Heavenly Father answers our prayers and knows us each individually

This week has been amazing! General conference was so cool in the MTC. I will never forget it. Singing called to serve with all of the missionaries and all of the conference center was so powerful. I don't think there was a dry eye in the room. Later that evening we had our Sunday night devotional where someone speaks to all of the MTC. This week they said that they had a special treat for us. We sat down and found out that BYU vocal point was giving our devotional. They each talked about one word that they feel best described their missions and then of course sang a lot. My favorite song that they sang was Nearer My God to Thee. If you've never heard it you need to look it up. I've listened to it a lot before I came out here but they were even better in person. On Tuesday night we got to hear from sister Linda K. Burton. One of my favorite things she said was "Remember who you are and more importantly, Who's you are". On Tuesday I got an email from my mom saying that my cousin (Cayden Cazier) would be coming to the Provo MTC the next day because his visa wasn't here yet. I was going to be hosting the new missionaries on Wednesday for a short time and so i was excited that I might be able to see him. Well I found out that I was going to be hosting the missionaries arriving early in the morning, not the huge group of missionaries where hundreds at a time come in. I was pretty upset that I wasnt going to see Cayden. On Tuesday night in class we learned more about how Heavenly Father answers our prayers and can give us miracles in our life. So that night I prayed that I would be able to see Cayden the next morning while I hosted even though it was a very small chance because most of them arriving were international and I didn't even know where he would be. The next morning we arrived in the lobby and they gave us instruction on where to go and take each missionary. I heard all of the host's say that the first van was arriving. The door to the shuttle opened and the first missionary to walk our was Cayden! I couldn't believe it. My eyes immediately filled with tears and ran out to meet him. The man out there wouldn't let me hug him and usually sisters have to host sisters, but he let me be Cayden's host. I was so happy. I only got to be with him for about 10 minutes but I was so happy. I know that Heavenly Father answers our prayers and knows us each individually. Luckily Cayden and i had the same gym time today so we got to play basketball together and talk for an hour. So the building that I have been living in had bats in it so we had to move into another building today. It was kind of a pain to repack and unpack everything, but the place is closer to everything and is a lot nicer. It even has yogurt and cheese sticks in the vending machines so my companion and I think that it's definately worth it haha:) We've been teaching new investigators this week, their names are Kailyn and Debi. They are both so nice and we love teaching them. I loved how much general conference talked about the doctrine of christ and having faith. That is all that we've been learning here for the past 2 weeks. Next week we start visitor center training which will be fun. There are 4 sisters and 3 elders in our zone that will all be leaving on the 18th which will be nice to travel with to DC. I hope you all are doing great and enjoyed conference last week! Thank you for all of your prayers I have felt your love. Have a great week!

Love, Sister Haertling

Top picture: the infamous MTC picture

Middle picture: Sister Haertling with her roomates

Bottom picture: Beautiful sister missionaries.  The girl in the middle with blonde hair is Sister Neuberger who is going to be serving in the Nebraska, Omaha mission with Sister Haertling's grandparents.  She and sister Haertling have been together a lot while at the MTC.  

Sister Haertling

Unit 101 DC North Oct 18

2005 N 900 E

Provo UT 84604-1793

sarah.haertling@myldsmail.net