Hey Y'all,
What a week it has been! Well first
off! I found out on Tuesday that the time has come and i am leaving Garner and
getting Transferred! I don't want to leave. I love this area and will always
come back! Sister Ibarra though is going to be training. She gets a little
Greenie! I guess Garner is just a place for all of the newbies! Who wouldn't
want to come here!
On Monday, I got an Aroma touch
from a sister in our ward with essential oils. It was so nice! I have learned a
lot about essential oils while being here and it is something that has
interested me. I hope to look into it when i get home.
On Tuesday we had our Goodbye
Zone Conference for President and Sister Bernhisel. Do you remember when i said
awhile ago that i didn't want to get too attached....well i did! I was ready to
cry. We sang them Army of Helaman and the missionary version and we all started
to cry. President did and that just started it for everyone. After our Zone
Conference we stopped by lots of less-actives on our way home. We tried about
10 different families and only saw 3 and only 1 was willing to let us share a
message. We invited the rest to our 4th of July breakfast.
On Wednesday we did service for a family
again that just moved into the ward. We helped clean there storm windows. They
were pretty dirty. We had to rinse them with the hose and then scrub with
Windex. While we were cleaning a man pulled up to look inside a recycling box
for metal. We started talking to him. He asked us if we had any metal he could
take. We told him no but we can do some service for him. He was good with that,
but wants to pay us. We explained that we couldn't take is money and don't want
to. He didn't like that. So my smart companion who listens well to the spirit said
that we will clean his windows for free in return to let us give him a 45
minute lesson on the restoration. He agreed. We are cleaning his windows this
week and then we will set up the lesson part later. It was a great tender mercy
for the week.
On Thursday, we had our weekly planning
and we were making phone calls. we had both thought of seeing the same family
so we gave them a call. We called them but they said that this month is going
to be crazy and to call back at the end of the month. We hung up and then about
5 minutes later they call back and asked us if wee could come over now. We said
yes and quickly drove over. We had a great visit and also got to see a family
who we have been unable to contact while i have been here. It was perfect and
it was done by the Lords time. It was perfect!
On Friday, we went with a sister to
help her go visit teach and then Sister Ibarra had a friend from Pinehurst come
down for lunch. Let's just say that it was wonderful and she was awesome and i
hope i get sent to Pinehurst!!!! :)
On Saturday was our busiest day.
We visited a family who we are going to go watch Meet the Mormons with soon. We
did service for a family in there in-laws house helping them move-in. We had
the 7th day Adventist scripture class again. It was hard to understand. We
talked about Moses and the tablets. We had dinner and then did service for a
less-active family cleaning and helping them get ready to move to Texas.
Well y'all this is my week! Lots
has happened! Happy Fathers day to all the Fathers. Especially to my DADDY!
Love you! Happy Fathers day to all my uncles too! Even better Happy Fathers Day
to the most important father of all to my Heavenly Father! I have thought about
this concept and it made me smile! So glad to be doing his work here in North
Carolina and I am ready to serve in my new area and to meet new people. I will
miss this ward and my companion. I do know for one thing you can take me out of
Garner but you can't take Garner out of me!!!! Have a GREAT WEEK!!!!!
--
Sister Tayler Farr
Monday, June 22, 2015
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Seeds of Testimony
Hey Y'all,
This has been a pretty good week! My family had our Massey reunion. Thanks for all the pictures mom. I do wish i could have been there, but really i would have missed out on a great week in North Carolina! Hope the Massey family enjoyed Huntsville! :)
This week has been great! Sister Ibarra's last day for medication is today and then we will have to talk to our mission doctor and try to see a neurologist to make sure that she doesn't have any nerve damage! She has been so strong and extremely determined to serve God! I hope she can brush some it onto me and keep me motivated. It has been great of how loving and caring the ward is and always checking up on her and us and always trying to offer encouragement. Truly i just don't want to leave and this week is the 2nd to last week of the transfer and so i guess we will have to see. Tomorrow oddly enough is our goodbye Zone Conference. I never thought it would come to this part. I have to admit i was at the beginning holding back on trying to love or even allow President to help or really get to know him because i didn't want to then have to say goodbye, but really i have entrusted myself to him and have learned so much from him and asked for so much and really i am dreading and hoping that it will last as long as it can. I am excited to meet the new mission president but not too prepared for the possible change i will have to make. However, if there is one thing i have learned it is that this life we receive is full of change. We make changes everyday. We change our clothes into pajamas we change the style of our hair to down on our necks to up in a ponytail. Really change is everywhere. It is the way God has done things and really we have to experience change to return home! Change is in Repenting and to return home we have to repent.
We had a great lesson with our investigator this week! We talked about Joseph Smith and finished the Restoration. Sister Powers was our member present and shared her testimony of the Book of Mormon and of Joseph Smith. We didn't do much of the teaching. We did invite her to be Baptized. She said that if she read and prayed and felt it was true to would be baptized. It was great! We plan to teach her the Plan of Salvation this week. We had exchanges this week! Of course i got nervous and kind of freaked out and was kind of crazy the first 2 hours but once we started doing things we had a great time and i enjoyed it! We had a great talk and i just love all my STL! They are all so loving and so helpful and really they are what i want to become.
On Friday we meet a less active sister who just had a surgery which was major. I can't remember the thing that it was but the nerve by the eyes would send shape pain through her head to the center of her forehead. Something was hitting her brain and causing her pain. We didn't know she was in the ward and we didn't have her name in the roster. Bishop got a call about her and then we were asked to see her. She is amazing! She has had a hard time and had bad relationships and bad experiences in other wards who treated her bad. She was basically shunned and was forgotten because she got help by someone who was mistreating her. It was hard to hear but we had a great time with her and she is so strong. We are seeing her this week and making her lunch! I am so glad to get to know her more. She always says her short-term memory is always letting her down. I had to laugh because i feel the same ways sometimes. I haven't told her about my brain injury but i told her but i told her that i have a had seizures and for me to tell her the so try she had to let us come back. She was so good and was so happy. She is a strong women and so glad that she has been watched over all this time.
Saturday was full of service! I got to wear normal people clothes all day and it felt so weird. We helped the ward give a day of service to the town of Garner at the Garden. It was lots of work and luckily we had a lot of rain the day before so the humidity wasn't too bad. We were pretty smart when we decided to come early and start at 7. it was actually more bearable. WE had lunch with a sister and made her the food and cleaned her kitchen and vacuumed her house. She goes out with us a lot and is always serving others so we wouldn't let her help. We then helped a family get their in-laws house next door finished! I helped in the past and was excited to see the process and the completed projected. The in-laws are moving in today! We helped touch up the paint and put together some tables. I found a nail in the hard wood floor while sitting and got it caught on my new capris. I wasn't too happy but luckily they were only $7 at Wal-mart. I can still wear them i just have to wear a long shirt! haha :)
Now to the day that will explain my title of the letter. Sunday was awesome. I planned in advance for my fast and we had a great spirit during sacrament. We had a great lessons and had great meetings. We were invited to a bible study with a sister (Sister F) and her non-member friend from work. We have been going out with a sister every Sunday and she wanted to come so we had her come with us. We were so glad we did..... We got their and then we found out that the friend that was coming over to do the bible study. Then about a 10 minute wait two men from her church came and we talked and read from the bible. It was weird. Sister F wasn't expecting it. However, it was like we were put directly into the place of an investigators point of view. It was weird. We read from the bible a lot and talked about why the Sabbath day was really on Saturday and not Sunday. It was just crazy. It made me think about how i teach and if i do that. The older man did all the talking and the other just would hold his paper then his bible. Really it was helping me to see how important it is to have both teachers teaching. the non-member friend asked questions and they didn't answer. It was sad! I was kind of shut off at that. He was teaching and went through the discussion very well. However i felt very uncomfortable and wanted to say things and tell him he was wrong but i just felt like i just needed to listen. Overall the thing that freaked me out the most was the fact that i felt the spirit but din't fully feel it. I noticed that it was like the spirit was holding back. We would read scripture and i felt it get stronger then he would start talking and i felt it loose the intensity. We got to the end and he showed us a calendar and keep trying to convince us of the truth or something. He did however ask us if we as Latter-day Saints put the Book of Mormon ahead of the Bible. We said no they are one in the same. He didn't understand that really. He kept saying but in times or if something was to happen would the bible be above the Book of Mormon. We again said no they will be of equal. The sister who came with us told him her testimony of the Book of Mormon and told him the background of it and to show him that is just like the bible and has the same teaching but just with different people but learning the same thing with learning them through different experiences. I wanted to give him a Book of Mormon, but i again felt the spirit or something say no. We are planning on coming together again next Saturday. Sister F wasn't expecting what happened to happen, which i am glad to invited us to be their. After this little study we came home and Sister Ibarra and I said that it was weird and that it was more of a thing to think about in a way to gain and improve our testimony. What he said did stick but i remember when we realized what was going to happen i prayed to be able to understand and to show respect. I didn't want to understand and really i wanted to be contentious. I have never felt that kind of anger before. The way he taught it seemed like that was a goal. I can see know that as much as it was not something we expected it was something to learn from. I didn't question what i believed i questioned what he believed and why it didn't make sense. I felt the spirit but didn't feel the full impact i have had even at church because he didn't teach with the power of the priesthood or the Holy Ghost. I know what i know and that what i have is true. He talked with such potential. It made me sad that he could be a great general authority, but he doesn't have the priesthood and the Holy Ghost. It reassured me just how important it is for me as i teach others. I don't really understand all that we had just experienced and why it went like that might i know that God was giving us this chance to learn and grow from it. We have been talking as a companionship and have ideas we want to use to better teach and teach with the spirit. Really i am still shocked but i know God was watching out for us and knew that we could handle it and we did. He even allowed us to learn from it.
Well, this is my week! Hope y'alls week is great and that you can see the Lords hand in your life! I definitely saw his in mine this past week and can not wait till next weeks possibilities! Love y'all!!!!
This has been a pretty good week! My family had our Massey reunion. Thanks for all the pictures mom. I do wish i could have been there, but really i would have missed out on a great week in North Carolina! Hope the Massey family enjoyed Huntsville! :)
This week has been great! Sister Ibarra's last day for medication is today and then we will have to talk to our mission doctor and try to see a neurologist to make sure that she doesn't have any nerve damage! She has been so strong and extremely determined to serve God! I hope she can brush some it onto me and keep me motivated. It has been great of how loving and caring the ward is and always checking up on her and us and always trying to offer encouragement. Truly i just don't want to leave and this week is the 2nd to last week of the transfer and so i guess we will have to see. Tomorrow oddly enough is our goodbye Zone Conference. I never thought it would come to this part. I have to admit i was at the beginning holding back on trying to love or even allow President to help or really get to know him because i didn't want to then have to say goodbye, but really i have entrusted myself to him and have learned so much from him and asked for so much and really i am dreading and hoping that it will last as long as it can. I am excited to meet the new mission president but not too prepared for the possible change i will have to make. However, if there is one thing i have learned it is that this life we receive is full of change. We make changes everyday. We change our clothes into pajamas we change the style of our hair to down on our necks to up in a ponytail. Really change is everywhere. It is the way God has done things and really we have to experience change to return home! Change is in Repenting and to return home we have to repent.
We had a great lesson with our investigator this week! We talked about Joseph Smith and finished the Restoration. Sister Powers was our member present and shared her testimony of the Book of Mormon and of Joseph Smith. We didn't do much of the teaching. We did invite her to be Baptized. She said that if she read and prayed and felt it was true to would be baptized. It was great! We plan to teach her the Plan of Salvation this week. We had exchanges this week! Of course i got nervous and kind of freaked out and was kind of crazy the first 2 hours but once we started doing things we had a great time and i enjoyed it! We had a great talk and i just love all my STL! They are all so loving and so helpful and really they are what i want to become.
On Friday we meet a less active sister who just had a surgery which was major. I can't remember the thing that it was but the nerve by the eyes would send shape pain through her head to the center of her forehead. Something was hitting her brain and causing her pain. We didn't know she was in the ward and we didn't have her name in the roster. Bishop got a call about her and then we were asked to see her. She is amazing! She has had a hard time and had bad relationships and bad experiences in other wards who treated her bad. She was basically shunned and was forgotten because she got help by someone who was mistreating her. It was hard to hear but we had a great time with her and she is so strong. We are seeing her this week and making her lunch! I am so glad to get to know her more. She always says her short-term memory is always letting her down. I had to laugh because i feel the same ways sometimes. I haven't told her about my brain injury but i told her but i told her that i have a had seizures and for me to tell her the so try she had to let us come back. She was so good and was so happy. She is a strong women and so glad that she has been watched over all this time.
Saturday was full of service! I got to wear normal people clothes all day and it felt so weird. We helped the ward give a day of service to the town of Garner at the Garden. It was lots of work and luckily we had a lot of rain the day before so the humidity wasn't too bad. We were pretty smart when we decided to come early and start at 7. it was actually more bearable. WE had lunch with a sister and made her the food and cleaned her kitchen and vacuumed her house. She goes out with us a lot and is always serving others so we wouldn't let her help. We then helped a family get their in-laws house next door finished! I helped in the past and was excited to see the process and the completed projected. The in-laws are moving in today! We helped touch up the paint and put together some tables. I found a nail in the hard wood floor while sitting and got it caught on my new capris. I wasn't too happy but luckily they were only $7 at Wal-mart. I can still wear them i just have to wear a long shirt! haha :)
Now to the day that will explain my title of the letter. Sunday was awesome. I planned in advance for my fast and we had a great spirit during sacrament. We had a great lessons and had great meetings. We were invited to a bible study with a sister (Sister F) and her non-member friend from work. We have been going out with a sister every Sunday and she wanted to come so we had her come with us. We were so glad we did..... We got their and then we found out that the friend that was coming over to do the bible study. Then about a 10 minute wait two men from her church came and we talked and read from the bible. It was weird. Sister F wasn't expecting it. However, it was like we were put directly into the place of an investigators point of view. It was weird. We read from the bible a lot and talked about why the Sabbath day was really on Saturday and not Sunday. It was just crazy. It made me think about how i teach and if i do that. The older man did all the talking and the other just would hold his paper then his bible. Really it was helping me to see how important it is to have both teachers teaching. the non-member friend asked questions and they didn't answer. It was sad! I was kind of shut off at that. He was teaching and went through the discussion very well. However i felt very uncomfortable and wanted to say things and tell him he was wrong but i just felt like i just needed to listen. Overall the thing that freaked me out the most was the fact that i felt the spirit but din't fully feel it. I noticed that it was like the spirit was holding back. We would read scripture and i felt it get stronger then he would start talking and i felt it loose the intensity. We got to the end and he showed us a calendar and keep trying to convince us of the truth or something. He did however ask us if we as Latter-day Saints put the Book of Mormon ahead of the Bible. We said no they are one in the same. He didn't understand that really. He kept saying but in times or if something was to happen would the bible be above the Book of Mormon. We again said no they will be of equal. The sister who came with us told him her testimony of the Book of Mormon and told him the background of it and to show him that is just like the bible and has the same teaching but just with different people but learning the same thing with learning them through different experiences. I wanted to give him a Book of Mormon, but i again felt the spirit or something say no. We are planning on coming together again next Saturday. Sister F wasn't expecting what happened to happen, which i am glad to invited us to be their. After this little study we came home and Sister Ibarra and I said that it was weird and that it was more of a thing to think about in a way to gain and improve our testimony. What he said did stick but i remember when we realized what was going to happen i prayed to be able to understand and to show respect. I didn't want to understand and really i wanted to be contentious. I have never felt that kind of anger before. The way he taught it seemed like that was a goal. I can see know that as much as it was not something we expected it was something to learn from. I didn't question what i believed i questioned what he believed and why it didn't make sense. I felt the spirit but didn't feel the full impact i have had even at church because he didn't teach with the power of the priesthood or the Holy Ghost. I know what i know and that what i have is true. He talked with such potential. It made me sad that he could be a great general authority, but he doesn't have the priesthood and the Holy Ghost. It reassured me just how important it is for me as i teach others. I don't really understand all that we had just experienced and why it went like that might i know that God was giving us this chance to learn and grow from it. We have been talking as a companionship and have ideas we want to use to better teach and teach with the spirit. Really i am still shocked but i know God was watching out for us and knew that we could handle it and we did. He even allowed us to learn from it.
Well, this is my week! Hope y'alls week is great and that you can see the Lords hand in your life! I definitely saw his in mine this past week and can not wait till next weeks possibilities! Love y'all!!!!
Sister Tayler Farr
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Sister Tayler Farr
Saturday, June 6, 2015
5 Months
Hey Y'all,
So May 31 marked my 5 months. Crazy to think that i have been on my mission for 5 whole months. It's been amazing thus far and i know more amazing things will come to pass.
Well, This week was a very emotional and trying week. Sister Ibarra has had an ear ache since last Monday and then Wednesday it turned into Bells's Palsy. Really? I hated seeing her go through it and didn't like having to go to Urgent Care. It was necessary but i just hated not knowing how to help her and make things easier. It is hard for her to eat, drink, talk, and sleep. She is on two strong medications for her ear infection and Bells Palsy. I have tried to help her remember to take it as everyone says that its too important to forget. I don't know if i am helping or if i am driving her crazy. I am so grateful for the ward though and all the love and prayers that they have given to us. We always have texts and lots of helping members giving her encouragement.
I am so grateful for having interviews this week so that President Bernhisel could give her a blessing and Bishop from the ward gave her another with the consecrated oil. We went over to a family where the mother gave her an Aroma touch from doTerra oils and we have already seen improvements in her face. It helped out a lot i think with all her stress. I even got some essential oils to try from it! :)
I know for a fact that we were put together as companions for a reason. I can see that we needed to go through this hard time together and importantly that Sister Ibarra has to go through it, but that i am meant to endure it with her. I am so grateful for being able to see the Garner ward show so much love to her and all so willing to give help and encouragement. We are just at the beginning but it is already getting better. Everything happens for a reason. Thank you mom and family for my package and the letter to her. She loved it and she said she had never gotten a letter from any companions mother. It helped us unify ourselves. Even after all that has happened to sister Ibarra she is still here serving the Lord and truly is a great example to me.
We did get a new investigator and will be
teaching her tomorrow. She has been taught before, but is open to being taught
again. So excited! Like i said earlier we had interviews this week and i can
say it went much better than last time. Its hard to believe that President is
going home in about 3 weeks. I was hesitant at first asking for help and
getting to know him and really allowing him to be my mission president because
i knew he would be leaving so soon. Know that he is leaving i am afraid for him
to leave and how hard it may be. If i have learned anything this week it would
have to be to take life one day at a time. I will take this change one day at a
time!
I love Sundays and i think they are my favorite on the mission. It truly is the best day to just relax and enjoy life and to let things i may be worrying about to be turned over to the Lord and renew my covenants with Christ! We got to teach the youth for 3rd hour block. It didn't go as well as we hoped since halfway through the lesson they were asked to come to the chapel for the last 20 minutes of 5th Sunday discussion on the new scouting program. We taught on How we can receive Personal Revelation through scripture study. We had so much material we wanted to cover and not enough time. We didn't get much participation, but we did know names....well i did and got people to talk and enjoy it.
Overall, lots happened with lots of emotion, stress, and really some sucky moments, but one thing i do know was that we were not alone. Christs atonement and him were right their and helped us get through each day. It got Sister Ibarra through the hard day when we had to go out when i knew she was so exhausted and probably was ready to call it quiting time! I knew she was probably embarassses when people would asked her what happpened to her face. She continued to move forward and looked at this trail as an experience and one she had to go through for some reason she doesn't know of! I am so grateful her and her determination!
Have a great week y'all and especially to all the Massey family hope the reunion is great and just know i wish to be there and love you all! I may want to be there, but i want to here more and need to be here still love you all!
--
Sister Tayler Farr
So May 31 marked my 5 months. Crazy to think that i have been on my mission for 5 whole months. It's been amazing thus far and i know more amazing things will come to pass.
Well, This week was a very emotional and trying week. Sister Ibarra has had an ear ache since last Monday and then Wednesday it turned into Bells's Palsy. Really? I hated seeing her go through it and didn't like having to go to Urgent Care. It was necessary but i just hated not knowing how to help her and make things easier. It is hard for her to eat, drink, talk, and sleep. She is on two strong medications for her ear infection and Bells Palsy. I have tried to help her remember to take it as everyone says that its too important to forget. I don't know if i am helping or if i am driving her crazy. I am so grateful for the ward though and all the love and prayers that they have given to us. We always have texts and lots of helping members giving her encouragement.
I am so grateful for having interviews this week so that President Bernhisel could give her a blessing and Bishop from the ward gave her another with the consecrated oil. We went over to a family where the mother gave her an Aroma touch from doTerra oils and we have already seen improvements in her face. It helped out a lot i think with all her stress. I even got some essential oils to try from it! :)
I know for a fact that we were put together as companions for a reason. I can see that we needed to go through this hard time together and importantly that Sister Ibarra has to go through it, but that i am meant to endure it with her. I am so grateful for being able to see the Garner ward show so much love to her and all so willing to give help and encouragement. We are just at the beginning but it is already getting better. Everything happens for a reason. Thank you mom and family for my package and the letter to her. She loved it and she said she had never gotten a letter from any companions mother. It helped us unify ourselves. Even after all that has happened to sister Ibarra she is still here serving the Lord and truly is a great example to me.
We did get a new investigator and will be
teaching her tomorrow. She has been taught before, but is open to being taught
again. So excited! Like i said earlier we had interviews this week and i can
say it went much better than last time. Its hard to believe that President is
going home in about 3 weeks. I was hesitant at first asking for help and
getting to know him and really allowing him to be my mission president because
i knew he would be leaving so soon. Know that he is leaving i am afraid for him
to leave and how hard it may be. If i have learned anything this week it would
have to be to take life one day at a time. I will take this change one day at a
time!I love Sundays and i think they are my favorite on the mission. It truly is the best day to just relax and enjoy life and to let things i may be worrying about to be turned over to the Lord and renew my covenants with Christ! We got to teach the youth for 3rd hour block. It didn't go as well as we hoped since halfway through the lesson they were asked to come to the chapel for the last 20 minutes of 5th Sunday discussion on the new scouting program. We taught on How we can receive Personal Revelation through scripture study. We had so much material we wanted to cover and not enough time. We didn't get much participation, but we did know names....well i did and got people to talk and enjoy it.
Overall, lots happened with lots of emotion, stress, and really some sucky moments, but one thing i do know was that we were not alone. Christs atonement and him were right their and helped us get through each day. It got Sister Ibarra through the hard day when we had to go out when i knew she was so exhausted and probably was ready to call it quiting time! I knew she was probably embarassses when people would asked her what happpened to her face. She continued to move forward and looked at this trail as an experience and one she had to go through for some reason she doesn't know of! I am so grateful her and her determination!
Have a great week y'all and especially to all the Massey family hope the reunion is great and just know i wish to be there and love you all! I may want to be there, but i want to here more and need to be here still love you all!
--
Sister Tayler Farr
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Gaining the Trust of the Members
Hey Y'all,
Hope you all had a great Memorial Day! It's kind of weird to remember holidays other than Christmas, Mother's Day, and Father's Day. Mostly because of Skyping and this year i have a really good Father's Day gift! :)
This week was transfers and I had to say good to my companion/trainer. It was sad but also good. She only has 5 weeks and are reopening an area before she goes home. So proud of her. In return i got Sister Ibarra she is from Washington State and is amazing her dad is from Mexico so she is fluent in Spanish and she has been able to use it a lot here in Garner. It's been a little hard adjusting to the way he does things after being so used to sister Behrmann, but i absolutely love her. She is very good at working with the Members and making sure they are feeling the spirit while were their and always thanking them gaining trust and love for them. She has been so loved by all the members. This ward loves missionaries. However, i have a feeling after these 5 months i may get transfered. NOOOO! I don't want too! I love Garner and i want to be with Sister Ibarra longer than just 5 weeks.
Wednesday we met Bishop at his office to meet Sister Ibarra. We could see that he is a little bit worried about the ward. We asked him if we could help in anyway and he gave us a list of people and later this week he called with another name. It is great to work with him and i know he loves his ward. It reminds me of Bishop Hammond of the love Bishops really and truly have for there ward members. Working alongside them i can see that pure love or even a sense of Christ love. Those chosen to be Bishops really are called of God. We got Sister Ibarra set up for Facebook.
Thursday we went and helped with food orders and got a ride from the Relief Society president and had a great conversation with her on the way home. Really i don't remember what we said but i rmember feeling the spirit in her car. We left her with a scripture and a prayer. She called us about an hour later asking us to come out to lunch and then to go help a sister who just moved into the ward. It was great to be given another opportunity to serve. This week was the Thursday visits and we visited a less-active family and talked about guns. My companion loves them. We talked about faith and used a tea filter. We lit it on fire in there hand and then as the flames get closer to your hand the flames goes out and the filter flouts to the ceiling. It was a way to show them faith. I was kind of hesitant with the activity but they really enjoyed it. Also we got the car from the Elders.( We lost our ride). Sister Ibarra didn't feel comfortable driving and so i did. It was weird to have finally driven. It has been since early December since the last time i have been in the Driver seat!!! So glad to have a GPS and not be completely lost. (Thanks mom, and Kory).
Saturday we rode our bikes. I have a nice tan and a sun burn. I now have the missionary farmers tan. we biked about 4 miles extra to avoid any freeways and realized we have no other way and so we had to bike back and saw the Rigglemans, tracted and saw a family whom just had a baby. We had dinner at Golden Coral and the members were so cute. They are reactive family who since we first meet them have just loved us. One is from Africa and the other is from Charlotte, NC. It was a great night and loved hearing there conversion story.
Sunday always seems to be my favorite. We had Ward council and Sister Ibarra got to meet all of the council members. We had a great sacrament on temple marriage and covenants. We had a great coordination meeting and with two new missionaries it was kind of long but we got a few names to try and see. We visited an older sister who is now widowed and she is so sweet. She is about 97 and still comes to church every Sunday and makes dinner's and anything the ward may need. We had dinner with another great family and heard that after they picked us up that her husband had just got the Melchizedek priesthood. He loved it and was talking about how amazing he feels. He glad to be able to bless his family and grand-children more fully.
Yesterday we had a crazy day and boy was it crazy. Since it is the last week of the month we have to careful with miles and so we tried to really make sure we were smart. It was crazy. I can say that i don't miss school at all!!! We had dinner with a family and talked about prayer. We had a great time and felt the spirit so strong. They are such a strong family and i really love them.
This week i learned the importance of member trust. I thought before that i did. Sister Ibarra showed me away to go a little further. Just sending a text after a dinner thanking them or asking them questions. Share a scripture and pray with them in the car when they drop us off. Ask specifically with ideas of way to serve them and most importantly give them a spiritual experience. It was a great mind opening week and so very inspiring. I think this transfer is going to be the best and i love Sister Ibarra. I know after this time together we can still be great friends but even better be great sisters.
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Sister Tayler Farr
Hope you all had a great Memorial Day! It's kind of weird to remember holidays other than Christmas, Mother's Day, and Father's Day. Mostly because of Skyping and this year i have a really good Father's Day gift! :)
This week was transfers and I had to say good to my companion/trainer. It was sad but also good. She only has 5 weeks and are reopening an area before she goes home. So proud of her. In return i got Sister Ibarra she is from Washington State and is amazing her dad is from Mexico so she is fluent in Spanish and she has been able to use it a lot here in Garner. It's been a little hard adjusting to the way he does things after being so used to sister Behrmann, but i absolutely love her. She is very good at working with the Members and making sure they are feeling the spirit while were their and always thanking them gaining trust and love for them. She has been so loved by all the members. This ward loves missionaries. However, i have a feeling after these 5 months i may get transfered. NOOOO! I don't want too! I love Garner and i want to be with Sister Ibarra longer than just 5 weeks.
Wednesday we met Bishop at his office to meet Sister Ibarra. We could see that he is a little bit worried about the ward. We asked him if we could help in anyway and he gave us a list of people and later this week he called with another name. It is great to work with him and i know he loves his ward. It reminds me of Bishop Hammond of the love Bishops really and truly have for there ward members. Working alongside them i can see that pure love or even a sense of Christ love. Those chosen to be Bishops really are called of God. We got Sister Ibarra set up for Facebook.
Thursday we went and helped with food orders and got a ride from the Relief Society president and had a great conversation with her on the way home. Really i don't remember what we said but i rmember feeling the spirit in her car. We left her with a scripture and a prayer. She called us about an hour later asking us to come out to lunch and then to go help a sister who just moved into the ward. It was great to be given another opportunity to serve. This week was the Thursday visits and we visited a less-active family and talked about guns. My companion loves them. We talked about faith and used a tea filter. We lit it on fire in there hand and then as the flames get closer to your hand the flames goes out and the filter flouts to the ceiling. It was a way to show them faith. I was kind of hesitant with the activity but they really enjoyed it. Also we got the car from the Elders.( We lost our ride). Sister Ibarra didn't feel comfortable driving and so i did. It was weird to have finally driven. It has been since early December since the last time i have been in the Driver seat!!! So glad to have a GPS and not be completely lost. (Thanks mom, and Kory).
Saturday we rode our bikes. I have a nice tan and a sun burn. I now have the missionary farmers tan. we biked about 4 miles extra to avoid any freeways and realized we have no other way and so we had to bike back and saw the Rigglemans, tracted and saw a family whom just had a baby. We had dinner at Golden Coral and the members were so cute. They are reactive family who since we first meet them have just loved us. One is from Africa and the other is from Charlotte, NC. It was a great night and loved hearing there conversion story.
Sunday always seems to be my favorite. We had Ward council and Sister Ibarra got to meet all of the council members. We had a great sacrament on temple marriage and covenants. We had a great coordination meeting and with two new missionaries it was kind of long but we got a few names to try and see. We visited an older sister who is now widowed and she is so sweet. She is about 97 and still comes to church every Sunday and makes dinner's and anything the ward may need. We had dinner with another great family and heard that after they picked us up that her husband had just got the Melchizedek priesthood. He loved it and was talking about how amazing he feels. He glad to be able to bless his family and grand-children more fully.
Yesterday we had a crazy day and boy was it crazy. Since it is the last week of the month we have to careful with miles and so we tried to really make sure we were smart. It was crazy. I can say that i don't miss school at all!!! We had dinner with a family and talked about prayer. We had a great time and felt the spirit so strong. They are such a strong family and i really love them.
This week i learned the importance of member trust. I thought before that i did. Sister Ibarra showed me away to go a little further. Just sending a text after a dinner thanking them or asking them questions. Share a scripture and pray with them in the car when they drop us off. Ask specifically with ideas of way to serve them and most importantly give them a spiritual experience. It was a great mind opening week and so very inspiring. I think this transfer is going to be the best and i love Sister Ibarra. I know after this time together we can still be great friends but even better be great sisters.
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Sister Tayler Farr
Monday, May 18, 2015
Transfers
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Well this week was pretty crazy!!! We found out that Sister Behrmann is getting transferred and so she was pretty much packaging all week and so things were just out of sorts. We had a great week and got lots of things done!!! On Tuesday though we had Deep Clean and had to clean the entire apartment from top to bottom. I'm glad that we normally clean a little on Monday's so we didn't do to much cleaning.
This week we got a new referral from head quarters and started to teach a young girl (Don't know how old she is). She had requested a Book of Mormon and we brought it to her. We talked about it and read in 2 Nephi 31 and invited her to be baptized. She didn't say yes but she didn't say no so that was a awesome. We set up a new appointment to teach her the restoration and instead the day before she called and canceled saying she wants more time to read and then she would give us a call when she had questions. I was bummed but at least she didn't completely give up on us. We tried to call back and see if we could at least read it with her and if she had questions we could answer them and help her while reading. We sadly had to leave a voice mail.
We had the same thing happen with another potential investigator who we finally got an appointment set and then she wasn't home and so we have to see her again. Luckily she works at a store just across from our apartment complex.
We did finally met a less-active sister and her newborn and husband who we have been trying for a while. We are trying to start working with her husband. He is going to be baptized!!!
I forgot my journal so my letter is a little boring, but i do have a really embarrassing story to tell. So this week we had dinner with the Riggleman's. We were waiting for the garlic bread to finish and just talking at the table and Sister Riggleman said a joke RIGHT AS I WAS DRINKING WATER and I choked and laughed and it went all over i could swallow so i blew it all over the table and everyone. They all laughed and Sister Riggleman felt so bad and was cleaning nit up. Sister Behrmann couldn't stop laughing and me i only could laugh. However it was embarrassing and Amy keep saying gross you spit on me. Shortly after i cleaned up the mess. I found out they have already made a rule in there house to not makes jokes when some is drinking. They had a similar experience with a pasted Elder and so mine brought back the rule!!! It was great and really never a duel moment in Garner especially in the Riggleman's home! Happy Anniversary today too!!! :)
Sorry, I don't have as many good stories this week. I probably will next week when i get my new companion. I am really nervous about taking over and being in charge of the area, but i know i will do well if i allow the spirit to be with me and the Lord to help me! Wish we luck!!! Have a great week!!!
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Sister Tayler Farr
Friday, May 15, 2015
Mother's Day
Hey Y'all,Happy belated Mother's Day and it was so great to Skype home and see all of the faces of family and friends. This week was great and full of great blessings and so much peace.
First, This week got a referral from the Elders at a Thrift store and have been trying to set an appointment with. Luckily after a couple days of fall through she gave us her number and told us to call her and set up a time to come over. We knew that she at least is interested. We haven't been able to set anything up but we are going to try to see her again. We found out that i will be staying in Garner and that Sister Behrmann is leaving! :(. I love this lady and am really going to miss her! She only has 5 more weeks after this transfer before she goes home and is going to re open an area and so she will be busy! I am so totally going to miss her but i can see that the Lord needs her in this new area and she is the one to reopen it and i guess they can have her!
We have had great lessons with members at our dinner appointments and have been asking them about their families missionary work. we have been given a sheet from our Mission president that he and all of the stake president in our mission created with 10 ways to share the gospel. We have asked them to use one of them or to create their own and try it this week. We are really going to try to remember to follow up with them. We have been asked to continue to do it but to have a kneeling prayer with them and to pray for someone specific. Our district leader has told us that some of the members have been able to get a name. It should be great!!!
Friday was probably the best day other than mothers day this week! Who doesn't like going to the Temple!!! We had sister who hasn't been able to go, but was praying to get off work to go with us!!! Prayers work and even the fact of a small temple she was able to get in last minute. She kept telling us she knew God needed her to come to the temple and that he helped her get here. She was so sweet and it was a great experience. I loved it and i loved the time we got to spend with the other sisters as well. Our session was all Sister Missionaries and only 6 men! Our mission president got to be their it is was so great to be with him. Sister Bernhisel was sick but we still got to see her.
Saturday, we made Mothers Day hand out and tried to visit sisters in the Ward who aren't mothers or who don't have children at home. The hand out had a quote about womanhood. we thanked them for all they do in the ward and the great example they are to all. It was great to see their smiles.
Sunday was the best day. The Ward was able to set up an amazing treat for all the sisters. The men took over Young women and primary so that all of the sisters could be their in Relief Society. The Relief Society President gave a beautiful talk and had the young women sign to us. It was great we all got roses and chocolate. We were told that we are all roses. We are beautiful to God even if we may have some thorns and different looking leafs. We are all different but to God we are all beautiful. We talked about the story of Ester and the fact that we need each other and come together in times are trials for each other. We talked about our physical and spiritual needs and that we are all in God sight and that no matter what he loves us!!! Of course knowing that it was Mother's Day the Holmes family invited us over for Lunch and to Skype. We made her Lunch. Sister Behrmann made french fires and i made the hamburgers. I can see why Dad was always the one who cooked them. I felt so bad! They were a little over cooked and they cheese didn't melt right! They all said it was good and they were just getting them their was bad! We got to Skype home and i am glad to say that as much as i thought would change. Nothing has changed much! My love for my family continues to be their but i see it growing! Distance really does make the heart grow fonder. I loved seeing their faces and feeling the love they have for me! It was great to hear all that has happened! I love you all!
Well this was my week! Great to see most of you on Skype yesterday and so glad to hear your voice!!! I love you and hope to hear from you next week!!!! Love y'all!!!
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Sister Tayler Farr
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Miracle Media :)
Hey Y'all,
Today is my trainer/companions birthday! Happy Birthday Sister Behrmann! This week was awesome! We did lots and had a great week with not as much teaching but lots of great service opportunities!
On Monday, we got to our investigator and found her so stressed out about everything she had to do and so we just stopped and cleaned her house while she did homework. We may not have gotten a chance to teach a great lesson like we planned but we got to show our love and allow the spirit to be in her home more strongly. I made sure to tell her that. We left having her smiling and her husband who normally gives us a cold turkey was out talking with us trying to give us money for meals but instead was invited over for dinner. he quickly started planning the menu. I think his heart is starting to be softened towards us and we found out that he has been studying with her on occasion. It was great!
On Tuesday I had a great experience using Facebook. I have been getting friend requests from people i don't know i have been really hesitant to accept them but I was kind of asked from our sister who is a missionary working with Facebook and told me countless times "that i may never know what will happen even if i don't know them." I finally decided to accept some. I got through 5 names and one of them messaged me thanking me for accepting them and we started to talk. I found out that he has been reading the Book of Mormon and wants to know more he has occasionally gone to Church but no one has told him anything. He lives in California and so i sent him a link to request missionaries in his area. I was kind of bummed that i cant' be the one to teach him but i looked at his friends and found that he is friends with a lot of missionaries. I knew that i personally was the one who could help him. I haven't really felt that Facebook is the best tool. But now i can see the impact Facebook can be. Like Elder Bednar has said "that we can use media to share the gospel." We are on it a lot and why not put something on there about our believes. I now know that it works and that Elder Bednar would agree with me. Try it out for yourself. share something about what you studied that day or anything that you want. People may see it and just keep scrolling, some may like it, others may comment but people will see it and the spirit will be their to help them.
On Thursday we had a great day and boy we were busy. It makes such a difference when you have the car. We had an apartment inspection and only the fact that we need to change our air filter and dust the bathroom more we were good. We even had the car checked and boy vacuuming that was terrible, but it was checked off as BEST so we were happy. We started weekly planning and then went over to a sister who had just gotten home from the hospital after having her baby. We cleaned and vacuumed. He was a beautiful baby and it was so hard not being able to hold him, but whats 18 months to the rest of my life. He definitely was adorable. We came hoe and had lunch and planned for another service project and found out half way through lunch that they had to cancel and so we just worked on weekly planning. We got maybe 10 minutes in when another sister in the ward asked if we could help pull weeds and get her garden ready before the rain came. We come over and now we are like weeding pros. Haha!
Yesterday and Saturday night was Stake Conference. Yesterday, We had it broadcast in our building and it was great Elder Parker our area seventy is amazing and so funny. He is great! One thing he did was talk about the missionaries from the Apex stake and there is about 68. He talked about the ones serving in the Apex stake and their is 96. They were to read all of them but instead he had us all stand where we were. He said that we are good at working together with the Ward but we both need to do better. He told us that while we are here in North Carolina we have a home here and that the places we serve are and should be considered and family and Mom, and Dads. It was amazing of course i started crying. I had lots of the ward member look at me and smile and some even mouthed the words "Thank You!" It was a great session. I love this Ward and I love North Carolina. I may not be to keen on the quick summer weather but i love the people and that is what truly counts!
I hope you all have a great week and i can't wait till Sunday! Happy Mothers day to all of the mothers and especially to mine who helped me become the person i am to serve here, but now i credit the Lord! Also Happy birthday to Mason, Luke and Liam. I can't believe you are all going to be 1! Love you all!
My favorite Scripture of the Week! John 14:27
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Sister Tayler Farr
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Sister Tayler Farr
Today is my trainer/companions birthday! Happy Birthday Sister Behrmann! This week was awesome! We did lots and had a great week with not as much teaching but lots of great service opportunities!
On Monday, we got to our investigator and found her so stressed out about everything she had to do and so we just stopped and cleaned her house while she did homework. We may not have gotten a chance to teach a great lesson like we planned but we got to show our love and allow the spirit to be in her home more strongly. I made sure to tell her that. We left having her smiling and her husband who normally gives us a cold turkey was out talking with us trying to give us money for meals but instead was invited over for dinner. he quickly started planning the menu. I think his heart is starting to be softened towards us and we found out that he has been studying with her on occasion. It was great!
On Tuesday I had a great experience using Facebook. I have been getting friend requests from people i don't know i have been really hesitant to accept them but I was kind of asked from our sister who is a missionary working with Facebook and told me countless times "that i may never know what will happen even if i don't know them." I finally decided to accept some. I got through 5 names and one of them messaged me thanking me for accepting them and we started to talk. I found out that he has been reading the Book of Mormon and wants to know more he has occasionally gone to Church but no one has told him anything. He lives in California and so i sent him a link to request missionaries in his area. I was kind of bummed that i cant' be the one to teach him but i looked at his friends and found that he is friends with a lot of missionaries. I knew that i personally was the one who could help him. I haven't really felt that Facebook is the best tool. But now i can see the impact Facebook can be. Like Elder Bednar has said "that we can use media to share the gospel." We are on it a lot and why not put something on there about our believes. I now know that it works and that Elder Bednar would agree with me. Try it out for yourself. share something about what you studied that day or anything that you want. People may see it and just keep scrolling, some may like it, others may comment but people will see it and the spirit will be their to help them.
On Thursday we had a great day and boy we were busy. It makes such a difference when you have the car. We had an apartment inspection and only the fact that we need to change our air filter and dust the bathroom more we were good. We even had the car checked and boy vacuuming that was terrible, but it was checked off as BEST so we were happy. We started weekly planning and then went over to a sister who had just gotten home from the hospital after having her baby. We cleaned and vacuumed. He was a beautiful baby and it was so hard not being able to hold him, but whats 18 months to the rest of my life. He definitely was adorable. We came hoe and had lunch and planned for another service project and found out half way through lunch that they had to cancel and so we just worked on weekly planning. We got maybe 10 minutes in when another sister in the ward asked if we could help pull weeds and get her garden ready before the rain came. We come over and now we are like weeding pros. Haha!
Yesterday and Saturday night was Stake Conference. Yesterday, We had it broadcast in our building and it was great Elder Parker our area seventy is amazing and so funny. He is great! One thing he did was talk about the missionaries from the Apex stake and there is about 68. He talked about the ones serving in the Apex stake and their is 96. They were to read all of them but instead he had us all stand where we were. He said that we are good at working together with the Ward but we both need to do better. He told us that while we are here in North Carolina we have a home here and that the places we serve are and should be considered and family and Mom, and Dads. It was amazing of course i started crying. I had lots of the ward member look at me and smile and some even mouthed the words "Thank You!" It was a great session. I love this Ward and I love North Carolina. I may not be to keen on the quick summer weather but i love the people and that is what truly counts!
I hope you all have a great week and i can't wait till Sunday! Happy Mothers day to all of the mothers and especially to mine who helped me become the person i am to serve here, but now i credit the Lord! Also Happy birthday to Mason, Luke and Liam. I can't believe you are all going to be 1! Love you all!
My favorite Scripture of the Week! John 14:27
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Sister Tayler Farr
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Sister Tayler Farr
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