Letter #47: 3.31.14

Dear Mommy & Papa,

Thank you so much for the box.  Good thing about my mail here in Belfair.  It comes right to the door.  I love you and miss you lots.  The Belfair ward is wonderful.  There is a spirit that is so different in Sacrament.  The Bishop worked on the ward to have the right mind set when you enter the chaple doors.  As soon as you walk in you can feel the spirit.  Its way cool to serve here in this ward.  Well I am almost done reading D&C and New Testament.  I am still working on the Old Testament.  My goal is to finish all the books before I get home.  I have grown to love all the books so much.  My study scriptures are just filled with notes and quotes.  They are way bigger now.  I have no idea how I did not enjoy them when I was back at home.  They are all so good.  I’m trying to think of what else to talk about...it is a beautiful day here in Belfair.  So for the month of March our mission had a goal of 100 baptisms.... well we got 85 the month of March.  It is way cool.  So yes I am very excited to be going to the temple soon.  The temple is an awesome place.  Okay so from knocking 5-7s this week we knocked into an old 80 yr old lady who told us to call her grandma cause we are far from our families serving the Lord.  Her name is Eileen.  Grandma Eileen is a sweet old Christian lady.  The first word she said to us when we knocked on her door was, “what do you put first your church or Jesus Christ?”  We right away told her with power, “Jesus Christ”. Then she said, “okay then, now you can come in.”  We did service there 2 times.  Thats one of my fun stories that happened this week.  The missionaries in my distric are putting on a Book of Mormon study class every Thursday at 7:30.  Its going to be great to get them to just start reading.  Jeffrey Bishop is on date for May 3rd.  Angel and Lily we had an amazing lesson with the.  Angel is 8, Lily is 11 so it is hard to do lessons with them.  They always just wants to play with us.  But after fasting, this lesson they wanted to learn and listen.  Lily finished reading the Book of Mormon Stories book.  So I guess Belfair is a place were Im teaching kids.... haha.

I came to love every area I serve in and every comp I serve with.  Every area and comp I had are all different.  I love them all in different ways.  I know this is a once in a life time for me,,, to be here.  I have come to know the fullness of the gospel in my life.  I kn ow I toldthe Lord, “Lord here am I send me@!”  I know I am nothing witht Him, my Savior to help and toi be my light to shine the way in whatever darkness comes my way.  I am so greatful to all the fellow prophets who took their lives for the Book of Mormon so I can have it now.  It is so true the church is.  Many blessings comes thany you for all you do for me.  Love yeah lots.

Love your sister missionary.

Letter #46: 3.24.14

Aloha mommy and papa.

So today has been a week of me training... man it’s been a long time.  I do feel so bad for my trainee... everytime I train I think that but this one is a little harder then all the others.  First off she is 19, who graduated at 16.  She only has one semester left of school and she is going into law.  Oh did I mention she is an only child!  She is getting too trunky, but she is green!  I’m training her very good and she is loving it out here.  I do get very irritated with her... I guess it is the haole in her... ha ha.  Well she never knows when I am irritated.  

Okay, cool story.  So we only tracted for one hour on Monday cause of P-day.  so on our last door...well when it turned 7:00 there were 2 more doors.  I had a feeling to finish them, so we did.  The last door this old old man came out and talked to us.  He started to bash with us.  My baby girl started to bash back.  I prayed very hard cause I wanted to show her that we don’t bash.  So I said something and the tone was with the spirit.  We stayed out of deep doctrine as much as possible with his questions.  He asked us about everyone being Gods and etc.  By the time we finished talking to him I testified and invited him to pray about what we talked about.  He said yes he would and he would talk to his wife.  He told us many missionaries come by and they never could answer the questions like we did.  The spirit was so there and it was him we needed to talk to that night.  That’s why we had to keep knocking on doors.  I’ve been reading the talk by Elder Alvin R. Dyer “The Challenging and testifying Missionary”  This talk is amazing!  I know from me just ending our talk with this guy in my testimony was amazing.  And wonderful things happen when we testify.  This past transfer I been reading and listening to many talks.  The Church is so true!  Just love it!  Being a missionary is the best.  I know that was a seed that we just planted with this guy.  Then after I talked to my baby girl about bashing.  And how the spirit is never there when you bash.  And it is the spirit that touches them not us.  If Heavenly Father really wanted to he could do this all by himself.  It is not us....

Well I love you all.  I can’t think of that much more that happened.  Oh transfers were so much fun.  Well that’s a whole nother time.  Well just keep on praying for me and my comps driving.

Love Sis Casey

Letter #45: 3.10.14

Aloha Ohana,

I am so grateful for all you guys do for me and for most of all always supporting me in whatever I do and for always loving me.  Today is our P-Day.  It is so beautiful here today.  My view...is so great.  The water, blue sky (you never see that here), the silver lining in the clouds, the GREEN trees everywhere, eagles in the trees.  How great and lucky am I?  This past week been raining all day and night but today is beautiful:)  Oh man, then out of nowhere it started to hail.  It was so big...crazy.  That’s Washington for you.

Well, from our perfect day it ended up not so perfect.  Our investigater, Brad, dropped us today:(  We are very sad.  His mom is 83 yrs old and he told her he was going to get baptized and she got very mad at him.  He is a sweet 56 yr old man.  It is just so sad cause you grow to love who you teach and you just want what’s best for them.  Satan is working on him so much.  He was progressing so much.  Not much we can do now.  He knows we are here for him and he is always invited to church.  He loves the ward so much.  This is when missionary work is so hard.  I know the next time missionaries knock on his door he will be ready.  I do know we have helped him so much.  He cried when he dropped us.  Right now it’s so hard.  So thank you for always loving me and I know you are always going to be here for me.

I’m coming to know my King, My Heavenly Father.  I am His daughter.  He has a plan.  I just have to follow.  “Every day is a good day.”  This is teaching me that it’s Heavenly Father’s way, it’s His work.  I just have the oppoortunity to be here right now.  I just need to trust it will be alright.  I always ask why?  I taught Brad everyting!  But it’s our loving Heavenly Father’s Gospel.  It’s His way.  He has something all planned out for Brad.  The gospel of Jesus Christ is true!!!  All the way.  I am so greatful for the gospel in my life.  This is His work.  I love you all very much and thank you so much for all you do for me and helping me grow up to be the daughter Heavenly Father wants me to be.  He does know...every hair on my head are all numbered (Matt 10:30) and I do know that!  

Love Sister Casey

Letter #44: 2.17.14

Aloha Ohana

So today is P-Day and I just wanted to write you a card of love.  Any day is perfect for that.  I love you and miss you lots.  Belfair is good to me and a whole lot safer than Parkland... haha.  It’s so funny my comp always tells me in tracting that this area is too sketchy...but I always say no this is nothing compared to Parkland.

Its so different.  You know how I always told you how I will never live in the city.  Well God is too funny... pretty much all of my mission I have been right in the city....haha.  Now I can’t believe President Weaver trusted me right by water!  haha:)  I live right on the water.

So we went over to a member’s house to make cards.  It was so much fun.  She had all kinds of stuff and just learning how to make cards.  So I showed her how to make a few cards.  I did the roses on the card.  It’s cool right.  So we were there for 35 minutes.  I got  20 cards done.  My comp did 5 and the lady did just 3.  I just loved it.  I do not know what to write;)  Well its getting a lot lighter now.  It stays light till 4:45pm now.  soon we will be tracting in full light at 5 -7.

Okay so we are living with a member for about a week because our apartment needed some work done on it.  My first day here, my comp tells me we need to find a place to stay.  I been thinking that she’s playing a joke on me.  Then like a week later our bishop ask us if we found a place for us.  Then I was like so this is for real....haha.  Well this member has a very, very, very nice house.

We had stake conference this past week.  Gig Harbor, our stake, has a new stake center.  It’s very nice and big.  Elder Resamay and Elder Snow of the 70’s came cause we got a new stake pres.  I think they are going to make a temple here is Gig Harbor cause the church owns a very nice big property that has nothing on it and it’s right behind the church.  That’s my guess for in a few years.

I love you so very much and thank you for all you and papa do for me.  I love you both very much ....Love your missionary, sister Casey

P.S.  it rains so much

Letter #43: 2.8.14

Aloha Mommy & Papa

So I’m in Belfair now...and it’s in the sticks.  It’s so big!  It takes almost 2 hours from the top of our area to the bottom.  But it is so pretty here.  I like live right by the water!  This like the first time I never been in the city.  Evey day for study I look out my window and I see green and water.  It’s very cold still.  Guess what, when we were tracting it was snowing.  It got pretty bad.  But it was so much fun and I get to say that I tracted in the snow!

I just wanted to thank you for all you do for me.  Thank you for teachng me every thing I know mommy and papa.  You both are the best thing I can ever ask for.  Thank you for being patient... with me.  I now I was a hard one for you guys.  But thank you for never giving up on me.  Thank you for the best childhood ever.  I would not change anything.  Thank you for the gospel in my life.

I got to bear my testimony to an investigator here about why I came out on my mish.  The spirit spoke and it was all Him.  It got them all to cry and thanked me for being out here.  I’m coming closer to my Heavenly Father and Bro. Jesus.  I love them and I know I am nothing without them.  I been always wondering if they are proud of me and what I am doing.  I always had that question.  When I got a blessing a few weeks ago or a month ago....I was told how proud Heavenly Father was of me.  I so needed it that day.  With everything that was going on.  I truly know I am a daughter of my Heavenly Father.  Man!!!  It’s snowing a lot right now.  I love you guys so much.  It was funny about I did not know or realized how much I love and need this gospel.  

“Even in a darkening world.  We as Latter-Day Saints may sing with joy knowing that the powers of heaven are with God’s church and people.  We may rejoice in the knowledge that a beautiful morning lies ahead .....the dawn of the millennial day.  When the son of God shall rise in the east and reign again on the earth.”  Bruce D. Porter

I Know this is true... Joseph Smith’s first prayer   hymn  #2      I love this song

Love you baby girl