Wednesday, January 4, 2012


Happy New Year - 2012!

Well since this is "supposed" to be the last year before the end i thought i should make some good goals this year! We had some great talks in sacrament meeting yesterday on goal setting and i loved the acronym that Brother Carter used. He calls the SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely. So that's what I'm going to do! I've decided that i want to eliminate fear and doubt from my thoughts and vocabulary, i want to read the Old Testament once and The Book of Mormon two more times by the end of my mission along with a conference talk weekly! My overall goal is inspired by my former companion Sister Hayes - "Love More, Eat Less" lol I really encourage you all to make personal goals for this year and include with it spiritual goals because this life is purely the time for us to prepare to meet our heavenly father and i love in Alma 5:11-13 where Alma explains the steps in order to be have a change of heart and be saved! As we exercise faith + humble ourselves + trust in God + and endure with faith to the end we will all be saved! As I've thought about what it means to be saved i don't think it means our final salvation only but that we can be saved from heart ache, misery, unnecessary trials and evil today, tomorrow and forever!

Well now that I've given a little spiritual insight I'll let you know how our week went. it wasn't too busy unfortunately so we took advantage of the wonderful positive weather and went tracting to find new people to teach because Neil has been out of town and Steven is still in Quebec. So! we had some great experiences and even had a couple people invite us back for return appointments. Unfortunately nobody was home or interested anymore when we returned but i really feel that's all we can do! We are showing heavenly father that we are willing to do the work and i know he'll bless us! One girl even texted us after we talked to her at the door because she wanted to know more but then her husband found out and she can't meet with us. I know there are people prepared and i desire soooo badly to be able to teach a family, i should add that to my goals.....

I loved the Christmas season but I'm really excited for normal life to kick in so that we can start visiting with people again and hopefully receive referrals from our members as they return to town!

The cold weather is on it's way, so much adventure in store!

I love you all and miss you so much!

Love Sister Wotherspoon