Sister Paige Martin. Syracuse, New York Mission

 Hello everyone!                                                                           Exchanges are always so fun! TUESDAY: Well we had some good friend lessons! And one of our members invited multiple friends to church! And we had an awesome lesson with Lisa on resurrection and judgement, though we didn't quite get to the kingdoms of glory!  but she loved it! We also had one of our returning members attend institute!  WEDNESDAY: Was a lot of fun! Our youth activity was Dodgeball! We also met a lady who one of the first things she said was you can't be Gods, and we were like ???  And she believed we worshiped Joseph Smith.... it was a very funny conversation. Helped me know this gospel is really true!  And we also met this really nice guy wh...

Hello everyone!                                                                           We put Lisa on date for baptism! TUESDAY: Well we crazy storm! And we were knocking out in it. Everyone was telling us to get inside, but as missionaries we were like we can handle this. So we kept knocking. We also had someone who we just started teaching said they were impressed by our knowledge because we were so young and he wants to introduce us to his fiancée!  And we tried to call someone who spoke pure Spanish and I am learning Spanish not enough to converse, but companion knew enough to start! There were a lot of "lo sientos" and lookups on Spanish dictionary . We then sent him to someone who spoke Spanish! WEDNESDAY: I got a blessing which was amazing! And we had a pi...

Hello Family and Friends,                                                                                                                                                                                    Exchanges! So we got notified Monday evening that we were going to be doing a music piece at Zone conference, on Wednesday.     which I've been wanting to do but having no prep time was so stressful!  TUESDAY: We played pickleball with one of our...

Happy Monday!   MONDAY: We got lots of snow! Sadly, no pictures but it was fun! Though it was gone in two days. I've been looking forward to New York's snowy winters, but Utah has had more snow than we have! TUESDAY: We had some really good lessons. One was with our new friend Matthew. We taught the Restoration and he seemed mindblown. We also visited with our recent convert Sandi, and we had planned a lesson but she needed technological help so we did that instead. Mmostly my companion. I have learned on my mission that technology and I get along less then I thought.   We then met with our most progressing friend, Lisa. And within the lesson we brought up baptism and explained the plan of salvation. She loved the plan of salvation,  but when we talked about baptism she was like, I think that's the direction I need to go! So she is praying about a baptism date! And had been coming to church!   WEDNESDAY: Well we did some service for these people from Maryland! T...

 Hello All, Pretty View In Horseheads, NY I just want you to know I really appreciate all your support and prayers for me.   TUESDAY:  We heart attacked one of our members! Which was amazing! And we had something called miracle night. Where all the missionaries jump on a call and share miracles that have been happening around the mission, I absolutely love! WEDNESDAY: So we went on a mini, 1-day exchange and I went to Owego. And while it was, awesome we had some interesting door approaches. In one they had a dog up front who would not stop barking, and because he was in their front yard we couldn't approach the door. So I yelled over the dogs loud barking and they said we could come back the next afternoon, so I beat a dog in noise, I think? . And in another house a very young child answered the door and invited us in but there were no adults in sight so we said we'd come back to that one as well.  But we were able to talk to this really nice lady and we gave he...