All Is Well

Hey guys,

It sounds like life is busy, as usual, in the Connery household. I hope the piggies do well for their weigh in! I haven't seen pigs in a long time, lol. School is almost out for you guys too! Be grateful that you don't live in England because their summer holiday is only 6 weeks long. However, they have more frequent and longer breaks during the school year. I hope everything with the house continues to go well. Moving really is a lot of fun. It's a new adventure! :)

We had a really good week! 11 people came to church yesterday! When I say people, I mean investigators, AND less-active members that we work with. Lots of them came yesterday! It was great! We may or may not be having a baptism this weekend. The investigator who is supposed to be getting baptised is having some housing issues and so until the social worker can find her a new place to live here in Staines, she has been moved to a temporary place over 1 hour drive away in East Sussex! So, we are not quite sure how we are going to make it work, but we got some advice from our mission president and we will see how it goes.

I have been feeling pretty good. The allergies have kicked in though, and I haven't had the time or the money to buy some allergy pills so for now I'm just roughing it. But it's all good. I'll sort it out today when we go shopping.

I'm excited because we are having a ward activity sponsored by the missionaries here at the chapel today, and we're gonna play some volleyball! I am so stoked! :) I'll be careful though! ;) lol.

Everything is good here. Things are going well! Moves are up next week, so P-Day won't be on Monday. I'll either email you on Wednesday or something, depending on if one of us is moving or not. So don't panic! All is well! :)

I love you guys, and hope you have a great week! Have fun! Love you lots!

Love,
Sister Connery :)

Sacrifice

Hiya!

Thanks for the pie recipe! We've got some Elders in our district that are going home at the end of this transfer and they have requested that I make them apple pie. So we will see how that goes. We did have a really good week. We taught a lot of lessons, and we still have 3 baptismal dates, and they are all really solid! We are working with really good people! Miracle story though! We are working with a part-member family. The family is less active, and their 11-year-old daughter was never baptised, but she has a baptismal date in June now, and her family is already preparing for her baptism! It's great! And, they all came to church with her yesterday! Her less-active parents and her younger brother all came dressed in their Sunday best, and we were floating on air! We were so happy! :) It's amazing to see the change that the gospel makes in people's lives. All for the better! :D

You have had a busy week but it sounds like it has been loads of fun! I am really excited for another move (it's about time!) I kinda like the change, and especially as a missionary you have to get used to change and adjust quickly, so I have been prepared for this for a long time! 

 

The weather has been sunny and warm for about a week now! I hope it continues, but I heard that they are forecasting rain tomorrow. :/ Hope it stays away! So, just to share something really quick. I have recently been studying 'Our Heritage' and it has been really good. I read today about the sacrifices made by the people to go on missions and to build the Nauvoo temple. No matter what we are asked to sacrifice, it won't be as hard or as great as the sacrifice made by our Saviour for us, so we should be willing to sacrifice anything to repay him for the kindness and love that He showed by His sacrifice. 

 

I hope you guys have another great week and I am looking forward to hearing what happens next week! Love and miss you all! :)

 

Love,

Sister Connery :) 

Best Decision I've Ever Made

Hey everyone!

It was so great to Skype with you all yesterday! You guys are so different! It's really weird, but in a good way. The changes when I get back will be very obvious. Thanks for the update on everything! One of the first things I want to do when I get home is go to the temple.  I miss it so much! I wanna go again and again! :) For now I will continue to focus on my calling and enjoy the last few months that I have here. 

I'm glad you guys think I look good. I am really happy! I love being here and doing this! Best decision I've ever made! :) No matter what happens while I'm here, the Spirit overpowers the bad experiences and chases them away. So it's all good! :)

We do have lots of baptisms coming up but not this week. Before the end of the transfer we should have 2 or 3. And then we have two young girls with dates for the end of June. I hope I'm still around to see it! Our area is doing really well! Sister Polidario is a really hard worker, and she has taught me a lot! I've been blessed with great companions whom I've learnt a lot from!

I really am excited to be able to help Sam prepare for his mission. He will be the most trained missionary, and he will be AP before you know it! Make sure he goes out with the missionaries. Not just on teaches, but knocking and street contacting as well. It will be really good for him.

There's not much to report on since I told you guys everything yesterday. I'm surprised that you don't have more questions though. I am in a foreign country ya know! It's all good though. :) It was so great to talk to you all yesterday, and not just talk to you, but see your faces! Next time it will be at the Spokane Airport. But for now, let's just keep working hard to bring about the great work of salvation where we are. :)

Have a great week, and I pray that the Lord will continue to bless you all! :) Love you and miss you lots! :)

Love,
Sister Connery

Tender Mercies, Tender Mercies!

HEY!!!

What a fantastic email you have sent this week! I am so happy for Chris and Wendy!!! I'm an auntie again!!! Hooray! :D Welcome to the world, Baby! Aunt Casey loves you already (just like I love the rest of my little nieces and nephews)! :) I am really excited to finally get to Skype you guys on Sunday! It might take a bit to figure it all out, so be patient with us and wait until we get it through. Okay? I'm so excited!!!

Anyway, let me tell you about my week! Oh it was so good! The tender mercies of the Lord have been upon us. We now have 5 people preparing for baptism! :O It's amazing! And I have to tell you that yesterday we saw so many miracles! My testimony, especially of prayer, has grown so much just from that one day! Yesterday morning we came to the chapel for church to wait for our investigators. We had arranged lifts for some, and some had just said that they would come on their own. We were waiting for several people. 5 minutes before the meeting started we were panicking because none of our investigators were there yet. One of the members we had asked to pick someone up arrived without our investigator with her! We didn't know what to do, and we were both getting really upset. Our Bishop saw our obvious distress, and very calmly told us that we just need to relax and put it all in the Lord's hands, and He would take care of it according to His will. (Our Bishop has gone through a lot in the past few months and has learnt this lesson well) We felt so bad because we had not even prayed up to that point. I immediately started to pray in my heart as we walked in to start sacrament meeting. I was pleading with Heavenly Father, and I hadn't even said "Amen" yet, and one of our investigators walked in! Shortly thereafter, another investigator walked in, and she had come on her own! I nearly started crying. Heavenly Father answered my prayers, and it was miraculous! Not only that, but after sacrament we went out into the foyer and another investigator was there with her less active mother, and they BOTH stayed for the rest of church! Tender mercies, tender mercies! The Lord hears and answers our prayers, but we have to turn to Him and put it all in His hands. Trust in Him, and He will take care of us. My testimony has grown so much in one single day of several principles. The Lord loves us. He hears and answers our prayers. It was an amazing experience! :D

I hope that you guys enjoyed that story because I will never get tired of telling it! I hope you guys have another great week until I talk to you again next Sunday!!! :) I love you guys and I will talk to you next week! :D

Love,
Sister Connery

P.S.-We went to the National Archives last week (the London Family History Centre is currently located there), and we learnt more about Family History and we were able to do some of our own! I've already found several generations on Daddy's side of the family! It was so cool! I have found the Spirit of Elijah in myself, and I can't wait to do more family history! 

Here is a picture of me outside of the Archives