Well Hello,
It's weird how we start to slowly turn into our companions hahaha. I didn't realize how much I learned from Sister Nelson untill I became companions with Sister Uata! :)
OH AND HAPPY LATE FATHERS DAY TO ALL THE FATHERS!!! (and mothers who have been fathers as well) :)
This week THE POWER WENT OUT IN OLD TOWN NAUVOO!!!! Can you believe that?!?! Oh my gosh! Sister Uata and I both walked into our little George Laub home and try to flick on the switch around 9 so that we could weekly plan and to our surpise they didn't turn on!!! Which means.... the fridge went out and our freezer...( which broke my heart because I really was excited to drink a cold Dr.Pepper) haha :) But that's okay! We had no idea what to do so we called our STLS and we realized that all of the power here in Nauvoo had gone out! So we ended up doing our weekly planning in our car because Nauvoo is in the middle of nowhere and has absolutely no lights outside so our house was completely pitch black dark :P D: Sister Uata was braceD and was prepared to take a nice cold shower, but Heavenly Father blessed us and gave us warm water yayyy!!!! :) It's also extremely humid so the AC wasn't working either!!! It was like 90 degrees in our house!!! And that was when the amazing flashlights that my amazing Aunt sent me worked for us!!!! Talk about trying to brush your teeth and find your bed when you can't even see anything!!! HAHA!!! :P but it really got me thinking about the Saints. I realized how much we really take things for granted these days because we never have the opportunity to be creative and use our brains to survive, we just push the light switch on and there we there's energy!!! So I prayed and repented for ever being ungrateful for running water and lights and air conditioning that work. The Saints didn't have hardly anything, but they were so very happy because they had the gospel and their families. :) SO THAT WAS QUITE AN ADVENTURE! And than eventually the lights came back on around 3 in the morning hahah! But good growing experience right?! :)
On the Sabbath Sister Pugmire who is so profound and Sister Lyyn who is the funniest human being ever spoke in the mission ward! :) Sister Pugmire made a comment about our families and how Heavenly Father literally put us in imperfect families so that we could love perfectly. And that is so true!!! But the thing is it doesn't even stop there!! We have the opportunity to look outside and see everyone and Heavenly Fathers children! All of our dear Brothers and Sisters! :) So if you look at it that way.... we are all responsible for Helping eachother when we are weak! and making sure that no one gets left behind! :) EVER:) Because even when we are dumb in this life Christ never abandons us! Sometimes we just choose to leave him, but he can heal us if we choose to let him heal us! (Sorry if I sound preachy....we have the opportunity to testify alot here in Nauvoo lol so bear with me!) :) But anyway I thought that was a really amazing thought and it's true! Elder Schweitzer came and spoke to us a few weeks ago to the whole mission and told us that we Nauvoo has reached its purpose, but it hasn't fulfilled it's potential! He said we should look at everyone who comes to nauvoo as the lost sheep and go and FIND THEM!!!!
This week we were serving in the Brigham young home and we had the opportunity to give a tour to a young mother and her son! When we were in the Council room where Brigham and the 12 apostles would council She confessed that her husband and his dad had passed away about 8 years ago. We went outside after the tour to take a picture of both of them outside of the home and a new tour started to approach the home! Just as the new family had gotten there, the mother and son had slowly started to walk away! Just as we were about to start the new tour for the new family the spirit told me to go and follow the son and the mother! So I did. When I had reached both the Mother and the son I was overwhelmed with tears in my eyes. I was able to bear my testimony about the plan of salvation and that our loved ones really are here with us because I have felt my mother watch over me even though she had passed on and that I knew that her husband and his dad were watching over them as well and that they love us. We were both crying because we could feel the spirit so strongly. It was such a privilege to be able to bear testimony to her. There was no doubt in my mind that her and her son had not come to the Brigham Young home that morning by chance. She had told me that it was hard for her and her son that day because it was Father's Day and she was hoping that by going to all of the different sites around Nauvoo that it would lift her spirits. She is a true example of enduring to the end! It's amazing when we choose to be obedient to the promptings we get the outcomes that come are amazing and he allows us to feel the amazing spirit of helping Heavenly Fathers Children. We saw her again when we were at the visitors center, again not by chance! ;) I just thought it was really amazing to have that privilege to talk with her.
Sorry this is a really long email hahaha, but everything that happened this week was amazing! There was a quote that was on our fridge in the little George Laub home and I wanted to share it with all of you! It says "When this life is over, the questions won't be how much you have acquired, but how much you have given, not how much you have earned, but how much you have done, not how much you have saved, but how much you have shared, not how much you were honored, but how much you loved and you served your fellowmen." :) I love that! And I love all of you so much. I love my family <3 Thanks for being my friends <3 I love you all so much... I could say that a million times... I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!!!! But Heavenly Father loves you more than anyone can ever imagine and so does the Savior Jesus Christ. That was the whole purpose He died for us was because he loved us so that we may become clean!
MWAH
Sister Chapman! :)
P.S. ITS BEEN THREE MONTHS WHAT?!?!?! I'm not a greenie as much anymore yayyyyyyy :)