What a WEEK! I don't know how Sister Barlow and I fit everything we do into a day. To elaborate I want to illustrate what my day usually consists of here in Lubbock:

6:20am-wake up/bathroom (TMI?? :) )

6:30am- work out

7:00am-get ready/breakfast

8:00am-study

9:00am-companionship study

10:00am-phone time/contacting people or Contacting on Texas Tech Campus

11:00am-lunch

12:00am-lesson

1:00pm-6:00pm lessons with investigators or recently baptized members

7:00pm (dinner if we get to it) or Lessons

8:00pm lessons with less active members or lesson with investigators.

9:00pm make plans for the next day (goals)

10:00pm updating our records

10:30pm fall into bed.

Its a PACKED DAY everyday. I don't know how we do it all other than to say that God really blesses us! Last week our ward had a record teaching experience. Between the 3 sets of missionaries serving in the student ward we had 32 Lessons with members at the lesson. That is insane. We are teaching so many great people. I don't share this to boast but to just help people get an insight into how God is really helping us work harder and opening more doors. The work is definitely hastening! Really amazing to be apart of it.

Some highlights from this week are that I met

a Canadian Sister Missionary FINALLY. I've been the only Canadian Sister my whole mission, we just got a new one from Edmonton last transfer and I got a picture with her : ). Her name is Sister Oviate. I also saw Miss Lindsey Blumell! We ran into eachother on campus. How funny. Two people from little ole Rosemary, Alberta in the same city! Loved it!

I had a great Easter weekend...we did missionary work lol. I got some extremely nice things from my family so that was awesome! I love it here in Lubbock, the people are definitely smart and its forcing me to dig way deeper into the scriptures than ever, but its great! I'm scuba diving- as sister Lori Hall used to say : )

Hope you all know how much I love you. and also, next time you have a dust storm, just remember little sister Hall and sympathize with her...it SO WINDY AND DUSTY here haha. 

 
love

Sister hall

Hellooooo!

Well its been a full on week, the University ward I am in is a BUSY area, we teach a ton and contact on the campus all day long. My days have been packed, sometimes even taking up our dinner hour. I love every minute of it. Its an adjustment for sure to be teaching young single adults and not families, but I know that this is where I'm supposed to be. My new companion is Sister Barlow from Syracuse, UT, she's 20 and came out the transfer after I did. We get a long smashing and she is a way hard worker! We talked about our gifts of the spirit and how we teach, she is super faithful and bold, and I am gentle and loving haha so we balance one another nicely. I'm learning more about being bold with love and its increasing my confidence each time we teach! Last friday we taught 5 lessons and all of them we basically in the same area of the university, we would finish a lesson, pray say goodbye and then the next person showed up. Incredible!! 

Lubbock is DEFINITELY in the Bible belt, people here are so smart when it comes to the scriptures and its humbling to get to teach such great people. They ask more questions than I have ever thought of in my life- so its been stretching me, but also helping me gain more knowledge and a stronger testimony. I'm loving this area a lot, its so different, but great. Already I've discovered something about my purpose for why I'm here. Its to "be, rather than just seem."

Its easy to look like your doing the right thing, to look like you have a testimony, but if we don't become the very thing we believe (become like Christ...at least try) then we are merely going through the motions. This idea of being and not seeming came from a missionary meeting last week and its really stuck with me. I want to BE not seem, Do not just appear. How do we do this? We live the gospel, love others, keep commandments- not because we are told, but because we love God and it brings so much joy to our lives. IF we BECOME then we will serve others out of love and not to be praised, we will go out of our way to lift others burdens, out of genuine sympathy/empathy, not because its what we should do. Also, when temptations come you'll say no, not because " I can't" or "shouldn't but because we don't want to. Be dont just seem...Something to ponder.

Love you all the way from Texas!

Sister Hall

pics-goodbye NM

One of the fam's from my old area...hard to say goodbye!

Another favorite from Roswell <3  

Well I'll be saying good bye not only to Roswell tomorrow, but also to New Mexico! I will finally be a Texas Lubbock Missionary!!! I'm getting transferred to Lubbock, Texas to serve in a College ward which will be incredibly challenging and exciting! Texas Tech University is the campus we work on so get ready, I might become a Texas fan yet. I'm really grateful for the lessons God has been teaching me lately. Something I'm learning is that God really does love us. He does want us to be happy and all the things we go through is for a reason. I was thinking about how sometimes we feel alone, and unloved, or that God...if he even exists is cruel. I would challenge you if any of these ideas run through your minds to take this invitation to heart. Get on your knees...ask God three things. Are you there? Do you Love me? Did my Savior really overcome these trials for me? I promise he will answer. In a very real way I felt this answer come to me. Read Matt 26:39; Luke 22:40-44; Matt27:46; and then ask, did he endure that So that I could be happy? He really did, in truth He would have gone through all he did if only one of us would have believed in him. I know that is true. I know he loves us, and that ultimate eternal expression of love is the way we can return to live with God!

its true. If you don't know ask.
Love you All!
Sister Hall

Being Transfered

Well I'll be saying good bye not only to Roswell tomorrow, but also to New Mexico! I will finally be a Texas Lubbock Missionary!!! I'm getting transferred to Lubbock, Texas to serve in a College ward which will be incredibly challenging and exciting! Texas Tech University is the campus we work on so get ready, I might become a Texas fan yet. I'm really grateful for the lessons God has been teaching me lately. Something I'm learning is that God really does love us. He does want us to be happy and all the things we go through is for a reason. I was thinking about how sometimes we feel alone, and unloved, or that God...if he even exists is cruel. I would challenge you if any of these ideas run through your minds to take this invitation to heart. Get on your knees...ask God three things. Are you there? Do you Love me? Did my Savior really overcome these trials for me? I promise he will answer. In a very real way I felt this answer come to me. Read Matt 26:39; Luke 22:40-44; Matt27:46; and then ask, did he endure that So that I could be happy? He really did, in truth He would have gone through all he did if only one of us would have believed in him. I know that is true. I know he loves us, and that ultimate eternal expression of love is the way we can return to live with God!

its true. If you don't know ask.
Love you All!
Sister Hall