Hermana Kelsey and her new companion 10:1 -email-

Hey everyone!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy halfway through the mission (for me)!!! :):):):):):)

So how’s life? Things are pretty good here. I got my new companion Sister A. She is great. She has a lot of fire, and truly loves being a missionary. She is awesome! I don’t know if you got the picture that we tried to send. There was that one lady (the one that does missionary moms stuff) at our transfer we had on Wednesday, and she took a picture of us together and tried to email it to you. So hopefully you got it. 🙂

We have had a semi challenging week. On Monday Sister Q. left. 🙁 It was a really hard day, but after she was gone I was okay. I was temporary companions with Sister H., who is a sister serving in the singles ward here. She is super cool. She is an older sister (she’s 28 years old), but she is very good at being a missionary. She actually was graduated twice from college, and was established in her career, before she decided to come on a mission. We had to work both of our areas the rest of Monday, and also Tuesday, so it was a little difficult, but we managed. We had a really great lesson with one of their investigators Tuesday night. He is from China, he understands a lot of english, but his sister was there to help translate and stuff. It was crazy, because we would teach him something, and then he would turn to his sister, and she would explain what we had just taught again, in Chinese, to make sure that he knew what we were talking about. It was pretty crazy.

Wednesday: Sister A. came in…and also our new district leader Elder T. He is really cool, but he is super super quiet, so I don’t really know him that well. We had a pretty good day, and got a lot of work done. We also set another baptismal date with S__…again. Hopefully this time she will actually go through it. We have had a lot of troubles with her following through on being baptized. She knows it is true, but something is holding her back. But we are going to continue to work with her.

Thursday: We had two Thanksgiving dinners! We were fed by our ward mission leader’s wife, and also another member family. It was a pretty good day. It was really hard to find people at home though, because everyone was visiting family out of town or whatever.

Friday: We went Black Friday shopping…jk jk!!! But we talked going about it a little. Elder R. is really rich, and he was joking around offering us a “budget”, so he told me if we went Black Friday shopping I could get anything that I wanted as long as it was cheaper than $2000. Ha ha, he is hilarious! It was pretty funny.

Saturday: It was really really cold! Well not that cold I guess (it was like high 40’s low 50’s), but the cold is different, and it just goes right through all your layers. It’s ridiculous. So I might be needing to get some other clothing (like tights/leggings, or long sleeved shirts) sometime, otherwise I may freeze to death!

Sunday: We had a interview with S__ with one of the counselors in our mission presidency, so she will hopefully be getting baptized this Saturday. She seems to be more sure about it now than she was before so that should be good. We are pretty excited. 🙂

Mommy!!!

I’m glad you had a great Thanksgiving. It kind of didn’t really feel like Thanksgiving though, because I wasn’t with family or anything. But mine was still pretty good. That is so cool you had Natasha. I miss that little stinker! Is she getting so big now? It’s crazy to think that she will be in kindergarten when I get home. Does she even remember me? I hope so. Anyway, that is also way cool that you went to Temple Square. I saw a picture of the Salt Lake temple the other day with all the lights surrounding it, and it made me a little sad. But I really am doing great. I love being a missionary! Anyway, I probably better go now.

Thank you so much! I love you so much, and I am so glad you are my mami. Cuidese mucho! (Take care of yourself)

Dad:

I’m glad you had a good Thanksgiving as well. 🙂  When I get home, I am going to get a dog, so it can come visit you. 🙂 😉 Ha ha. Are you getting a little chunky, Dad? 🙂 Hee hee. That is funny. But it happens to the best of us. 🙂 Well, other than that, things are good here. I hope things are great there with y’all. Love you!

Emmysaurus:

Hey girl! I am writing you a letter today, so this will be short. I’m glad you got to go Black Friday shopping. I wanted to, but we couldn’t. Anyway, I will just talk to you more in the letter I will be sending later. 🙂 Love you!