December 25, 2011

Skyping with our missionary was the BEST Christmas gift EVER!!  It was wonderful.  We talked for 2 hours and then got to talk on the phone for another hour with him!  Love our missionary!

December 19, 2011

So the first thing is I am still in Havasu for the next 6 weeks, which is really cool.  But, the awesome thing is I get to Skype this year for Christmas!!!  So, we need to plan that.  You need to email me back right now mom, haha. But, this should be pretty cool.

I hope everything is going well at home.  We are getting fed way too much, haha.  There are just so much sweets everywhere we turn.  Yesterday we had an eight year old baptism and we talked at it and then afterward his step mom came up and was just like, "hey, I want to do that too.  Oh and my daughter would be so happy to do it too. She really wants to be a member of the church."  We just looked at each other and were like, "we can help you with things like that!  We think we might be able to squeeze you in somewhere like whenever you can do it.  That's when we can squeeze you in! Haha.  I love people that want to be baptized and I don't have to do anything.

Oh and I am loving the 12 days of Christmas.  It is a lot of fun to do, haha.  I don't know how you came up with some of this junk, but it is a lot of fun.  Like the yo-yo!  Haha  I have not played with that in forever, but no, I open them first thing in the morning every day.  So I am so pumped for Christmas.  We have 3 meals planned.  We are going to my favorite families house--the Adam's--for Christmas.   We will go and have breakfast before church.  I am so pumped for that.  Well talk to you Christmas.  Let me know when you can talk, please.  If not, I will call you before church so I can work it out.

December 12, 2011

Hey, so my companion is good on Christmas, but there is a sister who is from Mexico that will not have anything we are pretty sure.  Her name is Sister ---------.  She is really sweet, but has been out for 15 months and has only had one letter from her family and writes them every week sometimes multiple times a week.  I just think it is not fair to her not to have a Christmas. And there might be another sister, too, but I am not sure.  So me and my companion are wanting to give her a good Christmas.  So could you either put some money in my account or send an anonymous package to her with no name or address.  I don't want her to know it was us.

Ok so, we are finally getting into the spirit of Christmas.  It feels weird this year but in a good way.  Everyone around here besides me is from somewhere that is really cold.  Chicago is (where) my companion(is from), then Edmenton, Canada and Wyoming. Haha So I am the only one that is not used to a white Christmas.

That family (in the picture we were texted)  was the Kanborian's.  They are are a real cool family.  That was our first dinner with them. Oh and yeah, Elaine Kohler gave me a hug.  You would be surprised by how many old ladies that I talk to on the street give us hugs and some ladies in the ward just don't care about that rule!  Haha.  It is all good.  If you read the white hand book there is nothing ever said about hugs.  It just says to avoid any inappropriate relation with anyone of the opposite sex, but if it is an old lady there is nothing wrong with it in my opinion.  At the Turkey Bowl on Thanksgiving a Brother Brimhall asked the four of us if any of us were from Louisiana and I was like me and then he said that he was her brother.  I think but I am not sure about that.  So I was like, "awesome".  Then he was like, "awesome" so then one day he called the other missionaries and asked for my number and called and asked if he could bring something to me and I was like sure and they showed up at our house with her and goods.

It is so weird to see all of my little sisters getting so old.  Happy birthday, Ems.  It is so weird.  MC wrote me finally.  They are the worst at writing, ever! Haha for real.  But they are so old.  I am trying to get some friends at BYU to watch out for her (MC).  Haha like my roomate.  Alex is too lax. oh well.

December 5, 2011

      My church is at 11:30 here and ends at 2:30, but I could be moved before Christmas.  So any packages that are not sent by next Monday get them sent to the mission home and then the mission home will send them to me wherever I am.  Transfers are on the 20th so I don't know if I will stay or go because there is about a 50-50 chance that I will stay or go.  I hope I don't move right before Christmas.

 

      I can have any uplifting music that brings the Spirit.  So no (certain) type.  It can be EFY.  I would love to have all the different EFY's and just other good music.

 

     We just started the Book of Mormon over again with the Preach My Gospel class that we do with the ward.  We made a 90 day reading plan up with the help of some of the ward members and we are reading it.  We started on Nov 29th, so we are just slowly going through it.  It only is 3.6 pages per day.  It is really not bad at all.

 

     The work is kinda slow.  We have not been able to find new investigators.  I have heard that it is slow in the work around the holidays, but we were able to find two new investigators here this past week.   We are hoping that they will go through.  They were both from member referrals. Y'all should invite over Matt, Logan, and Micheal some time this holiday.  Keep being friends with them.

 

      I love all of y'all.  Peace out home dogs.  Is Alex Zachary going to be home for the break?