Well, I am currently writing this email from Kansas! So CRAZY. Last week got super crazy so I didn't have time to write an email. So here is an update from last week/ this week.
21st-26th: Provo MTC
21st: This was such a good day, we got to go to the temple and do proxy sealings! This was my first time doing sealings and the blessings are SO SWEET! Something so cool was I got to help in the sealing of a family of 4, 2 sisters! (literally my family) I miss them so much! Something else that was super cool was the sealer in my session asked me where I was going, and he told me that he has a friend who would be moving to Kansas soon and had recently fallen away from the church. He prayed to Heavenly Father that morning how he could reach her and bring her back and there I was! God is so good! pray that I can find Lynell♡
22nd: This was also such a good day. I had so much fun hanging out with the people in my district and had amazing classes! Later that night all the girls in my district were getting ready for bed, we all braided each others hair and Sister Stewart played hymns on her ukulele.
23rd-25th: Lots of classes, devotionals, playing volleyball and pickleball any chance we got, and I gave a talk on Sunday.
26th: This was my last day in the MTC. We had classes and I said bye to my district. I miss them already!
27th: I woke up at 3am, got ready and headed to the airport! They flew me to Georgia and then to Kansas... don't ask me why, I don't even know, but that made for a long travel day. I met my mission leaders at the airport (the Terry's are the best). Then we went to the mission office ate dinner, played games, and then we stayed in a motel for the night.
28th: I met my trainer! My trainer is sister Larsen, she is so awesome, I love her so much already. We ate breakfast and had an orientation and found out where my first area will be. I'm in Concordia Kansas! It's up by the boarder of Nebraska, we even have a little bit of Nebraska in our area. It's super cold and snowy, it's also pretty small but I'm learning to love it. We didn't do too much this day because we had a long drive to our area and the rest of the day was just me getting settled in.
29th: I met my district at my first district meeting. They're all super fun! We ate at a restaurant called Braums. It's like a mix of Canes and Iceburg, it's all I had heard about since getting here. It was actually pretty good. We went knocking doors today, and it's absolutely freezing here right now. But I am still grateful because we have a car we can stay pretty warm in.
30th: This day was so fun! I had my first lesson with Mary B, she is the village crazy lady but I love her. She owns more cats than I've ever seen and more just keep appearing each day. She also owns like 20+ chickens, a few ducks, and a couple geese who all just roam in and out of her house. She loves God and sees miracles everyday. She has the strongest testimony and will do whatever it takes to get baptized. We just put her on date to be baptized! I am so excited for her. She talks a lot so hopefully we can get through all the lessons we need to in order for her to be baptized. Pray that we can finish all the lessons in time!
31st: Coldest day yet! The high was like 9 degrees. But we still had our outdoor lesson with Johnathan. The only thing holding Johnathan back from baptism is smoking. He has the strongest testimony and knows of God's love. He was able to quit smoking for a month with the help of promised blessings and Heavenly Father, but just recently relapsed. He is trying so hard and I am so proud of him. We are having him pray about a baptism date and believe he can be ready to be baptized by Feb 28th. Pray for Johnathan that he can have the strength to stop smoking. We got to visit Mary K., she's a part of another religion but she's so sweet! We got to pray with her and do some service. And then we Visited Helen. Helen is the most optimistic friendly person I have ever met. She lives in a old folks home and was so happy to see us! We got to read the scriptures with her, show her a video, and pray with her. She made my day 10 times better, I love her so much!
1st: Yesterday we went to church, and I have never seen so few people at church before! Our branch has a total of probably 20 and half of that group is the Anderson family. Lol we love them for populating our branch. We got to read the Book of Mormon with Darrell, we had ward council meetings, and we were fed by Sister Davis!
Fun parts of the week:
♡Sister Larsen took me for a sweet treat
♡got some new dresses from "the sharing table" (where everyone brings the clothes they don't want anymore)
♡got to talk to a lot of fun people at the airport
♡got to pray with a lot of sweet/kinda crazy old ladies
♡The sunsets are SO PRETTY!
Sorry for the LONG email! But that was pretty much my last 2 weeks. I love you all so much!
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