We Cannot Fall!!

I'll be completely honest; this week has been a complete blur in my head. But I did have a really fun day today. Sister Goodrich and I went to a place called Swan Falls. It's a big dam with really pretty mountains surrounding it. It was beautiful there and we had a great time.

I was reminded of the scripture Helaman 5:12 while we were there. If you don't remember the story, Nephi and Lehi are about to go out and be missionaries (like the best missionaries ever btw) and as they are going out they reminisce on some of the things their father Helaman taught them. One of them being this scripture;  "And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."

I love this scripture. Today as I was looking at it, the word "build" stuck out to me. Building takes work. The scripture doesn't ask us to just stand on the rock and then the storm won't have power over you. No. It says build. Work. Make a foundation and a home that you intend to stay in. Building also means you need tools. Heavenly Father didn't and doesn't expect us to create strong testimonies in the Gospel just by ourselves. He gives us many tools to build our foundations. He gives us the church and great teachers, seminary and institute classes, scriptures and prayer. We are given all these things so our foundations can be sure because temptation and storms and trial do come, but I know if we work and build our foundations little by little, day by day, "we cannot [and will not] fall".

I hope you have great weeks and are getting excited for General Conference. 

Sister Aase 

A crazy, insane, stressful week ... scratch that... 4 days

Hello! 

It's crazy my friends. Life is crazy. So I wrote to you last Wednesday. Just 4 days ago! Well, these last four days have been insane. But to sum it all up, I will just tell you 4 big things that have happened. 

1.) Janet went to a baptism. It was super cool. There were a bunch of missionaries there! The Spirit was totally present and it just was awesome.  

2.) I am convinced I have found a magical ring. Before Sister Robertson and I left the area, Becka gave us both these beautiful rings. I have (because I'm still Abby) lost this ring multiple times. The really amazing thing though is that this ring just shows up. Literally falls out of the sky shows up. I will hear I little clink noise of something metal falling to the ground and then it will just be there. 

3.) We got in a car crash this week. Scratch that Sister Sanders and Sister Goodrich got in a car crash. Scratch that Sister Sanders and Sister Goodrich got in a minor fender bender haha. We went on exchanges this week and I kid you not two minutes into the exchange they got hit. I leave my companion for two seconds and this is what she does without me. haha just kidding. It was not their fault at all and no one got hurt. We do however have to go into the mission office for a good 3 hours today though to fill out forms. Scratch that we have to go to the mission office for a good three hours today while Sister Sanders fills out forms. Exciting haha.

4.) Last but not least... We moved.... again! We have officially been in 3 different homes in under 3 months. It’s a mission record. It’s crazy and insane and stressful, but we are getting through it. 

So life huh? It's crazy and insane and stressful... but it’s good. It's always good because God is good. I love you all and I hope with all the crazy things that you are going through you will remember that God loves each of you and knows what you are going through. 

Sister Aase 

Those Are Some Sick Blessings

Well hello hello everyone!

I first have to apologize. I sometimes forget that here in the good ol' Nampa Idaho Mission we get to go to the temple every once in a while, which messes up our pdays... this was one of those times. Let me tell you I LOVE THE TEMPLE! I always receive the exact revelation I need. It's such a special place. So this is your challenge from your favorite little Nampa Idaho sister missionary; GO! Right now I only get to go every 3 months or so but I'm so excited to get back home and get to go whenever I want. 

*steps off soapbox 

So let's talk about the rest of the week. This week sister Goodrich and I both got sick (yuck🤢). But God is so aware of us and looking back on the week I have been able to find 3 "sick" blessings. 

1.) God made it so we were sick at different times. I honestly don't know what we would have done if we were both sick at the same time... probably died haha. Sister Goodrich was able to serve me while I was sick and I was able to serve her. We grew a lot closer to each other because of this experience. 

2.) It gave Sister Goodrich and I even more time to listen to this new book that we love called "Saints". Man alive the book is so good. All about church history. We are both learning things we never knew before. 

3.) We didn't get sick until after zone conference. Which made me really happy because I love zone conference and would have been so sad to be sick during it. I also performed a musical number at Zone Conference with Sister Robertson. We sang a song that I wrote and it was a huge hit. Everyone has been asking us to record it so they can listen to it throughout the week. It was super cool:) 

Sister Aase, Elder Bruce & Sister Robertson

Welp I think that is all for now. I hope you all can see some sick blessings in your lives this week (but maybe just take out the getting sick part). I love you all and appreciate all the prayers you are sending out my way!

Sister Aase 

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I would have a lot more pictures but I never take them on my phone, they are always on other people's phones. Sooo until I get those this is all I got. But I was able to finish the Book of Mormon this last week. I love the Book of Mormon and I learned a lot from it. I especially liked marking it up this time as I read it.

From Abby's FB - Why am I a Latter-day Saint

Why am I a Latter-Day Saint? Why do I dress the way I do? Speak the way I speak? Act the way I act? Why did I decide to sacrifice 18 months of my life to serve the Lord? 
Because I am a happier person when I follow the counsel of our living prophet. I know that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me and I want to do everything I can to please Him. But the biggest reason is because I KNOW that this is truly Christ restored gospel on the earth. And that is #whylatterdaysaint

Amazing "spirit"ual experiences

Hello everyone! 

This week was a complete blur. Like I don't even know what happened this week. But we did have some pretty cool experience with listening to the Spirit. So I'll just share two with you. 

This one happened on Thursday when we went to see Travis (a guy who accepted a Book of Mormon and lets us talk to him every once in a while). We were talking in the car about what spiritual message we should prepare for him and the thought of the Plan of Salvation came to my mind. So we went with it. We went and knocked on the door and within the first couple minutes, he said "so I have a question... where did I come from and where will I go after this life?" What the what? It was crazy and we got to tell him all these things and show him videos and scriptures because we prepared beforehand. Wow!

Next one happened on Sunday while teaching Janet and Ken. We were going over Tad R Callister’s talk "The blueprint of Christ church" (really good talk, totally recommend it) and we were planning on doing just the first little section of the talk. The night before however we felt like we should study the whole talk even though we knew we were just teaching the first part. During the lesson, however, Ken started asking all these questions that the last part of the talk answered perfectly. We got to read some of those sections with him and answer all his questions. The only reason this happened though is because we listened to a prompting to study the whole thing. 

The spirit is amazing and truly, if you will let it, guides us in every aspect of our life. I love Idaho. I love being a missionary. I love having the presences of the Spirit. But most of all I love this gospel. 

I hope you all are having a great a Labor Day and have a great week.

Love, 

Sister Aase 

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Fixing crepes for my district meeting:

Going on an exchange with Abby, a young woman in our ward who is preparing to serve a mission.

I'm THEM

Hello Everyone! 

This week was so bizarre. We moved this week!  Last Monday around 3pm we called the APs because we had a bunch of people asking us if we were moving or not and we just kept telling them "well we haven't heard anything so I guess not right now" but it was getting kinda weird so we called.... and that is when they said "oh yeah you’re moving tomorrow... didn't anyone tell you?" *face palm. So yeah it was crazy but after a couple of really stressful days, we are here now and moved in and everything is Bueno! 

This week I realized something that made me so very happy. For all of my friends in Arkansas you probably remember that I was always out with the Sister missionaries while I was waiting for my papers, specifically Sister Wamsley and Sister Hansen. They prepared me, helped me, supported me, and everything in between. I loved those girls and before I left and quite a few times during my mission, I've prayed that I would be able to have the same influence on another girl. So for the past couple weeks, we have been taking this girl named Abby (haha so funny) out with us on visits and she's preparing to go on a mission. She told us this week some of her concerns with going on a mission and it was amazing because I had all her same concerns to a T and was able to help her with everything. It was at this moment that I realized my prayers were being answered and I was becoming like my dear sister missionaries. It is so cool how Heavenly Father answers even our little prayers.

I know that our Father in Heaven is keenly aware of us and in His own timing will answer our prayers. He loves us and wants us to come to him. We are each one of His precious children.

Sister Aase 

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So this week I accidentally left our keys in the church building so we got locked out. We search all around to see if any doors were unlocked but none were. So we said a prayer and then sister Goodrich found a cracked window. Haha, it was super funny and just another story of God answering our prayers... and making us laugh.

This is a picture I took with Sister Wamsley and Hansen the night I got set apart as a missionary. Another really funny thing about this whole thing is Sister Wamsley was being trained by Sister Hansen when I started working with them and now I'm training Sister Goodrich. It's so cool. 

Our last night at the Dekers. The Dekers have been hosting missionaries for 5 years and we were their first set of Sisters (crazy). They have this map where all the missionaries that stay there mark where they are from so we finally got to mark our spot. It made me very happy. 

The girl right next to me is Abby. We played that mouth game with this less active family. It was a blast.   

Sister Goodrich and the Giant Peach

Hello from the state that brings you "63% of your happiness",

So there is this video floating around telling people to not hate on Idaho because it helps make fries haha it's pretty funny. it makes me laugh but did you know that Idaho does not only have potatoes?!?! Haha, this week we were given bags of apples, bags of peaches, and bags of zucchini (not to mention we past our favorite plum tree a couple times this week). I love all the produce here in Idaho it's pretty amazing. 

So this last week was pretty amazing. Does anyone remember my miracle girl Bekka? Well, she got to go to the temple this week which means I got to go to the temple this week. It was so much fun to see her and her glowing face as she got to do temple work for her family. I love that girl and the temple... so it was a pretty bomb day. 

We also finished up our new member lessons with Alyeah. She is a sweetheart and it has been so fun for me and Sister Goodrich to teach this funny little girl.  

So transfers happened this week which is always fun. Sister Goodrich and I are staying here so I can finish training her and then I'm pretty sure she will train someone new (she is pretty much already a pro at this mission thing). We did get a new District Leader though. Good ol' Elder Bruce. He was my District Leader for two transfers in Meridian so it will be fun to have him again. We are so sad to say goodbye to Elder Newton though. He is an amazing missionary and it was so much fun serving around him. 

In other news, the ukulele came back out this week. Sister Robertson and I used to use it all the time for our dinner messages, but I've never used it with Sister Goodrich because she doesn't like to sing. Well, I decided to go solo haha. It's actually so much fun to sing again and families really like it because it's something different. 

I hope everyone who is going back to school has amazing weeks. I know that change is scary sometimes but I also know that God perfectly knows what we are going through and if we give all our fears to Him, He will take them and make them into something beautiful. 

I love you all 

Sister Aase