"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