Kia Ora!! I hope you have all had a great week! Ours has been good!! Not a whole lot more that happened its been a bit slow! but Latu is getting baptized next week!!! yay! I love Latu so much!! She is like a sister/mum/best friend!! I love her!! I'm so excited for her!! She is amazing! Some other cool things that happened this week! I got to see Sister Caesar at the temple!! yay! I ate horse! Its actually really nice! Its a Tongan thing! haha! We got soaked tracting multiple times!! Yay spring!!! I love my companion! I love the gospel! I love you all! Have an amazing week!! I love you all! Love, Sister Penrod x 1. Sister Lehartel 2. Sister Caesar 3. At Latu's! (whoever took this picture...) 4. horse 5. Mum asked for pictures of animals... this is the only one I saw this week.. haha!!
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Sabwaadee! (I'm sure I spelled that wrong!) How is everybody? I hope you all had a good week ours was so good #kfc!
We had so many miracles this week! We met a new family! They are from...... the Philippines!!! (you would have never guessed!) They are AMAZING!! The dad just had brain surgery to remove a cyst last Monday! He has a crazy scar! He is doing good now! Everything went right!! He used to live near missionaries back in the Philippines but never learned from them. The mum lived in Salt Lake City for almost 2 years!! She doesn't know a whole lot about the church though! We talked about how much we love Snowbird for like 15 minutes! haha! Talk about prepared!! They are so lovely! They are a referral from the ward and so golden!! We can't wait to get to know them better!! Basically that is the greatest thing ever and there isn't a whole lot else to say. Its still raining every day! We had follow-up training this week so we got to see Sister Caesar!! Yay! It was really good! As a mission we have been trying to strengthen our faith!! Faith brings miracles!! I can testify of that!! It comes from doing the small things like following promptings! I'm so grateful for this gospel! I love it so much!! I love all of you! Have a great week!! Je'taime, Sister Penrod x G'day Everyone! This week has been AAWWEESOOOMMMEEE! Ahhh! WE have had sooo many miracles!! Let me tell you!
1.Latu and Logan are getting baptized!!! Ahhhhh The third week in September!! Yess! I'm so excited for them!! I'm so happy! 2. We met our golden new investigator Sophia! We met her tracting! She is amazing!! It was really neat we knocked on her door and she told us to come back later, we thought she wasn't super interested but we went back later and she had gone and bought us snacks and everything! We were able to teach her the restoration and talk about the Book of Mormon with her! The spirit was sooo strong! I have never felt it like that before in a lesson! She kept telling us, You two are an answer to my prayers!! YAY! 3. We also found another new investigator, Nolene! she is 82, she is anglo-burmese and has some crazy stories about growing up in Burma during WW2! She is lovely! She told us when we left that we were her daughters now! I love her! We had such a great week! I'm so grateful for the spirit guiding us to where we need to go! I love my mission I love all of you!! I hope you have a great week! Je'taime, Sister Penrod xxxx I hope yous all had an awesome week! Ours was pretty good! We had a lot of fun this week!
1. I have the best companion! I love Sister Lehartel we are laughing all of the time! She is sooo funny! 2. We had heaps of miracles! Every small miracle counts! That is what makes the work so fun! We were tracting this one street that was particularly nasty. Every door was rude! We did about 10 or 12 and were feeling pretty down when we went up to this one door and this girl came out and said she would love to learn more about God! #prayersanswered! Those little experiences are the things that make the biggest difference! 3. We had an awesome zone conference with President Fife! He talked all about how we can better teach repentance! It was so good! 4. We got to spend a lot of time with Latu this week! I love her and her boys! Oh my goodness! 5. My French for the week: SpongeBob's name in French... Bob l'eponge.... and Squidward is Carlos.. 6. We had a relief society activity Thornlie vs. Jandakot ward... It was pretty intense I'm so proud to say that Thornlie Smashed it in basketball! And we found out you can play basketball in skirts! haha! 7. I love this gospel! I know it's true with all of my heart! I'm so grateful for this opportunity to serve here in Perth Australia! I know that this is where I am supposed to be! I love you all and hope you have an amazing week! I Love you! ฉันรักเธอ, Sister Penrod xxxxx Bonjour! mon nom est soeur Penrod! comment-alle vous? Fancy eh?
My new companion is.... Sister Lehartel (Leu- arrrr-tell) (I'm still working on it!) From the beautiful island of Tahiti! She is AMAZING! I just love her so much! For so many reasons: 1. She is learning English, she speaks French and everything she says sounds sooo beautiful! 2. Even though we speak different languages we just get each other it is so good! 3. She can dance! Ay and she is teaching me how! yes! 4. She has such a powerful testimony!! It is amazing! Every time she talks the spirit is soo strong! 5. She is my first companion that is taller than me! 6. The list could go on and on and on but basically I love Sister Lehartel!! We had a really good week we did a lot of tracting! Sister Lehartel is such a good sport! She kept going even though she couldn't understand anyone! We were able to find some awesome potentials! Latu is doing soo great! I love her so much! Hopefully she will be baptized soon! I'm so grateful for this ward they are seriously so amazing!! We are so blessed! I'm so grateful for this opportunity to serve! This week we have been studying the worth of souls! I have such a strong testimony of Heavenly Father's love for all of his children!! I'm so grateful that I know the true nature of our Heavenly Father that he loves us more than we can comprehend! I hope you all have an amazing week! I love you all! Je T'aime, Soeur Penrod xxx I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of me and Sister Lehartel! I will send them next week! :) SISTER LAO IS LEAVING ME!!!!! I am sooo sad! I’m going to miss her so much! I really do love her sooo much she is the big sister I never had! She is going all of the way to North Coast and her companion is going to be Sister Drew!! That lucky duck!:( I am staying here in Thornlie and I am training! What the heck?! I’m soo nervous! I don’t meet my new companion until Thursday! Aye! I am going to miss Sister Lao so much! This ward is going to miss her so much! I can’t believe we served together for almost 7 months!! I love that girl!
Well even though this week was pretty sad it was also pretty awesome! Some awesome things that happened this week! I turned 20! Ahhhhh! Sister Lao made my birthday sooooo goood! It was the BEST DAY EVER! I am so blessed! I am so grateful for Sister Lao and this ward! I am so grateful for this opportunity I have to serve a mission! I know that Heavenly Father knows us and knows what we need and when we need it! I know he knew that I needed Sister Lao as my companion, I have learned so much from her. We have had hard times, sad times, funny times, and the best times! We were just what each other needed! We’ve both changed so much over the past 7 months! I am so grateful for the knowledge we have about the nature of God! That he truly is our loving Heavenly Father that he truly wants us to be happy, and to become the best people we can be! I hope you all have an amazing week! Pray for my new companion ;) I love you all! Mahal Kita, Sister Penrod xx 1. Sister Julie made Sister Lao and I matching tshirts that say "eternal companions 2016" of course we transferred the next day! 2. You know those virtual reality things? We had so much fun with this one! It is so neat! 3. Sister Lao was sooooo funny!! haha! 4. This is an old picture of me and my mate Babe... jokes... but this was so yummy! KUMUSTA! I hope you all had a good week!! WE HAD THE BEST WEEK EVER! Basically;) It was awesome seriously it was the week of miracles!! Let me tell you! Here are some of the awesome things about this week!
1. We haven't been able to see one of our investigators for a few weeks... we thought she was avoiding us but she showed up to church randomly after 5 weeks!!! Miracle!! I'm sooo happy! 2. This 15 year old girl who isn't a member randomly came to church!!! She just moved from Sydney and went to church a bit out there! She said she wants to keep coming!! Ahhhhhh YES! 3. The Elders had 2 random Asians walk into church and ask to be shown around! Things are really picking up here in WA! 4. We have gotten so many referrals from members this week!!!! Ahhhhh! They are two Filipino families and they are pretty keen to learn!! 5. Tracting works!! We found heaps of potentials this week! 6. I have the best companion ever! I LOVE SISTER LAO! 7. So all the Filipino families in the ward surprised me yesterday with an early birthday party!! I'm soooo lucky!!! I love them all soooo much!!! We had a budol fight if you don't know what that is google it because it is basically the greatest thing ever!!! Basically there is heaps and heaps of food (chicken, prawns, squids, rice, fish, eggplants....just to name a few) and they pour it all out on the table and you eat it with your hands and its pretty much heaven! haha! Best party ever!! Best food ever! BEST PEOPLE EVER!! 8. I got the coolest presents EVER! One is a t-shirt with my face on it! And the other is a chocolate sculpture of my face!! Legit! I kind of sort of love them! I'm so grateful for the people in this ward!! They are the best!! ahhhh! So yes... This week was basically the greatest! I'm so grateful for this ward and for this opportunity to serve here in Thornlie!!! I love the people here! I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary! I love this work! I love my Saviour Jesus Christ! I love you all have a great week!!! MAHAL KITA Sister Penrod xxxxxxx Xi chao everyone!! The language of the week is... Vietnamese! This week has been really great.. well actually it's been two.. .sorry mum! We had so much fun and so many miracles this week! I can't even count them all! Or remember them all! It was awesome though!
Some highlights of this week: 1. We found some golden new investigators from Vietnam and Indonesia! Yay Tracting! 2. FOOD OF THE WEEK : Dinuguan, it's like this black soup made from pigs blood and entrails! Sounds nasty but it is YUM!! 3. Sister Lao experienced her first hail storm. (She thought it was snow... it isn't.) 4. We started teaching a couple from Malaysia! Lan and Pow! They are sooo funny!! :) 5. We had some cool spiritual experiences with our mini missionaries! They have amazing testimonies! We got them home in one piece!! 6. We got to go to the temple today!!! Yay!! And I got to see Sister Drew and Sister Caesar!! Yay! 7. I got 39 mozzie bites in less then one hour last week! God Bless Western Australia! 8. In honour of the 4th of July I taught an Aussie and a Filipino how to make smores! We found graham crackers at an Asian shop #miracle. 9. We have seen some incredible changes here in Thornlie ward! When I first got here I was pretty down about how the members treated missionary work.. .there was only a few who would actually help us... everyone else just seemed to ignore us! But now we have members asking to go out with us! Planning activities for non-members! Introducing us to their non-member friends!! I love this ward!! I promise you that miracles really do happen!!! 10. We got to go to the temple!! Yay! I love you all so much!! I hope you have an amazing week!!! Love, Sister Penrod xxx Hi Everyone!! This week has been AWESOME!! For a lot of reasons but mostly because we have MINI MISSIONARIES!! Yay! For all of you who don't know what that is, mini missionaries are youth or ysa aged 16-20 who get to be a missionary for 5 days! They get assigned a full-time missionary companion and live as a missionary!! It is soo fun!! Sister Lao and I both have mini-missionaries!
My mini-missionary companion is Sister Tamane! She is AMAZING! Like soooo amazing!! She is from Bunbury which is about 2 1/2 hours South of Perth. And guess what?! Sister Tamane only got baptized 2 weeks ago!!!!!! She is literally AMAZING!! I am sooo blessed to have her as my companion! I've already learned Sooo much from her!! She has an amazing spirit about her and her testimony is sooo strong!! She is such a good sport and she is so brave too! She bore her testimony in sacrament meeting for the first time and she spoke in front of all of the Priesthood as well! We've done a lot of tracting the past couple of days! You would think she'd been out on her mission for 6 months not only baptized 2 weeks ago!! I hope you all have an amazing week! Do something that scares you! Remember Sister Tamane and get out of your comfort zone this week! Talk to someone new! Make a new friend!! Be amazing!! I love you all so much!! Mahal Kita, Sister Penrod xxx Saabwadee Everyone! (That is Thai for hello but I'm pretty sure I spelled it wrong)! I hope you are all having a great week!!! This week was pretty good! We did a lot of finding! We are trying to rebuild our teaching pool! We had some cool experiences, still looking for those people we know God has prepared for us to find!!! It was really really cold this week! Don't look at the temperatures in Perth because you will call me a wuss but it feels like it's -20 here! But we are still surviving!
Miracle of the week! So we had a blitz in the Elders area on Saturday and they had us tract one side of the street while they did the other!! We found like 6 potentials on our side!! #prettyawesome And they set someone on baptisimal date at the second house they knocked on! #Totallyablessingfromheaven! I'm so grateful for all of the amazing people I meet here in Perth! They all have amazing stories and are such amazing children of God!! Just like all of you! You are a child of God! He loves you! He knows you perfectly! He wants you to be happy!!! I have found a new favourite flavour of Ice-cream.... ube at keso.... or taro and cheese. It sounds soooo weird but it is soooooo goood! I pray that you all have an opportunity to partake of the goodness someday! Some awesome members bought me some (because they love me :) I also learned how to BBQ pork intestine... its pretty good too! Look at me trying all of these new things!!! Yay! Oh and I am 1/2 way done with my mission now!! What the kind of things!! I can't believe it! It has gone sooo fast!! I love you all! I miss you! I know this church is true!!! I love it with all of my heart!!! I hope your weeks are amazing!! Love, Sister Penrod |
Sister PenrodHas been called to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Perth, Australia. She reports to the Provo, Utah MTC September 23! Archives
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