We hit our 100 baptisms!!!

MOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU ABOUT MY LIFE!! I can't think! (yes, I'm more emotionally and spiritually exhausted than I can tell you! The baptism for Kira went through, the wedding was AMAZING!I found a navy blue dress from one of my ysa best friends and Katrina bought us all matching dangly earrings, so we disobediently wore them for a couple hours.....oops. THEY'RE MARRIED!! husband and wife!! A family! Te family <3 and We just found out that they can be baptized THIS WEEKEND! I was literally jumping around the apartment on the couches screaming I can't stand it! So I'm not thinking to straight, sorry if I leave out important details of the week. My last Saturday! This family that's become part of my family. Their baptism all together is the last thing I get to do and I'm soooo grateful I can't even tell you right now! I love them!!!! I can't wait for you to meet them! we have a lot of work to do to pull this off, give us some prayer (not that you already don't...we feel them) I love you!!! 

We're in the single digits! The family ward did their fast and testimony meeting yesterday so I got to go up and say a goodbye testimony to everyone. I on;y cry through the entire thing, it's fine. 

Josh and Gabriella's baptism didn't go through. well josh's did....he was late though -.- then...........................he disappeared. Which he's lucky, because I really really appreciate the opportunity to murder him. whatever. MADRE!!!! |We hit our 100 baptisms!!! We went wayyyy over!!! WE DID IT!!!!! President sent out a text and got every missionary in Mesa to get together and see baptism #100!!! it was magical<3 So powerful! The guy getting baptized though no one would be there but there were over 200 missionaries there to support him and it was amazing! |We hit our goal! we over doubled our baptisms!!! We had enough faith :D Can I end my mission on a better note? what is this life?? I love everything! I love my Heavenly Father! Why would He give me all of this???

Man, I can't wait to party, I can do it that night, I'm on such a high :PP JK, whenever is fine, I'm sorry to stress you out though. I'm so sorry about the little boy. 

Is the Second coming tomorrow?? I need to baptized the family first, Why did Nannie get internet? I Shoot!!! go her!! 

And wait, what |Lamb of God thing?? from Rob Gardner? That CD I'm literally obsessed with and have completely memorized? did they perform it??? what the heck!! 

man idk even what to say right now. I'll see you in a weeeeeekkkkk!!!!! I have a lot of work to do though. What are you doing for your birthday? How about I come home for it? 

I love you so much Madre! 

Oh also, I love Easter pageant, we went t\3 times with 4 different people<3 I hope to go even more!!! And I love Jesus the Christ, best book. I'm ready through the Atonement part before Easter. Then we will feast on resurrection rolls. I loveee youuuuu 


TO Daddy:

hey hey hey daddy, I love you!!!!!!! I cant wait to see you. This is my last email, but I don't know what to say!@!!! ding ding ding! I went to olive garden and thought about you! 

Thanks for letting me serve a mission, you're the best dad in the whole world! really!!! thanks for everything you've ever taught me! 

Best ZONE ever!

Miracle march is happening!

I'm so excited to see you! I haven't been able to think about it until today I think. mom!! Miracle march is happening! So had one investigator with a baptismal date (march 28th) set and in about a week, we put all our faith and work in and it jumped to 8!!!!!! 3 of them are the 28th. And the couple that i've been working with since I got to the area agreed to be married the 28th too and to get baptized the following weekend!!!!!!!! WOOHOOOOO!!!! I get to see their family be baptized! And help with a wedding! the 28th was going to be so crazy, because of 3 baptisms and a wedding AND the women's broadcast. It's also the scheduled stake 8 year old baptisms so the building might be tight along with all the other mesa missionaries having their miracle march baptisms. So our family ward bishop suggested that we do the 2 baptisms in that ward Friday night. Which feels right :D They both just need to make it to church this next Sunday. please please please pray for them (kira and josh) ! And also our ysa, Gabriella. She's so sweet, came out of nowhere and already is prepared and lives the commandments, understands them and just believes and knows why God would restore the fullness of the Gospel to the Earth and give us prophets! The family is good, we just need to see them a lot a lot and finish the lessons because they've been sick, yet have faithfully made it to church for 8 weeks and are strong and ready. They just needed to admit it to themselves. There's this other ysa who's ready and won't admit it lol. he finally came to church after a little over a month!!! He's the one who was agnostic and in his prayer last night he said he knows the Gospel is true!!!! So i'm like....you just said you know you need to get baptized lol and he's like..."in due time" I told him to pray about when. But that I need to pray about it too, and we'll figure it out. But we have been going going going this past week. I can't think of a better way to end my mission.

We go to the temple this week! I want to go to the temple almost immediately when I get home too! That can be my party ;) But yeah, please pray for me to have more faith. I really do feel your prayers and am so grateful! I'm going to miss the amount of prayers and protection and the blessings I get as a missionary. Ah man....do they already have the day set for when I speak in church? 

I love you so much! Brother gifford will probably send me cactus home inthe next week or so lol

"Hey, Sister Krueger...what's the distance between you and that plane? .........6 weeks!!!"

Hi padre, I just needed to tell you I love you and miss you lots and lots too. Can you be my first date when I get home? 

I'm glad I get to write you too! This week will be a better email than they have been, I'm sorry!! Yes, I am coming home on a Tuesday because every mission has different transfer cycles. Sister Brinkerhoff is definitely my last companion and I am lucky (and by luck I mean blessed). I don't think I'll need to send anymore home, except for maybe Winklestinky (the cactus) but I do not know how to make such events occur....I can't wait to meet Richard either! How are we related again? And see Nannie and everyone! I seriously can't believe it's a month away! a new RM, our Bishop's daughter has been coming out a lot with us lately. I love her! Shes my new friend (ad so are a couple of other RMs that I just love!!! #ysalife I hope I can be as cool as them when I get back)...except that she thinks it's really funny to make fun of me almost going home. "Hey, Sister Krueger...what's the distance between you and that plane? .........6 weeks!!!" I felt it didn't misrepresent the Lord too badly when I beat her up a little. So now EVERYONE, even our new investigator goes out of their way to point out ever airplane that flies by throughout the days! What the weird!? I for real think there are more planes flying in mesa than there have been the past 17 months. Good thing we're too busy for me to even think about it!! Seriously! I never thought I could do so much in one day and hold so many life-changing conversations all at the exact same time. I can feel all the prayers! LISTEN! We have a new ysa girl who just set a baptismal date for the 28th, an 4 other ysa investigators. Usually it's hard to have any work in ysa. There's so many good people to be their fellowshippers too! hahahahahahahhahaahah One hispanic guy, he's so funny. He kind of mumbles and it's hard to understand what's he's saying apparently (I don't have a problem) lol oh man I don't even know how to go about telling you about this kid. He's really excited to learn and wants the light that we have. He's hispanic and talks a lot though and as we were teaching the restoration he's all excited and loves things we say but then after a while you realize he actually didn't get it. Like we spent 20 minutes getting through what a prophet is and at the end I bare my testimony about blessings from Heavenly Father and he's like "Yeah youre building your way up to be a prophet, because you know the Lord just only works by giving us what we can handle and I have what I can handle. That's what I've been trying to say, that I just am loving what you guys are coming here to teach me because I need that happiness. You know when you first come over you're just laughing and making jokes about WATER! And I'm grateful I can have it and you're always welcome over and I want this for my family and you can come over, ya know my sister's she's getting married and I don't know what it's called, they're having a bachelor party and I don't know what you're allowed to do or if you're out teaching Friday night but you can go and if you like firemen, if you got time...." hahahahaha and we're dying because its Lorelei with us whose crazy and I can't control my laughing and he knows he's funny and just is going on and on and it's curfew. Also he had just been telling us that we picked the wrong house to park in front of and randomly in the lesson was like " yall might have slashed when you come out of her. out of all the houses on this street you park in front of that one!!" So we're freaking out not sure if he's kidding or not but he says these people are real cranky.  so I'm just like"OK, let's have a prayer!!!" lol he's like ok ok, so I'm like alright Ray you say it and he blurts out in one breath "ah, no you say it dear God thank you for..." and goes on with praying and it was unexpected and sudden. And you remember who when we would try to have family prayer? Those nights when Emily started laughing and then everyone is laughing and we're trying sooooo hard to be reverent and you're shaking and you can tell the pray-er is about to crack and the second you gain composure, the person next to you breaths in real heavy and you start laughing again. Lorelei was killing me! and it was soooo bad. I was crying. We couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the night. gooooooooooooooosssshhhh. hahahahahahahah the car was fine too. 

So then we set up another lesson. It was Friday night. So we asked him to come to the Visitors Center! He doesn't confirm when we text him but we head over and he then texts asking all these questions and sounds so frantic about going and Im like, oh man he thinks we're taking him in the temple or something, but we tell him to still come, he keeps trying to get out of it, and he finally calle. I'm trying to help him and he's so concerned sounding and I couldn't figure out his problem but he's like "man idk what to wear, you know how i told you aout tha bacholr party, and I don't know what to wear cuz i can't get in to grab my clothes cuz the stipper's already here. I'm just in an undershirt and shorts." I'm trying not to crack up, so I just blurt out, "it's fine, you can dress casual, just come!" And he's like "really? ah, idk! I uh, m, ok, uh yeah sure, alright!"lololololo and then I think about it and i'm lke gahh what if he's not wearing any clothes, and we're all again dying as we wait for him to come. lol 

phew, but here's the thing! He does come and he was dressed AND......he brought his dad. OMG, we brought them in and it turned ot to be the sweetest most powerful lesson. The Spirit was SO STRONG. His father only speaks spanish so we got a VC sister to take us through and she kind of took of the lesson. We listened to the Christus in Spanish and it was the most beautiful thing ever! ||It was like, i knew the Gospel was true all over the world but to hear His words to reach out to everyone and speak to them in their own way was so beautiful. They're all going to get baptized. It was cool to observe a lesson from the outside. You forget sometimes what you're doing and the importance everything you say has. 

Anyway. We spent a lot of time at the VC actually. And at a Ranch. Guess what!! Andy and Katrina ( I can't remember if I gave you code names, but I give up on that) are getting married the 28th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They're so amazing, we've been waiting in suspense for forever. Especially me because I wanted to see it before I left and they're getting married!!! I hope they get baptized before I leave too. I'm going to tell her that if she does, well go to the temple togather when I come and visit, to do baptisms for the dead :D 

The 28th is going to be nuts...it's also the Women's braodcast. This life. I love everything about it but there's no time to breathe....so many good things! I wouldn't trade it for anything. We're gong to be more busy too because we're now part of some group of missionaries going around to sing in nursing homes this month. Woohoo!! 

Kira might be moving though...she hasn't been coming to church. it's the worst! 

We had stake conference this weekend. The Jenkins were there! I love them! Oh and so was Elder Stoddard from the 70. While he was he he went to visit this part member family in our ward and no the nonmember dad who wouldn't come in to our lessons 3 weeks ago wants to get baptized! YAAAAYYY! 

Gah, I sure hope I can stay productive when I get home. I was really sad about EFY, and I don't think working with Antonio's cafe will probably pan out either, we haven't talked in a couple months. We'll see! But the Lord promised me if I didn't worry about it and focus, then He'll take care of it, or at least help me figure out what to do and how to be effective when I do get home. So it's okay!! I'm so happy YOU have a job!!!!! For realz. Way to go Idaho! 

I dont know about school! Blah!!! I never do lol I still want to become a Seminary teacher. But, I feel like still either that or going to an animal college will just be a 2 year school. Danielle is so sweet! She's the one that found me rough housing and everything. I have to repay her so much. 

Anyway, thanks for your scripture thoughts! I love them. Something that I found this morning!!- It may be me overthinking, but in Nephi's vision 1 nephi 13:5 it says that iron, the same thing that the iron rod (or God's word) is made of! But they take it and turn it into something bad, a make it a yoke and it binds them! That's why we have to be so careful and why the apostasy happened, because they changed something so good into evil! ding ding ding 

so yeah, that's part of my life. Many other things going on! #miraclemarch

We had a GRITS PARTY! #mymissionsthebest

I love you!! I love my companion a lot! She is sweet and full of life and obedient and hard working and helps me focus. she is from Tennessee technically and she likes pink too and has been out 7.5 months! we are happy! I really am(: 

They're taking my ipad on Wednesday because everyone is buying one and they're taking the old ones. since I'm leaving in about a month I don't have to buy one :) what luck! I got my whole mission in the exact time fame of having a free ipad! #mymissionsthebest

thanks for your prayers!

YES!! I mean, if anyone wants to come to my party, whoever remembers me(: I love parties! invite the family and friends! TO THE BEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yesyesyesyesyesyes! good plan!!!!! then someday I'll figure out what I'm doing with my life. what would happen if I decided I want to go into animal therapy? and find a school that has that major........I'll be looking today.

I feel like I have nothing exciting to share this week, but it's been exciting and busy!! We have 3 ysa investigators! I'm so proud of the area! please pray Andy and Katrina will get married the 28th instead of the 11th!!!!!! They are doing well, they watched jspr with us at the visitors center and the spent their Saturday afternoon studying the pamphlets and scriptures!! I love them, I told them you'll meet them in April!

I love you so much!!! life is so good! I was stressed to take over the area but everything is falling together beautifully.

thank you for being my family!!!

Making GRITS!

We had a GRITS party!

Off to the party!

this is the last transfer news I ever get to get

Only 6 weeks! I go in circles thinking how excited I am and then how sad I am to leave, but mostly I'm too busy to think of it at all which is nice. We have had a lot of lessons and miracles lately! Even Ysa investigators. A new one came to church yesterday. We had three......but then when we went back for a return appointment with B... (after having one of the best lessons and closing prayers of my life) two days later we were told he was now in prison. Now there's two. The other is the agnostic boy who is doing really well. He cracks me up. We asked if he knew about Adam and Eve and he told us his whole experience with learning about it and being told it was a bad thing they did and after pondering decided for himself that it was all part of God's plan for hem to eat the fruit! Lol we read from the scriptures exactly that. Our other ward is great. The family, where the dad has been being dragged along, has started coming to lessons and being involved in them. His fiancé, who's ready to get baptized about texted us last night after a crazy hard lesson saying at she walked in on him by himself reading the Book of Mormon!!!! I couldn't have been happier! We screamed and cheered and danced, even though I might have been driving. It was one of those moments the Spirit says that's what the mission is all about. That's what you sacrifice for.

I'm also sad though because K... has not been coming to church so now we have to move her baptism:/

Gah......a lot more happened but I can't even think straight right now. My sis Nis is leaving! I'm so sad, I feel inadequate to take over the area  and this is the last transfer news I ever get to get!! Blaaaahhhhhhhhhhh I'm sooo sadddd.

I'll get over it and I'm going to love sister brinkerhoff, I think she's a hard worker and obedient so we'll take over the wards together and everything is going to be great. I still have an amazing zone and all these fabulous people to work with and the Spirit is in charge anyway and I just need to pray more for direction and everything will work out.

.....I don't even know what else to say.

Oh, we had a bonfire this week and pretended it was our halfway and my investigator gave my a new pair of cute tennis shoes!! I couldn't believe it! They're perfect! Oh crap what if my companion doesn't run? I'll be fine. Anyway, a family also took us our for Thai Saturday night and it was amazing beyond description!

.............I love you. I miss you

I can do hard things :Dr mark so we could burn stuff! I burnt my dead toms. I miss them lol...but they were very dead. And our inv

A GOAT!!!

HMMMM

My SUNSHINE!

And HOW exactly does this work?

I made 5 new eternal friends at the temple

Yes I got my Valentine's Day package!! Thank you!! We had treats to bring to a lesson with this family that night and it was fabulous! Thanks(: This whole week has been great. I feel like I'm living in a dream, I just love my life so much. We got to go to the temple and the had Zone Conference the next day so the week was busy. I am no longer at all sick and feel very well and alive and happy! Lol almost every night, Sister Niska and I are being crazy, and stuff like affirmations :P Glad someone approved of it. We're seeing people all the time and are busy and tired in a good rejuvenating way. Our investigator's less active mom had us over to make us lunch for Valentine's Day.Oh and two nights in a row, someone dropped of gifts at our door for when we got home. Made both my days! I love V-day and the gifts were so sweet. We don't know who it was though!! Also, how the heck if it half way through February?? It's stinking hot here though! What the heck, I want snow like you!

I have to tell you a story though!!! Lately I've been feeling like our zone and district members have had a little too much contact, I just feel like we see each other almost every day and spend all of P-day together and I was worried it might have been getting a little distracting. (Cause we know I have a flirting problem and I don't like the temptation!) We had plans today to all go hike flat iron, which I really wanted to do and thought would be fun, good exercise (I love things like that and I love being with our zone) but I felt impressed to take an opportunity to not go hang out with everyone. I couldn't figure out why exactly and felt so stuck in going for some reason. It was so hard!! I don't know why but something said I shouldn't go and I couldn't figure how to get out of it. So yesterday I fasted for a way out of going. In Sacrament, I felt the strength to just decide not to go no matter what and felt SO good about the choice!! Then about 2 hours later, our zone leader sent the news that WE COULD GO TO THE TEMPLE!!! The Spirit hit me so strong. I made the tiniest little sacrifice and received this enormous blessing (which is what usually seems to happen....life is unfair that way). Heavenly Father told me that He had inspired President and others to let us attend the temple today just for me and to answer my fast. What a miracle! I attended some initiatories this morning and felt a connection with the 5 people I went through for and knew in my heart that for sacrificing friends for a day, I made 5 new eternal friends at the temple whom I cannot wait to meet.

That was my weekend and I feel like I'm on cloud nine, you know when you repent and that weight just lifts from off of you and you feel like you can fly? It was like that. Anyway, yes transfer planning is this week, so we will find out on Saturday. Sister Niska and I think she's going to kill me, meaning we'll both stay. And maybe when I die, she will leave the area too and they'll white-wash it.

It's been soooo fast, because we're busy and having fun. I'm so happy you two are working a lot too. Even on Valentines day :P And I'll go stalk you on facebook in a little bit. And wait, what happened to your foot? Did you miss church to stay with Nannie? I sent her a card.

Yeah yeah, so we're teaching a recent convert's athiest mom who's actually progressing. An agnostic YSA who confessed last night his faith in God has grown the last couple of week. Both of them prayed with us out loud for their first time yesterday!!!!!! We'e been spending a lot more time seeing Kira (the ten year old) and her mom, The family who comes to church every week but won't set a date :/. We are doing so much better in our teaching! I feel the Spirit filling my mouth with word and inspired questions and actually teaching pure doctrine and from the scriptures. it's so much better than when I try to do it on my own. We took people to the Visitor's Center a couple times which is the best. I've been learning so much about how important it is seriously to have a family, and for parents to raise children well. Everyone's lives are falling apart because of the wicked traditions of their fathers and because parents are selfish!! Thank you for being my mom and being really good at it. I love you so much.

 YAAAAYYY! I can't wait for April! Love and miss you. MWAHHHHH

Valentine's Day Surprise #1

Valentine's Day surprise #2

More FUN pictures

Heading to do service

Still flexible

Oranges year round!

Goofing off

..with 6 investigators and 5 less active members to the chapel and about cried.

Actually! We were trying to find 1500 new investigators in the mission and found 1750!!!!!!! (They corrected the numbers after a few days) and we have some golden ones! A family of 4 who is consistently coming to church. The dad was uninterested at first but this week, he prayed with us! It was his first prayer out loud! They still need to get married and the mom wants the kids to be more sure about the baptism covenant before we set a date. And then there's Kira! 

We took her to the visitors center this week. It's such a good resource and the Spirit was so strong. Her mom had a meltdown though this week and we came to help them use prayer and scripture when times are hard.They might be moving before her baptism date because their living situation is rough...

There's one Ysa investigator who I met when I was sick and he's agnostic but he's super open. We brought him to a member missionary fireside and he loved it! It answers his questions about how we get answered or prayer and we convinced him to find an opportunity to pray this week and he will!! I'm so proud of him!

I love this area. I sat on stage to sing with choir and watched all the amazing members file in along with 6 investigators and 5 less active members to the chapel and about cried. I love love love this Ward. It had a lot to do with the fact that I finished the Book of Mormon the night before! So cute! Sister Niska finished reading it and prayed about it sat morning and came up to me saying "Guess what.....I know the Book of Mormon is true." It was so exciting and I gave her a big hug. Then because I wanted to bring it for personal progress     (A challenge they gave me before young women's the next day I sped through the last few chapters I had to read before I went to bed and understood so well and was so into it and loved every word and I finished! I got right on my knees and asked God again if it was true and I sat and waited and listened and remembered that it is!!! It was such a sweet experience that still has me giddy. I ran in to the room and said to sister Niska "guess what.....I know the Book of Mormon is true!" We hugged again and have been best friends crazies ever since. I mean we've been friends the whole time. In fact, Wednesday night I attacked her with my NERF gun.

The whole week was good. But I'm super peeved you didn't get my emailS last week! I wrote a lot. I'll resend em

I love you soooooooo much!! I want to give you a big hug!

I constantly think about what I might say in my homecoming talk. I
hope I have e spirit! That's the only point of teaching
We're teaching great this week! And we had 7 non members and 5 less
actives at church yesterday! This is the best time!

Last Week's email that was lost!! WE FOUND 1631 New Investigators in January!

hm, my week can probably be painted with a big splash of mud. but with some sprinkles of pink and yellow. I wasn't actually all better when I emailed last week evidently. I came back way worse just a few hours late and lasted until Friday. It was really frustrating, I just slept mostly. And since I couldn't exercise or eat well, I started getting depressed, and it was the last week we had to fulfill our mission goal- we needed to still find like 500 investigators and I didn't feel like I was doing good enough or had enough faith. So that was a little lameo. I missed Lizzie and just felt guilty. Sister Niska did her best trying to carry the weight for both of us. Maybe I could just feel that Nannie was sick too!! I'm so happy she's okay, she has to stick around until I can see her again. We did find a couple of awesome new people and taught a really amazing lesson last night and a couple of other great ones to other people as I got better. And the Elders in our zone came into our area to help us find people, and they did!!! Miracles! They found new investigators who actually had just been lost from missionaries in the past! I'm so grateful! I repaid them with cheesecake. Well, just my favorite one. I don't know if the others like cheesecake and we're not that close! We also had elder Evans from the 70 come speak to us, which was AMAZINGGG and inspiring. I left and for the first time my whole mission was no longer scared to ask everyone for a referral. He promised if I did that evening, then dozens of people would get baptized. So I did it! 

Other good things...Oh, we got the soap! THANKSSSS!! It's a different kind, but we started using it and it actually works just a effectively, maybe even better. Way to be inspired, thank you so much! oh oh oh!! And OUr miSSIon!!!! WE FOUND 1631 New Investigators in January! last month I think it was 500 and we passed our goal! I love our mission, it's my favorite<3 My zone is the absolute best of them all though #camelbackattack

I only have 2 month to prove to God He's my number 1!!

sorry....i feel like my emails are getting shorter and shorter.

I can't think of anything else I need :P.I  might need a new journal soon. but saving money is great too(:

I love you sooo much. 

I hope your week is amazing!!!!!

How can I bring people to repentance when I'm laying on my death bed?

Tell Sister Moody that I know some Sherwoods, but they must be different. Everyone here is related, has the same name and usually a street named after them. And is that missionary in our ward now? the one from Mesa?

HEY when did you get cheesecake? Because randomly on Friday (while we were OUTSIDE THE MISSION :D at the cannery serving) I got this crazy craving for the cheesecake factory! But then when we went to dinner, they surprised us with sushi and it was the best day of my life.

I've been missing you and padre too! I got sick this week. Which is So ANNOYING! How can I bring people to repentance when I'm laying on my death bed? But I got a blessing. It was so nice. I think sometimes, God lets me get sick so I'll come for a blessing so that He can tell me some specific things I need to hear. This time, He needed to tell me that He thinks I'm an excellent missionary. ....My heart! I didn't know!! It was so refreshing. It so easy to think everything you do is just messing up the plan and the work, but Heavenly Father is all like....stop it silly. He's proud of me. and I didn't realize that knowing that could be so energizing! I'm SO ready to go and find 9 new investigators in this week!

Prayers and faith for me please! I love you soooo  much!!
and my dog is cute(:

Teaching kids on the street.

Sushi Surprise!

Sister Niska

We work in a FUN area

We had SEVEN investigators at church yesterday!!!!

 I have shortened P-day hours this month though in the new area. Our zone is super dedicated to this finding with faith month. We need 9 more in our ward! But before I got here, the Zone Training Meeting was all about the initiative and they all decided to sacrifice some things together including time from lunch, online proselyting, and P-days. So I came into the zone like that. THIS AREA IS THE BEST!!!! I haven't felt this busy, tired, and hard-working since I was with Sister Smith in Kimball. This family ward is so fantastic, I love these people. And Sister Niska is a sweetheart. She does run!!! :D We live in a really really cute little cottage at these members' home. It is adorable and the beds are so comfy! I didn't know I was sore until I woke up the other day not sore! We're having fun getting to know each other. The whole zone is fun- we're close with all the other missionaries here. We all just went lazer-tagging today. It was the BEST! But we're also really hard-working. There's so much work here.

We had a couple of really awesome lessons. This one little girl ran into the sisters on the street right before I got here and her and her less active mom just then decided they wanted Jesus in their hearts! So we had a lesson that was going amazing except for random moments...... I knew that for the little girl this lesson couldn't be ruined and even though I shy away from any Bible-bashing situations, I heard the scripture in my head that says I won't be confounded before men, so I confidently and with the Spirit took her OUT! Respectfully, of course.

 It was awesome! Everything she said I could resolve and then she left the room. The lesson went well :|D MAMA!! We had SEVEN investigators at church yesterday!!!! I've never seen that my whole mission!!!! It was beautiful! |We're baptizing in March- #Camelbackattack |(camel back is my new zone y me gusta)

Ah....I don't know what else to say. I love life. I love you and miss you. I can't wait to see you!! Thanks for being my madre!! 

we found a whole family! Well they found us. He's from Guatemala

 I'm getting transferred! Ahh! That was the fastest 6 weeks of my life! It's been seriously one of the bests! I loved being in my trio and all the amazing people I've been able to teach. We were so busy working, we were obedient and diligent, our district and whole zone as so fun, I'm sad for it to end. I'm getting a YSA ward again though! It's fun, I think Heavenly Father is trying to help me figure out how to be normal again. Everything is great! I love being with people my own age and being able to relate with them and apply the Gospel to every situation! I think I'm in more central Mesa, and only have the one ward. Sister Niska is my companion and I think she's been out almost a year or something. We're gunna have fun! But I'll miss a lot of people here. It's weird leaving already, especially with having had Christmas lights, I barely got to know the area and people...but I did, just not the ward members themselves like usual.

We haven't heard from Jo, he's backed off because he doesn't feel worthy to build a relationship with God. He has amazing fellowshippers and we're going to stop by tonight, and least to say goodbye (all of us are leaving the Ysa ward). He just needs the Gospel MORE than anything else. I hope to see him succeed, he's a fabulous guy. 

Sister Siharath is staying in ironwood so she'll keep helping Mariam. She's getting so close. She went to the hospital this week though! That was scary but we think she's okay. She's about ready to be baptized(:

We found a lot of new investigators this week! January is finding month!! Well at least increasing our faith to find! we found a whole family! Well they found us. He's from Guatemala<3 he had all these cool experiences with the spirit helping him no longer hate Mormons and then decide he wanted what they have, for his whole family of grandpa, wife and 3 kids! Then we street contacted a bunch of wonderfully open and kind people! Me gusta Apache junction. Most of our Ysa work is with less actives. We had one, jojo who we found at frys, take us to get SUSHIIII! She loves us, it's crazy. She buys us presents all the time and wants us over teaching her every day and just being her friend. She doesn't have any good influences yet except us. And ....now her missionaries are elders. We'll pray that that goes over well hahaha

My wrist doesn't even hurt right now! :D

I'm glad you go out with the missionaries all the time. Being happy all the time takes work but it's always so much better than not being optimistic. Living at all is pointless without choosing to love being where you are! Btdubbs, you're the best missionary mama in the world! You don't make me trunky or anything. I'm so excited to see you again just because...I love you. And going home will just be another transfer the Lord needs me to take on. I'm stoked. And I'm stoked for my new area. I hope we can stay busy!! I don't know if I'm whitewashing.

Today I have to say goodbye to my mission mom, sister fry and sister Dunn! I can't believe it's already here, and I don't know when I'll see them again. I love them so much. A lot of other awesome people are leaving too. :( it'll be great though

Everything is great! I love you too and I miss your face! Be a good madre, MMMWWWAAAHH

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It was sad to see Christmas Lights end, but now we'll get to spend more time in our area. I don't know the members very well, which is weird because I'm usually more integrated and close with more people by now! We had a big mission party on New Year's. I got to wear jeans and we all had a lot of fun. We did zone skits, and our was the best. We played out Noah and the Ark (taking place in Australia) and I was a wicked person and then a koala. We had a really good devotional. We have this huge goal to have 100 baptisms in march and in order to do that we need to find 10 new investigators in just the month of January, so I need to work extra hard this month and double my faith. Pray for me and our area!

Getting ready for church!

Jojo has a pet duck!