What is Love? 7/4)

 Thank you all so much to all who fasted for me yesterday!! You have
no idea how much it helped me. I feel so loved and blessed and I know
that things are going to be ok. I love you so much, and I have a
strong testimony that Heavenly Father has blessed me with the best
family on earth. I know that we are also all part of His family, and
that the veil is not a boundary between families that are tied
together by covenants. I am so thankful that we have been blessed with
that. And thank you all for the emails! I am sorry I can't respond to
all of them, but I will respond next week!

So happy 4th of July everyone! Sorry this won't be very long, but I
wanted to share a miracle with you! So we went to a meeting Saturday
morning, and on our way there we saw this guy in pajama pants walking
down the street. So we made fun of him and went on our merry way. Well
later that day on our way back, we saw the SAME guy walking down the
street in pajama pants, so i waved at him, and thought that maybe we
should pull over, and then two seconds later we saw one of our
investigators and his friend standing on the street too! So we were
REALLY like PULL OVER! So we did and tried to find the pajama guy....
But he disappeared... So we went and talked to our investigator and
his friends and it was so fun, and we ended up handing out two books
of Mormons to them! Then we continued down the road and this lady
pulls up on her bike right next to a park bench and asked us if we
were going to sit there. We said no, but then she saw our tags and
started asking us about our church and the address and what we believe
and if we had a message for her, and if she could keep the Book of
Mormon.... WHAT!? Blessings!!! So we got her contact info, and she
said she would come to church too! Then we met some other crazy people
and other people who don't speak English.... But it was still a lot of
fun, and we are so thankful that we saw that miracle. 😁

Thank you  all so much for your faith and prayers. I love and miss you all!!!
Sister Baine :)

Who speaks English? (6/27)

Wow!!!! You never know how much people love you until you don't write
them! Sorry for the lack of communication! Last week we had an all
mission conference/ P-day, where the entire mission got together and
played sports and ate lunch and had a grand old time! After a couple
hours of that President Taggart's son, Spencer, spoke to us. He does a
little bit of travel as an inspirational speaker, and told us stories
about his mission and taught us how to be better missionaries. It was
super good and I learned a lot!

Heavenly Father has been being very good to us lately, for which I am
very grateful! So I will start going down the list.
First of all, there is Allan. He was a former investigator that we
called and started meeting with again. We have taught him a couple
times, but he has kind of a problem with faith. He is very
philosophical. But one of the team ups that we brought with us (he
bishops wife) called him a couple days ago, and she said that they
talked on the phone for over an hour about faith and how to tell when
things are tue or not. She has high hopes for him, and we feel like
his heart is slowly softening!

We also have Varsha and Tina and Sreeja. They are roommates and all
from India haha. Sister McCallister and Sister Shaffer found Sreeja a
month or two ago, and we have been trying to meet back with her for a
long time, but the last time that we knocked on their door Varsha
answered and we started teaching her. And then the next time we came
We taught Varsha and Tina, and then the next time it was Varsha and
Sreeja! They keep switching everything up on us, but Varsha is super
prepared, and she said that she would get baptized! So hopefully
everything keeps going well with them!

Then there is Adrienne. Actually let me give you context. So Stefanie
is a lady in our ward that works for a company called Vivint, and she
goes from door to door offering solar to people. Well she is also a
GREAT missionary because she talks to everyone about the gospel too,
and gives the missionaries tons of referrals. She doesn't work in our
area, so she mainly gives them to the other two sets of elders who
work close by. But when she met this one sweet lady named Adrienne,
she said she would prefer to meet with sisters. We have plans to hand
her off to the elders soon anyways, but holy tolito is Adrienne
prepared! She has had some deaths in the family in the past few years,
and when we taught her the Plan of Salvation, the spirit was SO
strong!! She shared so many cool experiences with us! She accepted a
baptismal invitation, and we are going to set her on date tomorrow! We
have taught her the restoration since then and the spirit was just as
strong! Then yesterday she came to church and brought her daughter and
two friends with her as well!!! We are so excited!!!

There have also been a couple other people that we have found that
could potentially progress towards baptism, and we have been
cultivating really good relationships with the ward lately too. God is
being very good to us! Thank you all for your prayers!!! I love and
miss you very much!

Sister Baine 😊

What Does the Squirrel Say??? (6/13)

This week has been a wild ride... Like a buckin bronco... Or the
Avalanche ride at Roaring Springs... Or eggplant casserole.

Avocados for dayyysssss!!! (6/6)

Hola mi familia y amigos!

My Spanish is getting better! Just kidding I don't know any. BUT! This
week has been super exciting! So many miracles!

We do service at a super awesome food pantry that is run by a guy from
the Spanish branch down here (his name is Juan...) and lately they
have been getting a lot of extra produce, and last time we served
there, they had 10 boxes of avocados!!!! They were all perfectly ripe
too, so Juan gave us a whole box of them! So MANY! So we started
giving everyone avocados!!! It was a super good excuse to see less
actives and members and investigators and random Hispanics that don't
speak English.... his name was also Juan... Anyways. It made things
super fun this week haha.

We also almost had a heart attack this week... We had President Bean
(a member of the mission presidency) text us randomly and ask if he
could come out with us on Thursday evening with his daughter who is
home from college for a while.... WHAT??? I was going crazy all week
long! So we set up an appointment and then he was going to take us to
dinner and then do some leadership training with Sister McAllister and
I. Probably because we are the worst leaders in the mission and need
all the help we can get. So that evening he picks us up and we start
going to our appointment... But then we go the wrong way.. So then we
get there late. And then she doesn't answer the door.... And it was
super embarrassing. But then we did go to dinner... And it was super
good... But I couldn't enjoy it because I was so nervous... I don't
know why because President Bean is SUPER awesome. But because he is so
awesome he is also super intimidating. When we did the training it was
SOOO good!!! It was honestly one of the most inspiring and humbling
experiences on my mission because of how it helped me. We talked all
about what leadership is and he gave us some scriptures and quotes and
a talk and we went through how Jesus Christ is the perfect leader and
how we can follow His example. Man, I could go on and on and on. I
leaned so much!

We had a couple super awesome lessons with this former named Amos this
week too... only the second time he was being super stubborn and
didn't want to cooperate... But then we get out and he texts us that
he might keep reading the Book of Mormon.... GAH! Whatever.. He is
super cool though... And he fed us breakfast at a diner... It was
delicious. The only bad thing was that we had already met at a
different diner that morning right before that for a District Leader
Council meeting. So I got TWO breakfasts!!! Blegh.

Well anyways, I love you all, and I hope you are all doing FABULOUSLY!!!

OH YES!!! And I also forgot to tell you about a crazy experience that
we had with an investigator named Alex! He is super awesome, and we
went to meet with him at a park and everything was great! But then
while Sister McAllister was reading a scripture he noticed a creepy
guy behind us standing super close and listening to everything we were
saying... So we asked if he wanted to come and sit with us while we
talked and we were thinking like oh cool super miracle and a new
investigator! But as soon as he sat down he started going off about
Joseph smith and quoting a bunch of stuff from the bible, and it was
like the devil had just joined us.... He looked and talked just like
Moriarty from Sherlock.... He started going off into a ton of deep
doctrine stuff, and our lesson went downhill fast and we ended up just
leaving, and then our investigator was so confused.... It was awful.
:/ the creepiest part was that this bad guys name was Alex too, and
they were both from Guatemala!!!! It was eerily coincidental. I firmly
believe that Satan planned it all out and sent him to shake our
investigator.... I have a growing testimony of how much influence
Satan has on people in this world. He is being fully unleashed and his
most faithful angels are being sent after Heavenly Fathers most
valiant children. He is so sneaky, but I also know with all of my
heart that with the Gift of Holy Ghost can help us detect deception in
all of its forms and if we obey Christ we will be protected and have
power given to us to combat Satan.  I love you all!!!! Please stay
faithful to the light and truth that you have received!

Love Sister Baine :)

Today we took a walk around Princeton, and it is SO pretty!! I am
going to work to get super rich so that I can go to school here
hahaha, it is like walking through Hogwarts!

Who you gonna call???

Well.... Words cannot really describe this week... Imagine the
scariest, craziest, most life threatening roller coaster that you
could ever dream of... And then throw it off a cliff. That is pretty
much how this week went.

We went on another exchange this week... It is crazy that now as STLs
we have 3 less companionships of sisters to cover, but we are going on
the same amount of exchanges because they need so much help! Good
thing I love them haha. We had fun, but man sometimes you just want to
go to their rooms until they are ready to be nice and talk things out
with each other... Actually that is pretty much what we did.

I also got a wee bit sick this week. But nothing too terrible. I just
might have nose cancer. Just kidding. It was a sore throat for a
couple days, and then the dreaded congestion. But lucky for me, my
wonderful mother basically prepared me with our entire medicine
cabinet from home. So I had some drugs to take to help. And I am
feeling 98% better now. :)

But despite it being hard to work and super crazy this week, Heavenly
Father has been blessing us with miracles. We have a less active that
lives not to far from us that we have started visiting, and she is SO
awesome. She is living with a guy and they are so funny. She hasn't
been active since she was a youth, and he isn't a member, so it is
like we are starting over with investigators. Neither of them were
super thrilled about the idea of us coming over once a week to talk to
them about the gospel, so we had to come up with a different way to go
about it... So we went over there the other day and told them that we
didn't have a lot of investigators to teach right now, but we still
wanted to practice teaching people, and asked if they would be willing
to let us practice on them. And they said yes! She was actually super
excited about it, and she was going on and on about how they could
offer a really unique perspective on what we teach, and who knows?
Maybe they will actually learn something as they help us! Hahaha they
are so awesome, so we are going to start "teaching them" this week! I
mean, at the very least, we will become a lot better teachers because
of it! :D Missionaries are so sneaky...

We also called and set up an appointment with a former investigator
from Ghana, so that will be super fun. It is SO hard to understand
those people on the phone, but they are SO awesome hahaha. He was kind
of upset though, because he said that every time he would get close
with the missionaries and be going great, they would get transferred
and then he would have to go through the whole entire process again
the new ones... He has a could friends in the ward though, so that's
good. I know that members are the best way to help that problem
because they can provide the support that the investigators need,
rather than the missionaries doing it... But if any of you have
suggestions of things that might help as well, let me know!

We also helped out a less active, and dumped her alcohol bottles out
onto the grass... There was one that was 20% alcohol!!! Actually I
don't know that much about alcoholic beverages... But that just seems
like a lot. I was tempted to drink it... But I didn't. It smelled like
vanilla though. Now the grass will grow super well in that area.

Also, I want y'all to send me some super awesome finding ideas! We are
getting kind of bored out here, and it is getting SUPER hot and humid,
which makes it even harder to be happy haha. So if you have any fun
ideas, let me know! :)

This week we also had interviews with President Taggart, and holy
tolito.... He is going to be the prophet someday. When I walked into
the room with him, it felt like I was in the Celestial Room in the
temple. He stared straight into my soul, but all I felt was love from
him. I know that God chooses who our leaders are going to be. I know
it, and I am so thankful for His love. I would literally be sunk
without it.

Well sorry I don't have more exciting news for you... I will do
something super crazy this week so I have funny stories to tell you
next time. I love you all!!!! Have a TERRIFFICAL week! MUAH!

Sister Baine :)

 This picture is not my best one... But at least I am smiling.... Love you mom.

The world is spinning so fast! (5/23/16)

I wrote a weekly email I to everyone but then my email crashed and it didn't save... And it made me mad so I didn't want to rewrite it... But anyways. I went to the temple again this week, and now I am officially out of family temple names... So if you can send me some more... Great! If not. That's ok. I just sent a package for Johnny and Ammon. Tell everyone I Love them!!! MUAH

GUESS WHAT?!?!

Guess what? I am getting transferred again! I am going to
Plainsborough to be an STL with Sister McCallister. Sister McConkie
will be staying here to hold down the fort and train the next STL.
This will be super fun, because the way they are doing it is now
instead of covering two zones worth of sisters, we will be splitting
them, so I will still be working with the same sisters I was last
time! It will be an adventure! Haha the apartment I will be moving
into is SUPER small though. One of the members in the ward converted
their garage into an apartment, so I will be living in the smallest
apartment in the mission! YEAH!!! It does have a small kitchen though,
and a washer and dryer, so that will be super nice to not pay for
laundry. I will be sad to leave though...

Ok... What happened this week. We have been working with this less
active member to help him get back to the temple, and had a great
lesson with him this last week. He is doing super well despite all the
challenges he is going through, and we asked him to bear his testimony
in Sacrament meeting, and it was SO powerful! It was so cute to see
this old, x-biker get up and cry at the pulpit.
Man, it is going to be super hard to leave though... Before I came,
the sisters were having a baptism every month, and being super
successful, then I got here and we realized that it might not have
been the best thing in the world after all, because now we have 8
recent converts to take care of, and no solid ward to help support
them. And right now all of our recent converts are struggling... So we
have been spending a lot of time helping them while we have been
helping the ward get themselves figured out... And it has been crazy
haha. So I am glad I broke the baptizing streak... In a way. We found
out that in order to be a ward instead of a branch, you have to have
15 temple-worthy Melchezideck priesthood holders... And we think we
may be bordering around 10 ish.... So we have been really working on
helping to solidify the ward.

BUT now I am leaving.... So that will be exciting... ANYWAYS! Sorry
this is short.

KLOVEYOUBYE