Extreme Heat Alert!!! July 25, 2016

Hey everyone! I hope you had a great 24th of July! Here in Michigan they don't really celebrate it so that is alright! 

      This last week has been good.  We have been doing a lot of finding and talking to everyone. We were able to meet a couple potential investigators this last week. We first met with Janice. She had missionaries come by sometime last year. She is interested in meeting with us and learning what we belief. We also met Amy. We talked to her about how to find faith in Christ.  She invited us back to teach her. 

       We also met with our Less Active Sister Delossantos. We taught her the Restoration and we focused on how the Gospel has blessed her family. She has seen many blessings of the Gospel in her family. We are planning on helping her to go to the temple in a couple months. 

       We also met with our investigator Ronney. He is doing good. We talked to him about the Book of Mormon.  He is interested in reading it and we invited him to read and pray about it. 

       Then we also met with a Less Active, Megan. She is having a hard time right now with her divorce and her testimony. We talked to her about how God has a plan for each of us and we need to trust in him. 

       This week we also had our first Interviews with President Cleveland. He is such a inspired man. It was great. We talked about how to work with members of the ward and then how to work with and bring those sheep back to Christ. 

       Other than that we did a lot of tracting and contacting. It has been a great week, except for the 3 days that we had a extreme Heat Alert. the weather and Temperature got over 100 with humidity. We were only allowed to be out for a little while then we had to take a break. It was so hot. 

        In studies I have been reading the Finding Chapter. I really love reading this. I learn new things each time. My ponderizing scripture this week has been my mission scripture! It is D&C 18: 15-16. 

Well I hope you all have a great week!

Love you all! Sister Alisha Carol Betts

At the Ice cream Place in Linden. They hand make these benches with bears on them.

At the Ice cream Place in Linden. They hand make these benches with bears on them.

In front of the ice cream place with a Bear holding a ice cream cone. 

Tracting and Finding Week- July 18, 2016

Hey Everyone! This last week has been great! 

We met with our new investigator Ronney. We talked to him about the Restoration. He was really interested in learning and reading The Book of Mormon. We are going to teach him about it today. He is wanting to find God and to become closer to him. 

Then we met with Sister Delossantos, she is a Less Active we are working with. We talked to her about Church and how she can gain more out of sacrament with her children, We are helping her with some quiet books and activities for them. 

We then met with Jesson our other investigator. We talked to him about the Book of Mormon and read with him the introduction. He is doing good. We are finding ways to get him to progress and come to church. 

We also have been applying Zone meeting and trying to talk to everyone. We went to the park last weekend and did some contacting. We talked to a lady named Wonetia. She is very involved with her church but loved to talk with us about Trusting in God. She isn't interested in learning more but she was so nice and kind. 

Other than that we have been tracting and trying to contact people. It has been a great week just busy trying to find new people to teach. 

Well I hope you all have a great week! Love you all!

Sister Alisha Carol Betts

At the Lake!

​Trying on some crazy hats!

​By the Linden Sign! 

​Dessert Pizza! For the Dessert Night, nobody showed up so the elders and us just ate our desserts and went home. It was sad but fun! 

​Cute Smily face!

Miracle Week- July 11, 2016

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great 4th of July! We went to a ward breakfast and then we had a BBQ at a members house. It was alot of fun. Then we got to listen to the fireworks from our window. Fenton has one of the largest firework shows in this area. They were amazing. 

        This last week has been we have been able to find a new investigator named Lindsay. We met her while tracting. She is a single mother that was not raised with a religious background but is looking to find it in her life now. She attends the Freedom Center and is really interested in reading the Book of Mormon. We are also helping her with some service. She is great. 

         We also met with  a Less Active family named the Coy Family. We talked to them about how to receive revelation and how to gain a stronger testimony. They even came to church on Sunday, we were excited. 

        We also had Zone Meeting and I learned so much to apply into our area. We have been working on Talking to everyone and to find different finding opportunities. It has been great, we have seen so many miracles. 

        We also went on exchanges, I went to flint with Sister Jensen, it was great. She is a great Sister and I learned so much from her. 

       Yesterday we were able to talk with one of our potential investigators and teach him the restoration over the phone, it was a great lesson, it was different but good. He is interested in coming to church and seeing how we worship, we are excited to have him come. We also had our Dessert Night! It turned out great! Here are some pictures!

Well I hope you all have a great week! Remember the Lord is Always there to help us through things. 

Love Sister Alisha Carol Betts

​Our Dessert! Chocolate Brownies with marshmallow in the middle and a peanut butter and chocolate frosting. It was good. 

​Our Dessert! Chocolate Brownies with marshmallow in the middle and a peanut butter and chocolate frosting. It was good. 

4th of July outfits!

Me and Sister Jensen on exchanges!

​Thanks Mom for the $5, we went and got some Ice cream from a place in Holly called Cupcakes and Kisses. 

Feeding the Ducks!

The Best Day Ever- July 4, 2016

HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!!

Hey Everyone, I hope you are all having a great 4th of July!

      

      This last week has been great. We have been doing a lot of finding. On Tuesday last week, we met our new Mission President. President and Sister Cleveland. They are great! They are truly sent and called by God. We also were able to meet with a couple of our potentials, we met with Kimberlee. we talked about how God has a plan for us and how we all need Christ in our lives. We will be meeting with her this next week. We also met Rodney, we talked to him about how God has blessed his life. It was a great lesson. We are seeing him today. Yesterday we met with a potential investigator named Amy. We talked with her about how we have living day prophets. She was very interested in learning and wanting to find out if President Manson is a true prophet.

       We have been also able to meet with our investigator Jesson. We have been teaching him slowly and he is really interested in learning more. We talked to him about how God is our loving Heavenly Father and how he loves us and cares about us. Jesson never really understood that God was like his father. It was great to help him understand it and then at the end of the lesson, we each took a turn to show him how to pray. As he was praying the spirit was so strong. When he was done, he had such a glow to him, he felt the spirit.  

      We also met with one of our Less Actives, Sister Delossantos. We have been helping her with some quiet books for her children. He also talked with her about reteaching her the lessons, she is excited. She also wants us to start teaching her sister Susan, so that will be great. Other then that we have been doing a lot of finding to find new people to teach. 

     Now for those that are wondering about the title of this email, Best Day Ever, here is the Story. So on Friday we were doing our weekly planning and using our GPS to find new roads and places to go, well when we went to leave we tried to turn our GPS on and it was dead. We decided to take it to Mike Hayden a member in the ward who works on Computers to see if he could fix it. We we went there and there was nothing that he could do. It was dead. So we called the Mission Home and they have to order us one. So we will be waiting for a week and a half to get a new one. we will be going Old School with using a map. It is going to be a long week!!! On top of that we got lost in Linden. It was the BEST DAY EVER! Not. 

Well I hope you all have a great day and week!

Love you! Sister Alisha Carol Betts

June 27, 2016-  16 Month Mark!!!!

Hey everyone! This last week has been great! I hit my 16 month mark. It is crazy! It seems like I just got on my mission a couple months ago. 

   Well This week we mostly did a lot of finding and tracting. It was good. We met with our investigator Robyn. We talked about church and trusting in God and things will work out. She knows that God answers prayers and that he will help her. 

    We also met with Sister Delossantos. We helped her with some activities for her children. We colored them and now we are going to make them for them to do. We also talked about how she is doing and her coming to church. She is doing good. 

    Yesterday, we had our Missionary dessert night. We had a lot of people come out. We had to make desserts with ice cream. We did caramel popcorn with home aid Ice cream sandwiches with chocolate chip cookies. It was fun. The Elders did Root beer floats. It was fun!

    Other then that we have had a quiet week with lots of knocking on doors and finding new people to teach. Tomorrow we meet our new Mission President and Sister Cleveland. We are excited. 

Well I hope you all have a great 4th of July! 

Love you all!

Sister Alisha Carol Betts

At the park in Linden for Lunch!

June 20, 2016- Transfers!!!

Hey Everyone! Happy Late Fathers Day to all you Fathers!

So I am not getting transferred! I am staying here in Grand Blanc South with Sister Estioko! It will be great! We are excited!

This last week has been great! We have been doing a lot of finding. We Walked around for a while but then God blessed us. We were able to find a new investigator. His name is Jesson. He was a media referral.  He is a bit slower and has some very different beliefs but he is interested in learning and reading the Book of Mormon. We will be meeting with him and teaching him about the Book of Mormon this week. 

This week we also met Chelsea, she is a potential. She believes in God and Christ and goes to the 7 day Adventist Church. We met with her today and she is interested in us coming back. We talked with her about how the gospel can bless her family and how we are here in families for a reason. She really liked that and found it interesting. 

We also were able to help with a service project with Sister Henrie. We cleaned a Less Actives house. It was great to help serve her. 

This last week we also met with the Schopper family. We talked with them about how God is our heavenly father and how we need to communicate with him through prayer. We talked about how God loves to help us and we need to turn to him. It was a great lesson. 

Yesterday we met with Megan. She is a Less Active. We got to know her and talked with her about church. She came to church yesterday. It was good to see her. She is having a hard time but she knows God will help her through it. Other then that it has been a great week of finding new investigators and working with Less Actives.

 I am doing great. In Studies I have been reading the talk" Approaching the Throne of God with Confidence."I really like this talk.  It talks about how we need to apply the atonement everyday and how the decision to change is ours. 

Here is my Ponderzing Scripture for the week!

Romans 1:16- Not being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. 

 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Well I hope you all have a great week! 

Love Sister Alisha Carol Betts

Me, Sister Estioko, Sister Martin,Sister Toluta'u, Elder Thompson, Elder Meldrum!

Me, Sister Estioko, Sister Martin,Sister Toluta'u, Elder Thompson, Elder Meldrum!

​In front of a cool building!

​In front of a cool building!

​In front of a cool building!

June 13, 2016- Week 6 of the transfer!!!

Hey everyone! I hope you are having a great summer! 

This last week has been a little bit slower. We have been doing a lot of finding. We are looking to find some new investigators. We talked to several potentials but no one was really that interested in learning more. We are going through old potentials and former investigators to see who would still be interested. 

Last Monday for P-Day our District went to Flint to see the Sloan Museum. It was really cool. It has life sized bugs that moved and then also so antique stuff. It was really fun. 

We were also able to see Robyn Ames. She is doing good. We went to her lesson with the Do or Die lesson. We talked to her about trusting in God and read 2 Nephi 4:34-35 with her. She really understood it and when we talked about why we need to trust in God, she answered because that is the only way. It was great. She is having some family problems but we invited her to Pray and ask God for help. Praying and asking God always is the way. 

We also saw Sister Delossantos, we talked to her about her scripture reading and her prayers. She has been reading and praying. It has made a difference in her life. She said it has made her calmer and not so stressed with the kids. It is great. She also came to church and she had a really good time. 

Well this week we met a born again christian, They just believe that they need to say they accept Christ in their life and they are saved. Anyways, he was telling us that we were wrong and that we were preaching false doctrine. Then he pretty much told us we were going to Hell. That was fun! That was our adventure of the week! 

We also had our dessert night last night. It went great.  A Less active family that the Elders are working with came and had a great time. We made a dessert with jello and rice crispies. It looked like a beach with water and sand, We also used sour patch kids and Swedish fish and sharks in the water. It was a lot of fun! I will send a picture when I get it. 

I am doing great! I cant believe that this is week 6, it is scary how fast it goes by. In studies I have been studying the talk" Qualifications of the Work" It is a great talk. I have learned so much. It talks a lot about having faith and you cant have faith and doubt or fear. 

Well I hope you all have a great week!

Love Sister Alisha Carol Betts 

At the Sloan Museum! Sister Martin, Sister Estioko, Me and Sister T!

At the Sloan Museum!

​Sloan Museum riding a big Bike!

​Playing the game~

​At the Sloan Museum! Playing the Game!

Full shot of the painting!

Me in front of a cool painting in Linden!

​Me and Sister Estioko in Holly!