Week 60

Hey! How is everyone? 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my favorite Dad EVER! (And my only dad.. ;) I hope you get spoiled rotten. Eat some of your peanut M&M's for me. ;) Love you!! 

This week we had Stake Conference and it was really good! For the Sunday morning one we were in the back.. so I was trying to block out the noise from all of the little kids. So that was hard! I'm just counting my blessings that I don't have any crazy munchkins of my own to worry about right now. Ha. ;)

So a sister that spoke at Stake Conference talked about how we shouldn't push back the baptismal dates(and the dates of other saving ordinances) for our ancestors. It's important that we go to the Temple so that those we love don't have to keep waiting! I thought that was pretty cool. Cause obviously our investigators dates get pushed back all the time for one reason or another. But we're pushing our ancestors dates back if we don't go to the Temple. So people.. go for them! I love the Temple and absolutely can't wait until I get to go again. :) 

Another thought.. I hope you all are reading the Book of Mormon every single day. I love what Elder Kevin W. Pearson said in his talk Stay by the Tree. He said, 

"4. The Book of Mormon Is Key to Spiritual Survival

Life’s journey is challenging. It’s easy to be distracted, wander off the path, and get lost. Tribulation is an inevitable and indispensable part of our eternal progression. When adversity comes, don’t let something you don’t fully understand unravel everything you do know. Be patient, cling to truth; understanding will come. Trials are like great mists of darkness that can blind our eyes and harden our hearts. Unless we are “continually holding fast” to the word of God and living it, we will become spiritually blinded rather than spiritually minded. Search the Book of Mormon and the words of the living prophets every day, every day, every day! It’s the key to spiritual survival and avoiding deception. Without it, we are spiritually lost." 

I love the Book of Mormon. I finished again this morning and I know without a doubt that it is true. It has changed my life and I hope that you will all let it change yours as well. 

I love you all!!! Have a great week and enjoy Fisherman's Breakfast. (So jealous that I can't be there for that) 

Oh and good luck on finals, Spence! :) 

Love, 

Sister Maurcine Flamm 

Week 59

I hope all of you mothers had a great Mother's Day yesterday! I appreciate all of your wonderful examples. And especially yours, mom. You are THEE greatest and I love you so much. I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for you. :) 

Brother Carey got baptized on Saturday! So that was great. His non-member parents came for that and his confirmation on Sunday as well! Too bad they don't live in our area... but hopefully they felt the Spirit strongly and have a desire to learn more! Brother Carey was the first lesson that I had when I got back into this area. As we went along with the lessons he told us that the Spirit confirmed to him that baptism was the right thing for him to do. I love strong confirmations from the Spirit like that. I know that that's something that you can never deny! 

So last week I told you about Joe's brother sitting in on our lesson and telling Joe to go to church, right? Ha so Willie (the brother) became a new investigator this last week! We dropped by and talked to him a little bit about the Book of Mormon and he said, "I like this!!" with a huge grin on his face. Haha I love it when people get so excited about reading the Book of Mormon. It's the greatest thing ever. Probably because that book is the greatest thing ever. :) 

There's a fairly new app that you all should check out! It's called LDS pamphlets. It has all of the pamphlets that we teach out of.. but it's better! Check it out. It's something that will be really good for FHE. :) 

Well.. shout out to Dakota! I can't even believe that he's on his plane ride home right now. Pretty sure that I'm sick for him. Ha. I'm proud of you though, Dakota and the person that you've become. You have changed my life! I couldn't ask for a better best friend than you. :) I love you!! Give my Flammily a hug for me. :) 

Well I love you all so much! Have a beautiful day. :) 

Love, 

Sister Flamm 

Week 58

Well... I hope everyone had a great week! I seriously can't even remember what all went on this last week. There was kind of a lot of cancellations and stuff.. so pretty much just missionary life! ;) 

We had a lesson with the Pouvi's this last week though! Olivia and Destiny are the ones that are recent converts and Olivia's husband Joe, is not yet a member. We taught him the Restoration and things were going pretty well! But at the end he said that he felt like he didn't need to go to church. He just needed to be a good person and have a relationship with God. -_-   <-- That was my face when he said that. Ha so clearly he didn't understand the part of Christ establishing His church. So we went back over it to see if we could help him connect the dots. It was cool because his non-member brother also sat in on the lesson and was testifying to him about the importance of church and how it's a time for us to worship and grow spiritually. It was so good! Ha so after that I asked Joe if he thought that God told Christ to establish His church when He came to the earth. He agreed. So I asked him If God commanded Christ to establish His church, do you think it would be important to go to it? (or something of that sort.. I can't remember exactly what I said) Long story short, Joe came to church yesterday! Haha so hopefully he has a little bit better understanding of the importance of church and Christ's restored gospel. :) 

I know that Jesus Christ truly did establish His church when He came to earth and I am so grateful that we have the opportunity to be apart of the church today! I know that it's true. 

I love you all! Thanks for all of the support :) 

Love, 

Sister Maurcine Flamm 

Week 57

You think you have things figured out and then... bam. 

Our trio has officially been broken up. :/ Sister Bailey got transferred to Enumclaw on Saturday because another sister had to go home for medical reasons. So that was super sad! I love that girl. She is SUCH  a good missionary and I've learned so much from her. She's going to do great things in her new area though. Enumclaw is so pretty :) So Sister Heiner and I are still together. She's a great missionary as well. She's been out about 3 months and is from Farmington, Utah. :) I think she's my 7th companion from Utah. Ha 

This week was so good. Bianca got baptized!!! :) She is just the sweetest girl and has a fire in her to learn about the gospel. She was ready to make this covenant with her Father in Heaven and because of that, it was such a spirit packed baptism. Her friend Preston baptized her. So that was really neat! The youth in this ward are AMAZING. So shout out to Autumn, Abby, and Preston for being such good member missionaries! :) 

We found a new investigator this last week named Dynamite. She's a 17 year old Samoan. Haha she's hilarious. I love teaching her! So please keep her and her family in your prayers. 

We had a lesson with a Vietnamese man last night. He was so sweet!! It was a little hard to understand everything that he was saying.. but I know that he is being prepared by Heavenly Father. At the end of our lesson he prayed and thanked Heavenly Father for sending us to him. He was in tears and it melted my heart. Such a cute little man! So we're going to keep teaching him (Eddie) and his son. :) 

Great things are happening here. I'm so grateful to be back in Federal Way to be able to be apart of so many miracles. :) Heavenly Father is truly blessing me!!

I love you all! Have an amazing week! :) 

Love, 

Sister Maurcine Flamm 

Week 56

Hey Family! 

So... this is going to be extremely short. Sister Kirschner and Sister Muir(who recently when home and is back to visit) and I are going to Mt. Rainier! So.. pray that I don't die. ;) Ha we have to be home and out working by 6. So it's going to be a quick trip! But it should be super fun. :) 

Life in the trio is going good! We all get along well with each other so that's a huge blessing :) 

So we had a lesson with a new investigator last week and it was a little rough... she is a really talkative lady. Ha we had to jump in every time she took a breath and it was so hard! But we taught her the Restoration and then set up another time to come back. So we went back the other day to teach the Book of Mormon. She was home but didn't answer the door. So what do I do? I call her as we're standing right outside of her door. :) Haha. She was like, "Is this the Mormons? I saw you outside and I'm real sorry.. but I ain't answering the door! I am i n t o x i c a t e d!" Then she continued to talk my ear off for another 5 minutes or more. Hahaha oh man.. it was insane. She's great and we're going to help her to change her life around :) Ha. She was that lady that I told you about quite a few weeks ago. The one that I shared a BOM scripture with and she started dancing and asked us if it was in her Bible. Haha. The people that you meet on your mission.. it's just the greatest thing ever. :) 

Well I love you all so much! Hope everyone is doing well and I'll talk to you next week! 

Love, 

Sister Flamm 

Week 55

Well hey!

So... Sister Bailey and I are staying in Federal Way another transfer! And... we're getting another companion! Haha yep. I'm going to be in a trio again. Talk about crazy. I go from having my own bathroom in Puyallup South to having only one and sharing it with 2 other people. The struggle is about to get real. Haha. It should be good though! I'm excited. And scared. And excited.. ;) 

So great news! Gaby and Sergio finally got baptized on Sunday!!! Haha they were so stinking cute. Gaby is 8 months pregnant. But you better believe that she went all the way down in the water and back up like a champ! Ha she's the cutest. :) I'm so happy for their little family. The gospel has changed their life for the better. 

We were heading to a dinner appointment the other day and we saw a guy outside of his apartment. So we went over and talked to him real quick. We were talking to him a little bit about the resurrection of Christ and asked if he thought that it was real. Then we asked him if he thought that he would be resurrected and live again as well. He wasn't too sure about it, so we testified to him. So anyways, we keep talking and testifying to him how God has a plan for him. He said that we could come back and share more with him. As we were getting his information I simply told him that I knew that this would change his life for the better. He looked at us and so sincerely and said "Really? Because I've done some really bad things in my life that I'm not proud of." ahh.. it was so perfect! I wish you could have been there. He took a pamphlet and said that he was going to go read it and that he was very interested in learning more. I'm telling ya, people are prepared! And it seems like it's at inconvenient times that we find them :) Ha but that's ok! I love it when people actually give us the time of day to teach and testify to them of the truth of the gospel. :)  

I love you all so much! Thanks for all of the pictures :) And congrats to little Brynnlee!! I'm so happy that you got baptized!! :) 

Have a great week! 

Love, 

Sister Maurcine Flamm 

Week 54

Hey! How was everyone's Easter?! Hopefully you all got to watch conference because that was super good. :) We spent the day at a members home watching it with one of our investigators. We had cinnamon rolls and orange julius's for breakfast and I decided that I'm going to make that a new tradition. Cause it was awesome. :) Ha. Then we had a huge lunch. There was SO many people there! But it was cool because they all just went out of their way to make us feel right at home and part of their family. :) 

This week we went around with a little DVD player and showed everyone the Because He Lives video. I was surprised at how many people actually let us show it to them! And you know what's awesome? We even got a few new investigators because of it!! So if your could pray for Lakea and Sister Harris that would be awesome. We're going to go teach them about the Book of Mormon tonight, so it should be really good. :) 

So one of my favorite talks from conference was from Dale G. Renlund. He talked about how God cares about who we are becoming. He said not to worry about the past, but to press forward and to be better. Satan always tries to make us focus on our past and tells us that there's no hope for us. But because of Jesus Christ, I know that there is hope!  I also really like Elder Holland's talk. The Savior grasps us, holds us, and lifts us to Eternal Life. I'm so grateful for Him and his victory. I know that he truly is there for each and every one of us. :) 

I love you all and hope that you had a great Easter! Talk to you soon :) 

"..remember to retain the name written always in your hearts.."- Mosiah 5:12

Love, 

Sister Maurcine Flamm