Hi everyone!

This week was a really good week!
Sister Stocker and I have gotten the hang of working together; we know how to work off each other and how to motivate one another which has been a really big strength for us as a companionship.

This week we taught a lot of lessons, we taught a returned missionary’s mom the lessons twice this week.  I was really shocked to hear that she has never really thought about any of the plan of salvation, which growing up in the church was really interesting for me because that’s what I know! I have grown up with that knowledge, she says it’s a good thought; we just have to keep working with her.

So we were taking a break and I was in the bathroom, I leaned over to grab my scripture case which was already deteriorating and as I picked it up it bit the dust!  YES!! My triple almost landed in the toilet.  It’s a good thing I have fast reflexes…yah right I was just super lucky.  I caught it and now I am case less.

We went on exchanges this week, another one; it has been a very weird transfer. Both me and sister Moure, who lives in the same apartment that I do, we both don’t drive, so in the morning it was so fun, we walked to appointments and tried to talk to people on the street, one of our investigators wanted to take us to lunch, we had an amazing lesson with her at the restaurant. The spirit was so strong and we were able to use the Book of Mormon to answer any questions that she had, it was really neat.  We met up with a future missionary she leaves at the end of April, but we became a tripan so we could drive places!  We went and taught a new investigator, he is in his 80s, he’s catholic, we have to shout the lessons to him, but he loves them, he came to church this week as well! It’s amazing you are never too old for the gospel!

While we were trackting we thought we knew where we were going, but alas we didn’t we got so lost that we ended up walking 5 miles instead of two blocks!! It’s all good!

We went to the women’s conference and it was amazing! It was exactly what I needed to hear!  We really need to be a covenant keeping woman and be nice and love everyone!

This week I got to meet the bass player for Panic! At the Disco.    Dallon Weekes he was cool.  I thought some of you might like to hear who I am meeting out here in Simi Valley.      

 Sister Stoker and I gave a talk in sacrament meeting.  My talk was on compassion and service, it was amazing to study for that and have the opportunity to share my testimony with the members!
We had a really good lesson with our new investigators! They were waiting for us with notebooks and all of the reading material that we have given them, we taught the restoration and they had some really good question and comments, and it was really good to be able to share this wonderful message with them!


This week has been amazing!
I hope you all are doing well!

Love Sister Mady Proctor

March 24

Hi All!!!!!

So this week was a learning experience and really good! I love these kinds of weeks, they make me grow and stretch so much!

On Monday we had the opportunity to teach a returned missionaries mother.  He had just gotten home from his mission on Sunday and wasted no time in starting his mom off with the missionaries! Guess what?  He served his mission in Portugal so he knows Portuguese!  It’s so awesome!
She is really, really prepared, watching her son go on a mission has been a really good thing for her. It was a lot of fun to be able to teach her and invite her to take the lessons and learn more about the church.  She is going to start lessons.

We have had some amazing lessons this week with our investigators, it has been so good.  I am starting to feel more comfortable in this area so the work is getting a lot better.  We have had many adventures trying to get to people who live inside these big ominous gates.  It’s been great to see how the lord blesses his missionaries.

On Tuesday, we were able to get into every gate that we went to, to see the people that we were trying to see it was so great! Can you believe because of the gates opening we were able to find a new investigator and we have had two great lessons!  I love miracles!

Me and sister stoker have started this new thing, we talk about different ways we have seen the lords hand in our life. We watch throughout the day and talk about them as they happen. It has really been so good for me! The lord has blessed us so much and it’s just super great!

Zone Conference was on Thursday. It was the best one I have been to! I loved how it was all about the Book of Mormon and how people find their faith in the church.  They talked about how the Book of Mormon is our main tool for all that we do!

I have always known that the Book of Mormon was important, but it always has been in my life.  I always had it, so I think I have always just taken it for granted. The Book of Mormon is the way to help people come unto Christ and join the church; they will get closer to Christ as they read it. I know this because I have witnessed this in my own life.

So Zone Conference was so good for me! I wrote down a lot of questions that I had that I wanted to have answered during the conference.  They all were answered; it was the coolest thing ever!

This week has built my testimony so much of how I know that the lord watches over all of us and he is always there.
I feel like I’m not progressing in my language at all! This week was a little hard for me with the fact that I know that it’s not my fault but it still feels like I should know more, I mean I’m almost halfway through and I’m not confident at all!  Another thing happened, at Zone Conference they said if you have faith and you want to have a scripture that will help and apply to you or to the person you are teaching, all you need to do is open to a random page in the Book of Mormon and he shall direct us.

So I did it and it worked!  I read section 88 in the D&C and it addressed everything I was going through at this time, it was so good!

Sister Stoker and I are getting along so good! Even after everything that we have gone through these past two weeks, it’s great! She is so good at missionary work and working hard and she has a way with our investigators, even though we are white washing our area pretty much now, we really don’t know anything, so it’s been a learning experience for both of us!

So Elder Neilson is coming to the mission for a conference right after my birthday! How cool is that!?!?  I’m super excited for it! I know it’s just going to be amazing and fun and great and I’m super excited! It’s going to be a good transfer!

I also get to go to the Temple for my Birthday!!! Can’t wait!!

Hope all of your weeks are great! Love you all!
Write if you can

Love Sister Madyson Proctor

Simi Valley Zone CA

Green Week

Hi Everyone-

So this week was definitely a change!!!

My companion Sister Jackson went home on Wednesday. She had been out for three months; it had been a tough transfer. She had been having a tough time even before I became her companion. We both knew it was time for her to go home.

I was moved to Simi Valley California kind of a little bit of a culture shock but I’m getting used to it.  The ward is very nice and it’s the first time in a long time that the Simi stake has had sisters it has been for so long just elders…they just love sisters!
 So I have a new companion she is awesome she has helped me with a lot of things this week, and we have been able to do the work!

The lord is helping me feel love for the people I’m serving and for our investigators and members, it’s been really great! We have some really good investigators and have had some really good time because Sister Stoker and I have been pretty much white washing the area!  It’s been a really good and a kind of new experience for all of us.

I went on exchanges and they went really good, I was with Sister Bartchi. She was able to help me through some of the things I was going through and we just had a lot of fun doing the work it was really great.   We worked hard spoke in Spanish and Portuguese and saw a lot of miracles.

Being with the Hermanas has been really nice for my language, yes it’s a little different but it has also been super good, they know some of the rules that I don’t know so it’s been great to ask questions and speak Portuguese with them.  

I’m glad that all of these changes are happening and I’m learning from all of them, it’s been a hard two weeks but I’m grateful for Sister Stoker my companion. I’m grateful for this change in my mission it was much needed. I’m grateful that I always have the option to go to my heavenly father, he is the best source of comfort and information, and then my companion. I’m grateful that I’m learning this now half way through my mission, it’s been really good, and I know that I’m starting to heal because I can look back and see the changes that heavenly father wanted me to make.

I know that the lord gives us challenges to help us grow and looking back I’m so glad that I was able to have this challenge because it has strengthened my testimony and I love what it has helped me accomplish!


Love You All!!!
Sister Proctor

Second Week of March

Hello Everybody!

Tuesday was my companion’s birthday so…Tuesday we went to the temple! It was amazing! The Los Angeles temple was truly a sight! It was so cool inside.  I love the spirit found in Temples.  I thought it was fun to think that I was in the Temple my Smith Grandparents were married in, it was a fun thought.  I had an amazing time! We had some great members who told us the whole history of the LA temple and how it was made.   It was really a good experience for my companion and me!

The LA Temple grounds are so pretty and peaceful; we walked around for a while. When you enter into the temple you can’t hear anything! It’s amazing it’s completely like you’re going into a different world! I LOVED it, what a fun and needed experience!!!

We had an amazing lesson with our new investigator. She is a down on her luck opera singer and she is golden! She was referred to us from the zone leaders.  She is living in section 8 housing and she is amazing! She is ready to hear the gospel and she loves it, she came to see the baptism of the two little girls I taught in Agoura hills and loved it.   She also came to church and loved every minute of it! I just love how the lord puts us in people’s paths that are truly ready to hear the gospel.

We had an amazing exchange! I was with sister Hegstrom and we all stayed in our area working it.  It was really great! We taught some awesome lessons and picked up a former investigator who is also amazing! Sister Hegstrom was able to help me with a lot of things I was struggling with and for that I am super grateful! We were able to teach I really good lesson to three boys that are all 17 that live together! They are really sweet and really enjoy hearing the gospel and learning as a group, its defiantly different teaching teenage boys but defiantly fun!

This week has definitely strengthened my testimony! I am so glad for weeks like this!
Love You all
Please write!
Sister Proctor

March

Hi Everyone!

This week was a bit of a struggle leaving an area that I have been in for 6 months and starting all new. I have a new companion, new apartment, and new everything.
It has been a struggle but this next week will be good.  I am getting to know new people, and getting in the swing of things.  Transfers are no joke!

Our mission leader in the Westlake ward is super awesome.   He does his job very well and he just loves missionary work, it’s very nice to see that kind of spirit.

This week I got to meet some amazing recent converts! Their stories have helped me so much, each one of them took a long time to join the church.  Each of them are now, in part member families, that’s the amazing thing of having influence! I love that they are being an example! It’s great I loved getting to know them and spending time with them.

Church was very awesome everyone is so welcoming and friendly it’s been great!  They so want to help with missionary work so that will be great. There are two sets of missionaries in the Westlake ward so that’s a little different but great!

I’m looking forward to learning more and growing so much in this new area it will be great!

So if you can’t tell this has been a hard week, I am trying not to be discouraged.  The Lord is in charge and he wants me here.  I love you all please keep me in your prayers.

I would love some letters!
Love you all
Sister Proctor