New Jersey Morristown Mission

Hello friends & family!

Saturday night we recieved transfer call from President Smith explaining that I will be spending my last transfer in my mission here in Middletown, NY with the awesome Sister Randall. We are excited to meet our new mission president this coming week along with the other missionaries in the New Jersey mission!!

This past week the elders sent us a person to try to go visit who has potential intrest in learning more about the gospel. So w went over to this ladies home. After we knocked, an older man stepped out to talk with us. We asked if the lady was home, he relied no. We asked him if there was another time to catch her. He wasnt sure. We asked him if he was religous himself, to which he responded

"Yeah I was baptized mormon!"

Our jaws dropped to the floor.

He explained that he was baptized 20 years ago & asked if we knew one of the members that he remembers in the ward. We were able to share with him that that member is now the stake president. It was such a tender moment that we shared with this man.  

I know that Heavenly Father leads this work because I am reminded of this DAILY! He KNOWS & LOVES His children. One of my favorite scriptures to share with others, is found in 

Alma 36:37:

        Now we see that God is mindful of every people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth. Now this is my joy, and my great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever. Amen.

How happy is this?! I testify He is mindful of you!

love + light,

Hermana Worley

Pictures:

-mail is so fun!

-i spy with my little eye....a cute elder worley!

by small & simple things....

Some happy things that happened this past week:

-Service: We helped out relief society president pack up her home, shes moving to TX with her husband!

-hair trim! My ends are feeling fresh again!

-SUNSHINE! The weather has been so warm + sunnyyy. 

-Our family that we have been teaching came to church on Sunday! It was such a special service fouced around DADS!!! One of the speakers said "don't be afraid to ditch the good for the GREAT", how awesome is that!

Friday morning after we had finished setting our plans and goals for the day, one of our recent convert members name kept coming to my mind. 

over and over again. 

It was kind of annoying because we had already set our plans, we couldnt get ahold of this member, and she lives out in the boonies! (about 35 minutes away from where we intended to be for the day.) 

Sister Randall and I decided that we needed to follow the spirit and if our member wasn't home that there must be another reason why we have felt prompted to go to her area. When we got to her home after our studies we found her with big puffy red eyes from crying, she expressed that a family member has just passed away the night before. The spirit feeled my heart so strongly with confirmation that we were exactly where we needed to be. I have gained a strong testimony of "mourn with those that mourn" and that is what we did with her. She has expierences a lot of loss in her life over the past year, she was so sad that her family hasnt been sealed together forever but we promised her that the good desires of her heart WILL be fulfilled. Its a promise from Heavenlyl Father. We were able to get incontact with some priesthood hodlers to come and give her & her husband a blessing of comfort. 

This expierence really built my faith in following the promptings that come from the spirit. Sometimes the promptings that we recieve dont always make sense but I KNOW that if we don't follow them we can miss out on something GREAT that God has in store. 

Alma 37:6

"by small and simple things are great things brought to pass"

I love you family!

Thank you for your prayers.

hermana worley

Pictures:

-Us at a backyard chicken coop! I WANT ONE ONE DAY!!!!

-Us with our relief society president who is moving. We had a linger longer for her and her husband after church yesterday.

-our apartment had a mini flood! we came back home to our ceiliing raining!!

-I love the area I am serving in, it is BEAUTIFULL!!!!! 

I'm greatful for.....

I'm greatful for.....

-Ice cream "Bryan" Birthday cakes! Our investigator bought me a birthday cake! So tender. She took us to her back yeard afterwards and cut us fresh flowers from her garden to stick on our kitchen table. 

-SISTER RANDALL! We have so much fun doing the Lords work together!

-Church!!! I love sundays. :)

For our amazing subject line our neighbor Bob was talking to us on afternoon. He told us that he gives all of the sisters that have been his next door neighbor nicknames, so we were trying to guess Sister Randalls. I guess 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, which we were informed isnt correct, then all of a sudden Sister Randall belts "OH bless your beautiful hiiiiiide" Oh the look on Bobs face aftwerwards was priceless. Haha. :)

Somehow the weeks just keep getting fuller & more exhausting here in Middletown. I think the Lord is teaching me about what it means to earn my pillow each night. I love summer time here in Middletown! We have been able to teach people out on their back patios. 

We were in a lesson with a family that we have been teaching pretty consistently. Our game plan for the lesson was to teach them about our church but while we were with them Sister Randall and I both felt that we needed to change plans and teach about the Plan of Salvation. Tracy, the wife, was quite suprised to find out that we dont believe in a "hell". We invited them to pray and ask Heavenly Father to know if the message that we taught is true. 

Being STL's isnt what I thought it would be, we are working with some sisters that are seriously struggling. It has been humbling for Sister Randall and I to plead with Heavenly Father to help us know how we can best minister to these sisters. We went on two splits this past week, one being an emergency. Please keep them in your prayers. 

Yesterday we preformed a musical number with a cute widow sister in the ward. She played the piano for us while we sang "How Great Thou Art". Sister Randall and I dont consider ourselves singers but we have been wanting to be creative with the way that we build our members trust. The ward loved it! We also taught in Relief Society yesterday about the talk "With One Accord" from this past general confrence. It was so fun to brainstorm with the women about unity!!!

Funny moment:

We were sitting at a traffic light, there was a nice man standing on the sidewalk so naturally we wave hello to him....then he walks in the middle of the intercetion and WAVES US THROUGH TRAFFIC while we were sitting at our red light still. It was such a wierd moment. Horns were honking.

I love you all so much!

Hermana Worley

06/04/19 on the Lord's errand in NY

Fillin' the spiritual tool belt

This past week wrapped up in one word: BUSY!!!

 

Sister Randall & I returned home each evening so tired. Heavenly Father has been blessing us with so many souls to visit in the Middletown area. We saw miracles. 

One of our favorites was from a friend of ours that we are teaching, she told us that she had a super spiritual expierence with reading the Book of Mormon. She said:

"All 6 of my children were running around the house. I sat down, opened up the Book of Mormon & all of a sudden it felt like I was in a different world. Everything went quiet...and then when I put the book down, everything went back to normal, it was wierd."

There is a theme has really touched my heart. 

It's that, "YOU are a child of God." 

This is the first point, from the first lesson found in Preach My Gospel that all missionaries share with others. 

I have noticed that the more I learn & understand the real me, that I am a spirit child of a loving God, the more that I want to share this message of the gospel with other people!!! The message that pasts all of our accomplisments, downfalls, successes, failures, possessions, thoughts, doubts, troubles and fears. I trust, with all that I have, that He wants more than anything is for us to return back home to Him. Whether we recognize it or not, we are all on a journey, and it's up to each one of us to decide where we want this jouney to go, TODAY!

YOU are a child of God, and He WILL help you along. 

I am thankful for this time of my life that I have to really focus on filling up my spiritual tool belt & ALSO for all of the birthday love that has been sent my way!

CHEERS to 22!

Light + love,

Hermana Worley

I LOVE being a MISSIONARY! 5/21/18

Blessings:

-Brunch with the Relief Society 

-MY ORANGE RAIN BOOTS!

-Sister RANDALL- she helps me feel the spirit on the daily.

-BAHB, our next door neighbor who takes such good care of us sisters. This past week he gifted us a mini waffle maker. 

-Alma 31:38....I know that NO matter our allflications we CAN be swallowed up in the JOY of Christ + that prayers of faith are POWERFUL....They can and do change the course of history!

My heart is filled with gratitude this morning.

What are some things on your blessing list today?

I'd love to hear! 

Middletown has been doing so well. Our progressing investigator has been out of town camping so there is not much of an update with her but we are thrilled to welcome her back into town tomorrow.

 It has been a very rainy week which has made everything EXTRA GREEN + lovely. Today is the first day that the clouds have parted for the sun to shine so Sister Randall and I will be soaking it all in. 

Yesterday we were informed that one of our members was hospitalized so we made a trip to the outeredge of our area in the mission to go visit her. (To drive across my area, top to bottom is about a 1.5 hour drive & left to right is a 40 minute drive. Needless to say, our little red subaru is a CHAMP) 

Afterward our visit, we decided to spend some more time in Port Jervis. We felt strongly that we needed to go visit a part-member family. 

When we got to their home we found a sweet lady sitting on her front porch with her bunny. She is not a member of the church but her husband is. She testified to us that she knows the church is true, but can't quit smoking. She has an impeccably stong testimony of priesthood blessings, and we asked if she would like to recieve a preisthood blessing to be able to quit smoking. She was silent for a moment and then responded

"No, I would be willing to try it.....Actually I KNOW it will work."

Her neighbor was just in awe listening to the conversation & he wants to quit smoking too. We will be going back with priesthood holders this Wednesday evening for them to recieve a blessing and to help them begin thier journey to come closer to their Heavenly Father.

Being a missionary is humbing, rewarding & I truly do L-O-V-E my calling!!!

Thank you for your prayers!

XO,

Hermana Worley

MIRACLES!!! 5/9/18

This past week was really wonderful and I am SO excited to share a Wednesday Miracle with you all! 

Here it is:

As we were tracting around we knocked a door & we were greeted by a cute spanish speaking abuela👵🏽! As we conversed she explained that she just moved here from Puerto Rico and has been looking for a church to attend! (Whoohoo!!🎉) 

So we gave her the directions to our church building and then a younger girl came to the door, pulled our cute older friend back and closed the door on us..... *face palm*

We decided to tract around a little bit more and saw an UNcomfy opportunity to SPRINT up to a man who was moving his lawn haha. That didn't go super well as he was trying to finish up moving his lawn before the sun set but he let us leave him a Book of Mormon in his mailbox.📬 

The REAL milgaro happened as we were walking back to our car!!!! We saw a vehicle pull into the drive way of the first house we knocked (with the cute abuela👵🏽!!) so we decided to EMBRACE the UNcomfy situation #2 and began bookig it up the driveway to talk with her.

We asked her "What does God want to for?" she thought about it for awhile, she said that she didn't know. As we were testifing about her purpose she said that she wants her daughters to be as happy as we are!! We were able to testify that the message share will help EVERY aspect of her life, including the lives of her daughters. We have plans to go back this Sunday evening to teach her entire family!!!! 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

She also asked us to come back to teach her sister and mother in law who will be here next week!

Que GRANDIOSO es nuestro LLAMAMIENTO!!!! 💥

p.s. As a result of this we found 7 potential investigators + 1 new solid investigator.

What miracles did you see this past week? 

I would LOVE to hear about them!

Also, I can't forgot to mention that one of the GREATEST MIRACLES in my life is my MOM! (i love you too dad but your day is in June) My happiness booster for this week is that I get to skype Momma Worley this Sunday evening. I am greatful for my earthly mom + my Heavenly Mother. If I can grow to be 1/2 as wonderful as they are I would be a happy girl. They have both played an important role in my life. I CAN'T WAIT to give MOMMA WORLEY a BIG hug this AUGUST!!!! Please be sure to give YOUR MOM a big hug this sunday if you can. 

Sending light + love,

Hermana Worley

Pictures:

-Cute Sister Gill & I with girls that we have been teaching! This past week we made 1 Nephi chapters 1 & 2 come to LIFE by acting them out. It was a blast! 

-Selfies!!!!

-I'm ALWAYS a killer for a good sunset, how beautiful is NY? 

-Last ZONE pic. We have transfers coming up this week.