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Out on a WIM #14

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Hello one and all! A PUPPY????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did we forget the Spazzle experience? I am even still a little bit scarred from that… Cheese on bread. Anyway it sounds like you all are getting along just great and doing all kinds of fun things without me. That’s alright! I can party in however long I have left!
This week…. Where to begin? WELL. This week has definitely been a challenge and a blessing. Isn’t it strange how those always go together? Well actually we have met so many fun people this week! And so many rude and crazy people too. So one of our investigators N. or Sister N. is still not talking to us. Her baptism was supposed to be on Saturday….. Wah. It was really sad. I am not going to lie Saturday was a very hard day for me. I’m alright though 🙂
Brother K. or C. is still planning on being baptized on September 7th.. And that is in next transfer! So I am praying that I am still here.
On Thursday night we had another exchange! Sister T. went with the Sister trainer leader. And I got to be with Sister B.! She is adorable. She just got here. This is her first transfer so I was helping to train her although I am still technically training (I really don’t feel like I am anymore) I actually LOVED being with her and leading the area….. Who knows President M. said I will probs train once I am done being trained! So we shall see. We had a great day and got a lot done.. She is so sweet! She told me that I am a wonderful teacher and leader.. AWWWW SO SWEET! I still have a lot to work on though 🙂 Also we were both talking about how we wouldn’t mind going over to the French side!!!! NO WAY. So I am going to pray about it and consult with Heavenly Father and President M. and see if that’s what is to happen. Sister B. and I could be sent over there together. Awwww I love she bad. So basically it was a wonderful success! I did miss my wonderful comp Sister T. though! She is great. We feel as though she might get transferred off the island this coming up transfer and we just cry randomly thinking about it! Man I love her. She is my Sister. We get along well. It is a lot of hard work but it’s worth it.
We are teaching one of the wonderful recent converts (Sister C.) sisters!! We met with her upon on Monduh! (We met with her on a Monday) She made us cry!!! She has cancer and it is very sad to see.
Also on Sahuduh (Saturday) we went and did a service project. At Sister C.’s house. She is great. She always comes out teaching with us. We are very close with her. We went with the elders and cleaned up her alley way. We probably cleared out 600 beer bottles……… It was crazy! Somebody had a drinking problem! Hahaha One of the went through my glove and cut my hand. It was great! Good thing I got my shots right? Just kidding calm down mom. I am fine. She was so grateful. It is wonderful to get to serve people all day ereday.
I am actually learning to have more of a serious personality! Crazy. I know! A little kid let out some flatulence during a lesson this week and I DID NOT LAUGH. It was a miracle! I am learning to have a happy yet serious way about myself! I think it is great 🙂 I am learning and growing so much it is crazy. Although sometimes it is very hard. I know that it is all great learning experiences! We have met many people who are not the most kind people and tell us that we are young and should go and find the truth…. TOO BAD I ALREADY FOUND IT RIGHT?? 🙂 Sometimes it brings you down.
Hard things about serving here: There are literally SO many religions. Probably a hundred just on this baby island so everyone is so confused and thinks we are just another religion. The church is pretty far away and rarely do people have cars! Jobs. And lots of people have a problem with the Law of Chastity and word of wisdom! It is a lot of hard work! But it is oh so worth it. The church is still very small here.
The work is moving forward! And I love being a missionary. Tell everyone to write me! I LOVE YOU!!!! 🙂
Mommy: Hello! Thanks for giving me the low down. Sounds like life is a blast! I promise I am doing great. Yeah there are hard days and impossible moments where it is very hard. BUT it’s all in your attitude. You taught me that. I just keep smiling. Fake it till you make it on some days. But honestly I am doing great! There is a lot of stress and things but it’s all good learning. Don’t worry though. I love life and the hard days turn around always. The days are so long it’s hard to have a whole bad day! It’s fantastic! I love you a whole lot 🙂 Keep on keeping on. You are the best.
Pops: It sounds like you are playing too much without me!!!!! Haha and it sounds like you have a had a relaxing week 🙂 I forgot the meaning of that word! I am glad stake conference was good! I love you daddy! Have a great week. Keep working hard.
Have a great week everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you all!!!! I wish I could say everything that happens but there is not enough time.

Out on a WIM #13

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Hello! It sounds like life is going wonderful there. Life is just oh so dandy here! This week has been insane. Flown by and also gone by oh so very slow. I guess that is how it always goes! But mostly it flies by.
The Mission President was there and said the missionaries can now us Facebook. What the!!
2-Has your mission heard anything about that?

2. Yes please! When Elder Cornish was here he mentioned it! I honestly have not heard anything since then about it though. So I don’t know!!

3-What has been the most testimony building experience of your mission so far? 

3. Hmmmmmm….. That is tough mama. I don’t think I could say just one testimony building experience. Because I have them everyday. One from this week has been having a really rough day on Thursday.

Thursday: OK SO. Thursday was just a normal morning. We went to go and see one of our Progressing Investigators who has a baptismal date and we cried all morning trying to know how we could help her. We talked to Elder A. one of the ZL’s and he said we might just have to give her a drop lesson. So we watched Mormon Messages and tried to decide which one she could use the most. And cried our faces off. Then we went to go see Sister N. and she said she was too busy to meet with us…. So we left and as we are driving away. One of our other progressing investigators called and said he didn’t want us to go and see him anymore and dropped us like we were hot………….. SO THEN…. We went to another of our investigators houses and she told that she needed us to take her to the store and we explained to her that we couldn’t take people in our car. She started yelling at us and told us we were “ramblers”….. Hahahaha I can laugh about it now… But at the time it was not funny at all. Let’s just say that I have had better days in my life.
4-Are you doing good at being totally obedient?
4. I am def being good at being totally obedient! There is not any other way to live. Thank you for caring and checking up on me mama! Sometimes we chew gum in public, go swimming, and wake up at ten o’clock a.m. But that is no big deal. PSYCH!!! Yes I am being a good girl.
5-Are your people still headed to baptism?
5. HMMMMMM…. Well basically. No…. We have one solid baptism. That is Brother K. He is the bomb.com. His baptismal date is September 7th. And that is for real. That is in next transfer so I hope I am still here 🙂 He comes to church every sunday, reads the BOM everyday… TWO CHAPTERS A DAY! Yeah he is solid. Other than that everyone is slowly progressing and we have many very cool people it is just that there is much lack of commitment…. We are having lots of success it just doesn’t show in the baptism area 🙂 The other baptism is N. that I talked about earlier…. She doesn’t really have a date anymore but she was so close to baptism that we even had her whole baptism set up… Then I am not sure what happen…. OH WAIT… Satan… Wah. It is very sad. It ha been hard.
6-Is it still raining a lot?
6. It rained really hard the last couple of days! But in between it is hotter than hot! I love the rain though. I am starting to get cold here. Which scares me because I am going home in December. So if I get cold here… WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME IN UTAH??? Hahahaha when it rains here the people whip out there shower caps, it is hysterical. Also this guy was wearing a huge puffy coat while it was raining the other day. We just laugh…
I hope you are doing great Mommy! I sure do love and appreciate all you do and have done for me. Tell everyone to write me letters! Have a great week!
Sometimes it may seem pointless to be out here battling against every religion… There are millions of religions here. It is crazy. BUT I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is indeed the same church that Jesus Christ established. I KNOW IT and I will always share it because I love it! It has brought so much happiness and peace to my life. I will do whatever I can to help people to find out what I have found out.
Scripture of the week: Helamen 5:12 How firm a foundation!!!! AWWWW 🙂 How firm is your foundation?
I love you one and all! Have a great week! I know I will! Keep being awesome! Stay excellent! 🙂

Out on a WIM #12

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Hello my wonderful family!!!!!!!!!!! How are you all? It sounds like you are doing so great! As am I! I love it here so much! I neva wanna leave!!!!!!!!! (That is a lie actually) But I really do love being a missionary. I love hearing from you all it brightens my day! OH YEAH DAD HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!! I thought about you for a few whole minutes yesterday!!!! Happy happy Birthday Daddy I love you so so much! Thanks for being the best dad in the world 🙂 I can’t believe how hard working you are and how service oriented you are. You’re amazing! Thanks for your example to me.
 This week has been crazy… On Tuesday after District Meeting I went on exchange with Sister C. She is the new Sister Trainer Leader! It went really well. She is a great teacher 🙂 It was fun to kind of see how other people do things. We also didn’t have a car so we were walking all day. The experience definitely made me appreciate our car and the way we do things here. I felt so grateful when I came back to be where I am now. I love my companion, Sister T. I love the way we teach and the unity that we have. I love the people we teach. I now have like a new perspective. Awwww…. 🙂 It was wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have been struggling with getting people to church. On sunday we ended up driving to our investigators house just to tell him that we found a ride for him because his phone was not working! (sorry this email is all over the place)
 I had wonderful experience this week: So Sister T. and I have been teaching this chap named G. and we went to his house and he was not home……………………..…. That’s it. JUST KIDDING. So then we went and started talking to his grandma whom we have taught once upon a time. So we start talking to her and she starts saying how the Book of Mormon is confusing. So we started explaining things to her and she was saying how she does not want it to make sense. AS we were sharing scriptures with her and bearing testimony of it. I could feel the spirit there so strong. I started getting teary eyed. I could feel my testimony swelling in my heart and wanted at the very moment to just hand over my testimony and the feeling I was having to her. She then started to cry and talked about how her daughter (who died) used to read scriptures with her and we reminded her of her. I think she was also feeling the spirit though. I can’t explain to you what happened exactly but all I know is I left there with a stronger testimony of the Book of Mormon then I went in with. It meant the world to me. I sure hope that she will accept the gospel. I feel like her daughter was there with us almost. It was crazy. Man I love experiences that I have. I wish I could share them all 🙂
Mom: I wrote you a letter today! Sorry I will send it soon. How are my emails? Is there anything more you want to hear that I don’t say?? Feel free to ask q’s! That was a nice gift to give to dad 🙂 Primary sounds great! I’m sure you are doing wonderful. Gosh I love you so much. Sometimes I miss giving you six hundred hugs a day. Thanks for all you do. I want to buy a bible here so I can have separate books! They have extremely thin bibles here. If there is money taken out my account any time soon it’ll probs be for that reason! Anyway I hope that is ok! I LOVE YOU!!! Have a great week! 🙂
Daddy: Hello pops!!!! How are you?? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope it went well. Hahaha I don’t even remember saying that. But I am glad you all still quote me and remember me! My week was great! Have fun playing tennis! I love pops! You are wonderful.
Anyway I love you all! You are great!!! Have a great week!!
Love, Sister Emily

Out on a WIM #11

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Hello! Oh sorry about the lack of words last time… It’s always going to be short when you get pictures because it takes so long! I’m deeply sorry about that. I hope you liked the pictures 🙂 Ahhh… Tell Tasha Bear that I love her with all my heart. You taught sharing time about families? Families really are so important. Nobody has a stable family life out here. It is so sad! I appreciate so much the way I was raised and my wonderful fam.

Favorite experience from this week: There has been many… I will tell a couple! So yesterday we went to visit this less active Sister from our Branch. And she was so cute. We talked to her about why she hasn’t been coming to church and tried to help her remember her testimony. She was telling us that her son has been killed and that’s why she joined because of the Plan of Salvation. I then committed her to reading at least five verses from the Book of Mormon each day. And I bore my testimony of the Book of Mormon. I started tearing up and so did she. It suddenly hit me. I have always known that it was true but it just like punched me in the face. The Spirit was so strong. We told her that if it’s a desire that she has to make it back to church that we’d do everything in our power to help her.

Speaking of which…. I worry so much. I never realized missionaries focus on new investigators, less actives, recent converts. And it’s a continual effort from the missionaries and individual to keep going. One of our Recent Converts the other day said to us “what do you guys have to worry about, you don’t have kids?” And I was like WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA???? I swear I worry more now then I will as a mom. Ok prolly not. Anyway!!
Another cool experience. C.: Brother K. now… WE ARE PREPARING HIM FOR BAPTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! August 10th is his date 🙂 🙂 🙂 We also are preparing N. To be baptized on August 17th!! AND D. ON THE 24TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEHAAAAA!!!!! They are all so wonderful.
This week I actually was STRUGGLING for a couple of days… It’s always darkest before the dawn?? I think yes. Or as dwight would say false. Optimum darkness is at approximately 2 a.m. Hahahahaha Anyway. Sister T. and I are opposites when it comes to being bugged. So long story short she kind of shuts down when she is mad or bugged and I want to talk about it. It was pretty rough… It sounds lame now that I wrote it out. But it was hard. I really love my companion with all my heart. We work so well together and we are very unified. She really is wonderful. I am grateful for her and her patience.
Funny Story: We were at an investigators house and she writes peoples phone numbers on her walls. SO we started writing down some of the peoples phone numbers from her wall and called them later on. We were cracking up laughing.
HOLY CATS. I LOVE being a missionary. It makes me SO happy. I love it here. I love sweating. I love the people. But really the people here are so much fun. Almost all have a great relationship with Heavenly Father too! Which helps! People are crazy when they say this is a hard area. It’s all in your attitude! I feel like it is home here for now 🙂 This is my temporary home. It’s crazy how when you are bearing testimony everyday and struggling it strengthens you. So I tell my wonderful Father in Heaven: GIVE ME MOUNTAINS TO CLIMB! (that is actually a song). Anyway don’t ever fret about me. I am in good hands. I am working hard and being blessed more than ever before! I hope you all are as well. If you have any questions you are welcome to ask me. I LOVE YOU ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. Have a great week! And choose the right! I want to commit you all to reading at least one chapter in the Book of Mormon a day. And give everyone a hug and friendly hello from Sister Shelton 🙂 LIFE IS GOOD!
Love, Sister Emily

Out on a WIM! #10

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Hello Family!! How are guys?? It sounds like you are doing great 🙂 Crazy at home like it is here!

Monday: I got my skirt fixed by a member. My dignity is still missing somewhere under that porch….

Tuesday: We had Zone meeting and said goodbye to Sister S. and Sister D. 🙁 We had a great day! I also got the pictures you sent mommy 🙂 Thank you! The O.’s only give mail on Tuesdays so sometimes it might take longer.

Wednesday: Zone leaders took our car to go pick up the new missionaries!! We didn’t have our car so we did lots of walking. I am getting pretty brown out here! We met the new Elder for Christ Church he is on his last transfer. His name is Elder A. He is legit!

Thursday: Great lessons! One of our investigators put on Sister T.’s shoe in the middle of the lesson and I burst out into laughter. It was pretty crazy.

Friday: ZONE CONFERENCE!!! We got to see and hear from Pres. and Sister M. and Elder Cornish from the Seventy came with his wife. They are all so wonderful and very humble. I love them so much! They taught a lot about member work which is one thing that is difficult on in this area!

Saturday: I had my interview with Pres. M.! It went great! After that Sister Cornish came out teaching with us. We had two wonderful lessons with her 🙂 It was a lot of pressure but then we got out and it was so chill! She is great.

Sunday: We had District Conf. which is like stake conference. It was so great and then we said goodbye for now to the Cornish and M.’s!!

(Sorry i am typing as fast as i can) This email will be short! But you guys got pictures 🙂

Hahahaha I am glad you guys enjoyed my painful story. There are six elders here and eight sisters! And yes we do see the missionaries from our island often! Yes Elder Briggs (Keaton) and I email every week and write letters when we can 🙂 He is doing great! Still the Zone Leader! He has almost been out a year! AHHHHHH I love him. Anyway I am sorry I am almost out of time!

Ah! I wish I could tell you guys every thing that goes on but there is no time for anything I feel like. I love every single one of you. Thanks for your support and everything you guys are the best. I am doing wonderful! I am working hard and learning so much everyday and I am typing so fast that I messing up like crazy. Sorry for whoever has to fix this for the blog! Hope you liked the pictures!! LOVE YOU!! Have a great week! Love, Sister Emily

Out on a WIM! #9

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Hello family!
How are you all?? I hope life is treating you great! Tell Quincy I say to get feeling better and that I love her! How is Colin and Vickie?? It sounds like everything is going very well 🙂 This week has been great! Lots of hard work, good times, fun people, mean people, laughter, learning experiences, and everything else. I guess that is every week though…
1-What is something fun you are planning to do, or have done for p-day? Like visit a tourist sight?
1. WE PLAYED BEACH VOLLEYBALL TODAY! SO that was way fun 🙂 Welp. I think we will visit a tourist site eventually. Our P-days have been really cray cray lately. We go get ice cream every P-day!
2-Are there any fruits on the island you have never seen before?
2. They have passion fruit! Which is delicious. We make juice out of it! Also they have something called bread fruit here. I have not tried it but I want to! It’s more like a vegetable.. I hear it tastes like a potato!
3-Have you eaten anything unusual? 
3. I ate “coo coo” which I think I told you about… It just mushy stuff! Honestly I am not sure what it is…. And we eat “doubles” which are burrito type things! They are great!
4-How long does it rain, when it rains? Is it a few minutes, or a few hours?
4.It usually rains whenever the sky feels like it. It’ll rain for a while and then stop! It hasn’t rained for a while! Also that “tropical storm” never happened!!! It basically just rained like any other day…
5-How do you handle someone who is not nice? Does it happen?
5. Yes please. We have run into quite a few mean people! You just keep that missionary smile on your face and be very professional. Most of the people are very nice. A lot of them are a little too friendly……………… BUT either way I just try to be very professional and don’t show that I am scared or anything like that. It’s not that bad to deal with people!
6-Do you check in with the other missionaries often? Daily? Weekly?
6. Yeah yeah! We have nightly calls so we talk to the Zone or District leaders every night. And see them a couple of times a week! But we are so far from anyone else. I have no idea what happens on the other islands…. But I am very close with the people serving in Barbados! 🙂
7-Is the island hilly, mountainous, or not so much?
7. The island isn’t too hilly! It’s very flat compared to other islands. We drive a lot. I wish we walked more!!
8-Favorite scripture or lesson learned this week?
8. HMMMM…. My favorite scripture of this week is 1 Nephi 4:6 [And I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do.] Sometimes we don’t know how something is going to work out but we just know that it will with the Lords help. Also something I have realizing is humility. I thought I was humble until I got here. We work so hard all day and we really do have great numbers for our mission and sometimes I get caught up in that we worked so hard and that is why we have these people. Which is true but we are just instruments in the Lords hands. All I need to do is not let ourselves get in the way. So I must be obedient and stay worthy of having the spirit with me all of the time. I can see the Lord in my life and in the lives of the people here. It blows my mind! This is the Lords work, not mine or any of the missionaries. The Lord provides a way!
Ok so more news…. This is week is transfer week! And I am… *drum roll please* STAYING where i am WITH SISTER T.! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 I am so happy.
Funny Story: So we were teaching this guy C. and his porch was pretty busted up (just like all of the porches here) SO I didn’t think much of it. Alright so I am right in the middle if teaching and I shift my weight over to one leg………… WHEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN…………………………………………………. I go busting through the porch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I know I have gained weight but I didn’t think I was THAT fat! Cheese on bread. So I got some crazy cuts and I gushing a little bit of blood! And I just got up and continued teaching… Choking back laughter. It was so funny! So we leave and I was “Bye C., sorry I busted your porch” Then we get in the car and I realize that my skirt was ripped…………. All the way up to my bum…. I know…. Can you say embarassing? Just kidding. I just thought it was so funny. Anyway my cuts are healing but I am not sure about ego….
There is more to tell but I don’t have much time!!! Love, Sister Emily

Out on a WIM #8

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Good Afternoon! (Everyone here doesn’t really say “hello” “hey” “hi” They always say Good morning, Good afternoon or Good evening or goodnight!) This week has been so GREAT! It actually has been a lot of things. Basically any emotion you can think of I have felt it this week! It sounds very hot at home like it is here! It’s always so hot! SO this week:

Monday- CRAZIEST DAY EVER. We were supposed to do a lot of things. But we didn’t really have any time… We have some how become the “Assist-ers”. The O.’s were gone again this week. And so if anyone had a problem they came to us. SO we were taking care of everyone on Monday instead of ourselves! YAY. But it all worked out great. We took Sister C. around to say goodbye to some of the people we see. It was sad! We all cried.
Tuesday- We took Sister C. to the airport at 6:00 a.m… And then we welcomed SIster F. into our companionship 🙂 She is very sweet and likes to talk! It was a challenge to regain unity but everything went well. She really is a great girl.
Wednesday- Lots of lessons! Good day!
Thursday- GREAT LESSONS! We found out Sis. F. is leaving us to go with another set of sisters in our District. She was SO SAD.
Friday:Handed Sis. F. off to the sisters! It was so fun to have her and I learned a lot. I’m happy that there is two of us 🙂 Either way I think it is great! So we did a lot of contacting on this day…. WE RAN INTO THE AWESOMEST CRAZIEST PEOPLE. SOOOOOOOOO we were contacting by the O.’s house! (CRAZY STORY TIME) Alright so we come to this house and there is this lady named E. She starts telling us about how she HATES Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and saying very inappropriate things but that’s how she feels. She told us all about her life and awful things that have happened to her… And literally I am sobbing as we are teaching her. I think for more than one reason. I could never imagine anyone hating My Heavenly Father and my Brother Jesus Christ. They mean so much to me. And to imagine what she had been through to get to that point… IT BROKE MY HEART. So she then later told us that she was “fighting” with God and then was about to turn herself over to the devil when she heard a knock on the door and two girls say “GOOD EVENING!! :)” We prayed with her and for her and she started to cry and we gave her a hug and left. (This is the shortened version of this story) So we left and Sister T. and I just went to the car and prayed harder then ever. I was just weeping. For many reasons. But it was a cool experience. I loved it. Then we met some Less Actives and got ice cream with the Elders later that night!
Saturday- We picked up the O.’s from the airport at 10:45p.m.! AH! Out past curfew………. BUT I AM SO GLAD THEY ARE HOME! We were dead tired.
Sunday- We had a great fast and testimony meeting! I teared up many times! I love hearing the members testimonies! It gives me hope! WE HAD THREE INVESTIGATORS AT CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which like NEVER happens in Barbados…. 🙂 AWWWW… The Lord is blessing us so much! I can’t believe it!
So P. was at church, he doesn’t have legs! I think I told you about him. He is so solid. He is reading the Book of Mormon and loving it. I want to tell you about all of my investigators but there is not enough time!!!
I LOVE the PEOPLE! and I wouldn’t change that for the world! We are meeting so many people. They are my brothers and sisters. How we look doesn’t matter it what is on the inside that matters. We really have had better numbers than ever before this week. We have worked our bungs off and been BLESSED, BLESSED, BLESSED. It is all thanks to the Lord. He is my strength 🙂 Also today there is supposed to be a Tropical Storm flying through our area! We should be fine! Anyway I don’t have time to write you all individually but Mom, Dad, Ri, Janny, Chels, and Al…. I really do love you all with all my heart. I miss you guys but I love being a missionary! LOVE YOU! Have a great week! Keep the faith. Read your scriptures, pray and notice all of the Lords tender mercies 🙂 LIFE IS GREAT! Love, Sister Emily

 

Out on a WIM! #7

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Hello Mom! This week has been….. how do I put this? “Cray cray”. But I love it. Tell Kief that I love him and that I am so proud of him. He will make a great missionary 🙂 Thank you for showing Maris that picture! And I’m so happy to hear about Shaylea and Bryce. That makes me so happy 🙂 And for everyone who asks about me tell them that I miss them but I’m working hard and doing great! AHHHHHHH…. Linny bug…. I miss my baby! She is the cutest thing. And yes please, I got all of your letter and the cute pictures from the kids. I started tearing up at District Meeting because they handed out the mail there. Tell all of the kids and everyone that I love them so much!

1. My favorite thing to teach is the Restoration and Plan of Salvation. I love to watch peoples faces light up when I tell them that they can be with their families forever and be with Heavenly Father again. And the Restoration while we are teaching there is always a special spirit. I love it. We are actually teaching a few people who have physical impairments and that is always a great message for them to know that they can have a perfected body someday. We are teaching this guy named P. and he does not have legs!!!! But he is literally the most positive, happy person. I love teaching no matter what the subject. I have been so blessed out here.
2. We don’t have dinner appointments. I have had one dinner appointment since I have been here. At this awesome recent converts house (Brother B.) He is so great. We had “Coo Coo” and Chicken. To be honest… I have no idea what “Coo Coo” even is. It’s some random mushy stuff but it is not too bad 🙂 And we have had doubles which we buy down the street! I don’t know what they are either…. Hahahah it sounds sketch. But it’s not 🙂
3. There are many grocery stores! It is A LOT nicer then I thought it would be here. There are lots of stores and places to get things. It is all expensive here because it a touristy spot! But I eat all American food basically.
4. Sister T. is from Salt Lake. 🙂 And she has been out since February! She has been here in this area the whole time! She is really so great. I love her a lot and we get along very well. It has just been me and her this week and I have loved it! We are actually going to be in another trio with Sister F. I’m excited to welcome her into out companionship. It will be great! The other day Sister T. said that I was one of the most Christ Like people she has met. It made my whole day. But I’m glad that she thinks so because I’ve been trying to be like him for my whole life 🙂 AHHHHHHHHHH 🙂 Enough said.
5. Yes please. I got all of the letters 🙂 THANK YOU! Keep them coming. I will write back really soon!
Tell Brother L. hi for me 🙂 And thank you for your support and all that you do for me mommy. I really appreciate you and I hope you are doing great! I wish I could be there to help you out with everything you need. But I know that I’m supposed to be here. I have had such great experiences. I wish I could write about them all. I love you. Keep letting the days fly by! Have a great week. I will be talking to you so soon.
I have been driving a ton! It is still kind of crazy! The roads are SO narrow. And you almost run into cars everyday. Last monday me and my comps taught the lesson in District Meeting! It went very well! Oh it is also Hurricane season right now! AH! Look out! Ok so it rains almost everyday here. A LOT OF RAIN! We had a mini testimony meeting with Bro. B. and I started crying! Which is weird I rarely cry. My tear ducts were so loose before I left and now they are dry! He says I’m “something else” I love he bad. Two weird things is there is this lady V. who is in love with me. She is so funny! The other day we teaching this guy C. and his friend came up and was smoking an illegal substance right in my face and yelling at us to pray for him. He was nice….. Hahaha. Don’t worry it’s alright! Ummmm… CHEESE ON BREAD. I wish I could tell you everything that happens here! But I don’t have time. Anyway I still love being a missionary! There are crazy times, sad times, hard times, happy times, exciting times, funny times and every other time you can think of! I’ve been learning and growing a lot and I really love the people here. There may be some crazy ones but most of them are very friendly and nice! I will write you guys a letter and tell you all about my investigators. THEY ARE GREAT! AH I love it so much.

Out on a WIM #6

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Heyo my awesome famawee! How are you all? It sounds like life is still going just great! It has been a month! I didn’t even realize that until someone told me on the 22nd! Crazy! Oh my blisters are better mostly. I just have tons of itchy bug bites!
Here’s a few questions:
1-What do you do on P-day? Been to the beach?

1. We went to the beach once on P-day! But we mostly just clean, email, grocery shop and hang out with the other missionaries. I love P-days they are great! I need to get some souvenirs…. I heard that people regret not getting some from the places they go to.

2-Do you walk everywhere you go? I thought you said you walked and walked? Or do you drive? both?

2. No we have a car 🙂 BUT that day when we walked and walked our car was being worked on in the shop… Usually for contacting we just park the car and walk though.. But our area is way too huge to not have a car. And it is probs not super duper safe!

3-Where does your ward/branch meet? and how many members are there? How many missionaries in your area/district?

3. We meet in a branch.. There are about 50 active members but at church there is usually less.. Church is SO different here… The doctrines are the same but there just aren’t many people and they all just give their two cents whenever they please in the middle of class! It’s just funny… It weirded me out at first but it’s chill!
4-Does your mission pres and wife have any children still at home?

4. Ummmm… I think all of their kids are older.. I actually don’t ever see them. I’ve only really spent time with them once. With the different islands here it is too hard. So we have like a senior couple on each island that we check in with. I do email President M. every week but I don’t know much about that… Sorry!

5-Do you and your companions share equally in the teaching experience?

5. Yes we have a goal to be very unified and we are doing well. We all teach great together! But Sister C. is leaving this Wednesday and so me and Sister T. will need to re-figure teaching out. I think it’ll be fine 🙂

6-How long have your companions been out? 

6. My companions have been out for over 3 months! That’ll probably happen to me.. But it’s fun! We are all learning together.

7-Have you received a letter yet? from me?

7. I have not received any letters yet! Hopefully soon!

8- What is the biggest challenge to missionary work where you are?

8. The people and their life styles…. They all have a chastity and word of wisdom problem… It is pretty rough…

9-Does it rain a lot? Is there a rainy season?

9. It does rain a lot…. Because right now it is rainy/hurricane season! I love the rain though. It is fun and it cools us down! It is still very hot and sunshiney too 🙂

10-What did you buy at the Shell station?

10. I don’t remember! OH! I bought a bottle of water but I had to spend a certain amount of money so she charged in on my card and then gave me the change back 🙂

11-Do the senior couple serving near you have a blog? email address? 

11. I’ll have to check with them and let you know ok??

12- Have you figured out how to send pictures yet? I think you should sent one now and again on the computer. 

12. I just sent some pictures so I hope you liked them. Things are not very high tech here so it is very hard. I won’t get to send them very often… The internet is really slow and it’s rough.

Hahahahaha mom…. That is so funny that you are creeping on me. I died of laughter. Sorry I have limited time and the internet is slow that it takes up a lot of time. I hope you had fun being the toothfairy! You are so cute. Sorry I am going to have to keep it pretty short today. But I love you so darn much and hope I answered all your questions 🙂

Daddy: That’s awesome about your missionary experience!!!!!! 🙂 I have those everyday 😉 I love it out here. It is hard but AWESOME to be a missioanry.

Anyway I will write a letter with things that happened this week. That is the bad thing about picture is then there is less time to email! I’m doing great. I love it here so much. Life is great! I LOVE YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

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Out on a WIM! #5

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Hello my most beautiful family in all the world 🙂 It sounds like it’s cray cray out there in Utah! Ok so let me jump right in! It is crazy here.
Monday: We had a great P day! I’m sending pictures through the mail because let’s face it… The internet and computers here are stinkish. But it was great! P-days are the best day of my life. I have never liked Mondays until now.
Tuesday: We had District/Zone meeting. It was legit! I love getting to meet everyone 🙂 We met this awesome dude M.!!! AWWWWWW he is so solid! He’s been taking our lessons and has a baptismal date!!! July 6th. He is literally the coolest Rasta man I ever did meet. They talk so funny here… Instead of saying “her” they “she” So people say “I love she bad” Which means “I love her a lot”. I WILL NEVER SPEAK LIKE THE PEOPLE HERE. Or even understand them for that matter! It is so difficult. I’m still working on understanding them.
Wednesday: We had a lesson with this Investigator M. SHE IS WONDERFUL! She is reading the BOM and asking tons and tons of questions. Soaking it all up 🙂 Then we visited M. and M. M. asked me if I was 14……………………….………………………………………………………………………………………….. Needless to say I have been sure to wear make up the last few days, so I don’t look like I’m “14”….. Ridiculous. ANYWAY. M. she is so cute. Right in the middle of our lessons she’ll tell me she likes my eyes and funny stuff like that!
Thursday: BEST DAY EVER! We didn’t have our car for the first half of the day so we walked an hour and half to a recent Converts house and almost died of heat, sweat and blisters 🙂 We went to see E. She is the best old lady EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALmost as good as LaRee. Speaking of which will you see how my cute old lady is doing? Tell Toby to tell her hello for me and that I love her with all my heart ok??
Friday: WORST DAY YET. I was really sad on friday and no one would listen to us and it all just felt like a hopeless cause. M. wouldn’t call us back and two other of our investigators… I WAS SO TIRED I thought I would die! But it’s all good.
Saturday: Lots of cancels….. Oh wait…. That is erey day. We played cricket at the YSA activity! We went to a baptism… Which gave me hope because people here DO NOT listen and it’s good to know!
Sunday: Was great! We mostly visited recent members and had a few lessons! We are working so so so hard. And our numbers actually look fantastic! It’s the commitment that is hard and people will set up appointments and then say they are too busy or not be home at the time we go back… It is rough but I’m learning so much here and I love my companions very much. We all work great together. We have great times and laugh so much and just enjoy each other! I’m going to start driving here soon!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I also have the worst tan lines in the world. I’ll send a letter and postcard soon.
Mommy: Hello you beautiful mom! How are you?? It sounds like you are doing awesome!!! I LOVE YOU! Will you send some physical pictures to me? Some of the fam and some of me and my friends and one of me and Keat??? You can get some off of facebook and everything too! I really love it here a ton! Tell Melis that I love her so much and I’m proud of her. And not to scare you….. BUT it is pretty skecth here! It is cool I am being safe.
Daddy: Sounds like a lot of driving! I’m ssorry! I have to start driving on the wrond side of the road soon! Today actually! I hope you are doing great! Happy Late Fathers Day 🙂 🙂 I love you and I am so glad i have you for my dad.
Have a great week everyone!!!! I love you guys so much and I’m so glad to be out here working my bum off (I wish, I’m getting chunk status) Anyway thought for the week…. While we were walking and didn’t have our car we were talking about how uncomfortable it was. And I said hey that is just missionary work. If you are not uncomf you’re not being a good missionary. You have to talk to people who glare at you (everyone here). You walk all day. Sweat your guts out. Get rejected. It is very hard but such a good experience! The church is true! If it wasn’t I wouldn’t be out here! I LOVE IT HERE! Besides the hard times the good always outweighs it 🙂 Tell Colin I say hello and I think he’s awesome. LOVE YOU!!! Love, Sister Emily