Hi ALL!!!
This week was really good!!!!

We had a really good lesson with our investigator, we taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ and he just loves it!   He came to church and is progressing; he loves everything about the church and knows the Book of Mormon is true!   He is not a big talker, he talks in two word sentences, but he is really starting to open up and get comfortable with us.  We have been taking returned missionaries from the ward with us and it has been going very well.

Sister P’s son is getting married so we did service for her for a few hours.  It was kind of fun we got to steam stuff for her I included some pictures. Her member son has been out of town and she had in the past only been reading and praying with him.   We asked and she is doing it by herself!! We asked if once he goes to college if she still wants to learn…she said yes!!!   It was the best ever!!  She has changed so much.  I know that service and help really softens the hearts of people it’s so great!

I Love to see the Temple, I’ll go inside one day.
I got to go to the temple this week it was amazing! I got answers to all my questions and it was just amazing we had a recently reactivated member take us and it was so good! We loved it and it was a perfect end to my birthday.  Pictures included of that day too.

Tracting, Tracting and more Tracting!  We have been tracting a lot.  We are trying to find new people to teach, and it has gotten better, i don’t mind it anymore.   Yes its awkward but it’s what we do and I love sharing the gospel now, its super amazing!

Following Elder Nielsons council this week we have been visiting prospective elders, it has not been fun or easy but we will keep plugging along. I know God will bless us as we move this work forward.  We all need to remember that the council we have been given might be hard and it might be something that is super uncomfortable but it has been given to us by the Lord and we need to follow through.

We taught J the commandment of prayer and scripture study.   We watched the restoration with her, it went so good! She loves learning about the gospel! We are going to move up her date for baptism closer! Her mom, who is less active, is working on reactivating her whole family.

Church was awesome!  We had three people at church this week and they all loved it!

The woman with the Jewish background came and she loved every minute of it, it was great!!! She said she likes it way better than the hubat!

This week has been awesome!  I have loved every minute this week!

We got to hike to the Cross for Pday!!! It was so fun!! I love the Elders and Sisters in Simi Valley

Love Mady

Just for fun

Hi all!

This week was great!

On Monday we had a birthday celebration with a part member family that we are teaching. They made me wear a cowboy hat while I ate.  We taught them the plan of salvation, a perfect way to start off my birthday.  The little daughter that we are teaching is so excited to be baptized she can barely stand it.  In fact on Friday when we had a lesson with her and her mom, she had one of her friends come and learn more, now her friend wants to get baptized!! They are so cute!  Kids that age, (11) have so much questions, they saw a movie about heaven. I am not sure what it’s called but they had so many questions.   The child we had been teaching was like yeah I know all about that, the sisters taught me last time :) so cute!

On my birthday we had lunch with our investigator and her returned missionary son, it was so fun she made breakfast for us, we taught the Ten Commandments and because her son went to Portugal they made a Portuguese tart for dessert!! It was a lot of fun and she is making a lot of progress, a lot.

On Wednesday we had exchanges, two days before I caught a nasty bug and could not keep in any food, both ways, and so we stayed in, but we did not waist any of our time, me and sister Hegstrom, we redid our area book.  I called all of our investigators and set up a bunch of appointments, it was fun and we hope that it will help our work. We had an awesome lesson with a investigator who has a lot of problems with the church, but his wife wants to know more, it going very good and we invited them to take the lessons and its going very well.

Thursday we had zone conference and it was all about getting ready for Elder Neilson! Our mission is so excited.   We are preparing!

On Saturday was the big day!
Elder Neilson was amazing! We got to hear testimonies from President Castro, Sister Castro, Elder Garns and Sister Garns.  It was so spiritual, then we heard from Sister Bowen it was so awesome and she told us so many great things, Elder Bowen set down the law on being obedient, he told us to follow every rule and to talk to everyone and do not drag anyone down.   That really hit me because sometime I feel like we shut down things before we even see if that might work.   We heard from Sister Nielson and she talked about how the people that are learning about the gospel right now, their ancestors have all accepted the gospel and they are pushing us  and them to learn more so they can get the work done.

Elder Neilson spoke to us and reminded us of why we were here, and who we are here for.  He is so full of the spirit it drips off of him.  He LOVES the lord and loves this work!

We then had a question and answer with him, and it was amazing, he was able to quote scriptures and said the right things that answered my questions! The church is true, and Elder Nieson is so cool! We all got to shake his hand is that was one of the best parts!!!

On Sunday Sister Mason and I, set up a game plan on how to best work in our area and follow elder Nielsons instructions, it was really fun and we have such a bigger drive to do missionary work!

After church on Sunday we had an awesome lesson with one of our investigators he still is excited to be baptized we just need to get him to the church!

That was my awesome week!!!
Tell me about yours!

Love you all
Sister Mady Proctor

Hi Everyone!

This week has been a really good week out here in Simi Valley! It’s been a blast!

We set two people up with baptismal dates. We have a lot of lessons this week; things are starting to look up! It’s been really nice to start fresh and re-focus this transfer.  It’s super nice to see our hard work coming to fruition, I love it.  You don’t know how excited I am to be able to see Elder Russell M. Nelson talk with us at the end of the week on Saturday! It’s going to be awesome!

 So on to talking about this last week!

Transfers were super awesome, we had one of our investigators drive us to it, and she stayed for the whole time.  It was really good for us, she was raised in the church but when she was in her 20 she got her records removed.  Now 30 years later the Sister missionaries are teaching her again!! It’s so great, she loves the lessons. The meeting was really good, it always inspires me to be a way better missionary and to do better.

Sister Mason, is awesome it’s so fun that we get to work together again!  She is so cool and laid back and we are getting a lot of stuff done.  She is such a hard worker and a lot of fun to be around.

We got to meet with a sweet sister twice this week and do service with her! At the end of our lesson she said the prayer!!! The first time she has done that since we have been meeting it was amazing we were grinning for ages after that!

A new man we are teaching is super funny and is starting to really love the gospel and wants to be baptized!  The best part of it is we found him tracting! I love when that happens.

We met with our Jewish investigator once this week.  She is progressing but she is still very Jewish and feels like she is betraying that culture, but she still wants to learn she just is going slowly.

We have a less active sister and she asked us to teach her daughter who is 11 and wants to get baptized so badly! We had an awesome lesson with her and her mom and it was so good.

Two of our investigators came to church! They had an awesome time, and felt like this is where they are going to be! So excited for them!

It’s been a great week I have loved it!

Thank you for all the birthday wishes!  Love you all

Sister Proctor

April 7th 2014

Hi all!
So this week was super good and very productive!

Transfer update I’m staying in Simi Valley and my new companion is Sister Mason, we were in the same apartment my first transfer so we know about each other and it’s going to be awesome.
This transfer has been super crazy but good! Really good so many ups and downs the lord is defiantly molding me into who he wants me to be and who he knows I can be!

On Tuesday we taught the sister who has the retuned missionary son.   It was so good!  We read with her in first Nephi and the spirit was so strong!   It is so cool, that as you use the book of Mormon it just invites a spirit that I cannot describe, it is amazing and I think she felt it a lot that time as well.

We were able to teach another lady about the gospel of Jesus Christ.  She is Jewish and very firm that she always wants to stay Jewish even if she does convert to the LDS faith.  She loves the idea of the Holy Ghost.   I find that that is the case a lot of the time with the people that I teach, once they find out about the Holy Ghost they want it so bad!  It’s so cool!  I love that with this gift lives change!

We found a new investigator, we were able to teach him the restoration on the doorstep and he loved every minute of it!  We got a return appointment and he is really excited to learn more. He loves movies he was telling us that his favorite movie is the Ten Commandments.  We have decided to use a lot of videos as we teach to kind of illustrate our point. I can’t wait; it will be so fun to teach differently.  His enthusiasm is so catching.

We decided to do this thing of planning to knock two hours of each day.  The cool thing is we are always teaching lessons as we knock, people are truly interested in what we have to say which is super cool and makes it easier to go out and knock hour after hour, day after day!

Conference was so freaken awesome!  I felt like President Dieter F. Uchtdorfs was talking right to me! I have been working on the things he was talking about and it just kind of confirmed everything I have been feeling!  I love Elder Holland’s talk! I’d like to think that I would be as courageous as those sister missionaries but I don’t think I could of done what they did, they are truly amazing! Defend your faith, defend it!

We taught a really good lesson with our investigating couple, they are so sweet!   It’s crazy how the lessons that we spend reading the Book of Mormon are the most powerful! It was amazing and then they came to the last session of conference on Sunday and it confirmed all the feelings they were having they loved it! They are just amazing!
We taught another really awesome lesson to one of our investigators. The lesson was the gospel of Jesus Christ, so good! She loved the simple steps of following the gospel and its going to be really good, as we continue to teach her!

I am so glad for such a good week !!!!

I hope you all enjoyed conference! I truly want to hear what you all are studying in preach my gospel!

This week I am studying teaching skills! I am really paying attention asking questions!!!! Please write and tell me!

I love you all and hope your having a great week!

Sister Mady Proctor