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hello everyone :) hope you all have had a great week!

this week has been good. lots of learning experiences and things to improve on,
but really that is what life is all about. We are here to learn and become like our Savior. 

This week me and Sister Mo have made our companionship into a trio, and our third comp is our Savior.
We have made Him a better part of our missionary work and put Him first.
We have been relying on Him more to help us throughout the day.
We have noticed when we are putting Him first we have seen so many more miracles.
One day when we were looking for this care home we decided stop and pray for help to find it.
We kept walking a little more and decided to knock on this door to ask for help.
And this lady from Ghana(!!!!) told us where it was and she had met with sisters before
so she wanted us to come back! It was a miracle and just shows that when we put Him first,
everything will turn out how it is supposed to. 

I got to go up to Newcastle and Billingham this week for some meetings and I got to see Elder Norton!
It was great to see him and talk for a little bit :) 

We had the baptism of Danielle and Laura with the other sisters and it was the most spiritual baptism
 I've ever experienced. They both read the Book of Mormon in 2 weeks and they have had
the most amazing experiences. The gospel is for everyone and it truly does change lives.
 The theme of the baptism was 1 John 1:5 "This then is the message which we have heard of Him,
and declare unto you, that God is LIGHT, and in Him is no darkness at all."
The gospel truly does bring light into our lives and people notice the light we have from the spirit.

I am so grateful for my companion who makes me laugh so much.
 We have a great relationship and I am learning so many great things from her.
She really is showing me how to put the Lord first.

Well, I love you all! Have a great week and don't forget to smile :)
Love, Sister Stevens

(Lisel sent me a copy of her email to her mission president this week.
My heart breaks for how hard this has been for her, yet bursts with gratitude for the
way she is pushing through.)

me cleaning 'Bertha', Sister Mo's wig hahaha

ELDER NORTON!!!

Newcastle and Billingham

train rides

ESTELLE!

my fav cutest girls in York

Weiner dog goals

Baptism!!!

exchange

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Hello my peeps,

Another great week in Hull 1 with my amazing companion Sister Mo. She

is such a hard worker and we have lots of fun together. Knocking on

doors and talking to people on the street is getting easier because we

are just being ourselves and making it fun. We like to call it fun

finding :) we have also been bearing our testimonies more in finding

and it truly makes a difference. I wish I could tell you everything

that happened this week but sadly it's impossible.

So here are some highlights:

Well for starters my fav chocolate bars were on sale this week so that

was a plus.

Got to teach the cutest recent converts and their young kids who were

baptised recently about endowments and dealings. It was so cool to see

how they are preparing and they get to make this special covenant to

be together as a family forever! We are blessed to have the priesthood

keys restored on the earth!

So there are these bushes that have brambles (kinda like an English

blackberry) that are everywhere in Hull and lucky us they are in

season :) it's a great snack to keep us going throughout the day.

L... is doing great! She is having some family struggles and wants her

fam to attend her baptism so we have pushes it back to the 17th of

September. But we have fasted and prayed and feel really good about

the 17th. She loves the gospel and is so excited to be baptised!

2 other sisters who are getting baptised next week had their

interviews this week and they passed! So we all went out to McDonald's

to celebrate haha. It was great. They were telling us about their

favourite lessons and they are grateful for the blessings of the

gospel because they have had difficult lives.

The work is definitely progressing here in Hull. I am happy to be

serving here and for the first time I feel like I am making a

difference. Which is a great feeling!

I have been working a lot on Christlike love, which is a hard

attribute to master. And I don't think I ever will. But the world is a

hard place to live in and everyone just needs to feel love. So my

challenge this week is to show someone who needs it a little extra

love. And read John 4 :) someone very special to me who is living in

Ghana shared it with me ;)

Love you all,

Sister Stevens

No pics this week but she sent this short video:

The light at the end of the tunnel!!!!!!

WOW is all I can say. I LOVE being a missionary and I LOVE serving in Hull 1! It truly is the promised land. So many people who are prepared for the gospel are here!!

Monday night we said goodbye to some of my favs in Leeds that will be missed. So many people I have been able to serve with and learn from.

I took my train to Hull early the next morning and met my new comp Sister Mokgehle (sister mo) from South Africa! She is very easy going and we get along great :) It is almost too easy to be with her hah, but I am very grateful. She is a great missionary and works really hard. It is going to be a great transfer together! My first day was pretty crazy trying to get all the sisters where they need to be but it was an adventure :) 

I feel so excited to start fresh and really work towards being the missionary I want to be. I feel like the last couple weeks I have let things get in the way of my purpose as a missionary. But I am here to serve the Lord and help others come closer to Christ.

Highlights- 

I get to serve with one of my all time fav missionaries who I lived with in Leeds, Sister Blair! She is such a light to have and has helped me so much while I have been on my mission. She is serving with a new sister, and all 4 of us live together. 

Tuesday night the missionaries and the ward missionaries got together for our weekly meeting at the missionary house in Hull (such a blessing). We also have a senior couple who get to come to our district meetings! The ward missionaries amaze me! They are all so involved with all of our investigators. And I can tell they really want to help them and us. 

We have the most amazing investigator named L... She has gone through some really difficult times in the past but has always believed in God. The sisters met her on the bus about 2 weeks ago and she is getting baptized on September 2 with two other girls who the other sisters are teaching! They are all the most prepared people ever! They are what we call Golden Investigators. L… texted us the other day saying she wrote an essay on the Word of Wisdom and a summary on what she had read in the Book of Mormon! She loves the restored gospel so much and is sent straight from God. I feel so honored to be teaching her. The lessons we have with her are the most spiritual I have experienced on my mission.  

Another investigator named A.. from Poland who is a former investigator. We decided to stop by her house one evening and she let us in! The other sisters had given her a childrens Book of Mormon and she said she had been reading it to her son! We taught her and she wants to keep meeting with us. We scheduled her for baptism because she says when she meets with us she feels a light :)

Well, lets just say, trials and challenges don't last forever. Heavenly Father will always bless us if we stay strong. I'm not saying I won't have other hard days, I'm sure there will be plenty. But I know there are always good times ahead. Elder Holland said, "Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come."

I am so grateful for the gospel and to see how it changes peoples lives. I am so thankful to have the help of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ because this is truly their work. I just get to see it happen and I feel pretty lucky. I know Heavenly Father knows each and everyone of us individually and knows each of our situations. He knows exactly what we need and when we need it. 

Know I love and miss you all and that I am HAPPY :) 

love, 

Sister Stevens 

Our new flat, I love it!  It feels like home

A member lady who is blind.  She took us out to tea.  She is so amazing and inspiring

Street contacting

Recent converts from Portugal

Sister Blair!!!!

Sister Mo

my new planner

Good bye's in Leeds: (so many pics this week!!)