Sister Rozlyn Hilton

This week was honestly pretty slow, but we survived!! There were so many cool things that happened this week! To start, we ate squirrel at a members house that he shot himself!! I chomped pretty hard on 2 pellets that he used to shoot the squirrels, so that was fun haha! It tasted like chicken kinda! Then right after dinner we went and fed an alligator turtle haha.  The most stressful part of the week was filming for a video devotional that we are working on as an SMS team. We had to film audio for a music video, we had to film the actual footage, and then we also had to film member testimonials for the devotional as well. It was a lot of filming, but it was so much fun to have time to play the cello and work on SMS stuff.  Another miracle that happened this week was we had a prompting to visit a person that we have never met, so we did, and we talked with her and her friend named MaryEllen. They were both not interested in the church at all and told us they would never conver...

I actually really enjoyed this week!! We got a lot done and it went by quickly. We taught so many lessons and we got to talk to tons of people with all sorts of different backgrounds. One of my favorite things to do as a missionary is to visit less active members. I don't know what it is about it, but its definitely at the top of my list of favorite things to do. I love hearing their stories and helping them come back to the safe and peaceful environment that the church offers. So I made lots of time this week to visit them! This week wasn't too eventful, other than having exchanges and getting yelled at by a lady that told us to never come back to the apartment again😅 (we're going back cuz we are teaching someone in the apartment complex). Oh and we had zone conference on Tuesday! It was my 3rd zone conference, which means I have 9 left. Kinda crazy!  I really love this area, and I'm becoming very attached to the people. I'm hoping to stay at least another transfe...

This was a good week! I was really bad about journaling, so I can't quite remember exactly everything that happened, but here's a few things:) 1) We got a new branch presidency for the YSA and the president is super cool! He comes to all the activities which is fun! 2) there is a less active family that we went and visited last week, and we talked with the mom for a little bit, and she was going thru a lot. She mentioned her birthday being on the 6th, so we came back this week and brought her a card and some flowers, and it made her so happy! It was really sweet to see:) serving is addicting!  3) we also drove a while to go visit someone in our area book who we have never meet to give her a cookie pie and she how she'd doing. She was so touched that we came to visit, and we even got to come back a few days later to have a lesson with her! Her name is Kayla and she is a young single mother of a year old baby and she is seriously the sweetest girl ever. I really hope she prog...

This has actually been a pretty awesome week! Miracles have definitely happened. One of the things that was the highlight, was that we were able to get our friend Claire on date to be baptized! Claire is the sweetest human ever. She is from the phillipines and was super curious about our church after the missionaries accidentally called her when they were given the wrong number by someone else. It has been so cool teaching her because when we first started teaching her, you could tell that there was a lot of confusion in her life and she was missing something. The more we taught her about the restored gospel, the more she got curious and excited to learn more. It was SO cool to witness that! She is doing so much studying on her own, and that has made her progression so much quicker. I love her soooo much!! On the flip side, I got so so so sick on tuesday and wednesday. Tuesday it was bad, I was struggling to breath on the couch during a zoom and I felt like garbage, so my comps said i ...

I got to go to the temple!!! It was the highlight of my mission so far. I can't explain the happiness I felt there. I cried pretty hard walking out of the temple, cuz I didn't want to leave. It's so peaceful and worry-free in the temple, and I wish I could have sat in there for forever. We got to go because Sam was going through for her first time and she wanted me to come with her (and of course, if I go my companions come with me). So I got to be her escort which was the coolest experience ever!  I felt so lucky that I had that opportunity. The next time I have that opportunity probably won't be until I have my own kid going through, which won't be for another 25 years or so. So I soaked up the entire experience! There were many tears and lots of smiles:) the drive there and back was a total of 5 hours, but with stops and dinner, it was about 7 hours of traveling.  So for those of you near a temple, DONT take it for...

Sister Christensen is gone😥 being in a trio is a lot different but it is so much fun!  This week has been a lot of teaching and feeling like I'm a chicken with my head cut off. I know I'm working hard, but it's getting really overwhelming having to run the area. My companions are following my lead cuz I know that area and I have to train them how to do ads, and it's hard haha. Once 9 hits, I'm so mentally tired that I fall asleep at my desk. But I'm grateful everyday for the small successes, cuz there are several failures throughout the day😅 it amazes me that president Graham and God trust me to do what I'm doing, cuz I feel so underqualified sometimes. But it's a good thing I have the best companions to keep me going thru the day!! This entire week I feel like God blessed me with eyes to see potential in people. I visited a lot of inactive members and and I made a list of the people I could see going to the temple for the first time this transfer. It ...

Transfer calls!!!!! Quick story time, remember back to the first night i flew to Knoxville and I was having a super rough time feeling ignored by the other missionaries at the airport, and then i spent that night in the hotel with Sister Garbett and she made me feel so much better because she was so kind, caring and funny? And remember when I went on exchanges last transfer with Sister Williams and we had everything in common and I said it was the most fun day of my entire mission? Well..... IM GOING TO BE IN A TRIO WITH BOTH OF THEM!!!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 I am so excited!!!! This is going to be a wild transfer 😆  On the other hand, it has been sad having to sister Christensen get ready to leave. We have had some really good times and she has taught me SO much about what it means to work HARD💪 OK so some pretty awesome stuff happened this week! We had an awesome lesson with shirly and joann and the spirit totally hijacked the lesson. We were going to teach plan of salvation, but then whe...