Tuesday, September 2, 2014

I went to Globe! And here is a play by play of my day!

Anyway my heart's a little broken!! They took Sister Chase away, all sudden-like! :( We had 10 hours to pack everything and let her say goodbye to a few people. I feel like the third arm I had gotten so accustomed to got ripped off. Sister Miller says it's a glimpse of what if feels like when your children move out of the house. IM SORRY I LEFT! But I love love love Sister Dunn, and we are taking care of each other. We're just focusing on how to be better teachers and trusting God. We feel very much like Sister Chase went to an area where someone desperately needs her. It was lucky though! Tuesday was GREAT!!!


After we had emailed, did a 10 minute shopping trip, and grabbed some food we went to meet a member for a surprise something. We had no idea what we were doing, where we were going, or who we were meeting. The member wasn't even clear about what we should wear. Iffy? I think yes! As we got on the freeway we started playing 20 questions which it eventually turned into 200 questions. Every single question we asked was answered with an "I honestly have no idea." It was usually followed by "ask more specific questions." Talk about frustrating!! Sister Dunn got a lot of our silliness on video and it is HILARIOUS. As we continued driving we were heading east.... towards Globe. Sister Krueger and I were freaking out. Sister miller kept saying, when you watch this video, you're going to laugh your heads off.  BUT! The closer we got the more excited we became. We were headed towards globe!! That's right, the globe that everyone is scrunched their nose at and says "I'm sorry" when sister chase says she served there. But it was beautiful!! TREES MAMA! They had so many trees and mountains and it was awesome! I love road trips. We just could NOT figure out who would want us at globe. Eventually the cat came out of the bag.... It was Sister Chase. She secretly organized (behind our backs) a trip to Globe to see the run-downness of the ghetto and the beauty of the hills and mountains. It was an amazing road trip and now I can officially say that I've been to Globe :) no sisters will ever serve there again, but we went! It was so fun!! And yes, the videos are hilarious because.....it was so obvious...and we were so oblivious.....

Play by play of a normal day (keep in mind most days actually aren't normal) (also it's dependent on the area and the time of year! Lol)
6:15 I wake up...try to pray before I have to go to the bathroom but give up, pray, get gym clothes on.
6:30 work out!! I have a gym here and run on the treadmill mostly, and then do weights and floor exercises too. A tons of other missionaries are there to talk to and do psychology tests on.
7:00 get cute for Jesus!!
8:00 personal study! Sometimes I read the Book of Mormon a straight hour (with institutes guides), lots of Preach my Gospel, sometimes I do personal progress, or read Jesus the Christ too.
9:00 Comp study!
10:00 if we've finished finalizing our plans, we pack a lunch and head over to the church. Most days we start online proselyting. On Thursdays we have district meeting, and Fridays we do weekly planning.
11:00 we eat the salads...because...we like salad
12:00 we are out proselyting. We have coordination meeting with our ward mission leaders through out the week, sometimes set time aside to call people and set up appointments or write thank you notes, we knock on doors to see people the bishop, RS prez, or wml has asked us to see- or of former and potential investigators. We like to get members to take us around to find people. We see more miracle that way and save miles! If we find people home, we have a short on-the-spot lesson. We also have some teaching appointments, during the day but less often in the afternoon. We hopefully have service during this time of day too. Service is often painting or cleaning or yard work. We also spend a lot of time convincing people that we can serve, even in a skirt, but if they so please we can get pants on. Some days too we have business to take care of , getting friend for our investigators, getting to know members doing personal progress, working with auxiliary, and dropping off the thank you notes. 
5:00 is dinner always. They spoil us in Mesa. I've have 4 night that no one had us over, they're so good to missionaries!! Those nights were fun thought....tropical smoothie!! 
6:00 HOPEFULLY  dinner is finished......usually not. They like to keep us with them :) but we go back and the last three hours of the night we have more teaching appointments set up usually.
9:we get him and plan who we are going to see the next day, how we will contact investigators and potentials, what we will study, what are lessons should be about.
10:30 you're in bed. If it's a good day you're in bed before then! (But not til after you journal!)

Sometimes you show up at people's home and they have you feed the wild pigs in their back yard, or they tell you they already told those Mormon they don't want anything to do with the church! And then sometimes they just wait for you to do something so you ask them for water and you get inside and start talking and then you have to share a scripture before out leave! Yay!!



Not probably exactly what you meant, but I love you tons!! Thanks for all you do!! MWAH
LOVE YOU AND DADDY

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