February 3, 2014

okay NOW this is the email! AH! no time! 
10 minutes. lets make this good.

MIRACLES!

one of the miracles from metro, i had FOUR family history cards! in the first ten minutes i gave away three and was like shoot.... i gotta save this one for something special! so i forgot about it all day! we were then walking home.... in the freezing cold BY THE WAY. we couldn't move our fingers. hahaha and we stopped to talk to this guy at the bus stop, and he was atheist so didn't wanna take our card, and then we were talking a little more and he was like, what the! (edited) haha MY bus just literally drove right by! what the heck! and we were just about to leave, and i was like... what!!!! that is NOT A COINCIDENCE!!!! haha but i had nothing else to say... it had gotten awkward! cause he wasn't interested AND we'd done small talk but i felt prompted that we needed to still talk to him, so i was like... uh... sooo.... you suuuuure you don't want this mormon.org card? hahaha and he was like yeah i'm good..... so we started walking away and then.. the THOUGHT! GENEALOGY! so i ran back to him and was like hey! do you like genealogy??? and he was like... well. i'm still trying to find my real parents actually! can't find them online so i was gonna hire a lawyer... and i was like NOOOOO that's so expensive! we have people that will help you personally for free!!!! and he was like.. wow really? and took the card.... :) and BAM! baptismal date. jk but ya know. eventually.

COOL HUH!

okay anyway. metro was a blast. there are SO MANY PEOPLE that are way more willing to listen than you would think! we saw SO MANY MIRACLES from just talking to everyone straight! it was AWESOME! and we are continuing to see miracles. 

ANYWAY. soooo news! president has banned any music...... someone had to go home and it rooted from music and it devastated him, so he's just taking out any temptations and distractions. he is making sure no one falls through the cracks, obedience is key. AND. you can imagine. with my often dramatic reactions to things.... how i reacted... when i found out.... hahaha WELL my friends it was an up and down scale of emotions for quite some time, devastation.... denial.... shock... you name it. BUT! i have come to be at peace with it! we uh.... hum a lot. and sometimes sing. to break the silence in the car. hahaha so i'm perfecting my voice skills! it's all around pretty great! i'll show you all when i get back. 

anyway. 

OH!!!!!!!!!!! this is way cool. ah! three minutes! okay so we were leaving the exchange and went to go say hi to some people and noticed they were moving in and so we helped them and it was a LOT of stuff and we even took up the couch and recliners up three flights of stairs!! WHAT! HARD CORE!! hahaha anyways it was really cool cause the guy moving in was like you guys! my helpers just called and cancelled so i dunno what i would've done without you all. AND the people helping him one of them had JUST gotten a hip replacement and the other had heart problems and the rest were weak woman! haha so uh yeah that was AWESOME! i love being an instrument! WOOO!!! 

oh my heck... the weirdest story of the week. i got legit proposed to by a guy who pretty sure did a drug deal right in front of us and preached and uh said he saw this moment with me from the past and uh... long story. but no time! hahaha good news though, i said no. so no worries mom. 

ANYWAY I GOTTA GO!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!! THIS IS ALL TRUE AND I LOVE IT AND IT'S THE BEST THING OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!! byeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DOWNTOWN TAMPA!!! WOOO!!! this was a metro trip, president is having all the missionaries take a 3 day trip to metro, which is just 9 straight street hours of contacting all day. no cars or anything. just talking to everyone. just to get us out there and not scared of talking to people anymore! IT WAS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! and it was SO TIRING! hahaha i'm so spoiled with a car!

the city..... I WAS IN AWE! hahaha seriously it was so awesome to me! suits and big buildings and uh yeah we get really comfy in these cozy little towns that we never leave, so it was awesome to get out!!!

ummm... we went on exchanges and their recent convert gave us harry potter cloaks to stay warm outside cause his wife wasn't home so we ate on the porch with a tiki torch thingy whatever you call it and it was MY DREAM COME TRUE. he even had... the ELDER WAND. oh my heck. i died.

we had a great battle over the elder wand that night... obviously... hahaha