Welcome Sister Johnson and Loving Scripture Study

4/18/16

HEY MOM!!!

                So yes we had transfers this past week and Sister Johnson is my new companion. She’s really cool. She is from MINNESOTA!!  And she knows about White Castle and Culvers!!! It’s great! And she is SUPER TINY!! But really though, it’s crazy. She also wants to go to school to be a PA. and she will get her undergrad in bio chemistry!!

                Give Sister Stapp a big hug from me and tell her that I miss her, and if she has any last minute advice for me, while I’m still kind of new J

                Personal study is super cool we have time to study for an hour every morning. We usually end up studying for our investigators and reading up on topics that they may have questions on. It’s a really good start to the day, reading from the scriptures, I would highly recommend it. I have decided that even after my mission I will wake up and to an hour of personal study every day. It has really helped and I am finding different ways that help me to study and memorize lessons. I can’t take all the credit though, Sister Davis and Sister Johnson have been a huge help in that regard.

                There is a family that I really love! It’s the Prescott family, Sister Prescott is amazing and I love her a lot, she went on her mission to the Argentina, Spanish speaking and her and Bishop Prescott are really funny and super nice. They have four boys, Jacob (18) going on a mission to the Farmington, New Mexico Mission on May 18^th, Miciah (17) Finishing school then mission, David (15) in High school plays awesome guitar, and Zach (10) really great at piano and loves music, he’s awesome. I was also able to help them decide what colors to paint their house it was super cool. They had a gray color for the living room and a lighter gray in the kitchen and Sister Prescott wanted an accent wall in the kitchen and she couldn’t decide on a color, so she asked me and I suggested yellow. THEY PAINTED IT YELLOW!!! It looks amazing, if I do say so myself.

                There is a good amount of youth in the Ward and they are really great because they are so willing to come out with us tracting when we need them to. It’s really great! It really helps them see what missionaries do every day J I would really challenge Cole to go tracting with the missionaries or to a lesson with them, it really helps the missionaries out and it gives him that experience to maybe help him make a decision on whether or not he wants to go on a mission.

                There isn’t much by way of Ward Activities that we’ve seen yet but we’ve gone to a couple relief society activities, where they have food and members have brought their friends. 

Lots of Love,

Sister Sanofsky

Goodbye to Sister Davis:( and Pictures (finally!!)

HEY MOM!!

            So we had transfers today and so me and Hermana Chavez drove our campanions Sister Davis and Hermana Eldredge to Meeker, CO so that they could catch a ride to Denver because they are both done with their missions this transfer. It was super super sad, everyone cried and there was a lot of hugging going on. I’m really going to miss Sister Davis, it’s hard to imagine having another companion, but I know that it’s going to happen and I’ve prayed about it and feel a sense of calm, so I KNOW everything is going to be alright. So I’m with Hermana Chavez until tomorrow when we drive down to Rifle, CO and pick up our new companions off the transfer train. So my new companions name is Sister Johnson and she was actually Sister Davis’s companion before she came up to train me. It’s kind of cool, Sister Davis was able to tell me a little bit about her so that it isn’t a complete surprise.

            So Craig has been good, it’s kind of exciting we have a baptism on the 23^rd of April, Jennifer is getting baptized and she is SO EXCITED, we thought maybe she wouldn’t be ready in time and so we asked her if she wanted to move the baptism to May just to give her a little more time and she asked if she had to. We said it was her decision if she felt ready, and she said good, because I want to get baptized as soon as possible and I don’t want to wait until May. Isn’t that AWESOME!!! So it’s in two weeks and I never realized how much work went into preparing for a baptism. There is so much to do!! But it will get done and it will be great!!

            Also I was kind of having a hard time a couple days ago with knowing whether or not Heavenly Father answers prayers, don’t get me wrong I know he does I just hadn’t been feeling it recently and so I bring it up with Sister Davis because she realized that something was wrong with me and she suggested we pray for the answer together and so we pull over in our car and she offers the prayer and it doesn’t come right away but all of a sudden I feel super warm and this squeezing sensation and an image of you comes into my head, giving me a really big hug and telling me that you love me. I know that, that was my answer. He does hear me and He does answer my prayers, I just have to listen. Thought I would share.

           Anyway all is pretty well here in Craig. Hopefully I have more exciting things to share next week. Until then!

            Lots of Love,
            Sister Sanofsky

2 Investigators came to Conference WOOT WOOT!!!!!

4-4-16

AHHHH!!! I don't have much time. And honestly I can't remember anything that I was going to write, I should really write these things down. 

Anyway I'm so glad the packages will be here soon!!! And give everyone a big hug and kiss from me. Also General Conference was amazing, I don't think I've ever been that excited for Conference in my entire life. It was pretty awesome. And TWO of our investigators came to Conference, WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!!!! 

Anyway that's it for this week sorry, more to come. 

Lots of Love, 

Sister Sanofsky

Maddie also sent me a copy of the talk she gave in Craig, CO and in Baggs, WY on Easter Sunday on Faith and the Atonement and I thought I would share her testimony that was at the end of that talk - It made me cry!

"I testify that we have a Loving Heavenly Father and that Jesus Christ is His Only Begotten Son. That Christ died for us, He suffered for our sins, but not only that He also suffered for our pains and our sorrows. He bled from every pore because of his great and infinite love for us. I can testify that He lives, that the message that we share, as missionaries, every single day is that He lives, that this is His Church, the He stands at the helm. He is my Savior and my Redeemer. He broke the bands of death so that we might one day return to live with our Heavenly Father. But only if we let him, if we follow Him, only then can he take away our sins. 

I know that our Heavenly Father loves each and every one of us, that he knows exactly how we feel and is able and willing to help us, if we just ask. I know that we have a modern day prophet on the earth, Thomas S. Monson. I know that Joseph Smith restored the fullness of the gospel, that it was his faith and his willingness to act that makes this all possible. I know that when we have faith in Christ and are ready and willing to act, we can accomplish all things that the Lord asks of us. And we will be able to see the miracles and blessings that follow.

I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."