February 26, 2018

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a great week! We had a lot of fun down here in the land of enchantment and we knew to be happy we needed to keep busy and work hard. Luckily God blessed us with a bunch of inspiring meetings and service opportunities.

Earlier in the week Elder Nielson, the seventy over the missionary department of the church came to tour our mission with his wife. They were so positive and kind. We spent majority of the day with them so they shared a lot of powerful messages but the one  that hit me hardest had to do with change. Elder Nielson reminded me how our purpose in life is to face trial and adversity so we will grow and become who God intends for us to be. Just because we are facing trials and hardships doesn’t mean we have sinned or done anything wrong. Regardless of what life we live God will always give us experiences to help us improve. The important part of that though is that we then can choose how to react and to move forward with optimism knowing God is on our side and everything will work out. God will never abandon us and like 3 Nephi 9:14 says, Christs arm of mercy is extended towards us. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ want to help us and support us in all our afflictions.

Some other cool opportunities came up like cleaning the temple grounds and participating in a missionary panel at our stakes women's conference. The panel consisted of our stake president, a bishop, a missionaries mom, a returned missionary, myself and Kassidy acting as youth. It was really fun and together we got to share ideas on what women can do to support and prepare their children to serve missions. While sitting in front of everyone I had one of those moments of “wow I’m a missionary!” I am so grateful for this time and I can’t believe it is almost over. Serving a mission has been the best decision I have ever made and I have grown so much through this journey. I know this is the true church of Jesus Christ. The spirit has borne witness to me again and again that this is what brings true happiness. I love my God!

Love,

Sister Nye

after cleaning the temple

 Dions pizza

 getting trunky to hold babies!!!!!!

February 19, 2018

Hello everyone!

Lets just say I am glad this week is over and I can start fresh and move on. We had a couple rough days with a recent convert and his friend that was supposed to get baptized this past weekend but sadly that didn’t happen. I don’t want to give a lot of details but anti mormon material was involved and my heart was crushed. Everything seems to be mellowed out now. Satan has so many evil tricks to try to tear us down. Stupid little spirit. Needless to say this week did not go as I would have hoped. The members that have been involved have told me this is my last refiners fire before I go home. I sure hope I learn the things I am supposed to from this.

Update on Sister Guy: She is home. Her parents came and picked her up Friday since she can’t fly. They still don’t know what her condition is and a MRI she got this week came out clean so we are all a little in the dark with what is going on.

I feel like Sister Harris and I have been together for months now and its only been a week. It’s interesting to be with a companion again because we already know everything about each other and how to teach in unity so its pretty nice. I feel bad that she has had to deal with me this week hahaha. She handles me well though.

I just want to bear my testimony that I know this church is true. I am so grateful for a God who hears and answers my prayers. I know we are his children and he knows us better than we know ourselves, so he knows what we need to grow. I know the Jesus Christ is my Savior and Redeemer. Nothing would be possible without him. Christs teachings are here upon the earth and if we apply them in our lives we can have so much peace even in the midst of trials.

I love you all so much!

Love,

Sister Nye

I hope these are looked at with some humor. 

emotional break down 1 at our apartment

 emotional break down 2 at a members house

 exchanges with sister Vasquez

February 12, 2018

Well this week was absolutely random.

To start off the beginning of the week was pretty normal/ average missionary week but then all the sudden things went cray and around Thursday night I ended up in fetal position lying on a tile floor eating a pint of rocky road ice cream at a members house with the whole family staring at me. It was great.......okay backing up to what happened. 

So Thursday morning we had a trainer trainee meeting with our mission president and it was great! Before the meeting started President Guffey asked me how sister Guy was doing and I told him she still had the constant headaches. That was literally the whole conversation. Fast forward to 4 pm. We are weekly planning and sister Guy starts getting low on energy so falls asleep on the floor right when our phone starts ringing and its president Guffey. I answered and he told me sister Guy would be going on an exchange (alright cool) down to El Paso(thats different and far away for an exchange) for 1 1/2 months or longer(WHAT KIND OF EXCHANGE IS THAT?!?!). At this point I go into a bit of shock and sister Guy just starts crying because she was groggy but just started to put together what was happening. President told us she would be leaving the next morning and there wasn't a plan for me yet. Well Friday morning we took her to the mission office and I got in the car with my STL's. I wanted to continue working in my area so I went on splits all day with Kassidy from YSA. The next day I went out with my STL's in their area and then around 4 pm on Saturday we went back to the mission office to pick up.....SISTER HARRIS! We have now been together for 2 days and we are having a party. 

We gave talks in church yesterday and taught seminary this morning and pretty much winging everything we do BUT we have made it through the weekend so we are counting it all as a success. I haven't heard back from sister Guy but I am praying that she is feeling better down south and learning a lot. I miss her so much but I am trusting in God that this is what needed to happen. 

I was able to get a blessing Friday night and it brought so much comfort. Honestly don't know how I would survive without the priesthood in my life. I am grateful for all the tools and gifts on Heavenly Father gives us to make life better and more enjoyable. We have already been able to see miracles with new investigators and less active families that allowed us to come in and share a message. I am trying to put all my trust in God and learn all the things I need to while I have time out here. 

In my talk yesterday I spoke on the Holy Ghost and the role he has played in my life. The Holy Ghost has been my comforter and constant companion. My mission has taught me to listen to the still small voice and seek his guidance... especially weeks like this that don't go exactly as planned. I know this church is true and I know God is always looking out for us and helping us! 

I love you all! 

Love,

Sister Nye

PS HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

impulsively giving sister Guy bangs at 10 pm Wednesday night. 

Killian and Laci surprised me at church yesterday

splits with Kassidy

early morning seminary with sister Harris

February 5th 2018

HOLA

Well I don't have a lot to share this week because my poor sister Guy has been sick with altitude sickness the last 2 weeks. Our fun adventure this week was at the emergency room for hours as she got pain medication through an IV... who knew altitude sickness could literally be the worst?

Well it is. She keeps going though and has helped me so much. I'm honestly not even training her. 

I would share the picture of her in the hospital with the world but I don't know how much she would appreciate that.. lol.

This week was a party and a lot of rough things happened but in the end we enjoyed our time together! It was obvious that Heavenly Father was watching out for us because a lot of little miracles kept happening and we were able to make it through with no casualties. I wish sister Guy was writing this right now because she received some really awesome revelation about this trial she is going through. I don't want to butcher it but what she learned is that we sometimes in life try to look for healing in places where the pain is taken away temporarily instead of looking to the source of all truth and light or Great Physician, our Savior Jesus Christ. As we turn to these other sources we are filled with fear or anxiety but as we turn to the Lord to help us conquer our pains we can find peace in the small steps we have been taught to take. (sister Guy whispered this into my ear so I could write it haha) I think it is so cool that she learned this lesson this week. I was the other source where the pain is only taken away temporarily and the ER was "the Great Physician" lol. I know this is true though. Our Savior loves us so much and wants us to be healed! He knows us personally. He knows what we need. I love him so much!

I love you all so much!!!

Love,

Sister Nye

pictures are of sister Guy and her first green chile breakfast burrito and some weekly planning.