Cast #4

Hey everyone!

Highlights of this week include meeting my new comp/trainee Sister Haymond and she is awesome! She's from Pleasant Grove and fun fact went to school with Quentin L. Cook's grand daughter. So training has been fun, we're busy which is good. 

Today we went to this SUPER fancy mall which was fun and also this week I got a green cast. And this is my last one so that is fun.

And that's about it! I love you all! Tell someone who you love that you love them! 

Sister Seibert

Trainer

26 Feb 2020 



Dear Sister Seibert,



Thank you for accepting the call to serve as a Trainer in the Florida Ft. Lauderdale Mission. Please know that this call was issued as a result of my prayers to our Heavenly Father to guide me to those whom He would have serve in this assignment. The first and most important call I take to the Lord in every transfer is who He can trust to train these new missionaries.



A missionary's first companion has a lasting influence on the development of their attitude and habits. The first companion can help a new missionary be successful and productive from the beginning of the mission to the end. Your efforts as a trainer will have a life-long and eternal consequence in the life of your companion. Your example should also demonstrate the joy that comes to the missionary who is effective at finding, teaching, testifying and baptizing. Your example should be that of exact obedience and devotion to the mission. If you will focus your attention in the mission and encourage your companion to do the same, you will have increased success in baptisms.



To help the missionary adapt to missionary life, please read the Missionary Handbook together as often as necessary and explain how it applies. You should follow the daily schedule diligently and have exact obedience in all mission rules. Carefully study together "For New Missionaries: Additional Companion Study" found in The Introduction to Preach My Gospel and apply all principles to the work. 



Help your new companion develop basic missionary skills by using the training model: explain the skill you are teaching, demonstrate examples of how to correctly teach a principle or use a skill with roll plays, practice the skill repeatedly and evaluate after each practice exercise.



Use daily and weekly companion planning meetings to help your companion set goals and evaluate progress. Make sure that they participate as a contributing member of the companionship. In that way, you and your companion will develop stronger faith in Jesus Christ and love for missionary service.



Thank you again for accepting this sacred assignment as a Trainer. Please know that I love you and that I look forward to celebrating with you the success of your companionship!



Sincerely,







Jerryl L. Garns

Mission President

Llama Cast

Hey everyone!

This week was good! I got my third cast/half cast thing on and this one looks like a llama if you turn it right bc of the way the Dr. set my fingers.

Friday at Flamingo Gardens we weeded a lily patch and grasses we were pulling smelled like chives so for the rest of the day my fingers smelt like chives. And dirt. Also on Friday we brought one of the young women in our ward ice cream because she got her wisdom teeth out. That's never fun. (Getting wisdom teeth out not taking ice cream to people)

Saturday morning we had breakfast with a family in out ward and had chocolate chip pancakes which were delish. And then later we went and knocked on a family that sister McArthur found while on exchanges and she invited us in for lunch so we had some nachos with a random family which was fun.

Sorry there's nothing to exciting this week, except I found out yesterday I'm actually training a new missionary this transfer!!! So that's really exciting. In our house all of us will be really new on the mission- none of us have been here even 6 months yet.
And the funniest thing that happened this week is that there was a roach in our room and it was quite the process to get it. There's a 13 minute video of us killing it haha.

Oh and I went fishing for the first time this morning! I casted with my cast haha. Pics to follow. Sadly I didn't catch any. And that's about it! Oh and the elders switched cars with us yesterday so we got to drive their truck for the day which was awesome.

Love you all!
Sister Seibert

Big Hearts and Thick Casts

Hey everyone!

This week was awesome! And as always filled with embarrassing moments so here is your weekly dose of Sister Seibert embarrassing herself.

Tuesday started off with Sister Mcarthur and I going to a relief society activity which was cooking club. But when they announced it in Sunday I'm pretty sure they said cooking class and to bring something with red (even if it was just sprinkled in) to share. So I didn't want to show up empty handed and thought it was a dessert thing so iiii brought Coco Krispies with red sprinkles but it was cooking cLUb so everyone else brought uber fancy dishes to share and everyone was sitting down and complimenting each others stuff and asking for recipes. No one asked for my recipe. I can't figure out why

Valentines day was fun. Sister Slade made heart pancakes before I had to go to the dr. In the pics you can see my claw- just like my uncle Reed. Sister Mcarthur and I went to Miami to get a cast and it was a children's Dr. so we walked in and the waiting room and it was filled with kids with casts so that was also embarrassing. But I got a cool cast so it's all good.

Yesterday one of the ladies from our ward came our knocking with us then took us out to dinner which was really fun. She got the full missionary experience- people saying they weren't interested, people shaking their finger no through the door(my personal fave), and a man just telling us all he thought was wrong with this country for close to an hour.

This morning the missionaries in our zone went to the pier to watch the sunrise which was so fun and beautiful! We had homemade breakfast burritos after at a park which was also really fun. And we also played kickball and I was the pitcher bc I couldn't really do anything else but I ended up catching one of the elders kicks! Which surprised everyone including myself haha.

I challenge all of you to do a simple act of service for someone you love today! There's a lot of bad in the world but we can still do good! :)

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Love,
Sister Seibert

I Got A Bracelet with My Name on It

Hey everyone!

The big news this week is...
Paul had a birthday! And I broke my hand in 2 places! And we moved apartments! So big week all around.

So last Monday we were playing soccer and I was goalie which was already a bad idea and an elder kicked it and jammed my fingers and apparently broke my hand.

Tuesday we went to the temple then moved for the rest of the day which made for a long day. We did get a free pizza though, but I still wouldn't recommend moving apartments with a broken hand. But our new apartment is SO nice so we are all excited.

Thursday we got the news that my hand was officially broken. I tried to make a joke to the x-ray Dr. to try and lessen the awkwardness of a man putting an x-ray apron over me but he did not get it which made the situation even more awk. But the nurse who put on my half cast thing was super nice and thought Sister Mcarthur and I were funny. But he also was in the last hour of his 12 hour shift so he might not have been all there.

Also side note we are at a park right now and within the time of me writing this email I have seen a turtle, a bunch of baby ducks, and a bird pooped on me. This week has been a wild ride.

Yesterday at church Sister Mcarthur and I sang in the ward choir! Sister Mcarthur is so cool- her voice is so deep that she sings bass haha. Also in church our Bishop spoke about the power of the book of Mormon and it was a good reminder of how powerful it really is. When we read the Book of Mormon it helps us with whatever we are going through in life.

Alrighty love you all and hope y'all have a great week!

Love,

Sister Seibert 

Also Sister Mcarthur braided my hair so I looked like a boxer Saturday night

Faith Filled February

Hey everyone!!! 

I hope all of y'all had a great first days of February!! This year is already going by so fast, wild. 

This week was awesome. We had a zone activity which involved a nerf gun battle and I got the gun that didn't shoot very well so that combined with my awful aim and strategy wasn't good. But we won the second round. 

This week we also had exchanges for a day so I got to spend the day with Sister Wakefield who I lived with in North Miami Beach. So that was so fun! I love her, she is from Mesquite which is so funny bc I know this is awful but honestly I didn't think normal people lived in mesquite. But there is! We talked to two kind of crazy but really nice people that day. 

We also had dinner with a member at Panera on Thursday and we had a fun conversation about 80s music. Scott likes Bruce Springsteen. 

I also got to go knocking in a trio this week which was fun.

And Saturday we did a 9er 9er which means we go out knocking doors from 9am to 9 pm. So they're long days but they're fun because our zone had a scavenger hunt competition and me and Sister Mcarthur won!!! I know there wasn't any doubt in anyone's minds. I play to win. We also went to 5 guys and I ordered my first hamburger in Florida and it was delish. 

And then Sunday we had dinner with a member whose house backs up to the everglades!!! So that was SO cool. Super nice view from their backyard. 

This week I was thinking about how everyone has a different religion but really they're all so similar. And not even religion but people's life philosophies. We just all need to always try to be better. It's worth the work! And we're in it together. There's a super cute video that I saw in 7th grade. If you search 'kid president pep talk' on YouTube it should come up. There's a part in it where he says 'and if life is a game arent we all on the same team?' Which I love. So be kind and try to be better. Anyway I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!!!

Love, 

Sister Seibert

The Everglades (not really but closest I'll ever get)

And 2 of so many pics from our scavenger hunt 9er 9er

Tough Crowd

Hey everyone!!!!

Sorry for the lack of an email I was too busy playing kickball. And if you're worried that that is not a good enough excuse I was sore for two days after bc I have never ran that fast in the past two years probably. I also still have a bruise on my leg from sliding into first (which I know you're not supposed to do but when a strong elder has the ball and can get you out by throwing it at you, usually ducking is my reaction.) Also I found out that people getting out because they don't know the pop fly tag your base rule isn't something that goes away after elementary school

But things have been good! The highlights from knocking doors include a lady yelling at us from her two story window she couldn't come to the door because she had 'take a bath my loves' and then at another door this lady opened and was taking out her dogs and I thought she was wearing slippers with a weird design so I said 'I like your shoes!" Only to realize she was wearing socks and flip flops... oops.

Also this week at flamingo gardens we got to go weed 'the jungle' which was fun. There was a weed there called 'wandering jew' and sister Slade and I made so many jokes about that which were so funny. 

Sister mcArthur and I spoke in church yesterday and talk about a tough crowd- I THOUGHT I put like 5 jokes in my talk but apparently the right number was zErO because literally no one laughed. Which made me laugh. But then the third speaker REPEATED one of my jokes and everyone laughed. So that was great. But then after church one of the ladies from the congregation told us that we were funny and she said she was trying not to laugh, so I am just going to assume everyone in the congregation was that way and was secretly laughing very hard. 

My talk was about making the choice to change and become a better person. And how the gospel is really simple. We just choose to follow christ and it brings joy. We know what's right and wrong. So choose the right! I love and miss yall!!!! Hope you have a great week.

Love,

Sister Seibert

Pics include my comp and the house after we got ice cream at McDonald's