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