Hey Mom and Dad,
It's good to hear all the great news! I am happy to hear that there is now a Vancouver WA mission! That's amazing!
So we got transfer calls on Friday. I found out that on Tuesday I will be going to Plovdiv to serve with Sister Wild. I am really excited. At the same time I am pretty sad about leaving Blagoevgrad. Yesterday for church they asked me to bear my testimony before I left. It was intense. Everyone was crying. I started tearing up as well. The people here are amazing and I have grown to be good friends with all of them. I don't like saying goodbyes.
It was heart breaking having to tell Vili that I was leaving. She is taking it pretty hard. However, I know that we will keep in contact and hear from each other more.
I am really excited for Plovdiv. I have heard great things about it! It will be my first big city here in Bulgaria! Also, it is the only city with an actual church house. It will be quite the change!
This week was great! Sometimes I don't know where the time goes. We had a great lessons this week. Martin and Evgeni are awesome. They know Vili now because she has been coming to our lessons with them. They are growing a lot, they are just looking for an answer.
We had a great lesson with Sedska! She came to church too! We had a member named Vanya in our lesson with her. We talked about God and how he loves each of us and knows us individually. We asked her if she knew the Book of Mormon was from God and she said yes! Things are going well with her!
Young Women's was great. We played little "minute to win it" games with the girls and they loved it! I am going to miss them a lot!
Zone Leader Training was great. We talked all about the Holy Ghost and how we need to have it in all that we do as missionaries. Then we talked about how we can help our investigators know how to feel the promptings of the Holy Ghost. It was a good learning experience. It is helping be become a better missionary.
I cannot believe that I have been with Sister Frame for 10 weeks and now the transfer is over! She has been a great companion. I have learned so many things from all the Sisters that I have served with. I am excited to learn more things with Sister Wild.
It is also sad that Sister Tate will be leaving tomorrow for America. I will miss her.
I hope everything is going well for all of you! I hope you have a great week! Remember who you are. I love all of you very much!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
February 18th 2013
Hey Mom and Dad,
Good to hear about all the people returning and going on missions. Serving a mission is a great thing.
Yes, I am still in Blagoevgrad. I find out this Saturday what will happen for transfers. Vili is doing great! She is still wanting to serve a mission. She taught us a lesson this week and also was a member-present in one of our lessons. She is amazing. She told the young women in our branch that she wants to serve a mission and they smiled so big! They were so excited and gave her hugs. Vili is a great example for these younger girls!
Finally our investigators Martin and Evgeni got back from their long break. They are back here to study. We were able to have a great lesson with them. We caught up on where they are at. This whole break they have been reading out of the Book of Mormon and have been praying. It made me so happy to hear that they have been doing these things. Also, Martin had been meeting with some Elders in the city (pazerjik) where he is from. He knew so much! They are both 20 years old and are students at the same university as Vili.
On Saturday we had the opportunity of going to Stara Zagora for a baptism. Two people that Sister Frame taught were getting baptized. It was pretty exciting! Getting there was pretty crazy. We left Blagoevgrad at 6:30 am to Sofia. Then we needed to catch a bus from Sofia to Stara Zagora that left at 8am. Normally it takes around 2 hrs... a little less to get to Sofia from Blagoevgrad... so we were a little nervous but had faith that we would make it. Also we had called the bus station the night before and said they only had a bus at either 8am or 10am. This was a problem because it takes around 3 hrs to get to Stara Zagora from Sofia and the baptism started at 12pm.
Well we got to the bus station in Sofia right at 8 am. We saw the 8am Stara Zagora bus leaving and we ran after it! We stood in front of the bus asking to get in and they said no because it was full. So we went inside the bus station asking almost every teller if they had a bus at 9. They all said no, only at 10 am! Then I went to this random teller and asked and they said that they had one at 9am!!! The only thing is that it would drop us off a little outside the city. It was the best we had so we bought the tickets! We had the missionaries in Stara Zagora stall the baptism as long as they could... we got there late but walked in right as they were singing the opening hymn! We only could stay for a little over an hour before we had to catch a bus back to Sofia and then to Blagoevgrad. We did it and it was amazing! (Ok, so it doesn't sound very intense when I write it out, but it was!)
Church! We had 3 investigators at church yesterday!!! I couldn't believe it! The Elders had 3 also. We had a total of 6 investigators at church! I was so happy! Martin and Evgeni stayed for all 3 hours! It was a great Sunday.
Tomorrow we will be in Sofia for our Zone Leader Training meeting. That should be fun.
Well I hope you all have a great week!! Thanks for all you do. I love you all very much!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
Good to hear about all the people returning and going on missions. Serving a mission is a great thing.
Yes, I am still in Blagoevgrad. I find out this Saturday what will happen for transfers. Vili is doing great! She is still wanting to serve a mission. She taught us a lesson this week and also was a member-present in one of our lessons. She is amazing. She told the young women in our branch that she wants to serve a mission and they smiled so big! They were so excited and gave her hugs. Vili is a great example for these younger girls!
Finally our investigators Martin and Evgeni got back from their long break. They are back here to study. We were able to have a great lesson with them. We caught up on where they are at. This whole break they have been reading out of the Book of Mormon and have been praying. It made me so happy to hear that they have been doing these things. Also, Martin had been meeting with some Elders in the city (pazerjik) where he is from. He knew so much! They are both 20 years old and are students at the same university as Vili.
On Saturday we had the opportunity of going to Stara Zagora for a baptism. Two people that Sister Frame taught were getting baptized. It was pretty exciting! Getting there was pretty crazy. We left Blagoevgrad at 6:30 am to Sofia. Then we needed to catch a bus from Sofia to Stara Zagora that left at 8am. Normally it takes around 2 hrs... a little less to get to Sofia from Blagoevgrad... so we were a little nervous but had faith that we would make it. Also we had called the bus station the night before and said they only had a bus at either 8am or 10am. This was a problem because it takes around 3 hrs to get to Stara Zagora from Sofia and the baptism started at 12pm.
Well we got to the bus station in Sofia right at 8 am. We saw the 8am Stara Zagora bus leaving and we ran after it! We stood in front of the bus asking to get in and they said no because it was full. So we went inside the bus station asking almost every teller if they had a bus at 9. They all said no, only at 10 am! Then I went to this random teller and asked and they said that they had one at 9am!!! The only thing is that it would drop us off a little outside the city. It was the best we had so we bought the tickets! We had the missionaries in Stara Zagora stall the baptism as long as they could... we got there late but walked in right as they were singing the opening hymn! We only could stay for a little over an hour before we had to catch a bus back to Sofia and then to Blagoevgrad. We did it and it was amazing! (Ok, so it doesn't sound very intense when I write it out, but it was!)
Church! We had 3 investigators at church yesterday!!! I couldn't believe it! The Elders had 3 also. We had a total of 6 investigators at church! I was so happy! Martin and Evgeni stayed for all 3 hours! It was a great Sunday.
Tomorrow we will be in Sofia for our Zone Leader Training meeting. That should be fun.
Well I hope you all have a great week!! Thanks for all you do. I love you all very much!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
Monday, February 11, 2013
February 11th 2013
Hey Mom and Dad,
This week went well. It started out great with a lesson with Vili. We had her teach us a small portion of the lesson with us. She is so powerful! We got her a Preach My Gospel for herself. She is so excited to prepare to be a missionary!
Then on Tuesday I got a call saying that on Thursday and Friday we would be doing Sister exchanges! I was so shocked! This is the first time they have done something like this for sisters. I went to Sofia to be with Sister Roper and Sister Coryell came down to Blagoevgrad to be with Sister Frame. It was amazing and a great experience for all of us. There are only about 2 weeks until the transfer ends! I can't believe time has gone by so fast! Who knows what will happen next...
Church was great! We had 25 people there!! That's so many!! It was great to see our little building full of people and the spirit was so strong.
Other than that nothing too much. It snowed a little bit more today. I was a bit disappointed because I want spring to come early!
Last night we were tracting (which we do almost every night) and Sister Frame and I were discussing how crazy it is that we are both here together going into old broken down communist blocks, knocking on complete strangers doors! We laughed at how weird it seems. However, we know how important our message is, and we want to share it with everyone!
I hope you have a great week! I love all of you very much! Keep reading your scriptures!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
This week went well. It started out great with a lesson with Vili. We had her teach us a small portion of the lesson with us. She is so powerful! We got her a Preach My Gospel for herself. She is so excited to prepare to be a missionary!
Then on Tuesday I got a call saying that on Thursday and Friday we would be doing Sister exchanges! I was so shocked! This is the first time they have done something like this for sisters. I went to Sofia to be with Sister Roper and Sister Coryell came down to Blagoevgrad to be with Sister Frame. It was amazing and a great experience for all of us. There are only about 2 weeks until the transfer ends! I can't believe time has gone by so fast! Who knows what will happen next...
Church was great! We had 25 people there!! That's so many!! It was great to see our little building full of people and the spirit was so strong.
Other than that nothing too much. It snowed a little bit more today. I was a bit disappointed because I want spring to come early!
Last night we were tracting (which we do almost every night) and Sister Frame and I were discussing how crazy it is that we are both here together going into old broken down communist blocks, knocking on complete strangers doors! We laughed at how weird it seems. However, we know how important our message is, and we want to share it with everyone!
I hope you have a great week! I love all of you very much! Keep reading your scriptures!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
Monday, February 4, 2013
February 4th 2013
Dear Mom and Dad,
Good to hear that you went to the temple before it closes! I really miss being able to go to the temple. Glad to hear Andrew is back from his mission. Time goes by so fast.
You are right about the mission being a mini lifetime. I have learned so much since I've been here and I know I will learn even more.
We had another great lesson with Vili. We talked about temples. Everything just clicked with her. Especially when we brought up eternal marriage. She said that everything that we do in the temple makes sense and she wants to prepare for the temple. Also, she mentioned about serving a mission again. She tole us how we as missionaries saved her (we know it was Heavenly Father) and she wants to save someone else. Vili is such a great example to me. I wish you can all meet her someday.
We decided to try something different this week and wnted to go contacting with some members in our branch. So we went out contacting with Vanya and Sedska on different days. It was so great having them come with us and testify! It was great that they could explain how they are members of the church and know that it is true. They invited everyone we talked with to church. They were so excited because everyone assured us they would come. Sunday came and none of the people showed. They were a little dissapointed but they told us how much they respect us for what we do everyday, and that it's hard work. They told us that they want to come with us again! So we will be contacting with them again. I love doing this because we are helping the members of the branch be missionaries.
We had a great young women's as always! We played some games and Neli (the non member who wants to be baptized but has to wait for parent approval) Told us how she wants to be a missionary after she is baptized! These young women are great!
Fast and testimony meeting was amazing! The spirit was so strong. Vili bore her testimony and so did Meri ( one of the YW). These people are so new in the church, and yet their testimonies are so strong.
We taught Relief Society yesterday. It was great. The topic was "The Worth os Souls" it was great having a conversation with the woman about how we are all God's children and we all are unique and special.
I really love these people here. I really wish that you all could meet and become acquainted with these marvelous people. I am so happy to be here right now to serve these people.
Thank you for all of your love, support and prayers. I am so blessed to have you in my life. I hope you all have a great week! Stay strong and read your scriptures!
Love,
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
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