March 10, 2014

OOOOH MY GOOOOSSSSH HEY EVERYONE!!!! can you believe that it is march 10? man. the sun is shining, it's gettin pretty hot outisde!! how's the weather over in utah?
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okay SO i don't have much time at all like basically ten minutes... so that's lame.
some QUICK AWESOME STUFF!!!

uh okay so we were driving one day and there was a guy in this big field weed whacking and hna meldau wanted to go talk to him so we turned around and chatted and turned out he was gonna get evicted if he didn't maintain this HUGE FIELD of overgrown weeds and grass and i was like oh shoot.... lets see if we can help. haha but he had only two days to do it. 

SO! we made some calls. and sis. meldau was like this is a really big project to ask of the ward (because they couldn't take lawn mowers through it cause there are metal tie downs scattered through from old trailers that used to be there) and i was like NO! we have to do it! and at first no one could do anything, we were calling all the leaders and it was too short of notice, but i was like. i'm gonna exercise my faith here, I WILL!!!!! and i know we can do it! and so then HOPE!!!! things started coming together and it was gonna work out!!! lots of men and weed whackers!!! but the next day.... rain..... NO! FAITH!!!!! and it stopped :) AND IT GOT DONE!!! which was a miracle in itself because that field was horrrible and huge aaaaand yeah. hahaha anyway so that was cool. and NOW we're teaching the mom that lived there!!! WHAT!!!!!! MIRACLES!!!!

okay NEXT!!! we taught two spanish lessons!!! WHAT!! okay and we had members with us and it was dinner and they were all talking spanish and i realized all of a sudden that being in these two english wards has REALLY hurt my spanish... hahaha which is part my fault cause i don't practice as much as i could. SO when we had to start talking and introducing the church i was like uhhhhhhhhh FLIP how do i do this again?? seriously it felt like i was a new missionary all over again! it was so funny! hahaha and the guy he put his hand on my shoulder and was like..... hey. BREATH. hahaha we laughed so hard, but anyway i'm gonna practice more......

okay SO WE TOTALLY HAVE A BAPTISMAL DATE!!!!!!! long long ago during thanksgiving there was a basket activity where we took the baskets of food to people, and there was one lady, Kristen, who we took it to and she cried and everything with gratitude but neither of us felt prompted to talk to her about the gospel! weird! and so then. months later! i got a super subtle but strong prompting that we should visit her! and we do!!!! AND IT WAS AMAZING! we brought a member and said a prayer with her and the spirit was RIDICULOUSLY STRONG! even the member was crying! it was awesome. and then we committed her to baptism and she was like man you guys came at JUST the right time. (literally and also spiritually, cause she had JUST been about to leave to the store when we pulled up, hahaha) and she is trying to come closer to God and do this but she has had no support and everything, and the member was PERFECT with friendshipping and oh my heck... march 29th. JUST LIKE MY LITTLE BROTHER WITH HIS FAMILY!!! man I love my siblings! haha it's so cool reading all their emails and stories too. man i just wish my little brother would write me or something so we could talk about all these amazing things happening.........................................

anyway awww man i just love people. and the gospel. and happiness. and blessings. and trials. and my family. and my friends. and food. and my bed. and the sun. and overcast and rain. and the spirit. and cute animals. and will power! and EVERYTHING. life is good and hard and all of the above but it overall is just the best thing. ya know? i love the mission life. so much.
and i love you all! i have to go i am out of time!!! LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

we stopped and talked to this kid and his dad and he made me draw all this stuff with bark! haha it was so fun :) i asked him for the last thing he wanted me to draw him, something really cool! and he said sand................. haha!

my one year mark! yaaaay! at my favorite mexican restaurant!!! WOOHOO!

ooooh gosh every time i see these sisters my HEART GETS RENEWED!! i love them so much.