Week 12!

12 weeks are up and i am noooooow not a trainee!!!!! I am so excited for this!!! I get a new companion on wednesday, still staying here in Cowpens though but I feel bad for her because she is coming here to -5 degree weather and biting winds haha... but its fun :) I love my area!!!! PLEASE keep praying for justing too everyone!!! We have made such big progress with him the last two weeks and I know that a lot of it is your prayers :) SO i finally got a Boot that i can wear so i am not on crutches anymore!!!! I feel so spoiled that i get to wear it and actually walk haha... its so awesome :) We had a great New Years Eve and came in at 8pm and got to study and have some extra time to go to bed early :) We also had so many miracles.... With Justin, we were teaching him on friday and we have been struggling so hard with him because he cant really feel anything (love, hate, happiness etc..) and so we have had a hard time helping him feel the spirit. And finally we decided to teach him about the spirit and he opening up and said that he was hearing voices that would answer his prayers and asked if he was crazy and after asking him a lot of questions and understaning more we know that he was having basically a nephi moment!!!! it was so amaizing and it only started to happen this last week after 2 things, 1: that he committed to live the word of wisdom and 2: that I asked alll of you to pray for him and we asked members to pray for him!!! it was such a wonderful miracle!!! :) Also, anothe miracle that happened was that a Part-member family the Moody-Clobes family, had a miracle. the father, Richard has been very closed off to religion at all for the whole 6 months missionaraies have been seeing them and he is finally opening up a little and being nicer and inviting us in and this week a member (Brother Ronson) went over and saw Richard, hair fumbled, and looking warn tearing apart their van in search of something and when he asked him what he was looking for Richard said it was the diamond ring he bought for his wife that she had lost 3 days before and they couldn't find. so all Brother Ronson said was "I pray you will find it" and Richard leaned down. and touched a piece of the siding on the floor and the ring popped out!!! Richard has been talking about that experience all week and now has accepted to read out of the book of mormon and is encouraging his kids to listen to the message we share. Also, at zone training when all of us reported our month we all had 0 on date and 0 baptisms.... and that night because of the training that pumped us up, every companionship in the zone got someone on date!!!! :)

Well sorry for the Long letter but I love you all!!!!
~Sister Dominique Sage Montoya

Week 11!

Merry POST Christmas!!!!! This week has been so wonderful! Hard again being on my sprained ankle but i know its making me stronger!!! :) Also, it was soooo wonderful to Facetime and call my family!!! It was so good to hear their voices and see their faces :) That night we also ate lasagna at out Branch Presidents and had Pho at a Less actives house heck yes!!!! it had cow stomach, beef, crab, and shrimp in it it  and also a dessert called Nava that looked like worms but was rice noodles and coconut milk died green. it was so yummy and very authentic haha,,, Also, Justin is doing so well thanks so much for your prayers!!! I appreciate it so much!! Sunday we sang "I believe in Christ" in Sacrament and had a wonderful combined priesthood and RS meeting that covered addiction recovery! BUT the highlight of the week was that we went and saw a less active Sunday and she had said that a woman she went to High school with had posted on Facebook that she had seen us December 2 and wrote about it that night. she wrote 

"Tonight when we got home, there were what appeared to be two young girls walking on our road...our street has 5 houses so we know everyone...keith tells me to get in the house so of course, I dont do that.I walked down the road and asked the ladies if i could help them. They were Mormons. They proceeded to tell me that they had to be out preaching until 9, spreading the word... but my biggest concern was their safety..."its just not safe for two women to be walking the street in the dark alone." They told me about their safety precautions and I still expressed "its just not safe" one of the young women then looked at me and said "God will protect us" 4 words. I shut up. After all, they said exactly what I'd been taught. God will protect! I'm baptist, But tonight those two girls gave me the biggest and most beautiful sermon in 4 simple words. Regardless of the belief, those words are always true. They are welcome in my driveway anytime." 

After we knew what was happened we realized the obvious miracle in it :) But later that night, we found from the other sisters in the district that one of their less actives had seen the post and it gave her hope that her husband would join the church because she saw that people of other faiths were thinking better of the church. 4 simple words could change lives everywhere. THE GOSPEL IS TRUE!!!!

We also had a sleepover with those sisters last night :) so fun!!! :) and i get my boot on Wednesday!!! Hope alls well!! love ya! :) 

~Sister Dominique Sage Montoya

Update!

Hi, this is Jeffrey, and I just wanted to say that I'm so sorry that I'm behind! Between the holidays and the enormous amount of pictures I've been getting (which is awesome!) I haven't gotten this or last week's post up yet, but they most definitely WILL be all up by tonight! So... tell all your friends! 

Week 10!

So This week has been great! We had Zone conference and got to do skits and watch ephraims rescue! Alos, Justin has been struggling with Testimony so please pray for Justin Bearden to be strengthen and feel God in his life :) We also had out Christmas party on friday and sister Boyson and I were asked to sing in the program and on our way down  some steps to go sing I fell and sprained my ankle so sister boyson sang a solo and we were in the emergency room til 12:30 that night haha... so i am now a crutchy haha... its been quite an adventure but at the same time it has been very rewarding. Sister Boyson has been great in helping and encouraging me and i will definitely have rock hard abs, one of my calves and arms at the end of this!!!  :) We also got a Branch Mission Leader FINALLY and so it will make life a lot easier for us :) and also, HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I love you all!!!!

Week 9!

Hi! This is Jeffrey Rawlins, with a small note that the torch has been passed to me, and so I'll be the one updating the blog and Facebook. If you have any questions or would like to be added to the email list, feel free to email me at j.Rawlins@me.com! Thanks!

Well this week has been so great!!! We had exchanges and I went with my Sister Training Leader, Sister Jones and she was so awesome!!! we had lots of cool things happen when we were together! We also had a Less active make a baby Cristmas tree with us!!! It was super great :) also, we have been seeing the yangs more and they should be coming to church this coming sunday!!! But Justing was supposed to be baptized this coming saturay but hes not quiteready so we will be moving it back to the 28th hopeully that will work out. PLEASE PRAY FOR JUSTIN BEARDEN to be ready and to feel the truth of the gospel by this sunday!! :) also I learned a cool lesson from the spirit haha... so i had a very strong prompting that we needed to ask a specific male member to come with us to a lesson because i didnt feel it was safe. so he came and we went over and no one was there!!!! I was so confused! So we went straight over to the members house for his lesson because he is recently reactivated. and beause we had extra time we went knocking after and found a wonderful mother and her daughter who had just lost her husband!!!! It was so crazy how the spirit knew what we needed and sent us around just because he knew where it would lead!!! So that was a cool lesson :) also we finally made our goal of 20 lessons this week!!!!! :) it was sooo cool!!! :) Yesterday we also did a fireside for the youth of 2 wards :) it was so fun to put together the whole thing and show it to them even though there was quite a few technical difficulties. AAAAAAAAND i lost my camera..... so I will definitely not have as many pictrues til i cant figure out how to get another one since i am piggy-backing on Sister Boyson's camera haha.... so it was a pretty great week!!!! I'm praying for you guys!!! LOVE YOU!!!! :)

PS: Tuesday is Zone conference and we get to play Basketball and watch Ephraims Rescue!!! So excited!!! :) MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

 

~Sister Dominique Sage Montoya

Week 8!

Well, Heeeeellloooooooo UTAH!!!!! ( And other places that could be of any origin on the map of where people reside that I dearly love and adore :))

This week has been great and crazy!!! We have an investigator, Justin that I am not sure if i told you about but he is AWESOME!!!! :) he didnt even know if he believed in God when we started teaching him and now he is giving meaningful prayers and keeping every commitment and coming to church every week! He's great, we are expecting him to get baptised on the 21st! :) we also had a crazy experience when we were knocking wednesday and went up to an investigators house that we have been to quite a few times and this time I had a feeling we shouldnt go and then i ignored it (bad idea) and we went and there was a very angry dog and he was running at us, so naturally we ran away and i repented haha but then we went back saturday and he was there and we didnt know he was the same and he ran at me baring his teeth and so i swung my bag at him and yelled as loud as i could and he ran off... God has my back haha.... well gotta go Thanksgiving was great. We played Ultimate frisbee for turkey bowl and i wore JEANS!!!! YEEEEEAH!!!! :) Oh and I got to help a lady with Calculus homework as service haha :) she said she would never miss chuch if god helped her with her homework and we showed up and i helped her haha.... it was great... CHURCH IS TRUE!!!! :)