17 December 2012

Okay so it is really weird to be thinking of my Brother coming home from his mission. especially when I know how much he has helped all those around him. He may not have talked about it much but if he is like anything I am. He will have worked his hardest despite what may be going on in his personal life, like being sick alot!!!!! Just plain tired, or feeling that you are so far away from God that you can not see the lives you are blessing. It is only as I have looked back that I have seen how much I have changed but also how much I was truly able to help some one that I taught. I know that He will also be a different person than I knew but I look forward to getting to know him again. This week has been crazy! At first I have to admit I had a hard time focusing because of all the e-mails geared towards Eric's coming home. But I mentioned it in my Interview with President Mullen and he gave me some wonderful advice that I am now using and it has been so much better! I have been able to focus more and because of that I have been able to support my Companion better. Because 'all' of our investigators speak Spanish. So it has been pushing my spanish to its limits every day! But with a better focus and desire to teach them and to support my companion I have been able to understand better what they are saying, and to get even closer to teaching in unity with my companion. She is so sweet. We have Spanish days and English days. I am learning Spanish she is learning English. so we take every other day and speak the others language through out the whole day between ourselves. She tells me that my Spanish is growing every day! I was so excited to hear that. I remember struggling so hard with it in the MTC almost to the point of tears daily. But I have seen how much the Lord has blessed me that I am now able to talk, teach in and understand a different language. It is amazing! This week we have seen so many miracles. We are teaching Families here! Every investigator we have are families. With a few we are mostly teaching the wife but that is only because the husband is either at work or sleeping because of work when we go by. but we are still able to teach the whole family. it is amazing. Most of our potentials are families too! God is blessing us and putting the truly prepared in our paths! Okay so for Christmas I will be skyping. Sister Sanchez will be calling her family in Mexico. we were thinking about 6 our time. and it will only be for 45 minutes! the boots work great! Thank you so much for them! I hope that everything goes great today! I love you all! Con amor, Hermana Ziegler

10 December 2012

So this week has been great, crazy, and amazing! But to start off I am letting you know I am writing you first so you can get more than a quickly written paragraph. I still feel bad about that sorry! But I got my Boots! They are both great and fit! I was not expecting two pairs of boots! Thank you so much. I appreciate all that you do for me. I am also grateful for the letter from daddy in Spanish. My companion and I loved it! Well this week has been interesting for me because, off and on I have felt sick in some way. Getting that figured out. But It made it hard at times to focus on what the people we were teaching a little difficult. But The Lord was with me and I was able to teach with my companion and help those we are teaching to know even more about God, and their part in his plan. I just love teaching the Gospel. The work here is mostly Spanish. of all the lessons we teach every day about 80% of them are in Spanish. so my Spanish is growing rapidly and I am becoming more confident with the Spanish I do have. It is great to feel that I am able to teach, understand, and be understood, by those I am teaching in another language. It is great! Sister Sanchez keeps telling me that the reason I was sent back here is because some of the people we teach are people I had met in some way before and are now more open to hear our message. It is great to be here and see the miracle of the hand of God is so many peoples lives! Okay just so you know! I am not expecting much for Christmas. I only want pictures of everybody, and a general conference ensign that I can use to study with! That Is all I want and I am counting my Boots as part of my Christmas presents! I love you all And hope to write more next week! But it sufficient for me to say that I know that the promise that God gave in the D&C I don't remember the section or the verse but it talks about how we will have his angels upon our right and upon our left. It is true and it is amazing what God does for his missionaries and for those who are searching for the truth in their lives! Con mucho amor, Hermana Ziegler

3 December 2012

Sorry I took much time with my letter to president and sending letters for the Mission Christmas Cd! Sorry! I am bad I promise to write more next week! I have not gotten the boots yet but I am sure that they will be great! I love you all and It is great to be back in Warden there are miracles happening here! Love you all, Hermana Zielger

26 November 2012

Okay so this week has been a little crazy! Both my Companion and I seemed to take turns feeling sick. First with me still getting over my huge reaction to only find out the day before thanksgiving that there is a high possibility of my being high hypoglycemic. So that means a little change in diet. But no more desserts. Unless I really want to feel sick afterwards. which is not very fun I must tell you. But I get to snack now instead of having meals! A little weird but I feel so much better now. okay so somehow my time always seem to run short when I come to writing the family e-mail. I shall have to work on that. Sorry. but this week with both of us feeling slightly under the weather we were able to update the area book and start going through that phone and calling all the numbers that we do not know. which was a great thing to do. because we are both being transferred out of the area. I am going back down to warden. and Sister Mierow is going over to the Spokane Valley. My first area. It is going to be an interesting transfer but it will be great. My new companion is going to be Hermana Sanchez from Mexico so my Spanish is going to be sorely tested. But I know that God has called me to serve there once more and I will follow his will and magnify my call! Well love you all and hope all is well. Love, Hermana Ziegler

19 November 2012

This week has been great! So much learned and I have seen the power of God in my live. So on Saturday my Body decided to have a really extreme reaction to some sugar that I ate. so i am under orders from Sister Mullen to stay away for awhile. So that means no desserts on thanksgiving (Darn) Well Some of the brethren in the ward came over and gave me a blessing. What a testament of God's love for me. I just felt so full of love that I could barely hold it in. It was amazing. So you don't have to worry I am doing so much better now. But the week has been great. We have been trying to come up with different finding Ideas. so we will see if they work by the end of the week. We are trying to find some more people. and to get the members involved with the people we are teaching. because they are great! We are teaching a family that is amazing. their 6 yr-old asks the darnedest questions. He keeps asking us where God came from and how he became God. Every time we try and tell He'll have to wait and ask him. but every time he asks the same question and it get deeper every time. Sorry this e-mail is short but I don't have much time today Sorry I'll write more next week! Thank you so much for everything you do for me. Love you all, Hermana Ziegler

12 November 2012

Sorry about the short e-mail last week. we were at the temple and only had a short time before we were supposed to be leaving. We though we would be back in time to e-mail to our families more and write to our mission president. But we got back to late and the library was closed. So sorry about how short it was. But I will write about last week and this week if that is alright. First last week was great and interesting. We had some great lessons, but not very many people who are actually progressing. We also got a call Monday morning telling us that a sister in the mission had to leave on medical leave from the mission and that Sister Probst would go take her place and that I would become senior and my new companion would be Sister Mierow. That was the beginning of a very interesting day. We went to knock on a farm house and they had a Dog that was barking its head off and acting like it was going to attack Sister Probst so I called it and started playing with it. well..... It decided that my arm and sweater would be a great toy. so it proceeded to drag me around the yard like a rag doll. My hat fell over my eyes so I was being pulled around, couldn't see, and my companion was trying to get the dog to let go of my sweater. It finally did but that arm of the sweater is now two inches longer than the other. We then knocked into a very high person and that was an interesting close to the night. This week, has been interesting. Being senior is a little different. it does not make you more than your companion ,but you get to drive and there is a bit more responsibility on your shoulders that just can not be explained. it is just felt. But I have felt that I need to be stronger and that during this time I will be able to grow stronger not only in my faith but also in my testimony. The area is growing but a lot slower than we would like. But it will get there and then it will boom!!!! With much love, Hermana Zielger Would write more but do have a time limit!

29 October 2012

So this week has been full of tracting and walking and rain! We have been finding potentials all week and it has been great! IT has been very wet and cold at times. but it has been raining a lot. And the shoes can only take so much before they get wet. and then go your feet. It is not all that much fun but we are finding so many more people that are inviting us back. It is Great! I feel that I am doing so much better. I am more confident in my talking. Not quite to where I would like to be yet but I am getting there so much faster now! It is great! I am learning so much about prayer. And just how joyful a thing it is. I can not imagine going a day now without saying a prayer multiple times. It is simply amazing the feelings of love and peace you feel. And when you have a question don't be afraid to study it out, think about what you have learned and then ask God in sincere prayer truly desiring to know. And he has promised that he will answer you! It is awe inspiring at times the feeling of love you feel after saying a prayer. I love it!!!! It is great to hear about all the missionaries from the ward, 15 that is great!!! I was actually wondering if I could get Nora's address so I could write her. Alyssa's would be great too! I love to write letters and just ...... I really just have fun writing people! Well I love you all and pray that all is well! Con Mucho Amor, Hermana Ziegler