K so we had Zone Conference on Tuesday which was a lot of fun! President Turvey talked a lot about how we are going to have a "white Christmas" this year because of all the baptisms we will see! We talked about how we can treat our investigators as sacred gifts so they really feel the love that comes from the Gospel!

Wednesday...We got a call from President saying we needed to go down to Sunderland because one of the sisters was going to the office to stay there for a bit so that meant that we needed to be with Sister Pinther. So you know what that meant?! I got to be companions with Sister Pinther again for a week!!!! Man it was so much fun to be in a trio with Sister Ashcroft and Sister Pinther. It was seriously one of the funniest weeks of my mission! Unfortunately the three amigos are being split because President told Sister Pinther yesterday that she will be moving down to Pontefract to help out some sisters. Bless her, it's only the third week and she is moving to her third area of the transfer haha. But I'm super excited for her because I love Pontefract!!

Thursday was good because it was Thanksgiving. But it was sad because England doesn't celebrate. But I did get fed so that was good. We also went on exchange with the Chinese sisters! I was with Sister Huang and she is the cutest! She is such a stellar missionary!

Sunday was a super funny day. We went to go see one of our investigators but he wasn't in so we went and talked to a bunch of guys cleaning leaves outside his flat complex. We showed them the Light the World video and they all loved it! It was hilarious! We got three return appointments with them! One of them, his name is Kevin, we saw him yesterday and scheduled him for baptism! It's going to be a white Christmas for him!❄️ we also got stopped by this guy who just started preaching to us but it was hard to focus because he had snot dripping from his nose the whole time. Then he asked us what new information we learned from him and we told him nothing. So we taught him some things.

We had interviews yesterday so that's why I'm emailing today but interviews were really good! I always really enjoy talking to President and Sister Turvey!

Also I have a cold again.

Hope yous have a great week! Love you all!

Sister Montgomery

Zone Thanksgiving Dinner

Zone Conference

 The start of the legendary trio

We stole the Zone Leaders car

Hey hey hey it's Sister Monty!!

K. Wow. This might be a littler longer email. Sorry. Not really. Because it's going to be a good email!

So I'll start with Saturday!! WE GOT TO GO TO THE TEMPLE. Oh wow it was the most amazing experience!! It was so special to see Amanda do baptisms for those who have passed on. She absolutely loved it! I had a special experience of my own as well! I was able to be baptized for someone who I KNOW accepted the Gospel on the other side. What a neat feeling that was! The Spirit of Elijah is so precious! We got to just sit in the temple for a long time which was amazing as well! I just soaked it all in because I missed it so much! It was so fun to go back to Preston and see the MTC as well! I can't believe how time has flown! When we left I gave the temple a hug.

Then that night we got TRANSFER CALLS. I'm STAYING WITH SISTER ASHCROFT IN NEWCASTLE 🎉 We were so happy!! Also, GREAT NEWS. Sister Pinther came to the Zone!!!!!!!!!!! I was SO excited when they announced that! We haven't served around each other since I trained her!

We had to go on a three day exchange with her and her companion though this week because there was a lot going on in their companionship. Oh bless it was the craziest week. But it was so fun to spend time with her and to be her companion again!! We had so much fun reminiscing about the good ol days in Grimsby!!!!

Yesterday Lawrence was able to come to church which was SO GOOD. Rachel moved to North Shields so she is no longer in our area but we know the North Shield sisters will talk great care of her! :) plus she is still in the stake so we can go on exchange and see her so it's alright. :)

This week is THANKSGIVING. We are having a thanksgiving dinner today for p day and I'm stoked! A member is having us over on Thursday but I don't know if she remembered it's Thanksgiving but hey at least I won't have to cook. :)

Alma 26:12
12 Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.

Hope yous all have a fantastic week!!!!!!!! :)

Sister Montgomery

The temple with Amanda and the Stobbs!!💕

transfer day😭

some things never change

Hello!!!!!!!

Wow today is going to be the BEST DAY. Imma be dusting off my temple recommend today because Sister Ashcroft and I got permission to go with our recent convert Amanda to the TEMPLE.😆😆😆😍😍 This is why I am emailing today because we had to take it as our P day. I can not begin to tell you how excited I am!! It's going to be fun because that's also where the MTC is so it's going to be fun going back there as well!! Ah I'm so stoked!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😁😁 Amanda is also so excited!! She hasn't stopped talking about it!! We will also be getting transfer calls today. So I probably won't be able to tell you what happens with that until like the next Monday.🙃sorry.

This week has been good though. Pretty uneventful besides today. We are still teaching Lawrence and Rachel. Both still slowly progressing. But not much to update yous on. We found a new investigator Kevin a few days ago. Sister Ashcroft and Sister Schwendiman found him on splits. I haven't met him yet but he seems really cool!!

That's really about it for this week. The next time I get to email will probably have a lot more to tell you!

Enos 1:4
4 And my soul hungered; and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens.

Hope yous have a great week!!!

Sister Montgomery

Newcastle District!!!!!!!

Splits with Sister Tautkus!!!!!!

Sister Ashcroft: *shivering uncontrollably because it's the tundra

outside* Sister Montgomery, I dare you to get ice cream

Me: okay

Dear friends and family,

HELLOOOOO. How was your week?!? I would love to hear about it!!! I'll tell you about mine!!

So we went on exchange with the Sunderland Sisters at the beginning of this week! Sister Swartz and I helped an old couple squish down the rubbish in their bin!!! I jumped on top of it and they couldn't get over the fact that I did that in a dress.😂😂 The old man called us angels and told us he would never forget us it was the cutest thing!!

We went to MLC this Friday which was a lot of fun. It was actually a really good MLC! We talked more about vision and how we can get the missionaries to have visions of what they want to become!! Nothing exciting happened in our travels unfortunately.

Rachel had her interview this week. We feel like she still needs a bit more time to sort things out. We do feel like this is best though. We really want to make sure she is ready for it!!

Lawrence is still progressing. He fasted yesterday! He said he was really hungry by the end haha. But we were proud of him for doing it!!

That's really about it for this week.

Mosiah 23:10
10 Nevertheless, after much tribulation, the Lord did hear my cries, and did answer my prayers, and has made me an instrument in his hands in bringing so many of you to a knowledge of his truth.

Love you and miss you all!!!!!!!

Sister Montgomery

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

MLC

Breakfast at Starbucks this morning!