Week Fo' in So-Ro

I cannot believe I'm already in week four here in my beloved outh Royalton..time needs to slow down! This past week has been pretty eye opening for me actually. I saw such a significant change in myself and it's all thanks to our exchange that we had with our sister training leaders. Y'all know (oh my gosh being with sister daughety is making me talk southern helphelphelp I didn't even mean to write that) how I feel about exchanges so you can imagine how I was feeling -.-

I left and went to Northfield for a day with Sister Petersen. I was pretty nervous about this because she's 28, she's been out for about 15 months, and she was just an incredible missionary. The intimidation I had going into this was so real...but I learned so much from her during that exchange. I can't exactly pinpoint what it was specifically, but she made me want to become better. With every single thing she did, she did it by the spirit. She didn't plan lessons beforehand, she would just go in with full confidence that eventually she will figure out what that person needs to hear. And it always worked! It was scary for me because I'm used to having a plan before I teach someone..and now I'm being thrown into people's houses I've never met before, and I had to think of things on the spot.

Thanks to some panicked prayers in my heart, I was able to pull it off and I knew the Holy Ghost was putting words into my mouth and thoughts in my mind right at the times I needed it most. I've always struggled with recognizing the spirit and discerning it between that and my own thoughts. Seeing her faith and her surety of her spiritual promptings, it made me want to refine my own abilities to recognize the spirit. Maybe exchanges aren't so terrible after all!

I was able to do my favorite thing at the Joseph Smith Memorial this past week...RAKING. I don't know why but I seriously love raking. It's a good thing I live in a land of trees and trees and more trees. There were inches of layered leaves ALL over the grounds at the JSM and we were able to help clear them up. It was super fun at first, but the leaves were wet and since it was such a thick layer, it was heavy to constantly be raking them. After a couple hours of doing it, I think I'm going to be sore for the rest of my life. but when we were done, we had a massive pile of leaves and sister daughter and I jumped in them and we couldn't stop laughing! Two senior sisters came down to pick us up in their cool gator thing and they said they could hear us laughing from clear up the hill..woops. Haha!

I also got my first official tour through it last Monday too which was AMAZING. I learned so much about the history of Joseph Smith and I still can't believe I'm serving in his literal birthplace. He only lived here for a couple of years before be moved to New Hampshire and then New York, but it's neat to see the outlined property of his house and the actual front step that he had as well as the actual hearth stone that he had for his fireplace. The spirit was so strong as I listened to stories in detail about his leg surgery, his children with Emma, the first vision, his martyrdom, etc.

There was a point where I had to keep myself from being emotional because the spirit was so strong. Because of Joseph Smith, I'm serving a mission. Because of him, we're able to read the Book of Mormon and come closer to the savior as we read it. Because of him, we have the priesthood and a church to attend each week and we have so many different things just because he prayed and asked a simple question. My testimony of Joseph Smith tripled in size after that tour and I couldn't be more thankful for that.

On exchanges we went and contacted a less active in their ward. Sister Petersen hadn't ever met her so this was the first time for both of us. We finally find this house after some long searching and it was up this huge hill in the trees (which is normal for people here in New England). So we knock on the door and this tiny old woman comes to answer it. We introduce ourselves and she just stares at us. She is silent as we stand there awkwardly waiting for her to respond...still nothing. She leans in close and says "WHAT?" She's completely deaf. We had to lean into her ear and yell everything in order to communicate!! She kindly let us in once she found out what was going on. Across the room was an even tinier old woman on her bed who looked completely frail and ready to roll over in her grave. She yelled to us to come in and sit down so we did. The lady that answered the door was named Virginia and the lady on the bed was named Madilyn.

Madilyn: (to sister peterson) "where are you from?"
Sister Petersen: "Kansas!"
Madilyn: "oh Montpellier! I just love Montpellier"

And that right there is just about how every conversation we had with them was like. It was SO funny. Virginia was nearly deaf but could see fairly well and her mom Madilyn was nearly blind but could hear better than her daughter..she's also 103!! They talked about doing the dishes and how they had to use their hands to tell if they were clean or not...so gross.

Then sister Petersen had this bright idea to sing a hymn to them. Excuse me....Brianne doesn't sing. The only thing getting me to do it was the fact that they most likely couldn't hear me anyway. After we sang I Stand All Amazed, the mom wouldn't stop telling me how amazing I am at singing... ?!?!?!?! I am absolutely sure she was hearing sister Petersen though because she sounded like a professional singer. She told me I was so good and it was just too funny because in reality I sound like a dying elephant :')

GOOD NEWS! We have a baptismal date with Stewart!!!!!!!! He's doing so stinkin great with avoiding smoking and drinking and he loves reading the book of mormon and he got himself a ride to church this Sunday and gosh I'm so excited for him! He's our little miracle he is planning on being baptized on November 28. YAY :)

Then there's our other investigator Jay...we went and helped him move his dryer down some steep stairs at his house because he's been having bad health issues. After that we just talked with him and his wife for a while and he thought it would be hilarious to make me try some sort of hot sauce. Him and sister daughety convinced me it's not that hot and dumb little me believed them. My mouth has never been in more pain in its life. I've officially felt that fire sensation in the saying "my mouth is on fire"! I started sweating and they were laughing so hard at me and I drank about 2 cups of milk and 29282 cups of water. Absolutely nothing was working. EVERYTHING burned and it was a burn that stung like crazy! I don't think I will ever recover from that. Just thought y'all should know..haha maybe one day I'll get revenge on Jay.

Our mission has a new policy where we aren't allowed to take pictures with our iPads during proselyting time because we "aren't supposed to look like tourists." sooooo sorry if there's a lack of pictures every week :( sorry! I'll do my best.

The leaves are nearly all off the trees so fall is almost over..ugh. The weather is getting colder and colder but at least it hasn't snowed since last Sunday! Cross your fingers that the snow holds back until at least the end of November...Okay well I hope everyone has an amazing week!!!! And happy Halloween!!!

This is in my favorite town of Woodstock

Does everyone remember my first lobster experience in Maine? Someone finally sent this to me LOOK AT IT IM SO EMBARRASSING.

I still love my footie pajamas obviously

Went on splits for the first time on my mission with Sister Edwards! She's a senior sister missionary and I love her to death. We got lost in the boonies without service so no GPS or phone was working so we had to stop at some random house to ask where on earth we were...

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ITS SNOWING. WHAT. WHY. NO. Yesterday we had our first drastic snowfall . People here told me it doesn't start snowing until at least the end of November or in December. It's worse in different areas but where I live it's just a layer of death. It didn't really snow until yesterday during church but it was duuuumping. One of our investigators asked us to come do some yard work the other day since he's sick. While we were dragging giant branches and sticks through his yard, it starts hailing and raining..actually it was more like sleet. IT WAS SO COLD. They're all saying its a bad sign that winter here is going to last about 8 months and their winters are brutal. Please pray for me.

Oh my gosh the most embarrassing thing happened...sister daughety and I were in for the night so we had our cheetah footie pajamas on and we were just laying in bed putting in information about former investigators into our Area Book Planner app. All of a sudden we hear a knock at our door and we immediately think it's our 80 year old neighbor Pat probably bringing us some more puzzles. We realize what we are wearing as we are standing at the door but we just didn't care because Pat loves us anyway. We open the door and sure enough, it's a college guy that lived above us. 

Ha...hahaha...haha..so we hide behind the door and crane our necks so he can't see us and he asks us for a big pot for his pasta or something. I'm laughing behind sister daughety at this whole situation so I turn around and go into the kitchen to escape the awkward mess and then I'm called back to the door to hold the door open so sister daughtey can go look for the specific pan. Hiiiii so now it's just me and Mr. College and my cheetah footie pajamas. He could hardly speak English so I couldn't understand what he was saying which was also interesting. Sister daughtey comes back and she again hides behind me/the door and shows this poor guy the only pan we have which ended up not being the size he needed. Thankfully he finally left and sister daughtey and I were just soaking in our own embarrassment...so we made ourselves a bowl of ice cream to get over it. #missionarylife 

I was able to serve at the Joseph Smith Memorial again this week! That's always the highlight for me. We weeded around the buildings and I got to rake some leaves which for some reason is one of my favorite things to do. During lunch, one of the senior missionaries that serve there, Elder Ence, brought us up Patriarch Hill and holy cow...it is BEAUTIFUL. It looks over all the hills and you can see the monument which looks tiny from where you are. I'll post a picture, don't worry. But I also saw Joseph smiths grandpa's house/property which was way cool! I haven't been able to take a full tour of the memorial yet but hopefully I can later today since its P-Day. 

Wanna hear some miracles? We have an investigator named Stewart who's been quite golden so far. He's been very prepared and he's progressing pretty well. At first he thought we worshipped some sort of Holy Zombie or something so he's been fairly shocked to see what we actually believeSmiling face with open mouth and cold sweat but he is so receptive to everything we teach and he's loved the Book of Mormon so far. He's taken a tour of the JSM and he watched a part of general conference and he went to stake conference last week AND him and his wife/ex wife (they're divorced but living together) came to church yesterday. 

He's been working on quitting smoking and drinking so that's his biggest challenge that's getting in the way of baptism. It was testimony meeting and a lady from the ward went up and talked about obedience. He told us he loved it because it reminded him of how important it is to be obedient with the word of wisdom no matter how difficult it is. Then in the next class called Gospel Principles, the lesson was all about the word of wisdom. He couldn't believe how inspired everything was and he knew that the testimony and the lesson was just for him. The spirit is so cool :) he now wants to be baptized so bad and his wife/ex wife that wasn't interested before is now agreeing to read the Book of Mormon and she took a gospel principles book. We were talking to her after class and she said that she's been praying for something like this for about 30 years. Blessings everywhere...I'm tellin ya! 

I went to the cutest town in the USA and that's not even a joke..it was literally voted the cutest town in America and I am able to have a say in that. It's called Woodstock and AHH it's adorable and I never wanted to leaveSmiling face with heart-shaped eyes it was perfect and I want to live there for the rest of my life. 

Lately I've been having a hard time focusing my desires on missionary work rather than things like music, family, friends, etc. But I was reading and I came to Alma 29:6 which hit me like a ton of bricks. It says, "why should I desire more than to perform the work to which I have been called?" Alma too was desiring more than what he's been called to do as a missionary. It's so hard to put all your thoughts and desires into this calling but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. This is a sacred calling that I'll never get back. It's such a short time and I cannot take advantage of it. I've seen through my own prayer and fasting lately that my desires are starting to change and correct itself which is such a miracle for me. I love being a missionary and I am so blessed to wear that name tag every day and represent Him. Anyway, here are some pictures!!! Have a good week :)

Here we are today on our way to breakfast with Brother Sypher!

Just a typical road in Vermont!

The footie pajamas my mom sent us :)

#mylife

Driving around the memorial in our fashionable JSM service clothes :)

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3 Words

I...am...blessed.

I become more and more amazed at the love Heavenly Father has for me! I've been transferred to South Royalton, Vermont and I've never seen anything so beautiful in my life. There are rolling hills filled with fall colored trees everywhere I look, it's the home of the Joseph Smith Memorial, and it's the area where Sister Crook just barely was serving from before she trained me in Maine. She would talk about South Royalton 24 hours a day about how much she loved it and how much she missed it and now I'm here!! My companion is Sister Daughety and she's from North Carolina. She's way fun and she has such a cute southern accent :)

The members in this ward are incredible with their willingness to help the missionaries in any way they can and they're very welcoming to me. I don't even feel worthy to serve in such an area..this is a missionary's dream in this mission!

To add on to my awesome life right now, I have the opportunity to serve at the actual Joseph Smith Memorial twice a week. We are able to help put up Christmas lights and plant flowers and I painted two black poles that hang in the bridge that they have. OH, and remember my love for old people? Senior couple missionaries serve at the JSM so I'm around them all the time and they love us so much! They're so dang cute and so funny :) if I'm still here during Christmas time, cross your fingers, I'll be able to give tours to people in the memorial!! There is such an amazing spirit there that I can't even describe and I never ever ever ever ever EVER want to leave.

It was suuuuuch a busy week though. A recent convert and a member of the ward got married so we were helping out with setting up and stuff throughout the week, there was a baptism (not a convert, she turned 8), member meals, meeting new people and trying to remember names, weekly planning, served at a thrift shop, rehearsal dinner for the wedding, zone interviews, and teaching investigators/less actives, and stake conference. I'm so exhausted physically and spiritually and emotionally but hey, I'm in South Royalton, Vermont.

Stories...we went and visited am elderly member in the ward named Sister Pease who can't leave her house due to her health and stuff. She's the sweetest lady ever! And she lives above a barn so all during the lesson we could hear the cows mooing like crazy which was pretty interesting..she told us her conversion story and I just love hearing about the lords hand in other people's lives. It's such a testimony builder to me!

I met THE Brother Sypher!! If sister crook could see me now...her and Brother Sypher were so incredibly close when she was here. He's an older man with a nice white beard that he's super proud of and he's so funny. Sister Crook and her old companion sister Mulford (that I just replaced here) got really close to him because they basically saved his son Kenny's life. Sister Crook would talk about Kenny and Brother Sypher all..the..time..and I can't believe I've met Brother Sypher in real life. He's always been a figure of my imagination since I've heard so many stories about him and it was like meeting a celebrity when I saw him! 

He's heard plenty about me through emails from sister crook (her mom would forward him her group emails) so we both knew each other really well without officially meeting. I don't know, the whole situation is weird but apparently Brother Sypher had a dream the night before I was transferred that I would be coming. He said he started crying when we texted him and told him that I took sister mulford's place. We immediately hit it off when we met and I sent him some pictures and videos of sister crook and I because he missed her so much. 

The next day when we were at the wedding rehearsal dinner he told me that he considered both sister crook and sister Mulford his "angels" and both of his angels have left him. Then he pulled out his phone and showed me a picture I sent him of sister crook and I the night before I left at the table at brother smith's house when they threw that going away party for me. I have 2 of them so I don't know what one I sent you guys last week but one of them show a very distinct looking halo above my head from a light outside behind me. "When they took out sister Mulford, I was devastated because that was me saying goodbye to both of my angels...but look what he sent me instead because he knew I was struggling." I started crying because I knew how much he loved those sisters and in reality, I did kind of feel bad for taking their place since they were all so close but him sharing that with me and loving me right off the bat helped both of us. God works in the most wonderful way.

Did I mention my surroundings are absolutely beautiful? The fall time is absolutely my favorite. Everything is either apple crisp for dessert or something that involves pumpkin. Pumpkin ice cream, pie, shakes, and candles. Everything here in Vermont is pumpkin spice and everything nice. ;) #poetry

Something not so great happened after the baptism...the old bishop came up and called me Sister Scar while looking at my cleft lip. At the same time, I had a 9 year old girl all up in my face staring directly at my scar on my lip, not knowing that the old bishop just brought it up. She started saying things about it, but I just decided to turn away and talked to my companion and Brother Sypher instead. I don't know why, but it really bothered me and I just wanted to cry because that hadn't happened before since leaving home. It didn't even happen at home! Then come along 2 people that happened to bring it up very rudely and made me so uncomfortable. Ugh. Good thing the rest of the ward is stinkin cool. As a lesson to you all, never point out something obvious like that to someone. They obviously know it's there and more likely than not, they're self conscious about it so just let it be. Thaaaaanks. 

On a higher note, we had zone interviews so I got to sit and talk with President Stoker one on one for the second time since I've been out. As I was sitting there with him, I came to realize how much I'd actually grown since my last interview. He even brought it up and told me that himself! He told me I look a lot more confident and I have a glow about me and there's a distinct light in my eye. My first interview...I was really struggling and I was really quiet and unsure of myself. Even an elder I came out with pointed out how much more different I am now than when we first came out. I've seen it too..I'm a lot happier and I smile a lot more and I have the spirit with me more because I'm choosing to be happy. I guess that leads me to the quote my mom sent me this week which happened to be completely inspired..

"As you draw nearer to the Lord, He will guide you to become the best version of yourself."

Being a missionary has completely molded me to a different person and I'm just incredibly happy. There is no other word to describe myself or my mission right now.

Sister Daughety and I :) 

J-S-M! J-S-M! J-S-M!

My mom sent me a package full of Halloween decorations and candy and pumpkin carving kits!

There was also a Halloween pillowcase and those purple lights that we decided to put in our room!

Having to say goodbye to my Crookie..................

The rolling hills....they're everywhere!

BROTHER SYPHER

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Buh-Bye Bath

From the title of this email...you could probably guess the outcome of transfer calls. I am In fact being transferred out of Bath :( I'm currently in a depressed state at the thought of having to leave sister crook..i don't know the area I'm moving to yet until tomorrow when I'm at transfer meeting but I know I'll be junior companion.

Sister Crook is staying here and training another missionary. Thiswill be her fourth!! I'm seriously going to miss it here so much. I've fallen in love with the people here and it will be hard to say goodbye. It'll be weird to have to basically start all over again. New companion, new area, new ward, etc. but it'll be a brand new chapter in my mission. I can't wait to see what this next adventure brings :)

Let's see...what happened this week...oh, I went on exchanges! I was in a trio (three people in a companionship) and I was in Yarmouth/Portland which is such a beautiful area. The houses there are so nice and big..it was crazy! I told one of the ladies I met that she's going to decorate my future house because hers was just....wow. I stacked wood all day at another ladies house in Portland which was actually pretty fun! It was nice to get out of a dress and get dirty for once.

The two sisters I was with have been out for 16-17 months so they were verryyyyy experienced with everything. I just hit my 3 month mark a couple days ago so it was hard to not compare myself to them and feel like I'll never reach that skill point. They were pretty dang close to perfect missionaries which was intimidating to me. After some mighty prayer, I have come to the conclusion that everyone is their own missionary. We all have different skill sets and maybe I have qualities that they don't have and they have some that I don't have. Heavenly Father created all of us differently and He trusts all of us individually to share His gospel the best way that we can. It's useless to compare yourself to others because that'll just bring you down, trust me. Point out your strengths and your blessings, not your weaknesses and your challenges.

I helped the first lady I ever street contacted on my mission the other day move out of her house. She's the one that's a part of the Methodist religion and we met her the first day in Bath. We've stayed in contact with her ever since and she's now moving to New York so she asked if we would help her move out. She absolutely loves us..she would cry while thanking us and she took a picture of us so that we would never be forgotten. She tried to offer us money or a donation to the church but of course we told her that we do everything voluntarily and as a service opportunity..she couldn't believe it. She said she has an entirely different view of the Mormon religion ever since sister crook and I have lived here because of the way we treat her and everything. Moral of the story: SERVE. Our simple service to Sharon changed her view of this church. Now whenever she thinks of our religion, it'll have a good light on it which isn't common for a lot of people here. We aren't a very loved religion...but as we take the time to serve others, it'll show that we are a very service-oriented people and it'll soften other people's hearts.

Ahhhhh general conference!!! I've never been so excited for something in my life. I was counting down the hours..and now it's over. :( but it was SO GOOD. As I was watching it, my cheeks started hurting and I realized that I had been smiling for who knows how long...I couldn't help it! I love listening to the words of our prophet and the apostles. Now they just need to load them all onto the gospel library so I can read them back over a couple thousand more times.

We taught Steven and Yulia the law of chastity finally...and it went alright. They weren't too happy about what they had to stop but hopefully the Lord will ease those concerns. Our bishop said that he could marry them if they wanted and they seemed excited about that! Its too bad I won't be here for it though :( the struggle is real.

Brother Smith (my ward mission leader if you guys remember the pictures I sent of him before) threw me a goodbye party last night after coordination meeting which was so nice of him. I'm absolutely going to miss him and Sister Smith the most. She gave me a present and a card that she told me I can't open until I'm in my new area. Brother Smith made me promise that I'll come back after my mission so that he can give me a hug and take me "kayakin" :) that was not a hard promise to make!!

Out of all the talks..it's hard to pick a favorite. They were all so unique and so good...but I really loved President Uchtdorf's talk at the very beginning about the simplicity of this gospel. We cannot make our discipleship complicated. Sometimes we take the simple truth and add on layers and layers of man-made expectations. Each one might be helpful, but when laid on top of each other, they can create a mountain so heavy that we risk losing sight of the gospel we once loved so dearly.

We have to protect the gospel in its purity and plainness. All of us as members need to make an effort to devote our time and energy to things that TRULY MATTER. If you think the gospel isn't working well for you, step back and look at your life from a higher plane. Focus on the BASIC principles and doctrines of the gospel and God will bless you and guide you. Start where you are. We feel upset because we aren't more of something. More spiritual, more respected, more friendly, more wealthy, more hopeful. There's nothing wrong with wanting to improve, that's what we are down here on earth for. But remember, Satan uses our weaknesses to the point where we become discouraged for even trying. We don't have to be more of anything to become the person God intended us to become. All we need is a willing heart and a desire to believe and trust in the lord. (All of that was taken from the talk so don't think I'm all great and wise)

I JUST LOVE GENERAL CONFERENCE. I thought of so many of you at home while listening, knowing that specific talks were for specific people. The prophet and his apostles are truly inspired and they are given direct revelation from our Heavenly Father. So many of the talks brought up the same topics which only means that we all need to improve in some way. I want to hear everyone's favorite talk so don't be afraid to email me back and tell me! I'll let you all know where I'm headed and my new address. Have a woooooonderful week!

Shoutout to my mom for the super wicked awesome purple pajamas in the mail!!

Brother Smith insisted that I tried on his HUGE boots :)

The trio I was in :)

Sister Crook and I splurged after we found out about the transfer call...

Sister Crook secretly took this of me and Dotty (our ex-investigator) as I was showing Dotty a picture of my family LOOK AT HOW HAPPY I LOOK

Brother and Sister Smith threw me a goodbye party and gave me a present and I really just love them and I'm going to miss their stinkin guts...

The elders that we served with in our ward, Brother Smith, Sister Crook, and I :)

Here's Sister Crook and I's "I love you to infinity" symbol that we do to each other :( :( :(

APPLE ORCHARDS ARE BEAUTIFUL

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Mish-un-ary

I'm officially on the last week of my 12-week training!!! *crowd goes wild* That means that transfer calls come this saturday...my second transfer. What. Time is truly flying by! Sister Crook and I have a dreadful feeling that one of us is leaving. We are absolutely terrified because we are finally starting to get completely comfortable witheverything here in our cute area of Bath. But, that's exactly the time where the Lord transfers you out because you're getting too comfortable. Sigh. I hope I stay here because I'm not ready to leave this awesome ward quite yet..ill keep you all posted!

I can't even remember what I did this week..time isn't even a thing anymore. Days blend together in a way where I can't even explain it! Other missionaries would understand, sorry ;) but anyway, we got an investigator to church yesterday! It was Maurice and he said that he liked it and he wants to watch conference next week which is SO good. I gave my talk in sacrament meeting about hope as well which went great! I was definitely nervous, but prayer is a powerful thing and I was able to give my talk without any trouble. It was scary to give it as an investigator was sitting there watching me but he said I did great!

You will never believe this...but I went 4 DAYS this week with no makeup. I've decided that I don't need it especially since I'm probably the only person here who wears it in New England. Everyone just goes all natural all the time so why not just try to fit in with them? It is SO unlike me..I never went out in public or even around my house most of the time without makeup on and now I'm going around all day to appointments and stuff without it. I haven't been shot for looking like a wild animal yet so I think I'll keep the streak going.

Sister Crook and I are deciding to start a diet today. We just got back from Walmart and we got all sorts of fruits and healthy foods...PRAY FOR ME. Dieting is my least favorite thing to do but the members feed us way too much so we are trying to watch what we eat in our apartment the best we can starting today. Yikes.

I also got my winter clothes today!!!! The weather is drastically getting lower and lower and everyone is warning us to start dressing warmer because any day now it's going to get worse. It's a good thing my companion has already survived a winter out here so she helped me know what to buy. Winter in the east coast is going to kill me sooooo it was nice knowing all of you!!

WOMEN'S CONFERENCE was so great!! Our ward held a pie social before it started and all the missionary moms shared an update on their sons/daughters on missions. It was so interesting to hear some of their emails and hear how they're doing in their missions across the world as I'm serving one just like them. I couldn't help but think of my mom and what she would say about me to the ward. All good things, all good things.. ;)

My favorite line in the conference was "you cannot play with Satan's fiery darts without getting burned." This holds true to 100% of us 100% of the time. You cannot dance around the standards and commandments of this church. You cannot do things you know you shouldn't, and not expect any consequences. There are many things that can represent a fiery dart of satan..whether it's your use of technology, gossiping, word of wisdom things, etc. DO NOT mess around with it and expect to come out clean and unharmed. Heavenly Father is very aware of us and our desires. We should have the desire to serve Him and do everything in our power to please Him. Playing with "satan's fiery darts" is not accomplishing that.

I'm so sorry that this email is so boring..I really don't know what to talk about! But just know that I'm doing fantastic and I've been very blessed since coming out here. I love my companion, this ward, and this area. I know that I'm supposed to be here at this specific time and I know that serving a mission is the very best thing I could be doing right now for myself, for my family, and for the people I meet here. I love being a missionary❤️ have a great week!!!!!!

We found "Tim's Bench" on our 6 mile walk a couple days ago aaaaaaand I had to get a picture :)

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