The Pink Missionary : I'M HEADED TO AJ BABY! (Apache junction)

LETTER TO DANIELLE:

We have Christmas lights all over here too. People decorate their
cactus!! It's hilarious!!! I want to do it...

I start Christmas lights on Wednesday :D I can't wait to bring my
lovely coat there and feel the temple spirit and the Christmas spirit
and talk to people and listen to the music and the excerpts of the
Christmas devos. It's beautiful. I love this time of year and I love
the He is the Gift video! It makes me want to cry and I feel like
Jesus is coming any minute here whenever I watch it. God isn't playing
games anymore, the world is going to know about Him and His Gospel!
Woot woot! It's hard to live up to.

I missed you thanksgiving as well, I was supes busy though! 7 dinners.
But one of them ended up being us crashing on their bean bags for 10
minutes #unexpectedblessings

I'm glad your home is getting dedicated! I can't wait to see it in
real life. Your house always has the Spirit already.

I am leaving my area. I'm being transferred right before Christmas of
course lol. I forgot to tell mom this so you can share if you want!
Luckily both wards already had us assigned to speak in Sacrament
meeting. We used mostly the topic Lord is it I. By President Uchtdorf
(amazing talk<3) and I got to randomly announce at the end my farewell
to everyone. I cried in Las Sendas but by the time I was speaking in
Stonebridge I had teared out and was super distracted by my good
friend's death glare from the crowd. It was sad to say goodbye to her.
She is sooo sweet though. She wrote me a letter which did make me cry.
And then this one family oh my goodness! We've been over there a lot
because their daughter was turning 8 and we prepared her for baptism,
but we just got really close with the family and so we had a final FHE
all together. They were the family that when sister chase was still
here, they assigned us each a sleeping beauty fairy. I was Flora! So
they each went through their stuff to find gifts for me that reminded
them of me! It was the most thought thing anyone could ever do!! They
took a stick and with pink duct tape made me a fairy wand and then
each gave me other sweet things! I love them!! I've seen them grow a
lot closer as a family too as we've been here. It so fun! I have a lot
of other people to say goodbye to in the next day and a half though.
Wish me luck
I love you!!

LETTER TO MADRE:

Thanksgiving was fabulous! It started at 5 am(: They had a Turkey Trot that went right past our church building- so NATURALLY we put up a hot chocolate stand!! It was so awesome. We had to boil water for like 45 minutes though. And we had individually wrapped "He is the Gift" pass along cards to give out as presents! It was soooo fun! Unfortunately Sister Dunn and I had the early shift just waving people driving by in and had to leave for our 7 Thanksgiving dinner appointments before the people traffic came in. The Elders passed out TONS of coco and presents! It was so cool :D This He is the Gift initiative is HUUUUGE and we literally want everyone in the world to watch it! Have you seen it yet? We got a bunch of card and were commanded to pass out 10 every day. This month is going to be hectic! Pray for me to find 10 people to talk to please! It'll be different now because........I'm transferring.

I'M HEAdED TO AJ BABY! (Apache junction) It's gunna be a party! I'm so terrified because my street contacting is SO rusty it's not funny after having been in gated communities for half a year. We did what we could but it's still something I'm repenting for (gotta change my nature!) I bawled my eyes out though when I saw I was being transferred. Heavenly Father thinks He's so funny sometimes. After wanting to leave for months, I finally accept that I'm staying here for Christmas and get to be with Sister Dunn until her mission ends and it's so great to be her companion because I love her and I love this area so much...like 2 weeks ago. I thoroughly convinced myself I was staying and then BOOM. NOPE! So I cried all my cries out and then remembered how great it is to start over! There's so much I want to work on and learn. I am in a trio again!! I like it, I do well in trios and feel useful and less awkward(: PLUS it's Sister Siharath- my MTC COMP! I love that girl! It'll be fun I think to see how much we've both changed. AAAAAAAAAAAND not only do I have one ward in AJ, but I also cover the YSA ward in this area and basically half the mission (I get so many miles!) YAAAAAAAAAAY! Time for the awkward and the fast food (pray for me on that too please). I love ysa and youth! I hope to learn a lot(:

OH DAN! I can't believe that, I sure hope he's doing okay, I sure love him! And I love you, I'm sorry I wasn't home for Thanksgiving but I need to help so many people! Being a missionary is crazy. And that's funny about the Sister Carters. We had two Sister Taylors together here for a while. We were just talking about that last night, the fun name combos, like Dunn and Hamberger. or (Better) Fry and Hamberger. Or Moschetti and Raisor. And when I was with Sister Fry everyone thought my name was Kroger- Kroger's and Fry's ha ha ha. Anyway, Sister S... totally took our pictures of us eating her pie on Thanksgiving lol weird! She's cray.

I can't wait to see all of you at Christmas either!!! The Christmas season is so sweet. The air just feels good because it's the most Christ-centered time of year. I wish we could go out light-finding and playing our Hanukkah song and all that jazz. I want this Christmas to be special though, I'd love a white Christmas so much. I want to feel like I'm doing a good job. I get so scared that I'm not living up to my potential and don't know if what I'm doing pleases the Lord. But it's sweet when you start saying goodbye to people in an area and they start to share with you all the progress they've made because of you. It''s seems like most of the contributions I made are when I least knew I was doing anything. It's really humbling, I see my weaknesses so plainly and then see how it doesn't stop people from receiving the Light of Christ or the Gospel. I saw our former, Fred, one last time and while we talked I could see how much he'd changed. He's starting to live the Gospel, even if he doesn't have a baptismal date, he is repenting and has faith in Christ that he can make it though and reach baptism someday. That's living the Gospel. He just needs to make good choices. Dropping him was the best thing we did. He'll be ready again soon. I just saw the light shining in him and felt the Spirit tell me that he was the reason I was in this area. We worked so hard for him and prayed and I taught with as much power and authority that I could figure out how to teach with for him and loved him unconditionally. I can't wait to see him in the celestial kingdom. And there's my new best friends, Sarah and Grace and Emma that I didn't know I helped so much but loving there and being around is all they needed to grasp onto what they'd been searching for. I love being a missionary.

Lol and watch out for those weirdies! God loves them and they need the Gospel even if they're different from us, but....sometimes you just gotta laugh.

Laughing is my favorite. Not loud laughter of course...steer clear of that one.
I LOVE YOU MAMA!! Soooooo much!! No more being sick :) Wish me luck with transfers.

The little boy that proposed to me! The last thing everyone said to me as I walked out of church was "wait for him!"

And omg I got to see me shanna banana banana banana last Monday for her 6 month baptism anniversary! I bawled my eyes out, I miss her and sister smith, but I felt better and it was what I needed to keep working hard here!!