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guess what? i'm being obedient and not using the yahoo email account anymore. all missionaries have to use the ldsmail.net in order to send email. they've been having some problems, inwhich missionaries were able to view pornography and misusing their prevledges of e-mail. they also said no myspace.com it was really bad. apprantly a lot of missionaries are on that site even when it's not their p-day. and people had posted all sorts of gross things, and our mission president found out. the mission pres in california had called our president about a few of the missionaries here on the mission who were loging on during odd hours, and days they werent suppose to be on there. He was stunned and he found a lot of other missionaries doing the same thing! and so we're only allowed to use this site for emailing, or else no emails allowed for all missionaries. it was the fax that all the mission presidents had gotten from Ballard--and he's an Apostle. so yeah, i only have your email address memorized, i forgot larvinias and juniors. tell'em to email me. also, i'm only allowed to email immediate family members and not extended realtives. so no aunties and cousins and uncles, i'm gonna just email one letter and if you can, can you foward it to the rest of the family? i'd greatly appreciate that! i got dad's letter on saturday! i was so happy i read it to everyone i'd meet. and everyone knows that dad wrote me! he'd written in March and i see it takes 3weeks for the letters to arrive. crazy, and he'd told me about everything you guys had already informed me of. and then i cried because dad is so awsome! and so is mom.lol. I'm so grateful to you all. hey i don't know how to call long distance to mom and dad, i don't know the international code and mothers day is coming up. i don't know anyones phone number. crazy huh? more like big surprise, i usually don't know much. well we're getting transfered. i don't know where but i'm so torn. no one ever told me that one of the hardest parts in missionary work is the "transfers" i love these people so much. the day i'd first met people, i knew i had seen them before. i'd stare at them searching my memory trying to figure out where i'd seen them. and of course i can't help but think that i'd met them in the pre-exisistance.my mission pres in the MTC had said to me, that one of the hardest things you'll do as a missionary is leaving home and then in the mission field you'll find it's even harder to leave yet another home. and i didn't realize it'll happen right away, i love these people, they're all good people, they strive to follow the Savior the best they can, and i feel like i'm not yet done. it's like they're my babies, and i still want to hold there hand and am so worried that they'd might fall as they walk. i know they know more than me, but i'd hate to feel like i'm leaving them behind--even though they were never left behind, it's hard. they have my love and confidence and i hope and pray continually that they will stay on the straight and narrow. and that they will NOT hang on, but WILL Hold on! and that they'll endure to end, and endure it well. i have to many hopes and wishes for these people, i've wittnessed so much and i am humbled each and every day to be in there presence and to feel there love. I came out here to serve the Lord as an expression of my gratitude for all that He does for me. to serve our Father in Heaven as an expression of my gratitude for all that He does for me. To show my gratitude and love, and yet I've found that i'm in a lot of debt, still-- And forever will be. I have come to recognize,witness and recall miricles past and present in my life, and i am so grateful and so happy because i know that this is the Lord's true church inwhich happiness on this earth, and in the life to come really does exisist. i love this gospel! i love you all. take care-Sis. Sopoaga.
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Mission from God Mormon missionaries share message By ROBIN MICHENER NATHAN The Times------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------Robin Michener Nathan The Times Sisters Lacey Rasmussen and Beatrice Sopoaga chat with congregants before services begin in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Riverside Drive on Oct. 29. The Gainesville area has three LDS congregations, one Hispanic, with approximately 1,000 members in all.To view more photos, click here.Sisters Beatrice Sopoaga, 22, and Lacey Rasmussen, 21, are making their way around Hall County, knocking on doors and asking to talk about God.The two missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spend their highly structured days studying, praying and walking as they attempt to spread their message to the community. Both have previously served around Georgia, but say they enjoy their time in Gainesville."It's very diverse," said Sopoaga, who is from Sa'a Apu, Samoa. "There is a lot of the country and a lot of the city. It is its own little culture and people are very sincere."Missionaries are assigned to one area for their entire stay, 18 months for women and 24 months for men. Rasmussen, from Highland, Utah, is an exception. She serves primarily in Nauvoo, Ill., at a church historic site as a tour guide. When the site closed for the winter, she came to Georgia."They have been warmly received," said Randall Browning, the mission president for the Georgia Atlanta North Mission. "Gainesville is a wonderful community. There are a lot of people of faith."Sopoaga and Rasmussen follow strict guidelines. They call home only twice a year, watch no TV and do not listen to the radio. They wake every morning at 6:30 a.m. to exercise and study before going out into the community at 10 a.m. They knock on doors or follow up with people until 5 p.m. They stop for lunch and for dinner with a member of the LDS church. Other than breaks for food, all day every day is spent trying to think of ways to bring their message to people."The Lord helps us say and do things for other people," Rasmussen said.According to Browning, the Mormon Church is the fastest growing in the world. Much of credit goes to 53,000 LDS missionaries assigned to the 342 mission areas. "A lot of life's lessons are learned while they do the work," he said.The young people learn budgeting, how to live and work with a companion and a stronger sense of self-discipline. In addition, they grow in their own faith."Hearing other peoples' concern about religion really opens your mind to further questions and understanding of faith and the Gospel," Rasmussen said. "Learning from others and their concerns lets me reevaluate what I know and learn and grow."Both women have been encouraged to serve missions by their families. One of Rasmussen's brothers served a mission, and missionaries converted Sopoaga's parents in the '70s."They were given the invitation and the opportunity to learn and to know for themselves," Sopoaga said. "So, I came to share it with others."The sisters expect to stay in Gainesville until early 2007.Originally published Sunday, December 3, 2006

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talofa! well this week was AWSOME!! we had a baptism saturday, the man is 54yrs. old and he's been in and out of prison and is now on probation. He made a promise to God that he'll do anything and wi...
Posted by Rivkah on Thu, 25 May 2006 05:26:00 PST

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hey everyone! im in elberton georgia.
Posted by Rivkah on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:33:00 PST