Sister Madison Rees

Hi All!      Just this week we were on our way to visit an investigator and everything was going wrong. We missed our turn 3 times and ended up at the airport.  The member told us the wrong address and not to mention his phone didn't receive texts and they were on the bus to the destination but when they were calling us it was so scratchy and you couldn't hear anything. By the time we got there it was 8:40 so we only had 10 minutes before we had to turn around and go home. Once we arrived at our appointment, the spirit was so strong and we were able to set him on date for baptism. Satan knew that would happen and so he did everything he could to stop it. During that process there were so many times I could've gotten impatient and mad but I stopped and knew I was being tested so I looked at everything positive, the goods that were going on. If we would've given up and turned we may not of had such a spiritual experience and woul...

I'm doing awesome!! The Asian man never came to church. We hope to catch up with him or run into him again.  We have 4 new people we've been teaching and Kassandra is getting baptized on  August 12th!  We have met with many less actives too.   Honeslty, if you could pray for anything it would be for me to be Diligent. Its hard to be Diligent when one week goes so good and the next everyone cancels on you. I've been studying a lot about it and will do everything I can to be diligent in all things.  Fast week like always with tons of things happening but half of them I can't remember hah. Highlight of our week was the food though.The texture of this nice cow tongue was rubbery just like a tongue hah but tasted like any other meat. Its alright though because the Elders had the other end of the cow. Not the back side but where the digested food comes out of. Also I was making oatmeal the other day and ran out of my almond milk...

  Thats so awesome that cj had people to talk to from Mozambique!!!! Cj is going to be such a good missionary:) I can't wait until Cj goes out and experiences the Joys of being a missionary and see how much he changes. Its unreal how much I've seen myself change in only 3 months. I love you lots!! thank you for your messages it really helps charge me up!! As we were driving home from Lakeshore it came to my head that everyone lives in this world and that we may have chosen how we can make it better. Even though all of us are on the same earth we ourselves can choose to make it better. So why not wake up everyday and smile?? Heavens going to be what you make of it. So why not choose right now to make it great:)  While we were at Lakeshore we were heading back to our car and 2 Christian women approached us and had cards they were handing out so we took one and gave them one of ours.:) They were so sweet and asked about our religion and how it is...

Its been a great week here in Canada:)  This week we were going around putting up Free English posters and an asian man was looking over our shoulders as we were taping them on poles and I turned and he was right behind me hah he said he was trying to see what we were putting up and we said we taught free english and he asked if we knew of any religious groups for 20-25 year olds to meet on sundays hahah how could you not say God is real? Sister Smith and I lit up i'm sure America saw us glowing and we told him about our church and invited him to come.  When it rains in Canada it really rains hahah we were out contacting and it was so dramatic the wind was blowing and it was just coming down hah it was so fun though we went to a bus station and talked to some people it was a good time.  Its unreal how much the mission has changed me hahh litterally has triggered all of my emotions to the dot. I've felt things i've never felt before and...

Where do I began?? Life's great,Gods amazing. Yesterday was Canada Day!! Sister Smith and I had thee best view from our apartment and saw so many fireworks! We pulled our beds out by the window because we don't have an AC unit and its (90* Degrees out side) so we took our 4 fans and surrounded them around us and put an ice pack around our heads and tied it on hahah but not only was it hot it was very humid so we didn't let that heat go to waste. We rolled out our yoga mats and did hot yoga hahah it defiantly worked. We woke up the next morning and I wish I would've taken a picture of ourselves hahah we were literally dripping the whole back of my shirt was wet and water was dripping down my face. Our alarm went off at  6:30  and I got up to turn it off and completely biffed it hahah we were dehydrated but we fixed that. The Olsen's came over to check out our place and then called into the mission office so we had the Elderly Couples come in and bought...

Aw trek sounded so fun!!! I wish I could've gone!! What was you're favorite part?? I love how creative it was!! It sounds so fun and challenging!  Today is Transfers and i'm staying in Churchville YSA and getting a new sister training leader!! We have a few new investigators and its so fun to teach them and see them light up and get it. We've had a few people say it made sense, or that they feel like they've heard this before. That's probably my FAVORITE thing. Everyone has some sort of knowledge of heaven, some truth that they've held on to and It's so cool to hear from so many different people truths they know and that gives them a taste of Joy. We have been teaching this guy named Sam and he loves nature, art, and music. He use to be atheist but he said its harder to prove to people that there isn't a God then it is to prove that there is. He believes there has to be some higher power but he also holds on to the rule of science. H...

i'll start this off with a little story of what happened this week. So back up a little to last week we met with one of of our investigators that was smoking dope right before we showed up and looked dead it was way bad he was definitely not their when we were talking to him. We had a feeling to stay though so we stood outside his home and tried to talk to him but he wouldn't talk he was so in shock and kept pointing to the sky and then pointing at his heart and falling down. We didn't know what to do because he was completely out of it and wouldn't speak but thought we could hear his thoughts. Now fast forward to this week Sister Smith and I went over to visit him and I asked him what he does during the day because I wasn't sure if he was messing around with inviting the adversary or something because he acted as if he was possessed. Come to find out he said he was consistently smoking one after the other and was trying to take all the pain ...