Hola my dearest familia!                              Part of an email 10-1-12

 I LOVE BEING ON A MISSION! :)

 Sooo glad Leah and mom were able to attend the Women’s Conference together. We were not able to watch it because we were serving at the VC :/ ...we miss out on those kinds of things. We also will miss out on part of General Conference because president says we are to be working on those who don’t have testimonies rather than working on our own. He is very passionate about missionary work!! :)

So this week was fuullll of lovely things!

 On Monday we met with the Feesago family again and they invited us over for dinner. We were kind of worried because they wanted to talk to us about something...we had no idea! We got there and it was pretty normal and all of the sudden they said... "So it’s time!" ...we were thinking time for what?? They pulled out this piece of paper and said we planned our baptisms! We want to be baptized Oct 13th! Is that okay for you girls?  IS THAT OKAY!? Uuuuh yesssss! We are so excited for this family. We are still working with the mom, but we are planning on her being baptized that day as well with her sons. We will have 4 baptisms that day if all works out. :)

I had some interesting interaction with people as I have served at Brigham’s this week. I went almost every day. It was busy! I met people from all over the world and as I taught them I realized how hard it would be if I didn’t know anything about the church like them. I realized how lucky I am to know the things I do. I loved being able to teach them about Brigham Young and the church.

On Thurs... We taught Hannah again....she is getting closer and closer to baptism each time we teach her. This week we talked to her about the commandments. I got to teach her the lesson this time and I used a really cool analogy, sometimes we think of the commandments as a burden or something that keeps us held back but really they are there to help us. Think of a kite. A kite has to have a string to help it fly around and stay in the sky...right? We know that if we cut the string the kite will crash to the ground. Think of yourself as a kite. We need something in our life to keep us up and help stable us..right?  That is exactly what the commandments are. They are our string. Commandment have been given to us by God because he knew this life would be hard...we needed something to help make it a little easier. I hope you can think about this. What would life be like if we didn’t have rules? Would we really be free??

Friday was the best day so far!! So Thursday we had to eat at the Church because we didn’t have a dinner date with members... some other members found us and was so mad we were eating PB&Js. They invited us for dinner for Thurs. So Thursday rolls around and we go over for dinner. They didn’t prepare anything to eat they surprised us and wanted to take us out to eat... it was kind of a hassle because of schedules, but in the end it worked out and we eat and had a great time. As we were leaving we were behind this car... the lady was waving her hands so we thought she wanted us to go around her. As we started to drive around her she jumps out of her and starts yelling at us! She then goes us up to the members car and yells at the husband "CAN YOU PUSH MY CAR ACROSS THE STREET!" ... these dumb brods are too stupid to do anything...she was bashing us hard-core. Sister Tornar and I were so confused! We were like what did we do?  I was appalled at the names she was calling us. Sister Tornar didn’t know what any of them meant so she was super confused!  The member stepped back and said whoa! Actually these are my friends I just had dinner with. I could help you if you calm down! He was so mad at what she was calling us. She jumped back in her car and just sat there. So Bro. Woolley started to push the car... he couldn’t do it by himself, the car was huge and it was stuck in the groove of the street. Sooooo Sister Tornar and I jumped behind the car (IN OUR SKIRTS) and helped Bro Woolley push this car across this busy street. We had no choice but to push her out in the middle of traffic...we had cars slamming on their brakes and inches away from hitting us. It was pretty scary, but all we could do was laugh and laugh while we were pushing. We finally got her across this street and turned around and people were laughing because we were in skirts. The lady never got out of her car to talk to us. She was so embarrassed as to the way she acted. WE never really understood what was wrong with her but Sister Tornar walked away and said I’m so glad we helped her...I think we acted very Christ like with a huge grin. I was laughing soooo hard I couldn’t breathe! We thought about that for the rest of the night. We said "we wish more things like that happened to us..That was fun!" hahaha I hope that someday she sees missionaries again and ends up talking to them :) She could really use some happiness in her life :)

This week I got to go on many companion exchanges- So I got to go out in my area and teach with another Sister. I went on 3 different ones this week. It was such a great experience to be able to learn from other Sisters :)

Well this week has been full of laughter and crazy moments. I love it here!! Sister Tornar goes home in 3 weeks....we can’t believe its October already!!! I feel like it should be Feb still...where has my life gone all this time! I still can’t believe I am on a mission! I am learning so much here and really growing. Life is so full of complicated things, but really there is only one important thing, our Heavenly Father! Putting him in front of everything is the only thing that is going to help get us through this test we are trying to take.  I know that as you read your scriptures and attend church with the mindset that you’re going to learn something... your mind will be opened to so many great things. Try attending church with the Idea "today I am going to receive revelation"...go to church with life questions in mind... you will be answered. Enjoy church, love church. I wish I was able to attend it more often.

Thank you for your ultimate love and support :) Love you all...think about you often!

 Well I think that’s all for now...

Tell Paula I got her card :)

 Mom... I love you like a Dinosaur loves meat!

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