Sister Pierce is Called to Serve: Serving in two places at once

July 20, 2015

I am so excited to be in a new area!! This week has been amazing so far and Sister Davis (who is from American Fork, UT) and I are PUMPED for this next transfer!!!! I'm serving in Hanover, New Hampshire. The Connecticut river is in the middle of our area, so we serve in Vermont and New Hampshire (hence the "Serving in two places at once"). We live in Vermont and it is BEAUTIFUL!! It's still really humid and buggy, but at least the scenery is worth it!

Our apartment is a little interesting though because we have a few "extra companions" ...spiders, flies, and mice. I haven't met any of the mice yet, but I'm not looking forward to it.... We also had a visit from a HUGE beetle the other night, but we didn't let him stay too long. I caught him and kicked him out! (more like flung him out the door and ran inside really quick).

I'm so excited for this transfer! our first day we tried to contact a LA, but he wasn't home. We decided to "box him out" (knock on his neighbors doors) and as we were in the middle of that, we saw a car drive up to his house, and sister davis started running over (right as she started running over, the person answered the door we were knocking on, so we invited him to learn, and were a little grateful he wasn't interested so we could go catch the guy who just pulled up). It turned out to be Brother Crosier, who we were looking for, and he sat us down and began to tell us why he hasn't been coming to church and asked if we had a message to share with him. We just shared a scripture and then committed him to come to church. he said he would and said us coming was a sign for him to start coming back to church. the exciting thing was that he kept his promise! He came to church yesterday!! We were so excited because Sister Davis felt prompted to go visit him last week, then the next day, the stake president asked the sisters to go and visit the same person. The spirit is so cool!!! The bishop was also super excited to hear that brother Crosier was going to come to church and was impressed with us for being able to contact him (since he's never met him before). We also talked with him a little after sacrament meeting and asked when we could visit him this week, and as I was asking that, he pulls out a piece of paper with his number on it. SWEET!!!! We're hoping we will be able to help "Rescue" him this transfer (which is our mission goal.."rescue 1,500 in 2015").

We also did lots of lightning visits this week to member's homes and I found out that my old roommate's family lives in this ward! Mary Haehnel. She's coming to visit this week for a month, and I'm stoked to see her!!!!! Also, we found 3 potential investigators this week and set up a Return Appointment with each of them. It's only been 5 days and so many miracles have been happening!!!! This transfer is going to be awesome and I'm stoked to be serving here!!

I hope you all have a wonderful week and experience some miracles this week!! If you look for the hand of the lord in your life each day, i promise you that you will notice miracles each day, and you'll realize how blessed you are to have to gospel in your lives.

Keep P.U.S.H.ing!

Sister Pierce