A new companion, staying in Wyoming area and.....keep track of your keys girl!

Sept 28
I am so thankful for prayer!!!!! :D I love this quote, it says.. Prayer is not a negotiation process it's an alignment process! I have always loved prayer but something that my mission has really taught me is that we can't live without prayer! :) We truly need to converse with our Father in Heaven every single day. He wants us to talk to Him, just like our parents want us to communicate with them. He loves us more then we can even understand. My mission has truly been teaching me the power of prayer and that it's not a "shopping list" but truly it's striving to align our will with Gods. I do know that there is so much power in prayer, we can pray for anything at any time but what is even greater is that we are able to repent when we pray and we are able to change and become stronger disciples of Christ! :) Our Father in Heaven loves us so much! I know that is true! :) 

We had a super great week!! We walked and knocked a TON!! Like 17 hours worth, 100 people later we are still living breathing missionaries! :) We had some amazing miracles this week too! We met some awesome people door knocking, here's a quick story for you all.. So a couple weeks ago we met some potentials on this one street and wrote down their house numbers because they pretty much just told us to come back another time. So on Wednesday we go to this place to follow up with these people and we knock on this one door and it was one that I had written down, however we totally had never met the girl before! So we start talking to her and she was totally interested in meeting! :) It was such a tender mercy to me, obviously we needed to talk to her or I wouldn't have written down her number! We have to be willing to follow any prompting that the spirit may give to us! :) 

On Monday we had a great YSA FHE where they talked about how we all have goals and that if we write them down and look at them we are so much more able to accomplish them! :) So they had us make these cool dream boards, so I wrote down a bunch of my goals whatever they may be, like getting married in the temple, finishing my mission, running a half marathon.. being a mom all those great things.. and then all week I have been thinking more about goals and how truly goals are never accomplished if we don't work at them or for that matter remember them! :) haha I was studying more about goals this morning and check out this awesome pattern I figured out.. 

Hopes are transformed into action and then we accomplish our goals. This could relate to anything, whatever your future goals may be.. What are you doing today to achieve it?! One that always comes to my mind is running a marathon.. So first you have the hope that you can run it, but does that mean you can just go out and run right then and there 26 miles?? I sure hope not.. you might kill yourself.. it means we have to plan out what exactly we need and want to do! We first hope to run the marathon and then we plan out all the things that will help us achieve  the goal, you probably need some good running shoes, you probably need to have like a running buddy or something to keep you motivated and then we also need to have something to be accountable to. Then soon enough you will be running everyday, working hard and that hope will become more then just a hope it will be a goal accomplished! :D I have been thinking a lot about my goals and my dreams, and I have really learned that as we strive to work hard to accomplish our goals, as we rely on prayer to help us through and as we do everything we can we honestly will achieve our goals.. When our eyes are focused in on something we won't let them diviate! :) We must keep our eyes focused on our eternal perspective of living with our Father in Heaven again, some days it's easier than others, just like some days it's easier to run then others but as we push ourselves and keep our faith strong and high we truly will be able to recieve the joy that comes from accomplishing our goal, and just think about the true goal that each of us are trying to accomplish each and everyday. Eternal life with our families. 

The gospel is true! :) I know this for myself, the plan of salvation was given for us because we truly are children of God. I know that Jesus Christ truly did die for me, that he overcame death and that I will be with my family forever. Missionary work is truly the Lords work and I am so thankful for the chance I am to be an instrument in His hands!! :) Have  a wonderful week to you all!! ;) 

Sister Chisholm! <3 

 Transfer day! The one second from the end was her companion in the MTC, Sister Kloch.

 I love this pic of a little girl wanting to talk to the missionaries....they make a huge impact!

 The STL's and Zone leaders in the Wyoming area.

 Such a fun pic!!!

 Sister Steele is Sis Chisholm's new companion! They are going to go get em!

  Even Sister Missionaries can get a tan......hahaha

The trees are starting to change in Michigan!

 We sent her some of her piano music and she was SO excited to play it!

 Gooddbye Sister Guest! Good luck in your new area!

 Our cute sweet girl!

 Zone pday activity.

 Clean up service day at Lake Michigan.

This is from my personal email and I couldn't resist.....she is still our girl......

Okay something you can relate to or something that is just me.... Let me think!! :) Well today we are going to the Holland state park again!! Which you know me.. I am just super excited to play in the sand and to laugh!! It's going to be awesome! Pdays.. they are always just the best! :) So here's a pretty funny story.. Sister Steele and I went to womens conference and here its at like 8 till like 930 but since we didn't have a car we got a ride home, so we were leaving and Sister Steele totally left our keys sitting there at the church so we get to our apartment and the outside door is open so we walk into the apartment complex and then she is all.. umm.. and so it's like 950 at night.. we are late home cuz of the womens conference and now we are totally stranded outside of our apartment!! haha So we call the wyoming 3 elders cuz they are super close to the church and they run over there and there is just all the spanish branch still there so they can't talk to them cuz well they don't speak spanish so we just hear all this funny stuff on the phone! Oh my gosh.. then come to find out someone had grabbed them and was bringing them to us, but the elders were so happy to be the heros for the night.. :) haha they remind me of brennan and tyler! so then we just plan sitting outside our apartment.. it was quite the adventure and we were so stinking tired! haha oh gosh.. So that was one adventure from this week! :D I would say that should remind you of me.. because oh man.. things that like are always pretty funny! We laugh a lot that is for sure! :) 

Our sisters are doing well!! We are going on 2 trade offs this week which I am super pumped about!! I love going on trade offs! They always teach me a lot, and I come away just desiring to be even better! Our sisters are awesome, and just so willing to learn and grow! We will be driving a lot to see them all but it will be good! We get our car back on Wednesday which takes away some of the stress I have felt this week!! haha :) I am happy about that! Our new zone leader is great, he actually came out with me, Elder Tabagus and Elder Clark and me all came out together.. it weird and totally crazy to me to think that we aren't like the baby leaders anymore.. I am getting to be one of the older sisters.. How insane is that?!?! I don't even feel like it at all.. So weird! They are awesome though, I am excited to work along side them!! :D 

Sept 21

Hey everyone!! :D Well happy news of the week is that I am staying here in Wyoming for another transfer!! I am so excited! :) my new companion is Sister Steele, she is from Idaho, has super cute curly hair, loves the gospel and has such a desire to serve the Lord!! :) I am so excited to serve with her! I know we are going to see so many miracles this upcoming transfer and it's going to be great!! :) It should be awesome! 

This week we had the opportunity to have a training with Elder Andersen and it was absolutely amazing! The spirit was so strong and he taught us some incredible things. He actually came and taught at our MLC as well which was amazing! :) The things he taught us there were probably some of my favorite things. He talked about how we need to have the faith to reap. He compared between Lamen and Lamuel and how they had enough faith to actually leave and follow their father but they didn't have enough faith to do all the things they were commanded to do. It's amazing how truly the Lord has given us commandments to help us not to make us restricted. There is a quote that I found this morning by Elder Perry he says, "A useful way to think about the commandments is they are loving counsel from a wise, all-knowing Heavenly Father. His goal is our eternal happiness, and His commandments are the road map He has given us the return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy." I know that is true. I have seen so many blessings because of obedience in my life and also in the lives of people I love. Keep the commandments, in this there is saftey in this there is peace! <3 He then talked about how Nephi had the faith to reap, and how we need to strengthen our faith so that we can produce miracles. We must strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ and by doing so we will be able to strengthen others! :) That was such a great training he then trained us on pride as well, which lead me to a long study and introspection on pride this week. I have really noticed how easy it is for us to become prideful even in the smallest things, we must always recognize the need we have for a Savior and truly the need we have for all of the principles of the gospel. Repentance is the way out of that terrible sin. 

We had some incredible experiences this week as well!! :) after that training I felt my missionary spirit come back in crazy amounts and it's just kept going! We found some really neat people, and it's been because of the spirit. There is a scripture in D&C 3:3 which says, Remember, Remember that it is not the work of God that is frustrated by the work of man. As we are striving each and every week to become more like our Father in Heaven we just need to be obedient to strenghten our faith more completely and to strive each day to be a little bit better. 

I know this gospel is true! I know it with my whole heart and soul, I am thankful for repentance, for the sacrament and for the blessings the Lord bestows each and everyday upon those who are faithful! :) I hope you all have a wonderful week, keep looking for missionary opportunities! Last night we watched a mormon message with a member and it was exactly what she needed.. Even little things like that helped others to feel of Gods love. To strengthen yourselves, strengthen someone who needs more then you! Have a great week!! 

Sister Chisholm! <3 

Faith, courage and a little bit of pixie dust!!!!

September 8 "Faith, principle of Power"

Hey everyone!! I hope you all have had a wonderful week! :) I cannot believe it's been another week, seriously does anyone else feel like time is just flying by! It's September already! :) I hope that school, work or whatever you all are doing is going well! :D 

Another week in Michigan Complete!!!!! It was amazing!! :) Here were some highlights!!! 

We had an awesome zone pday on Monday!! I love this zone! It's amazing to be surrounded by 40 missionaries and to be able to to have fun with one another! They all truly are inspirations to me!! 

We had a great dinner with some members and we were able to help them respond to anti, actually cool story! They have a girl that worked with Brother Hannibal and she came up to him after she had read a bunch of the Book of Mormon and had tons of questions, we taught her a lesson a couple weeks ago and then she moved to Indiana, but then she actually came back this past week and came to church with us! :) She plans on getting baptized later this month!! It's amazing how the Lord prepares people, she searched it out herself and then knew he was a member and she was able to ask him questions! I am so excited for her, I am blessed to have been able to be even a small part of that process! :D We talked with them that night about how to answer questions especially the hard ones! 

On Tuesday our sister in ludington called and had just had an amazing miracle! They met this lady and she told them that she was interested and they came back with a Book of Mormon and as they gave her the book the lady started to cry! That was such a tender mercy for those sisters, for her and that they told us! It's amazing how the Lord truly will place us where we need to be! :) We also had a cool expereince that morning where we prayed specfically to be able to meet someone and invite her to be baptized.. it's been a zone goal to invite people to be baptized more often, we had about 10 minutes to knock and on the last door we met this girl that we were able to invite her to be baptized and she invited us back! Miracles are real! :) We taught some great lessons that day as well, our invesitgator Fernando who we just gave over to the spanish elders is amazing!! We taught the word or wisdom and he already is striving to live it, he just quit smoking and drinking.. It was amazing! :) I think he will get baptized soon! 

Wednesday we had a great district meeting, the assistants and the zone leaders were there which made it even more awesome! We have some great leaders in our mission! I am so grateful to be able to serve around them, Elder Bloskas one of the assistants shared a great scripture with sister guest and I after we pratice taught, he asked me to tell him the story about the women at the well, which is in John 4 and then he said the part that has always stood out to him is how the women leaves her water pot and goes to follow Christ and tell others about Him. I loved that. As we come unto Christ it often means that we have to leave something that we love. It means that we have to repent and change, it probably wasn't easy for her to leave the water pot because that was what she was using to get water and had been for so long but she had full trust in the Lord. Faith, it produces miracles!! :D We lost our car on wednesday so we biked and walked and knocked a lot!! It was great!! :) We also taught our new investigator Melissa who cool story was actually found a year ago by my trainer who served here!!!! That was so SO awesome!! We taught her and now she is super interested in learning!! It was amazing! Finding through former invesitgators is real.. especially when they were your companion!!! :) :) We had a lesson with the pendergrasses as well which was great! they are so awesome, I can't wait for them to come to church, it should be soon! It would be hard I think to come back after it's been so long but I think they can do it, faith and courage.. That really is what it takes! 

Thursday we weekly planned... :O :O haha I love planning and I know it's important but let me tell you one of my weaknesses.. being in the apartment for longer then like 3 hours is way way way too long!! haha :) We made it through though and planned a lot of good stuff! and Then we taught our investigator Micheal, he has all sorts of doubts but we watched the Restoration video with him and I think it helped. We just aren't sure exactly how much of a desire he has, but he wants to meet with us.. it's such an odd situation! haha Then there was a guy there that the elders were teaching and he almost hugged me.... Awkward...... Boys.... :O :O I was really embarressed and probably turned red like a tomato! haha 

Friday we found a lot and then also had a lesson with Melissa again! :) haha our tender mercy was that Sister Pawson came and picked us up for our lesson!! that was great! We thought we had asked her to come get us before we went to teach her but we totally forgot with everything else going on! Sometimes little things like that truly are answers to prayers! :) Everything always works out, I am such a firm believer of that! 

Saturday we found all day and biked like 12 miles!! :) It was great! We were so SO tired but we were happy! Those days are the best most of the time you know that you truly did work hard and you feel accomplished! We found some great people as well which was awesome! Miracles are everywhere!!! :) 

Sunday was my favorite day, it always is!! :D I LOVE sundays if you don't.. Well I would just say find a way to love them. It was fast sunday, our testimony meeting was amazing, we learned about forever families in gospel principles, and then about diligence in relief society.. It was so wonderful I truly had tears in my eyes all day, and I had a burning in my heart. The gospel is true, I know that it was restored through a prophet of God. I love my Savior and my Father in Heaven. I am so thankful to be a part of His work. It truly is the greatest work on this earth!!! :D We went door knocking with a member on Sunday as well, Sister Vanhorn and it was GREAT!! She was awesome we met 2 people that had the same name as her too and she just rocked it! :) We had dinner with our ward mission leader and man.. he is just amazing! We talked about staying close to the rod and staying strong in the gospel always, he shared about how often we are holding onto the rod with just 2 fingers and that is enough. The spirit will always help us to get a firm hold again, just keep holding on. Never let the tree out of your sight. Keep pushing on, even if you don't need a boost here it is anyways, you are not alone. You are never alone!! :) 

I love you all! I hope this doesn't bore you.. but I thought you may like to hear about my daily life a little bit!!! Keep smiling!!! The gospel is true!!! 

Sister Chisholm! <3 

Me and Sister Weeks!! It was her birthday 2 days ago!! :) 

 A very fun P-day activity at their Stake Presidents house!

 Peace out man....

 We sent her a back to school package. Each little item has a letter of the alphabet associated with it, it was a fun pkg to put together and she said it came at a good time with things she needed....I LOVE making packages for her and her companion!

This is Ian. She's been teaching him for quite a while and recently had to turn him over to the new elders in the area...she is SO hoping he gets baptized while she's still in the Wyoming area, she has really come to respect him and he is learning so much! And so is she!

 Apparently DL's and STL's need a little rice krispie treat every now and then.

A sweet giro

September 12 2015 "Repent, it's that simple."

Aloha!!!! :D Okay, I am not in Hawaii and it's not that warm here either.. but I just think that is a super great way to start an email!! :D I sure hope that you all are having a great day and that you are happy! Life was meant for us to be happy! Oh also.. I am emailing today because we are having Elder Andersen of the 70 come to our mission on Monday!! It's going to be great, I am going to copy his talk from this past conference in this email because it is super douper good.. and you all should read it!! :) https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/the-music-of-the-gospel?lang=eng

Check it out!! :) 

So last week I named my email faith, and this week it is repentance! :) I totally didn't plan that at all.. but in reality we are always striving to live the gospel of Jesus Christ. Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End. It's a consistent pattern and we must be continually living it! If we let ourselves slip for even just a minute we could fall into a trap and it will be much harder to get out! That is why we need Jesus Christ. We will all stumble at one point or another, we will all make mistakes at some point and that was part of our Father in plan. There truly is no way for us to become like Him if we don't have moments that are hard, or if we are tried. However, we can always come back to Him. We must Let Him In. This is something very profound that I have started to understand a little bit more about the Atonement. Jesus Christ suffered for our sins. He died for us and He made it possible that we can always have the spirit to be with us, however we have been given agency or the ability to choose and we decide what we do with it. We cannot deny the Atonement. If we don't give our hearts over to our Father in Heaven and if we don't let Jesus Christ in then we will never receive the joy of the gospel. We will never be able to change and we will stand still. Doesn't that sound awful...??! It sounds pretty terrible to me. That is why we must accept the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we must be willing and desire to change and then move forward with faith accepting that our Father in Heaven truly does have a plan for us! :) 

I know that you are loved! I know that we are all children of God, He has  perfect plan for us we just must be willing to let Him in and desire to change!! :) We were able to teach repentance to a less active family this week and it was incredible! I love the defintion of repentance in the bible dictionary! One of my favorites for sure, it means that we have a new view of the world, of ourselves and of God. It truly is incredible that we are able to repent, one of my favorite quotes is, "Repent joyfully" As we repent we change and we start to love ourselves again! :) 

Life is good! I love being a missionary, I have the great opportunity of inviting people to completely change and to repent, so that they can be happy, so that they can feel the joy of the gospel and so they can feel love! This work truly is a mighty work of love!! I am so grateful to be part of it!! :D Search for those opportunities to be a missionary, share your testimony or just smile at someone! They truly will desire to know what you carry within you!! :D 

Have a great week!!! :D 

Sister Chisholm! <3 

Oh.. only the greatest district ever!! :) haha 

 Their district!

During a pretty crazy rainstorm a member saw these two cute girls outside on their bikes without an umbrella, they turned around and gave them theirs. People are so good and so kind, thanks for helping our girls stay a "little" drier!!!

A year down, 6 months to go, and it keeps getting better!

Our cute girl has been on her mission for a year. Hard to believe a whole year has gone by and I haven't hugged her once!! We sure miss her.....but looking back on her pictures, her letters, her experiences and seeing how much she's grown is incredible. She has truly become more converted, more compassionate and empathetic, more grateful, more tolerant and less judgmental and is exactly where she should be at this time in her life. She told me today....

We met some super cool people, we met some CRAZY people.. oh man.. this one lady totally like told us we were completely deceived and that we are of the devil.. but she kept 

saying I am only telling you this because I am a Christian.. it was something else.. I bore my testimony so strong that I was shaking, I had tears in my eyes, and man.. I felt like

every emotion ever! that was interesting! I was... haha man.. I couldn't handle it! It was weird I didn't really "confound her" If you could say that, but she didn't say that she loved us either though.. which was okay. haha 

I don't like it when people interrupt me either and she totally did! :O but after I bore my testimony of truth we told her that we were going to leave and that it was nice to meet her. 

haha but then on saturday we met these people that had been "taught" about us that day in church.. haha they said that we don't believe in Jesus and all this stuff and as soon as we

talked about the God head and showed it with the scriptures they stopped talking about it. That was a really cool moment! They were very different, I felt like with them there wasn't 

as much contention I felt like the first lady just completely hated us.. it was so weird! Those moments are so crazy! But I know why I'm here and I WILL defend my Savior!

That is what it's all about, and we are so proud of her, even though we miss her! Here are some pics of her MTC day...we love and miss you, but are so proud of her!

August 31

Hey everyone!! :) I am just about out of time today, but I had a great week! The work is hastening, I love missionary work!!! :D So craziness.. I hit my year mark on my mission this past week and after a little bit of reminiscing about the MTC, my crazy year as a missionary that I have had and everything I have learned one of the greatest things I have learned is the principle of remembering!! :) We have so many awesome opportunities to grow each and everyday but if we experience something great and then we forget about it, then it was almost not even worth it to have the experience. In Helaman 5:12 we learn...    And now, my sons, remember, remember that it isupon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son ofGod, that ye must build your foundation; that when thedevil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts inthe whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty stormshall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you todrag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo,because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is asure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall. 

But one of my favorite parts of that scripture is when it says to remember!! 

We must always remember tender moments with the spirit, we must remember moments that we are close to our Father in Heaven. They will help us become more defined and strong. This week as we went about working hard, I was reminded of all the tender mercies the Lord has given to me and how much He truly loves me. We had a great lesson with our investigator Ian, us and the elders and a couple members were there because we are handing him over to them soon. We had a mini testimony meeting and the spirit was so strong. I was grateful to be reminded of some of those moments that have helped me learn and grow. We really never know what kind of help we can do as we share our testimonies and as we remember how we felt! 

We also had a really neat experience when we met a guy named Lucas this week, he shared his testimony with us about how He came unto Christ. It reminded me a lot about how we all have our own individual journey to Christ and that we must always strive to help others in theirs.

The gospel is true! I love my mission, I know that the effort I am performing is not wasted and that truly the Lord is in control of all things! :) 

Keep smiling, keep remembering.. keep being awesome!! :) 

 Trade off's with one of her favorite sister missionaries!

 Dinner at a members is one of her favorite things!

 Sister Chizzy celebrated her year mark this week! She made pancakes (with a candle)  and a yummy smoothie to party it up!!! She is so cute!

Today as she was emailing us, she said it was so foggy....yeah, I'll say! She says Michigan weather is funny sometimes!

Love Sister Chisholm! 

August 24

Hey everyone!! :)

Yesterday in relief society we were talking about elder bednars talk from general conference and our teacher asked this question , "What matters most?" 

As soon as he said those words two things came into my head. I want to center my email on those things today, and then invite all of you to pay attention to those things in your lives that matter most to you! :) 

The very first word that came into my mind was..

Family! Without even thinking about it that was the very first thing that came into my mind. So then I asked myself why. There are so many reasons why I love my family, they truly are my angels here on earth. They are my examples and they truly stand by me in everything I may be going through. I have received a deeper love for them as I have been away from them for about a year. I am so SO grateful for my family, I am grateful for their devotion to follow the commandments and to be the best they can be. I am thankful for their testimonies and their love. Most importantly I am grateful for their love of the gospel. Their testimonies have helped me get to where I am today, and I am so grateful for the gospel and the truth it brings that families can be forever. :) I am grateful that my family has been such a great model of the future family I want to have. I am excited for that! :D

The next thing that came into my mind was my testimony. 

This morning as I studied I decided to look up what testimony means, in the dictionary it says, a declaration or affirmation of fact or truth. Evidence in support of a fact or assertion, proof. A public declaration regarding a religious experience. Then I read over bearing testimony in preach my gospel is says a spiritual witness and assurance given by the Holy Ghost. One of my favorite songs is called "Witness" It's from a play about Joseph Smith, this is part of the song, it's about the 3 witnesses of the Book of Mormon. I love this..  

"I know what I have felt. I cannot deny my heart. Though memories melt this burning will never part. The voice of the spirit or a witness more vivant than sigh that if we are faithful we will live with our Lord Jesus Christ. I bear record it's true, I know what I have felt." 

My testimony means the world to me. I know things of myself because I have studied, prayed and pondered on many things. I know that Jesus is The Christ. I know that My Father in Heaven loves me, that he loves each of us perfectly, many things draw from this one fact. He loves us so he lets us have trials so that we can become more like Him. I know that Joseph Smith truly did see Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and that the priesthood keys were restored through him! The gospel is true! :) I know it for myself.

My family and my testimony mean the most to me! :) What means the most to you?!?! I love this work!!! Have a wonderful week! 

Love Sister Chisholm! <3 

Our last day on bikes.. for a couple weeks!! :) 

Wahoo!! 

 Senior missionaries are the BEST!

 A sweet lady she is teaching, Vanessa.

One of Jen's favorite families' back home sent her this package....they are AWESOME! Thank you Christensen's!

 Apparently a member she visits has a full on throne at their house....Sis Chizzy was happy to be queen for a minute!!

Sister Chizzy and one of her favorite investigators, Johnathon.

It's not easy but it's simple!

Aug 17

Hey everyone!! I hope you all are enjoying these last few weeks of summer! We sure are! It's definitely a different kind of heat over here with the humidity, but I am loving it!! :) Will miss it on those freezing cold days in February again! I hope all is going well for all of you! :D I am amazed at how quickly time goes by! This week just flew by, I really do believe that on missions we get to see a little bit of the Lords time, because honestly I never know what happened to our time! It's so crazy!!

So this week I want to share a really cool story that happened! :) Well I will share a couple cool stories! The first one was yesterday! Church was amazing, we had 5 of our less actives that we are working with come, that was great! The Delong family has come 3 weeks in a row now, they are incredible! :D We talked about temples and it was amazing, the spirit was so strong. I love Sundays, they truly are a delight! We were able to teach a girl that one of the members in our ward brought to church afterwards, she has read all the way to Mosiah and is still reading and she told us she believes the Book of Mormon is true!! It was SO cool! :) She will get baptized, she is moving to Indiana this week for school, but she is already hooked up with the ward out there and everything, member missionary work, after the lesson Sis Hannibal the member was like, oh my goodness I just feel like she is a baby in the gospel and I have to help her right along. I want everyone to help her too. :) That is how I feel. All my investigators are just babies, they need to be guided along, the need the help and strength that the gospel brings. I can't wait to be a member missionary again too! :) It is always needed! So that was great! 

Wednesday was insane... I mean really though! I will write some of the things I wrote in my journal from that day! "This day is exaclty what the scriptures say.. They were filled with exceeding great joy.. even shed many tears of sorrow.. did raise their voices and give thanks go God.. filled with pain and anguish for the welfare of their souls." Mosiah 25:8-11. It was quite ironic that I read that in studies wednesday morning and then literally I felt all those emotions throughout that day! We taught some of our awesome investigators, they are all doing so well. I have been so blessed to teach them, the hard part is that they live in Wyoming 3 area. The then we did service for one of the members in our ward, we were able to help her out because her son comes home this week from his mission! That is exciting!! :) So then we were supposed to teach a less active but she called and had to cancel, so we were trying to decide if we should knock in the same area we had planned even though it was far away or if we should just stay close. We still both felt right about staying in the place we at previously planned to knocked so we went there, and it was incredible! We were able to meet Tyler, he is this incredible guy that had met with missionaries before and right now feels like he is lost and away from God. I strongly testified to him that I knew God sent us to meet him, and that he had not forgotten him and that he loved him more then he could even imagine. Through his sunglasses I think I saw a tear, the spirit was so strong. Those moments are life changing, the gospel is life changing. It was incredible. An email really does not show you the feelings I felt, or the spirit that I know he felt. We truly are able to be instruments in the Lords hands. Later that night we found out that we need to give all of our investigators that are in Wyoming 3 area over to them.. It's been really difficult trying to figure out exactly what to do, but I know the Lord has a plan. If it means giving all our investigators over and pretty much starting over, we will do it.I just can't believe they want us to! 

Anyways, life is good! :) my time as a missionary is quickly passing me by, but I know that it really is only the beginning of a lifetime of service! :) We are all missionaries, we are all called to mourn with those who mourn and stand in need of those who need comfort. I know Jesus is the Christ, I know the gospel is true. I know Heavenly Father has a perfect plan and that He answers our prayers! Have a wonderful week!!! 

Love Sister Chisholm! <3

throw back to MLC with some great sisters! :) 

( I didn't take like any good pics this week.. Sorry! ) 

Aug 17 (some excerpts from my own personal letter. Sometimes the letter to everyone is kind of vague, I always ask her specific questions and sometimes its fun to hear her "normalcy" still is there! I love it!

So I will answer your questions now! I love that you ask me all these, they help me actually form an email! haha :) 

Our apartment is good! It's hot so our beds are pretty close to the kitchen so we can get the cooler on them! haha that is fun! :) I like our apartment besides that it is FOREVER away from everything.. It's weird how far away from the church and the library and everything it is.. Makes life without a car hard! that is for sure! :O We have neighbors, they are pretty nice, the people under us are nice they smoke like crazy, which makes the hallways smell bad but they are super nice! They borrowed our vacumm one time! Then I told Jaemon the story last week about the guy that lives above us that came in a Viking outift and talked to us! haha that was pretty funny! It's pretty great, besides the smoke smell! 

We had lunch yesterday with our Bishop  and his family, I love them! <3 Seriously he is such a great bishop, he reminds me a lot of dad. Like a lot, a lot. It always makes me happy when we get to go there! :) We had waffles, and eggs and bacon made me feel like I was home for our sunday dinners! :D That was yummy! This upcoming week we have dinner appointments every night, so that will be fun! I love dinners! We are having thanksgiving dinner with all 6 of us missionaries and then 3 others families tonight.. haha that will be an adventure for sure! :) Hmm.. strangest thing.. I am not sure.. We haven't ate any too weird of things recently. I will have to think about that one! Most of the time, we get really good food! 

Most of the members homes are clean, in Lansing that was a whole different story! haha one time we had a lesson and dinner with these members, and it was well.. let's just say I barely ate anything! That story will have to wait until I get home.. :) haha I just will have to describe it to you! ;) I love the Bishops house, I have realized a ton on my mission what kind of house I really do want. It's how my house was growing up pretty much. I have noticed more and more how great out house was, and how the spirit was able to be felt. I want my house to have pictures of the temple, our family, the proclamation, but clean and just a place where the spirit can be felt. In my patriarchal blessing it talks about making it like a temple, and that's exactly what I want. I have thought a lot about my future family actually recently, I am really excited. :) It's going to be amazing, I just know it! 

The whole car thing.. blah... We have been stressed like crazy all week because of it. It's super stressful trying to get rides everywhere, and being on time and making sure people are picking us up and blah blah blah.. but we are doing it! :) So that's what matters, we get our car back on Wednesday and I couldn't be happier! The work still happens, it just really hinders it too.. But oh well we are okay! :) We rode bikes yesterday and I just wore leggings, it may have been like 95 degrees with a billion degrees of humidity but we did it! :) haha this super nice guy gave us water though, so all was good! and we got this way cool potential that we are going to teach on Tuesday so it was all worth it! haha 

The youth in our ward are AWESOME!!!! Seriously, there are like 28 young women, they are great! And then the boys are super great to! Seriously, this ward is just rocking it over here! It's the "zion" of michigan as every one here tells me! haha but it's a great place! They have a bunch of activities like they went to Lake Michigan this weekend and played games and did a bunch of fun stuff, they have bishop firesides, I remember those. They were always so good espeically with Bishop Stanton! We actually taught the young women this week for mutual about preparing to serve a mission, I talked about being worthy and then also having a strong testimony of the Restoration and of Joseph Smith. It was really good! :) We had fun doing that! They are having a youth fireside in a couple weeks here, I love the youth. They rock!! :) 

Hmm.. something funny! Well recently Sister Guest and I have been laughing a ton!! Like I don't even know why but the littlest things get us to laugh! We saw "L" again and he was drunk that was pretty funny! We actually have to give him over to the elders because he is in their area.. :( But we taught him and he was drunk, that was pretty funny! he kept repeating himself and doing weird things! I have never really seen anyone drunk before so that was interesting! haha :) Also "I" this week has been taking a bunch of drugs for his leg and so when we taught him I think he was a little high.. which was also pretty dang funny..  Some other funny ones are just when we are out door knocking, someone will answer the door right when we are saying sometimes, or they will not even answer the door but they will peek out the window!

 At a fun place got "Steak and Shake!"

 Jen said this dog "totally creeped us out, it just sat there staring at us and didn't ever move...." we got a huge kick of that. Be scared Jen.....be really scared...its coming for you............TERRIFYING :D

This is one of my favorite pictures of Jen and one of her investigators so far. It makes me happy to see this guy (Ian) want to know more about our church and how awesome it is that they are such great friends. Love the diversity. 

August 10

Hey everyone!! :) I heard this quote and really loved it so I thought, might as well share it! :)

So I have a couple great stories to share with all of you this week! :D We are seeing so many miracles here in Wyoming! Sis Guest and I will be together another 6 week, I know we are going to see some awesome miracles! Seriously the work never stops hastening! It's amazing to me, despite all our imperfections The Lord still knows how to make things happen! :) 

First cool story, we picked up a new investigator this week named Fernando! Door knocking, it truly brings miracles! I feel like almost everyone we are teaching right now all were found doorknocking, it's amazing actually! My faith has grown a ton in the principle of going out and knocking on doors! So anyways we taught a great lesson on prayer, and then set a return appointment and left him with a pamphlet. When we were walking out we were like oh darn, we forgot to warn him about anti.. it seems like everyone out here gets an-tied and then they NEVER talk to us again. So we felt bad. We do our best to warn people that satan attacks truth but sometimes we don't do as good as we should. But the Lord is merciful. Later that night, while we were fixing our bikes with some members Fernando texted and said, can you call me? I have a couple questions. So we did and he goes, so I read some stuff and then proceeded to ask us about polygamy and about all these things he had seen or heard. It was amazing to me! We were able to talk to him and address his concerns and then he said he will still be willing to meet with us! :) I thought that was so cool. We always have another chance. 

Yesterday we were able to go and have lunch with a recent convert and she invited her son Luke that has come to church a couple times. We had a great lunch and then a powerful lesson about prayer with him as well, he has only been to church like 9 times in his life and he said the closing prayer for us at the end of the lesson. It was amazing. He wants to learn more that he can feel more comfortable at church. He said that he feels like he was thrown into a super elite class that he knows nothing about, but if he understood more he would feel much better! :) I agree, I think sometimes church would be super way overwhelming! That's why I love what we do, it's so personable! So he is super solid, I can't wait to teach him more! :D 

We were able to meet with the Pendergrasses again as well!! They are on date to get baptized!! :) We are way excited! Thank you all for your prayers, I know that prayers are answered. Even if they aren't always how we want them answered, they are answered! :D 

Well life is good! I am so happy to be staying in Wyoming!! :) It's such a great place! We are going to have 3 sets of missionaries in our ward starting thursday! Holy cow! It will be so nice! We had a GIANT area for the past 3 weeks I am excited to see what will happen. 

Well I hope you all have a fantastical week.. that word comes from my dear comp sister morrison! ;) Make it great!!!!! Love ya!! 

Love Sister Chisholm 

us and the holland sisters at holland state park!!! :) 

I love the beach! 

Don't worry we only played volleyball!