Sister Massey's Journey - India Bangalore Mission

Hi, This past week we had a great time with our ward members. We met a very cute family last week. they have 2 daughters and they live RIGHT BEHIND our stake center. They came for English class and that's how we met them.  Ramanama is doing well. She didn't come to church last Sunday though. We have planned visits with her this week and are excited to be working with her.  We had a zone conference last week so our whole zone was together. We have 19 missionaries in our zone which make us the biggest zone in the mission. We all love working together and learn a lot from each other. I have attached a picture of our zone with this email. Yesterday i gave a talk in our ward. It was the longest talk i have ever given! but it was fun.I was impressed by the spirit to talk about my favorite hymn, hymn #219  Because i have been given much. I talked about the last verse in the hymn that says, "Because i have been blessed by thy great love dear Lord. I'll sh...

Hi, Guess what? I went proselyting in Bangalore last week!! So we were there for a training and President suggested that as we had a whole extra day there we could go and meet some families. SO we did and it was the sweetest experience. Some people we couldn't meet because they were busy but we did meet Dina (the girl in the picture) and Brother Vishnu's family. his wife was just baptized 3 months ago. It was so good to see these people. Dina shared with us how she is wanting to be a missionary like us once she is done with her studies and we were able to give her some suggestions and shared our experiences that made her more excited and gave her a clearer picture of what we do as missionaries. Then we met brother Vishu's family. We shared about temples with them and loved knowing about how excited his wife is for their family to visit the temple one day and be sealed to her family not only for this life but for the life after death as well. In Rajahmu...

Hello! How is everyone?? We are still in Vizag and are loving it here. The weather is a lot better now as the monsoons have started so we almost have a nice cool breeze. We are teaching 2 men whose wives and kids are all members. In fact one them has a daughter who is serving a mission right now.It is so amazing to see how strong their wives and and their kids are in the gospel and how much hope they have for their husbands to accept the gospel in their lives. We will be going back to Rajahmundry this week and we are excited to meet people there and to learn more about them. I am happy and healthy :)) Love, Sister Massey 

Hello! First of all sorry for not writing last week. These last 2 weeks were so good! We were able to serve in Rajahmundry in a trio. We met some wonderful people too. One of them is the Balakrishna Family. We had a restoration lesson with them that went so well. We felt the spirit so strong in the room when Sister Kongu was sharing the first vision. She did hat in Telugu but as she did that it was testified to us that it doesn't matter what language we speak, the holy ghost can touch, speak and testify to all of us of the truth. We also witnessed a miracle!! So last Sunday I was greeting everybody in church and as I went up to greet sister Seerapu she told me that her son was coming to Rajahmundry on the 24th (which meant they could have been baptized because they were waiting for their son to come and baptize them) So i immediately asked her if they were thinking about baptism still and she said yes, hey were. I couldn't believe it! This is the couple that ...

This was a crazy week! We had no clue how we were going to manage both areas but as we did it this week and it seems possible now. We were able to meet a lot of people here in Vizag. It is good to have two support systems for a few days. We are excited to go back to Rajahmundry and work with Sister Kongu there. Our investigators in Rajahmundry are doing good. We are working on ways that can help them better understand the purpose of this life so they can be more willing to follow Christ into the water. Last week I got to know that one of the recent converts in rajahmundy passed away and it shook me a little. He had 2 kids, I think, and the older one is just 17-year-old young women. I knew that the Plan of Salvation is real but at that moment it made me doubt it. I couldn't stop thinking about her and her family. Plus, them being recent converts I was afraid that they will move away from the church. My companions assured me that Lakshmi's dad is safe and is really in the spirit...

  Hii, I hope you all are well hydrated this summer! i am doing my best myself :P  We had a lot of new things happen this past week. Sister Waghmare and I found out that one of our investigators speaks Hindi so we had 2 appointments teaching in Hindi. I never thought i would ever be teaching my native language. It made me realise that God always provides us with ways to keep doing His work if we really have the desire to. I am in a tri-companionship now with Sister Waghmare and Sister Kongu(my MTC companion) and we are serving in rajahmundry and in Vizag! We're excited to see how this works out! Yesterday we had the opportunity to attend one of the fist Stake conferences in the Rajahmundry Stake. It was wonderful to see so many faithful saints gathered here in Rajhamundry! They came from Kakinada, Dowleshweram and here. I was so happy to see and have short conversations with some of them! I know tha Heavenly Father has great things in store for the saints in Indi...

Namaskaram :P This last week was precious. As a mission we got to meet a special witness of the divinity of Jesus Christ. It was a beautiful experience and i sure got to learn a lot. The spirit was so strong that i couldn't hold my tears the whole time. Sister Mortensen inspired me a lot! I got a lot o answers to my prayers through her short talk that day. It gave a testimony that prayers do get answered and that God really is there and is ALWAYS listening to what we are saying.  It was such a delight to be in the same room as an apostle of Jesus Christ. I will always cherish the memory of conducting the music when an apostle visited our mission.  I was nervous of being picked on by Elder Cook and not being able to answer the right thing and all that but as soon as he started talking certain calm came upon me and i knew that the holy spirit was there and that even if he asks me something, that i will be fine. It felt so good in my heart when he was addressing us al...