Well Family,
I have been emailing you all seperatly today and I just wanted to say one this that happened this week. KATIE BOWMAN GOT BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited. I did not think it was going to happen. I am glad it did. Everything has been going crazy this last week and a half and now she has the holy ghost. She had a marvelous experience with the holyghost yesterday. The talks in Sacrament was about the atonement. We saw her after sacrament crying. We did not know what was wrong. She said, "It hurts." I was thinking, the Holy Ghost hurts? Then she said, "the atonement hurts." Wow. She got a spiritual confirmation and the holy ghost spoke to her. She has a better understanding of the atonement and all the Jesus Christ did for us and it will continue to grow. :)
I know that this gospel is true. I know it with all of my heart. My faith has wavered a bit this week, I confess, because of the unfortunate events that have been going on. But then I thought that was silly. God can do everything. We need to ask. What we ask for may not happen right then and there but it will happen. I know when we have the faith, no matter how hard the situation, God will not let us alone. He is always there. Always. I love you with all of my heart. This is a big growing experience for me and I love it. Have a great week. Amanda
Our Wonderful Life Together
Monday, October 25, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
October 18, 2010
Are you ready for the roller coaster of Katie and chris? That is all I am going to talk about I think because they have been the highlighted event for the week. So, on monday (11) was the start of the week. Chris and Katie have been trying to find a house to rent because the preacher they are renting from was kicking them out. They needed to be out of the house on friday (15th). So we were trying to look up some house for them. Friday they still did not have anyluck with finding anything. There are plenty of houses just too expensive and they could not afford the down payment and the first month of rent. Chris has been out of job for about a month and got a two day job so had some money. The money he got form that job was all that they had. They got that money in cash and put it in Katie's wallet. (that is significant. Remember that). So, friday came and went. They slept in the house friday night and still had not found anything. So, Saturday morning...haha...Oh boy. We get ready for the day. 8:00 comes and I am doing my hair and Sister Moyes is studying and we get this phonecall. I go to where sis. m is and I start listening to the conversation. I try to listen to it actually. All I heard was katies voice all frantic. Sis. M gets off the phone and says, "The unthinkable has just happened. Weston has started a fire in the kitchen." What?? Really? Weston went downstairs and got hold of some paper and a lighter and started to play with the fire. The fire got close to his hand and it was burning him so he got scared and threw the fire and paper in the trashcan. That was not good. That just got more fire. He rushed upstairs to tell Chris and Katie and they went down and they quickly gathered the kids. They only had one way out and that was the kitchen door where the fire was. So they went through a window. Luckily they were all safe. We did not know what to do. What to say. Now we had tons of problems in our path. They definatly needed a house to live in. Katie was freaking out. we didn't know what to do. We called President Hardman (bishop) and asked what we could do. They had no money to buy/rent anything. President Hardman offered to have the church help pay for something. That was a relief. When we went over and told katie that she started crying for some sort of relief. Um, so they money that they did have...guess where that was? In the kitchen and the fire got it. So the money they did have, that was supposed to go for a downpayment, was gone. Miracle though. On top of the fridge, there were gas cans. Why? I don't know. But everything on the fridge melted and got damaged but the fire did not touch the gas cans. The fire could have been lots more dangerous than it was. So...we had to go do service for someone at 10:00 and so we did that. Before we did that we called three priesthood men that had trucks. We asked them to go a help Chris and Katie move out. So they went and got all the big appliance stuff packed. We got back at 11:30 after service and finding some boxes.
From 11:30 to 4:00 we packed all of their stuff. Katie was not doing good. She was in shock I think. She was so out of it. The medicine she took was not helping anything. Anyway, The Foote's got a hotel room for the saturday night and sunday night. Katie's Grandma took the kids. They are still looking for a place to live. They have no house, no money, no job, no nothing but family. Their faith is being tested and they are persevering. Somehow the lord will provide a way. I know it. They are still going to get baptized this weekend. :) Could you pray for them? They need the prayers.
I have to get going. I hope you are doing great. I am doing great. Have fun this week.
Oh, grandma ralph. You answered one of my prayers. I really did not want to buy stamps and so I prayed that someone would send me some stamps and then I got your letter and there wer stamps. I thankyou so much for that. I love you.
Have a great week. Trust the lord in all things.
Amanda
From 11:30 to 4:00 we packed all of their stuff. Katie was not doing good. She was in shock I think. She was so out of it. The medicine she took was not helping anything. Anyway, The Foote's got a hotel room for the saturday night and sunday night. Katie's Grandma took the kids. They are still looking for a place to live. They have no house, no money, no job, no nothing but family. Their faith is being tested and they are persevering. Somehow the lord will provide a way. I know it. They are still going to get baptized this weekend. :) Could you pray for them? They need the prayers.
I have to get going. I hope you are doing great. I am doing great. Have fun this week.
Oh, grandma ralph. You answered one of my prayers. I really did not want to buy stamps and so I prayed that someone would send me some stamps and then I got your letter and there wer stamps. I thankyou so much for that. I love you.
Have a great week. Trust the lord in all things.
Amanda
Monday, October 11, 2010
October 11, 2010
Okay alot has happened this week. I will try to fit it all it. My fingers are going to be on fire at the end of this letter. Here it goes.
Tuesday was just a scary day. Explanation: We went to go tract on tuesday morning. We were walking to a house on the other side of the street and we were talking and all of a sudden we here this dog barking. we look up to see this dog. This dog was on the verge of attacking us. It was growling and barking like crazy. So the good companion that I am steps behind my companion so that she would get bit first. haha. Besides she had the dog mase. :) Well, we kept walking very caustiously and a police officer drives by and does that help us. Then this random person riding a bike saves our lives. He asks if the dog is bothering us and if he was going to attack us. We say yes. Then he calls animal control. We then start to go down another street and we see the guy again. He said that he lost the dog. Oh great. I hoped it was not after us again. But we never see the guy or the dog again. I thought it would be cool in the dog was Satan and the guy was one of the three nephites. That would be AWESOME!
So tuesday night we went over to Sheila's house. We have not been able to see her for a very long time. She is always gone when we try to see her. Well we go over and her car is not there. There are no cars there. But we saw that the door was open. so we get out(it is dark outside) and knock on the door. No one answers. We call sheila but she does not answer. We thought it was weird because sheila is very very good at locking her doors when no one is there. We just thought it was weird. Then we get this eery feeling. Like someone was watching us. We rush to the car and get out of that very dark place. Sister Moyes drives and I pray as she is driving. We get to a street with light a couple miles away and pray and read our scriptures. We kept calling sheila. I just had a feeling like somethign bad happened to her. So scary. We went home afterward and shortly after getting home we were able to get a hold of Sheila. I don't know why we were so scared at that time. Just scary. We will now never go to her house at night. It is way to scary.
We tracted on wednesday and we left a passalong card at this guys house. He came home and he saw us walking down the street. He calls out to us and says, "Hey, you left your trash" and then he throws the pass along card on the lawn. We didn't pick it up. Some day, he will know that he had the opportunity to accept the gospel.
Friday night was strange. I got sick. My glands were swollen in my neck. It was not just under the neck glands but some where on the side of my neck was swollen. It hurt so bad. I went to sleep at 9:30 and what felt like forever was only one hour. I woke up and tossed and turned. I was so cold. I went to sleep again and woke up an hour later and was still cold. I desided to go check my temperature. I was running a fever of 100.5. Weird. then I went to bed slept for an hour and woke up so so so hot! Then by some miracle I was able to sleep for the rest of the night after that. It was just strange because it happened really fast. We took a half a day sick day. So I went to sleep for two hours after we did companion study. I felt better after that because I took Tylonel and I did not feel achy anymore.
Saturday night = AWESOME!!! We went to the adult session of Stake Conference and Katie and Chris were able to go. We listened to the talks and guess who was there? Elder Anderson of the twelve. An apostle was there. So afterward we made it happen. We took Chris and Katie up to the stand to say hi to my mission president and his wife. Then...they were able to shake hands with Elder Anderson. They were so excited afterward. They said that it felt like shaking Peter's of James' hand. Oh, I also got to shake hands with him. Elder Anderson talked to Chris and Katie for 2 min about how worth it this gospel is going to be to them. Then he looked at Sister moyes and I, shook our hands, and told us we were doing a great job. So COOL!!!!
Last thing. I did something silly yesterday. I forgot what it felt like to touch boiling water. So...I tired it. and it hurts. The story? we don't have hot water in our sink so I was boiling water to wash the dishes that were piled up. Usually I put half cold water half boiling water and that usually is great. Good temperature water. I guess I got the proportions wrong yesterday. I dumped in the boiling water and it seems as if my mind was very slow. it lasted for seconds. okay. the first second: my hand goes in the water to test if the water is hot 2nd second: my brain is trying to decide if the water is hot. the third Second: my brain decides that it is hot. way to hot for my hand. the fourth second: I pull out my hand. Four seconds is alot of time for boiling water and a hand it it. I burnt my hand unfortunalely. It does not hurt too much today thankgoodness but it did last night. The worst finger it hurt was my ring finger on my right hand barely beneath my fingernail. It is all good though. Next time: BE CAREFUL. :)
I love you all. I hope this week goes great for you. Pray that I don't get really cold. :) Although it feel really good right now. :) Have a good one. Sister Amanda Ralph
Tuesday was just a scary day. Explanation: We went to go tract on tuesday morning. We were walking to a house on the other side of the street and we were talking and all of a sudden we here this dog barking. we look up to see this dog. This dog was on the verge of attacking us. It was growling and barking like crazy. So the good companion that I am steps behind my companion so that she would get bit first. haha. Besides she had the dog mase. :) Well, we kept walking very caustiously and a police officer drives by and does that help us. Then this random person riding a bike saves our lives. He asks if the dog is bothering us and if he was going to attack us. We say yes. Then he calls animal control. We then start to go down another street and we see the guy again. He said that he lost the dog. Oh great. I hoped it was not after us again. But we never see the guy or the dog again. I thought it would be cool in the dog was Satan and the guy was one of the three nephites. That would be AWESOME!
So tuesday night we went over to Sheila's house. We have not been able to see her for a very long time. She is always gone when we try to see her. Well we go over and her car is not there. There are no cars there. But we saw that the door was open. so we get out(it is dark outside) and knock on the door. No one answers. We call sheila but she does not answer. We thought it was weird because sheila is very very good at locking her doors when no one is there. We just thought it was weird. Then we get this eery feeling. Like someone was watching us. We rush to the car and get out of that very dark place. Sister Moyes drives and I pray as she is driving. We get to a street with light a couple miles away and pray and read our scriptures. We kept calling sheila. I just had a feeling like somethign bad happened to her. So scary. We went home afterward and shortly after getting home we were able to get a hold of Sheila. I don't know why we were so scared at that time. Just scary. We will now never go to her house at night. It is way to scary.
We tracted on wednesday and we left a passalong card at this guys house. He came home and he saw us walking down the street. He calls out to us and says, "Hey, you left your trash" and then he throws the pass along card on the lawn. We didn't pick it up. Some day, he will know that he had the opportunity to accept the gospel.
Friday night was strange. I got sick. My glands were swollen in my neck. It was not just under the neck glands but some where on the side of my neck was swollen. It hurt so bad. I went to sleep at 9:30 and what felt like forever was only one hour. I woke up and tossed and turned. I was so cold. I went to sleep again and woke up an hour later and was still cold. I desided to go check my temperature. I was running a fever of 100.5. Weird. then I went to bed slept for an hour and woke up so so so hot! Then by some miracle I was able to sleep for the rest of the night after that. It was just strange because it happened really fast. We took a half a day sick day. So I went to sleep for two hours after we did companion study. I felt better after that because I took Tylonel and I did not feel achy anymore.
Saturday night = AWESOME!!! We went to the adult session of Stake Conference and Katie and Chris were able to go. We listened to the talks and guess who was there? Elder Anderson of the twelve. An apostle was there. So afterward we made it happen. We took Chris and Katie up to the stand to say hi to my mission president and his wife. Then...they were able to shake hands with Elder Anderson. They were so excited afterward. They said that it felt like shaking Peter's of James' hand. Oh, I also got to shake hands with him. Elder Anderson talked to Chris and Katie for 2 min about how worth it this gospel is going to be to them. Then he looked at Sister moyes and I, shook our hands, and told us we were doing a great job. So COOL!!!!
Last thing. I did something silly yesterday. I forgot what it felt like to touch boiling water. So...I tired it. and it hurts. The story? we don't have hot water in our sink so I was boiling water to wash the dishes that were piled up. Usually I put half cold water half boiling water and that usually is great. Good temperature water. I guess I got the proportions wrong yesterday. I dumped in the boiling water and it seems as if my mind was very slow. it lasted for seconds. okay. the first second: my hand goes in the water to test if the water is hot 2nd second: my brain is trying to decide if the water is hot. the third Second: my brain decides that it is hot. way to hot for my hand. the fourth second: I pull out my hand. Four seconds is alot of time for boiling water and a hand it it. I burnt my hand unfortunalely. It does not hurt too much today thankgoodness but it did last night. The worst finger it hurt was my ring finger on my right hand barely beneath my fingernail. It is all good though. Next time: BE CAREFUL. :)
I love you all. I hope this week goes great for you. Pray that I don't get really cold. :) Although it feel really good right now. :) Have a good one. Sister Amanda Ralph
Monday, October 4, 2010
October 4, 2010
Another week has come and gone and I don't even know what went on. It was such a fast week and I don't know what happened. Good thing I write in my journal so that I can remember what has happened. Keeping a journal is really helpful. :)
THis is small but kind of funny. We were done with FHE and we were trying to get out of the Wilson's yard. We had to back up and we were kind of trapped. We only had a little room to get out. There was a car in front of us and a clothes line behind us. I had to stand outside, as always, to back Sister Moyes out. We had to go back and forth 20 times before were able to get out. Slowly but surely we were able to be free and be on our way. It seemed pretty funny. Perhaps only to me. :)
I called myself sister Foote this week. I called elder foote and was going to say, "Hi Elder Foote this is siter Ralph." I didn't do that though. I was thinking about sister foote and why she didn't answer (she usually does answer) and said, "Hi, this is sister Foote." Oh boy. That was funny. Then after that incident, we made an unneccisary trip to do service but silly me forgot that we only did it one the first and third thursday of the month. It was the fifth thursday. I forgot. :) Then that night we were putting some pictures on some packs of big red gum to help Chris and Katie with no smoking. Only silly me forgot something. I taped the pictures on and realized that a taped the pictures to the side of the flap. SO now they won't be able to get into the gum without taking the picture off. Oops. Thursday was just funny and I did silly things. :)
I went to Rome this week. Okay it was Rome, Indiana. I thought it was pretty cool though. The drive there was so pretty. I met the former Mayor of indiana in Rome. His name was Mr. Widkum. He was 92 years old. Before we left (they invited us to share our message) they wanted me to play the piano for them. So i did. I played a grand piano to the Mayor in the Mayors home. :) How fun. :)
General conference was amazing. There was a different spirit to it. President Monson seemed different. He was alot more sorrowful and sad and his face drooped more than usual. He just was not the same. Then there were lots of talks about Faith and following the prophet. I thought maybe Pres. Monson was going to tell us to do something really hard and we had to have the faith to do it. I think he was just trying to say that this world is going really bad and that we need to stay true to what we know and have faith in HF and JC and trust that you can get out of the trials you face. Conference was just amazing and I can't wait to read the talks again. :)
Special experience. Chris and Katie have stopped smoking. Yesterday was the first day they went without cigarettes. Chris was struggling. We felt prompted to go to their house last night and so we did. I am glad we did. They were not doing so well. The spirit of contention was there. Big time. We discussed what was going on. Sister Moyes offered up a prayer. Then we thought we were done with prayers but...we wern't. Paige wanted to say a prayer so she sat next to me and I helped her to pray. Then we thought it would be a great thing to have everyone pray. So, Katie prayed. Even Weston (who really does not care to do anything with us) folded his arms. After Katie, Weston prayed! Then after Weston Chris prayed and then after Chris Paige wanted to pray again so i helped her again. The spirit was so stong in that room. There was no room for contention. That was perhaps the best lesson ever! I loved it. There is power in prayer.
I have to get going. But just know that I love you very much and that the gospel is the most amazing thing ever. We need to do all we can to get people to join. No effort is wated. Trust me. Do all you can to spread this AMAZING GOSPEL. I have a christamas wish for all of you. I will tell you about it in another letter. I love you all. Love Sister Amanda Ralph
THis is small but kind of funny. We were done with FHE and we were trying to get out of the Wilson's yard. We had to back up and we were kind of trapped. We only had a little room to get out. There was a car in front of us and a clothes line behind us. I had to stand outside, as always, to back Sister Moyes out. We had to go back and forth 20 times before were able to get out. Slowly but surely we were able to be free and be on our way. It seemed pretty funny. Perhaps only to me. :)
I called myself sister Foote this week. I called elder foote and was going to say, "Hi Elder Foote this is siter Ralph." I didn't do that though. I was thinking about sister foote and why she didn't answer (she usually does answer) and said, "Hi, this is sister Foote." Oh boy. That was funny. Then after that incident, we made an unneccisary trip to do service but silly me forgot that we only did it one the first and third thursday of the month. It was the fifth thursday. I forgot. :) Then that night we were putting some pictures on some packs of big red gum to help Chris and Katie with no smoking. Only silly me forgot something. I taped the pictures on and realized that a taped the pictures to the side of the flap. SO now they won't be able to get into the gum without taking the picture off. Oops. Thursday was just funny and I did silly things. :)
I went to Rome this week. Okay it was Rome, Indiana. I thought it was pretty cool though. The drive there was so pretty. I met the former Mayor of indiana in Rome. His name was Mr. Widkum. He was 92 years old. Before we left (they invited us to share our message) they wanted me to play the piano for them. So i did. I played a grand piano to the Mayor in the Mayors home. :) How fun. :)
General conference was amazing. There was a different spirit to it. President Monson seemed different. He was alot more sorrowful and sad and his face drooped more than usual. He just was not the same. Then there were lots of talks about Faith and following the prophet. I thought maybe Pres. Monson was going to tell us to do something really hard and we had to have the faith to do it. I think he was just trying to say that this world is going really bad and that we need to stay true to what we know and have faith in HF and JC and trust that you can get out of the trials you face. Conference was just amazing and I can't wait to read the talks again. :)
Special experience. Chris and Katie have stopped smoking. Yesterday was the first day they went without cigarettes. Chris was struggling. We felt prompted to go to their house last night and so we did. I am glad we did. They were not doing so well. The spirit of contention was there. Big time. We discussed what was going on. Sister Moyes offered up a prayer. Then we thought we were done with prayers but...we wern't. Paige wanted to say a prayer so she sat next to me and I helped her to pray. Then we thought it would be a great thing to have everyone pray. So, Katie prayed. Even Weston (who really does not care to do anything with us) folded his arms. After Katie, Weston prayed! Then after Weston Chris prayed and then after Chris Paige wanted to pray again so i helped her again. The spirit was so stong in that room. There was no room for contention. That was perhaps the best lesson ever! I loved it. There is power in prayer.
I have to get going. But just know that I love you very much and that the gospel is the most amazing thing ever. We need to do all we can to get people to join. No effort is wated. Trust me. Do all you can to spread this AMAZING GOSPEL. I have a christamas wish for all of you. I will tell you about it in another letter. I love you all. Love Sister Amanda Ralph
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