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!!!!!