Texas is Gods Country

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• Helloooooooo!
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• Well this week I had to have a little procedure thing done (I'm all
• good) but I had some anesthesia and I guess I told all the nurses that
• Texas is God's country. So there you have that haha! It must be
• true....
• This week was busy, successful and a ton of fun!! Sister Urbina's
• birthday was this week!! We were able to celebrate and do a few fun
• things :)
• I feel like I'm super bad about writing out what happened throughout
• my week, it's just kinda hard to remember haha. Well, we have 2 people
• on date for baptism, they are both really great people and I've
• enjoyed being able to teach them. We were also blessed with the
• ability of talking to so many people this week. Sometimes it's hard
• just walking up to a random person on the street, but after you do it
• (whether they reject you or not) you feel like you've accomplished
• something! Faced your fear, whatever you feel. But, I personally feel
• like I tried my best and that's all that Heavenly Father asks of us.
• We did some street contacting this week, visited a few less active
• members, and taught a lot of new investigators!!
• We had a zone meeting on Friday, I love my zone we all get along so
• well and we have a great time at these meetings. I really enjoy being
• able to go to big meetings like this because I learn so much. We
• talked about what we need to do, as missionaries, to increase our own
• spiritual- ness. What motivates us!!! I feel like that's been an on
• going subject, but it's helped me a lot because I always have to find
• something that motivates me. On Saturday our stake president had the
• zone over for breakfast, we were able to say goodbye to the
• missionaries going home and to get to know the new stake president
• more! It was really fun, and really nice of them to have us over :)
• Sunday was fast Sunday. I love fast Sunday, because I get to hear
• everyone's testimonies!! We were able to have a lesson with Chris,
• (our recent convert) and he is on fire!! He taught US this time. It
• was awesome :)
• I feel like on my mission I've had a lot of epiphanies, or a lot of
• insight to certain subjects. It's actually really awesome because I've
• started to understand and realize more and more things. I was talking
• to sister Urbina about this a couple of nights ago, and I realized
• that my mission is the best year and a half for my life. I've grown to
• really love teaching, something that I wasn't extremely good at
• before. I've grown a lot in the gospel, something I wasn't super
• educated on before but I knew it was true. And I've just grown a lot
• as a person. I've only been out 6 months, but I think I've been taught
• so much in such a short period of time. I have a year left folks!!
• It's going to go by so fast, I need to make the most of my time out
• here. I love where I'm at now, and I hope that it will just keep
• getting better from here.
• In the morning we study for 3 hours, which I love because it allows me
• to read the Book of Mormon, plan for my discussions, and grow closer
• to our savior. I've been able to read a lot about hope and faith this
• week. On Sunday we had a lesson on hope and our teacher gave us a
• really neat quote!
•   "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the
• shadow of our burden behind us"
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• What do you think of that?? Let me know!!
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Happy Birthday Sister Urbina!!!

Till next week

"Hey...are you married?"

Hello everyone!

This week was actually pretty crazy. We did some service, taught
lessons, and had a baptism!! It was SUCH a busy week.

So to explain the title..... Haha...... Sister Urbina and I were
helping a family move out of their apartment. And there was this guy
kinda following us and talking to us, and he asked if we were moving
out and I replied "nope helping someone move out!" And he came by a
couple more times. Then, he came by in his car and asked if I was
married... I replied no. And then he proceeded to say "well, you're
cute! Call me sometime!" To that I said (politely) no thanks... I'm a
missionary and I'm 19. Hahaha
So that was kinda a funny thing that happened. But we were doing some
good service!!
Chris' baptism was AWESOME. The spirit was so strong there!! It's
really great to see someone when you first start to teach them, and
then watch them grow into this spiritual giant. Chris was so prepared
to hear the gospel, and I know Heavenly Father is extremely proud of
his decision.

I love being a missionary!!!!

I've been reading a lot about the atonement lately, well I've actually
been watching a video on the atonement. It's so powerful, it's called
"missionary work and the atonement" and it's by elder holland. I think
I mentioned it in my email last week, but y'all really really should
go watch it. It's amazing.

Well... I hope you all have a great week. Missionary work is the best.

Hello!!

I had an absolutely great week. My companion and I, sister Urbina get
along so well and we have so much fun! We were able to teach a lot of
people this week! We have someone on date for baptism this Friday and
we are so excited for him!!! We also were able to go to zone
conference and have discussions given by the AP's, elder Johnson, and
president & sister griffin. I love going to zone conference because
I'm able to see a lot of missionaries from the mission!

Go watch Missionary work and the atonement!!!

I highly recommend that you all watch this video. Elder Hollands
snippet got me into tears from the first 2 minutes. So far my whole
mission has been about bringing souls to Christ. What a wonderful
thing to be doing and to be apart of! I truly have grown so much over
these past 6 months.
I talk about it quite a lot, but I know that families are made from
God. I know that families can be together forever, and that we will be
able to see our loved ones again. It's never easy to lose a loved one,
a friend, someone you look up to. But, it does happen and it is hard.
There's a really great talk given by Merrill J Bateman and he spoke in
the April 1995 General Conference. His talk was titled "The power to
heal from within" he talks about death and how heaven only exists if
families are  eternal. Isn't that we all want though? To be with our
families for forever? That's what I want! Surely when I die, I want to
be able to see my loved ones once again.
He says:
"Death teaches that we do not experience a fulness of joy in mortality
and that everlasting joy can be achieved only with the assistance of
the Master (see D&C 93:33–34). Just as the lame man at the pool of
Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John
5:1–9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ’s atonement if
our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin. If
grieving parents and loved ones have faith in the Savior and his plan,
death’s sting is softened as Jesus bears the believers’ grief and
comforts them through the Holy Spirit. Through Christ, broken hearts
are mended and peace replaces anxiety and sorrow. Last week I received
a letter from the boy’s parents telling me the peace they have found
through their faith in Christ. They know that they will see their son
again and be with him in the eternities. As Isaiah stated concerning
the Savior, “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
… And with his stripes we are healed” (Isa. 53:4–5)."

At the end he talks about receiving a letter from "the boy's" parents,
he's talking about his friend who had recently lost his son due to a
car accident. I love reading things like this because it gives me
hope, strength, and the ability to turn to my savior when I need him
the most.
It's really cool when you start to realize so many things about the
world when you aren't even in the world!

I love being a missionary :)

Love you all!!

-Sister Arnold

Held a baby on my mission. It's a rule no baby holding😕

Shoe Tans

Hello!!

To explain the title, sister Urbina and I have been trying to bike
everrryyyyy day! A little motivation that we give ourselves is that we
can potentially have the coolest shoe/watch tans in the whole state of
Arizona. And we actually have pretty sweet ones already!! Hers is
better than mine... But I'm working on it :)

This week flew by, I feel like Pday was yesterday! We had a lot of
things happen this week... We have been tracting, doing visits, and
service projects. It was a great and busy week. On Friday we had a
zone meeting and it was really centered around being bold. Being bold
enough to go up to a random person on the street and testify of Jesus
Christ ,ask them to meet with us, and be baptized! It can be kinda
scary at first, but it is so worth it. So this zone meeting we talked
about why it's so important that we be bold and to testify. Then we
took a short break and played some mafia. Hahahahahahahaha. It was so
fun to loosen up, laugh and have fun with the zone.

Sister Urbina and I are doing really great. We teach well together,
and we have fun! I really look up to her, she hit her year mark on
Friday and so we decided to go to the temple! I really needed that
extra push/ recharge for the week. I always love going to the temple,
there's a special feeling there that I can't get anywhere else.

I was snooping around sister urbina's gospel library a couple of days
ago and I found a really cool tag she had. It's from the October 2015
General Conference and it's called "Discovering the Divinity Within."
I really loved a certain part in it and it's been on my mind all week;

"Because you are His child, He knows who you can become. He knows your
fears and your dreams. He relishes your potential. He waits for you to
come to Him in prayer. Because you are His child, you not only need
Him, but He also needs you. Those sitting around you right now in this
meeting need you. The world needs you, and your divine nature allows
you to be His trusted disciple to all His children. Once we begin to
see the divinity in ourselves, we can see it in others."

How can we discover the divinity within ourselves? God loves each and
every one of us, and he is there 24/7. I love my Savior and my
Heavenly Father, each day when I think I can't do this anymore I think
of the love my savior has for me and the love he has for his children
all over the world. I know this gospel is true, and I want to be able
to share it with heavenly father's children. This week go and read
that talk, I promise that you will get something out of it. And if you
want y'all can totally email me what you loved most about that talk!!

Have a great week. I love you all.

- Sister Malloree Arnold

  Thanks Grandma Arnold for the tattoo fruit roll ups!

                                                         Ha Ha Exchanges !!

Hello everyone!!

Great week in the APM. It was transfer wee this past week, and I am
now with sister Urbina!! She is so great, and is a terrific
missionary. We have been absolutely on fire these past few days. We
are constantly seeking for opportunities to serve and teach everyone
around us! I love it!!

Funny moment of the week.... So we were tracting and we were knocking
doors and we literally knocked like 10 doors and nobody answered.
Then, we knocked this one door, and it had a glass door so you could
see inside the house. This lady comes to the door and looks at us
through the glass so I say "hi! How are you today!" And she sees our
name tags... So she said (from the inside of her house mind you) sorry
I don't have the key so I can't open the door! Now I'm sure this lady
meant well and who knows she literally probably needed a key to get
herself out of the house from the inside. It was just humorous to
me... She was friendly though!! :)

We had district meeting this last Friday, and the district totally
mixed up on me!! Right now I am the only missionary from the district
last transfer. It switched up quite a bit. But that's okay, it gives
me the opportunity to get to know more missionaries in the mission!
And we have a pretty solid group this transfer, it's going to be fun.

I've been thinking a lot about charity and the pure love of Christ
these past few days. I've felt so much love for my ward, my companion,
and those around me. It truly pays off to serve others. So I challenge
all of you to work on one attribute of Christ this week. Just one....
Because if you try all of them you'll go a little crazy. But, I know
you'll be able to see a difference in your life. It's not easy, but
it's so worth it.

Have a great week, I love you all.

Sister Mallorees Arnold

Ps thanks Gradma Arnold for the Package. I haven't gotten it yet but hope to this week.

Le District 

Crazy week

Hi everyone!

Well I don't have very much to say about this week.... Overall it was
just really crazy! Sister Moss and I have been companions for a week
and I absolutely adore her. She's simply the best and I'm sad that we
don't get to be together for another transfer!! We were able to put
someone on date, which is just a huge tender mercy. He is so ready for
the gospel and he knows that it's true.

It makes me so happy to see these people and their faith grow. Every
day I get to teach people about the gospel and it just makes my heart
so full. A little bit of transfer news:

I will be staying in the wonderful Bethany home ward!!! (Yippy)
And my new companion is going to be Sister Urbina!!! I'm so excited,
we are going to have so much fun!! I have some high expectations for
myself this transfer and I know that we are going to be able to
achieve them.

This week I've been thinking a lot about families. I think about this
every week, if there's one thing that I could teach the whole time on
my mission it's about eternal families. I'm thankful for mine, and for
the future one that I will have. It's so important to know that we can
live with our families forever.

Have a great week! Love you all.

                                                              my home Texas!!

Have a great week 

love,

Sister Arnold!!

Holland Visit

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