04/07/14-Week 60! {Week 1 or Transfer 11} "CONFERENCE!"

Hi!! :D

I have hardly any time today. Sorry!! I have 12 minutes to do this. I hope my fingers can work and type super fast! Say a prayer! Hopefully prayers in the future count for things in that past. Man. I can't type! Your prayers aren't working....

Anyways....This past week was a pretty good week! We had a really neat experience with our Part-Member family. We are teaching the husband and daughter of a less-active member, Sister Day. Since Brother Day and his daugher, Evayce decided to get baptized, all of the powers of hell have been combining against them! He lost his job, she lost her job, the daughter got kicked out of school, they got evicted from their house, and the list goes on. They are staying with Brother Day's sister and it is not a good environment. There is sadness and darkness there. It has been rough on their marriage and family. They have contemplated getting a divorce and everything. But this week things turned around! Sister Day came to both of the Saturday sessions of conference at the church. In between the two sessions she was having a really hard time. She was crying and getting so stressed that it was making her sick. We called the Elders and asked if they could come give her a blessing. It was wonderful! The blessing was very inspiring and gave her so much direction. After the blessing she was back to her normal self. She was laughing and smiling. I truly felt that there was evil in her that was cast out. She is doing much better. We even received permission from the sister, whose home they are staying at, to come every day and read and pray with them!! Horray!! We know that this will help them stay strong. :) Keep them in your prayers. They need all of the help they can get.

I love conference this week! It was so inspiring. Talk about power when Elder Holland was speaking. It was incredible. Especially the last part of his testimony when he said that he knows that this church is true more surly than he knew that he was standing in front of us at the pulpit. I got such chills! He is one of my favorite speakers at conference. He always seems to hit exactly what I need to hear. As a missionary we have to stand alone a lot (well, with our companion) and it can be hard. But I know that the Savior stands with us. It is beautiful. I love this gospel. I love the leaders of the church. Just hearing them speak, you know they are inspired of God. If you have trouble believing that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God..well do you know if Thomas S. Monson is a prophet? You can listen to him!! And know for yourself. It is amazing. We are so lucky to be members of this church. I am learning so much about it. I have so much more to learn. I still have questions and doubts sometimes, but I am finding answers. Just like it was taught in conference by the guy with the cool accent! I don't' remember his name... Elder Aidi...i don't know. But gain the revelation for yourself. As you study, ponder, pray, and fast you can learn the truth of things. I practice that all of the time as a missionary! And we teach people to do that too.

I am also learning so much about myself. This past week I am learning a lot about the gift of discernment. I have learned that I tend to take on other peoples' emotions. With our investigators, when they are confused, I get confused. I have a really in-tune line with other people. Interestingly I have even noticed that when one of my investigators is having a bad day, I have a bad day too. When I meet up with them later, they explain to me how they have been feeling, and I have been feeling the same way. I have noticed it with Sister Day, Naomi, Kerry, Richard, and lots of others. I don't know why I do it. I don't even know how it is possible...but I have started to pick up on it. Now when I am having a really bad day I think..." Who is feeling this way that I need to help?" "Which one of my investigators feels like this and how can I help them get out of it?" It is easier said than done...but I am starting to notice a pattern. (I don't know if any of that made any sense...but I thought I would share it.) We each have spiritual gifts that we don't even know about..or understand. I don't understand this spiritual gift yet, but I am going to learn about it. It is something to do with discernment. But I don't know. Sometimes I feel how the Savior felt when he felt the exact things that we are feeling so that He can sympathize. I feel like sometimes Heavenly Father puts me through trials or hardships so that I can help my investigators. We each can learn and understand what our spiritual gifts are as we pay attention to our strengths..and our weakness. Often our biggest strengths are our biggest weaknesses as well. Like for me, being compassionate is great! But when I get sucked down into despair with them..not so great.

I am grateful for all I am learning as a missionary. It is truly preparing me for my life after the mission. As a mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, student, everything! I don't even know what I would be like without it. I have changed so much so far. I can't imagine all of the changes I will continue to have.

Well, time is up! I love you all! Have a wonderful week :) :) Spring is on the way!!!

Love,
Sister Farr

p.s. my companion is a good artist! Here is a drawing she did of me. And me with red hair! And her with blonde hair!! :) haha"

03/31/14-Week 59 {Week 5 of Transfer 10} "Hanshew!!"

Hi :)

This week was a crazy one...but we made it! We had a total of 30 lessons that we taught. (They want us to teach 20 lessons a week. So we exceeded it!) It was a lot of work though. We also got our transfer calls this week. I will be staying here in New Haven with Sister Parker :) So no address change or anything. Keep sending things to:

860 State Road 930 E #82
New Haven, IN 46774

Thank you for all of your support! I love you all so much :) The Hanshew family got baptized on Saturday!!! It was absolutely amazing. Sister Parker and I felt like we were little chickens running around with our heads cut off to get everything done, but it all worked out. We didn't get a picture with them until after their baptism, but it is okay. They were just beaming. Sister Hanshew had to be baptized 2 times because her hair came up, but then it all went smoothly. The spirit was so strong there. There were lots of members and nonmembers there. The spirit was penetrating the air. You could grab it, I swear! I loved it so much. Sister Parker and I gave the talks....which we remembered we were giving as we were handing out the programs. So we just winged it on the spot. Good thing we teach about Baptism and the Holy Ghost a lot! haha :) It was really good though. This ward has been amazing. They are so willing to help and always are asking what they can do for us. I am so grateful for them. The Bishop is trying to help us do the work. The Young Women's president has been having us go out with her to visit the less-active girls in the ward to have them come back. I love the ward involvement! We can't do it without them! I just love them :) I love the area here and the ward here. It was so cute...the day before their baptism, Brother Hanshew asked us if we could go shopping with him to pick out an outfit for his baptism. He is a cute 50 year old guy and didn't know what to get. So Sister Parker and I met him at Kohl's on our lunch break and picked out his shirt and tie. It was lots of fun! :)  [the picture is of Brother and Sister Hanshew and their daughter].

We found a couple more new investigators. One of them is an 18 year old named Noah. We caught him walking inside after coming home from school. He had a boy scout shirt with him so we started asking him about that. It lead from that to the church he went to and then into the Book of Mormon. It was really neat. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and he wants to read it. He is really open. I have found so often on my mission that the youth are the ones that are the most open. Once they grow up, they get more of the worlds view drilled into them. But so often it is the younger generation that is learning and accepting the gospel. I am so grateful for the gospel in my life. It really has changed me.

We went into the combined YM/YW Sunday school class yesterday and bore our testimonies to them. We want to work closely with some of the youth in our ward. They need extra support! But the Bishop came in and talked about the Atonement. He brought up a point about light and it's properties. He said that light moves at about 186,282 miles/second. suuuuper fast. He asked, "if you were going 186,281 miles/second, would light only be passing you at 1 mile/second?" All of us figured yes because that is normally how it would work. But the answer is no. One of the special properties of light is that no matter how fast you are going, light will always pass you at 186,282 miles/second. So you can never catch up to it. Then he related that to the gospel and how Jesus Christ is compared to being the 'Light of the World'. We will never be able to catch up to Him. No matter how fast or how hard we try. That is why Jesus had to come and die for us. That is the only way that we can catch up. I just thought it was so interesting that before we even knew all of these laws of physics about light, Jesus Christ compared himself to being the light of the world. Obviously He knew the properties of light. The more I learn about science and logic, the more I believe in God. I know that He is there. I know that He loves us and He created us. It is just amazing to think. I hope you could follow my thoughts...I just was having them as he continued to talk.

Yes, I loved the General Women's conference!! Goodness. Just hearing the voices of the leaders of our church makes me want to cry. It is like seeing a long lost friend or talking with my grandpa. I just love it. The theme was definitely love one another. I thought it was perfect!! We really do need to unite together. We have to stop judging and comparing. We are all God's children and He loves us. We need to treat each other that way. I love the leaders of our church. They are simply amazing. They really are led by our Father in Heaven. I am SOOOOO excited for General Conference this week! I can't even tell you! I love General Conference. We get to hear from our Prophet and Apostles....or more specifically our Savior and our Father in Heaven. Because they are the ones that speak to us. Just like it says in D&C 1:38, if it is from the voice of Him or His servants it is the same. We need to take General Conference more seriously. They speak for God. If we knew that God was going to be at a meeting, would we miss it? Wouldn't we do all we could to hear from Him?? Well, that is what General Conference is.

Oh man. I love this gospel. I am grateful to share it. It is definitely hard. People sometimes aren't too happy to have

us at their door or talking to them, but when people accept it and get baptized...it makes all of the difference!! Keep praying for us! We need all of the help we can get. I love you all!!

Love, 
Sister Farr


wildlife :D Dad will appreciate the deer. And the Chipmunk was just chillin out in someone's front yard :)

03/24/14-Week 58 {Week 3 of Transfer 10} "TEMPLE!!"

Hi!

Sorry that last week I didn't get to email. Let just say.....it was SUPER busy. We never even got to go shopping. So Sister Parker and I have been out of toilet paper for..about a week and half. We have gone through all of our paper towels and tissues. Good thing some other sisters gave us a roll of toilet paper the other day. But no need to fear! Today we get to go shopping!! Horray! :) I missed being able to email all of you, but I will try to get as much as I can into this email. Our mission president has put a 60 minute time limit to emailing every week. It used to not be specified. So in the library at 60 minutes it shuts off and closes. I have 20 minutes left..lets see how fast I can type! :)

First off, I went to the temple this week on Tuesday! We went to the Columbus, Ohio temple. It was a lot like the Louisville, KY temple. Just little and petite, but beautiful as always! I absolutely loved it. It went by too fast. I have missed going to the temple. Sister Parker and I were the last people to leave the celestial room. We just sat in there and soaked in the spirit. It was incredible and so so strong. I cannot deny that it is the house of God. There is no doubt in my mind. I love it there. It is wonderful. I just want to live there! Oh wait.. our homes can be the place that is closest to the temple in sacredness. I want my children to come home to a place where they feel the spirit right when they walk in. Where they feel that safety and refuge. It all comes through centering it on Jesus Christ. Reading and praying together every day. Having FHE and the little things. Just like in Alma 37:6-7: By small and simple things are great things brought to pass. I know that it is true. It is not just what the prophets suggest or is good. But it is the Lord's promise (and he doesn't break his promises), that if we put him first and pray and read together, we will be blessed in all things both spiritually and temporally (Mosiah 2:41). Ah! This gospel is so true. I can't handle it sometimes. I just love it! I hope all of you can understand and feel that for yourselves.

This next Saturday is something called a social media day. We will be having members of our ward follow us around and take pictures of us as we work. They will take pictures of us teaching and we have a baptism that day, so for that. They will take pictures of us studying, everything!
It is to get it out on the media what we do as missionaries. The hope is that members will share the pictures (not just like them) and then the church will be exposed to thousands of people that day!! How neat is that?!? :D I am excited! So if you see some pictures of me and Sister Parker floating around on facebook, (it will be under #mormon) then share them!! :D

Hm.. I am trying to think of what to say now. Well, Sister Parker and I had an interesting experience last Sunday. Before we went to our service, one of our investigators, Dane, invited us to come to his church (and then he would come to ours ). So we said sure! And we went. It was a Pentecostal church (but no snakes or anything). It was...different. There were 16 people total (including the pasture) and so we stuck out like a sore thumb. But they were all very friendly. The sermon was different. I didn't know what was happening. The preacher was yelling at times and got red in the face and pointed his finger. It just felt so empty compared to our services. It was like he had to put on a show up front so that people would listen and pay attention...to entertain.. but the spirit wasn't there. I was so happy to go into our meeting after. It just testified to me how true this church is!! It is absolutely, 100% true. Everything about it. People are not perfect, but this gospel is. I love it. It was a good experience though. I came to understand how different it must be for our investigators to come to our church if they grew up in a church like that. But just in case you were wondering, this church is true!!!!! :D

The Hanshew's are getting baptized this Saturday!! :D At 4:00pm :D I am sooo excited! I can't even tell you. We had a lesson with them yesterday with the bishop in his office, and it was amazing. The spirit was so strong. They talked about how we had helped them. How the previous missionaries had just come and had dinner and hung out, but when Sister Parker and I came, we pushed them and invited them. We simply opened our mouths and invited them to pray about baptism. And look where they are now. The Bishop shared with us the conversion of his parents and how they were disowned by their parents because of joining the church. But they stayed strong. And now so many more people are being blessed because of that choice. The sacrifices we make will never be forgotten by the Lord. Just like one of my favorite quotes by President Monson says: "The greatest decision I ever made was to give up something that I loved to the God I loved more. He has never forgotten me for it." That is so true. If we give up something that we dearly love to God, He will bless us more than we can see. Of course there comes opposition with blessings, but it is so worth it. I have definitely learned more about the principle of sacrifice on my mission than ever before. Bah ! I just love this gospel!! :D

We are also teaching our sweet Amish friends. They have been going through some really challenging times. They are nearing the point where they will be shunned soon :( They have had so many people threaten them and tell them they are going to hell. But we have just been there to support. They came to chruch yesterday! It was great! We had 5 people at church :) But we took them on a walk the other day. They are both blind, so Naomi had to hold onto my arm as we walked. It was fun to get to know them and learn about their culture. It is actually quite smiliar to ours. But really, they don't believe in salvation. It is a hope that they can be saved, but there is no true hope or belief that you will. It is quite depressing, actually. They realized that Jesus can save them and will be there for them. They have SO much faith. :)

The Day family moved this week (James, Evalyce, and Crystal). And we spent....8ish hours helping them. They found out last week that they had to move and so they had so much to do. We spent time loading things in our cars and going back and forth to a storage unit to store things there. It is so sad what they have to go through. But they have had faith through it all! They keep strong and know that God will provide. Keep them in your prayers. They need extra strength. They came to church yesterday too!! It was great :) :) 

I hope you all know how much I love you. I wish that I had more time to write you all that happens. But I write down the things that come to mind first. I hope that God can help you find answers that you are searching for. I pray for you and know that God is with you always!!

Love, 

Sister Farr 

03/10/14-Week 57 {Week 3 of Transfer 10} "Frowning Amish Goats"

Sister Parker & Sister Farr

Hi Family!!!

I hardly have ANY time today. I am sorry. I will try to get as much as I can in this email.

So. To explain the email heading....We had dinner with a member family last night and we were talking about the Atonement. The Dad was trying to get his little girl to finish the words of "I Stand all Amazed" and he said: " I stand all amazed at the ______......"... and she said "Frowny face." He kept going and each time she just kept getting it wrong. hahaha. We laughed pretty hard along with the other family. Then later we were talking about Jesus Christ and her mom said: "We talked about Jesus today during sacrament! Remember?? Jesus died on the.._____"...and she said: "Goat!!" We all laughed really hard again. Sister Parker and I were kind of crying a little bit actually. :) It was great!! AND on the way up to their house we drove past a bunch of amish people!!! They live down the street from a bunch of them!! CRAZY!!! We took a bunch of picutres... haha

We had 4 people come to church yesterday too!! A part member family and the Hanshews (Who are on baptism date) :D :D It was amazing! And we found....... 8 new investigators!! That is a record for my mission :D But we had a miracle on Saturday. We were outside and decided to talk to this guy who was walking inside. We saw him walking and made eye contact with each other and just kept walking over to him. We talked with him, and he had never heard of the church. We gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to church. AND HE CAME!! What?? No one ever com

es like that. it was insane. Seriously! It was such a miracle. I just love this gospel. And I ove all of you!! I have 20 seconds left. Have a wonderful Week!!!! You are all wonderful. I am sorry this is so short. 

Love,

Sister Farr

03/03/14-Week 56 {Week 2 of Transfer 10}

Hi there :)

I am trying to even remember what happened last week. Let me pull out my planner....We have done lots of finding!!! We found 7 new people to teach this week :) A lot of them have been through trying to find out who "unknown" members are who haven't been to church in a long time. We find their house and either it is a part member family, or someone else has moved in. We have just seen so many, many miracles! There are wonderful things happening in New Haven and I just LOVE being here! Sister Parker and I have had so much fun. She is so sweet and helpful with everything. We are so similar and really can relate to each other. I love it :D

But we had a wonderful miracle with the Hanshew family! So when we first met them...2 weeks ago ish....we asked Sister and Brother Hanshew to pray about being baptized on March 29th. Since then, we have had quite a few powerful lessons with them. The first lesson, Sister Hanshew got a blessing of peace and healing. The spirit was so very strong. She said that she had never felt the Spirit with the missionaries before. And Sister Parker and I were determined to change that pattern!! Then we had a really neat lesson with her this week about the Book of Mormon. We did something that I call a "Book of Mormon experience".- - - you all should try it too - - - It is something that we teach our investigators to do so that they can learn how to gain revelation from the Book of Mormon and not just read it to read it. So we had her think of a question that she needed answers to....about anything! church...work...family...school...anything. When she picked out her question, we had her say a prayer and ask God to answer the question that she needed answers to. Then we had her open the Book of Mormon to a random page and start to read. We all turned there with her. As we read, the Spirit came into the room. It was such a sweet and peaceful feeling. We sat there and had her search for her answer after she had read 10 or so verses. But it didn't take her long. She just said, "wow. There it is.." It was so neat. It answered her question directly. When we opened the Book of Mormon to where she had chosen, I was a little bit nervous at first. I wasn't sure that it would be what she needed, but it was exactly what she needed. And the spirit really testified. It was powerful! It was then that she really started to read the Book of Mormon. She would read it when she was eating, or waiting for something. Then Sister Parker and I have started to call them every evening at 7pm to have family prayer with them over the phone. All of this combined really brought the Spirit into the home and into their lives. The other night, the Elders went over there for dinner and as they ate, Sister Hanshew brought up how she was praying about a baptismal date. And she said that she was going to get baptized on March 29th. She wanted to be a Mormon. She knew it was true and it felt right. Then she turned to her husband and asked him if he was going to do it too and he said yes! How amazing!!!! :D :D The Elders called us right afterwards so excited. They told us the wonderful news and Sister Parker and I were just beaming with happiness. We are so excited for them! They want it and they are ready to be baptized. Continue to keep them in your prayers!!

Then we had a neat experience with our investigator, Sherri. We just stopped in one day and she had 2 other friends over. We started to talk to her and all of them. As we continued to talk, we started to talk about the Book of Mormon and the restoration a little bit. Her friends, Myrtle and Henry, started to listen quite intently. As we talked more, Henry brought up some concerns that he had with our church. He had heard some anti and had some misconceptions of what we believe. As we talked through them and cleared up the confusion he had, they continued to listen more and more. At the end of our visit, we asked them if they would like to come to church, and they said they would! We then proceeded to talk about baptism and asked them if they came to know that this church was true if they each would be baptized. and all three of them said yes. (!!!) how amazing is that?? The power of the spirit is amazing. The way the Lord can soften the hearts of people amazes me every time. Last night we had another lesson with Myrtle and it was so powerful. We talked more about the Spirit and the restoration of the gospel. In many points the spirit was so strong that she would tear up. I would tear up. The member we brought would tear up. It was just beautiful. I love the power the Spirit brings. It would be useless to try to share this gospel without it. We would just talk and talk, but nothing would ever come of it.

This church is true! It is the Kingdom of God on the earth. It is the only church with the fullness of the teachings of Jesus Christ. It is the only gospel that has God's full plan for us. We know who God is and what He wants for us. He is our Father. He loves us. We have a purpose! I love the spirit I feel each and every time I share the Plan of Salvation. I never fail to have it testified to me over and over that this church is true. If you don't know that yet, pray and ask your Father in Heaven and then search for His answer. Remember, it is seek and you shall find. We have to seek and search. We must do our part. Everything doesn't just get handed to us. We have to work for it. I have worked very hard the past 13 months to come to know more about this gospel. And I have come to know it is true. Oh goodness :) I just love it!! :D And I love you all too! So very much. Thank you for your prayers and support.

Love,
Sister Emilee Farr

p.s. I repented and brought my cord to send pictures, but now my cord isn't working! So...I may have to buy a new one. I am sorry! I will do better. I promise :)

02/24/14-Week 55 {Week 1 of Transfer 10} "Korean, Tobacco, Garage..."

Hello :) :) :)

It has just been a wonderful week! I have some news! I have been transferred! To....drum roll.............New Haven, Indiana! It is just about 45 minutes north of Huntington. I am still in the same stake :) I guess I will just stay in good old Indiana!! :D Here is my new address:

Sister Emilee Farr

860 State Road 930 East #82

New Haven, Indiana 46774

My new companion is Sister April Parker. She is from Oxford, Idaho and the 4th of 9 kids. She is so sweet and adorable! She is a powerful missionary too! We are the STL's here in our zone. We are over just 2 other sets of sisters (that is a big change from last transfer). It has just been so great to be Sister Parker's companion. We got doubled into our area into an area that just had elders. Let's just say the apartment was a little dirty.....ya know, mold in the bathroom, trash in boxes all over, dirty dishes in the sink, un-vacuumed.... I don't know how Elders can live like that. haha. It opened my eyes a little bit! Sister Parker and I had to spend quite a while cleaning our apartment the next few days. But now we have a cute little home that we love. We even have a real piano in our apartment!! So during some breaks I play some songs from memory. It is great!

It has been a week full of laughter. Sister Parker and I have just had so many awkward missionary experiences. Here are a few:

-We were tracting at an apartment complex and decided to knock on two doors at once to make it interesting. After we knocked I said "What if they both answer??" She said "I don't  know..." One door opened and we started to talk to the guy, and then sure enough the next door opened and a lady came out. So Sister Parker jumped over and started talking to her, while I talked to him. It was suuuuuuuper awkward and funny. He said "Did you knock on my door...?" I said, "Yeah, we knocked on both!" He looked so confused. hahaha. It was just great.

-We changed our GPS voice to a Korean woman. And when ever it says to turn left it says "chow Asian!" when it said to turn right it says "ooo raisin" It cracks us up. (we are easily entertained....)

-We walked all over downtown Fort Wayne trying to find a map of our area. Finally people directed us to Regiels which is a tobacco and smoke shop to get some maps...that was a little interesting....I came out with a headache!!
-We were knocking on some neighbors door to a LA and we walked up to the front door and there was a sign that said to use the back door. So we walked around the house and saw a door in a garage that was open and it looked like it had a doorbell. So we went inside and pushed on the door bell. But...it turned out not to be a doorbell...the garage door started to close.....hahaha!!! Sister Parker and I were kind of freaking out and saying "no! no! no! stop! no!" it was funny. We pushed it again and the door opened. Then we opened the screen door to knock, and the other door opened because of the pressure change. We looked in to see a little boy on a computer watching a talking cat video. He slowly turned around and came over. We asked if his mom was there and he wouldn't respond. But we asked again and he said no. We asked if his dad was there and he said yes. We asked if he would get him and he said no. Then he told us to come in and we said to get his dad. Eventually after asking him numerous times to go and get an adult and him refusing, he just walked back to the computer and watched his video. So we awkwardly walked outside of their garage and laughed for a few minutes after that :)

-We were talking to this man walking outside and asked him if we could come over sometime and talk to him about Jesus. He opened up his arms and said "you can come into my bedroom anytime.." Sister Parker said "That would be highly inappropriate!" And he looked away ashamed and said "I know." <- missionary smack down! It was super awkward though.

-Our GPS stopped working at about 9 at night one day and we were lost. We ended up calling our District Leader and asking him to help us find our way back home. It was great fun. We were all doubled in (us and the elders) so we were all just lost. But we made it home in one piece! :) It was so much fun.

In the past couple of days we have seen miracles here too! We found a new lady to teach outside when we were taking our loads of trash to the dumpster. She stopped us and asked if we were from a church. We talked with her and she told us how she wanted to change her life. She had been drinking and she knew that she needed to do better. We talked with her for a while and it was really good. She was crying and hugged us. It was a miracle that Heavenly Father gave us right in our apartment complex! :) We ended up meeting her mom too and are teaching her!

We picked up a family that the Elders were teaching here before. The first time we met Sister Hanshew, she told us that she wanted to know more about the church. She said that she was trying to decided on baptism, but she didn't know enough to make her decision. She told us that she has never felt the spirit with the missionaries before. Well, Sister Parker and I thought that we better change that! As we talked with her she started to mention how things in their family were hard and that she needed more peace. We ended up offering her to get a blessing. The Elders came over and gave her a powerful blessing. Afterwards we asked her how she felt and she explained that she had felt the Spirit. She felt calm and peaceful. We testified that it was the Spirit. It was such a neat experience! 

It has been wonderful! I love my new area, the ward, my companion. I am so excited to work here. I am excited for the challenges that lie ahead and the miracles we will see. I know I have so much to learn and become. Sister Parker has taught me so much already. :) This church is incredible. Each time that I teach someone the Restoration or the Plan of Salvation, my testimony grows stronger. This church does have all of the answers. We hold the truth. We have what everyone needs to fill the gaps that are in their souls. Only through this gospel can they truly be healed. Only through this gospel can they fully access the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I just love this gospel! :D :D 

I love you all so so much! :D

Sister Emilee Farr

p.s. I forgot my cord to send pictures...so I will have to send you pictures next week. Sorry!! 

02/17/14-Week 54 [Week 6 of Transfer 9] "Cold Feet"

Big news!! I am getting transferred!! Who would have thought?? I have been here in Huntington, Indiana for 9 months now. I just figured I was never leaving. I spent half of my mission here. But I am packing up and getting ready to face a new adventure. I will find out tomorrow morning where I am going and who I am going with. It will be exciting. :) 

So: don't send any more letters to the 337 William street address. I do not live there anymore.

I will let you know next week what my new address is. 

I also have some sad news, Wayne did not end up getting baptized on Saturday :( He ended up getting nervous and decided not to get baptized this week. But he said that he DOES want to be baptized, but he just got "cold feet" as he put it. As I put it, he is a little bit of a spiritual snail :) He just moves a little bit slower spiritually. But I still love him to pieces! I am going to miss him a lot. He is like an older brother to me...a much older brother, haha. Keep him in your prayers still, he needs support and love. It is a big step for him and it is going to take a lot of faith. But we had a really good lesson with him on Saturday! We had a couple come with us and they were perfect! Sister Smith talked about how her family was just like him and nervous and hesitant. "They didn't want to make the wrong decision." But she told him how much the church has helped her and her family and how she now looks back and thinks, "what was the big deal?" It was really good for him I think. I have no doubt that he will be baptized soon. 

Yesterday we had a super busy day!! But I had a pretty cool experience. We had what is called a "Cottage Meeting" which is pretty much just a very informal fireside for investigators and less-actives. They show a short film and then we discuss it and have refreshments. Well, yesterday a youth in the ward came and brought her friend with her. I saw her friend when we came in, but we had some investigators there that we went and sat by. At the end when everyone was eating and chatting, I decided that I had better go over and talk to her. And it was really neat! We had a really good conversation. It started out with her talking about how involved she was in her church to talking about how she wasn't really happy in her church. We talked about how there were so many different churches and they claimed to be "Christian" but don't really live it. We talked about how the Bible can be confusing. It was just perfect! I just thought, "Man, this girl just needs the restoration!" So we set up a time to meet up again, but unfortunately she lives in the other sisters' area, so we had to hand her off, but it was still a really neat experience! I was nervous to go over and start the conversation, but it went really well! Heavenly Father has definitely been guiding me and helping me. I just love the thrill that comes when you share the gospel!

Gracie & Sister Farr

We had 4 investigators at church yesterday!! The Martin family and then Gracie {she is the cute girl in the picture that I am hugging} :) We were so excited! And other less-actives came. It was just a wonderful day! 

I went on lots of exchanges again this week. One up in Kendallville with Sister Rolfe. She is so cute and sweet! We had a wonderful lesson with a young man named Jack, at the church! We were walking around the building and stopped at a picture of Christ getting baptized, and he talked about how he had never been baptized, and so we asked him right there if he would and he said yes! {!!!!} 

Then I was in Aboite with Sister Standage and we had a miracle happen with a blessing. Their investigator Taylor has been really struggling recently. As we were teaching her, I was sharing a personal experience with how I was able to get through with the Priesthood, and it hit me that she needed a blessing. We went straight over to a members' home and the husband gave her a blessing and it was beautiful! The Priesthood is real. I know that more than ever. 

Then we had an exchange with the Decatur sisters, Sister Memmott. We had a fun day! We were busy busy busy. But we had a wonderful lesson with our investigators Lavon and Richard. {And they have been having family prayer!!!!!} <--we had been trying to get them to do that for weeks. We talked about how the Book of Mormon can help them and their family even more. It was a wonderful lesson! And then they let us make them breakfast in the morning before church! And they came to church! And they came to the Cottage Meeting!!!! :D :D It was amazing! They are doing so well.

But yes, in a nutshell, that was my week. This morning we helped in seminary and it was lots of fun! We had to wake up at 5 in the morning. But we acted like the teachers and treated them like they just got the MTC. They were so out of it...it was funny :) hahah. But it was lots of fun to be able to interact with them more. We talked about how important the Book of Mormon is in everything that we do as missionaries and members. The Book of Mormon is what holds our church together. Without the Book of Mormon we really don't have much of anything. It proves the entire Restoration...which brings about our whole church. We told them how important it is for them to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon. You can resolve any conflict that people have with the church by bringing it back to the Book of Mormon. If they object with the Word of Wisdom, Law of Chastity, Temples, anything! You can tie it back to the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. I never really understood how important the Book of Mormon is. I love that book. I read it every day. I challenge all of you to take any concern that you have and relate it back to the Book of Mormon. If you don't know the Book of Mormon is true, then read it and sincerely pray. I promise you that the Holy Ghost will testify of its truthfulness. I love this gospel. I love the opportunity I have to share it with others!!

Thank you for all of your support. I love you all!!!

All my love,

Sister Farr