Only 100% unity towards obedience brings 100% success toward eternal life

So, Sister King and I were the only companionship in our entire zone that stayed the same!!! We don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing... But we have decided to commit to 6 baptisms in Centerville this month. Me and sister King. We have REALLY committed. The bishopric told us that our investigator attendance at church has more than doubled in the last 4-6 weeks than it has EVER been in the last 3 years!!!! We don't understand what we are doing differently. But, it must be something...

Sister King told me that Centerville didn't wake up until I got here. Our teaching pool has just BOOMED. But I told her that it wasn't me. It's because all the sister companionships that have been here in the past have not gotten along very well. When Sister King got to Centerville, she was with a sister who was on her last transfer, and who was trunky and just plain tired. So once I got here, there were finally two missionaries with the same amount of enthusiasm and dedication for the work, and therefore, most able to work in unity. So it wasn't just me. It was both of us.  I love Sister King. And people can tell, even our investigators can tell how well we work together and the unity that we share. It's refreshing for them.

One of our investigators was showing us these videos of her performing her belly dancing, and Sister King was like "oh I could never do that" and I started joking with her when the lady went into the other room, I was like "oh please, you would be like the best in the class, you would be the one in the middle that everyone else would dance around. No you would be the one that they would carry in on their shoulders, like Nefertiti or Cleopatra" and sister King started laughing so hard!!! and the investigator heard us and walked in and told us how awesome we were. She has never seen missionaries get along as well as we have and she has been through A LOT of missionaries. Like 4 years of them at least! or something like that. She's never going to join anytime soon. But, she loved the fact that Sister King and I laughed and joked like that, that she decided to bring all 3 of her sons to trunk or treat the very next week!!!!!! She even texted us like the day after transfers and asked if we had stayed!!!!! It's awesome. She has never texted us before! 

Uchtdorf gave a talk about missionaries once and the missionary in the story that he told said to his companion "there are two reasons that companionships are not successful, one is because they are both trying to do the wrong thing, or because only one of the companions is trying to do the right thing, and the other is not." He was alluding to the fact that missionaries have to be in one hundred percent unity in order to find 100 percent success. It's the truth. That's why I told sister King that
we are being so successful. Centerville finally has two missionaries that are both trying to do the right thing together. There are a thousand more miracles that happened in Centerville this week that I will send in the mail!

Maggie :]
Only 100% unity towards obedience brings 100% success towards eternal life.

Still practicing to be a farm girl

I thought you would enjoy the goats :]. I got to clip the goat's hooves!!! One step closer to farmgirl :D

AMEN!!!! a new nick-name - Disneyland!

So this has been the greatest week ever! It started out with the awesome zone meeting on Wednesday, where they announced new music rules! It is no loner just LDS.org. It's now all MOTAB and Lower Lights! Which is insane because just before I left, I burned a bunch of Lower Lights that I had found on itunes! REVELATION!!!! So Sister K and I have been jammin' out to my CDs all week now :] I'm seriously so gratful that I felt so prompted to bring them! It was seriously the best day of my life. I've been missing Hymns. The only music from LDS.org is like EFY songs :( They're the most annoying songs ever!

Then Thursday was interviews with president. I was literally SO excited for that! I wrote down a million things on a piece of paper, so I could remember all the things to touch on. Like, "How do you have faith like the ancients?" and deep stuff like that. Interviews were INSANe though! We had to go to the church and sit out in the hall for 6 hours with the most immature elders that ever walked the earth. Seriously, they were more immature than the Elders from the MtC. Especially this one . . .He corrupts our zone! He sits on other elder's laps and he hugs them and hold hand with them, because he thinks it's so funny! It's creepy! And, he tells immature jokes and of course I laugh, because laughing at immature jokes is like my weakness. And, I tell him not to say that stuff, but he just does it more. He and I have been banned from role-playing together because he always role plays someone silly. So anyways, he was there and it was like a zoo!Whenever he gets with the other elders he just turns them into clowns! So, when I went into my interview, I ratted him out to the president. :]  I was like - this kid corrupts our zone!

President just laughs at everything I say. Sis. K said that he called me "Disneyland" in her interview because I just have so much excitement and enthusiasm. Because whenever Sis. K and I are saying personal prayers and she finishes first, then I wait a few seconds after I've finished, then I jump up and scream, "AMEN!!!!" She jumps EVERYTIME!!! hahahahaha. So, in my interview, I did that to president and told him about what I do to Sis K, and he just laughed so hard his face turned red and he laughed for like 5 minutes straight! hahahaha

Maggie never misses an opportunity to dress up or .... Fairtale costumes

I tried to carve the salt lake temple into our pumpkin. it was too intricate and time consuming!! We didn't have small enough knives for it. But you should have seen the stencil I made.. it was a little too legit!!!

Here are some Halloween pictures!!! This lady had a Glinda dress that I wanted to wear for Halloween sooooooooo badly!!!!! But, instead I dressed up like an angel. The last picture is  sister king and me and the Cass's at trunk or treat! We had something like 5-7 investigators that came that night!!! Even the elders were pretty impressed
with us!! Zone leaders and president's assistants ask us every week how we get so many investigators to church each week and to other church activities. We don't even kno

w how we do it!!!

Cat in a hat

Here is my favorite investigator J. I have talked about her in my letters before... anyways, she bought this hat for her cat to make it look like it's wearing a rastafari beanie and has little braids coming
out of it and she just thought it was the FUNNIEST thing!!!!!
haahhahah I LOVE Joy! I have a story about her so stay tuned it's coming soon! 

It was like manna from Heaven

Sister King and I were supposed to get paid on Monday last week for groceries because it was only like the 30th of the month, but we didn't. And I decided to spend my green card (personal debit card) on stupid stuff at Walgreens that morning. :( So, we got to Korger and bought a few things like laundry detergent and food from the deli to eat for lunch that day. I felt really bad for wasting my money previously that morning, because I could have used it to help us buy a few more necessities. So Sister King suggested we just use one of our lunch breaks during the week to head over to Korger and do our grocery shopping. (We were going to get paid on Wednesday), but I felt like it was my fault that we didn't have any food, because I spent my emergency money from home on personal things, rather than saving it for an actual emergency like this, so I decide that we should just embrace the results of our actions and go the week without any food.

We literally had nothing. No milk, eggs, bread, pasta, meat or any fruits! Sister King had bought like 3 cucumbers, that's pretty much all we had!

Besides, were are not really supposed to do any shopping during the week, so I told Sister K that we most certainly were NOT going to go shopping for food that week. We would just have to hand this one to the Lord. Because good things happen when you are obedient, but MIRACLES happen when you are strictly obedient. And, Centerville really needed a miracle.

This is probably the hardest area in the ENTIRE mission. It needs all the miracles it can get! So, we stepped into the week on nothing but faith in God to keep us alive. And, miracles happened!

So Wednesday, the elders invited all the sisters in the zone to Cousin Vinny's after district meeting. So that was one day taken car of. Then that night, the members who had signed up to feed us, cancelled. But, the mom still dropped food by our apartment. When she showed up, it was like manna from heaven! She had a whole bag of fruits and just a bunch of groceries she had picked up from Korger like chips, salsa, salad, a whole jug of minute Maid and frozen taquitos to heat up!

Seriously! That's when I knew Heavenly Father was watching out for Centerville. The thing is, the fact that she cancelled was a miracle, because then she wouldn't have gone and bought a ton of food for us. Like I doubt she even knew our circumstance, we didn't tell anyone that we didn't have food that week. Only Heavenly Father knew. That's the best thing that happened this week.

God makes weak things strong

Sister King and I decided we needed to kick things up a notch, so we started a fast to help us find investigators. First thing on the first morning of our fast we knocked on a door. 

This lady was a referral from her next door neighbor who had been a previous investigator, but had become uninterested. So, anyways, the lady answers the door, we tell her who we are and that we have come to offer a message about Jesus Christ. She is offended at first, as most everyone here is, because everyone in Centerville is so devout and pious in their own religions. Right as she is shutting the door, we give her a card with our number on it, just in case she is ever in need of service. 

She sees the picture of the temple on the back and gets really excited because she had been to Temple Square before. So she gets to talkin' to us for a minute, then she offers us some water. Of course we decline. But then, she offers us some cupcakes, and I swear the moment that word entered my ears, like my entire brain just went blank and I completely forgot about everything else in that moment, like perhaps even the fact that we were fasting that morning!!! Like, I swear it was complete impulse, so I just said, "..yes, of course!" and accepted the cupcake offer. When the lady turned to go get the cupcakes, Sis. K looked at me all frenzied like '..dude, sister, WE'RE FASTING, remember?!' 

OMGoodness. Most embarrassing thing ever! Just the word 'cupcake' and my mind goes completely blank, and I forgot that we were fasting! 

So we followed her into the house and asked her if we could just wrap them up to go. We kept talking to her a little more, and the whole time I was praying that she wouldn't notice we weren't eating the cupcakes for fear that she was poisoning us! She wasn't. We wrapped them up and drove straight home and stuck them in the freezer!

WOW! When they say that Satan knows your weaknesses, THEY WEREN'T KIDDING! Cupcakes are a weakness of mine, but if Satan thought that he was going to try and get us to break our fast early that day, he surely had another thing coming!

Not bad results: Satan didn't stop us fasting, and we end up with cupcakes in the freezer!