Monday, November 18, 2013

i never want to live anywhere that doesn't have a woodman's and isn't in the appleton 2nd ward soooo.....




looks like i'm moving to appleton!! you can all come visit me here come april. it's a lovely place. you will love it here :) :)

 

no but seriously. i love this ward too much. and woodman's is a MAGICAL land of food that i'm NOT sure i can live without. also culvers. & toms. & mostly woodmans'. #lovewisconsin #toomuch? #nevertoomuch :) :) :)

 

this week was lovely. the weeks always are. do i have to come home in april? i vote not. 

 

conversation on halloween:

 

sister k: "so when does your mission end?"

me: "NEVER!" 

"..... okay but when do you go home."

".... april :(" 

 

that's pretty much how it goes around here hahaha. :) :) so i never want to be transferred ever (story of my life) and this ward is the greatest ever. i'm pretty sure there are 4 amazing wards in wisconsin and i've served in all of them. they are the greatest. and actually i was kind of homesick on friday (i'll tell you WHY in a second!!) and of course the time comes to come home but............. i just really love wisconsin okay????????? #thingsineverthoughtidheardmyselfsay #seemyselftype #whatever :) :)

 

okay this is why i was homesick. friday at restore-land my friend p (i love my friend p! he cracks me uppp) put in an album and what was it?? THE AVETT BROTHERS. 

 

family.  i forgot how much i love this band...... those are missionary songs, right?????? 

 

jk jk. but i really love that band hahaha. i knew me and phil were true friends!!!!!!!!!

 

so that made me a bit homesick. and other stuff probably. but i am still happy :) :) :) one year!! so crazy. i love you, family! why do we always end letters with love, instead of starting them that way? #ponderthat.

 

okay i'm a weirdo. what else is new............ oh, my sincere apologies to everyone i've neglected to write back over the past like..... month or 3 hahaha. i'm working on it!!!!!!! i've resolved to write SO many letters today so hopefully i will get one to you soon and just know that letters light up my life :) :)

 

okay. in other news, zone conference! was wonderful :) highlights --- a testimony from a member who joined as an adult several years ago. um can you say spiritual overload?? yes i can. notes: -- no other book has the same promise as the Book of Mormon (moroni 10:3-5). -- our commission is to PREACH. (mark 16:15) not convert or anything else. -- no one you ever talk to is not a beneficiary of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. -- i know that the Book of Mormon has changed your life.

 

family, have i already talked about how amazing the Book of Mormon is?? i have?? well here it comes again.......... I DIDN'T KNOW all the things that i know that have changed my life and shaped me and helped me to be happy come from the Book of Mormon!!! i thought people just knew that........... oooohhh family. oh how everybody needs this book at the truth it contains!!!!!!! let's share it, okay? :) :) challenge: find a doctrine in the Book of Mormon that has changed your life. and then share it with me :) :) :)

 

other thing that is true that i knew but it just clicked this week how simple & perfect it is:

 

God loves us perfectly, so He wants what's best for us. God has all wisdom, so He knows what's best for us. and God has all power, so He can make all things work together for our good...... if we let Him :) :) :) so awesome, right??? love that :) :)

 

an update on my friends: sister m is doing AWESOME and has probably the best home teachers of all time. so what else is new with this ward.......... of course they're awesome. brother d (her home teacher who sent his kids to help her friend move which of course they did even though it was their vacation time and it was like... a sketchy house way out in kaukauna hahaha) is TEXTING her EVERY NIGHT to follow up on how her Book of Mormon reading is going & how her addiction recovery is going.

 

THAT is true home teaching my friends!!! that is more than a 15 minute visit once a month. that is being a true undershepherd. :) :) :) sooooooo good. loooooove it :) :) :) also, she's doing great. she got a blessing and is reading and it's just so so lovely :) :)

 

and K K who i love with all my heart............ CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! yesssssssss it was soooooo good to see her there :) :) :) she is reading a verse a day from the Book of Mormon (apparently there's an app for that.....) and she had an awesome job interview with time warner cable (yesss..... we practically pushed her out the door to that one haha but she went!! hooray!!) AND she went to addiction recovery on thursday. yayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! oh k. i love you with my whole heart. you remind me so much of me haha :) :) :) I JUST LOVE HER AND ALL THE HUMANS OF APPLETON PRETTY MUCH. they are the greatest........... as usual. :) :) :)

 

other news: the d are great. we had dinner there and i laughed harder than i have in a looooooong time. long time hahaha. they have two teenage boys who remind me SO MUCH of my brothers it was ridiculous & hilarious. soooooooooo fun. chuck norris jokes forever. :) :) 

 

also, we went to go talk to the beehive president about my recent convert friend named c who is a beehive...... and of course she is awesome. she's 13 and she's awesome. she's like "yeah i've been thinking about her and praying about it, and i think this would help her to feel more welcome" etc etc etc. what?????? who even are you............... the rising generation. i tell ya. so ridiculously awesome. also a c was there (she's the beehive advisor) and she is the best. as usual. as always. whatever. LOVE HER. :) :) :) so that was awesome. 

 

saturday was lovely..... we taught some cute little kiddies in the morning and decorated a CHRISTMAS tree!! :) :) :) our friend sister z had her great-grandkids over and they have not been raised in gospel-centered homes....... not at all. so we broke out my gospel art book (best present ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and flipped though the pictures of Christ and asked them what they saw and talked about it and it was sooooooooo good!!!!! i felt like this video http://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/suffer-the-little-children-to-come-unto-me?lang=eng which is a good feeling cause it's a video of Christ ;) haha. but yes. it was lovely. and i realized that sooo many people don't know what we know!! they don't know about Jesus Christ, that He lived & died & lives again for them and that He is the way to be happy!!!!!! sooooooooo we gotta tell people. so that they can tell their kids. because kids who don't know become teenagers & young adults who don't know, and i'm not sure how anybody is supposed to survive that time of life without knowing that they are a child of God who loves them.... that someone (Jesus Christ) is there for them. Someone who loves them & knows what's best & can help them. All love, all wisdom, all power. it's real!!! and kids need to know :) :) soooooo i love that. teach all the children!! we will be later this week :) :) :) wiiiiiiiiith my friends from the primary, of course :) :) and my handy-dandy picture book!! hooray!! :) :) also --- i just HAPPENED to grab a couple of cds i'd made earlier of primary songs, i literally never carry them around but i just grabbed them that morning and did i give each little boy a cd? you betcha i did :) :) take it home, feel the Spirit. boom. 

 

also, best referral ever from isaiah, age 6, after looking through the Jesus pictures. "Yeah, you can come teach my class at school this! my teacher, and all my friends!" that's the spirit :) :) :) love it.

 

also sister silva has pointed out that i used smileys and hearts instead of punctuation. 

 

this is true.   it's whatever :) :) :

 

also, something else that is true: revelation comes when we're driving in the car, not sitting in the apartment. how unfortunate...... my apartment is warmer hahaha. but this is a truth! God can't steer a parked car :) :)

 

what else is true....... oh. this is true: our neighbor listens to SAIL by awolnation very loudly at aproximately 11-11:30pm every night. it's quite enjoyable..... 

 

truth: apparently i'm referred to as a "lady" now, instead of a girl. "ask that lady" etc. #old #yearmark

 

truth: matthew 25:34-40

 

that is the scripture of yesterday <3 <3 we weren't planning on it (since when do our plans ever actually happen.......) but the P'S (who i love and want to be exactly like) came over to drop something off for us and then were like "hey we're gonna go visit this member in the hospital, wanna come?" um obviously yes. so we did. and oh, family. it was so spiritual. soooo touching. so sacred. i'll just tell you the gist of it.... basically, we brought him church. 

 

1) i am so grateful for mom & dad forcing/encouraging us to sing all the hymns and learn to play the piano.

 

we went and chatted a bit, asked him how he's doing, sang a few hymns, and then his home teachers showed up (one of who is recent convert j k who.... you guessed it..... I LOVE) and they brought him the sacrament. and we sang the sacrament hymn of the day, "I stand all amazed" and he just cried and cried. and then brother k knelt and blessed the sacrament just for him. and it was like i'd never heard the sacrament prayers before. oh. my goodness. i can't even describe it. i wish i could. 3 ne 17:17. anyways..... it was glorious. and then we sang some more hymns. and had a prayer. and it was beautiful.

 

and then brother p was like "did you gals sing with the mormon tabernacle choir before your mission?? let's go sing to some more people!!" so we got the zone leaders permission and we just went hymn-caroling to people all afternoon long. AND IT WAS GLORIOUS. oh my friends. how the gospel blesses lives :) :) :) i. love. people. i love faithful people who have such a long rich life full of faith :) :) :) it inspires me. the p are amazing, seriously. he has the best smile of my life and i need a picture of it before i get transferred. married for 43 years, sealed for 40. introduced to the church by a co-worker :) :) :) LOVE IT.

 

 

so that's pretty much been the week!! i don't ever want to leave appleton...... i've had that musical about gethsemane, "the garden" stuck in my head all week and i really want to listen to it..... and i love church! and i love the gospel!! and it's making me & all my friends here so so happy!! sooooooooo......... let's share it with everyone :) :) k? k :) :) :)

 

i love this missionary life

 

i love all of you

 

i love appleland

 

i love the Book of Mormon

 

i love temples (i want to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

 

i love the plan of salvation

 

oh!!! i taught a lesson almost all in spanish on friday. well i didn't really teach in spanish. i tried. we brought a member who speaks spanish haha and i used all my spanish words and then just testified in english. but i understood like 65% of what was going on!! hooray!! :) :) :) so that was fun :) :) 

 

but anyways yes. the gospel maketh me happy :) :) :) 

 

i. love. this. life.

 

 

& i love you so so much :) :) hooray for Jesus Christ & His restored gospel!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) 

 

 

love love love              sister cece proffit :) :)   xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

 

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wow sorry that is like... the world's longest novel haha :) :) 

 

xoxo

 

also, i'd like to issue a formal apology for the ATROCIOUS spelling & grammar in my letters as of late. i just get really excited??? it's embarrassing...... whatever :) :)

 


ALSO -- we're teaching this friend of mine in spanish (do i speak spanish?? nope! whatever, not a problem) and she texted us alllll in spanish about why she didn't come to church and i'm so confused and i'm busting out the spanish-english dictionary we have but there's so many typos and conjugations that i don't know so all i basically get is "plums" ........... so i fwd the text to a spanish-speaking member who says "I am not making this up!! She says she drank too much prune juice last night and it hit her hard this morning. lol!!" hahhahaa. i love members? yes i do. :) :) :) HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK!!! beware mucho jugo de ciruela!! (or something.....) :) :) :)

 

 

love you so much!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

 

:) :) :)

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