She's Home!

Sister Charlotte Mae Partridge has returned home from serving an honorable mission in the Indiana Indianapolis Mission.  Now we get to hear all of her wonderful stories and hear about her great adventure to the Midwest.  She has grown so much in her testimony of Christ!  She is so loving, thoughtful and kind!  We love you and are glad you are home with us!

A Life Time of Miracles

Hello Everyone,

This is a time of sad goodbyes and exciting beginnings. 

This week Sister Johnson and I were preparing for my leaving by working super hard and knocking doors when the chessboard was flipped again! 

Our lives turned into a mad dash as we learned on Saturday that Sister Johnson will be leaving as well and be going to Brownsburg with Sister Womack! Haha! 

OH! But it gets better! They are switching us out with Elders! This area is going to love the Elders or at least they should, Elders work hard and do a lot to add to whatever ward they are in. 

As for me, I will be coming home to my sweet Utah family leaving behind the family I have created here in Indiana. I have seen a life time of miracles and I am so excited to share them with all of you. I would love to hear about your mission/life miracles too, so be thinking of some!

Before I sign out I would like to share a quick one. 

Last Sunday night we got a call from an elderly sister on the very edge of our area. She has a grandson that has recently wanted to start learning about the Bible. We met up with them on Saturday and had a discussion. Something Josh said really humbled me.

Sister Johnson asked "What would it mean for you to be a Son of God?"

In my head I'm like "POWERFUL"!!! But he, humbly replied "Those would be big shoes to fill."

We are each important to Heavenly Father but we have some big shoes to fill. I fall short everyday and that is why I am so grateful for Jesus Christ. He is the ultimate big brother, without him we would "be shut out from the presence of our God, and remain with the father of lies, in misery..." 2 Ne 9:9 but because he lived "the world through him might be saved." John 3:17

I know that my Redeemer lives! And love me too! The spirit whispers this to me and tells me it is true. 

I know you will know it's true as you plead to know him too. 

Have a great summer and know that I love you, 

❤️ Sister Partridge 

Also, update: Homecoming talk will be changed to the 22nd of July because of ward conference, but if you want to come this Sunday I'll still be there! 😉Thanks friends! 

Sister Shehane and me. 

The district. 

Laney, Mya, and Marcia all came to church and Laney and Mya are now friends! 

Taz, Damian, Mya, everyone together.

 

The Reason I came out; The Plan of Salvation!

One. More. WEEEK!!!!

AWWW!!! I'M So scared!!!
I don't know if I'll be able to life without Indiana!
Hey Everyone! I love you all so much and I want you to know that I want all of you at my Homecoming if you can make it, it's been set for Sunday, July 8th, 2018 at 12:30pm
4506 East Pony Express Parkway,
EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Ut

Anyways enough of being trunky.....
This week was a miracle week for Sister Johnson and I!
1. Marcia came to Church!!!
2. Emily commited herself to read the Book of Mormon everyday!
3. Kristina is starting to understand the use of prayer and reading and both together!
4. WE GOT A MEMBER REFERRAL!!!
5. Desire had an amazing experience with the YSA sisters!!! (we had to pass her off...)

All through Sister Johnson following the spirit and pushing through the hard times, we have had so many good times!
Being such an old missionary, I feel like the big things don't really impress me anymore. Its feels great when you can be a helping hand or save someone's life but the things that I am most impressed with, now, are the little day to day simple prayers and scripture studies that we each do. Day after day, month after month, year after year we grow from a small stick into a mighty oak!

Here is an example of this I found in 1 Nephi 3:29 as Laman and Lemuel beat up Sam and Nephi an angel - AN ANGEL- appears to them! What an amazing miracle, but after that nothing changed for them. They continued in there rebel manner.
Butt! The Prophet, Lehi, did his very best to do the little things. "And it came to pass that as he read, he was filled with the Spirit of the Lord." 1N1:12
Funny how reading can change your heart and mind. These are mighty men in Jesus and each one of us can be just as awesome IF we put our trust in the Lord and read and pray sincerely everyday.
Its all the little things that build up every day. Keep doing the little things,  for those are the miracles I learn the most from.

I love you all and hope you have a wonderful wonderful week!
I will see you all soon!
All the Love in Indiana,
Sister Partridge :D

I couldn't remember if I shared this so here you go... Back from our hike at Griffy lake. 

Sister Eads hand made Sister Johnson and I dolls with our own Book of Mormon for each! I love that lady so much!

Zone conference is the best, except when you are asked to speak. 

Hello! My name is I Need Money

Hi Everyone, I am Proud to introduce to you my newest best friend,

INeedMoney (aka. Nick)

Nick was out riding his bike (that has no back tire) and yells from

across the street, asking us what we were doing. We said we are

talking with people about Jesus and he jumped up and in the gruffest

way told us to come talk to him, no not him, his dad!

Dads sitting out on the pouch taking a breather when we start into

Prophets. He cuts us off by saying "like Joseph Smith". I braced

myself for what came next but what came next I could never have been

prepared for... He's a member from St. George!

Our chat was cut short because Nick wanted us to go, but then he came with us...

So there we were knocking on doors with the bravest 7 year old I have

ever met! Nick took us to EVERY house on the block and introduced us

to EVERYONE we saw!

Nick was my saving grace this week and possibly for the month!

He showed me what a missionary should look like!

I love all of you! I'll see you soon, like in two weeks!

Love,

Sister Partridge :)

Bike rides and rain storms...

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all had an amazing week! 

My week had lots of good and lots of... learning experiences. :)

1. Bikes are to be ride'n outside, not inside.

2. When it rains... It drops cats and dogs for three straight days.

3. Repent quickly... And don't be afraid to be yourself.

4. "Ask and it shall be given, knock" and you will run into a friend that will give you the means to buy biking helmets for you and your companion.

These are just some of the minor lessons of life I feel. 

If you'd like to hear the whole story behind one of the above feel free to ask whenever, all who know me know that I love story time. The one thing that has come to my mind and keeps coming to mind is found in Hebrews 13:17-18

"Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls,... "

"Pray for us:... "

I know this might be a hard pill to swallow, I know I was for me but I know that our leaders are called of God and they know what's good for us. I love my mission president! Wouldn't trade him for the world!

I pray for him everyday and I encourage you to pray for your leaders too! Obey and pray and Heavenly Father will bless! 

I love you all so much! Have a great week and remember to read your scriptures and write down your thoughts. ~inspiration right there~

Love you 💕💞💕

Sister Partridge 

777 Sunblest Blvd,

Fishers, IN 46038

Learn to recognize the Spirit and play DnD!

Hey Friends!

I have no idea where to begin! This week was all over the board!

We played Dungeons and Dragons for the first time ever on Friday with

the sweetest men I have ever met! That was fun, we might go back, I

would love too but my purpose might be else where...

Then on Saturday we had President Robert Gay come from the Presidency

of the 70 and talk about Hell fire!

He put me back on the straight and narrow thats for sure! He spoke a

lot about how Faith and Obedience brings blessings.

My favorite was Elder Sinclair's opening remarks. He started with the

scriptures and taught us all how to use them more in our lives and to

bless our investigator's lives as well.

Any way, Cool spiritual story of the week:

Sister Johnson studied the "Recognizing the Holy Ghost" chapter in

Preach my Gospel yesterday morning and then I'm sure she had a desire

to serve the Lord to the best of her ability. Then we went out and as

we drove we passed a street that she hadn't noticed before, but we

drove on by and later she brought it up but I blew it off.... but it

kept bugging her. We were in the middle of Companionship study when

she brought it up again. I had never had such a prompting to go to

this particular street but I know how it feels to not follow a

prompting when you know its a prompting. So I trusted her. We went to

Maple st. and drove the whole way down to an empty parking lot.

Parked. Prayed. And started to walk, we only had an hour but we asked

the Lord to show us who needed us. We had only walked ten feet before

I saw these three apartment doors and thought this is it! But we said

we would walk the whole street and then tract what we felt. So we kept

walking. Well it turned into a game of Hot and Cold. The farther I got

from the apartments the colder and less motivated I felt. Sister

Johnson felt the same way, so we went back and knocked a couple. We

opened the door to the stair well and it hit me. There was sooooo much

weed smoke I was instantly hi! I turned around and was like "nope, we

out". Then we had second thoughts, everyone needs the gospel and that

includes the weed apartments, so we climbed the stairs and on the last

door we met DJuan the nicest man ever! We asked him about his life and

what he wanted that we could promise him, he opened up and we gave him

a Book of Mormon, then he told us he was house sitting. If we hadn't

followed the prompting to go that day we would have missed helping

this him and his two daughters find more joy and peace. He said he

would read and we could follow up, DJuan is legit!

Moral of the story would be trust your companion and have love for

others written on your heart. With this everything will be just

fine....well also obey the law....thats a biggy!

How do you receive the Holy Ghost? What can you do this week to

improve that relationship? I promise as you do so you will be happier

knowing what you are doing is what God wants and that you will find

Heavenly Father bless you more with the little things that seem super

big to you.

Let me know how it goes this week, I love hearing these stories!

I love you all soooo much I will see everyone in July! Bring on the

Fire Works!!!!

I would also like to let all my mission friends know that I love you,

that wont ever change!

What also wont change is my love for all my friends from College and

Family in Utah, you have all supported me so much and I am so grateful

for all of you! Thanks for changing my life and helping me look to my

Savior!

Have a Great week everyone!

I love you,

Sister Partridge :)

Hard is Good! We have Jesus!

Hi Everyone! 

I hope you all are staying nice and cool because it's been H O T here in Indiana! 

I've got a great tan line starting and sister Johnson has a great mission ahead! 

Now let me clarify something, I am not the greatest emailer nor teacher but I do know that the message I share is from God and it is true. This message has improved the quality of my life and it can do the same for you! 

This week has been hard but hard is good. After emailing last Monday we went to the church to play ball and de-stress but I got more and more ancy and anxious to the point where I just wanted to sleep! (This usually happens whenever I think of tracting.)

But that's not what you do as a missionary, instead Sister Johnson and I wanted to be diligent and so we spent a painful amount of time getting to the area where we felt like we needed to be. We really didn't want to go but we went anyway with the goal of talking to 5 people. We felt pulled in the direction of this particular street, then almost no one was home. We knocked maybe 20 doors and only talked to 4 people and a dog, the further we went the later it got and the more humble the houses were. We knock on this little white house at the end of the road. That's when we met the family Sister Johnson and I have been praying for! I would tell you there names but I'm really not sure how to spell them.

We taught a 3 min lesson on Jesus Christ's love and prophets through out time and Joseph Smith on the doorstep.  We were going to set up a time to come back but they just let us in right then and there! We taught and testified and Shawmaka is 14 so she really connected with Joseph Smith. When we read Alma 31:34-35, you could see that there Mom had been touched by the power of the Holy Ghost, for there "souls are precious" to God.

They held the book with such care that you could tell they prized this book over anything else in that moment. 

So on the last door on the street, in the last hour of the day, with the last person to talk to Heavenly Father took us to this family, not for our benefit, but for the benefit of this family! 

I know that God loves us because we are his  children, I know that my family is one example of that love. It's never going to be easy, Elder Ellis gave a talk on this last November. He said "Hard makes us stronger, humbles us, and gives us a chance to prove ourselves."

Elder Ellis tells us to not fear, the phrase "fear not" is all over the scriptures and its becase when we have Jesus Christ on our side we have nothing to fear! 

There is hope and help ahead, today, tomorrow and always! 

Look to the Savior! Read your Book of Mormon! 

Sorry for the long email, it's just been the best week ever and I needed to tell you all about it! 

I love you all and I hope one day to introduce you to Sister Johnson, she's an all-star!

Love ya, have a great week!!! 

Sister Partridge 

Home stretch! Here. We. GO!

Who is excited for Missionary work? I am! Last 6 Weeks and its going

to be the best 6 weeks ever!!!! You want to know why? Because I am

taking the challenge of Elder Evans and starting the Book of Mormon

over again. I can't wait to see what happens because I really have no

idea what will happen, but I know it'll be awesome!!

This week we saw many miracles but the one I want to share is about

Emily G. She is the sweetest lady I have ever met! She reads her Bible

every morning, lunch time, and before bed. One night she was reading

and this question thing popped up on her phone and she answered a

couple of questions and then she was contacted by a couple of sisters

in Salt Lake, those sisters are all stars! next thing we know sister

Johnson and I are sitting at her house sharing the message of the

Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and giving her a Book of

Mormon.

She is soooo sweet and I am excited to see what comes of meeting with

her in the future. She has been prepared for this gospel!

I love the talk that Elder Evans gave in October 2017 called "The

Truth of All Things"

I wanted to share a little from it because it helped me get back on

the straight and narrow.

"Over the years I have asked missionaries and young people around the

world how they started in their personal effort to seek truth and gain

a testimony. Almost without exception, they respond that their own

effort to gain a personal testimony started with the personal decision

to read the Book of Mormon from the beginning and ask God if it is

true. In doing this, they chose to “act” rather than to be “acted

upon” by the doubts of others."

Everyone is faced with questions at some point in life and its up to

you to choose what we do from there. I have chosen to follow the

invitation I have given for the past 17 months and read the Book of

Mormon with real intent and an open mind, all while keep the

commandments to the fullest.

I am so excited!!!! I love you all! Have a great week everyone!

I love you!

Sister Partridge :)

Sister Hamilton

I love Jesus!

Hello Hello Everyone!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there! I Love you All so

much!! Thank you for your support and love!

This week was full of finding! We had zone conference and everyone in

the mission committed to being 9/10 on obedience by October so we've

kicked it into high gear!

Obedience is the first law of Heaven and therefore, anything can

happen, especially miracles! And thats what we are expecting!

Miracles!!!

This weeks miracle has to do with the simple power of prayer. Over the

last 5 weeks we have been praying every night for our investigators

and members by name and this week I feel like I have finally began to

see progress! Missions are so awesome! I am so glad I get to be here

in Indiana, I have made so many life long friends that I feel like are

family!

  It will be a great day when we are all able to stand together as

witnesses of Jesus Christ. If someone seems almost to different that

you can't love them, ask them about there favorite color, favorite

food, favorite show to watch and maybe ask them about what they hope

for, what they dream about, and what they love.

I know that Jesus Christ cares about you, he want to know what your

favorite color is, what your favorite food is, your hopes and dreams

and he will listen with pure love.

Strive to develop a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ this week.

Look up something new, read a story and put yourself in it.

I love my Savior.

I love my Heavely Father.

I love my Mom!

I love you all so much! Have a great week and I'll see you all in July! :)

Love ya,

Sister Partridge

Parking tickets and sunburns...

Hello! Hello everybuddy!

This week was crazy! I'm so greatful I have all of you who are willing to listen to my preaching of the gospel, other wise I don't know if anyone would care. Lol.

This week we had a special training for Sister Johnson and all those that came with her. We made fools of ourselves by asking the assistants to the president what the purpose of missionary work is, needless to say I've been doing this for a while and I also has a greeny. It was funny and we were tired it was like 10pm. We had also been lovingly rebuked by our zone leaders that same day too. Apparently loving people is needed in missionary work, go figure.

After the special training I was pumped, I was ready to get back and do some really good work and love the crap out of people, But the world had other plans... when I walked out to the car that I had precariously parked a the middle of the parking lot I found a little piece of paper that said I had a $90 fine. Good job Sister P,  good job! Luckly, for my parents, it was an evil joke by one of the office missionaries.

We tracted lots and at one point it reached 92 degrees, I was a happy puddle! I love the heat!

Sister Johnson is awesome! I love her so much she just has a way with kids. This weekend we taught three lessons by just reading from the childrens book of Mormon. I haven't seen so much peace in a while. At one particular house, Betty and all three kids took turns reading and the fighting ceased, any anger or resentment was pulled away and this heart broken family was happy for at least 5 minutes. There is so much power in the Book of Mormon, if you just don't know what to do, pick up a copy and start to read. It's a gift, a privilege, and it gives us peace because it speaks of Jesus Christ.

I love Him so much! I love the blessings he gives as well and I want all of you to know that He loves you, too.

Have a great day, I hope this helps you this week. Till I send again! 

Love ya, Sister Partridge :)

90+ Who cares about spring, let's bring in the summer!

Oh ya, Sister Johnson was teaching me how to play soccer with the b ball we have.

 

We made bread with sister Brinegar!

I know it doesn't look like I'm mad but I was pretty scared! 

Family; What God gave us because He loves us!

Hello Hello! from Indiana!

This week was a long grind full of door knocks and sunshine!

There were so many tender mercies this week! Mostly everyone we talked

with was super sweet! We spent the week talking about families and

evenings and the home....kind of like Family Home Evening!

It was way fun to get out in the sun and talk with others about what I

love so much! Sunday, after church, we went out personal contacting

(talking to people on the street) and I had never done this mind you

so my anxiety was sky high! But through the grace of God we met the

nicest people!

We posed the question, what do you love about your family? and the

answers were great! One that I really liked was given by a 16 year old

boy that was at the park with his family and friends for a party. Omar

loves his family because "they support him".

Oh. My. Goodness! I love you Omar! I don't know why but his response

gave me faith in humanity again! It must have had something to do with

the universal law that we are all family and we are all here to

support one another!

I am so excited for Ministering! Because its basically an excuse to

visit my friends and hang out with them. 1 Nephi 3:7 I know that the

Lord will always make a way for us to accomplish his will, this is one

of his ways to help us have a greater love for our brothers and

sisters.

Family Is Forever!!!!

I love you all so much! Thank you for your prayers and your support!

Have a blessed week everyone!

All the Love,

Sister Partridge :)

This is one of my favorite songs ever ....welcome to my mission music life!

"By Small and Simple things..." Alma 37:6-7

Wow! These last two weeks let me tell you!

Imagine the squirrel from "Over The Hedge" and that has been me all week!

We taught all Wednesday, we had no time for anything else and then I

began to fizzle out near the end of the week. But we finished strong

by regrouping and going over my expectations and the Lord's

expectations.

    God doesn't expect us to be perfect, in fact he planned on it!

Yep, he planned on us falling, that's why we have a Savior and it is

through him that we can find the most Joy!

Okay that's enough about that, This week I have really learned the

power of small and simple things. I love love love President Oaks talk

on small and simple things because it is through those small thoughts,

feelings, and ideas that lead to a small action that leads to a group

of small actions that leads to baptizing all of Indiana! Lol.

But really, I started to focus on the small things in my day that

cause my great successes. #1 is prayer, believe it or not, and from

there it's telling my comp what I'm thinking. I have gained so much

strength to fight some bad habits because I know this basic truth

taught by an apostle of God and in the Book of Mormon.

I have seen many mighty miracles in my time but non of those have

carried me as far as the small things I have done day after day. I've

started to pray for more little things then big eye openers, because

this is something I want for life not just for 18 months.

I have seen the power of little things, so be sure to read your

scriptures, pray daily, and go to church. More power and strength will

come through these three things then all the power and strength of an

earthquake or hurricane. When life is centered on Jesus Christ you can

never fall!

Amen.

Thanks for being you!

I love ya! Have a great week everyone, and I'll talk to you soon. :)

love, Sister Partridge

When was the last time you met King Lamoni?

Who has a Golden missionary? I have a Golden missionary!

Sister Johnson is Straight from the Missionary training center and is pumped for the work! 

We have already done so much! We have tried to contact three different referrals and each one led us to some great potential! We have seen so many miracles in the last six days its been amazing!

God has been wanting to give us investigators and once I realized that and stared to pray for it, everything just changed over night. I love this gospel so much! I love my Father so much! 

Quick/not quick story: 

        Sister Johnson had only been in Indiana for less then 24 hours and we went to see Dorothy, an investigator we've been working with. Through a series of spiritual promptings we got there right as Dorothy was leaving so we followed her, I wasn't letting her get away that easily. But things took a rather strange turn as Dorothy ran into the apartment next door where she found AJ in an emergency situation, it the frantic panic of calling 911 and his sisters, AJ saw us outside and called us in. So there we were, standing in this man's home as Dorothy is screaming in his face I'm holding his hand and rubbing his back and were standing there like, what should we do?!? 

By the time EMS got there he was much more calm and as they wheeled him out he asked us to come back. 

After three days of trauma recovery for me we went back and he was so happy to see us! He just lit up with the biggest smile! We set a return appointment and went back the next day. 

The first lesson we just talked about prayer and how he feels the Holy Ghost. We shared how we feel him and he was able to tell us several times when he feels him too!

Things were kind of fizzy for him until the thought came to mind to give him a picture of Jesus. 

Thanks to my sweet mom, I had pictures of Christ to give to people. I pulled out the picture of Christ knocking on the door with no door knob. I asked him what he saw and we talked about it. He lit up and almost glowed when he read the inscription "Let Him In" on the back! AJ was so excited he wants us to meet his sisters and share his findings on Facebook! 

  This whole experience, I feel, could be summed up as the story of Ammon and King Lamoni.... We came at just the right time to "save his life" as AJ put it, and Dorothy had talked about us before (the servants bring the arms to the King),  which opened his heart and now he is asking us how to feel the spirit and sharing it with all who know him! I can see how Ammon felt to teach King Lamoni and it is so sweet! - Alma 17-18

    I love my companion! I love her enthusiasm and love for this work and for Christ! 

The Lord is mindful and cares about his children! If we follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost we will never be wrong and we will be filled with the love and light of Christ!

I challenge all who read this to remember to Let Christ In, meaning remember what he has done for you this week and read President Nelson's talk on revelation April 2018, you will find answers to all your questions, I promise!

Have a great day, everyone, I love you so much! 

Love, Sister Partridge

Jesus is everywhere! 

We made enchiladas! Yumm! 

Still snowing! We love it!