Missionary love is the best love

The hawks are going to eat my dog!! 

Haha What are they doing back there?(IN OUR BACKYARD) Wildlife preserve-word! I request a fox, that would be great. 

And someday I am going to have a pet lamb. Because I want to see what Heavenly Father means when He talks about raising and leading his sheep. Also little lamb means my name. Oh my gosh, we were talking to a member at church yesterday and in the conversation she stops and shouts no ma'am Rachel Lynn! And I was like what did I do?! But it was her daughter. We have the same name so we are meant to be. It was freaky, nobody can say my name! It's just sister. 

Why is Elder Price at our house? Lol

But I am having fun. I really have come to like the wards already, I think it has just been a crazy adjustment from leaving the place where I felt like I learned how to be a missionary for over 6 months, and coming to another place where the work is completely different. I have been doing a lot of praying and thankfully could go to the temple, read my patriarchal blessing and learn that my part is to first love these people. If I want to help the area it has to be based in love, and not thinking I need to fix things. I love repenting! My heart changed, especially in taking the Sacrament and seeing things as The Lord would. Remembering that love isn't condoning bad things, but it is seeing great potential in people and accepting them as a divine individuals who are children of a perfect God, and who have come to the Earth for different purposes than I have and are on a different path then anyone else i meet. But!! There is always more they can learn and it is fun to take a part in helping them come closer to the person they should and want to be!

We have seen it lots with our investigator F.... OMG! He is so amazing, I loved the man the moment we met him. Missionary love is the best love. Because it's the closest thing to charity. Just rooted right in Christlike love and desiring nothing but the whole salvation of their soul! Me gusta. And I haven't ever seen anyone change so much in such a short period of time, he has blown us away with his faith and hard work. I can tell how strong he is by the way the adversary is trying to take him down, but he is so awesome!!! And is shuttin' it DOWN! He is going to be the most fantastic member, he just needs to get Sundays off. So here we are calling down some miracles. I LOVE FAITH. I'm learning more about it, sister Dunn and I are doing personal progress, and we want to do it with our young women. I just love youth. I'm told I fit in with them very well.

I love being healthy too! My comps are going to eat veggies with me!! They make our lives better(:

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARYYYYYYYYY.

I can't wait to read fun books, and let me think about the mission plan :D

Also! I got the packages, THANK YOU, THEY WERE SO SWEET OF YOU,! Thankssssssssssss

I am going shopping today though because I am selfish.

I love you tonssssss, MWAH!

I can't believe it's almost my 9 month!

Thank you!! It was the best birthday EVER because I wasn't thinking about celebrating myself. I just worked! I loved it! Being 22 feels like I turned 14 again.I got I to this area and have become really childlike and hyper. I loooove my new companions. It feels so right to be here with them and the spirit has been showing us that this was the Father's plan. We need to bring all of our love and peace and joy to the members here. There isn't much work to do.  BUT, we love the people and are going to get to know everyone and they are going to get the Spirit flowing though those beautiful gated communities. Sometimes we go to houses that are bigger and prettier than my high school......the end.

I can't believe it's almost my 9 month! It does feel like I've been working and serving for a lifetime, but I don't know if I'm going to become that person I want to before I have to go home. I really like the protection we have on the mission. I hear a lot of terrible things going on in the world and I am glad I get to prepare and truly convert myself to the gospel of Jesus Christ and love the temple more than the world so that for the rest of my life I can't be swayed by worldly issues or men's foolishness. I don't care what people think or do. I mean I care about them, but what other people do doesn't have anything to do with me or my eternal progression. I thought about that at church yesterday. The speakers' topics were obedience and it hit me that our life on earth is centered on obedience based in love for God so that we can continue the progression I have been on for a longer time than I have been here in earth. And that every person was and did different things and needed to come to earth to gain different experiences for their specific eternal journey and progression.

I get to go to the temple and think about what the people in these wards came to the world specifically for. I hope I can help them. You can't tell how much faith someone else has, but I do know that faith is about doing good things. Everyone here turning RS into fighting against the controversial issues and standing with the church. It's hard to fight it out loud, but that is how Satan uses the internet. It's good to question but when you have the spirit of peace and love, then you are doing okay I think. Idk, I just follow the Prophet, and question if they are true or false prophets by studying their words and testing them. I've only found good fruits though, I love the Prophet! I will follow him and love The Lord.

                                                   Me, Sister Dunn, and Sister chase

They are both awesome and know how to work areas like these and are good to me and full of the spirit and have great testimonies!

It's ALMOST MY BIRTHDAYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Fast Sunday is coming up and I will do it! Well, it's half a month away and that's basically forever, and also really close. It's ALMOST MY BIRTHDAYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. They're having a birthday party for me tonight. And by birthday party, I mean a farewell party that I am using to celebrate my coming into the world. Oh yeah, I"M FREAKING LEAVING. I don't know what to doooooooooooooooo!! How can I be a good missionary without Sister Smith?! She is getting my other favorite-my MTC companion!! I am so excited for the wards. They are two really diligent missionaries and a lot of work is going to get done and they're going to make miracles happen!! The wards are starting to pick up in their missionary work and our investigators I think are getting so close! But I bet they're going to find and start working with a bunch of new people I never met in the 6 months I've been here. It always changes with transfers but as long as the people who need to be helped get helped, that's what counts. The bishop messed with us and made us think we were getting a new bishop of something or ward mission leader, but they stayed. New councilors though. Good ones, and the stake high councilmen are awesome! I love this stake. They told me I should move back after my mission. If the spirit and love and power and amazing people in this stake could be duplicated somewhere not in the desert location, I'm there. I hope my new area is nice too!! It's apparently in the richest area in all of Mesa! I hope they eat healthy there!! I'm whitewashing IN A TRIO! I am so excited. It was interesting. I got half of the news when I was told and only know one of the companions and didn't know it was a trio and I totally felt like it was so wrong/it wouldn't last very long/I am not going to like being with this companion even though I don't have a reason. But the next day when I was given all of the information- I totally felt the Spirit telling me it was true and inspired. Like, this is exactly what the Lord needs me to do. I can't wait to go give em all I got. I...sure hope it's enough! We're going to party. And not because it's my birthday. I was really hoping someone would take me to go get sushi for my birthday but then a couple weeks ago I realized I never ever eat fish and then put it together why. We're like super landlocked- I don't really know if I want sushi here- and I realized how far away from a beach I am and was like BAH! get me to the coast! But then I went to work and was fine. We had some pretty bomb lessons this week. I'm praticing my asking inspired questions and LOVVVE seeing the change of the lessons when I do it. My zone leader in ZTM said what his MTC teacher told him...that when you are a missionary, you will love these people SO much. More than anything. In fact you will love them so much you will do the one thing that inables them (or some word like that) in that you will answer their questions for them. So I'm like- woah!! I totally do that. I teach them stuff and we talk and share true doctrine and I feel the spirit- but it's because it's my own testimony. They need to build their testimonies themselves and I'm just supposed to facilitate them coming to their own answers...by asking them questions and affirming the truth they come to find. There are a lot of other things I need to work on, but that's my focus right now. Well, that and getting packed. I have to move and I don't know how 3 people's lives are all going to fit in one car!!! WISH ME LUCK. I love you :D:D:D:D:D:D

TO PADRE:
Hope father's day was awesome!!!! At church, last minute they decided they wanted us to sing, so from the pulpit they announced a change of the order of services, that the special musical number was changed and that the sister missionaries were singing it. For father's day we sang a song for our Heavenly Father- My Heavenly Father Loves Me and it was fun! For dinner, the kids all had to go around a say what their favorite memory about their daddy was and they wouldn't go so I was like "Wanna know what my favorite one is of MY dad??! It's when he was setting up his equiptment for a jump and he got me and my sister in the room playing with it and pretending to jump out of an airplane with his stuff by rolling off the bed..........................now my most obnoxious memory of my dad is when he would take my barbies and make them murder each other." :P jk hahahah DID YOU EVEN WHERE AN UGLY TIE? what present did the primary kids give you at church?

What's a fit bit?

Emily is doing so much cool stuff! why is she so awesome?

I am glad the missionaries are trying to help out the ward members with the stuff that needs to be done. We sat down and talked with one of our bishops, trying to figure out what it is that the ward needs to move missionary work along. it was kind of sad, because overall we think the members are just discouraged because of how many people have chosen to become inactive no matter how fellowshipped or loved they are. It was a nice correlation though. We were outside cause his wife wasnt home and the weather was beautiful ( night time). and it just hit me really hard in the middle of talking- the wind distracted me and I just thought about the scripture that says we are lower than the dust of the Earth. because I was just watching the branches of the trees move in the wind. God sent the wind and without any problem or moments' dely, the tree moves. The dust of the earth listens and obeys. We use our agency and often disobey. But we are still His favorite creation(: It was fun, I want the ward members to just start moving- read preach my gospel, find hope, and invite people to church and to the Gospel.They will get there....now that I am leaving lol oh yeah, im being transferred!!! WISH ME LUCK

I can't make this my profile picture because you cant see my name tag

Our car wash is cool

we're obsessed with coconut everything

It was sister Valentino's birthday!!!!! We are so sad to be leaving her already

Cutest couple of my life and our BEST GIRLFRIEND DAWNI! Dennis is so sweet. He has Alzheimer's and repeats over and over again how much he likes when we come over. But he doesn't like us as much as his wife. He tells her he loves her about 40 times until she says it back. We asked him who his favorite person in the room was though and after some cute stammering he was like well-me!

My mission grandma

Missionary capture the flag!!

My team was the Nephites. When they were righteous. Like in the end of Alma. But we did have some cleansing of the inner vessel we needed to work on, we weren't super organized

The Lord is really good at making things better.

Sorry! I was(sick)...I have no idea(WHAT EXACTLY WHY) My head and stomach hurt but I wasn't nauseous most of the time. Some of it was, to mucho para mi estomigo . But I got better by about Wednesday or Thursday. I just made myself get over it Wednesday because we had exchanges and I couldn't make the area I went into cancel all of the appointments and it was hard to explain to the Sister I was with because her English was...new. It was a fun day though, I felt well most of the time because The Lord is really good at making things better.

(Lol-I typoed and wrote The Lord is really god. Haaaahahahah fact? Close. But not for realz.) 

OH! I went to the temple on Wednesday!! That's why I made sure I was better, so I could enjoy it and feel the super strong presence of the Holy Ghost. I forgot I went just this week. Feels like a few weeks ago. That's probably why this week I've been feeling like I'm getting lots of divine help and revelation and whatnot! Good times. There are a lot of things I would like to share with my investigators and so much I've been learning from the scriptures. I love Alma! My testimony is being real strengthened in journal keeping, and in sharing your testimony, and being a good parent, and motivation (an elder in the district said this really cool quote...."the only difference between missionary work and priest craft is your motivation), and the plan of salvation being the Atonement of Christ saving the children of Adam and Eve, and the plain truths found in the Book of Mormon that explains missing things in the Bible. But I also just really love le bible. 

This week did an activity for district meeting and made each companionship share with each other one of their favorite memories or someone the love and admire and talk about them, so they could love each other and be more unified. I wish every companionship could easily work together like me and sister smith, but I guess that isn't part of the program and people have to like...learn lessons of life on their missions or something.

WHY IS ELDER PRICE GETTING SURGERY! Super sad day.if you see him, tell him that Mesa is falling apart. We can't get 65 baptisms in June without him.

Yeah, we don't have anyone in this area that could be baptized this month, except for if maybe the nonmembers who go to church with their family every week and have had the lessons multiple time would soften their heart unexpectedly. But you never know. We just work hard and put in more faith than before. It tends to work out when we try that. And by doing something more obediently. 

Guess what I'm almost really old. Just kidding I broke that trail months ago. I like being an adult more than I thought I would, but I also like, not being an adult most of the time. I just want to represent Jesus and have fun all the time! Is that too much to ask for? Anyway, I have chosen what I would like to request for the celebration of the arrival of my spirit into the world................I want people's testimonies!! Could you write me your testimony in a letter, and have other people do it too? Not like everyone, just like some family or whoever. Mostly y'all actually.

Our car wash is colorful because we  get the fast track (which is a monthly subscription) and funny story, it didn't cancel this month even though we asked them to, so we got to go in today and talk to the worker, and ended up explaining what we do and teach and gave him a Book of Mormon and our number. It's funny because every missionary in Mesa with a car basically goes to that car wash every Monday and he has been there for over 3 months and no one had ever talked with him and shared the gospel!! And we think he was really interested. He likes the big white church/skyscraper/structure thing in Gilbert. It's the temple Hana we said if he reads the book and learns from the missionaries and keeps in the path he could go inside it someday. 

It's even better inside. I love temples!!

Me and Betty matched pink and lace!! 

She loves coming to church and reading the Book of Mormon and she's really cute 

June and I am sick!

Hahahahhah I love love love you too. I am pretty sick today so this will not be as detailed as you would like. Or me, because a ton of amazing things happened this week I want to tell you about, but I at least want you to know I am happy, and having fun and not only love being a missionary, I like it!

We actually lost Ben last night to the elders in his own area. Sometimes in the Mesa mission, if someone live close enough to you to walk to their house in under 5 minutes, they are probably in a different ward.

Come worship with us!!!! Unless you live a mile away.

Lol I think the car was being little dramatic