December 16, 2013

  Well y'all I'm not gonna lie its been a weird week here in Monahans... I don't remember much of it but that seems to be more and more common these days, don't know if that is good or bad. I do know that we have been busy though! haha so I guess I'll tell you the things I do remember.

   So I had to go in and finish my root canal because they decided not to finish it the last time. While I was sitting in the chair awaiting my torture I heard a lovely voice! Who was it? well it was David Cook singing to me! I said there is a God! but unfortunatly the song ended and I looked out in front of me in the giant window there were about 6 birds just sitting there staring at me. I can only think that they were trying to figure out how to come attack me while the dentist was attacking me. Don't worry I still know there is a God but when I see birds I also know there is a devil.

    The good news is after that traumatic event I was able to put the past behind me and get back to missionary work. And we did see a lot of miracles this week! First with Sandra. We have been visiting with her for a while and I just love her to death! We were talking about the Book Of Mormon and she went on about how she loves fiction and vampires and zombies and all this stuff and im thinking where the heck is this going? We asked if you thought the Book Of Mormon was true... But at the very end she was like I guess what im trying to say is I love the Book Of Mormon even though its now fiction and it is true. HAZAH! She knows its true! when then invited her to be baptized and before we could finish she was like "YES! oh I'm nervous! but yes yes oh that scary yes I'm ready..." Oh it was so amazing! I love the people here so much I still am blown away by how much I have come to love the people I get the chance to meet.

   We also have been working a lot with Judy who I also just love! She is my type of girl! She is so hilarious! and she loves the gospel! She also told just this week she knows the Book Of Mormon is true. Something I have learned on my mission if someone actually reads the Book Of Mormon chances are they know its true even if they don't admit it.

  Well y'all are awesome! Cant wait for Christmas I'm super excited to skype with my family that is in like 9 days but I'm totally not counting down, but actually I totally am... well y'all have a blessed day!

Oh so the picture! I was convinced I had leprosy this week so I was dying on the floor. Turns out it was just some dry skin and bruises so I'm good! don't worry

December 9, 2013

It finally became winter for a few days here! in the 30's for 4 whole days! and now its heading back up to the 50's... but Oh the cold was amazing! Reminds me of home!

Anyway this week has been amazing in Monahans! If I could discribe it in one word it would be miracles! First with Judy, We taught her and her kids the restoration and used a drawing to help the kids understand it and they all loved it so much! Judy agree'd to be baptize! When we went over the next day she was telling us that her youngest two kids took the picture to school and started teaching their classes the restoration! The teacher even had to call Judy to the class room because her kid forgot if the apostasy was when the church was on or off the earth. Anyway that was a fun little story, before you know it these two kids will be the best missionaries ever! Probably do a better job then me! The girl even asked the class if they had questions at the end. Then her mom asked if they did and she didn't know the answer what she woudl have done and the little girl said. I was praying they didn't but thats what the missionaries did so I knew I had to do it!
Then we had a lot of other miracles I cant think of right now... but they happened and they are in my journal! so I'll tell y'all about them when I get home.

Anyway thanks y'all for everything! Sorry this was a little short....

Here is a picture of the beautiful sunset! Im gonna miss these

December 2, 2013

So this week was fantastic! I know your all dying to hear about what I did on thanksgiving. Well we decided that since we would be feasting we should burn the calories before hand. So we decided to do a 5k! Oh it was nice! I wanna make it a tradition so anyone that wants to join me next year is more than welcome! It really was super fun and in utah it should be great with the snow and everything!  Anyway after the 5K we went home and we were already to make some of Grandma Rose's pumpkin pie for the dinner we were invited too then we realized we didn't have one ingredient so we couldn't make it. so we used the recipie on the back of the pumpkin can. A few lessons we learned. 1) Dont put a prebaked crust in the oven. 2) when the pie looks bad wait till it cools to try to cover it with whipped cream. and 3) even ugly pies taste delicious.

So after thanksgiving the week just kept getting better! So we met this guy named Brady that is super legit! We are actually teaching him for the first time tonight and Im super stoked! he reminds me a lot of Dusty in Brownwood.I love seeing how God prepares people for us to teach. It really is amazing! I got a blessing the other day and it said that my "creative" ways of teaching will help those in this area... well shoot put pressure on my creativity! so if y'all got any ideas I would love to hear them!  

Oh we also got transfer calls this week! and im staying here! woot woot! can I get a yeah yeah! I know cass will give me one!

Anyway that was pretty much my week. hope y'all have a blessed week!