September 20, 2013

Howdy y'all! so compared to last week this week was the best week of my whole life! Well maybe not I hear the week I was born was pretty cool but other than that this is totally it!

First let me tell you just the best story in the world. So as y'all may know at Sonic is was the summer of shakes! And there were rumors going around that the 18th was the last day so me and my companions were waiting till that day to go and try the peanutbutter bacon shake (sidebar its delicious) Anyway so this particular night we decided to go to the drive thru for some reason dont really know. So we all order our shakes and we get up to pay and the lady said " well ladies today is your lucky day someone decided to pay for you" SAY WHAT!  they told us it was the guy in the orange shirt so we were waiting for them to hurry and hand us our shakes to go over and say thanks you. But then he drove away! we have no idea who it was! thinking back we should have paid for the people behind us! But it was just so awesome, we may have all started crying... it had been a rough day and it was just nice to get free ice cream.

So as you may have been able to tell last week was not a fun week for me, I was going through a really hard time so I asked for a priesthood blessing from one of the elders. I am so gratefull for the priesthood many times in the blessing I knew that it was directly from God and he was helping me. Since then I have had so much energy for the work. ITs completely different from last week! I have also been praying to have the spirit lead me more in the work and I have seen that happen so much this week! I'll just tell y'all one example. So we were knocking and we get to this house and I just start talking about how the gospel can bring familes closer together thru Christ. and I mean a lot of talking and im sitting there in my head like umm sister Rose I think they get the point you can shut up now... anyway we made a return appointment and went back. When we got there it was a mom and her 4 daughters and she said that she has been praying and telling God she is ready for her family to be more united in his gospel but doesn't know where to start then we came to her door! The family is so awesome they came to church and loved it! The little girls are so cute the youngest one Sydney (which BTW has blond curly hair so basically my best friend) anyway she loves to sing and asked if we would watch her concert. She sang us some wonderful songs and I started crying I was so happy... it was awkward and embarassing... but it happened...

anywho this week really was just fantastic! I loved every second of it! We also found 2 other families that seem solid that we are going to start working with.

y'all are awesome! Love ya so much!

September 19, 2013

Well this week has been stressfull! holy cow! transfers took up the first few days then we are splitting the area so that took the next few days of confusion, trying to figure stuff out then the guy thats suppose to get baptizedsaturday fell off the face of the earth..

So hasn't beent he best week but cant say its been the worst either. This will just be a short email... which may be a good thing for y'all! anywho So we split the area we are now Brownwood NorthWest..  I know what your thinking! North West! Isn't that Kimmie K's baby name? my sources tell me yes yes it is! So I was kinda excited about that!

The way we are split we cover most of the outlinning towns which I am excited about! I have been wanting to spend more time in them before and now thats most of our area so we will get to do it more! That also means a lot of finding and knocking for a little while. But I kinda sorta love that type of thing so it should be good. We actually foudn this awesome guy names Forest last night while we were finding! He was super excited when we gave him a Book Of Mormon and said that he had been looking for a way to improve his life. So that was really awesome!

Sorry this aint the most exciting email in the world.. but wasn't the most exciting week... but hey thats life. Just means next week will be epic!!!!

Love Y'all keep being awesome!

September 9, 2013

Got our transfer calls this week and im staying in Brownwood with Sis. Barlow and we are getting Sis. Bradford. Seriously did not see that one coming! I was convinced I was leaving this place but Im also excited to stay we are working with some awesome people that are preparing for baptism! One of them is Raulph, he is still doing awesome and working on WoW stuff but he kows he can overcome that with Christ on his side. Its so amazing to see the faith these people have!

We also talked with Danila, She just moved here with her husband, we knocked into her a few weeks ago and she seemed semi intrested we weren't even sure if she would remember we were coming cause the appointment was set 2 weeks before. but when we got there she was so excited and ready! When we shared that families could be together forever she started crying! Its was awesome! Oh sidebar when on a mission its a good thing to make someone cry. Then after we shared the first vision she was crying again! and said I feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Well I then expained that the spirit is the unltimate warm and fuzzy! She really is so awesome and Im so excited for her to use this gospel in her life!

So there was a CES devotional last night I saw that the hashtag was #CESDevo if y'all wanna check it out on twitter. It was so great! It was Russel M. Nelson and he was asking questions. One of them was somthing like "How will you prepare today for your personal interview with the savior?" I guess I never thought of judgment as a personal interview. It really helped me see how Christ does love each of us to spend one on one time with him. Shoot dang hope im in the front of that line! But E. Nelson also talked about how he doesn't know much about the after life but he knows that we will have that personal time with Christ. I just got so excited cause I imagined hugging him and just thanking him or everythin! It really will be such a happy day!

Oh my gosh I almost forgot! So I dont judge other religions to each his own. says so in the articles of faith somewhere.... anywho but we went to this house and at the end we prayed, we asked them if they would like to say the prayer... my bad, She got real excited turned some music on and started making noise and movements like someone was punching her and said it was the spirit... well I sure hope the spirit doesn't do that! then she looked at me and was like why are you scared that spirit wont hurt you... ummm looks pretty painful to me! anyway I was cheesin it up like biggest smile ever because I was trying to hold in my laugh I mean it was hilarious! I may be a terrible person for laughin but I couldn't help it.

Anywho here is a picture we were driving in the middle of down town and all the sudden all these goats appear. Reminded me of the napali's.... Hopw y'all have a great week!

September 3, 2013

Hey guys! Its weird to write on a tuesday but library was closed yesterday. talk about lame! Anywho this weekw as fantastic! First on Tuesday we got together with another Zone and had a "play-day" President Augustin rewarded our whole mission with a free day type of thing cause of the work we have been doing! it was so nice to just relax! And have normal conversaions! I even talked to Presidnet about Burn Notice! never thought I would be doing that ever! He ruined the season for me though.... I'll just pretend I didn't hear him... haha but it was great!

I also got 2 amazing packages this week from my family! What has two thumbs and likes beef jerky? this girl! and my family knows it! haha dont judge its delicious

Also this week MIKE GOT BAPTIZED!!!! like I have said earlier he is the one I haev seen the most change with on my mission! I have just grown to love him so much and I cant wait to see whta else God has in store for him! Sunday after he was confirmed He was so happy! Seriously every rejection and people yelling at us which BTW a lady stalked us this week followed us a 1/2 mile yelling at us... so that was fun. BUT all that is worth it when your able to see someone really accept the Savior into their lives and have that mighty change of heart!

So wanna hear awkward? I'll tell ya! So we were driving and it was night and all the sudden there was a sign that said restricted area only authorized persons allowed... well thats not where I was trying to go! So I went to make  a nice legal U Turn but here in Texas the streets were not inspired by a prophet and im pretty sure you couldnt make a U turn with a little red wagon on these things... SO I had no choice but to go into the restircted area and make a illegal U turn... Well after I had completed my Uturn I looked and a cop was right behind me! I thought for sure they were going to arrest me it was scary! luckily he didn't pull me over... but boy was I scared outta my mind!

anyway thats my life here in B-wood.  Transfers are this week so that should be fun!

Well hope these pictures work!