Shayla Tilton's Mission Blog: Moving time! Conference Time!!! :)

Hey y'all!!

So Happy Birthday to Kylee and Brielle!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My gosh! I cant believe Brie is already one and I HAVENT MET HER YET!!! So crazy! hope the parties were fab!

So my good gosh we had a crazy week!! First, we got a new truck. And can I say it is a beaut! I love trucks! I will one day have one...except it'll be bigger ;) I definitely feel spoiled on the mission. It's sad to think that we had an 'old truck' ...and it was a 2011. That's not old!! Now we have a 2014. God definitely takes care of his servants!

And then we moved. And let me tell you, we did it all!!!! Besides the office elders and Elder and Sister Moss and a couple men in the ward bringing in our beds and desks and kitchen and bathroom supplies. But it's amazing how much stuff missionaries collect and leave at the apartment....especially sisters! We have like 3 huge bags and boxes of clothing...not cute may I add :p It took awhile to pack, clean, and get everything from one apartment to the other with just one truck. It seems like that's all we did this weekend besides watching Conference!!!! Which. *sigh* It was amazing! I missed doing missionary work though, your day feels so much better than just cleaning and moving. But our apartment is pretty nice, but cluttered at the moment. It's no bueno living in a complex when now I'm used to country roads. I will say, I miss my morning runs of land and longhorns :p #texaslife

Back on Conference! It was AMAZING!!!! I just love hearing the words of our prophet! We went to the Harrison's house for alllllllllll 4 session! And they fed us saturday lunch an dinner and sunday breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Wow they will be blessed! :) They are such an awesome family!!!!!!!! I love them!!! So one thing I thought was interesting is that this conference was more geared to other topics that what we've been having the past couple conferences. They didn't completely focus on missionary work BUT it was still in there! Always :) And priesthood rights and just other things. The main thing I saw and felt was to BUILD OUR FOUNDATIONS! Helaman 5:12 was quoted AT LEAST a billion times :p ok not that much. But still!!!! And they focused on seeking TRUTH! Why do we never think of this before??! Seeking for Truth in ourselves, others, religion, society, EVERYTHING is so much better than looking for fault or wrong. Why do we do this? Because we are naturally human and naturally retarded so we like to look for wrong and fault. Come on people! Why not be positive seekers? It gets us somewhere, it gets us UP! Lynn G. Robbins said: "Never forget which way to look" and that way is to God. Christ = perfect example! He never lost focus of his purpose and his direction. It was ALWAYS to the Father! So lets take this to heart and apply it to our lives, shall we?! Rather than trying to walk where the Savior walked, lets walk AS the Savior walked! :) The gospel is just TRUE! word.

Anyways, we contact a couple referrals this week and it was great! Two are new investigators! One media and one member referral, both big Texas talkers! I wonder if it's this bad everywhere, I've just never noticed it before I came to Texas. But it's a pretty real thing here. People just LOVEEEE to talk! But as we meet with them this week we are hoping for a great Spirit-led lesson. I just love seeing the members be excited about their experiences sharing the gospel. They are filled with such a greater light. :)

We met with Chuck this week as well, he is doing great! He watched General Conference and we are looking forward to hearing his thoughts on it but we talked to him about prophets and he said he believes that Joseph Smith is a prophet and is...pretty close to baptism. We asked him to take the question of baptism in mind as he watched conference so we hope he received an answer.

Charlie was doing good at the beginning of this week but then a couple things happened in his family and people around him so he turned back to the alcohol. So sad! He didn't watch conference either which was even a more bummer BUT we're not losing hope!

Miguel is being worked on hard by Satan. He's always so busy and never texts us back but we did meet with him and talked about enduring and keeping the Sabbath day holy. He committed to keep it holy but didn't watch conference either. What the heck man?! What is causing him to lose sight of something he wants so much for him and his family? It just makes sense to live it. I'm so glad I was raised in the gospel and wish so badly that others could only understand how important it is!!!

We met with MaryAnn(LA) this week and taught her the Restoration and it was a nice refresher for her because she couldn't remember a lot of it. But it all made sense to her and her husband (got married Oct 3) was starting to ask questions about prayer and things...he's seeing it :)

Also met with Sister Powell(LA) and she's doing great! She had a little bit of a meltdown because of some things that are weighing her down but she watched the Saturday morning session and felt great about everything and that everything that was spoken was meant for her. She even told us that the first thing she did when she woke up was read her scriptures, then had her coffee :p apparently she always has her coffee first, but she saw a huge difference having it after...haha I love it! :) She's hilarious!! she's growing so much though, its amazing!

Ok! Well that's all for today! Have a blessed week! God bless! :)

Sister Tilton :)

pics: new truck! goodbye Russell and hello Grubber Donner Cantis...or I call him Stetson cuz its manlier, or Grubbs... its white and can see every bit of dirt! #trytocatchus #ridindirty #whiteandnerdy

At the Mailhots! Liahona and Ammon both in time out....funniest thing EVER!!! haha it was hilarious! They are the cutest!!

Our nightly run view....at our old house! I miss it!

Haha I mean our morning run :p that's the view of us....scrubbin it up! #itscoldnow

Buddy! The Gillespie's dog! he's a cutie! pet#2 on the mission :p

Moving with all our stuff in the truck! We had noooooooooo room!!!!

Brother and Sister Harrison pampering us! :) LOVE THEM! Did I tell yall that I served with them in the Denton YSA ward last year?! They were single then ;p jk! haha he was in the bishopric!