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I was so Scared!

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I have had good experiences with dogs and bad experiences with dogs. When I was seven years old my neighbor and friend had a St. Bernard dog. It was huge!! It wasn’t very friendly. If the family was around, he was a nice dog. But when they weren’t around he was so scary. My girlfriend’s home was on the way home from the school bus. One day while walking home, the dog came running out. He didn’t leave the yard, because someone called to him when he started to run after me. I was terrified.

The next day, while walking home I was so scared to walk past the dog, that I went around back of their home and avoided the front altogether. It took a lot longer and well there was this issue with the stickers. The sticker weeds were high, and I was wearing my favorite tights. By the time I got home, they were ruined. I hid them, so my mom wouldn’t find them. I vowed that day, never to let something like that happen again.

I wish when I was a kid that I asked for help more. I don’t know why I didn’t tell my mom or let anyone know I was terrified.

I spend my days now with young children. It helps me to be a kind person, to remember how hard it is to be a child. How sometimes they don’t have words to tell how they feel. I hope I am observant and aware when they are sad.

Totally “Fort Worth” It!

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Hermana Kelsey 12:3 -email-
Dear familia,
Things are good here. We took too long on the beginning part of our p-day, so now this is going to have to be short. Sorry. 🙁 Plus this computer is being weird, so I’m going to have to do what I can to make this work.
So tomorrow we are having a baptism! Yay! She is an overage child. Her parents are both members, but they were very less active for a while, but because of some circumstances, her mom is getting really involved with the church again. She is really cool. Her name is N., and she has two younger sisters that are just so funny. Sister W. loves the four year old more, and I love the two year old more, so we call them “yours” and “mine” when we talk about them so we know which one we are talking about. Ha ha. They are so funny though. 🙂 They are always picking on each other, and the 4 year old is always sad because of the two year old. They are just little cuties.
Mom:
That’s crazy that Bishop B. is the new counselor! Who is the new bishop of the singles ward? I still wonder about what is going on there, and who is still going and not married. Ha ha. But only sometimes. Mostly I don’t even think about it. Except it will be cool when I get home to be able to talk to all of the other cool returned sister missionaries when I get there. 🙂 Like Whitney B.! She’ll probably be getting home pretty soon. She left a few months before I did. She is so cool.
Okay questions:
1-How long does it take for my letters to get to you? I usually date them. 1. It usually takes about 3-4 days for your letters to get to me.
2-How many senior couples are in your mission? 2. I think we have 4 or 5 senior couples in our mission. Most of them run things in the office, but some of them go out and teach overage children and recent converts. One of the senior couples, the J’s, work in spanish work with us, because the husband speaks spanish. And they feed us every Thursday.
3-What do you usually study in the morning study time? 3. We study different things every day. Usually we study for our investigators and their needs, but since we don’t really have any here, I have been studying a lot more for myself which has been nice. I study different topics everyday, and try to be guided by the spirit to what I need to work on the most. There is always something to improve on. Usually it’s Christ like attributes, which I could spend the rest of my life working on, trying to become more like my Savior. 🙂
Special Question:
4-What is the best way to help new members of the church to stay active?

4. The best way to help recent converts stay active is to get them friends. They need some one that will invite them to church and activities and sit with them in sacrament and so forth. That is something that is very important, because even if they have a testimony of it, if they don’t have support from the ward, they won’t want to be there.

Dad:
Man, I’m not gonna lie, I’m a little upset the Patriots lost. BOOOO!!! Oh well. We ate with some members yesterday, and he was all ready to kick us out of the house because the game was about to start. Ha ha. But I’m glad I didn’t get to see it because I would have been yelling at the tv and stuff, and no one I know here on the mission should see me like that. 😉 But anyway, I’ll get over it. And next year, I’ll get to watch the Superbowl. Yeah buddy! Anyway, I also really miss music. When you were talking about those songs it makes me think of listening to real music.
Emmysaurus:
Hey girl! I’m glad things are going good for you. 🙂 I’m doing okay.  I can’t believe you cut off your hair! Sister W. (my companion) is way jealous, because she is a hair stylist, and she wants to do something like that with her hair, but she doesn’t have money or anyone to do it. So she wants you to send a picture if you can when you write to me. Okay? Okay! 🙂
Well, I gotta go now. I love you all lots. Recuerden quienes son! (Remember who you are!)
Love, Kelsey
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 19:5 -email-
Mama,
this week has been great we worked hard we checked out the area book and we found some sweet previous investigators. and we had nine investigators at church. finally some success! thats so good that they are reorganizing the stake its been the same ever since i remember.
1-How long does it take for my letters to get to you? I usually date them. 1.flip! idk i don’t ususally check the dates.
2-How many senior couples are in your mission? 2.um there are probably around fifteen i think
3-What do you usually study in the morning study time? 3.just the scripts pmg and the student manuals
Special Question:
4-What is the best way to help new members of the church to stay active?
4. well president hinkley taught that every new member needs a friend and calling a nourishment of the word of god so that is best you can put your money on the prophet. 
the week has been great love you
Love Elder Flexy
Baba,
ya those are great songs especially “angels among us” have to say i miss that kind of music. anyhoo love you
Love Elder Flexy
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sounds like all is going good you changing your hair still thats good. well keep up bein awesome!
Love Elder Flexy

Sunday Best!

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“As we strive to make our prayers more meaningful, we should remember that “in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things, and obey not his commandments” (D&C 59:21). Let me recommend that periodically you and I offer a prayer in which we only give thanks and express gratitude. Ask for nothing; simply let our souls rejoice and strive to communicate appreciation with all the energy of our hearts.”  -David A. Bednar

Hope your Sunday was the Best! Love, Joy

Family History Friday: Collectables #6 Grandma Ruth

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It’s probably safe to say that Grandma Ruth lost her marbles.

OK, so that’s not a very funny thing to say. I’m just kidding.

But seriously, we inherited from my darlin’s Grandma Ruth, a container of marbles that is pretty nifty. I’m sure some of them are pretty old. When I see them I think of her.

What a great lady.

When my sweetie and I used to go visit her. The kids would play with her little bucket of unusual toys, Alex one time commented to me how much he loved the old toys that they played with when visiting. We would play Dominoes with her, which I don’t think I’ve played with anyone else. It was always fun.

It was always a fun time when we went to visit Grandma Ruth, and I love her marbles.

 Happy Family History Friday! Love, Joy

Collecting Pins!

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Years ago our family had an awesome opportunity.

We were able to go to, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D. C.

We had so much fun! It really was a once in a lifetime trip.

My in-laws were serving an LDS mission in Boston, so we were able to stay with them and we were able to stay with other relatives along the way. We packed as light as we could, and we were on a budget. So when we talked to the children about souvenirs, we told them we would have to be very careful in buying souvenirs.

#1 We had limited space to bring them home, and

#2 We had limited money to buy them.

One thing we did for the kids before the trip was, we bought each of them a baseball cap to wear while we traveled to protect them from the sun and to help us spot them easily.

I had a great idea come to me. We could buy pins at all of the places we visit and the kids could put them on their hats. Pins were never more then $4 at any of the places we went and that meant we could get all of our kids something at each of the places we visited. They came home with a hat full of souvenirs! I think this worked out well. It was fun to see the children’s hats have more and more pins as we traveled. The kids seemed to be really happy with their pins. We were able to travel to some amazing places, and historical places. The kids learned a lot about the is history of our great country. They had fun seeing things that they had only heard about before. Now, when they look at their pins, all of these memories will come back to them.