Apparently sisters get cooler on their missions

As a missionary, I am really blessed with an abundance of love for people I haven't ever met....especially my family! But also not family. I Love kids too. I keep meeting children who just want us over and then the parents shut them down. It was really sad actually, I think a little boy got in trouble for talking to us. The mom slammed the door in our face because she's Christian. .........lol. Ironic enough for me. I got to shout happily that we are too though before we left. .......once upon a time, I've gotten a lot more sassy on my mission. But we're really dignified so we like to refer to it as being "bold." I talk to strangers all the time and tell them from across the street that prayer will help them fix their motorcycle faster-the conversation was going great until then, and he immediately said goodbye. Oh well. We rock awkward. Apparently sisters get cooler on their missions, though and the guys just get real awkward. How is Emily? Did she get cooler? It seems like it, but I am sort of in a bubble and don't know what's normal and what is weird. We were at lunch with a younger couple that we had just had Sunday school with along with our elders and they were telling us we're normal and they were awkward. It was awesome.....because we totally think they're normal because we don't see other boys that age not on missions. And I assumed that we were the same level of weird. But, we're supposedly fun. To some people. We sort of got all of that normal feeling shot down today as a member was telling us how miserable it was for her to go out with the missionaries because we go do such weird things and it must be so uncomfortable for everywhere we go. .....oh well, we aren't trying to make people uncomfortable, we want them to feel the Spirit!!.......wait. ...well, we will work on it.

Ok!!! LISTEN!! My miracle of the week. ^.^ we had the dreaded empty 20 mins of the night free, where you can't have a lesson but can't go home. So we thought to go find a couple people in the appts and invite them to church but as we were walking, this car turns around the corner and after a second, it stops and then start driving backwards. Out of the car we hear a boy called you are elders right?! .....well. Close! He tells us he wants missionaries to come teach his girlfriend, she has been asking questions and he has been inactive for a while but wants to answer what she's been asking. He thought it was so crazy, he had been talking to his dad about the Holy Ghost just earlier that day and on the road, he had said a prayer, right before he saw us. . :) yeah!! That actually happens! I love being lead by the Spirit so hard! It wasn't anything loud or even what we were really aware of....we just were staying out and working as long as possible and all of the lessons we had before lasted as long exactly as they needed to even if we didn't know. Just do good, and try to listen....I love how it is referred to as the gift of the Holy Ghost. It's a gift… You can't force gifts or else it becomes something that doesn't even matter. I used to try and force it and it was so frustrating because I couldn't speak his language! I just have to be listening, which is hard work, unless you're just being obedient. We got rules like we can't email people back and forth in one day, we can't contact other missionaries other than our leaders without permission, we can't use the iPad, even for the calendar or gospel library without our companions being able to see our screen. And a couple other random things. But it's ok!!! More ways to be obedient, more chances for the Holy Ghost to speak to me and send us to miracles! Ding ding ding.

Another miracle!! We just got transfer news and I get to keep my best friend for another six weeks!!!! AND we're moving in with members!! Sister Smith is great. We work so hard on being better missionaries all the time together and get along and go out and stay out and work all day and she helps me feel like the time we spend is worth my wearing of this name tag. And we just have fun. For weekly planning, we made a fort in our room and hid away. We're basically the only missionaries in our district that are staying the same. I really fun Elder is leaving and our other roommate who is wonderful is getting her visa to Brazil tomorrow. Well she already has it, but she's actually leaving tomorrow (we love her!! She's soooo funny, when she got her visa we celebrated and kept teasing her about leaving the states she was singing my country Tis of thee. I yelled at her and told her that she's not allowed to sing it because it's not her song anymore. She doesn't even go here!!....she quotes things with me. Ew.. So we'll just have to have fun by ourselves with our members. We had a Nerf gun war this morning and I hope that we can continue to do cool things. Never in my life have I been able to behold such miraculous plastic machinery. They were way fancy stuff we borrowed from members. I'm glad nothing broke in our young careless hands. I shot so many people it was grand. I love missionaries. Especially my comp, because things have never been better before her! I have had no problems with my depression the last six weeks except for a couple a times that I quickly got over. It's a big improvement. There was one time though....

Third miracle!! I got the most incredible package of my entire DANG life this week,! Okay, it was this absolute perfect timing. I was having a really hard day… the one hard hard day, I just needed to go to sleep for a little while and then when I woke up, there was a box!! Boxes, de mi familia!! and it was everything I have ever wanted all in one square foot!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I put my jewelry, Irish princess necklace and slippers on immediately and then drank some hot chocolate. I went back out to work and it turned into a great night and I was able to talk to a sister who has been depressed for a while about how much she needed to go to the temple. I understand how hard it is to get up and do something scary and doubt your abilities, but it always turns out better than you expect it to eventually when you're doing things of righteousness. Anyway, thank you for my package(: I didn't think you could send anything better than the last couple of things I've gotten but good job!! You're the best.

Another miracle, we finally had a baptism on Saturday. It is so good for this family and it was great to be with them while he prepared. I love baptism!? I love the church!! I love the GOSPEL. AND I love you. Thank you mama, have a good week!