December 12, 2016

Two Weeks till Christmas!

So these are pics of before the baptism!

MOMMA!!

Thank you for all of the packages and for sending my old stuff!!! I'm sure Betty's is going to love getting some more aprons!! I'm sorry I still dont know my own address haha but you could have everyone send packages to Betty's? 

So, for Sunday our ward will start at 1 and we are only having it for one hour too. Then after that we are going over to Betty's to skyp! 

I hope you guys have fun caroling!! I'm going to miss that this year for sure!!

Yes Jeffrey and Emily got baptized and it was awesome!! I'll attach those pics in just a second! 

So yesterday we were in a lesson with this kid named Anderson with a set of other elders too, I got to hear one of the other elders, Elder Harrison, bare his conversion story and I could really feel the spirit.  Then after that we went to the chapel for a testimony meeting with the missionaries in our zone because one sister is leaving early, she tore her ACL. We only got there in time to see the end of it, but that final testimony really brought the spirit into the room, it made me want to share the gospel and be a better person. What this sister said was once she's being judged before God, she doesn't want him to point to a line of people and ask, why didn't you open your mouth? Why didn't you bring my children back to me? Basically what I felt was that we shouldn't suppress impressions to talk to people, and even further than that we don't need to have an impression to talk to someone! Because we don't know who the lord has prepared to hear the Gospel, and we won't know until we ask.

I love you and Miss you so much!!!

And here's a pic of our zone after the testimony meeting!

and here's a pic of me in sacrament trying not to be distracted by the children!

A few weeks ago Brig mentioned he got to go sing in a Sacrament meeting and one of the are Seventy was visiting, here is a pic of that day-

December 5, 2016

It's December!

Here's us at the Temple with Maricela, Emily, and Jeffrey!

MOMMA!!! 

I've missed you a ton too!! This week has been kind of hard but I'm good. I had a dream this past week that I was sleeping in the garage at home on one of the cots, super weird right, and when I woke up (in the dream) I was like, I'm not supposed to be home what the heck is happening, and so I opened the garage door to see what was going on, and I heard you call to Mason or Ammon and said go get Brig for dinner, and I was like what the heck, am I home? And then I woke up and I was supper sad. 

Ya, I think the little boy that mimicking me in the video is her son, but I'm not sure haha. Yes, keep sending stuff to Betty's it's all good! And I'm sure its all good if everyone else sends stuff there too! So Elder Silva grew up in Peru, but he lived in Utah for like 5 years. So I'm sure he's getting stuff too. If you want to send him stuff you can but you don't have to. Sister Betty would probably love aprons, I think that would be hilarious!! and awesome!! Yes you can keeping sending stuff to Betty's its all good!! 

AMMON!!! I can believe you're gonna be 12 that's so sick!!! It's crazy how old you already are!! I miss you a ton and pray for you all the time!! I love getting pictures from you and I love your emails you send!! Keep being awesome!! Be smart with that gift that you might be getting;) (air soft gun)Love you dude!!

Ya, that video is so cool!! Light the World, do service!! Ya, we can take some investigators or less actives to the Temple and its pretty cool!! But, its not as pretty as the Mesa Temple haha! I can't think of anything else I would want for Christmas!!! But thank you so much for everything! Nothing too crazy happened this last week, I've just been reading a ton in the book of mormon which is SO COOL!!! Im in alma 43 and its awesome! So i just gotta say read the scriptures because they are so amazing! I'll send some pictures in just a sec!! love you!!

And here's elder Oloni and me after dinner with a pretty nice family!

Brig got his package this week from us! He opened it at Sister Betty's house and she sent pics!!!

Man we miss this KID!!

November 28, 2016

Light the World

Thanksgiving in San Francisco 

So heres some low quality photos of some high quality people! Elder Tacket on the left is the trainer for that guy squatting on my right, and the guy above him is my comp Elder Silva, which means whistle in Spanish haha!

Brig enjoying Thanksgiving dinner at Hermana Betty's

MOMMA!!!

Dang im so excited for those guys to get out on missions!! Partay, we all gonna know some Spanish up in here!!!!  Well, I hope you guys enjoyed your  Thanksgiving!! They had some really good sweet potatoes actually, so that was one of my favorites, didn't get any good mashed potatoes this year though but thats ok! 

As for Jeffrey and Emily I'm not sure who's doing the actual baptizing yet, I think the kids will get to pick but you know the important thing is that they get baptized:) 

I've got some more good pics in front of the temple that I'll send in a second!! They just recently turned on the Christmas lights there!! Its pretty good but the Mesa temple is better haha!! Ya the weather here is pretty unpredictable when you don't have an IPhone to check haha, it rains every now and then so its nice to have that rain coat!! I think I would wear some more sweaters actually! I've worn that red one a couple times and I really like it!! Ya i guess a tie or some Christmas socks couldn't hurt haha!! That would be awesome!! And ya maybe I'll start buying more stuff I need with my personal card now haha, I've just been trying my hardest not to use it at all whatsoever hahaha!!

So, yesterday, Sunday, was pretty eventful if i might say. The six missionarys in the ward did a musical which we've been practicing for like a week now which was pretty fun, but what I didn't know was that Pres Frandsen was going to show up with Sister Frandsen hahaha. In fact they were the speakers during sacrament meeting haha. Along with Elder Cordon from the quorum of the 70, he showed up as well haha. So no pressure on my singing or anything! But, then during opening exercises after sunday school he kind of just took over and taught a really cool lesson. For me I probably understand about 60 percent of what goes on in church but, I understood the message of what he was trying to say. Now I know you guys dont have this struggle as parents that speak the same language to your kids, but for most of the people in our ward, the adults dont know much English or really any at all, and so if they are to ask their kids some thing the kids usually respond in English, and he related that to the language of the gospel, how if you say something to your kids concerning the gospel they will answer in the language of the world. The world speaks louder than the gospel right now, just like English is more influential than Spanish for those kids. And as parents its super important to get kids started right, choosing the right at a young age so they can be ready for bigger life decisions when they're older. Pretty cool stuff!! And ya know he said it a lot better than I could summarize it but, it was cool to be there and hear that. 

Alright I love you so much and I love everyone else so much too and now Im going to send some photos!!

Sister Betty is always so kind to have ALL the missionaries over!!

Brig and some of his comps

And here's some pics of our super cool apartment that I think you requested but im not sure so here you go anyways.

And yes, Im on top bunk. 

November 23, 2016

Thanksgiving Week

Here's a pic I just took of me in front of the temple looking quite happy:)

MOMMA!!!

Sorry if I scared you by not emailing on monday! We had half of a p day and we went to the public library to try at like 12 and figured out it was closed until 1 which is when our half p day was over so i was super upset!! This Thanksgiving we are going to go to Hermana Betty's house and to a recent convert's house so it's going to be so awesome!! 

So, yes we use maps all the time, but we do have a gps now which is pretty fancy! I'm getting better with directions and stuff but, even the other day I was walking down the street so confident, just to find I was headed the exact opposite direction that I wanted to be heading, hahaha!! But it is going good! 

Jeffery and Emily are still doing awesome!! They speak English and Spanish but we teach in English because thats what they prefer to listen to. 

So don't hate me but my camera is in a car at the mission home right now and I am at the visitors center so pictures will not be coming through this email but I will run over and go grab them as soon as I can and try to send them today!!! I hope you guys enjoy your thanksgiving at Grammy and Grandad's!! I'll try to get in touch with Dev thanks for letting me know! I love that kid so much!!

I'm doing pretty good, aside from a couple words here and there, I can understand most of what's going on in church which is awesome!! Took me long enough! Elder Silva's doing good too! We're just working hard on getting Jeffery and Emily baptised! 

Thank you so much for the package I just got it today!! How did you know that was my favorite type of cookie haha!!! I'm expecting  to stay in my same area through Christmas because transfers are a couple days after! I'm not positive on where we'll skype from, we don't email from our chapel and right now I'm emailing in the temple so I'm not sure, I'll figure that out later! 

Ok so I just ran to the car and got my camera so pictures are coming after this email!!! I love you all so much and pray for you all the time!! BYE!!!!!

Brig and I got to email back and forth for a bit and here is one other great word of wisdom from my missionary!!

Hey Momma, my Thanksgiving will be good I think! The temple here is awesome and HUGE (Jimmy Fallon impersonating Trump voice) and it was super cool! I just want to share that the more you share your testimony the stronger it grows, I got to see that a lot this past week which was really cool because I usually just heard other people say that and never really had that experience for myself so, I'm happy to be sharing what I know to the people here in SF it might be kind of hard for me to do that all in Spanish right now but I know I'll get it down!! Love you so much!!

And here's another one of some of us in the parking lot at costco saying goodbye to Elder Martinez who is the guy next to me! Good guy

This other pic is me with a member named Orlando that makes super awesome Fried cheese!!

Here's a picture of the window outside my apartment, don't be alarmed the dragon is just a drawing on the window!!