Letter 3/7/14

Dear Mom and everyone,

hahahaha I love the paragraph about the rubber gloves xD I showed all the sisters in my district lol I can totally imagine something like that happening and it's totally something Jade would come up with x) My P-Day is today, Friday, I leave for Kennewick on Tuesday March 11 around 10am and I think they let us call at the airport?? I hope Grandma Susan is doing well in her new house. I imagine Grandpa likes jammin around the tile in full rabbit speed lol I got the package and it made me cry seeing Mom's handwriting and those cookies and notes! I miss you guys so much! The cookies Shelly made were so good!!!! I think they're already gone lol Jon thank you for the letters, those jokes really helped lighten the mood. Every time you or my mom send a long letter or talk it comes as like 10 separate letters and my district is like holy cow why does your mom write so much?? Kylie's letter was so cute!!! I have the bracelet she made me hung up on my bunk :) I loved that her letter was inside a manila envelope with dad's handwriting lol it was like a letter from Dad and Kylie :) my friend Josh was in Utah this week and he sent me the coolest tye dye teddy bear ever!!!! And a bunch of stick on mustaches too, thank heavens I thought I would run out! hahah Mom it's called a Pazooki not a fazzooki xD um I really don't know about the receipts I think you could send them here? Oh! Btw I need my Chase card. It should have been mailed home by now and I need that extra money.

So Sister Ewell and I have made up new words to songs like the stripped sweater song from spongebob (Jade will know this one) and the beginning song from Tangled.

(spongebob stripped sweater)

the best time to wear a black name tag

is all the time

one that bears, the saviors name!

that's the kind!

(sang to the beginning tune from Tangled)

6:30am the usual morning line up,

jump in the shower and scrub till we're squeeky clean,

then off to breakfast with chocolate milk and bedrocks,

then to class and by then it's like 8 o'clock!

and so we'll read a verse or maybe 83

we'll study preach my gosple very diligently 

and then we'll teach and teach and teach and basically 

just wonder how many baptisms we'll see! 

haha and this one goes to the gangnam/gangnam style

tea... tea.... teaching Jesus style!!!!! xD Mom you'd have to ask Jade to tell you how this song goes lol 

So it's really weird and incredible how much you grow in just a week. when we first got here we were all scared and clueless and now....we're so awesome!!! like we look around and are like wow missionaries are so cool.....wait a minute....I'm so cool!!! We taught a TRC investigator which means a volunteer so she could be a real investigator maybe! =o our last lesson with Anna was so powerful. we taught her about the Book of Mormon and how much it can help her in her life and we got her not only committed to read it, but to be baptized when she found out it was true! Talk about double whammy! I love singing hymns, that is so weird I never thought I would but it's such a powerful way to invite the Spirit. Sister Ewell has grown so much, when we were first teaching she was unsure and doubting herself and saying negative things all the time. I made her a deal that every time she said something negative like uhhgg this is so hard, she had to say at least 2 positive things one about herself and one about something else. At the residence at night we all say a miracle that happened that day and sing and pray as like a family. That's what it feels like now because we're with each other 24/7 so we all know each other's dorky personalities, talents, weaknesses, strengths, previous jobs, stories about all our scars, those super awkward moments when something goes wrong but it's so funny, everything! Sister Ewell and I got called to be the Sister Training Leaders. So the new sisters in our zone, we welcomed them and explained all the rules and gave them a tour and comfort and it was kind of like being a YCL but for missionaries. I met a Zone that sits near us during lunch and they're all going to Fresno! there are so many Fresno bound missionaries! Elder King said he'd try and find people who know a Sister Standing, but most of my friends know me as Momo lol so any new missionaries you meet you should ask if they knew me because I met a lot headed your way! :D

haha so funny story...We had just finished teaching Jamie (our TRC investigator)
Sister Ewell: ok now we have Jim.
Me: Wait there's another one??

Ewell: No, we just have Jim now.

Me: But we just finished Jamie, did they assign another one?

Ewell: What are you talking about we're just going to Jim 

Me: WHO'S JIM????

Ewell: Lol noooo not Jim, GYM! You know like exercise gym!

XD I was so confused I thought we had another investigator to teach lol 

Well, I love you all. Keep my bed warm for me Jaxon! 

Sister Standing

PICTURES

2/27/14

To Mom and family and all others that mom is going to spam this letter to,

Well here I am! Writing missionary letters.....weird! So the MTC actually isn't as deathly hard as I expected it to be. It's doesn't feel like jail except when we have 8 hours of class in one day lol. Yesterday the first thing we did was we had practice lessons where all the new missionaries of this week were put into three classrooms with the investigator sitting in their "home" up front. It was really difficult to follow because everyone had so many different ideas and they were throwing the topics left and right bombarding the investigators with questions. I think if I were the investigator I would have ran out of the room like Napoleon Dynamite all freaked out. One of them got offended by something a sister said and it was so tense in the room everyone just froze and it got really awkwardly quiet. My first companion is Sister Ewell (pronounced like you'll) she is pretty chill, she's from American Fork (like 10 minutes from here). The other companions of my district are Sister Brinker Sister Dickson Brother Jenson and Brother Rolley. The first night in my residence it was dead silent the entire night from when we got back at 9:30 until the next morning. It was kind of hard going through that day with the introduction to different investigators and just the new mission life and then having to sit on my bunk with all these other awkward sisters in dead silence and just soak it all in. I tried talking a bit but they're all pretty reserved so we just did our things and went to bed quietly. That first dinner on the other hand, that was so fun. We met these sisters from Tonga and they were so funny. They had never heard someone speak Spanish before and they thought it was hilarious how you had to use your tongue so much like rolling the Rs and all that, they kept laughing and imitating Spanish (like in the beginning of the movie Despicable Me when the minions are making fun of the bubbles in the water tank) it was kind of like that x) ....I had to pause this letter to help the Tongan sister get Doritos out of a vending machine lol. So today (Friday) Sister Ewell and I have out first lesson with Anna. I know it's just practice but I'm still nervous. We aren't allowed to say guys here. Like hey guys, thanks you guys. We have to say hey sisters and elders. It's actually harder than you think because we say guys so much! We got to meet out Mission President and his counselors last night, they were all pretty funny. His first counselor loved that I did auto shop in high school like he was all proud of me for being more manly than the other elders in my district lol. Kylie I haven't gotten your letter yet but I did however get a letter saying "you were listed as one who has had a previous medical/emotional challenge" like I need special attention because they think I'm going to go all psycho or something x) The real mail doesn't come until later tonight so maybe I'll get something later. Why don't seagulls fly over the bay? ..... Because then they would be called Baygulls! (bagel) I learned that one yesterday lol Well love you lots, I miss you all, especially Jaxon coming and scratching on my door at 3 in the morning and Kylie sitting on my bed talking to me just so she can avoid homework, and Jade walking by with her swim suit wedgie making weird faces haha. I miss and love you all! Take care of mom and dad for me Jaxon!!!!!!

Sister Standing.