Rain Storms and Ice Cream

Hello everyone! I hope your week was great! Our week was so hectic 😂 I usually don't like doing the day by day review of my week but this week needs it lol also I will do a quick run down of last week. So LAST WEEK, on Tuesday, we had a super awkward lesson with this guy at Tim Horton's and after about an hour of painfully awkward small talk, he just randomly said, "Well I have to get going but we should meet again sometime!" and then just got up and walked away after wishing us a good day. On Wednesday, we had zone conference, my very last one! (Of course tears were shed) and then we were able to have our first in-person lesson with our friend Wendy! She's so sweet. On Thursday, we had a mission-wide devotional with Alex Boye! He is super awesome and I jsut need him to be my hype man or something 😂.  On friday, we got a miracle refferal from a lady in Salt Lake and her friend she told us about is awesome, he's so prepared! Then on saturday, the best day ever, we went fishing!!!! We got to go with our friend Grace and her son and her brother. It was really fun!! Then we met our friend Leo for the first time. He's amazing we love him. So that was last week.

 Here's this week! 

Monday and Tuesday: We had super great lessons with Leo, he's so spiritual, it's awesome! He is really prepared and so willing to grow closer to God, it's amazing to see him progress. 

On Wednesday: due to covid19, McDonald's stopped doing ice cream cones, but now they're back! We went and got one and I was super happy to say the least! It was raining super hard too, haha we thought it was going to flood but luckily it didn't. We also had another good lesson with Leo.

On Thursday: we weeded the garden that we have outside our apartment, we have a patio are with a little flower bed. I got some chives from this lady we did service for so I planted those back there, and then we saw a really pretty blue caterpillar (which I just found out turns into a moth...what a sad life lol), and a cute little baby bunny!  We had to go to the mission office for Sister Nelson's interviews and on the way back we passed this construction guy who we waved to and he got a big smile on his face and waved right back to us! It made our day, it was awesome. So never forget the power of a friendly smile!!!! 

On Friday: We had lots of fun helping Elder Ellis film his father's day video! I shared it so you should be able to see it on my Facebook. 

On Saturday: we had our last lesson with Wendy because she moved into the Waverly Area. We also had a good lesson with Leo, and had a really cool service opportunity with the elders! It was so fun because we were pulling weeds and then it started to rain super hard so we took cover in her garage and were able to share a bit about the gospel with her! 

Sunday: We had a fantastic lesson with our friend and she is starting to warm up to the gospel a little bit. It was great! 

 I hope you all had a wonderful Father's Day and were able to remember or spend time with your dad! I am so grateful for my dad and the example and friend he is to me. I also hope that you took the time yesterday to remember your Heavenly Father! I know He loves you and wants what's best for you! I hope you will take some time every day to pray to Him and tell Him how much you love Him! 

 I love you all and I hope you have an amazing week!!! Until next week,

 Love, Sister Talbot

 

P.S. Sorry this is so long, I wrote two weeks worth of news 😂❤

Sorry Everyone!

Hey y'all, I'm sorry I don't have a ton of time to write this week but I just wanted to tell you all how much I love you! God loves you too! Something I want you all to do this week is read a General Conference talk and follow the promptings you get! ❤️ Have a great week y'all, love you!

Love, Sister Talbot 

Tornadoes and Turtles 🐢🌪️

Happy Monday!! 

I hope you all are staying safe and healthy! This week has been awesome but also kind of sad. 

We found out our most progressing friend Wendy moved into another area. She is super sweet so we are sad to learn that she isn't in our area. 

We went "fishing" with our friend Grace and her son on Saturday which was fun! The Elders came because her son doesn't feel comfortable around girls lol. The Elders were trying to catch a turtle without any success. We got to peel down some walls with Grace which was good! Also, yesterday there was a tornado watch and the sky was all different colors and it felt really heavy and dark outside. Nothing happened but it was scary for a minute! There's been some awesome Lightning and thunder storms though! 

 This week, I want to share something with you from a General Conference talk called Take Up Our Cross: "Please never give up after subsequent failures and consider yourself incapable of abandoning sins and overcoming addiction. You cannot afford to stop trying and thereafter continue in weakness and sin! Always STRIVE TO DO YOUR BEST, manifesting through your works the desire to cleanse the inner vessel..." . I LOVE IT!! Don't let Satan win your heart! Keep STRIVING to do your best!! 

    There's a scripture in Helaman 7 where Nephi is lamenting to the Lord and preaching to the people, and he says this:"Yea, how could you have given way to the enticing of him who is seeking to hurl away your souls down to everlasting misery and endless wo? O repent ye, repent ye! Why will ye die? Turn ye, turn ye unto the Lord your God. Why has he forsaken you? It is because you have hardened your hearts; yea, ye will not hearken unto the voice of the good shepherd; yea, ye have provoked him to anger against you. And behold, instead of gathering you, except ye will repent, behold, he shall scatter you forth that ye shall become meat for dogs and wild beasts. O, how could you have forgotten your God in the very day that he has delivered you?"

   This life was never promised to be easy, that was Satan's plan. However, it is God's plan to provide a way for His Children to come back from sin and mistakes! He knows that we will not always make the right decisions, but thanks to Jesus Christ, our souls can be snatched from everlasting misery and endless woe. 

 I love you all and I hope you know how much God loves you and that Jesus is our Savior. He loves you so much! 

I love you all and I hope you have a great week! 

Love, Sister Talbot 

Pictures:

1. A wedding at the park we were at

2. Sister Nelsonand I by the river

3. In person District Council!!

4. The beautiful sky

5. Fishing and talking

6. The river

7. Fishing and trying to catch turtles

8. Beach Volleyball

9. The turtle we were trying to catch

A Tender Mercy and a Green Thumb

Hello everyone! I'm so sorry but this week's email is going to be super short. I just would like you all to know that I have 6 weeks left, I'm not trunky, I am super excited about all this warm weather and I have some good stories for y'all. So for a fun story, this morning we were at Walmart and these two ladies were arguing so that was scary and awkward... but anyways, this tender mercy I was telling you about. So on tuesday we ran out of peanut butter which means no apples and peanut butter, which was so sad, BUT thursday night I was looking around in the pantry and I found A WHOLE JAR OF PEANUT BUTTER!!!! What a tender mercy we were so happy! We also had a great time doing service this week because we got to go do a bunch of gardening for this lady and she was so sweet. She baked us bread and cookies because we can't accept money. It was pretty great! 

 To end, I just wanted to share with you all something I heard at a devotional last night for our mission. The Saskatoon Stake Patriarch, Brother Spencer and his wife, talked to us,and he said something I just loved. "You are not the same person who was set apart." He talked about how over the course of our missions, we change and we become better and I have definitely seen that happen to me over the course of my mission. I testify that as we all align our will with God's we will not be the same people that we were yesterday! I love you all and I hope you have a great week! 

Love, Sister Talbot

1. Our tender mercy

2. Gardening

3. A piano picture I took for a photography page on Facebook