For P-Day they went bowling and got mani/pedi's
Sunday, September 16, 2012
We Remember...
I hope everyone is having a good September 11th....I can't believe that it has been 11 years since the attacks on America. I know that the Lord has his hands in our lives and that those who died with clean hands and a pure heart were welcomed home with open arms, and that those who misused their agency are being taught about the truths of the Gospel.
A little bit about this week....we finally had Sisters Training yesterday! It was GREAT!!!!!!! Oh my goodness it was sooooo good! AND I got a wonderful surprise from Mother that everyone was able to enjoy! Thank you SO much Mother for the birthday cake at the training! Even though it wasn't on my birthday after all it was still a celebration! We were taught by President and Sister Greer, by his counselor and his wife, President and Sister Stapleton, by two of our departing sisters, Sister Dilworth (yay) and Sister Hudson, and finally by the Assistants to the President, Elders Fenn and Tuttle. We learned so much that I can't even bring everything up that I want to. The finally thing that President talked about was how a brick wall wouldn't be strong at all if we didn't have the mortar/cement to keep it together. He said that we the sisters/women are the mortar/cement that will keep our families together. He told us that we have to stay strong in order for our families to stay strong. It was so touching to see him talk like that. You can see and sense how much love he has for Sister Greer and how much he loves each and everyone of us, his daughters. It was so much fun to be able to stay in their home Sunday night. The Spirit of the Lord just emits from the walls and the ceiling and the floor and everything in the home. It is so wonderful.
I am almost out of time because I wrote a giant letter to President, so I am very sorry that I can't tell you more! I will tell you more next week and send pictures too! Just know how much I love you and I pray for you and that I miss you but this is exactly where I am supposed to be at this exact time. I want to THANK EVERYONE that sent me cards and packages and emails for my birthday! I really really appreciate it all! I will try to thank you all individually, but it might take a couple weeks. Transfer calls are coming up on Saturday and I can't believe how fast this transfer has gone by. I am super nervous as to what is going to happen. Big things are going down here in the WKM and it will be interesting to see what the Lord's plans are and how they are brought to pass.
Anyways, I love you again and I would love to get more letters...but if you could throw in an encouraging word for my companions sometimes too, that would be wonderful! Have a great week and look forward to a longer letter next week...hopefully! :)
Hola!
Hey there! So how has everyone's week been? Mine has been
pretty good here in the WKM (Washington Kennewick Mission)! We had a
lot of really great lessons and we had a lot of stuff to do. It was a
little difficult getting to our lessons this week though because we
were pretty low on our allotted mileage. We get a certain amount of
miles per month that we are allowed to drive and we were pretty low.
So we did A LOT of walking! haha...I got some blisters (again)! No big
deal...I will definitely be wearing holes into my shoes, which make me
feel pretty cool. I am so blessed to be serving here. All the sisters
in the mission in the WKM get cars. And its our own fault if we have
to walk because we didn't use our miles appropriately. But at the same
time, we like to walk because then the people that are driving can see
us outside doing our job, and it is easier to talk to people that are
outside in the yard or something. It definitely has perks and
disadvantages. But by Saturday we had all the miles we needed for the
brand new month and we have made a goal to walk more through out the
month so that we don't kill ourselves/our feet at the end. haha
On Thursday we had exchanges with the Hermanas and I had
the honor of staying here in my area and Sister Dilworth went to their
area. I got to work with Hermana Southwick.She is such a sweetheart.
She is from St. George but grew up in Southern California and it
definitely shows in her personality. We had a great day and taught some
very spiritual lessons, it was awesome! We got along great!
On Saturday we had exchanges with the other sisters in
the area. So in other words it was with my old area. Sister Brown was
in charge of setting it up and we were waiting for her to decide on
who was going where. I wanted to go over there just to see what has
happened to the area since I left it almost 5 weeks ago. But when the
final decision came to us I was to stay here and Sister Dilworth went
there to serve with Sister McGhie for the day. Sister Brown (who I
went on my very 1st ever exchange with) came to me in my area. We also
had a productive day. We spent the entire morning doing service for a
recent convert who is getting ready for a garage sale this coming
weekend. It was hard work. She had a lot of furniture that she wanted
moved out of her trailer. The hard part of it was that she has a
hoarding problem and that she normally doesn't let ANYONE into her
house. It was a very traumatic experience for her and we had to keep
telling her that we loved her and that it didn't matter what her house
looked like. It was quite the experience though for all of us. She
made a lot of progress while we were there and hopefully and
prayerfully this garage sale will be what she wants it to be. We also
had some great lessons that day as well.
We have another recent convert here named Donavan who is so
totally awesome! She got baptized just a little over a year ago and he
is 20 yrs old. He has his wisdom teeth removed on Wednesday and then
he got his mission call on Thursday! Picture this....white guy,
skinny, slightly nerdy, dark thick hair....He is going to the Ghana
Accra Africa Mission, English Speaking! So weird haha but TOTALLY
AWESOME!!! He is so excited and he is going to be an amazing
missionary. We go and teach his Aunt and Uncle on a weekly basis and I
just love this family they are way to good to us and the treat us like
their own daughters. I look forward to keeping in touch with them even
after the mission.
Yesterday on p-day we got up and did the usual stuff and
then we went BOWLING! and that was super fun. We went with 4 other
Elders and oddly enough it was the group of us that hates that the
others always only play basketball on p-day. So it was way nice to get
a break from that. After that we washed the car and then went to get
our mani/pedi's! It was SOOOOO nice....I have dark purple toes and
light purple fingers. Sister Dilworth has dark pink toes and light
pink fingers! The people weren't so nice and talkative but it was
GREAT nonetheless. Thank you JAKOB AND SARA!!!! :)
After getting those done we went to the amazing Robert's
family home for their Labor day cook out. It was so much fun to just
relax and just EAT!!! It was so much food I thought I was going to
die! or throw up! or BOTH! haha! Then of course we went and did our
real work and had an amazingly spiritual lesson!
We taught the Doctrine of Christ to a less active man
with his fully active wife and we watched and awesome video of a
family that ends up being sealed in the temple...its called The Robles
Family...ask your missionaries if they have it and if you can see it!
Anyway we watched it with them and we asked him what he thought and he
said, "that is what I want more than anything in the world." It was so
sweet and so heartfelt! I wanted to start to bawl and all we could say
was that he is on the right path and that he will get there as he
strives to do so with the Lord's help. It was so great!
We found out Sisters training has been postponed and that
makes me SUPER sad!!! but I will just have to work hard and then play
harder when the time comes for this amazing training! :)
I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT FOR MY AMAZING NIECE CARA!!!
HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
I hope you all have a wonderful week and I hope this email
finds you all well and happy! The doctrine of Christ is so true and I
love my Savior and my Father in Heaven so much! I love you all and I
will talk to you next week!
P.S. We are supposed to come up with questions for Pres.Greer for
sister's training...anything you wanna know about...write me a letter
and I will try to ask it to him! ;) Love you!
pretty good here in the WKM (Washington Kennewick Mission)! We had a
lot of really great lessons and we had a lot of stuff to do. It was a
little difficult getting to our lessons this week though because we
were pretty low on our allotted mileage. We get a certain amount of
miles per month that we are allowed to drive and we were pretty low.
So we did A LOT of walking! haha...I got some blisters (again)! No big
deal...I will definitely be wearing holes into my shoes, which make me
feel pretty cool. I am so blessed to be serving here. All the sisters
in the mission in the WKM get cars. And its our own fault if we have
to walk because we didn't use our miles appropriately. But at the same
time, we like to walk because then the people that are driving can see
us outside doing our job, and it is easier to talk to people that are
outside in the yard or something. It definitely has perks and
disadvantages. But by Saturday we had all the miles we needed for the
brand new month and we have made a goal to walk more through out the
month so that we don't kill ourselves/our feet at the end. haha
On Thursday we had exchanges with the Hermanas and I had
the honor of staying here in my area and Sister Dilworth went to their
area. I got to work with Hermana Southwick.She is such a sweetheart.
She is from St. George but grew up in Southern California and it
definitely shows in her personality. We had a great day and taught some
very spiritual lessons, it was awesome! We got along great!
On Saturday we had exchanges with the other sisters in
the area. So in other words it was with my old area. Sister Brown was
in charge of setting it up and we were waiting for her to decide on
who was going where. I wanted to go over there just to see what has
happened to the area since I left it almost 5 weeks ago. But when the
final decision came to us I was to stay here and Sister Dilworth went
there to serve with Sister McGhie for the day. Sister Brown (who I
went on my very 1st ever exchange with) came to me in my area. We also
had a productive day. We spent the entire morning doing service for a
recent convert who is getting ready for a garage sale this coming
weekend. It was hard work. She had a lot of furniture that she wanted
moved out of her trailer. The hard part of it was that she has a
hoarding problem and that she normally doesn't let ANYONE into her
house. It was a very traumatic experience for her and we had to keep
telling her that we loved her and that it didn't matter what her house
looked like. It was quite the experience though for all of us. She
made a lot of progress while we were there and hopefully and
prayerfully this garage sale will be what she wants it to be. We also
had some great lessons that day as well.
We have another recent convert here named Donavan who is so
totally awesome! She got baptized just a little over a year ago and he
is 20 yrs old. He has his wisdom teeth removed on Wednesday and then
he got his mission call on Thursday! Picture this....white guy,
skinny, slightly nerdy, dark thick hair....He is going to the Ghana
Accra Africa Mission, English Speaking! So weird haha but TOTALLY
AWESOME!!! He is so excited and he is going to be an amazing
missionary. We go and teach his Aunt and Uncle on a weekly basis and I
just love this family they are way to good to us and the treat us like
their own daughters. I look forward to keeping in touch with them even
after the mission.
Yesterday on p-day we got up and did the usual stuff and
then we went BOWLING! and that was super fun. We went with 4 other
Elders and oddly enough it was the group of us that hates that the
others always only play basketball on p-day. So it was way nice to get
a break from that. After that we washed the car and then went to get
our mani/pedi's! It was SOOOOO nice....I have dark purple toes and
light purple fingers. Sister Dilworth has dark pink toes and light
pink fingers! The people weren't so nice and talkative but it was
GREAT nonetheless. Thank you JAKOB AND SARA!!!! :)
After getting those done we went to the amazing Robert's
family home for their Labor day cook out. It was so much fun to just
relax and just EAT!!! It was so much food I thought I was going to
die! or throw up! or BOTH! haha! Then of course we went and did our
real work and had an amazingly spiritual lesson!
We taught the Doctrine of Christ to a less active man
with his fully active wife and we watched and awesome video of a
family that ends up being sealed in the temple...its called The Robles
Family...ask your missionaries if they have it and if you can see it!
Anyway we watched it with them and we asked him what he thought and he
said, "that is what I want more than anything in the world." It was so
sweet and so heartfelt! I wanted to start to bawl and all we could say
was that he is on the right path and that he will get there as he
strives to do so with the Lord's help. It was so great!
We found out Sisters training has been postponed and that
makes me SUPER sad!!! but I will just have to work hard and then play
harder when the time comes for this amazing training! :)
I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT FOR MY AMAZING NIECE CARA!!!
HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
I hope you all have a wonderful week and I hope this email
finds you all well and happy! The doctrine of Christ is so true and I
love my Savior and my Father in Heaven so much! I love you all and I
will talk to you next week!
P.S. We are supposed to come up with questions for Pres.Greer for
sister's training...anything you wanna know about...write me a letter
and I will try to ask it to him! ;) Love you!
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