Out of Order

Note:  This letter is from July 1 and goes before the previous "New President" post chronologically, but I didn't get it till Leanne forwarded it to me today.  Sorry.  Now to the letter:

This week has been interesting.  Well actually, first off, we put Chloe on date for baptism!! For the  13TH!!! :DD So I'm going to have my first baptism!!! So that's exciting.

And we started teaching this Born Again Christan family. (They don't know it yet because they say they'll never be Mormon. but I know they will be). Their daughter, Nichole, loves ASL and horses. Her Mom, Sheren, says she needs to be more specific in her prayers. I guess she's been praying for a friend for Nichole who has high standards and such, and now she says she needs to add who is not a missionary so we can hang out. She's so funny.

Sister Meachum's (the lady who buys us groceries every week) husband has decided he doesn't want to be a member anymore because he can't feel the spirit, so we're starting to go over there and talk with them.  And it's official that they're my family in Washington. They said I could move in with them when I come out here again. Their daughter, Kylie, is adopted and was born deaf, so they're all fluent in ASL!!!! And she has special needs!!! And they want to adopt another special needs child!! They know all about the deaf branch and I learned there's a special needs branch!!!!! They gave me a Book of Mormon in ASL!!! I'm excited to watch it!!! :DD

"Jesus is the Christ and God lives!!"

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May the Spirit be with you

New President

This week has been long and hard, but I'm doing well.

So, in the next few Costco Warehouse adds, an Australian Shepard will be in it. I know that dog. His name is Max. He's an award winning Agility dog. He's super nice!!!!

We met President Choi. He's really funny!!! Although, it seems like his main focus is marriage XP. He kept talking about marriage it was kinda funny....and hmm...yeah....









I hope Grammie will get better soon!!! I love getting her letters!!!!

President Choi just announced we're getting Facebook soon to use for missionary work. So I'm guessing that that means ipads are coming soon too, but I don't know.
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May the Spirit be with you

Papa John's and more...

Yes, I did see Tom and Donna (Constantino) yesterday. We get our new Mission President on the 1st. That's when all of our changes happen.

So funny story that I forgot to tell you last week. So we ordered Papa John's for during weekly planning and we ordered a pizza the bacon cheese sticks (which are heavenly btw) and bread sticks. It said it'd be there in an hour. An hour and a half later the pizza was still not there, so we called the store and they told us that the driver took our order instead of his, so our order was FREE!! And we ended up with double what we ordered!!! It was pretty funny.

Let's see this week was pretty hard. Tami went to Alaska cause her son got in an accident and is in the hospital and we don't know when she'll be back.  When she comes back, she's bringing her son with her so we're hoping we'll be able to get them both baptized!! :DD and Wendy Cook (this less active we've been working with) came to church!!!! :DD That made my day. She hasn't been in forever.

Sister Jones (Relief Society President) thought Tom and Donna were investigators so when they left early she asked me if they didn't like the meeting XP It was hilarious!!!hmm... I think that's all that has happened....have a great week!!
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May the Spirit be with you

Exchanges & Transfers

Exchanges were great. Me and Sister Dudex got a little lost, but it was fun because I was the driver. We stayed here in Bellevue. 

We had Transfers today.  I'm still in Bellevue and my new companion is Sister Boyce. She's From PG. It's kinda funny, I somehow manage to get companions from Utah. Guess it'll be easier to stay in touch after the mission, I guess.

This week has been pretty crazy.. I'm trying to remember everything that has happened. I'm just really happy that Sister Thompson is in my Zone still, so I'll  still see her! :D  and yeah....I can't think of what has happened other than we tracted into a member accidentally. It was kinda awkward.

And our ward is slowly getting missionary minded but we're still working on it. Our member dinner on Monday was interesting. The Subers they're older and they're from Georga...or something like that. Somewhere in the South. They started arguing about Temples. It was HEATED!! Me and Sister Thompson started laughing. It was so funny!! Bro. Subers said they weren't going to go less active over Temples. Then their cat, Mr. Subers threw up XP and such.

It's been CRAZY!!! uhh...I know more has happened this week but I can't think of it...  so yeah... Have a great week!!
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May the Spirit be with you

Address

For those that need her address, you can send letters to the mission home at:

10675 NE 20th street

Bellevue, WA 98004-2860

Fast Week

This week went by fast. We did a ton of contacting and tracting because we don't have any investigators. We met with Tami like every day, which was good. I love her. We call her Mama Tami. She used to be a massage therapist so she's constantly fixing our posture and such. I think her and Grandma would've gotten along really we'll. We also visited a former investigator named Dick. He was more concerned about my piano playing than anything else. XP It was kinda funny. Dick asked us a question that we haven't found an answer too yet and we're meeting with him tomorrow, I think... It's about the Holy Ghost, and how people say from other religions that they know their church is true because they have prayed about it and they feel good. So it makes the Holy Ghost a liar. So he wants to know how it's different with ours type of thing. And we don't know how to answer him.

Then we met Melinda, she's awesome. She trains Australian Shepards. Kaylee would love her dogs!!! We helped her clean her house this week and we're going over tomorrow to continue to help her. It stinks that she's moving to Oregon soon, :/ but she's a wonderful lady. I'm trying

to think if there's anything else that was exciting this week...hmm...I don't think so...oh yeah!! So There's this neighborhood here called Sherwood Forest!! So yes, I have tracted into Robin (haha) I'll take a picture of the sign this week. It's really cool. and hmm...yeah....


President Mackey, our Stake Mission Leader, served in Indonesia. so I told him about Uncle Bobby and I attempted to say his last name. Tamoama or whatever it is and he laughed at me.







I'm going on my first exchange tomorrow and transfers coming up in 2 weeks.  I hope Sister Thompson will finish my training, but you never know. I think there was something else I wanted to tell you but I can't remember now.....uh....yeah.

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May the Spirit be with you

Stressful

Tell Keala "Hi!" (if you're still in Arizona). Anyways, this week....ugh... okay I'll start with the good. We taught Joe and Josie. The spirit was so strong. as we taught and they were so open and agreed with us on everything. They commited to be baptized. and it was just amazing!!! We left so happy and pumped!!!

After that, everything went down hill.... Tami almost got baptized 3 times this week. She's so ready she even passed the interview, and yeah. It's been really stressful and our whole district has been helping us and have had so much faith. I'm so grateful for them and their support. Hopefully Tami will this week.

 We also found out that we can't teach Joe and Josie for a few weeks!! :( That was really sad, but I know they'll get baptized eventually, but yeah. Just craziness and so much stress this week.  We talk about Disneyland a ton.  We've planned our trip for when we get back.  We learned it only takes 17 hours and about 45 minutes to get there hehehe...  I also learned that Elder Riddle lives really close to Renee and Stephen!!! And, when the boundaries change, we're taking a deaf ward. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can go there. But you never know. And yeah. 

Oh, and I almost died this week. A car was driving on our side of the road and almost hit us head on!!!!! I saw my life flash before my eyes.


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May the Spirit be with you