Anything with cream cheese is good. Anything with Miracle Whip is not!

Mom's letter

Mesa only has cancer water!! That's dross. We don't believe in tap....and we just drink a whole dang lot, we went through 11 gallons this week not including all of the water we drank at people's homes. So we fill up at water dispensers, because it be cheaper. Homeless Dave is no longer homeless, and we had an amazing lesson with him! Probably the best lesson I've ever taught my whole mission and the most ready person I've ever worked with. So right after the lesson, we had the elders in his actual area come in and inform him they are his missionaries....we transferred him over.........I MISS HIM ALREADY. DAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaveeeeeeeee

Just kidding, as long as he learns everything he needs to and is loved and The Lord can bless him, it's all good. In the hood.

And after our mission, sister smith and I are going to Italy with him anyway.

I'm glad you could work! We went a little slow this week, with my companion trying to recover from her near death ness. And she was all sorts of drugged up so I became mom for a week and forced her to rest. But we still did some good stuff! We especially did lots of service!! SERVICE IS MY FAV. This inactive lady was throwing a bridal shower that was Alice in wonder land team and also a baby shower on the same day. She's Cray. So we force ourselves upon her is any good missionary would and helped her get all of the food ready. I have now discovered that I really love cucumber sandwiches. As long as they are made with cream cheese. Because pretty much anything with cream cheese iz gud. I definitely don't like them with miracle whip… Because anything with miracle whip is not good. It was cool, we got a semi investigator to help out some too. And by help I mean she donated a bunch of heart-shaped cookie cutters. Which was still wonderful. I love and miss party throwing. I hope Danielle has had some time to be able to do that because I know she's so good at it. And I love being able to do it for other people's parties so that I don't have to be stressed out because I'm in charge.  Just get to do the fun stuff like eat the leftovers of the sandwiches and and decide what color frosting the cupcakes should have.

Oh! Did I tell you we got drunk called? We met this man who is almost interested, but is having some really hard problems in his life and got drunk and still really wanted to talk to us. At midnight. Ha ha it was great. I don't think I've ever been drunk call before. I think you someone of drunk calling me, but he says he wasn't drunk. It was really awkward. But this man definitely was. He asked my companion if he could marry someone like her. She's great. 

Tell Scott congratulations! And by congratulations I mean I'm so sorry. It will be fun right? We got to work a lot with our bishop the last couple of weeks he's really cool. We are bringing him and his wonderful wife to our lesson tomorrow for our brand-new golden investigator!! Wish us luck. She's really cool, just up and decided to investigate the church and sought out the missionaries by herself. We haven't started actually teaching her yet though because tomorrow will be our transition lesson from the elders that she is found. Where going to the visitors center! I love the VC. And we are going to watch the Testaments. I super love the testaments!! 

Yay for great grandma Krueger!! I can't wait to do some family history. Keep going at it, I believe it's real important. I just need to do it and be better!

Mother's Day is coming up in a couple of weeks already! Sister Smith and I are trying to decide when we're going to call home. What would work for you? We have church for six hours on Sunday, so will have to try and coordinate. And Pres. told us that we could also call on Saturday if that would work better. What you be thinkin?

I love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

To Daddy:

This week was good, even though sister smith was drugged up and sick
up until about today, so I made her get lots of rest even though she
didn't want to. We didn't get to exercise and it's the longest I've
gone in about a year without running. It was funny, I haven't gotten
all of my energy out and so a couple nights ago I couldn't sleep. I
woke up at 3 and stayed up lol but her asthma and bronchitis has
really healed up and we got to run today. IT WAS HEAVENLY.

Being obedient is fun. I almost like too much having a lot of rules I
get to follow so that I can be blessed and protected more by the
spirit. But the cool thing about the mission is that I can't follow
the rules mindlessly. I still have to be creative and self sustaining
and think on my feet. I love it!
I taught some of the best lessons this week that I ever have my whole
mission.  And then on exchanges, we taught a bomb lesson and set a
baptismal date with this woman, out of our area. I actually taught it
with Elder Ashby's mom, she's cool beans.

EMILY IS WEARING MY CLOTHES.

and snuggle my piggies for me. Not that wretched beast of a thing. I
can't believe Molly is 5. Inapprop.

Easter Monday

The Easter Pageant was great!! We got to see it 6 times and one of our investigators is really pumped for lessons, more so than he was before. I just think it made everyone remember Christ, and what could be better?! Um maybe if it made them want to get baptized and to stay active and enduring to the end for all time and eternity-IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR. Yeah.....

It's nice when people at least come to church for Easter. We had like eight investigators there, it was the best for us! We brought a homeless man that we picked up at Fry's yesterday. He's the sweetest homeless man I've ever met. Not that I personally know that many homeless men, but this one I can tell is probably the most extraordinary one out there. He bought us water… 10 gallons of it. HE's CRAY. But we're best friends now. Since yesterday,no it was Saturday, that we met him and we decided that he's going to let us teach him the lessons from the beginning and teach them all the way up until he is baptized, he has found a job and somewhere to live. I love blessings! Really super awesome member from the ward found him church clothes to wear and came and picked him up and brought him to church yesterday, and we got together and he stay for the whole time and look absolutely loved it :D We are going to be friends forever. Because after our missions Sister Smith, me, and him are all going to Italy together. He's funny. Except for he made me sing imagine dragons radioactive and that really turned me off. Sometimes I feel really worldly, I had a little girl explain to me the whole plot and storyline of Frozen yesterday so I could feel like I knew it and what was going on without me, Dad said there was another Captain America movie! WHAT HE HECK, QUIERO!! 

So this was probably the best Easter ever. I went to 3 sacrament meetings! One was at an old folk's home. Man oh man, I can't tell you how heart breaking and heart warming it was. Bishop had us sing them I believe in Christ, and I cried LIKE A LITTLE GIRL. and then got to hold this one man's hand who only had enough strength to hold mine back for a little while. Never in my mission have I wanted to represent Jesus Christ better and felt so inadequate. He could love them so much better than me, but I tried and it was a blessing to be there. I thought, there's no other boy who's hand I'll hold that could be more special!! Then after dinner, with Sister Red and her family, who made me deviled eggs and tater salad! We were sharing our message and our testimonies of the Atonement. I actually talked about the care center experience earlier that day and started crying again, and this little boy who's probably 6,  had become my new best friend during dinner. We were messing around the whole time and he drew me a picture and talked to me the whole time. He got right up and sat down next to me real close and took my hand and held it for a few minutes, too. THE FEELS. it was really sweet. I don't get to hold boys' hands on the mish, unless they're that sweet. Anyway, it was a good Easter. I LOOOOOVED MY PACKAGE, thank youuuuu super mucho! My peeps are stale-ing as we speak and I take my minion everywhere. I love minions. And I painted an egg with those thingys. I would take a picture and show you but my companion ate it..

Let's see, what else happened this week. 

Oh yeah, I took my companion to the doctor, she is doing better and has been getting some sleep. I just hope she gets better fast, because she really really loves working. It was crazy... it was her thing, but at the same time I think it was something for me, too.

We were going out to find some people and I felt super sick and didn't like what we were doing and felt like something was terribly wrong. So we stopped and prayed. No direct answer came so we decided to go see a family and we got there to see them pulling away in their car. The prayer made us miss them! So I had to stop and pray again and made it really specific and asked for all of the wrong choices to clear out of my head and to know where we needed to go. So when I finished all I could think was to take my companion home, because....she was sick and on lots of meds, lol (it's just hard to do that because there was so much work to do) but I felt right about it and so did Sister Smith. Anyway, we felt like we should at least fill up our water because we were out. We then met Dave next to the water machine :) I still struggle listening though!, when we went to meet him with our member to take him to church, he wasn't there!! Sister Smith was really hasty to just leave and so was the member and I didn't know why they were hustling about and worrying, I just sat down and wanted to wait a couple minutes. I knew the spirit was telling me to wait because I knew he wasn't ditching us on purpose and that he was going to come, but then the member left and Sister Smith was like ok, let's go so I was like-fine lol and as we were walking away, Dave called and said he was almost there! So The Lord made everything work out, and we got him dressed up and ready for church! It was so fun!!

But yeah, that was this weekend lol

OH. PROBABLY THE BEST PART OF THE WEEK! There was a ward Easter party and we got there and it was a blast. For some reason I didn't expect much and didn't think we'd have too many people to hang out with there and would be spending time trying to find people to help feel welcome, but there wasn't a spare moment to go find anyone, and we talked and joked around with so many people for the couple of hours until we had to go, and GET THIS. It was a breakfast and by the time we could get a break from talking to go get any food, all of the bacon was already GONE............. but because we're missionaries -cool missionaries, and people love me so kindly, a random man came up to me and told me of the secret hidden stash that the high priests had in huge kitchen. We were allowed to go and get some! So, naturally.....we got bacon. Jesus' name on my shirt scored me bacon that nobody else got.

I'm Bacon.

I like being a missionary. We get led to lots of places. A new friend of ours said we just always seem to show up at the right time, and it's always an accident lol it's fun

Anyway! That was really really really long. It's been a full week. And I didn't even tell you all of it.

I get to host The Easter pageant!!!!!!!!!!

That basically sounds like the best week of all existence! I want to take dance classes with my husband!! And then host THE GREAT FREAKIN GATSBY! (What connections do you have?)I guess  I should get a husband. But I'm too focused on missionarying, which sometimes includes us praying nightly that one of our member's daughters will all get married. She gave us a bunch of healthy food and eating tips to help keep us in shape and healthy and lively and happy! But she is basically amazing and we couldn't think of anything else to do for her or figure out what she needs other then getting her daughters married. That's it that's all she wants so........that's a focus. Normal?  I love this lady, it's nice when their are some women that will take care of me when you're stuck over on the east coast.

  I am glad the package got there safe and sound. I hope it was a satisfactory birthday gift. I JUST LOVE YOU. And yes I got Nanny's letter. Tell her thank you, and I will write her back soon.

General conference was the amazingggg!!!! Of all the best things that could happen. this. Is. THE. BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think my favorite part of it was the talk about the Olympics. I really want to perform my best in the four minutes I've been given. It's just crazy! Just four minutes and I have to do better than I am able to and work hard and be fast. I really hope I trained myself before this life to really be ready. I think I am doing almost alright. The Lord is always there to give my loads to help my truck push along too. I loved that talk too from Bednar. He's one of my absolute favorites. Him and Holland. I LOVE WHEN HE YELLS AT ME. That was a fantastic way to start out conference. He made me want to be more courteous and patient but weirdly also hated. It was interesting. I want to be more Christlike, and I want to declare the truth loud enough that the wicked know who I stand for and can't handle it. Yet I just want to love them like President Monson said, too. That was one of my favorite parts-oh my goodness, it's likely related or something.

Did you know, or realize or whatever that it was a year ago that I decided to go on a mission? It was fabulous. I like to getting to think about how much things have changed in just a year. I know that I can definitely understand the spirit a whole lot better, which is what I was begging my Heavenly Father for the last annual Conference. He's blessed me so hard! I just want to be better and better all the time! I like getting to study so much. You're right, I need to do better too about studying preach my gospel. I get really kind of caught up in trying to read the Book of Mormon for an hour straight because I just love it so much. But I know I can love preach my gospel like that too. I'm working on my issues of balance. Right now we're actually really focused on this packet that Pres. Jenkins gave us about the Atonement. He put together a study schedule for to prep us for Easter!! It's full of a bunch of talks and scriptures and everything of prophets' testimonies of the Savior and the plan of Salvation, and some other talks about that sort of thing. It's amazing, I LOVE EASTER, and why didn't I realize that you and Jesus Christ have birthdays so close together? It must be because you're so similar. Oh and Sister Smith says hi and happy birthday. I hope you have another fantastic week!! I LOVE YOU

 I got to hold and release a dove the other day! On April fools I did not get a chance to play a trick on the elders and am disappointed with myself thoroughly. We reviewed some training for the Easter Pageant!! I can't believe I get to host this!  I have never seen any of the pageants, and I'm never really so involved in cool things, Heavenly Father is really blessing me and wants me to do fun things. I get to host The  Easter pageant!!!!!!!!!! We got to talk to some fun people, street contacting and whatnot, we have some pretty solid potential investigators.  Therefore, everything is worth it. It kind of helps make it okay that a couple of people slam the door in our faces this week. I liked Elder Holland's talk a lot and made me realize that Christ wept for the rejection, I feel like it was part of the Atonement. I don't have to be hurt or upset when I am rejected. It's not ok. They are denying the Savior of the world and that is sad and awful, but I can press forward and not be phased too much, so that I can focus on finding the person who is begging for help. Conference really was wonderful. I was so excited and more attentive than I ever have been, and just want to be better and prepared for trials and to be more grateful anyway. I love The Lord!!! I just want to be a better person! And I know that I'm a lot better than I used to be. We're all great and I try to be obedient and that's good, but I want to always get better. (: for forever!