Transferred to.....St. Lucia!

Alright, let's get this over with....I'M GETTING TRANSFERRED! :( :(  I'm getting sent to St. Lucia and my new companion is none other than..........SISTER MAICO!!!! HAZZAAHHHH!!!! :D <3 We are being called as Sister Training Leaders over St. Lucia and possibly Grenada. I am really sad to be leaving Grenada, my heart is broken a little, but I know that this is what God wants me to do and because of that, I know everything is going to be okay. What would I do without the gospel of Jesus Christ?! It gives me ultimate peace. I have been saying goodbye to all my family and friends here and it has been tough, but fulfilling. I am so grateful to everyone I have met and the experiences that I've been through. I LOVE GRENADA!!!!!!! <3 I'm going to miss Sister Timaia, she is exactly the person I have needed to learn from the past three months <3 And I'm reallyyy going to miss Sister Provstgaard, Grenada is in good hands. I know that my Redeemer lives, I know He loves me and I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the Lord's kingdom on the Earth. I love you all!!!! Here's some facts for fun:

-Sister Maico is the one who welcomed me off the plane in Barbados and flew with me here to Grenada and she is a crazy Fillipino. 

-Saying goodbye makes me feel like I'm leaving home again....

-I officially like SPAM

-My area in St. Lucia is called Castries (google it)

-I love my Savior Jesus Christ 

-I am not ready to be an STL, but things will be alright, if I humble myself and lean on the Lord <3

-The seasons still haven't changed......

Bus stops

Hey!!!! I am almost out of time, but I wanted to tell you all that we had a family we've been teaching come to church on Sunday!!! YAYY!! It was the best day ever!! They loved church so much and they are excited to get to know the members and want to be a part of the branch! Yay miracles!!!! I am so happy, I am just so happy for them. The gospel of Jesus Christ is happiness. That's the end of that. I can finish my email now. Haha. Also Sister Timaia and I had a crazy experience where we both felt strongly prompted to take a bus in the OPPOSITE direction of where we were supposed to go, so we got on the bus and then got off when it felt right and it was pouring rain, so we were just standing under the bus stop, wondering what we were supposed to do next. Then after a minute or two, we were about to start walking and a woman asks us if we can call someone for her because she was stranded there and her phone died so we said yes and made the call and got talking with her and had so much fun and we tolled her who we were and she was really interested to learn more about the gospel!! She is in the Elders area, so hopefully they will take good care of her :D. But we walked away laughing and feeling super happy that she was the reason we were prompted to get on the bus :). I love the spirit!! I'm so grateful to be here and to serve these people. We are focusing our efforts righ t now on three families that we are working with and it's amazing the love that I feel for people when we first meet them and we're all just strangers, especially me haha, and I know that it comes from Christ. He's so Wonderful. I love you all and pray that you will read the scriptures daily. Have you ever admired that person you know who just seems to have this special knowledge of the scriptures and can quote them and that seems to think so deeply about them? Well, they didn't get there, by any other means than reading them one page at a time and pondering them and no matter how busy we are, we can make time for them. i love the scriptures and I know if we read them every day, the light of Christ will enter our lives and our hearts if we let it. The scriptures will answer your questions....isn't that cool? Sincerely, 

                  -Sister Conrad

lime juice and pig snout

Hey everyone! 

<3 This week was interesting. We had a really wonderful lesson with our investigator, Cathy and her two sons and they have a baptism date for the 30th!!!!!! :DDD I love them so much, they are my long lost Grenadian family <3. Cathy's faith has grown so much since I met her and she's eager to learn about the Savior and His teachings. When I first met her she said, "been there, done that" and instead of walking away, we just talked to her and by the end of it, she asked for a Book of Mormon and now she's in 2 Nephi! :D Our teaching pool has shrunk again, it's tiny really, but I know there are brothers and sisters here that have been prepared to receive the gospel, so the matter is just trusting and relying on the spirit to find them. I have so much about myself to improve and do better! I'm so grateful for a Savior and a loving Father in heaven that will help me change and be better. I know they love us so much, we don't even understand how much. I've been reading the story of King Lamoni and his father's conversions as Ammon and then Aaron taught them the gospel and he says something amazing, 

"O God, Aaron hath told me that there is a God; and if there is a God, wilt though make thyself known unto me, and I will give away all my sins to know thee, and that I may be raised from the dead, and be saved at the last day."   ISN'T THAT AMAZING!?!?!?!? :D He just barely found out that there is a God who loves him and he's already willing to give up all his sins to follow Him and I just look at myself and think, "I have so much more spiritual knowledge than this king and yet, sometimes I'm STILL not willing to give up everything." I know as our love for Heavenly Father and His son, Jesus Christ grows, we will WANT to keep the commandments and change our lives to know Him. It's the way we express our love. Do we love them more, or whatever we're not willing to give up? Just something to think about...and then apply ;) 

 Sooooooooo I was sick on Saturday....how shall I explain....

     It was evening and Sister Timaia and I were dying of heat and thirst because we ran out of water and we were going up a hill to meet someone we had met once before. When we finally reached the porch of the woman, she appeared from nowhere and handed us each a large glass of lime juice and we were so grateful, we downed the juice and right as we gave the glasses back, I had a thought. That this lime juice tasted...different..but I didn't read too much into it. She then fed us a stew with breadfruit and pig snout! :D I tried it. It sufficeth me to say that the taste was good. Then we proceeded to teach what was the most difficult, poorly communicated lesson ever and I wondered what in the world was wrong and why I could not feel the spirit. Everything was fine, we were being obedient, I just didn't know what was wrong. Then as soon as we got up to leave, Sister Timaia and both got headaches and as we're walking home I looked at her and suddenly realized, "THE LIME JUICE". Then Saturday I had the worst headache of my entire life, and felt so sick, I could function for the life of me. I might have lost my pig snout..

  So moral of the story is ask for every ingredient, even if they say it's lime juice and KEEP THE WORD OF WISDOM!!!!!!  

On another note, our entire branch presidency changed and I'm super excited to work with our leaders and help them out! :D Ya'll don't know how luck you are to have wards and stakes! That's sooo cool, don't take it for granted! I'm super grateful to have grown up around so many incredible members of the church in my life. I love you all!! Last night we had a fireside with President Herrington, our mission president and his wife! We were so excited to see them!!! I wish they were here more often! I love my leaders. Well, I think that's all for this week. I LOVE YOU ALL!!! The church us true. 

-Sister Conrad

p.s. here's a pic of my first sand ball, the members

2016!! Happy new year!

Happy 2016 everyone! :D
 My New Year's Eve was great, we had Rebellicious burgers and sparkling cider in our apartment, ahha. I'm so happy to be in Grenada and serving a mission this wonderful new year. I can't thank my Heavenly Father enough for this. I studied the Atonement and pondered it a lot yesterday before sacrament and during testimony meeting I felt the spirit SO STRONG I thought my chest was going to explode, so I bore my testimony and the words of our beloved prophet entered my mind as soon as I did, saying, 

"Regarding one's testimony, that which he willingly shares, he keeps, while that which he selfishly keeps, he loses"..

That really struck me and I felt the love that Jesus Christ has for me so much and I know for a fact there is no way any of us are going to be fit for His kingdom without His atoning sacrifice that was personally made for each one of us. He wants to heal us, He wants to help us be happy forever. He wants to help us improve our selves and our lives. He wants us to live with Him again. If we're not keeping the commandments, we will not receive all of His blessings. It's as simple as that. I have this extremely short period of time to prepare myself to meet Him again and I know that I'm not anywhere close to where I need to be. That's what I've been thinking this week. It was a good week. The work has picked back up yay!!! We are working with some wonderful sons and daughters of God that I want to help soo badly! <3 I love them!! I know the spirit will soften their hearts to follow Him and hear His voice, we just have to do our best to bring this message to them. Sister Timaia is so great, she is always uplifting me and encouraging me whenever I need it <3. I'm so grateful for her Christlike love. She taught Sister Maico and I to sing the Spirit of God in Kiribati last night! It was so cool! she started freaking out saying, "your'e speaking my language, youre' doing it right!". Haha, it was nice. We had a really neat experience last night actually we went to a part member family and the member we went to see was not home, but her mom actually let us in and we talked about our Savior, Jesus Christ with her and I know she felt the spirit and when we went to leave she said, "I wish you could've stayed longer. You can come back next Sunday." :D I was sooooo happy!!! She NEVER let us in before and I've been here for almost half a year! It was a sweet miracle to me <3. I'm taking my Dad's advice, "Teach them Christ". Both my Dads <3. This morning we went to see a waterfall and to my wonderful surprise I got to have a monkey on my shoulder so my 2016 has been made ;). 

Hehe. Have wonderful week everyone!!!!! I love you!!