Living in Liberty!

Hey guys!!

On Thursday we had transfers and I moved to LIBERTY MISSOURI!! I'm gonna miss my Kansas friends but I'm excited to be here in Missouri. We're right by the Kansas City Temple and Liberty Jail so I feel extra lucky. The first part of the week I said bye to all my friends in Gardner. My friend Nova, who we taught previously, gave me a Bible with my named engraved on it!! I almost started bawling my eyes out and all her kids gave me a ton of drawings and it was so precious. I'll put photos below of me and Nova and Basil her oldest daughter. I also said bye to Staci and our recent convert Earron. They were all so precious and I'm glad I got to see all of them before I left. 

I also had to say bye to Sister Kington and I'm gonna miss her so much!! My new comp is Sister Asper and she's so cool. Being a Sister Training Leader is so fun and I'm excited to get to know the Sisters in the zone better. Our apartment is really fancy and we don't live in our area because there's no apartments there so we just drive there everyday. Finding new people to teach is kinda different here. We're in a pretty wealthy area so sometimes people don't want to talk to us and we just have to keep trying lol. When I came on Thursday we only had one person in our teaching pool but now we have 7 so that's exciting!! We just talked to LITERALLY EVERYONE and even though a lot of people said no, we got the rare few that were interested which made me happy. 

I don't normally do spiritual thoughts at the end of my email but I've been having some really powerful studies lately and I just wanted to talk about the power of the Holy Spirit!! I was reading Alma 5-9 and it talks about Alma'a experiences as a missionary and how hard it was to convert those that had already hardened their hearts and wouldn't listen. As missionaries we get shut down a lot and there's a lot of people that tell us we're wrong. But we just have to do what Alma did, he just straight up testified to them and realized it's the Spirit that's going to change their hearts and they have to choose to listen. It's amazing how no one can argue with a testimony. I've had too many spiritual experiences to deny the Book of Mormon and its changed my life for the better so I'm so grateful I can share it with others. I love sharing this gospel with everyone we meet and seeing how it can bless their lives. The Holy Spirit is what truly helps us gain that testimony and confirm what's true and I'm so grateful for it. 

Love and miss you all!!

-Sister Ogden💟

Also here's a link to Google photos if y'all want to join:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qSs2wNuWwULfC4fY9