Xinien keyle

                                                     

That means Happy New Year in Chinese!!

Wow y'all what an adventure it has been being in a trio here. It's

been in a word, Legendary. And I cannot believe a week has gone

by...... ok so the update on my life. It's good! We are working hard

and fast and furiously. Joseph is getting closer and closer to baptism

but he has to tell his family! We are hoping that he'll get that

courage soon. Also Jason is doing good! Working on repentance, which

we all know is hard so keep him in your prayers too. Ann is doing

amazing. She is praying about baptism this week and we know she is

going to take some convincing but there’s nothing the spirit can't do.

So she'll be fine. We were a little worried about Siv because he had

kinda dropped off the face of the planet but then we went to a Chinese

New Year celebration at the church and he was there!! He looked pretty

upset so we ate good food with him and practiced our Chinese writing

and it cheered him up a bit. I can imagine just a tiny bit of what

these boys are going through leaving their homes and families and

going to a foreign land but my land isn't as foreign as theirs.

Something that I really wanted to work on this week was my faith, and

knowledge in the gospel. Mainly because I wanted to apply the things

that I have been learning more, and I realized how much faith that is

taking. It's really intriguing the correlation between faith and

knowledge because as we know, "faith is not to have a perfect

knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things

which are not seen, which are true." Alma 32:21 once we exercise our

faith and put the trust that is needed in Heavenly Father and his

will, we gain experience and it turns into a perfect knowledge. Faith

and knowledge are necessary in order to have a strong testimony and it

is amazing to be sharing that with the people that I meet here.

I hope you all had a fantastic week :) thanks for being so awesome.

Love ya

Sister Plumb

1. Going to the temple with Joseph and Sister Hernandez

2. Last pic/jam sesh with my girl Sister Z

3. Sister Barney’s birthday!

4. Zone pic

5. Chinese New Year!

I'll Be What You Want Me to Be

Hey y'all! I really don't have anytime. It was transfers this last

week. Sister Zollinger is no longer with me. :( she has actually gone

to my old stomping ground in Huntington. And guess who's back to be my

last companion?? Sister Briscoe!! Haha that's right! My baby girl is

gonna kill me (Mission language). And not only that. But it takes two

to bring me down. That's right. We are in a trio!! Sister Barney is

coming down from Azusa to be in a trio with us! Oh my goodness y'all

this is going to be such an amazing last 6 weeks.... I can't believe

that has all gone by.

Sister Zollinger and I sang with Neil this week in sacrament meeting.

I'm gonna try to send the video of us practicing. Hope y'all can see

it. Please excuse the singing....

Also went to the temple with Joseph. He's so ready to be baptized.

He's amazing. Also taught Ann this week :) and taught her grandson

Patrick how to read from the children's Book of Mormon and we are

going to be seeing her more.

Well talk to you later!

Have a wonderful week! Also stay dry because I'm not.

Sister Plumb

Letter from Dad / Called to be a Sister Trainer Leader in Last Area like her Papa was...

Hello Sister Plumb,

That is so exciting about Richard getting baptized. It's amazing the change of heart he was able to have. So you baptized the Brother of Bobby? What is his name? It must hard to say, kind of like the Brother of Jared if you are referring to him as the Brother of Bobby:)

I know you don't want to hear this, but Mom has a missionary count down for you and instead of cruising for the next 44 days, I'm sure you are prayerfully thinking about what other miracles God has in store for you to experience as a blessed missionary in the Arcadia, CA mission. My second to last month I was a Zone Leader with another missionary, Elder Worthington, who was going home the next transfer and he would talk to his girlfriend in the middle of the night and try to do as little as possible during the days by faking sick or just letting me know he lost all motivation. I lost it with him one day and told him I could not agree with him more about be excited for him to go home so that I can resume and enjoy a productive last month of my mission.  Elder Worthington I think was a good missionary most his mission, but joining him in his area as a Zone leader his last month was not a great experience and I felt like I had failed to motivate a missionary who went home trunky. My last month of my mission turned into a month extension where I got a chance to train a really good missionary for two months and continue as Zone Leader, so basically I felt like that lost month of trying to get my trunky companion out to work never counted against me. Whatever you do, finish strong and don't extend a month like I did.

Calvin will be talking to the Bishop today about getting his papers started for his mission. Calvin is a really good kid and he surprises me with how good he is, but he also struggles a lot with motivation. I know we all have our struggle at times, I'm just hoping and praying his issues don't keep him from going on a mission. Calvin and Jack do not treat each very good, but I was really impressed with Calvin the other day when we were playing football with the Lamberts and a few other kids. Playing with the Lamberts is got competitive and Calvin and I get competitive against each other. Calvin and Jack were playing on the same team and we were killing them and Calvin kept yelling at Jack for making mistakes to the point I decided to trade Tyson Lambert for Jack. Jack got on my team and I don't get mad at anyone for making mistakes like not catching a ball, but I did start yelling at Jack for not hustling and trying hard. At the end of the game, I was a little hard on Jack and while driving to the Shell station to get drinks, I heard Calvin ask Jack if he was all right and apologized for giving him a hard time. I could not believe Calvin: A) Apologized to anyone B) Showed concern for Jack by asking if he was alright C) Recognized someone was feeling bad and felt bad enough for that person to ask if they were OK. One of the proudest moments of the year for me as a dad. I had to apologized to Jack for getting on him, but it took the example of Calvin for me to do it.

We are still praying all the time for you. Thanks for being such a great example to the family.

Love you,

Dad.

Hey Dad!

The brother Bobby ah yes. A very complicated name haha his name is

Brian. So sorry I never added his name in there!

We just had transfer calls on Saturday. And we got a call that I

really wasn't expecting my last transfer.... usually the zone leaders

call us when we are getting transfers but this time we got a call from

the APs and they told sister Zollinger that she was going to

Huntington with Sister Barrus and that I would be going to be staying

in Rowland Heights but that I would be having a new assignment as a

sister training leader and that I would be receiving 2 companions,

Sister Barney who was an STL in Azusa and Sister Briscoe who I trained

in Glendora! They said that Sister Briscoe is going through some hard

things right now and that it will be good for us to be companions so

we will see how that goes and what my role will be.

Sorry I am totally out of time! I wish I could say more and email mom

and Calvin and Jesse back but I can't :( also we have a car! Yay! You

can update everyone for me thanks!

Hope you're well! Love you lots!

Sister Plumb

Look

Hey fam,

It's clear skies and sunshine today, with a high of 67! I can't

believe it's January with weather like this, however I am jealous of

you snowboarders out there.

Richard got baptized this week! I am just so amazed! Hahaha when the

sisters first met him a while back he would always yell at them and

told them that they weren't Christian but just a couple months ago in

November when we talked to him, We got his number, invited him to

church, and he loved it! It was so funny because every lesson we would

start off with him he would be totally against it at first, but as we

explained things to him, and he asked questions he understood why, and

by the end of the lesson he would be 110% cool with it. No joke. It's

amazing what the gospel can do. Now the elders tell us that he is

being an awesome missionary and inviting everyone he sees to church

and to listen to the missionaries.

If you all remember Bobby, he is the guy that we always have to bike

up monstrous hills to see, but then ended up not being interested. His

brother got baptized the same day as Richard! And so now a member who

is friends with his mom said that his mom (her name is Ann) wants us

to teach her! So we gonna take on some monstrous hills this week.

Bring it on.

Ok let's see what else's happened..... hopefully you all are

interested in hearing about these people. They all are so amazing and

they teach me things everyday. Speaking of that! We saw Jason again

this week! Twice! And he came to church! I don't think he realizes how

interested in the gospel he is. When we were teaching him the

restoration this week, and we told him about Joseph smiths first

vision. He said, "wait a second, so Joseph Smith wasn't looking to

start a church, he just wanted to know which one was true." The spirit

hit me like a ton of bricks. Even though I have taught the

restoration, and have said the same thing that Jason has said to so

many people, and I knew it was true before. I could feel that he knew

it was true, and he was able to reconfirm to me that this is Christ's

true church on the earth today, because it was formed by man. It was

restored through a humble prophet of God.

I just think its miraculous the way we find people here in Rowland

Heights. Every area is different. That's for sure. But in Rowland

Heights we talk with EVERYONE. Even if they don't speak English. We

try to speak Spanish or Chinese or Korean as best we can to them. I

know the Lord sees our efforts and the true intents of our hearts in

everything that we do. All we have to do is look for those moments he

gives us to lift someone up and to share with them that which they

stand in need of.

We will be going to the temple this Saturday with Joseph! Also it's

transfer calls this week. Sister Zollinger really want to stay

together just one more!!

Hope you all have good week! Be warm. Remember who you are.

Sister Plumb