It sounds like all is well in my favorite place in Utah 🙂

I am glad to hear that there are miracles happening and that you are doing ok after the accident!

I hope you find a great new car!

To answer your Q’s: Yes I did go to Suriname this week!!!!!!!!!! It was so very wonderful. I got to be with my daughter and grand daughter (in mission terms) Zuster K. and J.! I learned more dutch while I was there. Most of the time I knew what people were saying but had a hard time responding…

On Tuesday we had a Zone Meeting and me and the ZL’s taught with President M. there!! Then Wednesday morning we taught a lesson with him and Sister M. It was amazing! They inspire me so much.

Also we had our interviews with President M. and he told me what my last transfer call will be……………………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. *drum roll please* (honestly I didn’t think he could surprise me anymore… but he did) He said for my last transfer I will still be STL over the same five places BUT I will be training again, TWO FRESH MISSIONARIES. And when I leave after the transfer they will finish the last six weeks of training with each other!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY CATS!!!!! So I will be in another trio. Apparently I still have a lot to learn in the next six weeks so I am very excited!

Suriname was great. There is such a variety of people there! Lots of asians! I loved it. We rode bikes around and we did lots of service! We dug mud holes… which i loved. Getting all muddy. Yes.

I helped the Sister there to start switching off in teaching and helped them over come some challenges. Sometimes I don’t know where I get the energy to do all these things…. Wait that’s a lie. I know where I get it from… My Father in Heaven.

I am pretty much dead right now I got 2 hours of sleep this morn. I got back from Suriname just about an hour ago….

Ok so cool story of the week: I was at the airport this morning. Very hungry, very exhausted and worn out and cold (from the AC) )yes I get cold in the West Indies) (yes I am going to die when I get home) ANYWAY! And then I found out that my flight got delayed (usually happens) But I was so eager to get home. When they said that my eyes started to leak water… YEAH I WAS CRYING!! I must have really not been feeling good to cry about something like that. Anyway I felt like I needed to speak with my Father in Heaven so I went in the bathroom and prayed for strength and for a tender mercy that would help me be ok until I could get home.

I walked out of the bathroom and over back to sit down and wait another hour or so… (with no food in my body whatsoever) (you know how I get when I don’t have my food) ANYWAY! So I went over and there was some cute members of the church from Canada. This Elderly sweet sweet sweet woman started talking to me and I asked her about her story and she bore testimony to me and helped me to feel better. She was speaking by the spirit. The lord worked through her to help me. It was amazing. As she spoke I cried. I knew I wasn’t alone! She taught me a lot and encouraged me in every way. I am indeed grateful for this.

Anyway I love the gospel so much. Something I realized when I was in Suriname is that although people speak different languages, the language of the spirit is the same. The gospel is the same. We are all truly brothers and sisters 🙂

I love you all so much! Mama thank you for your example to me and the things you have taught me. The things you and daddy have taught me are forever engrained in my heart 🙂

Pops thanks for always being there. Thank you for being worthy. The best feeling in the world is to know that I can turn to you for a blessing and feel your hands on my head, that is the greatest comfort. Thank you. Kels thank you for always being patient with me and loving me even when I was annoying… and weird on every level (I still am though) Al thank you for your sweet heart. You truly have such a loving heart and thanks for loving me in spite of me being a little bossy at times.

Riley and Janny bear thank you for being two of my favorite people. For always being so kind and also having fun and what’s not. All you guys are my best friends. I am grateful Heavenly Father gave you all to me.

I hope you all have a great week and keep being your very best!!! Nothing less. We should give everything to the Savior! I love you all and I will talk to you soon.

Love always, Sister Emily

Hello my most favorite people,

Hows it??

You have my travel plans??!! Oh wow this is so weird.

THIS WEEK WAS CRAZY!!!

I was in Grenada from Wednesday until Friday night REAL late. Grenada was wonderful. I learned a lot while I was there and met so many great people! I also got to be with my old comp. Sister S. 🙂 We talked about the good old days! While I was there we taught so many great people there. Grenadians are so very kind and open and awesome.

The Sisters are doing very well. Such hard workers! While I was there it was late at night and we were walking down a really steep hill and it had rained early in the day… I slipped and almost wiped out down the hill… Hahah in the process somehow I lost my name tag. (which was later found from a search crew consisting of members 😉

While I was at the airport I met a lot of really great people and contacted a lot. It is great to share the gospel wherever we are. Everyone needs this message. 🙂

I was supposed to be home Friday morning at 9:30 but the Caribbean airline service (Liat) is not very reliable and so I ended up spending many hours at the airports and having delays and flying from island to island before I finally made it home at 11 p.m. on Friday.

Needless to say I was very tired and I learned a lot of patience that day. Everyone was throwing beefy fits and yelling at the airport people and I just said to myself why worry and dwell on things you can’t change!?

My time here this week was nice. I love my companions. We are all like BFF’s. We had some of our progressing investigators come to General Conference. It  was so good. I loved it. I wrote down questions before hand and every single one of q’s was answered 🙂

I love the gospel. I learned more about how to recognize answers to prayers. I learned about how to be confident in the Lord and how we can stay strong in this wild world.

We had a lesson with one of our LA’s (the one that used to always come out with us and she was so solid) (she has been falling away:() last night and the spirit was so strong. She asked us to sing some hymns and then give her talks on each topic she picked. She picked love, sacrifice and prayer. It was awesome. I feel all the time that as we teach people about different things I truly am the one that is growing from it.

Anyway that is most of my week. I am a bit sleep deprived but the Lord gives me the strength! On Wednesday morning I will be flying to Trinidad and then flying from Trinidad to Suriname and getting there at one in the morning on Thursday…. And I will be with those Sisters until next week! This is my last travel of this transfer! So that will be awesome. I cannot wait! Tomorrow President M. is coming in for interviews and me and the ZL’s will be teaching the whole Zone with Pres M. there… No pressure right?? Haha no I am kidding, it’ll be fine.

So this week will be indeed crazy! Next week I will probs be emailing on Tuesday since I am flying home on Monday.

Thanks for making sure I have money on my card! Anything specific you would like from the carib??

Thanks for everything! I love you all so very much and life is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love, Sister Emily 🙂

Well. Sounds like all is well at home with you! I am so glad. Sad to hear about my favorite old lady but I love her so much and know she is happy. I will miss her for true.

I am glad to hear that all is well.

Sorry I will have to be a little short this week since I sent pictures…. (i hope you liked them)

This week I was gone the majority of the week in Barbados!! It was way fun and also I learned a lot from those sisters. Heavenly Father knows I am a dingus and need to learn a lot so that’s why I have the calling I do. I am sure of it.

All of the sisters that I was with are training and very young sisters!!! It was so fun to share ideas with them and help them in their service for the Lord.

When I got back home, I was real real tired!!!! But I am doing well. I have just been on a spiritual high. Sometimes I find myself just dropping to the floor and praying all the time.

Something happened last night that was very sad to me. A. (the one I always talk about) was at one of the members houses and he has been preparing for baptism.. But he was so drunk and he just kept apologizing. He tries so hard to be good but he literally has no one on his side except us… The only good thing that happened was because he was wasted he told us what was really in his heart and we found out more concerns. When we left the house I cried the whole way home and some more when we got home. I just prayed and cried. The saddest part is that he wants to be good. And we see his potential and so it broke my heart. He deserves better than that and he is better than that.

Honestly I have lost myself in the work. I no longer cry for myself or feel bad for me. When I have emotions they are directly related with the people here. And I just want to help them to feel the love of the gospel that I have. I wish I could let people borrow my testimony!!

Anyway all is well. we will keep helping him and never give up. We are so blessed here and I have the best comps ever. There are many blessings.

This week I am going to Grenada. And then I will also be Skyping the St. Lucia sisters! Wahoo. It is the best ever.

Anyway thank you all for your love and support and thanks for the emails!

How is the Book of Mormon challenge?? Are you doing it? I am finding it to help me so much. I am so excited for studies and I gain so much from it.

Welp you all keep up the good work and keep being amazing.

I love you so very much. This is the church that has all the truths. I know it. I live it. I LOVE IT.

Love, Sister Emily

First things first: I found out that I am coming home December, 2015….. Haha just kidding 2014. But I may or may not have asked President M. if I could extend my mission longer… Before you freak out, he will probably say no. I can’t believe it is almost that time though. It makes me sad. I find myself sleeping with my name tag on and tearing up about everything…. Wah. Anyway all is well.

Second thing second: I got the camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been taking tons of pictures again.

Third thing third: just kidding I will stop now. Ok so the things that stand out from this week.

We are having so much goodness happen in our trio. It is wonderful. Often times I have to take phone calls from the sisters during studies and so they can continue doing what they need to. This week I am going to my first area again… Actually today!!!!!!! I am so dang excited. I get to see most of my old branch tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be there until Friday. Sister W. always feels really sad when I leave so I have been counseling her. She will do great. It’ll be a good opportunity for her to learn.

We are having such success with a few people and working very closely with them. Esp. A.! He is our memb. ref. He was at church and he is getting baptized on Oct. 11!

On Friday my hand was so stiff and in so much pain that I couldn’t move it… I am still having joint pains from the illness I had… It’s a nice trial. It is better now… for now. It comes and goes.

Seriously everything is just dandy here in! We have been visiting the members and helping them with their teaching skills and ting. And have seen many miracles from that!

Thought of the week: We were watching a video conference for training with Elder Holland and cool people and he talked so humbley about how he is the person he is now because of teachers. Because of his parents and leaders and how he is still taught every day. I thought about that. That is how I feel. I am always being taught. I am always learning from people and experiences around me.

Have you all been doing the BOM challenge I left with you?

How is your missionary work going?

Wish me luck on my travels! I can’t wait to learn from those sisters in my first area and be blessed by their sweet spirits!

Anyway I sure stinkin’ love your guts mama! I hope you have a great week and don’t stress so much about things you have no control over. Keep being your awesome self. You are amazing and you are like a pro on the phone that’s why you get to do it so much! Anyway I don’t know of any senior couples coming in. But the Gublers go home in a few weeks!! I love them too. They are the best. Anyway I love you tons. Have a great week.

Have a great week! I love you all very much!

Love, Sister Emily 🙂

Hello my dearest family 🙂

How are you all?? Sounds like all is well.

You got an email from Pres. M.? Awww he is the best.

I am doing most excellent. We had Zone Conf. this week it was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sister C. came in this week and she is so cute and a wonderful sister. She is staying here until they send her to Suriname in a month and a week.

Training is going well. She is very prepared!

At Zone Conference Elder Zivic (from the 70) came and spoke and his wife and everything.

I cried a little bit mostly because it was my last Zone Conference ever.

This last week we have been helping Sister C. to get to know the area better and we had a good council with the missionaries in setting goals and working to help the branch here 🙂

Al!! I met an Elder at ZC from Durban South Africa!!!!! He might know you. Did you know the R. family?

We are teaching a young man (21) named A.! He is so prepared and we are working with him helping him prepare for baptism! It is going awesome. This following week I will be traveling to Barbados and also Suriname soon!! COOL BEANS RIGHT!? I am going to South America!!

Anyway sorry I am just so scatter brained today and there is so much to tell.

I will need some money on my card soon because of buying stuff from here… That “s” word… I can’t spell it… the gifts you get on vacay.

Anyway sorry this is a little short! Thanks for the notes and quotes. I love you all so very much and am grateful for you. Have a great week and be good!!!! How’s the BOM challenge?? Did you try it??

Love, Sister Emily 🙂

Sounds like you all had a great week. I can’t wait to see the temple!!!

Good job with your job mama that’s awesome 🙂

Tell Gram that I love her so much and give her the biggest hug for me. I wish I could be there to give her some noisy kisses!

My STL responsibilities are going well…… Speaking of which… I have some news….

On Saturday morning President M. called me and told me that he wants me to train again! Yeeee!! Her name is Sister C. (she is going to go to Suriname just like Sister K. who I trained) (she is waiting for her visa) BUT Sister W. and I are staying together!! We will be in a trio! Reason being there needs to be someone to be with my companion because he also called me to Sister Training Leader over Barbados and Grenada as well. So now I will be STL for FIVE ISLANDS and 14 Sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy cats. So I will be gone half of the transfer traveling the islands and helping out the sisters! Ha. No pressure right?

Anyway I am excited to learn from the Sisters and to be learning and I train again.. There will be lots of wonderful experiences and I am grateful for this opportunity.

Anyway all is well here. We are working so hard and finding great success through working with the members! It is awesome 🙂

We are having a huge Zone Conf. with a member of the 70 this coming Monday so you probs won;’t get an email!!!! I am excited! I will let you know how it goes!!!

Sorry I am so short on time this week! I love you all so much and thanks for your words!

This week make sure that you recognize Heavenly Father and his tender mercies. They are all over!!!

Love you!!! Love, Sister Emily

How in the stink are you!?

I am glad that you all had a marvelous week! I did as well.

Last week with the kids??? Mayn! I am going to miss them 🙁 But I am excited to hear how your new job goes!!

Ok so I am sending pictures so my email will be shorter!! I will tell you all the important things 🙂

This week was a great week!

We are working with lots of members! The majority of our teaching pool is member referrals so that is the best 🙂

This week we had dinner at a white med student couples house!! They are so nice and from Arizona.

This week I was still feeling pretty worn out and tired and achy from my illness! But I felt much better now!!

I skyped both the St. Lucia Sisters and Suriname Sisters. It was wonderful they are such awesome sisters!! I counselled them on things they are struggling with and followed up in things and stuff!

Miracle of the week: We met this man A. He is a blessing. We had a first lesson with him and then left him with the Restoration booklet and he read the whole thing and understands it completely. He is so excited about the gospel and just wants to learn more! He is very prepared and I am so grateful for him 🙂 He is a referral from A. (the angel member). LOVE IT!

Sometimes my heart just feels so overwhelmed with joy and love for the gospel. Many tender mercies remind me why I am here and help me to stay strong through anything.

We were left a challenge by the mission president, to read from the Book of Mormon and ponder on a specific topic and read through and highlight those things and answer questions we have. I decided to study prayer. I have seen miracles! I was doing this with the intent of having more sincere effective prayers and my whole experience is changing. I find myself praying and just starting to cry because I know that I am speaking to my Father and that he is listening and loves me. And he also knows and loves the people that I pray for so earnestly.

I think you all should take this challenge and apply it in your lifes!

Also my challenge and commitment for you this week is to read Moroni 7:45 and as read you read through replace the word charity with your name and see if you think it applies to you…..

We need to be more Christlike in our lives. Heavenly Father can help us.

I know with all my heart that the Book of Mormon is true. It has helped bring changes in my life.

Recently I have been writing down a lot of my thoughts and things that led to my mission and it is AMAZING to see how the Lord has worked in my life. Anyway so many good things!

Funny thing: Yesterday right before church we were walking out the door and THE HUGEST SPIDER WAS ON OUR DOOR AND ALMOST WENT IN OUR HOUSE!!! It scurred me so bad. I also gave a talk yesterday! It was very nice I hope. It was on Enduring Well.

Alright that is mostly all for this week. I am doing well and still going 110%!! Yay!!!!

I love you all dearly. Thanks for all you do everybody!

Love always, Sister Emily 🙂

YAY!!!!!!!!! You got a job! Good luck. You will do awesome 🙂

Sounds like everything is balling. Or rolling. Sounds like all is well.

I am going to miss the daycare kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man.

Ok so flip. This week was absolutely crazy.

After we got home last P-day my ankle got real swollen and I couldn’t walk on it! And I got a rash all over my body…. I GOT CHIKUNGUNYA which is this illness that is going around the carib. Most of the week I slept and I was on some serious pain meds! But after a blessing, meds, sleep, water and ice on my ankle. Both my ankle and my illness are all better!!

This week while I was sick I had a lot of time to think and I found that my thoughts were wandering far away. So I spent any spare second reading my scriptures and talks and praying. Still I just felt idle and yucky. I am so glad to be back to normal. I am still a little tired and off but I am good 🙂

Funny moment of the week: One of our investigators gave us a huge framed picture of a Black Jesus Rasta man Last Supper… It is hanging in our house right as we speak.

I called Sister M. this week because I was in need of some counsel and guidance. She helped me so much. I told Sister W. “I miss my mom, I used to talk to her about everything” I missed you for a moment but I knew what advice you’d give me and it made me feel better.

I was feeling a little bit weighed down at the end of the week and kinda putting myself down. Like I do sometimes……. But there are so many blessings that Heavenly Father is giving us. I need to have an increase of faith and to rely on God more. I felt much better after we just went out and got to work! We had an awesome lesson at A.’s (members) house. We were talking about what we learned at church and the spirit was so strong and right in the middle her Nephew walked in the house and joined in the lesson and we had a solid first lesson with him, He is golden!!!! What a blessing.

Also this week we visited a Methodist church. It was nice. They sang some good songs and I think it opened up our investigator to coming to church 🙂

Oh by the way I can’t remember if I told you but my camera is broken…………. It got wet……..

All is well though! Ya know? Life goes on.

Something that I have been pondering a lot on is how short life is. Honestly Life is too short to sit around and waste time. We need to be doing our best all the time. We are capable of so much. Also it is pointless to sit there and worry about something that has happened in the past. We can’t change the past but we can learn from it. So we should all stop stressing and fussing about things we can’t change, and just move forward.

So that is pretty much my week!!! It was nice. I am still learning so much and am humbled and grateful every day. Thank you for your love and support and kindness for me.

I love you so much!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK! LOVE YOU ALL!!

Love always, Sister Emily

Welp it sounds like you guys are just kicking life’s bum. (In a good way)

MAHM you gave a talk about ME?? A whole talk about Sister Emily? How can this be? Well that is great! I hope nice words flew from your lips 😉 Thank you for that quote. That is very true.

Ok so as for me….. I am doing absolutely marvelous! This week was wild.

On Tuesday The ZL’s (Zone Leaders) and I taught Zone Meeting! We taught about Flooding the West Indies with the Book of Mormon! The missionaries in our Zone are stellar. On Wednesday morning I flew out to St. Lucia. My mind is all intermingled with the thoughts and people of both islands. The new Sisters there are sister studs. Real excellent missionaries. Honestly I feel like I was the one being taught by them. I showed them around St. Lucia and helped them a lot (or so they said) And I was SO happy to see all of my investigators and members!! They missed me too. What joyful reunions after a couple of weeks!

We are doing swell in our area! Just working hard and focusing more on member work. Honestly there is an angel member named A. and she comes out with us. She came with us to see this family that we teach and they are most of time real goofy and don’t take the lessons real serious and she came and bore POWERFUL testimony and they completely were enthralled. It was so awesome. There are lots of great things about to come forth and I am grateful and humbled every day of my life as I teach people and as the Lord teaches me, through the spirit, scriptures, people and many other ways.

Today we had a fun P-day and went on an adventure! I actually fell into a little stream and got my camera wet, and my planner….. and messed up my ankle a little…… Hahaha oh man. Story of my life. Anyway I am doing great! I have been keeping a thought journal and writing down questions of my soul and then linking my thoughts and studying to answer questions. It is very great. My mind is very deep. I like to think things over and observe things around me. I am so glad to be alive and to be so blessed!

I just want to thank one and all for your love and support and prayers!

I will try and send some pictures soon!

LOVE, Sister Emily

Sounds like all is well for you.

 This week was crazy and good. We are having much success here and working very hard. My new area is really great. I love it. The Branch is nice. We are helping it to go smoothly and all is well.

My STL responsibilities are going great! I am leaving on Wednesday to go and see them in my last area… I am flying, we always fly when we go some where!

I call them every couple of weeks and they call me when they need me. I skype them every transfer and go visit them too.

So this week we had a lot of miracles and we had 4 investigators at Sacrament Meeting!!!!!!!!! We have been working with the members and everything so it is doing great!

Honestly this area where I am used to be struggling a little bit and so now I am here and I am obedient, it is stirring up the place a little bit… Oh gosh. There are some problems arising but I guess that is my calling in life to fix things that need to be fixed.

I am very happy and as usual am learning new things everyday and learning to be strong. Today is my comps Birthday and so I made her brownies and breakfast in bed. It has been fun.

Sorry time is so limited today but just know that I am doing my best and working my bum off.

I really love you all very much and appreciate the things you do. You are amazing and sorry this email is so short! Keep being strong in the gospel and being examples to those around you. People really watch us. We need to be careful.

LOVE YOU ALL AND HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Love, Sister Emily