Mom asked a bunch of questions and since I only have a few random things to share, I'm going to respond to those questions at this time.
Any interesting people in those lessons to tell us about? Are they all to less-active or new members or who?
Well, they all are interesting. Most of them are to less-active members. We have one couple who was married in September and they want to work towards going to the temple! They are amazing. Then we have a bunch of newer people that we're teaching in the Bountiful stake. One family, the mom is so excited to be coming back to church! She invited us over last week when her kids were blessed. That was such a sweet experience. We have a government-subsidized housing complex where we're working with a bunch of less-actives. That's always an adventure. We have a few new investigators this week, and one solid girl who is so excited about learning about the gospel!
How are the new members doing - the 2 young women and the one boy?
Amazing. The boy is teaching us the new member lessons, and his mom is starting to be more involved which is amazing! The young women are so good. They made us cookies during the last lesson. Their mom has been so touched by the Spirit the past several visits.
Do you ever dance around aimlessly for exercise (Nathan's question)?
Um.... possibly... :)
How do you train the sisters? Do you get inspired about what they need and have a class with them or is it all done during splits in an informal
kind of experience? How many splits do you do each week?
So splits are with active members in our area, but we do exchanges with each companionship of Sisters. We have one or two exchanges each week. That's usually when we talk about struggles and how we can continue to improve. We meet with them all pretty regularly and talk to them via phone almost daily. We do receive a lot of revelation on what will best help the Sisters, and we work a lot with the zone leaders in deciding the direction we want our zone to go in. We use district and zone meetings as our priority training meetings with exchanges and other visits as secondary opportunities for training.
We are on splits with members multiple times per day. We have too many people to see
Sleep - how many hours of quality sleep do you get per night? (Nathan says quality sleep begins before midnight)
Um probably 60 minutes... since we go to bed at 10:30 and I still take forever to fall asleep.
We liked the pic of your district - when do you have those meetings?
Every Thursday at 1:30pm. Zone meetings are every first Thursday.
Who always drives the car?
Usually me. If we're on exchanges or if Sister Soelberg wants to get to know the area better then she'll drive.
Since you are over 2 stakes, do you have 2 correlation meetings per week?
Yep! Every Sunday at 6:45 am and every Wednesday from 7-9pm.
Is the 1st counselor who is currently taking over for Pres Hansen a local man - anything about him?
Not sure. He might live in Salt Lake? We're currently on hold for the new mission president coming at the end of the month. President Hansen is still our acting mission president.
You must get time on the computer to do family history and to find the links you send to us.... Is that all on P-Day or do you have other times you get to do things like that?
Typically we get paper copies for trainings or for personal study. Then I just find the link on lds.org to send it to you.
Our sister missionaries are always showing videos on their ipads. Do you ever show videos and know all the great ones that are out there - do you just borrow the computer of the people you are with or how do you do that? In my day, we used to bring a filmstrip projector and find a spot on their blue walls - it gave a cool background:)
YES! We love the videos that are out there. We just ask for an iPad or computer to show a video on. We typically use the Because of Him and Origin videos. We also use them for dinner appointments, lessons, youth events, and trainings with missionaries.
President and Sister Spendlove are from Texas, have five kids, two of whom are 16 and 13 years old. Sister Spendlove grew up in Beaverton which is pretty fantastic. They should be coming at the end of the month.
I have been treasuring every moment we have with President Hansen. I love being able to go to all the extra leadership meetings where he continues to teach and encourage all of us. He gave us incredible training on the spirit world this past week, and the power of living righteously in order to have our covenants sealed in heaven as well as on earth.
Desire leads us to action, but as our desires grow into stronger yearnings of our soul, that will lead us to diligently act for the rest of our lives.
I love you all! Keep on smiling. Life is good. The gospel is true!
Love,
Sister Holbrook
Pictures!
Me, Sister Soelberg, and then our zone leaders with President Hansen! Love that man.
Also I don't have any other pictures... working on it.
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