A Christmas Miracle & last email...

...of the YEAR! #2017

Thank you for all of the love that was sent my way this Christmas season!

My Christmas was wonderful. Hermana Tua'one & I spent time singing to people who were hospitalized + eating lunch with an awesome family in the branch (i ate BUNNY!!! tastes like chicken) + delivering Christmas gifts + sharing the "IluminaElMundo". My favorite present of all was being able to Skype my family. I am so greatful to have a father that made us an eternal family in the Boise, ID temple not too long ago. 

Familes are forever! 

A Christmas Miracle:

Hermana Tua'ona and I (along with the elders in the area) began working towards a goal at the begining of our time together to have 100 souls in church Christmas Eve morning to celebrate the birth of their Savior with us. The past few weeks (this past week especially) were filled us with working so hard to accomplish this goal that we had set. When Sunday morning came, we both had peace in our hearts as we sat in our church service knowing that everyone who was in this service was supposed to be there. At the end of the church service we were told that 102 souls were with us in church! 

Hermana Tua'one and I earned so much together throughout this expierence. I know that the Lord wants to help us accomplish the righteous desires of our hearts...and He will if we let Him!  

As this new year approaches and your new goals are set, include Heavenly Father in your goal setting process. You were designed to succeed! He is cheering you on! 

I am cheering you on too!

Xoxo,

Hermana Worley

Pictures:

1. Me + ONE of my FAVORITE HUMANS, isnt she DARLING

2. 7/11 #truechristmasmiracle

3. pre church selfie

4. post church Santa Biblia pic. #SANTA

5. We were gifted lip gloss

6. SNOW!

CHRISTMAS EVE

CHRISTMAS EVE with my hermana!!

thanks for the pajamas momma worley & tua'one

Feliz Navidad!!!

maté + snow + miracles 12/13/17

FELÍZ NAVIDAD PEOPLE!!!! 
Got to say that as much as possible while it's still time :)

This past week was filled to the brim with miracles......

.....Hermana Tua'one and I were able to paint pottery (I was all sorts of happy to get my hand on a paint brush again) + We had a missionary activity at the local college where we passed out hot chocolate, wrapped Book of Mormons & shared "Light the World" + Hermana Villareal joined me in Danbury for a day! + Last night we were able to met a darling family who just moved to the U.S. from Ecuador. We are excited to keep sharing our unique message with them.

I LOVE the Christmas initative and I LOVE talking to people and helping them think of Christ. People are good. I am so grateful for these incredible people in Danbury and that I have been given a gift to be able to be here to talk to them and a gift to be able to speak their language!

Happiness Boosters:
- BRANCH CHRISTMAS PARTY! 
- Coca mint maté. Tastes like Christmas. Thanks momma worley! 
- Love and understanding that came to me from Heavenly Father in the form of Sister Tua'one. I'm truly so grateful for my comp.
- solid exercise time.

Minnie Letters:

Dear Christmas music, you made my life brighter.

Dear Danbury, you are causing a "snow white" look on me. Snow is everywhere! Saturday it was snowing all day long. I was in heaven.

Dear Christmas, thanks for making everyone happier.

Dear President, thank you for leading this mission with so much inspiration. 
#zoneconfrence #moneymoneymoney

Dear family & friends, thank you so much for all of the love and support. #mvp's

LOVE YOU ALL,
Hermana Worley 

Photos:
- Hermana v. She's an awesome missionary + so cute.

- dropped my ice cream cone. #struggle 

- paintin' pottery

- missionary magic! Our stand at the college.

- view from our bedroom window

11/ 22/2017 Hola and Happy Thanksgiving!

Hola and Happy Thanksgiving!

I love you all and am so thankful for your support!

12/06/17 Google Translate + Branch blessins

Hello everyone! Happy December! :)

I have some random thoughts and want to begin with a quick story!

 So hopefully you can make sense of this email...

Here we go:

About every other week we take some time to sing who one of our branch memebers who is living in a hospital/nursing home facility. When we arrived to visit with her, we were told that they needed to change her & transfer her to her bed. 

So Hermana Tua'one & I decided that we should sing to the other patients near by while we waited. We walked into the room next door and there was a cute lady reading a book.

We began to talk with her but realized that she doesn't speak english....

So then I tried Spanish....nothing

Then in my broken Portugese.....nothing

I had the idea to pull out Google translate and we translated

 "Hello! What is your name?" 

in about 12 different languages...but no luck! 

She kept shaking her head and finger "no". 

So we found a nurse nearby and asked her what language she speaks. 

She said Russian! We then took this new knoweldge and Google translated "Hello! What is your name?" into Russian and she exclaimed "Analise!!!"

 with a huge smile on her face! 

We were able to converse with her by her speaking into my speaker on my tablet- it translating it to English and then us translating our English to Russian. We are excitited to go back and visit with her next week. We are planning to bring her a copy of our favorite book! You already know which one! The Book of Mormon! ;)

It was such a neat expierence that testified to me all over again, LOVE has no boundries. 

The color of our flag, skin, food does not matter. 

We are ALL children on God. 

I have spent the past few days were spent feeling sicker than a dog + resting at home. I came down with a really nasty bug which was super lame but it also made me so greatful to a companion who was willing to wipe my runny nose & make me tea + a branch president who was worthy to give me an anionted healing blessing + modern medicine + heremana espinosa (a cute memeber in the branch) who brought me homemade soup!

I love you all. 

I know that we are all children of a loving Heavenly Father.

Life is good.

Happy Wednesday!

Xoxo,

Hermana Worley

Photos:

-us with Analise! :-*

-selfies in Anthro

-Analise again because she is so cute and was amazed by technology...we were too!

11/29/17 Tranfers + Miracles + Icecream

Hello my loves! 

I hope that you all had a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

Some big news: Yesterday was TRANSFERS!

Hermana Egbert has left me, she is now serving in HARLEM! EAST SIDE!

My old home. She will love it and do wonderfully.

I was SO super happy to receive the darling Hermana Tua'one! She is already one of the coolest people that I know, a Tongan from Texas....

Hey Olivia! She played vballl before the mission in college! How cool. I knew you'd like that. 

I wanted to share a miracle that Hermana Tua'one and I saw yesterday. We were out trying to find house number 8 1/2 and we were not having much luck. So we saw a college age boy standing outside & decided that we should go ask for some help. Ask we started to talk with him, he explained that he had a really awful day at school/work. It made him think about his life and just how he is not where he wants to be. 

So on his drive back home he was thinking about how he needed to get back into a groove of going to a church every Sunday. We were able to testify that it was not by chance that we have met. He invited us to come back to teach him + his family about the gospel. They are all from Portugal!  We are looking forward to seeing him at church this Sunday. 

God is so good. He is in the details of our lives!

Love,

Hermana Worley <3

Some happiness boosters:

-my darling new companion!!!

-PAINT! For service this past week we put on our painting clothes and helped one of the members in the branch paint her room. 

-Oprahs favorite pie! Thank you family for sending me a whole pie!!!! 

-Ilumina el Mundo- It has been so fun to share this video with the people in Danbury.... here is the link!

https://www.mormon.org/?cid=HP_FR_24-11-2017_dMIS_fMORG_xLIDyL1-A_

Photos:

-my (old) district! 

-The Ducays. A super cute portugese fam in the branch.

-Hermana Egbert and I with AMANDA. She is so silly. She wants to grow up to be a missionary. 

-Our reliefe society women! They are such awesome women. I hope to grow to become more liike them.

-EDDY! Hermana Egbert and I met him at our last APF! 

(We set up a table outside the library and talked with people about Jesus. Eddy was waiting for his bus to come so Hermana and I went up and started to talk with him. He is now meeting with the elders every week and is prepared to be baptized next month. <3)

-Icecream!

happiness boosters

Happy Wedesday! 

Here's a short & sweet one for you all this week!

Some things that made this past week of mine bright:

-The sacrament. So truly greatful that EACH WEEK I can be perfectly clean again and strive to be better. I need that. :)

-The Hermosa family! Tomorrow we get to go to the temple with them so they can preform baptisms for Maria's grandparents that passed away.

-My scarf + hat + gloves. It's begining to feel a lot like Christmas. Seriously, so so chilly here in Danbury.

-Charles Lynn Preston Worley: my daddio!

F E L I Z C U M P L E A N O S to the very best man that I know. It was his birthday & he always makes me so happy. #myhomielovinfriend

- YOU all, thank you for the love sent my way. I am very greatful for you all & for our Savior & for my nametag. 

Much love,

Hermana Worley 💛

Pictures: from our trip to the city today 

....Favorites....

Hello! 

Here is one of my favorite scriptures from this week along with a few of my favorite photos.....

2 Nephi 26:24

"He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him..."

.....I love you all

Thank you for your prayers.

Hermana Worley

🌻🍁🎃🍂👻

Happy November! 

I hope you all had a safe and happy Halloween.

The work is going really well here in Danbury. 

This past week we had the chance to help some recent converts in the church with family history so they can attend the temple this week, teach about the importance of modern day prophets, celebrate a birthday of one of our memebers in the branch, find 10 new investigators, and testify of Jesucristo.

I am sending lots of love & hope you make this new week a great one!

Love,

Hermana Worley

Photos:

-My district is so wonderful! Yesterday we were able to take a little bit of time to celebrate haloween by eating chocolate eyeballs and talking about the work here in Danbury

-the halloween trunk or treat! Hermana Egbert and I dressed up as twins...

-One of memebers has Quails!!!! They are so cute. 

-It was Lilys birthday and her favorite thing is strawberry shortcake. We didnt have time to cook one at home so we ran to walmart to get some ingridents and I made a birthday cake, in the car, on the way to Lilys house. This was the outcome. #lifehack

Ingridents: canned strawberries + golden candles + vanilla dingdongs. 

-Hermana Egbert and I with Hermana Newbold. Isn't she darling?!?! She is the branch presidents wife and I love her a LOT!

...happy things.... :)

Hola hola hola a todos!! 

Some happy things that happened this past week + photos:

-Stake confrence! The branch president rented a classic yellow school bus and the missionaries and branch members rode up to Yorktown together. The talks were super uplfiting & the theme was temples. 

-LEAVES. They are so pretty here. One of the pictures below is of a tree standing right outside of my apartment.

-Miracles! 

Hermana Egbert & I have been seeing miracles left and right! 

Last night we were able to being teaching a cute family from Spain that we met through teaching English class at the chappel building. They have lived in America for 2 months so far and found out about the free English classes that us missionaries teach, from a memeber of the church that was doing her laundry at the laundry mat. 

How neat is that!?

-SPORTS. We play them in the mornings & I have been learning how to master the art of frisby. Hermana Egbert is a pro.

I am thankful for this gospel and for all of the support sent my way. One of my favorite quotes that I came across this week is:

"You haven't failed until you stop TRYING" 

from Gordon B. Hinkley

I know that this is so true and I was extra thankful for this reminder.

It truly is the small and simple daily efforts that make a big difference in life. So keep trying and trusting in God.

I love you all! 

have a great week :)

Xoxo,

Hermana Worley

The new flat... life of a missionary!