Week 67

What a week! So I guess first of all.. transfer calls came Sunday night! Guess who my companion is?! SISTER WEBB!!! And guess what area we're in?! FEDERAL WAY!! Hahah.. I'm dying. What a dream come true. Haha I thought that for sure I'd be transferred this time! But nope. :) Looks like I'll be in Federal Way for a whole year of my mission! :) I just love this place. 

This week it's been super hot and in the 90's. So basically I've been getting fried. People keep giving me sunscreen and water though. So I should be prepared for this next week! ;) 

The 4th of July was super awkward and weird. We went to a park so that we could contact a lot of people and so many of them were just rude! We finally got to talk to one guy who spoke Spanish and he said that he'd met with missionaries before and that he'd love to learn more. So we got his name and phone number and then asked for his address. As he was about to give it to us a lady came up and was like, "You need to leave. You got his phone number and that's enough." We were like what in the world?! So we kept standing there and the guy was like, No it's fine! Stay! But she was getting all mad at us and kept telling us to leave. It was SO weird. I don't know who that lady was.. but she sure didn't look like she was related to him. Haha so we just walked away and kept trying to contact. As we were walking back to the car we realized that we were the only white people at the park. Haha.. so we went elsewhere and tried to find some people to teach. :) 

We had a lesson with our investigator Mona yesterday! She's the one that I met at the garage sale last year. She told us that her daughter is going to move in with her and had asked her why she was meeting with us. She told her mom that we read from our own Bible. So Mona told her that the Mormon Bible backs up God's word and that we read from both of them. She was totally defending it! Then she told us that she's been telling everyone that she's meeting with The Sisters and how much she loves it when we come over. How cute is that? Haha she is just so great. Please keep her in your prayers! She's got a few health challenges right now. And.. she might not be living the law of chastity. So pray that that lesson will go well. ;) 

Well I'll write more in my letter home. We did have a lot of great things happen this last week and there are even more to come this week! So we're excited for that :) I love you all SOOO much! 

Love, 

Sister Maurcine Flamm 

Week 66

Hello! 

It's so weird to think that a year ago I was in this exact same area. And now I'm here again! Still being a missionary and living the dream. :) Last summer I was in a trio with Sister Muir and Kirschner and one day we were helping out at a garage sale for the boys in our ward to raise money for a high adventure trip. We were able to talk to a few nonmembers that came by and we helped them carry things out to their car. So fast forward to about a month ago.. Sister Heiner and I were together and were contacting in an apartment complex. We started talking to this couple and the lady looks at me and says, I know you! She didn't look familiar to me so I asked if we had talked before. She said yes! At a garage sale last summer. You helped me carry some items to my car! I couldn't believe it. I don't know how she remembered me! It was crazy.. so we kept talking and she said that she was in a hurry but would love to talk another time. So fast forward again to last week. We called this lady and she said that we could come over! So we went over the next day and taught her the Restoration. We really feel like she was connecting the dots and sincerely wanted to learn more. She prayed at the end and was just in tears. It was such a cool experience!!! So a lady that I met a year ago became a new investigator last week. :) Coincidence that I came back to this area? Yeah.. I don't think so. :) How crazy is that?! 

This week just got better and better though. We got to teach Kaya Warrior and her mom!! I've been trying to work with this family for a long time now. But they're just so hard to get a hold of! So one of Kaya's good friends is Courtney Walker. Courtney is 19 and has been coming out with us in preparation for her mission. So Kaya agreed to let us come over with Courtney and practice teaching together. We taught the Restoration and I feel like it went over really well. Kaya's mom grew up in the church but fell away when she was 17. Her parents got divorced and she had some really bad experiences with people saying hurtful things to her. So she fell away and hasn't been active in the church since. So as we taught we were able to bring out a lot of her concerns that we didn't know about before! So that was super helpful. We invited them to pray to know if Joseph Smith truly did see Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and they said that they would! We're going to follow up this week and hopefully go over again with Courtney and teach the Book of Mormon. Please pray for them!! They are such an amazing family and I know that the gospel will bless them so much. 

I really like Elder Renlund's talk from this last conference. He said that, "The Church is like a big hospital, and we are all sick in our own way. We come to church to be helped." I know that that is so true. The church is 100% perfect, but the people aren't. We're all in need of help so we just have to be patient with one another :) 

Well I hope everyone has a great week! I love you all so much :) 

Sister Maurcine Flamm 

Week 65

What a crazy week. Remember how Sister Webb and I starting biking? Yeah. So last Thursday was the most perfect day so we decided that we'd bike all day! We biked to an appointment and had a really good lesson with a part member family. We left and started biking to our next appointment. We were cruising! Ha. So Sister Webb was in front leading the way. We were biking on the sidewalk and then had to cross the road to the next sidewalk. There was a car stopped at the stop sign so Sister Webb started biking across. As she was halfway across the guy pushed on the gas and clipped her back tire. She then flew off her bike and landed in the road on her hands and knees. So I jumped off of my bike and ran over to her. She hopped right up and the guy got out of his car and just started apologizing and asking if she was ok. We were both just in shock. She said that she was fine and then guess what he did?! He saw our name tags, got back into his car, and drove away. Did we get his name or license plate number? Nope. Not a thing. It happened so fast!!! So we picked up our bikes and started walking to our appointment. So you better believe we taught another lesson right after Sister Webb got hit by a car. Haha I don't know what we were thinking.. clearly we weren't. :) Sister Webb's hand started hurting her though so we called Sister Eaton and she told us to go get it checked out at Urgent Care. So long story short.. Sister Webb is good! She strained her hand and got a few scrapes and bruises but no broken bones! Talk about a miracle!!! It was crazy. After that I kept thinking about Brooke and how she had to watch me get hit.. and how I had to watch Sister Webb. I decided that Brooke definitely had it worse though because I was screaming bloody murder when it happened to me. (Sorry Brooke!!) Ha. I'm so glad that Heavenly Father is always watching out for us. We're going to keep biking once Sister Webb's bike gets fixed, but don't worry! We'll be super careful :) Oh! And thanks so much for the odometer Keriana! It works like a charm. I've only been able to use it once so far though.. but those 3 miles were great while they lasted. ;) 

We also had the chance to go to a baptism in Puyallup South this last week! It was for a 9 year old girl that Sister Webb worked a lot with and who I taught a couple of times. Her mom gave the talk on baptism and it was so good!! She had 3 dresses displayed. A blessing dress, a baptism dress, and a wedding dress. She then talked about the different names we take upon us when we wear each dress. She emphasized the baptism dress and how we get to take upon us the name of our Savior and how that's such a privilege. It was so cute!! It's probably on pinterest or something.. but I'm totally stealing it for when my daughters get baptized someday. :) 

Well there's probably lots more to write about but that's all I've got for right now. :) I love you all! I hope you had a great Father's Day Dad! I'm so grateful for you and love you so much :) 

Have a good week!!

Love, 

Sister Flamm 

Week 64

Well thanks for all of the prayers this week! 3 of our investigators came to church yesterday! And 2 of them we found this last week! So that was sweet. We were out contacting the other day and we ran into this lady and her 2 sons. She's from Myanmar and speaks Burmese and not much English. But her son does so he translated everything for us! We went by at the beginning of last week and taught them the Restoration. We weren't sure if Moe Moe (the mom) was understanding, so we tried to ask her some simple questions. I asked her if she remembered the question that Joseph asked Heavenly Father and she said yes. So then I asked her what it was and she said, "he was praying to know what church he should go to!" Then she told us how she had been praying to be able to go to an English Christian church and then the next day she met us! I can't even tell you how cool that was.. I just wanted to cry! Heavenly Father answers prayers, that's for sure!!! It made me think of this verse that I read in 2 Nephi 27 the other day. It says, 23. "For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith." 

I know that God truly is a God of miracles. BUT we have have to exercise our faith in Him! I'm so grateful for the miracles that I get to be apart of every single day. This truly is the greatest thing that I have ever done in my life. 

In ward council yesterday we were talking about making the Sabbath more meaningful. Something that stood out to me was that the sacrament is the only ordinance that we repeat for ourselves. The only one! I know that it's so important that we partake of the sacrament weekly. I'm still trying to figure out how I can make it more meaningful each week! So let me know what you guys do to give me more ideas! 

Well I love you all so much! You're all in my prayers :) Talk to you soon! 

Love,

Sister Maurcine Flamm

Week 63

I feel like I don't have a ton to write about this week.. but it's been good!! The weather has been so nice. We even rode bikes! We rode on the 4th... my 11th anniversary of getting hit by a car! (And Chantell's birthday. :)) But no worries. I didn't even die. :) But my legs were burning! We ran into some awesome people as we were biking though. We saw these people working on their car and we asked if we could help. (Like I know anything about cars.. but hey.. it was an excuse to talk to them! Ha) The lady told us no unless we had a screw driver. And guess what?! Sister Webb had one. :) So she pulled it out and let them use it! We were then able to talk to them about Family History and the gospel. It was SO good. One of the ladies were really interested and wants a good church that is family oriented. Good thing we have the perfect one for her! ;) We're gong to try and teach both of them this week. Miracles!  

I think our biggest struggle right now is getting our investigators to attend church. So if you could please pray that they'll have that desire that would be much appreciated. :) 

We had a lesson with one of our recent converts, Brother Carey, yesterday. We were talking about the Plan of Salvation and he said, "You aren't just living your life for you." Isn't that so true? In D&C 128:15 it says, "And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect." I know that we're here to help one another make it back home. So that means doing missionary work for the living and the dead. :) So go find a way to serve this week! Help those that are in need. :) 

I love you all soooo much! Talk to ya next week. 

Love, 

Sister Maurcine Flamm 

Week 62

What a week. Thanks for sending the sickness my way everyone! Ha just kidding. But really... we had to stay inside for 2 days this week cause I was sick. It started out on Wednesday night with a sore throat and then I just felt so weak. We had a couple of appointments that day, so I made it through those! But then we stayed in for the rest of that night and all day Friday because I had a fever. I basically slept the day away while Sister Webb cleaned and organized everything. Ha she's such a champ! Bro Fife (the ones that we live with) bought us a thermometer and some ice cream though. So that was great! :) Then we had to teach the 5th Sunday lesson. Haha I'm surprised that  Sister Webb and I didn't pass out! We both just looked like death. But it's all good! Now we both just have stuffed noses. So we're recovering! Well at least I am. Hopefully Sister Webb doesn't get more sick. Ha. OH!! And you'll never even believe it.. but I swallowed 2 pills!!!!! Yep it only took 20 years for me to be able to swallow pills. ;) Haha I kind of cheated though and did it with applesauce. But hey, whatever works, right? I bet you are all so proud of me :) Haha 

We've definitely been living the dream here in Federal Way though. Being with Sister Webb in the greatest area ever is priceless :) I'm just loving it. We were out contacting yesterday and we asked this girl what the greatest gift that she'd ever been given was. She told us Jesus Christ and her son. So we kept talking and tied that into the Sabbath Day and how that's one of God's greatest gifts to us. It was such a good contact! She told us how she really wants to have Sunday's off of work so that she can go to church. So if you could pray for Desiree to have work off I'd really appreciate it :) We have an appointment with her tonight so we're praying that all goes well! She's like super prepared. :) 

Also if you could pray for Sade and her family as well. She's living with some family members of a different faith and they just keep throwing a bunch of anti stuff at her. The last lesson was kind of rough and she's just confused on what to believe. We keep inviting her to pray about it and not take anyone's word for it. It just breaks my heart though! She's only 12 years old and I know that this gospel is truly the only thing that will help her and her family. 

2 Nephi 31:21 "And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen."

I hope everyone gets feeling better soon! I love you all so so so much!!! :) 

Love,

Sister Maurcine Flamm 

Week 61

Are you guys ready for theeeee greatest news EVER? Ok. I'll tell you. :) Transfer calls came and guess who's staying in Federal Way?! Yep. Me! Haha when this transfer is over I'll have been here for more than half of my mission. Pretty cool, huh :)  But even better... guess who's coming to Federal Way to be my companion?! SISTER WEBB!!!!!!!! I'm seriously dying right now. Haha I love that girl SO MUCH. This is basically the best thing ever. :) 

Whew. I'm still just so excited and I can't even think about what happened this week... so let me think.. Hmm.. well we had a few really good lessons. We had a lesson with one of our investigators named Sheila. She's a single mom and has 2 kids ages 18 and 24. We were able to finally teach her whole family last week about the Plan of Salvation. She pretty much taught the whole lesson and testified to her kids about the things she's been learning. Haha it was so good! We read a bunch of scriptures about it in the Book of Mormon and it definitely brought the Spirit in. :) 

We also had a lesson with a part member Samoan family. The Vasai's are so awesome. We've been working with Sade (Shaw-day) who is 12 and now we're working with her parents as well! Her dad is a member but hasn't been active in a little while. So we taught him and his wife, who isn't a member yet, the Restoration. She was very engaged in the lesson and just wants to know more and more. :) I'm so blessed to be able to work with such amazing people! I just wish you could all meet them.. 

So we tried contacting with this scripture yesterday. It's 2 Nephi 2:26-27

 "26 And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time, that he may redeem the children of men from the fall. And because that they are redeemed from the fall they have become free forever, knowing good from evil; to act for themselves and not to be acted upon, save it be by the punishment of the law at the great and last day, according to the commandments which God hath given.

 27 Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself."

Because of Christ, we are free! We are able to overcome our weaknesses, sins, and even death. He is the only way! I am so grateful for my Savior and for the opportunity that we all have to choose whether or not we want to follow Him. I'm also so grateful for the men and women who have fought for our freedom. 

I love you all so much. I'm proud of you dad for blowing out all 60 of your birthday candles! And it only took 3 tries! Pretty good.. ;) Haha. 

Have a great week everyone!! 

Love, 

Sister Flamm