What a week! Letter 2

Well Sister Swim and I have had quite a week! We got over five more hours of tracting then i have ever gotten this week and we are pooped but excited cause we found a lot of potential investigators and a few new ones. At one door we were talking to the lady and her little boy was standing there telling us to come in and he was saying it over and over and so she let us in and he did not stop talking the whole time and he said the funniest stuff. I love kids. Saturday morning Sister Swim and I were sitting there kind of frustrated and saying man we just want to find someone who is really seeking and that it won't be like pulling teeth to get them to read or come to church and then we went and taught a lady we had talked to named Marilyn and guess what she called herself.. A SEEKER! and she had read the pamphlet and really like it especially the title.. The Restoration:) She loves the idea of the Church being Christ church restored. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she's excited to read it. Wow. We are blessed. I feel like we have to work a lot harder to talk to people out here but we're helped and it's such a privilege to just give all you've got and know that it's the Lord's work and that's all he expects of me. We've had some funny experiences this week. I cooked some salmon and i put a glass lid on it.. then I put the lid in the sink and turned the water and and it exploded! It was pretty crazy! I've never seen that happen before. We have bikes here but no helmets and so last week we went and bought helmets and we decided this morning that we were going to ride them to the library today. so we got them on and went to get on the bikes and they were really stuck together i mean REALLY stuck.. and so we were trying really hard and all the sudden this mammoth spider came out from under the seat and we both dropped the bikes and screamed a lot and then we kept finding more spiders and and finally I was like lets just shake them. So We picked the bikes up and shook them for awhile and they came apart! It was amazing! It was probably a pretty embarrassing display though cause we look like little kids with our pink and blue helmets and we were jumping and screaming a lot. then i got on one of them and the seat was really high up so i had to postion it just right so i get get started I felt like I did when I was little.I got started though and thought we were good. We had to stop to cross the street and when it was our turn to go my peddles weren't in the right place so I tipped over and then I started to get that embarrassed panicky feeling and I couldn't get going and I just looked ridiculous.. so sister swim and I switched bikes:) She's great. The weather has been really crazy this week lots of rain and then it gets really hot and humid too. Thankfully we have an air conditioning unit in our bedroom and we always talk about it. I sleep sooo much better now. So all is going really well i'm excited for this transfer! Thanks for all you do I love you all so much! have a wonderful day!
Love sister savage

Hi :)Letter 27

Wow! I am all a big whirlwind of feelings right now. Sister Swim is my new companion and I just love her. We have had some of the harshest rejections i've had on my mission in the last five days we've been together and I'm just amazed at how we can just smile and keep on going and laughing and serving. Every time that happens I wait for a pit in my stomach or for doubt to come to my mind but i feel so much peace. It's amazing. I read a quote i love today , "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." Albert Schweitzer. I believe that so much. Happiness comes from others. Mom shared a story with me that I liked a lot about how a boy died and asked to see both heaven and hell and in hell there was a big table will lots of food and everyone was all starved and wailing cause their arms were really long spoons i think so they couldn't get the food in their mouths but in heaven everything was the same but people were using their arms to feed eachother. I thought that was so true. We are here to feed and love one another. I'm just so grateful. Thanks mom :) i've been missing the temple a lot.. i've only gone once since i've been out. So my challenge is for all of you to go to the temple and think of me and I know i will feel that special spirit more in my heart and I'll be so grateful! We are so blessed. I miss you all. My sisters make me so happy Jen is for Joy Mel is for marvelous Barb is for bubbly Heather is for hilarious Holly is for happy Laurie is for lovely and that's a little cheesy but you all are great! Thanks for the packages they are alway perfect that collage of the grandkids is my favorite!!! so precious. Have a great day and smile! Love me

More Changes! Letter 26

Count your blessings name them one by one, count your blessings see what God has done! I want each of you to know that when i count my blessings I count you. I'm just so grateful. Yesterday a lady gave a talk on gratitude and she quoted something about how we should make lists of our blessings and at the end feel like.. wow I think Heavenly Father loves me best. I feel like that. I've been given everything especially when it comes to what really matters. I want so much to exercise greater faith so that I can help others feel that way. It really is about feeling it and not having it. To someone else i might look like I have everything.. but I do! I'm just happy. So transfers is this week. Sister Stebar has been out in the country for four transfers and is now going to my old area! She is really nervous to go to the city but i'm excited for her. My new companions name is Sister Swim and she is from Hawaii and she is really peppy and i'm excited.. we are going to really nuckle down and kneel down and find those who are just waiting for us to find them! I think i told you about a poem one of my zone leaders shared at the beginning of my mission about vikings burning there ships.. well i got it and it goes like this.

Burn the fleet by thrice

in this dark night we stand or we fall,

we are kings now, or nothing at all.

Check your armour, light up the torch

touch the flame to the sail before you head to the shore

and we will burn the fleet.

We can never go home, it's on to victory or underground

burn the fleet we'll be hero's or ghosts,

but we won't be turned around.

The old flag will burn with the sail

and a new one won't fly if we fail.

but the fire continues to rise and it shows

not a hint of any fear in our eyes.

I like that because in my case i know we won't fail so it's not scary to leave behind everything and go work and give this my all because I know that the gospel is true. I know that we are on the Lords side and I can't imagine being anywhere else! I'm so happy to be here! Well today we went on a boat tour of a thousand islands. it was relaxing.. I like boats.. we even were in america for a bit! there is a cool castle on one of the islands but it's a sad story. There was a man who really loved his wife and so he started building it and then she died three months before it was finished. So he just left it. someone eventually fixed it up and it's pretty cool! I love ya!
Sister Savage

I want to challenge all of you priesthood holders.. especially my brothers in law to write me and tell me what the priesthood means to you. I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks I love ya!

The first pic is us with the castle behind us
the next one is us by the us and canadian flags :)

From Sister Savage

From Sister Savage

wow! Letter 25

It doesn't feel like the fourth of july probably cause i'm not with all of you and i'm in Canada :) I hope you all have a great day together. I'm doing great. it is pretty sticky out and hot today. We've really been trying to be more obedient and to have faith in finding and we are being blessed. I'm just soaking all this learning and experience up. I feel like the MTC was traing for a mission and a mission is some major training for life! So i'm in the LTC.. life training center. We met a cool family and the guy had read the pamphlet when we came back and he was like everything i want to hear is in that pamphlet but how do i know someone just didn't make that up... cool eh! We are excited to keep teaching him and helping to know it's true! Sister stebar laughed at me after our appointment cause I was all giddy.. i love having the opportunity to teach of truth. There is an amazing quote by Elder Wirthlin that says, "Perseverance is a POSTIVE, ACTIVE characteristic. It is not idly passively waiting and hoping for something good to happen. It gives us HOPE by helping us realize that the righteouss suffer NO FAILURE except in giving up and no longer trying." Wow did that bring comfort to my soul. Sometimes i feel like i'm failing but we never are if we are trying. Just don't give up.. I can do that.. and so can you! I'm so grateful for the scriptures. I love D&C section 6. I've been wondering about answers to prayers and such and verse 14 &15 really hit home for me. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee,blessed art though for what thou hast done; for thou hast inquired of me, and behold as often as thou hast inquired thou hast received instruction of my spirit. If it had not been so, thou wouldst not have come to the place ( CAnada Toronto East Mission) where you art at this time. Behold thou knowest that thou hast inquired of me and I did enlighten thy mind; and now I tell thee these things that thou mayest know that thou has been enlightened by the spirit of truth." I know i've been directed here and i'm so grateful for the answers to my prayers! the Spirit is amazing. Wow i just feel so blessed right now. In PEC on sunday someone was talking about how a bunch of beaver dams had broke because of all the rain and sister brown was like "Did the beavers make a mistake?" she was so concerned it was sweet. I'm going to attach a picture of me jumping for joy in the new outfit Jen sent me.. it was fun to have a whole new outfit to put on... i've got the best sisters ever! Love you all so much!
Love Sister Savage

From Sister Savage