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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Weekly Letter #53: October 20th, 2020


Hello everyone! 

No time to write today because of transfers so I've recorded a brief video instead. I'm excited for my new adventures, but SO SO SO SAD to be leaving Lancaster! 

Love you all!
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Monday, October 12, 2020

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Mission Devotional - This Sunday (July 5th)


This week, I have a SPECIAL INVITATION!

Our mission is doing anotherFacebook live devotional called Why I Believe, and I would love for as many of you that can, to join!

It will be this Sunday (July 5th), at 6:30pm UK time which is 11:30am MDT.

It's always very inspiring, and the music is pretty darn good, too. Actually, one of the musical items will be featuring the England Manchester missionaries, including none other than myself and my companion!

Here is the link.

You don't need Facebook to watch, and all are welcome to join! I would also love to hear how you liked it!

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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Mission Devotional - This Sunday (June 7th)


This week, I have a SPECIAL INVITATION!

Our mission is doing another Facebook live devotional called Why I Believe, and I would love for as many of you that can, to join!

It will be this Sunday (June 7th), at 6:30pm UK time which is 11:30am MDT.

It's always very inspiring, and the music is pretty darn good, too. Actually, one of the musical items will be featuring the England Manchester missionaries, including none other than myself and Sister Minaker!

Here is the link.

You don't need Facebook to watch, and all are welcome to join! I would also love to hear how you liked it!

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Monday, May 4, 2020

Weekly Letter #31: May 4, 2020

Hello hello hello!

Today my connection is really, really bad so there is a high probability that this email will be VERY long, and there will be very few personal emails sent out. My apologies for this but what can you do?

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Stake Devotional: Sunday, 26th of April, 2020

This Sunday evening, our stake that we are currently serving in will hold a "virtual" Stake fireside.

They have testimonies from a member of each ward and the Stake Presidency, along with musical items. The UK page of the Official Church website will be sharing the event, so that will hopefully attract lots of participants!

However this can only happen if we start letting people know about this! I encourage you to copy this link and share it to your own social media accounts. You will not have to be embarrassed or disappointed with the quality of the testimonies!

This may be the easiest way ever to invite a friend or member to a church fireside. On April 26th at 7 pm, the event will stream from the Ashton Stake Presidency Facebook page while also simultaneously on Youtube, so you don't even need a Facebook account to watch!

I will share the direct links to both streams here on Saturday afternoon so you can find them easily! If you know anyone that doesn't use Facebook, please email or message them the YouTube link so everyone has the opportunity to tune into this amazing event!

Finally for those who don't have any internet access, immediately after the stream finishes, a link will be available to download and print the text of each testimony individually to share with those who were unable to view it due to whatever issue they may have had.

This is going to be such an incredible event so we hope everyone will be able to watch this Sunday evening! Feel free to share, or ask any questions you have!

Here's the link for the event page if you'd like to go give that a like and share as well: https://www.facebook.com/events/591610491699515/


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Monday, April 13, 2020

Weekly Letter #28: April 13, 2020

Good morning starshine! The world says hello! (Yes, it is incorrect but it sounds so much better.)

One of the things that is killing me is I have now reached the point where I can't remember anything from my previous life as a normal human being. Songs other than the hymns? Nope. Names of movies and what they're about? Nada. Pop culture and world events? Unless it happened in 1820 with a young boy named Joseph Smith, I don't have a clue. There is my complaint for the week. I am a missionary now. This is what missionary life is. Enjoy your Disney+ folks and count your many blessings, name them one by one.
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Monday, December 16, 2019

Weekly Letter #12: December 16, 2019

Hello! Merry almost Christmas! 

Last week sucked. The beginning of this week sucked. But, the end of this week has been great and you can actually see work happening which is amazing! 

The beginning of the week was a little rough, and we really were not seeing any success, and I still felt super lazy and like we were wasting our time. However, we went to Christmas Conference and I felt totally energized and confident and felt like it would be okay to bring up this concern with Sister Patea again. Christmas Conference by the way was amazing. Amazing food, a great Christmas devotional, a variety show (best act by far was my old zone leader playing the music for the inspirational video "Rise and Shine" on a piano pipe, while another elder yelled the words into the mic), and a ride home. Love it for me. 

On Friday morning before our weekly planning (the STL's were coming to join us for our planning) we talked about our thoughts on the work that we were doing, whether or not it was effective, how we could come up with new ways to find friends, and how to better follow Preach My Gospel and the order in which they've set our priorities. We decided to make quite a few changes, and instead of now spending the majority of our time street contacting in the town square (obviously we haven't gotten rid of street contacting entirely), we would use that time to focus on part-member families, and to help strengthen our relationships with the members and to get referrals from them. We also decided that we would clean out the area book, and start to get it organized by phone contacting, Light the World messages, and privacy data notices. With this in mind, we started our week off on Friday with a new plan. Unfortunately, Friday was already booked out so we couldn't fully set our plan to action, but we prepared for Saturday to be a day of miracles. 

Y'all. Saturday WAS a day of miracles. We hadn't been finding any friends, and the key indicators/goals (which aren't everything I know, but also they can help us see where we need to focus and improve—for me at least) for new friends had been extremely low for the last few months. We found 8 friends on Saturday through phone contacting, privacy data notices, and bus contacting. We even found someone from France for Sister Patea! 

Now I know that it won't always be like this, and just because we change something doesn't always mean that we'll find 100 friends ready to baptize, but I do think that trying to change things and improve helps us become more motivated, more energized and focused on our purpose, and it helps us really humble ourselves and turn to the Lord for ideas and suggestions. 

I really am so grateful to be in this area, because I think there are so many lessons that I can learn. I've learned about trying to humble myself and asking the Lord for help for trying to find new ideas and being helped to find the courage to bring those forward to my companion. I've learned about being patient and loving to everyone you meet and see from Sister Patea, who is such a wonderful example of that. I've learned that members are really absolutely critical to the work, and if you don't have them, you don't have anything. And I think lastly, one of the pillars, or core principles for our mission, "every missionary a leader" is so important to our work. I think I've been really scared of and kind of hesitant about a few things because I'm a new missionary and I didn't want to overstep my bounds. However, Sister Patea is wonderful, and she has really helped me grow and stretch myself and has allowed me to take charge or lead a few things. 

So in the end, those are the most important things that happened this week. It's been hard but it's been good. 

Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and that you remember to write to all the missionaries away from home this lovely Christmas season! 

Love ya! 
Sister Pursglove 

P.S. I have 2 random requests: 
If someone could send me mp3 versions of the songs for "The Forgotten Carols" by Michael McLean I would be forever grateful. 

Also, if someone could send me a screen recording of the video "Loca the Pug" and the inspirational video "Rise and Shine" that would be the best Christmas present ever.

Photographs Below :)
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