Tres Hermanas

Hola mi familia! Buenos dias!

Depues de cambios, mi nuevo companera es Hermana Young! Ella es de Cottonwood Heights, y ella es une misionara de Espanol! (After changes, my new companion is Sister Young! She is from Cottonwood Heights, and she is a Spanish-speaking missionary) :) Hermana Young is here in Bowling Green until her visa comes in for Argentina! She's been teaching me Spanish to help her language study, and it is so fun. I can pray and bear my testimony in Spanish now! Que bueno. :) We're in a triple up with Sister Feldt, who is from Eagle Mountain. Team Utah! It's great. :) 

This week has been crazy busy, but so good. I'm now serving in the Bowling Green area instead of Bowling Green biking--so we're still in the same ward, but covering a different part of it. We met an awesome guy named Michael on Wednesday, went back to teach him on Thursday, and he accepted the invitation to be baptized! YAY!!! Michael has a lot going on in his life and I know that the gospel will help him. He was very humble and open with us in saying that he wanted a better relationship with Christ. Ask the missionaries, we can help :) We're so excited for him!

We also have a baptism coming up on Saturday! For a man named Fred. He is SO awesome. He is engaged to a member, Sister Dindal, and they are both so sweet. Fred is so solid, and really loves the gospel. I'm so excited for him to be baptized!! 

Thanks to you and everyone for the wonderful birthday gifts, cards, and messages. I appreciate you all so very much. :) Even Floyd. ;) Please tell everyone thank you for me! I'm so grateful for the opportunity to serve a mission and share the gospel with everyone, because I know that it is true. This is the best thing I could be doing with my life, and I know that I am growing so much closer to my Savior as I help others to do so. I also know that I couldn't do it without all of your love, prayers, and support! Thank you!

Love,

Sister Wygant

Tres hermanas

Hurrah for Conference!!

Hi Mama!!

Thanks so much for the Conference package and letter! I loved the rolls. :) I got the questions from Dad for the ward fireside--I will answer those soonest, but I might not have time for a few weeks. We're deep cleaning today, and next week we'll be getting ready for TRANSFERS! Already!? Crazy. Big news for transfers--Sister Foust and I will both be training new sisters!! We're both pretty excited, but I'm especially excited for Sister Foust. She is an amazing missionary and person, and I know that she will be a wonderful trainer! And thanks for forwarding my note to Katy. We found out this week that we can indeed email friends! They changed the email rule, and we are now allowed to email friends and other missionaries outside our mission boundaries. Yay! I'd love to hear from everyone--feel free to email me! I can't promise that I'll email back right away, but I'll do my best. :)

This week has been AMAZING. For one: Sister Noffsinger had to go to the hospital a few weeks ago because she was having trouble breathing...and she hasn't smoked since! YAY!! Heavenly Father has a unique way of answering prayers sometimes, but He does answer. :) 

Second, we had interviews with President Vellinga last week...which make my day every time. President Vellinga is such an amazing man. He just exudes light and love and warmth, and inspires me with everything that he says! 

Third, Conference was incredible. I am so grateful for the opportunity we had to receive so much light, encouragement, counsel, and knowledge from our beloved Prophet and his counselors. I had an armful of favorites also: Sister Dalton, Elder Cardon, the combined choir from BYU (!!! :) ), Elder Cook (perfect for one of our potential investigators--I really hope he was watching!!), Elder Ellis (he spoke at the Kirtland Stake Conference in the fall--he's amazing! I love "we are not spiritual orphans". Amen!), President Uchtdorf, "Come and see" from Elder Anderson, Sister Wixom (so perfect for me as a missionary--easily applied to investigators and new missionaries who are young in the gospel!), "Our lives are a gift from God. The quality of our lives is a gift to Him" from Elder Clayton, and everything that Elder Holland said. I love how well he expounds short or simple scriptures. He is such a great teacher, and his testimony is so powerful. I am so grateful for such wonderful examples, and such wonderful counsel! I wish we could have General Conference every week. :)

I'm so glad you got to go to Bryce Canyon!  I look forward to going there with you someday! And I'm so glad that Purrcy kept you company so well during Conference. :)  We have such an amazing gift--the gospel--that blesses us and our families so much...I know that it is true, and I want to share it with everyone! :) 

I hope you're having a wonderful day, and a wonderful week. I love you!!!!!

Love,
Sister Wygant

Wonderful Easter

Good morning! How was your Easter? Ours was great. We had dinner with Sister Olson and some other ward members. It was amazing. Sister Olson is an amazing woman. :) We also made a bunch of Easter cookies (thanks for the cookie mix! Perfect timing!) and took them around to various people to spread some Sunshine for Easter. It was so fun. :) I got to play "I Stand All Amazed" for the Easter program in the Branch, which was so, so fun. Gabby played the piano with me, and it was such a wonderful experience to be able to share my testimony through music once again. Speaking of music, singing the Messiah with Mrs. Rutter's church choir went SO well. I met lots of great people, and we feel that we represented the church very well. Stan, the conductor, seemed very pleased, and said we're welcome any time. I also met some vocal students from BGSU who were singing in the soprano section with me, and got to fellowship with them a little bit. We're going to meet with one of them next week sometime! 

Bowling Green is great. The world really is so small--I'm finding all sorts of connections here. For example, Brother Charter (the younger) in the Bowling Green ward served with Kelsey Balliff in the California Ventura mission! And Brother Nicholson went to HS in Bountiful, and sang in the choir with Larry Smith (my UAM and Bountiful friends will be super excited about that one! :) ). I also had another lady tell me that she knew a Wygant! So cool. :)

Sister Noffsinger went to the hospital last Wednesday...and just barely went home yesterday! We were all really bummed because she was planning to go home for Easter--but had to spend it in the hospital instead. :( On the plus side, though, we went and cleaned her whole house while she was in the hospital--it was a big task, but it felt so good to get so much done! Now her house is clean, doesn't smell as much like smoke, and she will be able to feel the Spirit there more strongly. :)

I really loved our Easter Sunday in the YSA branch yesterday. For 3rd hour, we watched several Mormon Messages and Bible Videos about Christ's Atonement and Resurrection. I felt the Spirit so strongly, and it really strengthened my testimony. What a glorious message! Not only do we have a Savior who died for our sins--but He lives! We have a living Savior and Redeemer, who guides His living church through a living prophet on the earth today. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father loves us enough to give us so much help and guidance. I know that President Monson truly is a prophet, called by God, and I am so excited to hear him and others speak at General Conference this weekend. I hope you all get to watch and enjoy it! 

I'd better get going, but I love you all so much! Thanks for all of your love, prayers, and support. Sorry I didn't have time to answer all of your questions/remarks--but know that I would if I could! :) Tell dad that I would be delighted to help with the future missionary program/activity he mentioned. I look forward to it. :) I know that missionary work is so important. I may not be able to see the fruits of every seed we're planting here, but I have full faith and so much hope that those seeds will not be wasted, and that good will come into these peoples' lives from it at some point. I know that our Heavenly Father is in the details of each of our lives, and that He prepares and guides those who are ready to find the gospel. I love my mission. It's changed and continues to change my life every day as I have the opportunity to consecrate all of my heart, might, mind and strength to doing His work and blessing the lives of others. Truly, the best way to grow, to change, to progress, and to be happy is to serve others and focus on the gospel. It's worked for me. :) And when all else fails, remember that "hope spurs weary disciples on" (Neal A. Maxwell, "Brightness of Hope"). I know that our Savior lives, and loves us, and that His Atonement is real. If nothing else, I know that. :) I'm so grateful for the opportunity to serve in The Ohio, where Joseph Smith and so many wonderful Saints lived and prepared the way for the gospel to spread to all the world. :) I love you all, and I hope you have a great week!

Love,
Sister Wygant