Back to Daytona

Hello Everyone,

 

What a crazy week! It feels like its been two months. Sister Cuthbert went home because of sickness. So I am back in Daytona for the week with Sister Beckert and Schmidt. It is the weirdest thing. I feel like I am lost and I am not really understanding what is going on.

 

So back up....

 

Sister Cuthbert is amazing! She was orginally suppose to go to Fiji but while in the MTC she got sick. Her stomach did something like charlie horses. She got every test in the book done to her and they couldnt find anything wrong with her. She got approved to come back out and in this trasnfer she started getting sick again, but it got worse. President and Sister Hall got right to work getting the help she needed. Last week, we couldnt do anything and it was so hard to watch Sister Cuthbert in so much pain. It made me think of the Atonement and how Christ suffered for us and though I couldnt do anything for Sister Cuthbert in the moment, I knew Heavenly Father knew her and was comforting her. She made the decision to go home because she didnt think it would get better. I love Sister Cuthbert so very much. I have been thinking about why it had to happen and all this stuff. This last trasnfer has been so rough but in the end, I feel heavenly Father's love so much. We learned this weekend, success is about stepping out of our comfort zone and doing what Heavenly Father commands us to do.

 

I am graetful for Sister Cuthbert. She taught me love. She is a great gal and she is going to do some powerful things in her future. So in my last week I am in Daytona. Its weird but I am really praying and looking for how I can contribute to this area, one last time.

 

 

I love you all. Keep the Faith.

 

Sister Ploth.

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Sunrises and Inspirations.

Hello All!!

 

This morning we saw the beautiful sunrise in Ormond Beach! Sister Cuthbert and I planned a sunrise service. It was great to see Heavenly Father's painting right in the morning. We woke up at 5:15 and carvaned over to Ormond to be there at 6:30am and we were there until about 8:30am. It was a wonderful last district prep day.

 

The first picture was taken by Sister Beckert and its ME catching a football. the Elders were nice enough to let me throw it around for a few minutes. One gentlemen on the beach said to Elder Wright that it was the funniest thing to watch a girl try to play. how rude! But that's okay, look at this picture!! EPIC!

 

Second picture is of the whole district right after the sunrise. Pretty good looking group! I love these Elders and Sisters so much! I learn a lot from them and they inspire me to be better.

 

This week, what an adventure. We had the car which was sweet but we still biked a lot. We picked up a few people to teach. Unfortunately, they haven't called us back. I love the teaching funnel. You just push people through it until someone sticks. We met a lot more members this week and tried to get to know them and serve them. Nothing yet but we will keep trying. On Friday we had dinner with a Sister in the ward. She is amazing. She has done a lot and she was inspiring. She let us know we can do whatever we want, we just have to work hard for it. Something she said that stuck out to me was, "You can have all you want, you just cannot have it all at once." Which is so true! We can have all we want, but it will take time.

 

For this upcoming week, I will be hitting my official 18 month mark! holy cow! time goes so fast. In ZTM this week I realized that it was coming to an end, at least to this chapter. I also got my info for my flight home and holy cow. so crazy!

 

Well I hope y'all have a great week! Keep praying for us here in Port Orange!

 

Love always.

Sister Ploth

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Days Like this, I will miss.

Hello All!!

 

I hope you had a great great week! We did! We had zone conference. An excellent time to be trained on the work. I was also able to give my departing testimony. That day came way to fast. As I stood at the pupilt and saw the Elders and Sisters I have come to love and respect I knew that this has been the best 18 months of my life and I dont regert a sing moment of it! Every rejection and sadness was worth the miralces and the growth. As I come to an end I puzzle what I can write baout but I want to share about this picture attatched...

 

This was taken Tuesday, Feb 16th. We were off on our bikes, It was kinda gloomy but not rainy YET! Soon it started pouring but we were on our way to bless homes on a road about 2 miles away. We had the faith we would find and we felt like it would be a good day. When we got to the road, Chipmunk Trail, we discovered that it had 3 houses on it and no one was home! Here we are soaking wet but still happy and singing. We started knocking on the road next to it. No one was feeling it. We found a drunk man who likes mormons but we is fine. Then we knocked on the door of a lady named Dorothy, she is 101 years old! She let us pray with her and said we could back (that is a different story). We then jumped on our bikes to head up and boy oh boy the rain is harder. We got home to clean up. Our 3:30 and only invesitgoatr cancels. ACK! We have service at 4 for the RS President which was fun and then we went to the RS activity. As you can see, everything fell through, nothing was accomplished through our key indiactors. Northing miracleous happened but it was days like this that I realized how much I would miss being a Repersenative of Jesus Christ. What a blessing and I am excited to finish this off with Sister Cuthbert by my side! Keep praying for us! WE NEED A MIRACLE!!!

 

love always.

Sis Ploth.

 

 

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Grettings from Port Orange, Florida

Hello Everyone!

 

Grettings from Port Orange, Florida!!

 

I have always wanted to open an area but let me tell you all something! Its the hardest thing to do and on top of that I have been SICK! yes, the past three days my throat has been killer and I have felt like death. Sister Cuthbert snuck in some honey into my drink to help me. EW! But I didnt taste it.

 

We dont have a big teaching pool. Our one and only invesitgator is, Amy. She is guess what...DATING A MEMBER. hahah. He lives in Orlando and she wants to learn more. Crazy story. She was looking up a relator and came across Brother Hellum's name and then googled "mormons in Port Orange" and found Brother Hellum's profile and so she called him up. We taught her on Wednesday. She is a thinker and isnt looking to join any church, she just wants to know whats up. As she was reading Moroni's promise in the Book of Mormon she defianlty felt the Spirit. She came to church on Sunday and poor girl, it was ward conference. Possibly the most boring service in church history.

 

The Ward has been so great! The Taylor family has done so much for us! So has Sister Warner. They have made this transtion great. The Ward is excited to have Sisters. They havent had sisters in over a girl. Elder Rumsey actually was a part of white washing from Sisters to Elders so I got to talk to him this past week. That was pretty sweet!

 

This week we have Zone conference and great plans to find people to teach. I think my main purpose here is to prepare Sister Cuthbert to train. But she doesnt need much help! She is so loving and outgoing. She shared with me that when she was younger she would get teased a lot so as she got older her mom told her, to make sure noone ever feels like she did when she was younger. And boy she overgoes it. She makes EVERYONE feel special. She was suppose to go to Fiji on her mission but she got sick and they sent her home from the MTC. She bugged them until they sent her back out so i know she understands why she is here!

 

It still feels so surreal to know this is my last transfers but all the Elders make sure to keep me in check. I am always getting, "Dont get trunky Sister Ploth!" haha. they are great!

 

I hope yall have a great week and have a great missionary expereince!!

 

love,

Sister Ploth

 

pictures attatched: Sister Cuthbert and I! She is a doll!

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Last Transfer and I am...

LEAVING DAYTONA!!

I am so sad! I am just going to the ward over, to open a new sister area with Sister Cuthbert. She is a new missionary. I am excited and nervous. I didnt think I would be leaving but here I am. Rats. Oh well. The Lord does what the Lord wants.

This week was great! Denie was baptized! It was an amazing baptism. It was so spiritual and just what she needed. Brother Barrett even grabbed her right after to assign her for a talk! hahaha. She will be speaking next week!

For the picture: I am wearing a wrist brace. This past week I was brushing my teeth and when i went to out down my hands I jammed it really hard on the counter. I screamed. Its not bruised. It kind of hurts but not too bad. 

Well I have to go back! So I hope yall have a great and lets finish up this transfer strong!!

love ya! 

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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Hello All!!

I hope you all had a great week! We did! Now we are starting Week 6 of this transfer. Next transfer will be my last transfer and it will only be 5 weeks instead of 6 weeks. In case some people are lost on to why that is. Back on October in General Conference, where we are able to listen to modern day Prophets and Apostles, they made an announcement that the age requirement for missionaries would be lowered. Elders could go out at 18 instead of 19 and Sisters could go out at 19 instead of 21. What an amazing change! The work is hastening in the mission field. Because of this there are more missionaries coming into the field, more sisters than ever. So they had to make it so time in the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah would be less. Instead of 3 weeks missionaries are there for 2 weeks so transfers in the field have to be caught down JUST ONE TIME, so that means everyone from starting at my group in the FLorida Orlando Mission will be home one week early. 

SO! I will be coming home March 27th. But don't worry, I have all the time in the world. (: We still have lots of people to contact and help be healed from their sins through Jesus Christ. Its been a great experience so far and I am not slowing down. So keep us in your prayers!!

This weekend we took Jan to the temple (see attached picture). It was great! She felt the spirit and gets to go back in a few weeks to do baptisms for the dead! (For those of those who don't know that that is here in excellent time to check out mormon.org FAQ (http://mormon.org/faq/topic/baptism/question/baptism-for-the-dead). 

This week we are preparing for Denie's baptism. WOW! She is great and is doing awesome. I love her a lot. It will be on Saturday at 7:30 if anyone wants to attend (;

ZTM was awesome this week! We learned about our purpose and how to be obedient to our purpose. That was great! We have so much to improve on but with the Lord we can accomplish it all.

oh and of course HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! 

John 13: 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye  love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

So go out and show your love for those around you!

love always, Sister Ploth

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Hello All!!

I hope you all had a great week! We did! Now we are starting Week 6 of this transfer. Next transfer will be my last transfer and it will only be 5 weeks instead of 6 weeks. In case some people are lost on to why that is. Back on October in General Conference, where we are able to listen to modern day Prophets and Apostles, they made an announcement that the age requirement for missionaries would be lowered. Elders could go out at 18 instead of 19 and Sisters could go out at 19 instead of 21. What an amazing change! The work is hastening in the mission field. Because of this there are more missionaries coming into the field, more sisters than ever. So they had to make it so time in the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah would be less. Instead of 3 weeks missionaries are there for 2 weeks so transfers in the field have to be caught down JUST ONE TIME, so that means everyone from starting at my group in the FLorida Orlando Mission will be home one week early. 

SO! I will be coming home March 27th. But don't worry, I have all the time in the world. (: We still have lots of people to contact and help be healed from their sins through Jesus Christ. Its been a great experience so far and I am not slowing down. So keep us in your prayers!!

This weekend we took Jan to the temple (see attached picture). It was great! She felt the spirit and gets to go back in a few weeks to do baptisms for the dead! (For those of those who don't know that that is here in excellent time to check out mormon.org FAQ (http://mormon.org/faq/topic/baptism/question/baptism-for-the-dead). 

This week we are preparing for Denie's baptism. WOW! She is great and is doing awesome. I love her a lot. It will be on Saturday at 7:30 if anyone wants to attend (;

ZTM was awesome this week! We learned about our purpose and how to be obedient to our purpose. That was great! We have so much to improve on but with the Lord we can accomplish it all.

oh and of course HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! 

John 13: 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye  love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

So go out and show your love for those around you!

love always, Sister Ploth

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We just saw Manatees!

Hello everyone! This email is late and it might be short but we just got back from Blue Springs where we saw cute Manatees! There was even a new baby that was born on Friday. 

This week was wonderful! Jan got baptized (see attached picture). It was sweet. She was so excited and nervous. On Friday we met with her and she asked what could she do to prepare herself for Saturday we suggested reading 3 Nephi 11-28 (Where Christ came to the American continents and taught the people) she thought that was a perfect idea! She was so excited she read pretty much the whole Book of Mormon! She is really good at switching back from the Bible and the BOM and seeing how they connect. She is amazing. On Saturday we are taking her on a temple tour. We are waiting fro "Jesus the Christ" by Elder Talamage to come in. We bought her it and we know she will just love it. 

At her baptism Sister Michelle Roberts (the one in the picture) gave the talk on Baptism and the Gift of the Holy Ghost and one thing she said that I loved was, "Baptism is an irrevocable commandment" I love the word "irrevocable" For those who don't know the definition it is, "not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered; final:" So we need to be baptized by the authority of Jesus Christ in order to return to our Heavenly Father. She referenced John 3:5 "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." What a simple way. We are born into families and we gain a physical body and we then are baptized and get a spiritual body. super cool! Sister Roberts whole talk was so spiritual and I defiantly felt the Spirit. We know the Spirit is there when we are taught something. The Holy Ghost is the true teacher, we just need to get out of the way!

We alsot taught Matha (the wife of the family we taught) and she accepted a baptism date for March 2nd. We are really excited. This week we will be preparing for Denie's baptism. 

I got to talk to Sister Kerns this week! She called with a question. She is doing amazing! She is rocking it. And later I got to call Sister Staley. On Friday we were biking home for dinner and this guy stopped us to give us a referral for the College Park Area! He had just returned from his mission. He was way cool. When we asked him how being home is he said, "There is nothing to look forward to." hahaha. I think missionaries miss the structure and we have a purpose out here. We know exactly what we need to do and how to do it. Luckily I am not stressing about it all. At least not too much. (:

Our mail fast went well. I got so many letters this week! It was cool, and even from people I didn't expect. So I will write back soon! Promise! It really was hard but rewarding. 

I hope yall have a great week! Love you! LOOK FOR THE MIRACLES AND TENDER MERCIES OF THE LORD!

love always,

Sister Ploth. 

pic 1: Jan's baptism

pic 2: TODAY at the Manatees!

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WARNING: This letter may contain an explicit MIRACLE!

I really liked my letter to President this week, so here yall go! 

So before I go into the Assistants' email, I have to tell you about the miracle we had this week President! On Friday, during weekly planning Sister Beckert and I were talking about next month's ZTM and since we will have a baptism for February before ZTM and then a very tiny teaching pool containing someone else who has a baptize date for Feb 16th, we decided we needed to set a FINDING SMART goal for the month of February. We talked about how we have been taught to find families with a specific number of how many would be in the family. We thought a family of 4 would be sufficient. We went to the Lord in prayer and 4 didn't feel right, but 3 felt better. So we set a goal to find a family of 3 to find and teach in February and baptism at the beginning of March. We made plans on what we could to accomplish the goal: DETOX ourselves. We would fast for the family of 3 on this next fast Sunday! Perfect! What else? We will go on a mail fast, we won't read our mail until next Monday. WHat else can we do? Continue to be obedient and talk to 25 people, bless homes from 3-5pm, always have it in our prayers. I felt excited, nervous, fearful, but overall I felt the Spirit testify to me that this is what we needed to do. It would be hard but we could do it with Heavenly Father's help. 
After weekly planning we went out to work. Our plans were to check out a lady Sister Smith and I contacted on our exchange. Then we would bless homes on a street near by. The lady wasn't home. So we started walking. We passed a school where children were getting released. We tried talking to parents. We started walking down 15th street. Turns out the road we chose was a road in a gated retirement mobil park. BLAST! Well, we will just push onward and keep going. We continued walking and we see this black guy. A really buff black guy sitting on his porch. I turned to Sister Beckert and said, "There is a guy." She asked, "Do you know him?" I replied, "...no..." and she said, "Well I don't either!" Well perfect Sister, lets go talk to him. I walked down this hill and said something like excuse me Sir, can we share a message with you? He asked about what and we told him about Jesus Christ. We asked him if he had faith in Jesus Christ and he said, "No" we asked what did he have faith in and he replied, "A pistol!" hahaha. We soon started talking to him and his wife came out and we told our purpose and what we did. They asked us all kinds of questions. We asked if we could come back on Sunday and they said yes AND THEY WOULD FEED US! Their names are Carl and Matha. We got Matha's number, it didn't work out. We were nervous. But yesterday we had dinner with them! Amazing! Carl had to leave but Matha stayed around and we talked to her about prayer and the Holy Ghost and committed her to read 3 Nephi 11 and a soft baptism date. She is really excited. We are going back on Tuesday and we have the PERFECT member to go with. Now you might be asking what does this have to do with our goal, I forgot the most important part, her son lives with them. PRESIDENT WE FOUND A FAMILY OF 3!!! (:

From the Assistants' email i like that they said, "Our purpose is not fulfilled in talking to 25 people per day, it is fulfilled in helping others come unto Christ." We are so obsessed with talking to 25 people that we aren't going beyond anything else. We have to understand our calling and most importantly we need to forget our own weaknesses and shortcomings. We need to truly let everything go and do this work. Time is short. The Work is hastening and Christ will be coming. I don't know about you, President, but at judgement I don't want to be standing in front of Heavenly Father at Judgement and asked why didn't I do what he asked of me. He didn't asked me to be perfect, he asked me to work and hard and open my mouth. He would do the rest. 

I think Elder Holland's talk from this last conference is PERFECT. We have been trained in November on what we can do. Jesus Christ is yelling at the mission saying,"FOM Elders and Sisters, why are you here? Why are we back on this same shore, by these same nets, having this same conversation? Wasn't it obvious then and isn't it obvious now that if I want fish, I can get fish? What I need, FOM Elders and Sisters, are disciples—and I need them forever. I need someone to feed my sheep and save my lambs. I need someone to preach my gospel and defend my faith. I need someone who loves me, truly, truly loves me, and loves what our Father in Heaven has commissioned me to do. Ours is not a feeble message. It is not a fleeting task. It is not hapless; it is not hopeless; it is not to be consigned to the ash heap of history. It is the work of Almighty God, and it is to change the world. So, FOM Elders and Sisters, for the second and presumably the last time, I am asking you to leave all this and to go teach and testify, labor and serve loyally until the day in which they will do to you exactly what they did to me."

As I look at the calendar and see the days go by so fast, I am terrified of March. I knew it all would come to an end of being a set apart representative of the Lord. I don't want to waste a single minute. I don't want to waste another feeling on "discouragement and self-doubt" or even "lacked confidence, we were afraid of failure and sometimes we couldn't honestly say that we had given our all at the end of the day." We cant fail if we get out and work and do all we can to do this work. And finally if missionaries remember this part, "There is no one that is more interested in our success than Heavenly Father himself. We have not been asked to be perfect missionaries, if Heavenly Father wanted perfect missionaries then He would get them, but He trusts us to do this work because He knows we can." Heavenly Father called US to the FOM AT THIS TIME for a SPECIFIC REASON. If we question our "success" and "why are we here?" Then we question Heavenly Father. WE CANT FAIL IN THIS WORK! Its a perfect work, and its perfect Gospel. We only fail if we don't get out and give it our best.

Wow, I think I burnt a hole in this keyboard. So I will end it there.
Thanks for all you do!
love, Sister Ploth

The mission is going through some ups and downs. We aren't seeing the success we would like and because of that we are all "depressed". Finding that family of 3 this past weekend, really helped me feel the Spirit again. Sister Beckert and I are working hard. We don't know why people don't want to to listen but we wont quit. We are having a baptism this weekend! Jan is ready and so excited. Her interview is for Wednesday morning. We are defiantly seeing miracles and things are going great! Some days are harder than others but thats okay. Heavenly Father loves us and wont let us fail. 

I love you all and I appreciate the love and support!

pic 1: Sister Kinkade and Brother Sprouge got me DDP Caffeine free for my birthday! They accidentally got reg dr pepper so they returned it and got this.

pic 2: on Thursday I hit 500 days! WOW! We biked on beach side. 

love always,

Sister Ploth

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Perfect, Redeem, and Preach.

Hello All! Another crazy week here in Daytona. Crazy good! We had a lot of trials but nothing like a good bottle of repentance and pushing forward. I realized this week (maybe again) that we need to know these bad weeks to know the good. The Elders reminded me that prophets have bad weeks. Look at Moses and when we brought down the commandments, they were worshipping a gold calf, talk about a bad week! haha

We biked a lot. I ate a lot. Burning off those calories is awesome, eating them back, not so awesome. We met some pretty sweet people, people that could be prepared for the Gospel. Our biggest obstacle is not letting people TALK AT US. haha. One lady was concerned that we were too far from our mothers. It was very sweet.

Jan is doing awesome. She came to church. She is reading like crazy. She caught the "bug". haha. We were suppose to teach her yesterday but she wasn't feeling well. We will plan her baptism this next Friday and I am not as stressed. She is so prepared that we don't need to teach her every little thing. We could just show her where it is, she will read and teach it herself. 

Denie also came to church. She is great. We found out she doesn't like like sitting down to read The Book of Mormon but she is more than happy to listen to it, so we gave it to her on CD! We are going down to Orlando this week so we are going to get her the kids version. 

I went on exchanges with a new missionary. It was her 2nd week out. She was so talkative. haha. It was funny to see where she is at. I learned that I am not screwing up my area but I am just over stressed. I sure did miss Sister Beckert. It was nice to have her back. 

We had a meeting with the stake leadership, missionary leaderships, and the full time missionaries. Every day I am learning how important the members are in this work. We have a three fold mission: perfect the saints, redeem the dead, and preach the gospel! All three are important and are a responsibility of everyone. I have also learned that members have the same fears we do as missionaries and are job is to BUILD THEIR FAITH! And how do we build the faith! Teach the doctrine! We have the restored Gospel and what a gift so why not share it! 

Oh scary thought! I had a dream this past week that we were door knocking and all the houses were abandoned and had eviction notices on the doors!! aaaahhhhh!!

Well I hope yall have a great week! Don't forget to pray for missionary opportunities! The missionaries in your area need your help!

love always,

Sister Ploth

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Heyoooo!

Hello Everyone!!

So here I am starting week 2 of transfer #12. Time is going be super crazy. My new companion, Sister Beckert is pretty much amazing. She is from Arizona and is hilarious. She always has me cracking up. She has a brother serving a mission right now, so its cool to hear about all that. 

So what happened this week?

Well I am a Grandma of 2 new Sisters! So awesome. These new sisters are cute and ready to work. I am excited for Sister Kerns and Dunford. Sister Crookston took us down to transfers. I love transfers because you get to see a bunch of missionaries. I got to talk to Sister Wilks and that was great. I am sad I dont have her address. she helped me a lot with some concerns I was having. She is my SISTER of course. When we got back to the area, I showed Sister Beckert around and we went to some members. Specifically to follow up with some referrals. The Roberts had a friend at church and we went to see if she want to learn more. Well, yesterday we taught her and committed her to baptism for Feb 2nd! WOOT! Sister Michelle Roberts gasped, I think she was in shock. She currently has a son serving in Utah so we hope she writes him about it to him and he responds, "yeah mom, its what we do" But the lady's name is Jane and she is super cool. She is a psychiatric nurse, drives a harley, speaks spanish, and loves the Book of mormon. she is ready to go! 

Denie likes Sister Beckert. woo. Denie's family wanted her to set her baptismal date back and she said "NO!" so yay! She is doing great. She came to church and so do her less active friend and we are going over there this week to eat and teach. Pretty sweet.

We have been working lots of finding. Sister Beckert is really good at blessing homes and I am good at street contacting so hopefully we can trade off on our talents. Hopefully I will be a door knocking champ. CROSSES FINGERS!

Man oh man.....I am running out of things to say. Sorry!! The Book of Mormon is true! When we sin it affects everyone, not just us. We can repent. Christ lives! I love being a missionary!!

Have a great week!

love, Sister Ploth

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MR.WASHIDI ALLAMU

Dear Good Friend, How are you together with your family members? I think all is well. Despite the fact that I did not know you in person or have i seen you before but due to the reliable revelation,I decided to share this lucrative opportunity with you, I have no other choice, so kindly consider this message as vital, believing tahat sooner or later we will be multi millonaires,First and foremost, I have to introduce myself to you. I am MR.WASHIDI ALLAMU, THE FOREIGN OPERATIONS MANAGER OF OUR BANK here in my country, BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA. I am married with two children.I want you to assist me in other to transfer the sum of TWENTYT FIVE Million, Five hundred thousand  United States Currency (\$25.500,000.00) into your reliable account as the Next of Kin to our Foreign Business partner , the original owner of the fund. He was a foreigner and a multi company holder who died in a plane crash with his family years ago, he deposited the fund in our bank for his business expansion in Africa unfortunately he met this sudden and untimely death and the worst thing that happened was the wife who suppose to be the successor of the account died alongside with him. Since the deceased left no body behind to claim the fund, as a foreigner, you are in better position for that, and no body will come for the claim after you have applied.If you are ready to assist me, set up a new bank account or forward to me any one avialable so that the process will commence. I will guide you on how you should apply for the claim so that everything will be smooth and correct. After the transfer, i will resign and come over to your country for the sharing of the fund 50/50 base on the fact that it is two man business. Finally, note that you are not taking any risk because there will be a legal back up as we commence. Further information will be given to you as soon as I receive. Fill this information Your Full Names......................... ...... Phone Number .............................. ... Age........................... ................ Occupation.................... ................ Country .............................. ........ Your reply.Sincerely, MR.WASHIDI ALLAMU PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS/ washidiallamu@yahoo.com

Just do it!

Hello All!!

 

A new year and a new transfer! Big news: Sister Dunford is leaving Daytona Beach and going to Oviedo to open an area and train. Sister Kerns is training as well. So in Missionary lingo, I will be a grandma! Very exciting. The Durr line lives on!!

 

My new companion is Sister Beckert. I was able to spend a few hours with her and Sister Poulsen on Friday when the trainers meeting went on. They planned so I didnt get to do any work with them but I am excited. it seems like everything is in a rut. We are going through investigators like there is no tomorrow. People seem to be intersted but then they relaize the work involved in salvation and they say, oh no thank you. and then we say, "NEVA DOW!" hahaha a catchy phrase from Elder Shelley.

 

We had a recent convert girl move from jacksonville to here. She is from China! She is really cute and excited. When we asked her how she came to know that the gospel was true from a non christian background her response was, "No man with little education can write this. I read it and i felt the spirit." so sweet! She is going to Emery Riddle and has a double major of areospace and mathematics. oh man, right? HEADACHE!

 

We contacted 25 people on Saturday! it was awesome. we talked to EVERYONE! We are really focused on finding lately. I can only pray the Lord will lead us to someone that is prepared. We have a few potentials. I was reading this morning in Moses chapter 6 where Enoch is called (i beleive its different enoch then what other people would think..) and he is like "Uhm....I dont know if I can do this Heavenly Father. I am just kind of average, nothing special. Are you sure?" this is something I often think but then Heavenly Father has this amazing response he says

 

 31 And when Enoch had heard these words, he ^abowed himself to the earth, before the Lord, and spake before the Lord, saying: ^bWhy is it that I have found favor in thy sight, and am but a lad, and all the people ^chate me; for I am ^dslow of speech; wherefore am I thy servant?

 32 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Go forth and do as I have commanded thee, and no man shall pierce thee. Open thy ^amouth, and it shall be filled, and I will give thee utterance, for all flesh is in my hands, and I will do as seemeth me good.

 33 Say unto this people: ^aChoose ye ^bthis day, to serve the Lord God who made you.

 34 Behold my ^aSpirit is upon you, wherefore all thy words will I justify; and the ^bmountains shall flee before you, and the ^crivers shall turn from their course; and thou shalt abide in me, and I in you; therefore ^dwalk with me.

 35 And the Lord spake unto Enoch, and said unto him: Anoint thine eyes with ^aclay, and wash them, and thou shalt see. And he did so.

So! The Lord uses us in HIS way, we have to be dedicated. This week relaized that we werent as dedicated as we thought we were. We thought we could do what was asked of us, like contacting 25 people but we didnt KNOW and we didnt show the lord our faith. We have to step into that darkness, steo off that cliff, we just have to do it. THEN after the trials we get the blessings. You might be asking, why do i keep "relaizing" this. I am not sure. Good thing for repentance.

My birthday was good. Nothing special. Just another day. We set a baptismal date. Pretty sweet. Sister Kinkade, Frost, and the Sprouges fed us dinner and got me little gifts and even bought dr pepper but accidentaly got the caffeine one, so they are going to exchange it. haha. We played a round of uno as well. The Elders got me disney chapstick. haha. and sister dunford got me chapstick for my collection. haha I am reallllllyyyyy going to miss her.

Now, off to make this the best 1st week!!

all my love,

sister ploth.

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