Monday, July 8, 2013

hola familia!



i have titled this email thus because we just got back from the mexican store. and i wish i spoke mexican :)

SOOOOOO this week was pretty fatastic! we played prophets charades with this cute mexican family... it's pretty funny when all the kids know about the stories is what you just told them hahaha i***** did a gigantic belly flop for hers..... any guesses?? no??? OBVIOUSLY it's Jonah being spit out of the whale! hahahaha she kills me :) :) AND the mother is less-active, so we've been going over there and just teaching little lessons to the kids, trying to bring the spirit, teaching them to sing the primary songs so the spirit can stay even after we leave.... and we've been going over there weekly since we got here, we found this family our first real day in green bay where we just walked around in the sun for hours. and. last tuesday. Sister m totally opened up and talked about how she believes in God and Jesus and the church and all that but she maybe doesn't feel it as much as we do? so we talked about that and helped her find the gospel library app for her phone and she was like "so where should i start? the book of mormon?" and we were like "hmmm yeah that might be good..." playing it all casual haha we were SO EXCITED!!!!!!! and then b**** and o**** came to the 4th of july picnic and bella was like "you know that app you put on my mom's phone? she's been on it every time she has a free minute at work and at home!" !!!!!!!!!! so that is p r e t t y darn exciting. totally worth walking around in the sun for 9 hours :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

also m****, our 13 year old investigator (n's sister!) is toooottally reading the book of mormon and loving it too :) :) hooray!! and we just saw their family today and finally met the mom and she's going to let the girls come to girls camp!!! hooray!!!!!! and the ward is so excited about it!! and the mom wants to come to church on sunday! hoorah!! now i just need to learn to speak hmong........... haha :) :)

other fun facts from the week: there is a sister in the ward who has had season packer tickets in the family since 1936. this is a true fact.

we alsooooooo had meet the president! and I love the Cutlers!! so so so so much :) :) :) :) :) love them. they have a huge focus on families, rescue work, and the book of mormon and i love it. they are  great teachers and leaders and i'm just so excited for the next 10 months with them!! (ps can you believe i've almost been out 8 months????????????????????????!!!) this cute senior couple bore their testimony (ps i love senior missionaries!!!!!!!) and they said the coolest, simplest thing... do you want to be closer to God? read the Book of Mormon :) kind of a neat challenge! so basic & true! :)

OH THIS ONE IS SO GOOD. attention everyone. l l, our investigator from chicago who is finna come to church, has written a rap. About what, you might ask? ABOUT ALMA THE YOUNGER. and it. is so. legit. we read it with her and then she made up a RAP on the spot about how she can relate to him and all this. it is soooooo cooooooool hahahah i'll have to make a copy of the words for you. it was so fun. i love it hahahahahahaha.

so on FRIDAY was mission leadership council, which is awesome, it's seriously so fun & cool & i just love president & sister cutler :) we carpool down with the gb & appleton zone leaders, who are great, and then we meet with all the zone leaders & sister training leaders & the assistants & president & sister cutler. and then we talk about the needs of the mission and how we can lift the mission! and it's wonderful! president cutler has SUCH a clear vision for this mission and is also really good at listening to our ideas and helping us council with each other :)he said over and over things like "teaching less-active members will help you find new investigators, but more importantly it will help you bring people back." and "it's just as important to bring someone back as it is to baptize. they have friends. we will have so many people to teach." and he kept over & over mentioning the book of mormon! it was the perfect answer to like every question hahaha when we talked about how we're struggling with progressing investigators & investigators at church, he would ask "how do you think it would make a difference if they were invited to study the book of mormon?" and we're all like uhhh that sounds good.... and then he would BOOM throw out an awesome promise - if we invite everyone to begin a serious study of the Book of Mormon, our issues with progressing investigators and sacrament meeting attendance will change dramatically. the Book of Mormon will bring repentance and will change our mission. they will WANT to come to sacrament meeting." !!! so we're all like, okay! let's do it! let's make this happen! hooray! :) :) :) and it just is really FUN! the spirit was so present and i loved it :) :) :) he also wants us to get a list of YSA's and just start texting them! he's like "you can text 100 people in the time it takes you to knock on 10 doors so......." :) :) :) also, wausau stake has a cool program called "flood the stake with the Book of Mormon," and part of it is inviting every recent convert to give a friend a Book of Mormon. and guess what? Wausau stake has 100% retention. i wish i could put numbers in all-caps. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. that is unheard of!!!!!!! and i know it's because of the Book of Mormon :) :) :) :) :) so that's awesome. also we've been going out with members to do some rescue work and it is legit! yesterday we had 4 lessons in 3 hours! miracles! :) :) :)  so basically, things are great.

scripture of the week: hebrews 13:16. because sometimes i'm really bad at communicating hahaha. :) :) also, from the cutlers: where did laman & lemuel get their joy? from their stuff. and they chose to be miserable without it. where did nephi get his joy? from the Lord :) who do you look to for approval? when we feel the Holy Ghost, we feel God's approval :) and when we read the Book of Mormon, we feel the Spirit!! :) :) :)

so that was the week! oh and we are planning the most legit ysa-rescue-work-shindig OF ALL TIME. i am seriously sooooooooooooooooooooo excited. we're calling it "bonfire" because the e***, j***, and i all agree that titles make it lame. sister erickson disagreed and wanted to call it "s'more spirit" but we outnumbered her hahahahaha. [note: that is a cute title. but perhaps not fitting for our target audience hahah] :) :) :) anyways the e***' have a seriously legit like loft-thingy and little cabin with a sweet backyard and a fire pit so we are having a bonfire shindig and everybody is going to come. booya. and we even got a budget for it. yes. this will be fantastic. i know it. i'm stoked :) :) july 28th! i'll let you know how it goes! :) :) we invited j*** because, by her own admittance, she doesn't like YSA things because they are lame. so she is our official lame-o-meter to help us make this osmething that people will actually want to come to :)

i hope you've had a fantastic week family!! i'm glad wyoming was fun!! you are the best & i love you :) :) :) i love being a missionary!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) 

love,  sister cece proffit :)  xoxoxoxoxox

request: can i have a little primary songbook? it would be soooo useful. jacob, bring one on your mission :) where will you go???????? when can you submit your papers?????????? :) :) :) :) :)

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