Two years ago...

Today is the two-year mark or entering into a land---Chi-Town--- that I see differently than any other place in the whole world. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, I got out of the plane and onto a train, then handed a Book of Mormon to give out. Terrified. But over time, changed. Two years ago I look at that picture, and I want to just pull myself aside and say, “You got this.” (Maybe do a nice Parent Trap style handshake)I know the people I met, the experiences, frustrations, stresses, the fierce cold and the embarrassing moments as well as the glorious ones… were all apart of a learning process that the Lord needed me to see, and experience. I believe that when we have the courage to step out side of our selves, the Lord can truly show us our potential. He can prove to us that our fears are so much less existent than we imagined them to be. The Lord has always had my back, he still does, and during the mission I finally understood what it meant. What loyalty meant, and that I wanted to be loyal. I also know serving a mission doesn’t make you a member, it defiantly teaches you what it means to be one. Serving the Lord in any calling allows you to prove yourself that only with Christ you are successful, and humility shows even the proudest of heart that people out there can change when they give it to God, over and over and over again. My mission was for me. It was for improving my weaknesses and seeing my strengths, but most importantly it was for me to see that God works through the humble and the humble only. The people that were ready to change, I was privileged enough to see their process to coming to find Christ. To see His power, we have to be humble. This is true in anyway of serving the Lord, but a mission -- if given your all—will tell you something about yourself that you never knew, but have always wished you could be. I love the people of Chicago, and am so thankful the Lord allowed me to go. Thank you Chicagoans!!

This was my last week. It was amazing.

Hello Family, and friends!!! 

Wow!! What a week, first off, the weather! It was so great! I finally felt like hints started to get warmer. Haha it was 47 at times and me and sis, goff were like, "no coat! We're going free style!" We contacted some great people, we taught some awesome people, we just were surrounded by  AWESOME PEOPLE! 

Something I learned in my mission prep class up at BYUI before I came here that stuck out to me for my whole mission was the worth of every soul. My teacher was pretty funny. He would act like he would shake someone's hand, and then be like, "you're awesome!... You know why? Because you chose to follow Christ before you came here" 

It's SO true, these people everywhere we are, are our family we were with before we came here. We knew each other and we met them, and said, "you know we are going to meet back up down there and we are going to help each other get back." 

It's awesome to be surrounded by loved ones. And at really what this week was about. 

Oh my.... You'll never believe what happened. Elder. L. Tom Perry came to our mission to speak to us! That was so cool! Great things are happening in Chicago!!! Whoooo hooo

We met with a less active, and we are teaching her sons. They are super cute, and we got to teach them the plan of salvation. You know with the little cut out of circles and then arrows, sun, moon and star. And later we taught an investigator at a members home the plan of salvation. Which went good as well. These two experiences just helped me see, again, the power of having this knowledge. It's freedom really. But wow! The plan of happiness is given to us freely, we just have to follow the rules of the game. And we will win the prize. 

Mosiah 4: 27 And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order.

I am so grateful for the gospel. 

Something pretty cool, on Sunday a lady from nigiria came to church. In relief society she stood up and told us how she got here, she was really happy and excited to share this story. She said she has been searching for a church to go to, she has been to so many, and one night she dreamed of this dream she then told it to her friend who said, "that sounds like the Latter-day Saints" she was like, "who is this Latter Day Saints? I have to find this." So she googled it and said she was looking for it and was up all night trying to find out. She said she had to find it because it was the Lord himself who told answered her prayer and told her about this church, she new she had to go and find it. So she found it the next morning... She said it actually just popped up on her phone! As she was trying to get there her friend wouldn't take her, she didn't know how to get there, she finally decided to get on a taxi and the taxi driver said it would be 50 dollars! She way like, "that's fine I'll do it! I just need to get to this church" after much confusion she finally arrived, the taxi drive dismissed the charge. She loved church she felt the spirit so strong, she was crying as he opening prayer was said, as the sister who gave it said, "thank you God for leading us to your church" her relief was real. Jesus Christ answered her prayer because of her faith. 

From that moment I realized the we need to pray not only for the people in our area to be prepared like we usually do, but for the people to have the courage and faith to act on the answers they have received. 

Well, I guess I should say it now.... This was my last week. It was amazing. I was truly humbled on my mission, I was changed for the better. Because of my mission I have not only learned who I am, but what I can become and it's all because of Jesus Christ. I learned how to understand and recognize the promptings of the spirit. 

I can't not express the amount of gratitude I have for God allowing me to serve a mission, and that he was patient enough to work with me and teach me, day by day. 

I know that this isn't the end of my mission, but really it's the beginning of my mission. I feel like The mission is like the MTC for our life, it strengthens, teaches, challenges and prepares us for what is ahead. 

When I think of the gospel of Jesus Christ my heart swells with so much joy, and the only words that come out is

 " I love the gospel!" 

That's it.... Haha that's not even like... A good explanation of what I feel about it! 

The reason why I love it is, it has the power to bring us over the mountains that may stand in our way and it encourages and inspire us.  It can teach us and give us knowledge to become better and live 

with joy and have success in life. And the best part it has the power to change us. When Jesus Christ taught and ministered to so many people, they were changed in miraculous ways. 

The gospel is true! The Book of Mormon is the word of God written for every individual and the atonement that it testifies of so often in it is REAL! 

The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is Christ's church again on the earth. I know this with my whole soul.

I haven't been more happier in my life then serving The Lord like this.  

If you want to serve a mission, just do it. Don't hesitate. 

One more thing

"Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work"

D&C 4:3

Just do it. 

I love you, and can't wait to see you soon!! 

Love, sister. Tincher 

we gettin on a bus!

Well for this week... Lots of things happened. 

Tuesday came along and we had a good mission meeting with a 70, Elder. Zwickau. He is a cool guy. He and Bro. Hemingway who is in charge of online proselyting came and told us about our iPads and about certain things we will be expected to do with them to hasten the work, and mostly... Obedience with them. For Pete sake, how many times does this subject of obedience have to be brought up! So many time, we has humans struggle. But it was really good, the spirit was very strong. I love these meetings because of that. And second it was good because I got to see all my missionaries, I love these people! 

Something pretty cool this week we were on the bus talking to people, and sis. Goff sat by this guy started to talk, and then introduces herself as a representative of Christ, he told her that as he was getting in the bus he felt like someone was going to talk to him. How cool!? The Lord totally prepared him for that moment to receive the word. I wonder how often that happens to us as we approach our friends and family or the people around us with the gospel... 

We had a pretty lucky week of catching our buses, so that was nice. Except for one time. It was up in the suburbs where the buses that come by are sparse... We had three hours before curfew and we planned on doing some stop bys. So we go to wait for a bus, 15 minuets go by its freezing by we are having a good time! We're good at that. Then another 15 go by we kind of slow down... Then another 15 and nothing still... We waited for the bus for an hour in the coldest windiest weather. Hahaaaaa no buses. 

We were both dying by then! 

As soon as we saw a bus coming the opposite way we ran across the street waving it down we didn't care what way it was going, we gettin on a bus! We were so thankful. 

So we are on this bus and we were talking to this guy, who was very nice! Then our stop comes and we get off, as we are waiting for our next bus I ask sister. Goff to get the map out as we turns to get it she realizes she didn't have her back pack! The keys where in there also. So we had no way to get back into our apartment hahaha too good, too good.

We called the senior sisters, they were sweet enough to pick us up and let us sleep at their house, the next day we called around and found it :) but it totally happened for a reason, the good thing about being a missionary or a member of the church, is when weird things happen you know it's because a marvelous work and a wonder is happening. So, yeah that was another adventure of the week. 

But this week was full of opportunities to teach, maybe not appointments but definitely in other places. 

I really love the gospel, it's the best thing! 

I know that God called Joseph Smith to be a prophet for these last days, and we were called to be Christ disciples for these last days. To carry this work forth, to learn and become better. There is a purpose for everyone that lives here, God uses us all to help at least one person come closer to him. 

I love you all, have a good week!

Keep on keepin on! 

Love, sister. Tincher 

Chicago pictures

it's perfect weather to do missionary work!

So if you have been paying attention to the weather, you'll notice that it's almost like Antarctica over here, or Russia.... It's really cold and so it's perfect weather to do missionary work! It motivates us to get into people's houses. 

We got to see a couple really awesome people this week and we had a lot of them come to church this Sunday!!!! Ah! 

We are working with a lot of less actives in this ward. What I love about it, is they already know the basics, they know what the Book of Mormon is and now we just have to teach, bring it back in and the spirit was already once there in there lives where it testified to them. They just need a reminder course! 

We went to a lady she is so cute, she is from Africa and when we came in she kept saying thank you, thank you haha and even like ten minutes later, "thank you" haha. She really wants her kids to come to church and experience the blessing as we were talking to her, her son came home from school. She kept talking about them and so when it came time to share our message with her we invited her son to join. And it was great! He has a super strong testimony of Christ and the atonement, we gave them a Book of Mormon to begin reading as a family and invited them to church they both her excited and ready to begin. Later that week we ran into her and she was just thanking us for sharing the message with her son, and how excited she is that he wants to start coming to church and going to the activities. Then she said, "now you just need to meet my other children!" Haha I love these people in Chicago 1st ward. 

We got to see Nina as well. She is just on fire, doing better and better. When went over this time she had a sheet of paper with what she read and the questions! Then she asked us what we are giving her next and when we told her she was like, "that's all?" Haha she then asked if we could start meeting twice a week! Whoo hoo!! She is just so great. She even came to church, she dragged her brother along, Gordon. And brought her cute baby. I am so excited to see the change in her. She has such a great gift of feeling the spirit, and also allowing the spirit to teach her truth, she also has a good gift of asking questions. I think the soul that questions is often the one that has more knowledge given to them. 

After church we stopped by a less active, her little boy let us in and we got to talk to her. As we sat down we talked and got to know her, and then we just asked honestly what is keeping her from coming to church and if she reads the Book of Mormon. She was honest with us, very sweet spirit. She told us she hasn't in a while and that she needs to, she continued to talk about experiences she has had in work and her conversion story that has lead her to the close relationship she does have with Her Father in Heaven. What I loved about this is that is was a good experience to remind me that, we are just there to bring the spirit in some cases and that they are the ones that need to talk, they need to remind them selves and relive their testimony. At the end she realized that this is what she needs in her family, she was dedicated to come back to church and begin reading the Book of Mormon. She told us her son has been saying how he wants to be baptized, so we said we can teach him the lessons. Now we have a set appointment every week to teach him! How awesome, is the spirit that leads others to choose Christ in their life. 

Every day is a good day though, full of hilarious moments and sometimes dark ones, like walking in dark cold Wind. 

Something pretty funny We were appt an appointment and there was a little baby there, when it was time to do the lesson I pull out my iPad to show the video, and sis. Goff is letting the baby play with hers to distract him while we are doing the lesson... Well on our iPads if you mess up the password more than four times then it shuts off and resets, so... That's what happened.. So now you can't use it anymore. So yeah that's what happened! So she can't use it, they had to send it back to SLC and she won't be getting a new one, because SLC isn't sending us anymore. Hahahaha!! So now, we just have one iPad, and soon no car. I don't know what goin on over here haha

I hope your week is a good one and that you continue to look for the joy in every moment! 

I love you. 

Keep on, keepin on

Sis. Tincher :)

It's been good.

Hello friends and family!! 

Wow! This week. It's been good, it's been one of those weeks where you just need to sit back, ponder, take things slowly and wait for a little something something to bring you back to grips. 

We had zone training so we focused on diligence and obedience. I don't know if I told you that our mission is reading the Book of Mormon and highlighting all the Christ-like attributes. It's good! The prophets in the Book of Mormon are very wonderful leaders, and you begin to see what it takes to be a true disciple of Christ.

This week we got to see the Lorbes family. We are working with them to reactivate them, the bishop said they haven't been sealed as a family so they wanted to work on it, but as we were there talking to them they brought out their family pictures of them while they were at the temple and they were talking about when they were sealed and all this stuff. We kept asking, sealed? So you and your family were sealed? Oh nice! When were you sealed? 

Like asking all these questions in a discreet way haha. But we showed them the video your potential, your privileges and them talked about patriarchal blessings, and committed them to talk to the bishop about getting one, so that was good! 

It was just funny to have our plans thrown out the window for a quick sec. 

we got to visit Lita a less active/recent convert she is a sweet heart, she has been struggling with coming to church because of depression and feeling like no ones likes her at church, but a cool thing is we showed her the "hope of Gods light" and she began to tell us when she was depressed and feeling hopeless she started to pray and then she said that went away. We got to just praise her for her righteous decision to turn to God in times where it seemed like Satan was over powering her. 

I think it's so amazing when we see these people in our lives and they struggle with life and the temptations that Satan puts in front of the,, but the use all their energy to choose God. That's where the hope comes, the faith lights the way and the despair is dispersed. I feel like that is where you have passed "the trial of faith" he wants us to choose him. 

Really I love this gospel, isn't it something else? Haha i am thankful for the gift of the spirit to be with us. It's truly a great gift I could be for thankful for that power that leads to do right, to choose God in all things and to appreciate the good in everyday live. 

God lives, he is there. He will always be, he always has and always is. 

I hope your week is one to remember, that you valentines was full of love and that you said I love you to more than the usually amount;) 

Have a good one! 

Love, sister Tincher 

This week

This week has been really hard with sis. B leaving. I got in a car crash... So I have been down lately, but trying really really hard to lift myself up. It's all in a state of mind! Right? I got a blessing on Sunday so that is good. 

One quote that has saved me this week is. Philippians 4:13 " I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me." In the book it said to say this your self every morning you wake up and every evening. 

When we rely on Christ, he can heal us. He can strengthen our weaknesses. 

Love, Sister Tincher

We had a Blizzard!

Oh my!!! 

We had a blizzard!! There is so much snow up in this joint! Church was cancelled and we had an adventure trying to get around. We did however go to catholic mass! My first ever, man it was interesting :) 

A recent converts daughter is the singer there, she sings for the whole time and stuff it interesting, BUT WOW her voice was impeccable. Really I was stunned, I like that the most. 

Then we traveled on our way back home through treacherous streets. But we made it! 

We got the referral from a member...well it wasn't exactly a referral they just talked about her to us and talked about giving her a Book of Mormon. We actually met her when I first got to his area, we were riding around giving members banana muffins and we saw them and gave them some too and the member invited her to a ward party a couple months ago. So we finally were like we want to meet this girl! So we went over and she was so excited to see us! She said she was just praying to God about help and then we knocked on the door. She even said! "Oh I remember you! You're the one that brought those tasty treats over, and I met you at the party that one time!" 

 She was willing to learn and wanted to come to church and meet with us. A very cool experience and exciting! 

Transfers have arrived and we are staying... Sis. Goff and I, and Sis. B is going back to Italy :( it's hard saying see you later. But it will be all right, I love my companions.   I really want to find people to teach this transfer, I want to get the members more involved in inviting and excited about sharing the gospel. Everyone thinks it's our job to find, but it's really our job to teach. 

I was reading this talk called, "Joseph Smith" by Elder. Neil L. Anderson. He said something I really loved. 

"Why does the Lord allow the evil speaking to chase after the good? One reason is that opposition against the things of God sends seekers of truth to their knees for answers."

There is so much bad in the world, that sometimes it may seem to drown out the good, or sometimes we notice with people on the path of salvation are falling off to and fro! 

Sometimes I ask myself why, this should be easier! But God wants us to be free and to use our choice  how that happens. The more opposition a situation receives the more we knock the worth or truth behind it. 

The church is true, and the Book of Mormon is a powerful tool that proves the divinity of God as our Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ as our advocate and Savior. I am thankful for the truth. 

I hope your week is one of a kind, and that good things come your way.:) 

Love, Sister. Tincher 

Chicago blizzard 2015

we had the wonderful opportunity to be missionaries

This week, let's see....

Well we had the wonderful opportunity to be missionaries.
That sentence is really cool.

We met with the girl this week who works a jewelry store that a member
in our Ward loves, she told us about it so we went in and we met this
girl who knows her, we invited her to come to church and learn more
and there ya go! We got an appointment! It was really good. What I
absolutely love, is when we are teaching somebody and they begin to
tell us their journey or how they want to have have been searching for
truth. It's a testimony to me that everyone in this world is looking,
in someway. And God sends his spirit to comfort, teach and lead them
to find answers to their questions.
The painful part is seeing if they will accept what God has lead them
to or not.
This girl is really sweet though, and as we were teaching the
restoration the spirit was strong and her desire to understand was as
week. I know the Lord works with our desires to help us become and
meet them.

What I also loved about this was the member who came, is so sweet, and
loves the gospel so much. She practically taught the whole lesson!!!
Haha when we asked her to come she was way excited and said, "yay!! I
get to invite her to church!"
I really believe that missionary work, is what brings us the fullness
of joy, and happiness we can't imagine until we experience sharing the
gift given to us.

On Wednesday we had an teaching appointment with some members. I love
the saints in Chicago 1st they are special. After that appointment we
headed to another appointment for an investigator, well we checked the
phone and the just weren't up for it... So it got cancelled and they
dropped us. But Hey!!! Life goes on, there's people out there, and The
Lord knows it, so he reminds us.
We headed to a former investigator to see if she was home, she wasn't.
As we were waiting to cross the street I turned around and I saw two
people walking up the street. I turned to my companions and said,
"let's go talk to them!" As we did... It was obvious that they didn't
speak very good english. We invited them to our english teaching class,
continued to tell them what we do and then they invited us into their
house. They were two guys one from Palestine and the other from Egypt
and they are both Muslim. It was kinda funny at first when we sat
down, because well... We don't know how to speak Arabic!
But we asked for their phone and I was able to pull up the Book of
Mormon in Arabic and have them read the introduction page. One said
"no, he already know this kind of stuff" and the other said, "do you
have a copy of this?" And you will NEVER believe it.
But we did.
Remember that one person we were teaching that spoke Arabic? And then
they gave the Book of Mormon back to us and said "they didn't want it,
they had enough bibles" well that was still in the car and we gave it to
him right there! In a matter of 3 days he already has read through half of
it, and is in love with the Book of Mormon... The only problem, he is
Muslim and moving back to palatine next month :(
But the power of the Book of Mormon is real, because it the word of
God. I know that those who are searching for truth and reading with an
open heart and are blessed.

This week has been great, full of blessings.
I love this work and I love the Lord and his mercy.
I hope your week is a great one.
Keep on keeping in!

Love, sister. Tincher

"As we emulate His perfect example, our hands can become His hands; our eyes, His eyes; our heart, His heart."  Pres. Uchdorft

Great week for teaching

This week was a nice one.
We started off by have a family home evening with Nathan and his mom,
who is a less active. Nathan is working on being baptized, and so it
was so good. The member, Sis. Focosi invited them over, and then we
had a good lesson with them all. Nathan was on date for January 24
but he hasn't been coming to church enough to make it, and his mom has
only been once this whole year. So we are still working with them,
slowly but surely, we just are working on getting the ward more
involved in their situation and I know it will just be a matter time
before they will feel loved and welcomed, and then it will carry over
to the growth of their relationship with God.

We also had the opportunity to show Sis. Williams' around. She is the
new senior sister in the ward.  Her companion will be coming next
month, so she is here a little early. But we took her to some members
in the ward to meet, who are great fellow shippers for people and know
a lot of the sisters in the ward. She is a sweetheart, and I know
that the ward is going to fall in love with her, and the work she will
do will be one of a kind! It is great to see her come in.

We had another family home evening as well with the Fabis's and a part
member family. It was so perfect, we originally were going to have
Christine Sullivan come but she wasn't able to, so we had the
impression to ask the Chhorms. Pheap is the husband, he is the member
and his wife isn't, she grew up Buddhist and is not interested
whatsoever in the church. We teach her English though, and it has brought
many opportunities to get her in contact with the church. So anyways
Pheap said that Sotheun doesn't really want to go, but maybe she would
if their was food, so since they were making dinner for us we made
sure to let her know, and guess what... She came!!!
It was so great, she was fellowshipped and loved, the Fabis's are
awesome. So after dinner we did plan to share a message, just a very
simple one about families. We didn't want to get too deep or anything
we explained this to the Fabis's, plus her husband has to translate.
But Bro. Fabis, bless his heart... He loves the gospel and will
sometimes go too far. So he almost went all out and taught the whole
plan of salvation!!! Me and my companions were freaking out a little
afterwards. But it ended well, nothing bad happened so that was good.

Then later a member invited us over for her husband's birthday party. We
didn't know there was going to be a lot of people there, but a lot of
her family was! And these were all people she talked to us about and
how she wants them to come to church in prior visits. So we stayed a
little bit and talked to them. Then curfew came and we left. Well Sis.
Wallace came up to us after church and was so excited she was like, 
"After you guys left they all were talking about you, and that lead us
to figure out that my aunt's son was baptized in the church, and then I
was talking to them all about the church and I PASSED OUT A BOOK OF
MORMON!!" Haha I loved it! She was so pumped that she got to FINALLY
have the missionary opportunity that she really had been praying for,
for a long time with these family members. Haha my heart was full, the
Lord really does hear the prayers of the sincere missionary
opportunity seekers.

Also after church we turned around to see who was there and who we
need to talk to, and you will NEVER guess who was there!!! Sotheun!! I
almost fainted! It was so awesome. We went up to her, and she said,
"Surprise!" Haha Pheap was really happy too. So who knows... Obviously
she felt the spirit when Bro. Fabis was talking.

We had a baptism, this week too, this amazing lady who I mentioned
earlier. Christine Sullivan. She was really just great, so humble and
strong and inspiring. But she was investigating the church for 10
months, everyone thought she was a member the way she carried herself
and came to every Sunday and any meeting and everything else. The
elders were teaching her in the ward, but we got to help as well. It
was really a sweet moment though, the spirit was strong, her desire
for a new start and to find truth was pure and it really was so great.
:) I love her.

So this week was really awesome, full of testifying, inviting,
committing and loving. I am so grateful for the Lord and his mercy,
and my savior for the sacrifice he made to make it possible to be
better than I was yesterday. What a blessing.
I love you all so so much. Good luck this week!!!! Go, fight, win!!

Love, sister. Tincher

This week

Hello!!

This week was so good. We had our zone training meeting and we
learned a lot of great things... Since our mission is old and lot of
missionaries are getting ready to go home, BUT still staying focused.
So the theme was Ending with a BANG! and it was really good.

I think sometimes we don't understand that where we are in this world,
where we end up living and the people we are by are here for a reason.
God uses people to do his work, as well as Angels. And you and I have
a capability to be directed in our paths every stage of our lives to
help others feel God's love, enough for them to want to make a change to
search him out.
At the end of the meeting, the missionaries who will be leaving at the
end of the transfers give their "departing testimony".  The worst thing
was my sweet Sis. B gave hers!! Ah! I was just thinking, " Ah! No this
can not be it, this can not be happening!" It's weird to see things
change like this, but I like what Pres. Uchdorft said, "Endings here
in mortality are not endings at all. They are merely
interruptions--temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared
to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful."
It's true.

After we waited for interviews with president, I was learning to play
the piano!! Just sayin... I am the next pianist in the ward ;) some
day in the future.

This week we had some really good experiences. It the kind where the
spirit testifies to you for the truthfulness of the gospel, the plan
of salvation or of happiness that is available. Oh my GOODNESS!!!!
This just doesn't get any better, everyday it gets more true, it gets
more brighter, it actually does get more better. And wowowowowowwww
the restoration of Christ church is something I wish everyone could
experience.

So we got this call last week from a family. They are in and out of
church, they kind of struggle, but they asked us if we could take
pictures for them of their family. So excited about this one, finally!
Something I could do? Usually the service we do involves musical
instruments, and since that ain't what I am about I merely pretend and
look professional or talk about missionary work and maybe how it
relates to strumming a string! Haha just kidding. Anyways. As we got
there they looked so good in their outfits for their Christmas
portrait and we were taking pictures, posing, adjusting, sit up,
sitting down, squat, hug and then the mom she was like "wait!"
She went and got a picture, and it was of her son. She started to tear
up, and then they were flowing she paused, and said, " I am sorry I
don't mean to do this, my son passed about last year. He was 26.
When we were done taking pictures we asked if we could share a
message, and they were like, "yes that is what we were hoping!"
What I loved about his, is they were struggling especially with the
holidays and their son not around, it was hard. But they wanted the
spirit in their home, and the Lord brought it with the message!
It really hit me though about the power of being sealed as a family
for time and all eternity. It's a real seal. Just because their son
isn't there physically, that unit, the family was sealed together. As
a promise to never be separated. He was there and his love as well.
The gospel is true, and to families truly can be together forever.
How cool?

You know what else is cool? My coat, it looks like a sleeping bag, how
cool it is that I get to walk around in a sleeping bag all day? How
comfortable is that!?

Well I hope your week is full of great things, make it happen! Shoot
for the stars! I love you.
Love, sister Tincher!

A letter and some Christmas pictures

So! his week lets see..... 

Well it's  been a really good week, we have had the pleasure of seeing some great people. 

On Tuesday night we walked to a less actives house, well... It was a little cold and I ended up catching a cold, so I was sick most of this week trying to get out of it. But my amazing comps stayed on their game and got some great work taken care of while they had to sit in the apartment... 

This week we got to meet with a sister who is in the single adults branch, she called us saying her branch president wanted them all to have the missionaries over to teach them the restoration, so she called us and invited us over. It was a really great lesson! The spirit was so strong, no matter how many times I have taught the restoration, I always feel the spirit. The Book of Mormon is truly the word of God, I know that will all my heart. It speaks truth, it leads people to do good, to be inspires to uplift and motivate. It teaches up to avoid temptation, and the natural man. This is it! This is truly. With out a doubt something given to man that is evidence to us, that God is here he does listen to us and always will bring the true to those who truly seek it. 

The gospel is true! 

Love, Sister Tincher  :)