tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15098511323543124942024-02-19T03:07:42.504-08:00the Adventures of Sister Russellmissyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00543204246047233986noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509851132354312494.post-24819139325390524652014-08-06T15:40:00.002-07:002014-08-06T15:40:48.497-07:00Aug 4, 2014<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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that's all my mind can think right now... a scream.... hahaha </div>
weeeeeellllllllllllllll..... i dunno what to say.........</div>
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IN DENIAL.</div>
okay ANYWAY! </div>
this week. WHAT EVEN HAPPENED!!! okay listen these last two weeks were weird! they flew by... but.... and we were really busy. but with STUPID THINGS! like the dentist and doctor and a bunch of stuff. we still had success though! and miracles!!!</div>
this is cool! so we had some awesome investigators a while back that we had to drop cause they couldnt ever come to church and they just weren't progressing, well this week we were walking down their street and saw them and THEY SAID THEY WERE GONNA CALL US because he got work off and can come to church now!!! WOOO!!!!! and we wanted to set an appointment for this week but he said no i have to come to church first cause i need to make sure that i am committed and then we can start the lessons again. he is SERIOUS!! WOO! they had a baptismal date and everything :) man i'm excited for them.</div>
this week we played a (so we thought originally) funny prank on hermana sanchez... she didn't think it was veeeery funny.... we then promptly wrote her a rap of apology and love and i rapped it to her while hermana perez beat boxed in a twinkie costume. and now everything is good :) hahaha nothing was bad in the first place, but it was just really funny. i wish i had a picture of us.</div>
hmmm lets see... SO THERE IS THIS family. really adorable, really awesome, from puerto rico! we found them in the roster and went to visit, they came to church the next day!!! when they came here they had been trying and trying to find the church, cuoldn't! put in a request for missionaries months ago and no one ever came, WELL GUESS WHAT! i'm pretty sure we got that referral but didn't think it was in our area and we sent it back to the office!!! (PALM TO FOREHEAD!!!!!) turns out they live in our area!!! hahaha anyway, they forgot a lot about the church BUT! want to come back :)</div>
so we went to see this one less active and her house was HUGE!!!! she was a do not contact but we went anyway... hahaha we felt like giving all the do not contacts another chance!!! well she was really nice but not interested... BUT! her house was amazing, and she had big fountains and lions roaring and all kinds of cool stuff!!! </div>
man these are boring stories..... i just can't think of anything right now!!!!!!</div>
okay but it WAS funny later that day when the glass pan exploded, almost killed me, then sister perez burnt her hand with her pasta and then stepped on a little shard of glass, when i say little i mean TINY!!! and then blood started GUSHING out of her foot!!! and then i saved her :) hahaha i'll send pictures........... (okay and i know none of that sounds funny but just the choas in the moment and so many crazy things happening at once it made us all laugh really hard. haha!)</div>
hmmmm... HMMMMMM........ we went on exchanges!! it was great!!! their apartment was INFESTED WITH COCKROACHES!!!! i was so scared to sleep cause the other sister had woken up with a cockroach on her face.... so i prayed really hard that they wouldn't crawl on me and..... did any? well i don't know! but i didn't wake up so i'll say no. haha</div>
anyway. hey everyone. life is good.the gospel is good. God is good. Sometimes we don't see the good, and we see the bad. there is a lot of bad! so it's easy! but we aren't meant to focus on the bad, I want to just tell each of you to stop seeing the bad! stop dwelling on it, stop complaining about it, it'll make ya old and miserable in no time! cause though there is bad there is SO MUCH MORE GOOD! and it may be easier to talk about the horrible things, to complain about trials, to talk about the world falling apart, but BY GOLLY we have the restored gospel! we have eachother! we have SCRIPTURES and prayer and a nature and mountains and clouds and rain and FOOD!!! we have someone who loved us so much he died for us, and he felt every horrible thing we felt JUST SO THAT HE COULD RELATE!!! and know how to help us!! now let me ask you, when you are comforting a friend who lost a loved one, or someone who found out news that changes their life for the worst, or someone who is lost and heartbroken or discouraged, i don't think any of us in that moment want to feel exactly what they are feeling and experience that pain willingly, but he did, for everyone, so that he could be the one to get us through it, so he could know exactly what we need to stand strong and conquer the trials. </div>
just know, that he knows. just know that we have a lot to be grateful for, and not even just things and blessings but just in general! like my favorite talk from last conference, we need a general attitude of gratitude! we see the big picture, we know that after this life there is so much more, so when you start getting consumed in the day to day trials or the big trials or ANY KIND OF HARDSHIP! just remember the big picture, and remember why you are here. do not forget your identity, or your purpose.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">I LITRALLY COULD'VE DIED!!!!!!! hahaha i was standing RIGHT NEXT TO IT WHEN IT EXPLODED!!! facing the other way thankfully, but i suddenly hear this GIANT CRASH and i thought hna perez had gona crazy and thrown it on the table! turns out..... if you turn on the wrong stove thing, and glass is on top of it, it will explode. hahahahah it wasn't even me!!!!! there was glass everywhere!!</span></td></tr>
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saying goodbye to our car.... :( we had to switch!!</div>
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annnnnnd my favorite family in the universe :) </div>
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Jessy will report on her mission twice for your convenience, what a sweetheart,<br />
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Sunday Aug 24th at 2:45pm at the singles ward on 800 W and 800 S in Orem (the chapel closest to the corner) <br />
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Sunday, Aug 31st at 11:30am at about 175 W 300 S in Orem (Orem Park stake center)Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06823584905054687115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509851132354312494.post-73847520639528271042014-08-03T11:05:00.002-07:002014-08-03T11:05:15.793-07:00July 29, 2014<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Oh my heck time went by way too fast cause I sent so many flippin pictures!!! Hahaha and now I only have 7 minutes to write this awesome amazing email of inspiration and great stories!!! NOOOOOO!!!! Curses!!!</div>
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Okay well first things first. We got a new companion!!!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!! At zone conference (first off, he had a big sword that he called 1 or two people to come up and take some action shots with it, haha cause he wants us to be warriors, and secretly I wanted to go crazy with that sword but he didn't call me. And then he asked for a volunteer and EVERYONE POINTED AT ME!!!!! They betrayed me but really actually it was good. Haha! So I went up.... AND TOOK SOME HARDCORE FIGHTING WARRIOR SCENE PICTURES!!!!! Anyway, so that was cool. Everyone laughed at me. Hahaha) then president called us over after the meeting, and usually when president wants to talk to someone it is not just to chat and see how you are... He is too intense for that! Haha so we we were like... Uhhhh....</div>
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And he said, okay you two, Rock Paper Scissors for who gets to stay. And we were really confused... And then he said, go ahead! So we did it and I won!!! And he meant for an extra transfer..... Extending. And he said so Hermana Russell, will you stay? And my heart stopped.... And I was like... Going through all these options in my head. And freaking out. As then I was like. Absolutely. Heck yes!!!, OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!</div>
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SO I AM EXTENDING ANOTHER TRANSFER!!!!!!! WOOOOO!!!!!</div>
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Okay then he said... Sorry headquarters won't let us do that actually,.. I tried.... Hahaha I WANTED TO KILL HIM!!!! The real news he had for us is that we were getting a new companion!!! Yaaaaay!!!!!!! So that our area doesn't die!!, she is awesome and we love her already and man I am so mad I can't share any stories!!! We had an amazing lesson with our investigators!!!! AHHH!!!!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's interesting what sister jones said last night. It really impacted me! She said that she has such a strong testimony of God and has had so many witnesses of him, and could never deny him, but still satan will put thoughts into our head that he isn't real. She said she went through a time a couple months ago when she was getting thoughts like, is god even real? What really happens after this life? Etc, and when she was as talking about this it made me realize that every time I get those thoughts, questioning my faith and my belief in God, it is not me. Because I do have witnesses of god! And I have miracles in my life, and I have testimonies that he leads us places and to people and helps us say the right things, and so many little testimonies that build up! And I have witnesses of other people, and nature, and scripture, and everything! Things that could not be explained any other way, so yes I do know that God exists. And I know that he is my father. But satan will continue in my life to tell me otherwise, so it was cool just to be able to recognize those thoughts which I never had recognized before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Okay well hopefully you can figure out what I mean by all that!!! Love you all!!!</span></div>
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heeeey MY dear everyone.<br /></div>
this week was a good one, it had all the emotions in it! </div>
we saw a lot of miracles!!<br /></div>
LISTEN HERE IS THE BEST ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
so remember last week how we went to the members house and we challenged them to a dinner and for them to find someone? WELL! all week... they couldn't find anyone. seriously, and sister metcalf is SO FAITHFUL! and she was talking to EVERYONE! random people literally anyone in her path she would start a conversation and lead to asking them and everyone said no. (side note, CAN YOU IMAGINE how many seeds she planted that would not have been planted if we didn't make this challenge?) anyway so on saturday she came with us to an appointment with some investigators, and it was a great lesson, (with tony and heather, man i love them, they are so awesome, they both want to believe it! he has read the BoM already all the way through and GOODNESS i just love them. it's just slow progress, ANYWAYS!) she testified so well and we felt the spirit and invited to baptism, etc!!! anyway after the lesson, she talked to us and expressed some doubt! she was scared and didn't think that they would be able to find anyone by the next day. we talked to her and were like... WHAT!! you remember that we literally promised you in Christ's name that he would get you someone, right? even if it is one minute before our dinner appt. you CANNOT DOUBT!!! he cannot break his promises. and she was like... you're right... that would be quite shocking. haha! (mind you, she is so faithful. one day on her mission her doctor told her she had to lie still all day cause she had something happen in her stomach and he said if she moved she could potentially die..... and she stayed in for a couple hours and then thought, ya know what my stake president blessed me that if i was exactly obedient i wouldn't have to miss a single day.... so then she got up and they went out!! and she was fine!!! ISN'T THAT COOL??) anyway wow i have a lot of side notes in this long paragraph. SO! long story short. but not really short. </div>
NEXT DAY! we go... and they have a couple :) TURNS OUT their neighbors are the ones they thought of first but the husband was out of town, or so they thought!! the DAY OF THEY SAW THE HUSBAND AND WERE LIKE OMY GOSH!!! they are home!!! and invited them, unfortunately... they had just eaten dinner... perfect cop out right? FORTUNATELY THEY STILL SAID BUT WE CAN COME AND JUST HANG OUT WITH YOU ALL!!!! and they even knew we would be there!!! so cool. man, AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was great too, we talked about eternal marriage, etc, it was just a good day :)<br /></div>
okay now because time is very short. i want to talk about hope for a second. </div>
this week, we saw a lot of miracles. we also saw a lot of sad things. </div>
the week before, we had a miracle story of finding a less active family, another less active lady, and a new investigator, all of these stories honestly SO COOL!!!! like the Lord absolutely did everything so that we could find them and teach them and have the spirit and get them to church and everything. man, experiences that are just SO spiritual. </div>
well... on sunday, most of these people either turned against us, or bailed out, etc. listen... i've told some stories that were my big heartbreaks of the mission, about people i love and adore, etc, that turned away and i couldn't express the honestly huge amount of sorrow that flooded my spirit. if anyone asks me the hardest experiences of my life, i am not lying when i say that it is when these people i love shut us and the church out. or reject what i know they felt the spirit about, and once wanted. it is SO HARD. and yesterday, when it happened again and so many things fell through after so many miracles... i was just put out for a minute. i was so sad, and so confused and WHY THIS KEEPS HAPPENING. i was praying and just asking heavenly father WHY do you keep sending me these amazing experiences and people KNOWING MY HEART IS GOING TO BREAK! haha but i wasn't mad or anything at him, don't worry. anyway so i prayed to just understand, and he didn't give me an answer he just told me to study hope. </div>
so i started studying, and listen everyone.</div>
sometimes we lose hope, we lose hope in other people, we lose hope in ourselves and our own lives, we lose hope in humanity, or in the gospel or even just we lose hope in God. there are so many things we can lose hope in, and be confused about. </div>
as i studied hope, i focused on how we usually don't understand.... honestly, usually God has us going through trials and things without knowing why, without understanding what is happening, because like we all know, he wants us to be faithful and trust him. </div>
i don't really know where i am going with this all, haha! but ALL I CAN TELL YOU is that i prayed, i studied hope, and i felt better. i STILL AM SAD! but i feel better at the same time. people still have their agency and i think that is one of the hardest lessons that i am learning, hna perez talked to me about that during comp study and it hit me hard! I think heavenly father is teaching me, that there will be so many times when i do my very best, when i DO everything i could've done, and they still fall away. I think he teaches us this, because we blame ourselves a lot, and we can't do that. He is the perfect father, and his children fall away from him all the time. because he respects their agency, though it is the HARDEST thing i am sure he does, he knows it is important. and he is teaching us how important agency is as well. through these experiences. we have to feel a piece of what he feels, a piece of what Jesus Christ feels, and know that sorrow, and allow it to make us work harder. we can't get discouraged whatever we do.<br /></div>
whatever situation you are in, if you have something that your hope is dim in. Pray for help. just know that there is hope, when everything is crazy and you don't understand just go back to the basic principle of truth that keeps all of us above the water. Jesus Christ. When you don't know what else to do, just have faith in him. when there are no answers and you are scared or discouraged, just have faith in him. just trust in him just have any amount of hope in him that you can muster. I know that he loves us, and he is powerful and he knows how to help each of us. those we worry about and ourselves included. he knows what we need, so just have hope when nothing makes sense. He can help us in any situation.<br /></div>
I LOVE EVERY ONE OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!! i do :) </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">listen there are a BILLION pictures from the batting cages but i will spare you and only send a few... hahahaha SOO FUUUUN!!!</span><br />
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I AM SO ANGRY because time just flew and I have so many good stories this week and still so many emails to reply to! AHHHH!<br />okay lets do this.<br /></div>
okay so let me tell you the members and the work here is starting to explode for some reason!!! we are getting people involved, they are doing things on their own, we are finding so many awesome people and families and OH MY GOSH WE DO NOT KNOW WHY WE ARE BEING SO BLESSED!!! but we aren't questioning it and are just gonna continue onward, obedient and diligent! it's really awesome though, SO MANY STORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
something really cool that we are doing also is that we are prayerfully giving a BoM to a member, every sunday in relief society to give to a friend or someone that week, and then the next sunday they report and tell what happened! so far it's a success and has been really cool, it gets people pretty excited about the work as well!<br /></div>
listen this is so cool! so we felt like we should visit a member, and went by and she shared some trials she was going through, and THEN we are also doing this thing where we ask the members about a certain date that we can come by and have dinner and teach someone, and they say sure that'd be great! who will you be teaching? and we say, we don't know! we are all going to find someone together! so we saw these members, and we started by asking them if they had faith... and the husband was like.... don't answer.... it's a trap... hahahaha and they hesitantly said yes, (these members are amazing though in reality, they have SUCH STRONG FAITH and they both served missions, just rock solid) anyway, then we asked if they bleieved truly that Christ could do anything, and they said yes. then we challenged them to that dinner, and the husband was like I TOLD YOU you should've said no to the faith! ahhahaha it was funny, but then it was awesome because i started giving my testimony about how we are called in this very moment to represent the savior himself, and in this moment we could promise them in his name, in his place, that there was someone that he has for this dinner, and OH MY GOSH I DO NOT KNOW WHY but suddenly as i said that we ALL STARTED TEARING UP!!! and i was like what the heck... haha but the spirit was just SO STRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was really awesome. man. anyway, it was just a cool story! and now they are pumped up and gonna find someone!!!!<br /></div>
okay here is another great story!!! HOLY MOOOOOOLY!!!!!!!!!</div>
so listen. sunday night, not much time left, we were going to visit Wavaney but as i was driving i remembered something that elder Clark one of the 70 said to us, he had asked us about all our family and friends who were less active, and what we would do to get them back, we all said anything, that we would do anything, then he told us, and said every single person that you pass out there is someone's brother, someone's sister, someone's mom or dad or best friend, and if you do everything in your power to help them, and put them first, the Lord will put your people first as well. SO I REMEMBERED THAT, and i remembered this less active referral that the less actives little brother (who is serving a mission) had sent to us as a referral, well in that moment they were so busy with life, and not too receptive to the spirit or about coming back to church that we couldn't keep visiting, BUT! i remembered, and felt strongly but subtly that we had to go and see them. so we went!!! and they welcomed us in right away, and she said.... AND I QUOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but it originally was in spanish.... "we had been thinking about you and were gonna call you soon! (our number had changed so they wouldn't have called us) and right when you knocked we knew it was you, and i said open it open it! to my husband :)" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! how cool huh??? AND! as we were in there talking, they were excited about coming to church and meeting the people, and they want us to teach their son so he can be baptized, AND as we were talking i felt strongly that this was a prompting and answer to his brothers prayer, and when we left i was like hermana i might be crazy, but i felt strongly like us going there was an answer to his little brothers.... (and she cut me off and finished my sentence!!!!) PRAYER!!! and she said ME TOO!!! man it was the coolest experience!! i love being able to follow the spirit, pres monson was right when he said there is no better feeling than that of when you follow a prompting and find out it was an answer to a prayer.<br /></div>
flip so many stories..... okay lets see. </div>
we found a lot of less actives and have miracle stories about them!!!! </div>
I gave my talk and accidentally THREW IT DOWN TO THE MEMBERS!! hahaha listen i did not mean to call them out like i did, but i just called them to the work and said it isn't enough or finished until jesus christ says it is, and he has not said so. hahaha and other things... but LISTEN they weren't mad!!! i don't think, i said it more lovingly than it sounds... anyway! </div>
it was good though i wasn't even TOO nervous!!</div>
hmm lets see.... we had some really cool experiences where we taught the Word of Wisdom a lot in one day... and it wasn't even the original lesson plan! but surprisingly they were exactly what the people needed, and it focused them a lot on being able to live the doctrine and try it for themselves. it was awesome!!!</div>
hey we are STL's again! we got released for a transfer, and called again, haha i don't know why, but i'm happy!!! WOO!<br /></div>
okay man i gotta go, i'm sorry this can't be as long as i had hoped!!<br /></div>
but MY FRIENDS!! AND FAMILY!!! i love you more than words can say. i love my mission more than words can say. i love this PEOPLE and the members and our investigators MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY!!!</div>
IT IS WORTH IT!!! IT IS ALL WORTH IT!!!!!!!<br />haha this is the greatest gospel in the world. because it's true :) </div>
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BOY OH BOY my friends and family I am going to die. haha no one is allowed to mention in emails or letters the amount of time i have left!!! UNDERSTOOD???</div>
anyway. moving on!!<br /><br />first things first me and hna perez are STAYING TOGETHERRRR!! WOOO!!! for our last transfer and guess what else??? both the sisters in our apt are staying together as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOO!! so we are all gonna have a grand time :) i'm so excited. i love them all.<br /></div>
MAN OKAY LET ME TELL YOU THE GREATEST NEWS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so this family we have been trying to teach and baptize for FOREVER have never come to church except for ONE TIME a year ago, and then the 12 yr old son comes every once in a while on his own cause he is awesome. but this last week we had a really great talk with them about church, and the importance of it for the family and how it unites and all and etc etc etc, and the father isn't too keen on the church, we haven't even been able to teach him... BUT GUESS WHAT!!!!! THIS SUNDAY I LOOKED OUTSIDE AND SAW THE GLORIOUS SIGHT OF ALL OF THEM WALKING UP TO THE DOORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
(light gets brighter and the singing HALLELUJAH IS FILLING THE BACKROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)</div>
oh my gosh i was so happy, SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was awesome. unfortunately it was fast sunday which is the WORST sunday for investigators to come to for the first time... cause they just look at everyone and are like... why is everyone crying... saying the same thing... what is going on here.... hahaha BUT!!!!!!!!!!!! it's okay because it was actually a really good fast and testimony, MAN you guys in utah!!! every testimony meeting i had in utah there was always so much silence!!!! but out here, there is never a minute of silence, people line up to bear their testimony! look i'm not bashing utah... i love utah!!! but i feel like when we grow up and are surrounded by mormons, everyone thinks everyone is good and solid and we just don't understand the importance of bearing testimony. but man oh man, out here, you have to choose if you will be faithful, or not, because you are surrounded by a billion other churches, and stuff. man living outside of utah has it's challenges, but so does living inside of utah. </div>
BOTTOM LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the church is true wherever you go, everyone still has to find out for themselves, AND, that is that. haha<br />but yeah they came and i was so happy and almost died :)<br /></div>
OH BY THE WAy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have to speak in church next week... i have gone my whole mission only saying one prayer in sacrament, and bearing one testimony, and now i have to give a talk... hahaha i'm freaking out!!!! because it's me and this other kid who everyone loves who is leaving on his mission so there will be a BILLION PEOPLE THERE and a billion non members as well!!! AHHH NOOOOO!!!! just kidding it'll be awesome.......................<wbr></wbr>........ oh my heck pray for me.<br /></div>
anyway, so listen... apparently north america is doing this thing now.... where any missionary who needs extended treatment for something like physical therapy or something just goes home to fix it, and comes back out. cause it is too expensive out here! so two sisters just got sent home, without any of us knowing, from our district.... and one of them WAS ATTACHED TO MY HEART and it so it broke my heart :( and NOW everyone is terrified to have something wrong with them!!!! hahaha man it's scary! that would be really hard.... but anyway.<br /></div>
oooh my goodness 4th of july was so fun!!! we went to the parade and passed out a billion cards and talked to lots of people!! and we had a great idea to make it less awkward we just would just ask someone to take a picture of us! hold all our pass along cards out and smile, and then make a conversation and give them one!! then we would walk and pass out, and then stop again, ask someone else, hey could you take a picture? hahahahaha there are like 50 billion pictures of us 4 just smiling holding cards... Hahah! so funny. anyway it was so fun though, i was so pumped up!!!!!!!! it was great with the 4th cause i would be like, hey this will strengthen your faith in Christ!! ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!!! WOO!!! fist pump in the air!! and then they COULD NOT REFUSE because that would be unpatriotic and ALSO rejecting Jesus Christ.<br /></div>
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oh my GRACIOUS for the first time.... in a long time..... I.... don't want to write a big email today. hahaha WHAT!!! man it's just been a long day and i am so tiiiiired!!! </div>
but never fear my friends, for the few who have lasted my whole mission and STILL READ THESE!!! i will tell my tales for the week!<br /></div>
okay first things first. I had been REALLY GOOD with eating healthier in my mission... man i have almost cut out most sweets, i hardly have nutella anymore, it's crazy. now sugar gives me headaches and soda especially makes me feel sick, WELL!!!! LET ME TEACH YOU A LIFE LONG LESSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this last week we got a lot of junk food from people, and even though it didn't make me feel good at first, the other sisters kept offering me stuff and i would hesitate... think... man i shouldn't.... THEN I WOULD TAKE IT AND EAT IT!!!!!!!! and then i felt sick a little, but a few days went by and little by little.... I began to feel better eating junk! my body started adjusting to the horribleness i was putting into my body, and LITTLE BY LITTLE! i stopped making me feel sick.... well. thankfully, we REALIZED what was happening! and we though... MAN! we only have two months left!! WHAT ARE WE THINKING!!! so we made goals to cut out most junk again!! now what would've happened my friends.... WHAT WOULD'VE HAPPENED...... if i didn't realize where i was going... if i kept going further and further into this trap?? my body would've kept adjusting and i wouldn't have realized until i got home and everyone gasped because i was a fatty...... man this is just like your spirit!! we do really well, and get the spirit with us all the time, when we do something to drive the spirit away, we feel it immediately! we don't like it, it doesn't feel good. but if we keep doing it, little by little, we lose the spirit, and we start not to notice, so we think we are fine, but that is not the case. when you feel it that first time, you cannot keep letting yourself slip up with the little things. we need to make goals and keep ourselves on our toes!! </div>
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we had a member ask us to come over for family night to teach her sister, who had some past struggles she was holding onto and giving her pain. she wasn't a member either, and this member wanted her to BE a member! haha anyway, she told us about it two weeks in advance and said we better prepare something amazing.... 1 week and a half later.... we see her and she asks us what we have planned for her sister!! well we always plan the lessons the night before and so we didn't have anything and she was like... WHAAAT?? you better have something amazing!!!! or you're gonna have to hear from me!! this has to change her!! heal her!!! it has to be perfect!!! (and mind you she is hispanic, hahaha so it's a LOT SCARIER!!!!!!!! okay but she was kinda joking but not at all at the same time, but doing it with love still! haha) and i was like AHHHHHHHHHHH OKAY OH MY GOSH I AM SO SORRY!!!!!!!!! hahahaha so we planned dang hard for that lesson!!!! and man i was praying my little heart out!!! man before we had the lesson, i literally went to the bathroom, and offered another prayer just to let us say the right words, ask the right questions, and be his hands. then we started and BOY OH BOY. it was just a bunch of tears and he spirit and greatness. haha the whole lesson was on jesus christ. and man, i have never felt so strongly that he is our savior, and that he is real. it was amazing, at the end of the lesson, we testified again, and then we were all just quiet. i first was like... well.... what should we say... haha but the spirit was so strong, so we just stayed quiet. everyone was just sitting there, and i didn't even want to move, i was just soakin in the spirit, so at peace and so filled. we literally all sat there for about 3-5 minutes straight, not saying a word, which is a really long time actually!! haha and then the silence was broken and we said a prayer and left :) man. it was so awesome. i just loved it. prepare, and pray. and you will have the spirit. we are gonna send her sister missionaries now from where she is from :) cause she was just visiting from her country, WOOHOO!!!! hopefully all goes well.<br /></div>
OH BOY our AC broke...... can i get a KILL ME THIS IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE??? hahaha just kidding that's a bit dramatic... it was only almost 90 DEGREES IN THERE!!!! hahaha it was an especially hot and humid day and we walked up the stairs so excited for a welcoming rush of cold air... only to feel... HUMIDITY AND HEAT!!!!!!!! well i'm really kidding guys it wasn't that bad, we still have a home and food and ARE ALIVE!! so nothing to complain about, cause the apt. got us a little cooler fan thing and so we all moved our beds into the living room and just slept out there cause it was the least hot! it was fun! like sleeping under the christmas tree or something! woo!!!<br /></div>
man two more awesome things and then i have to go!!!!<br />this week, there have been so many cold rejections from people!!! but there have been so many cool experiences where we get rejected, get ready to go, see another person, kinda wanna just leave cause we are sick of getting rejected... but DON'T! and talk to them and they are way interested!!! man The Lord really does see how far you will go! he wants to be able to trust you. </div>
another cool thing! we were doing weekly planning and thinking about investigators, and felt like we should call one, so we did!!! and we called, and she answered and said she was in a pickle! nd trying to move a bunch of stuff without her husband, and so we told her we were ON OUR WAY TO HELP!!!! and we got to move a bunch of boxes into the attic and then teach a lesson and man it was just awesome cause we were about to drop them cause we couldnt get in their house!! and THEN WE GOT IN!!!! WOOHOO!!!<br /></div>
MAAAAAN shoot there are so many cool stories but i have no time!!! i gotta go!!!<br />I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!! </div>
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well this week was preeeetty GOOD! </div>
Hermana Perez had started getting this really bad pain in her mouth, and it would take her out for a couple hours, and so we didn't do a ton, then on wednesday man she was GONE! haha the pain was getting worse and she had to sleep. </div>
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so we were able to take her in and get some dentist xrays and then get her checked out by a couple doctors and THEN!!! we ended up taking her to an endodontist and they found the problem REAL quick, she had to get a root canal in that very moment!!! so then she was out for a couple days again cause she was on vicodin, which makes her sleep. haha! so we didn't get to do much this week. but CAN I JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO BE PROUD OF MYSELF??? </div>
listen. i feel pretty good about being a mom, i totally made every phone call and every appointment and every prescription got filled and she got all her meds when needed and insurance stuff was taken care of and I even found an appointment for the endondontist that very day after looking around and NOT GIVING UP!!!! WOOHOOOO!!! all while she slept!!!!<br />anyway. I just was pretty happy about it! haha<br />but man.... I almost died.... of boredom..... it got to the point... where I just laid hopelessly on the floor staring at nothing and just.. staring. that's it. hahaha BUT!!! i then remembered we have church movies, so i got a good few hours of some good church films!!! testaments. stellar. legacy. exceptional!!! mountain of the lord!! So good!!<br /></div>
anyway then the next day the sisters we live with did splits with me so we could do some work in the area, and our zone leaders are having us do this thing we the first thing we say to people is telling them we help people prepare to be baptized in 3 weeks, and ask them if they would be interested.... right now in the mission president is all about wasting NO TIME and finding the elect pronto, SO by inspiration our leaders are trying to help us. AND man so far it has given us a lot more rejections.... BUT!! that's okay! cause we can't spend so much time on people who aren't really sincere. </div>
BUT LISTEN COOL STORY!!!! we were driving and i saw a guy and kept driving and was like SHOOT we need to talk to him... so we turned around and went out and he was like... "not interested" and soooo we went back in the car, (and LET ME TELL YOU that the heat that day... was blistering!!!! it was seeping into my skin and soul and lungs! haha) anyway so right as the wonderful air conditioning started getting cold and we were about to drive away we saw a kid walking our way and we looked at eachother (me and sis. kitchen) and were like, LET'S DO IT!!! I was thinking NATURAL MAN!!!! YOU WILL NOT WIN!!! PEOPLE OVER PLEASURE!!! THIS HEAT'S GOT NOTHIN ON ME!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (that's a war cry not a terror scream)<br />anyway so we went and said the thing about baptism and asked if he'd be interested and he said yeah! WHAT??? WOO!!!! so then we told him a little about the authority behind the baptism, that it's the same authority that John the baptist had when he baptized Jesus, and he said, what's the dfference between baptism with authority and baptism without authority? WHHAAAT??? man golden question. so we explained it and he was like, hm... i like that! WOOHOO! so hopefully that goes somewhere great.<br /></div>
so sis. kitchen came to see lucrecia as well, and we all laugh together when she reads the scriptures in spanish... it's like... chinese sounding... with a mix of indian. hahahahahah but she was determined to read a scripture in there with lucrecia!! and i was like YEAH!!! you can do it!! the spirit will help you!<br />well you guys, THE SPIRIT TOOOOOOOOTALLY DID not too much to help her. hahahahaha it sounded the same as usual, BUT IT WAS STILL REALLY AWESOME!!! and i was proud of her and she was proud and lucrecia said she read it well! ............... haha man but we have good times.<br /></div>
uhhhh i dunno what else. man but i am running out of time!!!</div>
well. we also had interviews with president this week! I had a challenge this last week with something, it really occupied my mind, and honestly was very hard. i talked to president about it, and he asked me if I did drugs..... hahaha I knew he did this with most missionaries so I knew where it was going, but I said no, and he asked if i drank alcohol, and i said no. Then he said, well man if you don't do any of that stuff than how else is satan gonna get to you? </div>
his point to me was that Satan works with our minds a lot, he tries to get us confused or scared or distracted with all types of different feelings. inadequacy, fear, doubt, sadness, feeling like you aren't enough, etc. it goes on, but he told me that, in my words, he is gonna do everything he can to hit us where it hurts. and i thought about how often satan really does attack our minds, I just hope you all know that you gotta recognize when those thoughts are from him.</div>
Everything that comes from God, is good. you will not feel darkness, fear, doubt, inadequacy, etc if it is from God, he is all about surety, peace, comfort, confidence, and hope. so don't get the two confused, okay? shut out whatever is from satan, and be confident that God loves you, and he will help you.</div>
I LOVE YOU ALL!!! i gotta go, but uh this week make it a GREAT DAY OR NOT!!! the choice is yours :)<br /></div>
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you know what season i'm talking about!!!!! remember last summer when I was naive and thought those bugs were just one big bug? remember when I kept seeing poor mutilated lizards and FINDING TWO LIZARDS IN REALITY!!!!! REMEMBER???????????</div>
well lucky for me and hermana perez, next to our apt. there is a dip in the grass, and with all the rain lately it has formed a biiiiig puddle, and with that puddle, it has brought hundreds of frogs ribbetting away all through the night.... and I am pretty sure they are ribbetting love songs!!! haha </div>
ANYWAY. man... missionary appropriate? once again i am unsure.... </div>
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ANYWAY. so I love the Osorio family, the dad is kind of lessening in interest.... but it's okay. every time we give testimony the spirit is really strong, and the mom cries, and it's just really awesome. He might not just be ready right now, he doesn't have a true desire to know, it's not his goal, it is just something on the side that hey if it's true, he'd join, but eh! he's not feeling it, well without that desire to know, you won't know. so he just needs to understand why it's important to him. which i think is a big reason for anyone who is straying from the gospel, they stop seeing the importance of it for them, or maybe they see it but temptation is too much. Well, man. I just wish that everyone could understand why Heavenly Father has given us the gospel, I wish everyone could understand the true meaning and importance and THE HAPPINESS IN IT!!!! when we are selfish, and want what we want, we do what we want! and we just MISS OUT!! i am tellin you, none of us understand truly the joy that we could potentially have if we would truly just give our will to the Father, but we are so stubborn so he keeps just slowly working on us! haha i am grateful that he is patient :) </div>
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BUT! man i love them, we were leaving, and one of the younger kids, who was really shy at first, and has warmed up a lot, he always surprises us with fruit rolls!!! or whatever they are called, cause we LOVE them! and so when we were leaving he runs out and says ONE MORE THING!! and gives them to us and we screeeeam and jump for joy! haha and I fist pumped jumped into the air and hit a branch and it has just rained and so ALL THE WATER from the big branch dropped on me and I screamed again and got all wet. hahaha they laughed at me.<br /></div>
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listen everyone I have a problem. I am getting MUCH TOO ATTACHED to things and people out here on the mission. I'm serious it's a problem!! If i see a bug in the house, even just a little gnat, and i wait more than 3 seconds to kill it, suddenly in my mind it has a name, a wife, a life, and kids waiting at home for him!!! and i can't do it!!! i feel so bad!!! I EVEN NAMED THE ANNOYING CLICKING MONSTER IN MY WALL!!! his name is bruce. and i only named him because if i yell and raise my hand to hit him he stops, SO i am convinced that there is something really in there just making me miserable and tired.... haha but anyway........................<wbr></wbr>......<br /></div>
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OOOOH MAN!!! there is an awesome family in the ward who just moved in and are SO READY to do missionary work! it is so cool!!!! we took them out to the park square area in their community, and it was lightening like craazy so we went into a little icecream/pottery place! and we taught them a little on how to do missionary work, and just making conversation with people and connecting with them, and then inviting to something, and we were able to talk to almost everyone in the little store!!! and she was AMAZING!! a natural i am telling you!! she is so excited to do missionary work, and invite and think of cool ways to get her friends involved, it is so awesome to see. when it turns into a desire instead of an obligation, all the fear kinda withers away!! it's so cool!!!<br /></div>
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okay so this week, we had a rough one! which i am grateful for. we prayed for faith in finding, and our teaching pool has withered away... we plan at night now and we're like... hmmm.... uhhh... wellll!!!! no one. blip blop NADA!!! NADA single person!! hahaha get it? not a single person, nada single person, HAHA</div>
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anyway for real though. and one day was particularly dry of people, and teaching. every single person we met rejected us, it was crazy! it's true! and some were mean, some were nice, but all rejections. haha at the end of the night I was just thinking about our loyalty, and where our love is in the work, and i was honestly grateful to have been rejected all day long and not teach at all, because I was able to see that my love for the Lord has grown, and is real. I was going through the day, and I wasn't unhappy, I wasn't bugged or questioning the Lord, I was just thinking alright i will do whatever it takes! because I love you! AND THAT WAS SO COOL!!! to be able to understand that we aren't supposed to be happy just when we are teaching, but we need to be grateful for it all. we will always be in debt to him, and he asks us to do this because we love him. and besides, I KNOW that heavenly father set up our day like that for a reason, to test us and see if we really will do it and keep doing, no matter how many rejections we get! i feel like those people rejected us that day, not because they will never accept the gospel, or bad luck, but because we had to learn something! if that makes sense... cause i don't think that was there only chance, i just think we missionaries need more opposition than usual.</div>
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MAN that was scattered and I feel like it's weak BUT I JUST can't express my feelings about it well enough! haha anyway, it was just cool.<br /></div>
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I love you all, and ONCE AGAIN!!! if i could give any message to the world, or to any of you, it would be love :) i will say it forever and ever!!! WE ALL NEED MORE LOVE!!! people need to be treated with more kindness, and patience, we need to stop judging so harshly! and that goes for myself as well! we just gotta forget about ourselves and love everyone around us. with all our hearts, even if we get hurt sometimes by their actions. it is more worth it to love, than it is to not let anyone into your life. Jesus Christ got betrayed and hurt, and still gets betrayed and hurt, and he loves us so much and it is so painful for him to watch us turn away sometimes, or just be dumb, but he just keeps on loving. he would never shut us out or push us away or close his heart, he just loves us, even if it's hard, and he fights for us. so DO NOT CLOSE YOUR HEART! even though it's hard sometimes, just love everyone, and when you do that, just genuinely love everyone, regardless of whether they like you back, or how they treat you, you will have confidence in who you are, and you will not doubt your worth, because you see everyone else's worth. SO!!!!</div>
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okay let me just cut to the chase...<br /></div>
WE HAD AN AMAZING MISSION CONFERENCE YESTERDAY!!! it was half the mission, south zones yesterday, so i got to see ALL THE PEOPLE I LOVE!!! okay you all have no idea.... how happy it made me.... TO SEE THESE PEOPLE!!! </div>
I got to see Sister Kenagy, hermana Judd, Hermana Miller, Hermana Despain, hermana meldau, ETC!!! and SO ON!! </div>
there was a point in the conference when i was just looking at all of them and thinking to myself... man. NEVER would i have been able to become so close with all of these people if i hadn't come here to serve. they are all so different, and yet we are all best friends. I love them with all my heart, and man... I am just truly grateful for the people that have been put into my life out here.<br /></div>
So let me tell you about a huge tender mercy that Heavenly Father gave me this last week and a half. </div>
last saturday, i went to one of the members houses before our baptism, the grobergs! it was late, but we decided to drop by really fast for some reason, there at there house was visiting the family of brother groberg from a couple cities away! the wife has never visited down here before and it was just a one day thing, and they were all about to get ready to go. Well We started talking and I figured out the ward that she was from, which is the ward that I knew that Noemi had gotten baptized in! (noemi is the one me and hna judd found last summer, who was always in the hospital, who wanted me to marry her son, and who we fell in love with, who got transferred from the ICU here to kissimee, so we didn't get to say goodbye, who we called the elders up there to go teach and she got baptized when she got healthy enough :)) and mind you I only knew that she was in that specific ward because our new district leader came from there and he told me he had met noemi there and everything! but anyway, so i freaked out!!! and said, WHAT!! so then you know Noemi right???? well she stopped and looked at me, her face dropped and she told me, Noemi passed away this morning... </div>
man... MY face dropped, I tried to bit my lip so I wouldnt cry but SURE enough I started to cry pretty hard. she hugged me and just.... hugged me. she was the relief society president, and had just found out... we both just cried for a while. she told me what happened, how she had gotten a blessing that said she wouldn't be here much longer, and then she passed away the next day. she told me about how much of a strength she had been for the ward, and then i started flippin crying again and so she hugged me again and she just thanked me over and over again for teaching her the gospel... I cannot tell you guys, what it meant to me to be able to find out that way. She was in shock as well, the odds of her coming that day were not high and me coming as well? not high, the morning that she passed, this relief society president happened to be the same place at the same time with me, and we lived hours apart, it was a miracle. I know it was, and I know how merciful heavenly father was. </div>
Well this week, yesterday, as i said, we got to have that mission conference, so i got to see Hna Judd. after the conference I pulled her aside and was able to tell her in person that Noemi had passed away, she started to cry and then I was the one who got to hug her. and THAT was a huge blessing as well, we just got to take some time and talk. ya know the cool thing though? for the first time in my life, the death of someone did not effect me the way it usually did. It wasn't a deep sick feeling, or despair or devastating in the pit of my stomach, it was just the shock or the fact that she is gone now and i never got to say goodbye, ESPECially cause I had just looked at her name in the phone that morning and thought about how I needed to call her soon. but even though we cried and it was sad, neither of us felt hopeless. I have never felt so calm and at peace with someone leaving this place! I know that she is okay, and i know that is because of the gospel. I know where she is right now, and that is because of the gospel, and I can smile thinking about her now because I know that she isn't bound by her sicknesses anymore, but she can do everything she ever wanted to do so badly, she can teach the gospel. SHE can help others now, she can fulfill her purpose. and man i am grateful to know that. I love that woman so much, and i am so grateful to have been the missionary who got to find her and teach her, what a blessing. what a huge blessing. AND what a huge blessing that i was able to find out the way I did, and that I got to tell Hna Judd myself. I will NEVER FORGET THAT! ever. tender mercies of the Lord. they exist.<br /></div>
anyway, I can't remember much else in this moment, i don't have much time today, but I just want you all to know that I know that this gospel is true. I know that it is, and I know that the priesthood authority is way more than any of you truly understand. It is eternal and it was restored through the prophet Joseph Smith, that I know. I know that sometimes we want to live the way WE want to live. we want to sin the sins we think are acceptable, and judge others for the ones they think are okay, we want life to be easy, trial free, MAN. If I could just shout to the world that that is NOT the purpose of this life. I know why we came here, and it was not for life to be easy. it was not for us to be able to do whatever we want, and still gain eternal joy! please do not miss the point, please do not put your desires above God. i promise you, that he loves you. I promise you, that he wants you to be happy, he does NOT do things in your life to make you suffer, he sees the big picture, he sees it all! we forget that so often! I just feel so strongly right now, that it is all true. I bear pure testimony of his love for us, and of the Book of Mormon, it is true and if you sincerely read it, ponder it and pray, you will know. Do not glide by in life, doing what you want because you want it. there is more, there is SO MUCH MORE.<br /></div>
MAN DO I LOVE YOU ALL!!! love, love is the best. and love is so important. stop being mean to people! stop gossiping, stop judging too harshly, just love :) LOVE LOVE LOVE! </div>
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okay let me just cut to the chase...<br /></div>
WE HAD AN AMAZING MISSION CONFERENCE YESTERDAY!!! it was half the mission, south zones yesterday, so i got to see ALL THE PEOPLE I LOVE!!! okay you all have no idea.... how happy it made me.... TO SEE THESE PEOPLE!!! </div>
I got to see Sister Kenagy, hermana Judd, Hermana Miller, Hermana Despain, hermana meldau, ETC!!! and SO ON!! </div>
there was a point in the conference when i was just looking at all of them and thinking to myself... man. NEVER would i have been able to become so close with all of these people if i hadn't come here to serve. they are all so different, and yet we are all best friends. I love them with all my heart, and man... I am just truly grateful for the people that have been put into my life out here.<br /></div>
So let me tell you about a huge tender mercy that Heavenly Father gave me this last week and a half. </div>
last saturday, i went to one of the members houses before our baptism, the grobergs! it was late, but we decided to drop by really fast for some reason, there at there house was visiting the family of brother groberg from a couple cities away! the wife has never visited down here before and it was just a one day thing, and they were all about to get ready to go. Well We started talking and I figured out the ward that she was from, which is the ward that I knew that Noemi had gotten baptized in! (noemi is the one me and hna judd found last summer, who was always in the hospital, who wanted me to marry her son, and who we fell in love with, who got transferred from the ICU here to kissimee, so we didn't get to say goodbye, who we called the elders up there to go teach and she got baptized when she got healthy enough :)) and mind you I only knew that she was in that specific ward because our new district leader came from there and he told me he had met noemi there and everything! but anyway, so i freaked out!!! and said, WHAT!! so then you know Noemi right???? well she stopped and looked at me, her face dropped and she told me, Noemi passed away this morning... </div>
man... MY face dropped, I tried to bit my lip so I wouldnt cry but SURE enough I started to cry pretty hard. she hugged me and just.... hugged me. she was the relief society president, and had just found out... we both just cried for a while. she told me what happened, how she had gotten a blessing that said she wouldn't be here much longer, and then she passed away the next day. she told me about how much of a strength she had been for the ward, and then i started flippin crying again and so she hugged me again and she just thanked me over and over again for teaching her the gospel... I cannot tell you guys, what it meant to me to be able to find out that way. She was in shock as well, the odds of her coming that day were not high and me coming as well? not high, the morning that she passed, this relief society president happened to be the same place at the same time with me, and we lived hours apart, it was a miracle. I know it was, and I know how merciful heavenly father was. </div>
Well this week, yesterday, as i said, we got to have that mission conference, so i got to see Hna Judd. after the conference I pulled her aside and was able to tell her in person that Noemi had passed away, she started to cry and then I was the one who got to hug her. and THAT was a huge blessing as well, we just got to take some time and talk. ya know the cool thing though? for the first time in my life, the death of someone did not effect me the way it usually did. It wasn't a deep sick feeling, or despair or devastating in the pit of my stomach, it was just the shock or the fact that she is gone now and i never got to say goodbye, ESPECially cause I had just looked at her name in the phone that morning and thought about how I needed to call her soon. but even though we cried and it was sad, neither of us felt hopeless. I have never felt so calm and at peace with someone leaving this place! I know that she is okay, and i know that is because of the gospel. I know where she is right now, and that is because of the gospel, and I can smile thinking about her now because I know that she isn't bound by her sicknesses anymore, but she can do everything she ever wanted to do so badly, she can teach the gospel. SHE can help others now, she can fulfill her purpose. and man i am grateful to know that. I love that woman so much, and i am so grateful to have been the missionary who got to find her and teach her, what a blessing. what a huge blessing. AND what a huge blessing that i was able to find out the way I did, and that I got to tell Hna Judd myself. I will NEVER FORGET THAT! ever. tender mercies of the Lord. they exist.<br /></div>
anyway, I can't remember much else in this moment, i don't have much time today, but I just want you all to know that I know that this gospel is true. I know that it is, and I know that the priesthood authority is way more than any of you truly understand. It is eternal and it was restored through the prophet Joseph Smith, that I know. I know that sometimes we want to live the way WE want to live. we want to sin the sins we think are acceptable, and judge others for the ones they think are okay, we want life to be easy, trial free, MAN. If I could just shout to the world that that is NOT the purpose of this life. I know why we came here, and it was not for life to be easy. it was not for us to be able to do whatever we want, and still gain eternal joy! please do not miss the point, please do not put your desires above God. i promise you, that he loves you. I promise you, that he wants you to be happy, he does NOT do things in your life to make you suffer, he sees the big picture, he sees it all! we forget that so often! I just feel so strongly right now, that it is all true. I bear pure testimony of his love for us, and of the Book of Mormon, it is true and if you sincerely read it, ponder it and pray, you will know. Do not glide by in life, doing what you want because you want it. there is more, there is SO MUCH MORE.<br /></div>
MAN DO I LOVE YOU ALL!!! love, love is the best. and love is so important. stop being mean to people! stop gossiping, stop judging too harshly, just love :) LOVE LOVE LOVE! </div>
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THIS PLACE WAS AWESOME!!!!</div>
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OH MY HECK THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME TO TELL EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK!!! AHHHH!!!!<br /></div>
okay people LISTEN UP!!!!!! this week was great and i have GOT to tell some good stories.</div>
man. where to begin....<br /></div>
first of all.... BAPTISMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhHHHHHHHH<wbr></wbr>HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH<wbr></wbr>HHH!!!</div>
Lucrecia, i haven't talked much about her, BUT! we have been teaching her a lot. she is the one that is taking care of grandma Ornelia, the one who has Alzheimers, and is really sweet, but sometimes tries to bite me... good things she has no teeth. hahaha anyway. this last week everything fell apart for her baptism, she got sick, the whole family involved with her got sick, the font had a sewage back up for the SECOND TIME in a month, and it was nasty my friends...... it.... was nasty...... she couldn't come to church cause grandma was acting up and wouldn't leave, the guy baptizing her (who was in the sick family) was going out of town this sunday, so unless we got permission from president do confirm her on saturday that would be a problem, ETC!!! so we just planned to move it to the next week because it just wasn't happening....<br />BUT! MIRACLE!!! we saw her on thursday, and she was just, ready. she just knew that it was true. she was all better, everything was great, and she just, was READY! so we got it all together, amazingly and LET ME TELL YOU, AMAZINGLY, the font got fixed and cleaned in time, the whole family got better as well, we were able to figure it all out with president, we got a bunch of people to do the service in spanish, (thank heavens for return missionaries from spanish speaking missions) (speaking of, it was really cool doing it all in spanish, cause ya know, almost no one could understand what was happening, but the spirit was still strong, and everyone could now empathize with her on what it's like every sunday coming to a ward of people who dont speak her language. man!)<br />anyway, IT WORKED OUT! she was SO HAPPY! we brought the jumpsuit to her that morning for her to try it on, and she was giddy, i have never seen her smile so much. at the baptism, she was so nervous, but so excited. she got in the water and just prayed while they got ready, when she got baptized her and willy just hugged eachother and she thanked him for bringing her to this church. she got out and we brought her back, and she just started sobbing, because she had never felt like so many people loved her before. she had felt so lonely for so long, and she was just shocked at the plan that God had for her to bring her here :) MAN!!! she went to change and me and Hna perez hugged eachother and just stood by the font behind the door while the waiting music was being played, we just soaked it in. may have teared up a little, haha, and just felt the spirit. it was so awesome. SO AWESOME! anyway, it was really cool :)</div>
ALSO I WAS A FOOL AND VOLUNTEERED HNA PEREZ to sing a musical number for the baptism, not realizing that being her companion i would be dragged into it.... so we sang a musical number!!! luckily the other sisters sang with us :) WHO WOULD'VE THUNK!!! that i would ever sing in public, well i did. i did! and it wasn't even bad! they want us to sing it in sacrament now...........................<wbr></wbr>.......<br /></div>
anyway. OKAY OH MY HECK! I AM SO TIRED!</div>
let me tell you why. we moved into the other sisters apt because our lease is up and they aren't renewing it, because it has so much gross mold and water leaks and everything is breaking. SO! their apt is tiny and i love it cause it's cozy with all of us! haha i love small! anyway, in our room...... the wall by my head is where the furnace heater cooler thing is, and i don't know why but when it's on it will make this incessant continuous clicking noise that gets louder and faster and more annoying.... and if you tap or hit the wall it'll stop, they warned us... but i didn't believe them..... THE FIRST NIGHT it woke me up like 50 times. the second night, the same. by the third night I LITERALLY WAS PUNCHING THAT STUPID WALL SO HARD EVERY TEN MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i get so angry and i'm tired so nothing stops me and i just punch it or slap it! hahahaha hna perez laughs.... but one of these nights i'm gonna punch a hole through that stupid wall..... anyway last night though i decided not to punch it cause it wakes hna perez up, so i just would put my hand on it softly, and say, peace, be still! and it worked!!!!!!! i slept better too! so..... anyway.<br /></div>
okay here is something SO AWESOME.</div>
the Guatemala family that moved here are still awesome. we love them so much, and Flor, the mom, her english is very little, and very broken, but this fast sunday, we saw her walk up to the podium, and we FREAKED OUT!!!! we looked at eachother and almost died, she got up, and very slow and broken english started bearing her testimony (her husband isn't a member, remember) and man the spirit was so strong, it was so simple, and so brief, and so broken, but we all understood, and we all felt it. we both teared up, just happy seeing her up there. we were so proud of her, she comes to a new country, knowing no one, not knowing english, but is so strong in her faith and knowledge that this is the true gospel, that she still bears it to everyone, and isn't afraid to do so. it was an awesome example to me, I LOVE HER SO MUCH. she is so sweet, i'll send a picture. anyway, it was just cool.<br /></div>
okay so there is this house we pass every week... and it is so cute, adorable! man i hope i didn't already tell this story. but anyway! it has a Gazebo, however you spell it, and a nice cute red barn, and cute shutters and flowers and everything. it's adorable! we realized though one day while admiring it, that it was a witches house..... it was... TOO.... cute.... it was... TOO... perfect..... and it was TOO.... inviting........ the perfect location for a witch to catch and eat children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! every time we pass it we go slow and stop our conversation and just watch the house...... and then carry on once we are passed. haha well ONE DAY.... we saw the owner... oustide..... he had white fuzzy hair, sticking out on all sides, and was doing yard work.... HERMANA PEREZ WAS CRAZY AND PULLED OVER!!!!!! so we talked to him, luckily, he figured out real fast that we have special authority and he could never kill us or anything, so he was really nice and didn't even try to invite us in, he didn't even accept a video or email or anything cause he knew the light of christ would destroy their witchery....... otherwise, he would've taken the lessons. haha BUT! we are still waiting to see the wife, that will be a big day....<br /></div>
anyway. we got new elders in our ward, they are whitewashing... poor things.... on full bike. POOR GUYS. man. seriously it is HOT. one just got here and is being trained, and he said on his first day that it was really humid.......</div>
HAHAHAHA OH MY HECK JUST WAIT YA FUNNY KID! ..... just wait.......... l:(......... not looking forward to this summer. it is already death! MY MIND BLOCKED OUT THE MEMORIES OF SWEAT AND DEATH LAST SUMMER!!! SO I AM NO LONGER PREPARED TO HANDLE THIS ONE!!! AHHHH!!!<br /></div>
okay well.... i have more to say but i shall depart, cause i am out of time. i had a really big thing happen this week... i don't have time to tell it though now, i'll write about it next week. lots of tears, big miracle, tender mercy, etc. </div>
and i am not purposefully trying to leave you all hanging! hahaha sorry!<br /></div>
anyway, THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!! man i know it. i am grateful for this gospel. and man, the Book of Mormon, is way more powerful than any of you think. read it over again, and again, and again, study it deep. there is so much more in there than you can imagine, but we have to work our way up the ladder of understanding. </div>
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!<br /></div>
OH! AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOLLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
AND HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY AARON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />give them big hugs for me everyone :)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06823584905054687115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509851132354312494.post-21476296495983775542014-06-15T18:02:00.000-07:002014-06-15T18:02:34.550-07:00May 27, 2014<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Okay my friends. I have but LITTLE time! And oh so many things to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">say... AND CURSE this Memorial Day! For I have to type on my tiny</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">little iPad and it takes too long!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Okay. Moving on.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week, was quite awesome. I'm not gonna share exactly what</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happened, but we had an experience this last week that was really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">impacting to me. Man I know it's lame not telling the whole story, but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this is what you need to know. When there is darkness around you, or</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">any force of evil, remember that you have the power to crush the head</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of satan, when you call upon the light of Christ. In the experience</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm talking about, I have never had a moment in my life, where when I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">asked in a prayer for the blessing and light of the savior to be with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us in that moment, that I could feel so distinctly and powerfully a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wave of light just come in and fill everything, The room, my heart,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">etc. it was really amazing, prayer is really amazing. It is very real,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and very powerful. Turn to prayer in fear, weakness, doubt, joy,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">peace, everything! Man it is the best.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyway...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So MAN did I tell you about the family from Guatemala? I think so!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Holy cow I cannot describe how much I LOVE THEM! It is just the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">strongest love ever! And so quickly! The kids the other night were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">telling us some of their myths from Guatemala and one of them was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about this little midget in a huge sombrero that braids hair....</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hahahahaha they say all you see is the big sombrero, and two little</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">feet. HAHA it makes me crack up for some reason.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyway we had an incredible lesson, if I didn't already tell you...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">About eternal families. We both felt so strongly to talk about it, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">since the husband isn't a member I spoke to him and told him that we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were called here to this mission, in this area, right now, to be their</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">missionaries. And to get them to be an eternal family, not just hang</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">out, but to help them accomplish that goal. It wasSO COOL! The spirit</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was so strong and we were being so bold, and if can't wait to work</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">more with them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Also, this week we got to see my favorite less active ever! Finally!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It's been a whole transfer. And man I missed her. Let me tell you all,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that I have never felt such strong love for anyone more than her! Just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">kidding, that's probably a lie... But man I can't describe it, it is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">honestly the love of Christ. It just takes over my heart when we are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with her, it makes me tear up almost every time I testify to her or</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tell her of our love for her! It's ridiculous! But I think it's really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cool, because I know that it is the pure love of Christ, and that is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so cool particularly with her, because she is struggling with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">believing in Christ. And I know that it is his love! So I know that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">every time she feels it, she knows who it's from. THE SAVIOR!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyway. We had to do sharing time and singing time for primary this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sunday, okay and the singing time one was last minute and I had NO</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">IDEA WHAT I WAS DOING. hahaha it was so funny. But it was really fun,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">yeah we were talking about how the weak and simply can share the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">message of the gospel, and we had a couple of them come up to arm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wrestle me..... Okay. This little girl and boy were both either</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">freakishly strong, and not normal human beings..... Or I have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">legitimately turned into a fatty weakling who almost for real loses to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">children in arm wrestles. I made it seem like I let them win....</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But..... You guys........ I need to hit the gym more.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Okay and this is so cool. There is a lady from Nigeria we are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">teaching, and at first she was not capable of understanding very</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much.... Acting very interesting and just kinda out of it in our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lessons, but she loved it! Well we took a two week break from her, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">went back, and she has been reading the children's Book of Mormon that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we gave to her grandkids and is obsessed with it! She was telling us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">EVERYTHING! And she was at asking so many questions and man</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">understanding everything! Her son is the one who yelled at us for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">forever, and she was talking about how she wants to just devour the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book of Mormon so she can prove him wrong! Haha it's so awesome. Man</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it's exciting, it is PROOF of the power of the Book of Mormon! After</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she finally started reading it, she was able to completely turn around</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and understand everything! So cool.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Okay well time I up I gotta go! Dng!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Just know I love you all!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sorry this is a lame email.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LOVE you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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HELLOOOOO family and friends!</div>
florida is nice and hot and humid and i realized that it has kept my skin nice and moisturized this whole time! and when i get back to utah i'm gonna dry up like a prune..... my skin will fall off..... and ill die. so i'm looking forward to that.<br />haha!<br /></div>
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SOOOOOOO lets see this week was good! very good, some really funny stories. haha!!! all our plans fell through on monday night and we have this new policy with president for monday nights, that we can take the whole evening to spend with some members and just relax, and teach them how to do member missionary work, etc! it's really awesome! but our family fell through, so we went and this other family let us crash their family night :) they are the Grobergs, i love them SO MUCh!!! i'm trying to convince them to move to Utah when i go home so i can hang out with them still. haha! man they're great. </div>
and man we went to the mall last pday.... and i almost... DIED!!!!! I HATE THE MALL! just kidding i love it, but it wears me out. and oh my HECK every time i saw a cute shirt hna perez was like that's a dress..... FOR REAL??? hahaha CURSE THE DEGRADING WORLD STANDARDS!!!<br /></div>
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anyway. okay let me tell you all something that is really cool. the priesthood, and priesthood blessings. I never appreciated how amazing it is to have the option to get a blessing whenever you need one. Me and hna perez were just both emotionally exhausted, and she wanted a blessing so i got a blessing too. MAN! i cannot tell you, it was amazing. every single concern, or struggle that she was having that i knew of, was addressed in her blessing. i was thinking the whole time, NAILED IT! wow... another one!!..... man. you got that too?? holy cow it was incredible!!! and then my blessing, was perfect. i feel like a lot of times we struggle remembering that God loves us, and I'll get a little personal for a SECOND! sometimes I forget that! sometimes missionaries, and people in general, we judge ourselves too harshly, and condemn ourselves before we even give heavenly father the chance to do so. and then we just aren't happy, and nothing we do is ever good enough, and THEN it gets hard to remember that heavenly father DOES love you, and that he is there. well it was really cool, because in my blessing, the first thing that was said, was "heavenly father wants it to be very clear to you right now, and wants to make sure that you understand and know, that he loves you more than you could possibly understand, so whenever any thoughts come into your mind saying otherwise, you can trust and know that it is false and from the adversary. he wants you to be sure of that." </div>
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MAN!!!!!!!!!! i won't share the rest. but it was just really cool. If you are struggling, don't hesitate to get a blessing, for comfort, concerns, health, etc. It's just really neat :) and I know that he loves you all. individually, he really does.<br /></div>
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anyway. HAHAHA funniest story ever.<br />so remember that awesome couple we gave the church tour to? well we had an appointment with them this week, but we got new phones! so we had confirmed the day before and all was well. well we brought a member with us, and she is awesome, returned missionary, just super cool, says it how it is. and we go to knock, and the crazy man with long hair and a scary smile opens the door just a crack and says, NOT INTERESTEd, and slams it in our face! and we're like... what the heck! (it was one of their house guests that we had kinda met before) and i knocked again and said we're friends of this family! and he opened it again, JUST a crack and said, NO YOU'RE NOT! smiled creepily and slammed the door again! we all looked at eachother and just were like... what the fliiiip?? what is going on?? so we waited for a bit, and knocked again, this time crazy man comes to the door, opens it and says you're gonna get off my property or i'll call the police! they are not interested and told you not to come back! and i was like HOLD UP SIR! and then he slammed the door again, WHAT! well the member that was with us knows the couple from previous lessons, and she was like, YEAH RIGHT! and would not take that, haha! so she knocked again, he rejected us, and she was like, what if they're in there and he's just crazy and they don't know we're here?? so she gets on her tip toes and peeks through the door window searching and crazy man comes to the door again and starts threatening with the police again, and the member is just calmly refusing to leave and he starts escorting us off the property! hahahahahaha this whole time me and sister perez are just watching in shock and laughing so hard, anyway he goes back and and the member puts her hands on her hips and says hm... i bet they have a back door. HAHAH i was like NOOO he's gonna shoot us!!! okay well long story short, they had meant to cancel cause he ha been called to base, but she texted our old phone, had laid down for a nap and told this guy to tell anyone she wasn't available, and he took it as.... they hate us and never want to see us again! soooo... that was pretty interesting. HAHA we were laughing so hard, they felt so bad!!! so funny.<br /></div>
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OOOH MAN guess what i had to translate for both wards on sunday!!! cause we had spanish speakers there both times! it was exhausting but I DID IT!!! it's good for my spanish, because it is suffering lately! haha boy oh boy is it. but anyway, this ADORABLE family from Guatemala just moved here and they're all members except for the husband, and they are so... cute... i'm in love with them. he had been taking the lessons over in Guatemala and so now we're just gonna continue teaching! and the ward was incredible. even though it's english, we got every single spanish speaker to go talk with them and everyone was AWESOME! everyone was taken care of, every child, the parents, etc, everyone had someone else who could be with them , that also spoke spanish, what a blessing! it was so cool.<br /><br />anywho, one of the sisters got really sick on sunday, and they had some set appt's so we went on splits with them and sister perez and jenkins went out while i stayed in with sis. ormsby, poor thing :( she's so sick. we watched some good church movies, and then had some great heart to hearts. one of their recent converts came and brought chicken noodle soup too! home made! it was so good! anywho, the other sisters were only out for almost 3 hours and got 5 LESSONS! it was awesome. i love them, i love being able to serve these sisters and just love them.<br /></div>
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MAN! transfers are coming up this saturday we get the calls to see who goes where.</div>
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I BETTER DIE HERE!!! i'm serious, me and hna perez can die together in my 2nd area and just... yeah. haha i love the members, i love the people, i love EVERYTHING! so hopefully... i stay :) but just in case, don't send any mail after thursday, cause i could potentially leave on tuesday....<br /></div>
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okay well I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
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LOTS OF LOVE.</div>
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to you all.<br />lots of love in this club..</div>
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lots.<br />of,.</div>
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it is THERE!!!</div>
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<br />Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06823584905054687115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509851132354312494.post-60486952559203973472014-06-15T17:47:00.001-07:002014-06-15T17:47:20.209-07:00May 12, 2014<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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hello dear family and FRIENDS!!!! </div>
man this week was SO LONG but SO FAST. </div>
I can't believe... that a year ago yesterday i was skypin with my family for the first time as a new missionary :) aw man. time flies... </div>
I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!! and all of you. I wish that i could just get one on one time with everyone i love. haha all of you. when i get back i can't wait for one on one time to just tell you each individually how much i love you! </div>
P.S. mom I totally made you cry yesterday..... :) hehehe LOVE YOU!<br /></div>
anyway. man I'm turnin Baptist!!! I made my family shout praises hallelujah to the Lord before we got off! haha! it pumps you up! Aunt Susan you were right i've been out in the south too long... haha!<br /></div>
anyway. ANYWAY. this week. what a week! you know what I'm really learning to love? wisdom. I love listening to people talk, and their wisdom! we NEVER know how much we can learn from other people until we really listen and look for traits and counsel that we can apply into our lives. I learned a lot from an exchange with Sis. Bowe, she's so cool, she taught me how to read palms! IT'S TOTALLY LEGIT! I can read your past on your hands :) haha but anyway she really just showed me HOW MUCH you can get from others. she is so humble and she strives to learn from everyone. her thing is to just steal all the good qualities from everyone she meets, haha! it's funny but it's true when you think about it. sometimes we get SO caught up in pride, and we don't want to show our weaknesses or admit that we have pride, we compare ourselves to others, and we just hold ourselves back. If we could look past our pride, and just humble ourselves a little more, stop being afraid of our weaknesses, and just admit that we all have different strenghts, we could learn SO MUCH MORE! that's something that I am working on, instead of comparing myself and gettin down on myself OR questioning why others can't just do something better, or be more obedient on something, I am truly trying to understand the weaknesses in our lives, the purposes behind them, and the lessons we are each meant to learn individually by them. it's a really cool thing to ponder. If you look at Moroni especially, he compared himself to the brother of jared! he hated the way he wrote, he was so embarrassed, and was like why couldn't you let me write like him?? he is so much better... everyone loves the power of his writing. and i read that and was like wow... even a powerful prophet of the Lord doubted, feared, and compared himself. but like i said, i'm starting to see how we have our individual weaknesses and that it is OKAY! and i'm trying to just see others strengths as a way to help me grow. and learn from it, and take from it! just softening my heart to constructive criticism and honestly sincerely searching for ways to be better through other people. THERE IS JUST TOO MUCH TO LEARN to let your pride stop you. So i invite you all to look at those around you, and learn from them. :) don't compare in a negative way, just learn.<br /></div>
anywho. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!!! i love this one family we started teaching. husband wife and kids. man, the husband just has a desire in him to learn and understand. he said that our message gives him hope, but he is a little hesitant at the same time. he compared it to when you have a crush on a girl in highschool, you have hope that maybe you could get together, be happy, etc, but you're a little hesitant of getting your heart broken if it doesn't work. haha! so he wants it to be true, the promises we are giving him are what he needs in his life.</div>
We gave them a church tour, and stopped in the chapel. we talked about the sacrament and what it means to come every week and just start fresh. to have a new beginning! we asked him what that would be like and he asked how you know or how you get those burdens to be gone. MAN WHAT A GOOD QUESTION. I was able to truly testify of the Savior. I am so grateful for my mission for that, that now i can truly testify of the power of his word, and promise, to take away our pains and our past. it doesn't make life smooth sailin and easy, but he makes us grow, and promises us he'll forget the past. </div>
MAN. we are taught to preach repentance to all. AND LET ME TELL YOU! we all need to repent... it is SUCH AN AWESOME PROCESS!!!! STOP NOT REPENTING!!! START REPENTING!!!! DO NOT let your life slip down slowly!! okay? just don't. it's not worth it! man repentance is change. it is growth, it is relief from burdens and guilt. it is peace and hope and joy! use it!<br />anyway, so yeah it was pretty awesome :) we kneeled down in the chapel to close with a prayer, the spirit was just really strong, and he TOTALLY SAID IN HIS PRAYER....</div>
"thank you heavenly father for showing me more of YOUR church..." </div>
WHAAATTTTT!!!!! that is RIGHT IS IT TOTALLY HIS CHURCH!!!! </div>
anyway. high hopes :)<br /></div>
so we were at the gas station and i gave this guy a card to look up <a href="http://mormon.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">mormon.org</a> and his girlfriend shouted from the car... "Hey stay away from my boyfriend, thank you." ..............................<wbr></wbr>.............................. there was some SASS in that! hahaha sorry for trying to give you SALVATION!!!!!! hehe just kidding.<br /></div>
OH MAN! we totally ran a 5K! and it was a SHOUT OUT FOR MAMA JO ROBINSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was for fighting cancer and it was awesome!!! we passed out a TON of cards, and every time there was someone taking pictures or video I was run SO COOL and look intense and point to the camera with my other fist in the air and hold that pose until they saw my and took a picture..... :) SO IF YOU SEE me on the news or something, that's why :) hahaha ALSO every time a water station was there i would grab it, take a sip, pour it all over my head, and crush the cup and throw it! haha like a real runner!!! i felt so cool. </div>
also, me and hna perez sometimes pretend like we're playing mario kart on our bikes, and so on our bike day, i saved a banana peel in my bag in a rag, and hid it all day, for the pristine moment..... :) and THEN i threw it back at her to throw her off the track. hahaha so funny.<br /></div>
anyway, lets see, we had some pretty cool experiences this week! i love exchanges! the best things always happen. I'm grateful to be Sister Training Leader, we learn more from them than they do from us. but anyway I gotta go soon.</div>
OH! there was a cool story we met this lady just sitting outside with her daughter, and we offered to pray with them, and the daughter was way scared of us and would run away and stuff, and then we prayed with them and she gave us huge hugs and started crying and getting angry as we left! hahaha THE POWER OF PRAYER!!! IS REAL!!! neat neat neat.<br />i love the spirit and people!!! </div>
anywho, i gotta go. but i love you all so much!!!!!!!!!!</div>
life is good. </div>
the gospel is true.</div>
the priesthood authority has been restored.<br />and the Book of Mormon, is true. I know it. Read it if you don't, sincerely, prayerfully, with an open heart.<br /></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">be strong my fellowmen!!! MAY GOD BE WITH YOU!!!!! HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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HEY EVERYBODY!<br />one question. has anyone heard the song... what does the fox say?? </div>
one of the kids in the ward had a shirt that had a fox saying "wa paw paw paw paw paw paw paw" and iw as like what is that? and he got all straight faced and serious, and went...</div>
"WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?? WA PAW PAW.. PAW PAW, PAW PAW PAWWWW" hahahahhaa i was laughing so hard He sang most of the song and i'm so excited to listen to it after the mission! i feel like I would like it... hahaha!<br /></div>
anyway. it is weird when you see the end coming... when you start your mission you NEVER suspect it. ever. It just wasn't a part of reality! I couldn't imagine it happening. but now it's gets more real every week. I'm focusing, and working hard, i'm just trying to live up these moments while i have them. I admire all of you guys living the gospel at home, it's a lot harder! It's so easy out here with other missionaries, and always being trained and looked after and kept on your toes. I LOVE IT. haha it's so easy to just have the spirit and stay focused. I'm gonna need help and support from all of you when i get home to STAY this way!! Elder Holland talked to our mission president and said that the most important thing he wanted us to know, is that we can NEVER GO BACK! they do not send us on missions for so long, to learn so much, to change and grow, to learn HOW to study, to appreciate family, etc, just to go home and go back. and waste this time that the Lord gave us. go back to the way they used to live, go back to the world, go back to pride and selfishness and laziness. man, I am not going back. I can't go back! none of us can, we are in a battle you guys! A BATTLE!!! A FIGHT TO THE DEATH!!! HUZZAHHHH! MAN OH MAN YOU GUYS! it's just the best! haha I am so thankful for my mission. </div>
I just wanna testify that when you get those spiritual moments, when you get a testimony or experience the atonement, etc, you cannot just live the same way! or you will loose that witness. You need to act on it, and continue to feed your spirit. if you don't continually feed your spirit with scriptures prayer and church, service love and hope, etc, it will die. DO NOT LET IT DIE!<br /></div>
okay anyway. this week was great! ups and downs, like usual. it was a trying week, but a rewarding one. we had a zone p-day on monday, which is awesome cause Pres. is way strict about elders and sisters never spending time together. haha! i think that if he could he wouldn't have us speak at all! it's so funny, BUT! it was so fun. man we had a talent show and me and hna perez sang and rapped and opera sang inside our mouths. (SHOUT OUT TO ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS JILL FOGTH FOR TEACHING ME THAT!) we've gotten pretty good i'm not gonna lie.... haha! a bunch of the elders did a HUGE skit with a ton of well known songs rewritten, HAHAHA i can't even describe it it was the funniest thing i have ever seen. you guys... i'm serious. i have no words. i was laughing so hard. man. for example, they took the EAT IT weird al song and made it READ IT! about the book of mormon, haha! okay, hopefully someone recorded it and i can send it or something.<br /></div>
oh man and we went on exchanges with the other sisters in our ward, I was with sister Bowe, I LOVE HER! she is so cool! we had an awesome day, we had a DISTRICT LESSON! which basically means, worthy to be on the district!!! haha it was so awesome, the perfect silence+tears+baptismal invite+concerns resolved+spirit+COMMITMENT!! WOOO! so cool. and we discussed so many interesting things! like how amazing it is when you brush your teeth how quickly your hand is capable of moving in all directions and flipping the tooth brush and switching it and etc it's so awesome! when you brush your teeth next do it really fast and watch! it's so cool! and how when you eat how your tongue just moves all the food around without even thinking! it awesome! AND how just talking is so weird and cool! just the way we make sounds and different sounds to make up words really fast and we don't even have to think about it! it's so awesome. THINK ABOUT IT! hahaha<br /></div>
anyway also on exchanges we went to the gym and when she shut the door a frog fell from up top and had a dead black leg and sis. bowe thought she killed it! so we named it, she sang the rainbow song the kermit sings, but made up new words about this frog, it was SO FUNNY. hahaha and then yeah. then AFTER our work out, we went back and IT WAS GONE!!!! and then we see it by the door! the little FIEND we had a moment of silence for it and everything! haha it was fake dead! that or the song brought it back to life... hmmm... </div>
anyway it was really funny. haha</div>
not so funny story.... as we were driving to the gym a DIFFERENT morning... i run over something in the road, here a PLOP. and stop..... NO NO NO NO NO!!!! we turn around and get out and hna perez is like....... did you run an animal over??? we look.... and alas..... A POOR HUGE FROG..... dead... smashed... I nailed him. just.... dead. very dead. hna perez almost threw up. hahaha we had another memorial for him. his name was gregory. :( </div>
anyway....<br />MOVING ON.<br /></div>
well we got yelled at for like an hour it felt like by someone about our temples and secrecy and joseph smith and MAN i have been doing so well with being patient and kind and loving in lessons and keepin my cool, ya know? but i have not gotten so angry in a lesson since the very beginning of my mission. I was LITRALLY. about to stand up and punch this guy! haha just kidding not punch... but i was about to start yelling at him back! I was gonna explode!! i did raise my voice a little at one part to correct a HORRIBLE FALSE DOCTRINE! anyway. it's just cause he wouldn't let us talk! we literally had to raise our hands for him to stop and let us speak. it was kinda funny. hahaha but then i pictured him in temple clothes and where he could be one day and i was like... okay. it's all good. :)<br /></div>
lets see, we had MLC this week! leadership counsel for the mission. we went to the beach but it was pouring and then there was a tornado warning so we had to go to a chapel... :( and so we were in our jeans all day in chairs and i realized how much i hate jeans!!! haha man they are so uncomfortable...<br /></div>
okay anyway AH NO TIME!!!!!! SHOOT!<br /></div>
okay gotta go.</div>
last words.</div>
read your patriarchal blessing.</div>
pray. </div>
read your scriptures, really read them.</div>
and don't give up.</div>
DO NOT GIVE UP.</div>
every wall you hit is NOT THE END! just get over it! (hahaha get it? literally! climb over it!)</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">i love you all so much!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">BYEEE!!!!</span><br />
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okay so i think i forgot to tell you all that me and hermana Perez are the Sister Training Leaders! they didn't tell us till almost a week into the transfer... haha! but i'm excited, it's gonna be awesome.</div>
it's a good motivation to be the best missionaries we can be. We always have a lot we could work on, none of us are perfect! but we do our best.</div>
so last pday we played basketball and MAN YOU GUYS I AM SO OUT OF SHAPE. it is.... not funny. haha i gotta hit the GYM!</div>
uhhhh man what happened this week! </div>
let me just say. That my journal is SEVERELY suffering! me and hna perez use up all our time at night messing around. hahahahah if ONLY we could be recorded every night.</div>
The other night I taught her the art behind ugly faces. </div>
Also we've been practicing our opera and banjo singing a lot. there's a talent show in our zone development day that we have to perform in!! </div>
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okay LET ME TELL YOU about ESOM!!!!!!!!!</div>
man we were driving one day and these three guys waved to us, and so we stopped and went to talk to them! the one guy, Esom, he was sincerely interested in what we had to say. He said we had a glow about us, and nobody smiled like we did these days. We got a return appt. and went back! </div>
OH MAN! the first lesson WAS SO GOOD! the spirit was so strong from the moment we prayed to the end. and he was SO IN TUNE. his answers to our questions were gold! man, it was awesome. he just was like... man you girls have given me a lot to think about, and ponder. he wants to change his life, and he said yes to baptism, the only problem is that he goes on one month long work trips and is home for a month at a time, cause he works on a ship :( and he just left for a month on saturday... NOOO. but it's okay we're PLANNING on skyping him for lessons! so that would be awesome.</div>
but anyway, OH MY HECK! we also had a bunch of church tours this week, it was awesome. we were able to get an old investigator to the church FINALLY after months and MONTHS OF TRYING!!! we had the tour and stopped at the baptismal font and the spirit was way strong!!! and we talked to him about baptism, he's just been waiting his whole life to be baptized in the right place at the right time, with his whole family. he would be baptized, but his wife is taking a little longer to accept everything. but man he is so devoted to God! he is awesome. I love them. IN TIME! we just need some inspiration and the spirit!</div>
ANOTHER cool thing! we went on exchanges and sis. Jenkins was with me this week. we had some awesome lessons, I love bringing english people to spanish lessons cause i LOVE translating for them cause it shows that even if they don't speak the lesson, they can still be inspired to share certain things or scriptures. so every time she had a thought she would say it and i would translate it, and the investigator teared up multiple times when she shared those things. it was so cool. we also had an awesome lesson with an old investigator who has been struggling a lot with feeling overwhelmed and pulled at by all different angles and people to go this way or that. we had a big lesson with him about just trusting your heavenly father, and going to him personally for guidance when everyone is telling you something different. we focused a lot on repentance, and just love. it was really cool the spirit that we felt.</div>
Man everyone... life is good. Life is also hard. and i am very grateful for that. I am not the same person i was and THANK HEAVENS FOR THAT. haha this life is for progress. so STOP BEING SATISFIED where you are! you should never be content to stay the same! you don't have to kill yourself trying to be better, but just always be working on yourself. </div>
same with your relationships. GIVE UP YOUR PRIDE! man is it hard but do it! it is such a destruction to your SOUL! haha it's the worst.</div>
and most of all remember to feed your spirit. if you stop feeding it, it will die. do not be deceived and think you can go long periods of time without doing the classic things we've all been taught. scriptures, prayer, and church. PLEASE, do not miss those things. make them a priority.</div>
anyway, I love you all so much. honestly I am so grateful for the people in my life. AND for the people that will be coming into my life. there are so many blessings to be grateful for. </div>
Focus on the good. </div>
SMILE! </div>
serve those around you :)</div>
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HELLOOOOO! okay so i forgot my ipad. therefore I forgot everything i wanted to say because i write reminders of cool things sometimes. BUT alas I SHALL TRY!<br /></div>
okay SOOOOO!</div>
my new companion!!! HERMANA PEREZ!!! she is SO FUNNY! and SO FUN!! hahaha i love her, we get along a little too well I think, It's so hard for us to focus, BUT! we are taking the work really seriously and both want to work hard and be exactly obedient to the END! we go home on the same plane :) COOL HUH!!! hopefully we just have these last three transfers together, that would be awesome.</div>
We made our bedroom a parkour gym. hahaha we just moved our beds in different shapes so that we have to do parkour over them to get to the bathroom and to get on the ground to pray. it's pretty fun. but i'm starting to be like this... "oh i have to go to the bathroom!......... oh man... i'm too tired to parkour right now.......... i can wait." hahaha BUT! We are going to get really good!</div>
anywho. so yeah. good stuff. Hna Meldau moved to bradenton even though that means nothing to you! she's happy, so i'm glad. me and her came a LOOONG way! we both admit it, and I'm way grateful for everything I learned with us being companions :)<br /></div>
ANYWAY. </div>
this week was awesome. </div>
we had a church tour with the guy named Hector, and it was great!!! let me just say this.... :) in the closing prayer, he was like, please help me to get baptized into this church and learn to follow the rules!" and me and hna perez both opened our eyes and just looked at eachother with dropped jaws, hahaha, we were like what the?? it was awesome!! but..... he called us after that and invited me to the movies and we said we can't go as missionaries.... and he hasn't talked to us since....</div>
BUT! it's okay! because he probably just had a busy easter <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1603414265" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">sunday</span></span> with his family. hahaha more updates on that LATER!<br /></div>
also we had the COOLEST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!!<br />oh my heeeeEEECKKKKK!!!!!!</div>
I want to be an MTC teacher real bad because of this. I had already wanted to! but now. it's like.... a firm desire. haha </div>
there was a mini MTC for all the youth, and we were the "teachers" and we were able to kind of train them and teach them and help them learn how to teach a lesson and use the spirit and all this cool stuff, and OH MY HECK. seeing these kids prepare themselves so much. there was a tri-panionship of boys, and I was helping them figure out a lesson plan, and they were kind lost and having a hard time and they ASKED PERMISSION if they could go and have a companionship prayer.... what?? i just thought that was really cool. they were dedicated and they weren't even missionaries yet! haha and you could see the spirit work through them just because they had prepared and worked out. MAN if only everyone would just put their whole hearts into things like that, then the spirit would be able to help us SO MUCH MORE. we get WAY too worried about what others are gonna think about us, and wanting to be cool, yada yada yada. WHATEVER BEING COOL IS FOR DWEEBS!!! just kidding, because you can be cool AND be smart! ya know? you don't have to lower your standards for anyone or anything, and you can still love people and have fun. DON'T GIVE IN TO PEER PRESSURE! haha it's super lame and I just feel really passionate about this right now for some reason!<br /></div>
okay ANYWAY. so yeah that was pretty neat.<br /></div>
hm lets see... okay sometimes, it is really sad out here. seeing so many people turn away from the gospel, feel the spirit, and then back away, or just not give it a chance. I cannot express to you all the anxiety I feel sometimes for these people... haha! Just like nephi, how he cried himself to sleep all the time for his people! and jacob I think who could hardly even write because he was so anxious about their wickedness, I do not feel it to that extreme... BUT! I feel it. It is hard. and it is a burden. sometimes your heart just aches. There was a lady we were talking to, she wasn't christian, but she asked us if our purpose was to just convert people and stuff! and i was like..... uh... yeah! haha pretty much! and she said man why don't you just leave people with their beliefs alone if they're happy..? and It made me think! I was like... we respect anyone who doesn't share our beliefs, and we don't force anything. but man, asking me not to share what I have with others.... that would NOT BE GOOD! </div>
You guys, we have something different. we have the priesthood, and I don't leave people alone because that is truth. and TRUTH IS TRUTH AND IT DOES NOT CHANGE. it cannot change, it is eternal and infinite and real. and we have the truth, the apostles say it so boldly, and the prophet, and people when they bear testimony, you might not know it for yourself and that is okay. you might just believe it, and not be sure, and that is okay, you might not know if you even care to know, or if you even believe in God! we are all at different things in our life when it comes to our beliefs, I just want to testify that truth is truth. Whether you know it is truth is dependent on the work that you put into it to know. Sometimes God requires more work from you than he does others, and only he knows why. but truth exists whether you act on it, believe, and search for it or not. do not give up that search, do not give up the fight to find light. or to share light. </div>
I have been so fascinated with light lately, and SO OBSESSED with it's qualities and it's strength and like i mentioned in previous emails, that darkness in no way can overpower it. darkness exists, but if you have light, it will overpower the darkness. the ONLY WAY that there can be darkness, is if light is absent, or has dimmed, or turned off. we have light within us, do not let your light dim, because darkness will creep in. you can't be in the middle, when your light dims, darkness comes. so keep your light strong, fight for it! LIGHT!!! i love light :) </div>
EVERYONE! this life is hard sometimes! there are LOTS of questions. and trials and doubts, but just hear my testimony right now. I know that there are answers, I know that you will find peace. I know that it'll be okay.<br /></div>
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time is flying. I just want to really focus 100% and give it my all... i can't afford not to. </div>
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I love this mission life. I would give anything to start back in the MTC again and just do it all over again. </div>
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MAN. what a blessing. it has changed my eternity, literally.<br /></div>
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LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOOOOO FLIPPIN MUCH!</div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06823584905054687115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509851132354312494.post-77743250508911730602014-04-21T17:26:00.000-07:002014-04-21T17:26:09.526-07:00April 14, 2014<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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okay NOW that i have spent all of my time sending pictures one at a time... i have 5 minutes for this big email... shoot.<br /></div>
okay ONE STORy right here!</div>
there once upon a time, was a huge gigantic hideous spider named Harold. and he made a very large web near the sidewalk to our apt. by a miracle I nearly missed running right into him! I was terrified and SCREAMED AND FLIPPED OUT AND RAN INSIDE. nxt morning. no web. </div>
that night, i come to the apt. about to walk up to the path, and see... yet again. Harold. with his FREAKING HUGE WEB.... directly covering our path to the door. so. freak out again. (my fear of spiders has ACTUALLY gotten worse unfortuantely... hahaha) and go around the other way. SO i decide to warn other people who go up the stairs, and i make little signs on either side of the web saying WATCH OUT! BIG SPIDER! hahaha </div>
NEXT DAY! no web........</div>
that night..... we come up.<br />and Harold. was in the process, of making his gigantic web again. BUT. i saw him making it, and suddenly, i was like.... WOW! that is so beautiful! what a creation! that is so awesome! and all of a sudden, harold was to me, like Charlotte was to the pig in charlottes web. hahaha and i was like okay buddy you go ahead and make your web. so i added to my signs, don't kill it!<br />next morning..... we come out. i see a sign written by our great neighbor brian! </div>
"don't worry! your little friend is gone forever... he put up a good fight."</div>
......... :( so. harold died....... which in the end, was actually really sad.<br />but man that was so nice of our neighbor right! he totally came to church once.... we gotta get him baptized. </div>
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OH MY HECK FLIP there are so many cool stories from this week i just realized!!!!</div>
AND I WASTED ALL MY TIME ON THAT SPIDER STORY!!! WHAT I AM THINKING!!!</div>
hahaha okay wow well just know that it was awesome and we taught a guy named John and the spirit was SO STRONG during the restoration and it was INCREDIBLE and he came to church and WOW WHAT A STORY!!!!! i wish i had more time!!! ahhhh!</div>
and also there is another cool story with some inspired questions and the spirit and a jehovah's witness and stuff and MAN I GOTTA GO THOUGH!</div>
AHHH HAVE A GREAT WEEK I LOVE YOU ALL! FLIP NOT EVEN A SPIRITUAL THOUGHT IN HERE!!!!!!!<br />lame email. lots of pictures though! </div>
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CONNNFFFEEEEEREEEEENCE!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
......................... I can't even describe.... THE GREATNESS. </div>
i love. conference. more. than. christmas. it is worth more! i'm serious!!! haha </div>
anyway, MAN. it was good.</div>
EVERYONE! tell me your favorite parts!!! share!!! haha<br />i don't have much time so i gotta write fast. AH! flip!!! </div>
okay well i just REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVED the Dieter F. Uchdtorfs talk on gratitude! seriously i think it was my favorite!!! it was SUPERB! man really helps you change your point of view and try to just be a grateful person, not just grateful for blessings and for things in your life, but to just.... be grateful! just have that... what's the word about you, that attitude at all times! man that's what i want to strive for more, i loved that talk!!! </div>
anyway, i also LOVED Linda Reeves talk, i think she tied it all in so awesome with daily family study and prayers and family home evening.<br />AND pres. Monsons talk about love and kindness. OH MY HECK I COULD GO ON!!!!! EVERYTHING WAS SO GOOD! we all have to work to apply it all in our lives now!!! we've been given the tools so lets get to work!!!<br /></div>
okay well everyone I'm just pumped up on conference so I can't think of everything I was gonna say! i'm so distracted! haha I just really am grateful for it all. I am! to THINK THAT MILLIONS were out doing other things while the PROPHET AND APOSTLES OF GOD were speaking directly to us in this time for these days and challenges!!!<br />anyway...<br /></div>
okay but seriously. go read those talks again, study them out, one every week or something! and just apply it to yourself, there was a reason for every single one of those talks. they apply to us! so don't miss the opportunity to hear the message the Lord wants for you.<br /></div>
ANYWAY. moving on from conference! haha it just gets me so excited!<br /></div>
okay so we have been finding SO MANY FLIPPING MEN. single men.... and when we can't get members with us we have to have them pull out their dining room chairs to their small patio outside, or often we just have to sit on buckets in their open garage. hahaha, it's so funny. I feel so bad for these people! we just gotta get more member presents! but hey it's still really cool. we've been having cool experiences!!! We're teaching this one guy spencer, and he's from jamaica! I LOVE JAMAICANS!!! i love their accents so much. it's one of my favorites. he's great, he's heard some interesting theories about Jesus.... haha but he has a lot of faith and we're getting him to read the Book of Mormon, the only problem is that he doesn't wanna pray about it... he thinks he'll be able to make a conclusion based on his own knowledge! people. let me tell you something that we learn from Preach My Gospel. NO SPIRITUAL TRUTH can be learned with prayer. I testify to that, and i know that even when it seems worthless and unnecessary, it is very important to confirm decisions, particularly spiritual decisions with prayer. often heavenly father will trust us, but we need prayer. SO MUCH. do not underestimate the simple power and actually taking that moment to pray. AFTER you have pondered on something.<br /></div>
So our lunches have been really cool lately! we've been meeting a lot of people and inviting them to sit with us and eat, and we teach them :) whenever we eat out i mean. we went to the best bakery in the universe on Hna meldau's birthday and invited this kid to sit with us, I didn't even start conversation with him i just immediately asked him to come to church and listen to our message! I felt such an urgency about it, it was crazy!!! we didn't get too far into the lesson cause his friend came to pick him up but he got the Book of Mormon and was actually leaving the next day to the army. SO UH YEAH he'll be mormon.<br /></div>
We've been teaching this one kid, and he came to conference with us! he is a very ponderful kid, and throughout conference he would put his head down and say a prayer, or open the Book of Mormon up and start reading. he had just recently been baptized in another church, and he doesn't take a lot on very well, he's been kind of overwhelmed, because he feels something and sees that this is kinda a big deal but he's scared of separating his family and betraying his mom. so he's kinda stressed about it all, BUT, he said that conference told him exactly what he needed to hear. so ya know... we'll see! I know that he'll accept it one day, maybe right now he isn't ready, but it's cool teaching him. </div>
AND he gave us his aunt as a referral and we were able to go teach her a bit and she was AWESOME! apparently the hermanas had knocked this door before and been rejected so it's cool to see NOW the potential they have :) she said she needed us at that time and was grateful, and that she was gonna reactivate in her church because of us... hmmm..... hahaha not exactly what we were going for but HEY! step by step right?<br /></div>
anyway. I GOTTA GO!!!</div>
but i LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! I REALLY DO!!!!! I miss you and love you and i'm grateful for everything. </div>
I hope you all really believe how much i love you, and how much your heavenly father loves you. i would do anything for you all, whoever you may be! and man.... i just really you each know that. </div>
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HeeellloooOOOOOOO!!!!! everyone!!!!<br /><br />okay i'm really struggling lately with remembering what i want to write about! or cool stories!!! it's my old age in the mission....<br /></div>
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OH well we ran out of miles on our car so bikes baby! but we're actually kinda lazy and have been getting members to give us rides... but NOT because we're lazy actually i take that back! just because our appointments are too close together and too far apart so we can't make them!<br /><br />but anyway we did have a really awesome bike day where we met SO MANY great people! and man endorphins really do make you happy! haha me and sis. meldau are always way happier and work a ton better together when we bike! BIKING! WOO! i'm gonna use my bike reeeeal good at home while I save up for a car!<br /></div>
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lets see, this week was pretty great. We're teaching this family, minus the dad, and they've been wanting to be baptized for months, but man she is just really flaky. hahaha and doesn't know much about the church! so we keep trying to teach but it doesn't happen and they never come to church, BUT! we set a new baptismal date with them so hopefully it HAPPENS! WOO!<br /></div>
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oookay PEOPLE I LEARNED A BIG LESSON THIS WEEK!!!!!</div>
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consequences. are..... REAL! haha </div>
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let me tell you something. SOMETIMES! on my mission, I slack off or am not prepared and the time comes when I need the spirit or inspiration and I'm like SHOOT! Heavenly father help me out!! I'm so sorry i realize I slacked off and I didn't do what I needed to then but i'm repenting! help me have the spirit!....... and. actually a lot of the time he still helps me out! haha, BUT! sometimes, he can't do anything. ya know? sometimes we do it to ourselves and we have to just take the consequences for our actions! and I missed a really awesome opportunity to learn a lot from the spirit and I didn't get much out of it because I hadn't prepared! and I had missed a point of something. anyway this might not make a lot of sense but long story short, the atonement is real, but we cannot expect to get the same blessings as others, or that we want, when we are not doing our part. We gotta put in a little more effort sometimes.<br /></div>
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anyway, I'm so sleepy! my eyes are drooping. so i'm struggling to think of stories... did i say that already??? AH i'm losing it.<br /></div>
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it was a gooood week....<br /></div>
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OOOOH here's a cool story!! WOO! </div>
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so we got a referral from the tampa spanish sisters (who one of them is my MTC comp, sis. miller :) love her.) and so we went to go contact it on our last 10 miles and realized it wasn't even in our area! haha lame! but we contacted it anyways because the others sisters in that area couldn't make it that day. SO! we bravely travel through the monsoon that was currently occurring in Florida, haha, and knock on the door! and it wasn't the lady... but we invited her to the women's general conference session! and she was like... oooh GREAT! wow i'm so glad you guys came!! nobody knocks our doors over here! like church people! and we've been looking for a church lately and something just like this! i am so glad you came!</div>
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and we were like WHATTTTT THAT'S SO COOL HI COME BE BAPTIZED!!!</div>
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and she was like OKAY I WANT TO! when can we set a date?? </div>
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just kidding that part isn't true. but REALLY THOUGH she was great!!! i'm excited to see what happens.<br /></div>
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okay man I know i promised a better email this week but my brain is so foggy! i probably have some sort of disease from all the mold and cockroaches over here....... </div>
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OH MY GOSH! the other sisters had picked us up from somewhere and we went to their apt. for dinner after, and we found a dead cat by the apt. :( it was sad! the poor thing, they thought it was their neighbors so we were trying to decide if we should knock and tell them their cat was dead or not...... and me and sis. bowe didn't want to cause we both smile in serious situations! (literally, it's bad. A lady we know told us her husband is divorcing her and took all their money and i broke out in the biggest grin and immediately was like oh my gosh i'm so sorry i smile in serious situations!!! hahaha and then i dropped to a shocked serious face... and then i smile again! oh my. it's the worst!) anyway so they weren't home thankfully and we texted them and THANKFULLY it wasn't their cat. just a poor stray that they were trying to help out that died :( we said a few words for it!<br /></div>
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also... DAD DON'T KILL ME! but i fed a cat the other night... hahaha it was crying for 20 minutes outside our apt's and i couldn't help it! every time i peeked outside the window it would look STRAIGHT AT ME and beg for food! so i did.... but it hasn't come back yet so IT'S OKAY!!!<br /><br />anywho.</div>
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We're also teaching a great less active who is comin back FULL FORCE and she is so great :) i love her. we started teaching one of her neighbors and there was something off about the lesson so i stopped it and we just asked her about her faith in Christ, and talked about that, and then we asked her to give the closing prayer, and she wouldn't, and then amanda was AWESOME and testified about the importance of prayer and how she thought she shouldn't pray because she wasn't worthy and she never realized how bad she NEEDED to be praying in those times! and she was crying and the investigator was crying, and then the inv. said the prayer :) it was so sweet. i loved it.</div>
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I love these people. I really do.<br /></div>
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BEING A MISSIONARY IS SO COOL. </div>
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man, i love it.<br /></div>
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I love you all, so much! i gotta go, next week will hopefully be more exciting! haha i just have a bad memory.<br />LOVE YOUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!</div>
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anytime i can do anything that makes me feel like a spy or a ninja I do it!!!!<br /></div>
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oooh WHY HELLO my friends. my family, my LOVED ONES!! and anyone else in the world that may stumble across these words!!!<br /></div>
what a week i do say what a week.....<br /></div>
okay first I want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOM AND TO SAM AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE WITH MARCH BIRTHDAYS CAUSE THERE ARE A BILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL AND yeah happy birthday :) haha<br /></div>
okay second in honor of my mother turning 38 (...... :)) I want to tell you a cool story mom! I just remembered a day back in the day... when I had kind of lost the spirit a little bit. Not by doing anything horrible, but just slowly and because I wasn't doing my daily things that were needed to keep your spirit alive and healthy. So I was starting to feel more distant from the spirit and from church and from juuuust stuff, ANYWAY, the worst part is that i didn't even notice. BUT. one day I was in a bad mood and walked up the stairs and stopped to listen to a video you were watching, one of the patterns of light videos! and i listened and just felt the heaviness on my heart lighten a little bit, and i suddenly realized that there WAS a heaviness on my heart. and I felt that light of Christ touch me again more than it had, ANYWAY so it made me remember slightly what it felt like to have the spirit with you always and i changed some things that day cause I realized I was starving my spirit! haha SO I JUST wanted to say, that because you did something to bring the spirit just in public for anyone to see, just that simple act of your example! you didn't even say a word to me, it effected me a lot, and I'm grateful for you mom:) I LOVE YOU!<br /></div>
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okay so this week was amazing and difficult and ya know all the normal stuff. </div>
it was amazing cause the Lord blesses us a lot, and gives us so many opportunities to work hard and show him who we are.<br />it was amazing because we found so many people this week and taught so many lessons.<br />it was amazing because I'm building relationships that were hard to build because Heavenly Father is patient with my weaknesses and helps me out.<br />and because so many people are inspired by God and he does the littlest things to make you feel better, even when it's not a big deal.<br />and because I get to study the gospel for two hours every morning, and I LOVE IT.<br />and because we have a prophet, and we get to hear him soon.<br />AND BECAUSE MY MOM SENT MY MOTAB AND NOW THE CAR RIDE IS SPECTACULAR AND IT LIGHTENS MY HEART THAT ANGELICAL MUSIC!!! haha<br />and because i still haven't run over a squirrel in my whole time of being here in Florida! (knock on wood) or a cat or any animal of that sort! </div>
and because we get to see a sunset every day, and a sunrise every morning.<br />and because I get to testify of what I know to be true, freely and all day every day! </div>
and because I get to be a missionary. because i get the opportunity to participate in God's big master plan to save all his children :) </div>
I'm grateful because Heavenly Father loves us, and he cares about us, and there really is a purpose to it all. that's why I'm grateful, because there really is a purpose. and the pain is not for nothing, it's not useless. the trials are not a waste. those moments of defeat do not last. because i know that there is victory. I know there is peace, and I know that we all are becoming the people God wants us to become, when we depend on him. people that are SO MUCH better than what we see ourselves becoming.<br />anyway, I'm grateful for it all, just to be able to see more clearly and understand it deeper. It's a huge blessing.<br /></div>
This week was hard because Kristen decided to shut us out. Her baptism was this weekend, and gosh let me tell you we love her so much. I was so thrilled that she was coming to Christ, that she was gaining a testimony, that she was pushing away the negative feedback. And man sometimes it's the worst loving people so much, it's makes it the hardest moments on your mission when things like this happen. But, something happened, we don't know what, and now it's in the Lord's hands. </div>
It was super hard and always will be when you see someone you love reject something you know would bring them happiness. It's hard when someone you love turns away and you can't do anything about it, and ya know just in general there are lots of hard things in the world, right? so many trials, every person we talk to has a trial in their lives. and life is just so full of them. each of you reading this is going through a trial, big or small, whatever it may be. there might be something you are struggling with. I just want to say, that big or small, it'll be okay. do not give up hope. Satan will take all the hard things in life and try to convince you that it is too much, and that you can't do it. Do not give in to his cruel and ridiculous lies. do not give in to his endless and pathetic attempts to stray us from the path of to our Heavenly Father who is waiting to give us everything. DO NOT let him take your peace. Fight back, and fight back hard. this is definitely a daily battle sometimes but heavenly father DID NOT leave you alone, I promise as a representative of Jesus Christ, as a daughter of heavenly father, and as another person who also goes through trials and doubts and fears, that it is never the end, and you are not alone, if you fight through it and hold onto Christ there is nothing that could ever replace what he has to offer you. hold on to what you know, hold on to confirmations you have had, and hold on to the light. because light will always chase away darkness. there is not even a question there. light overrules darkness. so do not let go of the light or you will absolutely get lost in the darkness.</div>
I love you all, so much, and I'm HONESTLY SO GRATEFUL TO BE HERE! </div>
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I know there weren't many stories in this email so I'M SORRY FOR THE BLANDNESS but i love you all and NEXT WEEK WILL BE BETTER! haha </div>
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER MY FRIENDS! HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!!!<br /></div>
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OH MY GOSH EVERYONE BIGGEST NEWS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (this is kinda long by the way.. sorry!)</div>
so i'm starting with this story cause it's so cool.</div>
and I feel like I have this vision/day dream of what is going to become of the story, meaning all of them get baptized. and if it doesn't happen i'll be crushed.... so i GOTTA relax and leave it to God and whatever happens happens. haha!<br /><br />anyway. okay.</div>
so One day me and Hna Meldau and driving and we see a spanish family walking so we stop and offer them a prayer, we pray with them in the street, offer the lessons, they aren't interested. etc. bummer! but then we see this cute little old lady raking and so we go to offer help and she starts speaking in a language I don't understand.... and she was saying she was or asking if we were jehova's witnesses and i was like what....? haha and THEN!!!!! I understand the word.... ALBANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i'm like... wait.... ALBANIA??? pointing to her!! and she says yes and I say... oh my gosh.... what is the word for sister??? mota.... mrota.... MOTRA!!!! it was the only word i knew since Missy is serving and it's what her name tag says! So i say it! and she's like MOTRA! and i'm like motraaaa! haha and i tried telling her my sister is in albania, and i think she understood it. and then she got her daughter in law who speaks some english, so we start talking, and they start teaching us all these cool albanian phrases and one word is like a sentence sometimes and holy moly i was like.... my sister is so cool. THIS IS SO COOL! wow this language is beautiful! wow this language would suck to learn... haha and then we start talking about the church and Valbona doesn't really like the church because we have prophets and because of polygamy, she thinks we choose the prophet and that only God could possibly choose one. and that they have too much power over the people. BUT they are willing to hear the lessons and try and learn more so they can understand! oh man and it was so cool we had her read a paragraph from one of the pamphlets about the holy ghost in albanian and translate it into english for us, and the spirit was so strong! it was awesome, hearing it in that BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE and her explaining what she is reading to us, she understood it and we think that's how we're gonna do most of the teaching. have her read what we discuss, and translate it, so that the grandma can also listen! even though she is orthodox and i mean orthodox... haha but GOSH I REALLY THINK IT WOULD BE THE COOLEST MIRACLE if they got baptized!!!<br />me and my siblings missions are so connected! haha it's so awesome! me and Aaron are both in Florida, Albania came to me, and we all have a baptismal date on the 29th! so awesome. anyway. </div>
MAN though. it's funny. hahaha cause the cute grandma always talks to me and hugs us and I just look at her and after she says a bunch of stuff i'm like........ what.....? haha and she starts talking again and says a bunch of stuff and i'm like...... yeah... I uh, still don't speak Albanian but okay! I'll just hug ya and laugh! hahaha I understand Missy's emails now... </div>
anyway ALSO the grandma wants to take us to Albania after our missions... so. cool!</div>
Also I think I'm allergic to figs.............<br /></div>
anyway. so that's pretty amazing......<br /></div>
OKAY! next topic. KRISTEN!!! holy moly I love her so much!!! she came to church on sunday and I almost passed out with joy! haha she loved it and is just progressing so well. and we are making sure we have the daily contact that Preach my gospel says we're supposed to have, and it makes a HUGE difference. everything is going so smooth and everything is more confident and she is getting past questions and problems, etc. it's the best. AND OH MY GOSH wavaney and Orion went to the temple yesterday... :') WOOO!!! It's so awesome to see them continue on strong, I love missions. just being able to be a part of someone coming into the gospel is the biggest blessing. seriously, we do nothing! It's all the Lord, and we just get to be blessed enough to be an instrument in that. GEEZ THIS IS THE BEST.<br /></div>
Okay and ANOTHER MIRACLE!!! WE FOUND ANOTHER SPANISH PERSON!!! they are like GOLD TO US up here! haha I love white people just as much.. haha!.... but man my heart just feels at home when I'm with the spanish people and teaching them :) </div>
anyway we knocked cause we had taught her son outside a while before, and wanted to follow up, and she was struggling in english to tell us he wasnt there, the minute we started speaking spanish though she was like OOOh come in come in!! so we go in and we teach her the first lesson and the spirit is strong and she's like man I LOVED your message! and the way you teach and talk and it's so peaceful! I feel it and I think it's true I really do! and we invite her to be baptized and she's like... well I dunno if I'm gonna switch to Mormon, haha, and we're like the SPIRIT IS LITERALLY CONFIRMING THE TRUTH OF THIS TO YOU! haha but sometimes people just don't really understand the significance of that. </div>
BUT! it was awesome. and she is excited for us to come back :)<br /></div>
hmmm i can't think of too much else in this very moment... but it was a good week. went by really fast! too fast..........................<wbr></wbr>.......<br /></div>
something that really stuck out to me this week though was church. every week that is my favorite time, because I get to soak in all this awesome knowledge and i learn SO MUCH from it. and we have 5 hours of it plus 2 hours of meetings so it's a long time and that doesn't even bug me! haha I just honestly love it. and we had an incredible lesson on the sacrament, I invite you ALL to go to the gospel library and look at lesson 6 in the Joseph Fielding Smith teachings of the gospel book, about the sacrament. actually just the whole book... he is an awesome teacher. but It really changes your perspective. well at least it did mine! I really think I'm getting the hang of things and then I realize I still have SO MUCH TO LEARN. I've really been trying to make the sacrament mean more to me and get something out of it but I wasn't doing it the right way, or... well. i can't explain it, haha! but after this lesson, MAN. mind blown. there is just so much more to it than so many people understand. and that is so sad. honestly, how many people partake of the sacrament completely unaware of the significance of it all, and the importance and seriousness of that renewal of covenant that they are making. SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS GO READ THAT LESSON! it's good. i don't have time to talk to much more about it!<br />haha anyways my whole point to this all is that the church has been teaching the same doctrines and principles my whole life. and all of a sudden I feel like all of this is GOLD and I want to soak in as much as possible every sunday! before my mission, for a lot of my youth, I was not a bad person, but it didn't mean as much. i didn't get as much out of it, but they didn't change what they teach! I just changed me, or rather the Lord changed me. And now, because I cherish knowledge and wisdom and the gospel, it makes all the difference. So when you go to church, be prepared to listen. When King Benjamin started to speak, in Mosiah 2:9, he says that he didn't tell everyone to come and listen to trifle with his words. but that he was speaking to them so they would listen, and HEARKEN to his words. and asked them all to open their hearts and minds so that they could actually hear. I love that, and I challenge all of you to prepare yourselves to hear. there is so much to learn that we miss out on.<br /></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ANYWAY. i gotta go but I love you all so much!!!!! remember to love each other, and serve each other. that's the point of this life, so don't miss the point! pray for charity :) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LOVE YOU ALL A TON AND A LOT AND SERIOUSLY LIFE IS THE BEST!!!!</span><br />
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OH! p.s. attach this part to my email.</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we are allowed to read emails any time during the week now! can't respond still till monday, but since we have ipads! so. if you have anything any of you need me to know that day then send it and i'll read it! and know! hooray! daily letters!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">yaaay this was this morning! happy leprechaun day! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06823584905054687115noreply@blogger.com0