More Valuable Advice from Sister Worthington!

Mission tips for all missions

1) comfort items. Every night when i come home from the work I wrap myself in a blanket and hug my stuff dog it makes me feel more comfortable and makes me feel more at home.

2) Extra money. You have to buy all cleaning materials,food for amonth, and personal hygene products, money goes by FAST!!! So have extra money to help for at least the first few months

3) love everyone and be careful what you say to others. There was a sister missionary that was in my area a year ago and i cant tell you how many times a day i hear about her and how much hurt she did to the area and the ward. Be careful what you say.

4) have pictures of family and friends. It reminds you that you have people loving and supporting you.

5) become friends with the ward members and the other missionaries. My district is like my family i have 3 sisters, 8 brothers, and 4 grandparents.

6) Your area and companion are very very inspired. You might not like your copmanion or area but i know it is inspired by god to the mission president.

7) Have dog treats. Theres tons of scary mean dogs in peoples front yards and on the loose keep dog treats so that the dog will warm up to you and like you. and you can get to the door.

8) you somtimes get a car but even with a car walk!!!! People see you and if their doing something outside its easier to approach them and talk to them. And ward members see you and respect you for walking.

New Mexico Albuquerque mission specifically and other missions

1) bring chap stick, lotion, sunscreen, and a water bottle. New Mexico is HOT and VERY DRY be prepared. I have to put lotion on multiple times a day due to how dry it is.

2) bring multiple shoes for meetings and tracting and swtich shoes every day.

3) bring church cds and movies. church cds for the car. And then the movies that can help teach investigators such as mormon messages and doctorine covenents videos that can help with investigators. And if your in my area where theres NOTHING to do on p days and the other missionaries are far away where we dont have
the miles to hang out togther.

4) bring tons of deoderent and perfume. After all day of walking in a deseret you pretty much smell and need those things to help.

5) clothing is not as strict as it seems go to the website for ideas. T shirt materials are ALLOWED!!!! I wish i knew that before i came out on the mission.

6) get a priesthood blessing every transfer from your district leader or zone leaders. it really helps to get the guidance from the lord and the elders are really happy to do that for you.

7) read your patriartical blessing often i have found loads of things that were hidden that are about my mission

8)http://www.lds.org/training/wwlt/2013/hastening/special-broadcast?lang=eng Watch the special broadcast its amazing i have never felt the spirit so strong during any broadcast. and well bring the world its truth is the best i never cried so much literally. Espically when they were showing the missionaries getting their mission calls, being set apart, saying goodbye to their families to the mtc, and then of course being on the mission field

June 24, 2013 So happy to hear the excitement back in her voice. Multiple exclamation points are a good thing! :)

Hey sounds like things are loads of fun!!!! And sounds like things are going great. I wish i was there at johnny carinos with the elders their hilarious!!! So this week was CRAZY busy. My companion and i have been contacting referrel after referrel every day and we still have 12 more to contact. Then the ward gave us 23 less active names and asked us to go visit them and see what happens there. So this week will also be very very busy. My companion and I taught our investigator Melinda and it went very very well. Shes very close to being able to be baptized were both very very excited. Sunday was a really good day this family donated food to my companion and i and we felt like we did not need it at all. So we found out from a family that theres a less active family in our ward that has been struggeling. The father left a mother with 4 children. And their struggeling with money so my companion and I ding dong ditched their door with all this food. Their faces were priceless it was amazing. Afterwards we went to the missionary broadcast and it was AMAZING!!!!! Its so incredible to be on a mission during all of this amazing historical missionary stuff. And after the broadcast loads of members had referrels for us it was amazing.Afterwards his member came with us to do referrels. We contacted 3 of them and still had time with nothing left to do. We looked and saw two 18 year old boys sitting on their front step smoking and drinking but we all decided to go talk to them.So we did and the spirit was very strong never the less. We talked about god and family to them. They told us we had a light that they really liked and we explained it was the holy ghost. We gave them a pass along card with our number and hopefully we will hear from them again. This week is going to be just as busy contacting more referrels and saturday two area 70's are speaking to us. It will be a very very good week. I love you loads and so glad things are going well. Looooooooove you tons

June 18, 2013

So my email correspondence with Sister Worthington has gotten pretty choppy as we usually try to be on at the same time and have a conversation (which is so fun, by the way!)  So, I will probably have to start typing up her hand-written letters most of the time.

Here is her latest hand-written letter:

Dear Family,

So after spending all day in Albuquerque I finally got my companion and it's Sister Carpenter!!! She was in my mtc district and one of my roommates there. I'm really really happy! These last 12 weeks were really hard with my last companion. The members were angry and upset with her. So I'm really happy to have Sister Carpenter. We went and saw a former investigator and she asked us to come back. So we went back and we talked about God and his love for us. I had this strong feeling to ask her to be baptized. And she said YES!!!! Only problem is that she's going out of town for a month. And she wants her husband to get baptized with her so we will have to figure out how to win him over. Well I love you guys!  See you in 14 1/2 months!!

Love,

Sister Worthington

Just got a hand-written letter from Sister Worthington as well so I thought I might as well add it!

Hello family,

So guess what! I'm not training!  Yee ha. I was scared to death and did not want to train well not at least now. I want to know what I'm doing before I train. But I did have this feeling that whomever I'm suppose to be companions with is that we have success and that we are suppose to be with each other. My trainer/companion is training a new sister missionary. We have no idea whose getting transferred. Monday we met the elders who are taking over Los Alamos. Their awesome. Tonight we went to a missionary youth activity.  It was funny watching them tract families. The families did things that I see tracting. It was really funny.  Well I love you guys! Have a great week! :)

Love,

Sister Worthington

June 10, 2013

This is the letter we received from Sister Worthington today.  Sounds like lots of ups and downs, but she always remains determined to make the best of whatever comes her way!  Oh, and her first comment is in response to a question I asked her about the forest fire in New Mexico.

"We are luckily its not heading towards our area. So this week has been crazy!!! So the coolest miracle happened. My companion and I were at dinner at a members house when this bird flew into their window. We went outside and it was hurt. So we went in and they asked me to say the closing prayer. I said the closing prayer and in the prayer i prayed that the bird would be healed. We left and the daughter went outside to check on the bird and the bird got up and flew away. It gave me a testimoney that god loves all his children including his animals he truly does care for them. So my trainer/companion is training and being transferred and Im staying and getting a new companion. I was really really confused cause I thought i would be training but I think i know why god is doing what he is doing. For some reason the releif society presdient HATES missionaries. And shes now involved with Melinda and she wants to teach her herself but thats not allowed only missionaries can teach someone to be baptized. And yesterday my companion and her got into this heated arguement and she told us that were horrible missionaries that are pushy and all this other crap. we wanted to feel bad about it but an hour earlier the stake missionary leader told us that we were incredible missionaries that have changed the area tremendously so we are not going to listen to her. But I know that heavenly father knew that I couldnt handle our rs president and training a new sister at the same time. So i also gained a knowledge that god knows us and knows what we can handle. It was tough week. We diddnt get to teach any investigators. But friday I got your package and it was awesome!!! And dexter sent me a package and he literally spent over a 100 dollars!!!! He sent me vans (shoes) that are literally 50 dollar shoes, 5 bags of gummy candies, a stuff dog, and all these church cds it was awesome of him. We also got a new family in the ward that just joined like 3 months ago and their the cutest family ever!!! They have 2 little boys 2 and 1 years old. and the mom is very pretty and their the nicest people I have ever met so im really really excited to teach them follow up lessons. So thats the week. Tomorrow is transfers Im staying in white rock and getting a new companion so stay tuned. Love you!!!"

I am a Child of God

Sister Worthington asked me to share this.  It is a beautifully simple, yet poignant video.

http://youtu.be/JOrcqqpHCt8

June 2, 2013

lol so what a week!!!! So we are teaching Melinda and shes a golden investigator!!! She has come to church every week. She helps clean the church every saturday and shes been reading the bom every day!!!! Then friday we got news that there are 2 forest fires going on in our area so my companion and I packed up some stuff to be safe just in case we have to evacuate. So keep my area in your prayers everyone here is getting ready to evacuate pretty much. Then my mission president called that same night and told us that elders are being put into Los Alamos and that the sisters will strictly be in White Rock. So saturday we spent the day saying goodbye to our favorite members in the Los Alamos ward. Then yesterday I woke up with an inflammed stomach and a fever booooooooooo. But luckily by last night i felt alot better but to be safe we stayed home and we watched the district. So it was a crazy week and this week will be too. We find out wednesday if we are training and saturday if we are getting transferred so stay tuned to next week.