Sis Peck and I
were watching from a distance, he was so great to her and she was so
touched!!! When she came back to talk to us she told us all the
things she liked about conference and then she said ''and he was talking about
Sister Monroe, and I was like OH! that is my sister Monroe!'' and to hear her
say that :) oh man it was just the most amazing feeling ever- I felt so honored
to have met her! Then she she thanked Sis Peck and myself for helping her get
to this point :) I was thinking- oh no thank you! Really it is no problem
at all! I love her so much she is amazing!
Then the Sunday session, he got to
meet J.! We had 5 less actives there and the Spirit was just so so
strong! E. loved it again and S. did too!! So after we were taking
a zone picture and Elder Burrio (our zone leader) went to ask if Elder
Christofferson could come in our pic- but he could not get to him. So
then the zone was like 'send sister monroe!' so I went and asked- his security
guard said no there wasn't enough time but he was like yes! so he came out and
took a picture with our zone :) it was so great!!!! Then he put his
arm around me and said tell your family I am asking about them and I say
hello! So family- Elder Christofferson says hello! And tell Johnny
that he was asking about him in particular :)
I think the highlight of all of
that- was hearing an apostle of the Lord testify about our Saviour Jesus
Christ. It was really powerful to hear him say 'I know that my Redeemer
lives!' He didn't use a lot of words to share his testimony, but when he
spoke the Spirit was there. I felt an overwhelmingly peaceful feeling at
that conference and it was an amazing experience!! Also to have E, and S.
there! Oh my it was incredible!!!!!!!
E. is just doing amazing! She
loved the relief society activity this week- the whole ward LOVES her! and when
we taught her the word of wisdom this week and asked if she would live it she
said 'I already am!' She had heard somethings from friends but it was negative
so she looked it up herself- then she found that it was from a prophet and she
gave up tea and coffee-- she already didn't drink or smoke :) Seriously she is
amazing! Hearing her testify, it is so powerful!!!!
We went on exchange with the South
Shield sisters- I went with Sis Lybbert my Canadian bff- it was a good exchange
but the highlight was when we went street contacting- alright so some things
you should know-- background-- President always talks about making finding fun
and interesting and being ourself-- and all the missionaries know I love to
dance, always having fun at pday and I taught the whole zone this really fun
dance game kind of like signs- well my move is 'the cat-daddy'
So when lybbert and I
were contacting we asked this younger lady 25ish if she had ever
heard of the cat-daddy, she said no and so we showed her what it was, she loved
it! and she is out of town for the next 2 weeks but hopefully the sisters can
meet with her and she will get baptized because of it ;) it was
great we were able to talk to her for a really long time- and she got to see we
are normal people :)
Whelp I think that is all my
highlights this week :) Love you! have a good week!!
~Sister Monroe
Sister Monroe and Zone with Elder Christofferson
Sister Monroe and Zone with Elder Christofferson
