20 October 2014

It's time for high adventure!

 

Hello I never name my emails but i thought I'd start now haha.

WOW! Another transfer meeting come and gone.

I got my new companion Sister Harris :) She is from New Zealand and she's pretty sweet as.
I'm excited. We're going hard this transfer. I haven't told her yet, but I really want to go on two trade offs with all the sisters! So that means lots of walking so that we can do trade offs.

Oh btw. I am dying in Richlands area. I love it here and I'm so blessed to stay. This ward is amazing. And things are just now picking up speed again.

SO updates on Shawn, HE IS GOING TO BE BAPTIZED. soon. I can just feel it. He is planning on coming to church on Sunday. So I'll tell you about that next week.

He's so close to knowing, His answeres are becoming more recognizable to him

Um all our recent converts are doing good. We're trying to get specific families to be their family!

What else? Oh I loved all of conference. I loved the ones you mentioned I especially loved the German man. That was insane! I also liked one of the first ones. I can't remember what its called. Oh and of course Uchtdorf's talk in women's conference and the Blonde lady. I can't remember her name either. Sorry this is going to be quick and random but yeah.

We had an amazing week! Very productive and my motto for the rest of the transfer is

" work harder than you did yesterday"

Love you all. Thank you soo soo much for everything. I couldn't do this without your support.

Ofa atu!

Sister Mullen

13 October 2014

Hello!

Yes it was a wonderful week! It went by so quick, we went to Toowoomba to visit the sisters there. Oh I"m supposed to give you Elder Tino's email for his uncle: its tasino.tino@myldsmail.net. But yeah we got to go to two zone meetings to give trainings and it was awesome! I had so much fun. It was a tender mercy as well because I got to see my old companion Sister Hwang give her last testimony. After she gave it, we had planned that for trade offs we'd switch since I went with Sister Hwang last time, but then I just had to go with her again. So we did and we had an amazing day. She is such a wonderful sister and she has taught me so much. It was nice to be able to be companions again one last time :) 

And then my day with Sister Tempany (my other old companion) was just what I needed. Both of us needed that trade off. First off so many miralces happened with just teaching and finding. But what was so amazing was our discussion at the end. I just felt such a huge tender mercy of the Lord. I honestly feel so inadequate filling this position of sister training leader. I always feel like I'm behind and that I'm not doing things professionally enough or well enough. But as I talked with Sister Tempany, the spirit told her things that she needed to hear and in turn she gave me something I needed to hear very much. She explained to me that she was praying for a few days that I would go on trade offs with her because she wanted to learn how to love. I don't know if I told you or not or maybe you could tell by my emails but sister tempany and I fought like sisters.And I used to regret a lot of how things happened during our time together. But I do really love her. And it was just such a blessing to know how much she knew that. I truly know that we can change. People can change. And we don't even realize it. Sometimes we think we're just as weak as we were a year ago but then one day we realize that we're so much stronger and that we can take on more. I don't want to sound boastful like i'm the best stl ever but I just want to say especially to you mommy, daddy and rachel, that sometimes we just feel so down on ourselves like we haven't progressed or have even gone backwards, but i know that it is IMPOSSIBLE to go backwards in our spiritual progression when we are doing our best. Even when our best falls short. Others can see it and I know that Heavenly Father sees how much stronger we're getting even when we don't. 

I LOVED conference. It was amazing. And something I NEEDED. I especially liked Uchtdorf's talk at the women's conference how he said that Heavenly Father is not waiting for us to overcome our weaknesses before He will love us. That just gives me so much hope. 

I fell short a lot this week, but I'm trying to understand the enabling power more so that I can do all of this. I know that the Atonement is real because I have felt guilt and I understand the feeling of forgiveness but this is kind of new to me, using it to strengthen my weaknesses. 

OH! and Shawn might come to church this week. I just LOVE teaching him. I wish you could meet him but yeah our lesson was amazing yesterday with him. I WANT HIM TO UNDERSTAND HIS ANSWER! 

Anyway, transfers are this sunday, our zone leaders are wanting both of us to stay, who knows miracles happen haha.

Thank you for the wonderful email. Sorry if i didn't answer any of your questions :) haha

Ofa Atu!

6 October 2014

hello beloved family members. <3
thank you for all your spoiler alerts from conference! haha jokes. but seriously its cool, they're like movie trailers that just continue to pump me up for when i get to watch it. so i'm counting down the days.

 God is truly guiding us and always watching over us.

on a brighter note. i've finally learned that i need to ask for His help for my talents as well. i dont know why it took me this long. but as soon as i've started praying i've written 2 songs. :)

i love you guys. thank you for everything.

ofa atu.

sister mullen

September 2014 Pictures

8 September 2014

Hello! It sounds like youg uys are doing some exciting things in the grove! :) I love hearing how involved everyone is with missionary work. You guys are such a great example to me.

 

This week was wonderful. Guess what? i get to STAYYYY. I'm so happy. Also, I'm not gonna go crazy or anything buttttt, I know that if i come home fat, you guys will know that i have been taken care of. And let me assure you I AM. I'm so grateful to this ward, they are so patient and just so giving of everything. I have learned so much from them.

 

Sister Wulfenstein and I are now in a two way. They took the other sisters out and are putting elders in our ward! Eeek! I'm excited, I think its easier in two ways to stay focused.

 

Heaps of missionaries went home this past transfer. It was so sad, but I'm so grateful for their examples to me. Esp, my favorite compy sister tautuiaki. I'm so glad i got to see her before she left.

 

Lets see, we are just seeing miracles left and right! A member's son has been doing missionary work, his friend has been coming to church with him for the past two weeks and he just wants to get baptized hey! Because he's only 10 years old. we had to wait before teaching him so that we could make sure it was okay with his parents. But while we were on splits yesterday sister wulfenstien and a ysa set a baptismal date with him! :) it was the best! so its set for September 20th. We are way excited.

 

Anywho. I love life. If you ever feel like sending me pinterest quotes. by all means DO IT :) DOOO IT! I love you heaps.

 

thank you for all you do for me, it blesses the people I am called to serve.

 

Ofa atu

 

sister mullen

29 September 2014

Hello! This week has been wonderful. 

I'm a bit more tired than usual because we've had mini missionaries two weeks in a row. Its just a little tiring because its like double duty. But yeah both of our minis have been great. Full of spirit and desire. Sometimes I forget I'm older than them because they always tower over me.

We have had some powerful lessons this week. 

I don't know if I've mentioned our investigator Shawn. Well. He's my favorite. He claims to be atheist. But we can just feel the spirit so much each time we go there. He knows. He says little things that tell me that he does know God exists. So we are praying extra hard this week that he will get an answer this week. He's super sincere, he just doesn't know.

Also our investigator Carol. She rides a motor bike and she doesn't want to come to church or get baptized but she isn't prideful or anything, she just has had bad experiences. But she LOVES the Book of Mormon. So we love going over there. She is progressing and so hopefully she'll come to church soon.

Saia is a less active that asked us to come to his house and teach him the Restoration he said he was in desperate need to feel the spirit. It was the most powerful lesson I've been able to witness. Even the adversary knew that he would have a change of heart. It was crazy because we were teaching him and all of a sudden when the spirit was super strong it started pouring. SO LOUD. and we were almost yelling so that he could hear us. It was amazing though :)

I'm sorry this is so short but at our zone conference we had a training on keeping up with our recent converts. So i was humbled and I know I need to do a better job at taking care of them.

I love you all so much. 

Ofa atu.

Sister Mullen

22 September 2014

WOW! thats so exciting :) you guys will be wonderful for the YSA. 

No those youth or ysa now  miss you so i know they're excited. man you guys just keep following us :) haha.

Whenever i start getting stressed or impatient with myself or others i always just tell myself "the church is still true" haha i know its silly but it really helps me to gain an eternal perspective.

That sounds like an amazing activity! I'm sure lots of planning. We're trying to create something like that for our youth and ysa here. I really feel for the ysa here because its so much harder to stay active in Australia. I've seen how lucky we are to live in a place where the church is so strong. People really struggle here. Strengthening them is the biggest goal we have.

We started in our new area and its been so good! We took some ysa and youth out with us finding ALL day. It was so much fun and they had the best attitude. We saw so many miracles. Like this blind lady that we knocked into. It was amazing. She has tons of health issues and never answers the door because she lives by herself but she felt like when we knocked she needed to open it! So we've started teaching her and Bailey got baptized on Friday. He's an amazing little kid. I'm so grateful i've had the opportunity to baptized 3 10 year old boys. My testimony has truly grown from their examples.

I haven't gotten swooped yet so that should be a testimony to all that prayer is real! :) 

All jokes aside though i'm so grateful for the things I have learned this week and for the Atonement especially. Whenever i fall short or whenever i've really messed up, the Atonement is always there to keep me from getting down on myself.

I'm so grateful for you guys and all the support. I'm espcially grateful this week for the person you raised me to be.

Ofa atu!

Sister Mullen