“to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven…”

and it appears that the season of appleton is over :( :( :( sadsadsadsadsad. cry me a river & call it the fox <3

 

okay, that was dramatic haha. :) but yes, i am leaving appleton and now is the season of kettle moraine!! which is a teeny town that no one has heard of so i just say south milwaukee or west of waukesha. 

 

i had a feeling i would be going back down south to milwaukee.... which actually gives some nice symmetry to my mission: i started in south milwaukee, went to appleton, then green bay, then back to appleton, and now back to south milwaukee, which will mostly likely be my last stop.

 

CRAZY RIGHT????????   i'm not sure how i feel about all this.  it's weird.

 

but anyways. president cutler called to tell me i was needed down there and so down there i will go. but i will leave my heart in appleton!!! just kidding i'll bring part of it with me to kettle moraine. :)

 

perks: it's close to the TEMPLE so i can go hopefully!! aaaaaaand it's south for the winter hahaha ;) not that it makes much difference....... HEY it was -1 yesterday! withOUT the windchill! wooo-hooooo!! :) :)

 

this is what is hard: it is hard to give your whole heart to somewhere/someone/something, and then to just leave it all behind.    but.    we survive :)    okay do you wanna hear about my week now?? :) :) 

 

first of all, i love my elder friends. and it's sad because i'm getting to the point where i will probably never serve around them again. but tis okay. i can make new friends right?? :) & elder beech is coming with me to mke to be the new assistant wooooooo! party :) 

 

fact: this letter is going to be all over the place. like my brain. and my life.

 

fact 2: the lady next to me is singing along with michael jackson under her breath and it is uber distracting and i don't use that word lightly hahaha

 

fact 3: okay she's gone. i had to pause my email until she stopped hahaha bc i literally could not handle it.

 

you're welcome for this peek into actual missionary life ;) #nexttimeonthedistrict  okay sorry i'm insane.

 

ANYWAYS. :) :)  so tuesday was good. zone training meeting! i love Preach My Gospel & the Book of Mormon. seriously my two most valuable earthly possessions are my mission copies of those books. i LOST my PMG temporarily and it was the worst thing ever. but they found it in oshkosh. so i'll get it back on wednesday and hug it forever and never let it leave my sight. *yay!* :) :)

 

more facts: i love appleton

 

i love the new mormon message with the guy from kid history!! :) :) http://www.mormonchannel.org/christmas-videos?v=2919740155001

 

i love it when sister silva flooded the kitchen with soap trying to do the dishes!! (pictures to follow) 

 

i loved it when i got to tutor a s on the protestant reformation!! we went to their house just to bring them some candy and a paper chain because i love them, and sis s was like "I don't know anything about that a i can't help you study" and i was like "hey that was my major! i'll help you study!" and then she got an a because i made her say "copernicus questioned the calendar" twelve times fast and "ignatius no-questions" and dumb stuff like that hahaha and then sister s told me i was a rockstar angel. and i love her and i love helping people. and she invited me over on Christmas to skype and play PIANO DUETS but dumb, i'm leaving. depressing. oh well. :) 

 

anyways, i loved that.   also, it's cold.  9 degrees and i'm not wearing a coat! so perhaps i am acclimating? :) :)

 

another fact: I AM SO HAPPY. MISSIONS ARE THE BEST. seriously, i had this realization (again) on thursday... THIS IS THE GREATEST. i have 100% of my time to dedicate to helping my friends. no job, no school, no studies.... you need me? i'm there. nothing else to distract me. nothing else to do but serve. HOW COULD I NOT LOVE IT. i tell ya. so happy :) :) and i love my friends and i love the Appleton 2nd ward <3 <3 <3 we had a relief society white elephant gift exchange and then missionary correlation meeting thursday night and i just laughed and laughed and was SO HAPPY!!!!! these people are the greatest hahaha.

 

OOKAY. so i literally told sister silva AS WE WERE WALKING INTO CHURCH on sunday not to tell anybody that i'm being transferred because i don't like people to know. AND THEN br s  comes up to me and is like "hey i hear you're being transferred! where are you going??" and i'm like "what the...." and THEN they announce it over the pulpit during church hahaha well there goes that secret....... but anyways. in relief society sis s was like "thanks for truly being a sister to us" and that meant a lot to me. i just love this appleton 2nd ward :) :) :)

 

this email is completely out of order but i'm not even going to attempt to fix it.

 

i still haven't told you about my saturday morning panic attack.   be excited :)

 

anyways. friday was great. we went to restore funland and took pictures with friends!! and EEEEEVERYONE was asking us if we celebrate Christmas and what we're doing for Christmas and why aren't we going home and what do we do all day anyways?? welllllllll let me tell you, my friends!! :) :) so that was lovely. pictures to follow :) also my friend s from restore asked us a really interesting question.... we told her that we volunteer and pay to be here and all that and she's like "so what benefits do you get from your mission?" and we were like uhhh..... nothing really.... at least nothing monetary! we just love what we do! :) 

it was kind of cool to think about :) 

 

SATURDAY  was day of drama because it was flip-flop day (i have less time left than sis silva has been out), dad's birthday (not too much drama there), the 1st day of the 12 days of Christmas (...again, not too much drama...) and THE DAY WE FOUND OUT ABOUT TRANSFERS. (DRAMA!!!) well actually not drama. just anxiety hahaha. :) :) so i was having like a legit internal turmoil panic attack until we got the text, then i found out i was leaving, then i had MORE anxiety and sadness, so we went about our day and we're teaching my friend and i'm mostly focusing but also have a huge internal breakdown (i don't know what's wrong with me..... basically, it's just really hard to love something so much and then leave. i'm so happy i'm worried about not always being this happy hahaha dumb, right????) so after we leave i'm like sister silva. i am going to die if i do not go to starbucks right this moment and get a gingerbread steamer. and she's like "okay" so we go and i'm like "i need to go inside because i just do" and so we do and not ONE MINUTE after we sit down a woman comes up to us and is like "are you sister missionaries?" uhh... yes? "can i talk to you?" no, we're busy. OF COURSE YOU CAN!! :) :) :) turns out she's a less-active member from neenah who just reeeaally needed to talk to sister missionaries & Heavenly Father knew it so he brought us to starbucks not 5 minutes after she got there so that she could see us. and i was legit even fidling with my nametag as we walked in. yeah. revelation through internal breakdowns!! haha. basically, Heavenly Father knows all of His children and He is SO AWARE of us and totally in control and He knows our needs. He knew that she needed to talk, and He knew that I needed to forget myself and serve. I LOVE HIM. He is so great :) :) :) :) :) :) :) literally the best, not kidding, that is doctrine. :) :) 

 

so pretty much i love this missionary life and i love all of my friends and this gospel and everything. 

so how was your week? :)

 

oh, and i had a dream friday night that r n single-handedly opened neenah/ysa for sisters. by herself. because she totally could ;)   my dreams are really weird hahaha.

 

oh happy birthday daddy!! i love you!! :) :) :)   also, i love the appleton 2nd ward.

 

yesterday we went to a Christmas party at the W's house with them & their neighbors and it was THE BEST, first of all their 14 year old son teaches piano and is SO CUTE, they had a little piano concert, adorable. and then we just got to introduce ourselves and talk to all their friends and eat delicious snacks. and i got to play their NICE piano and i loved it. i've decided that i love to play the piano. :) :) 

 

also we saw the m's and i love them. turns out C  loves to pretend to be a missionary. so i gave her my nametag and she pretended to be me hahaha. hilarious, embarrassing, and wonderful. and, she actually learned a lot & bore her testimony and it was wonderful. so there :) #sistermissionarywork. :) 

 

actual temperature yesterday: -1. just in case you missed it up there in this MASSIVELY LONG EMAIL. sorry about that...... also, when you picture me this week (...do you picture me during the week? creepy....) please picture me blasting amy grant "emmanuel" with the bass all the way up and the volume as loud as it will go.

 

because that will probably be accurate.  i love you all buckets & bunches & heaps. i love this land. i love this gospel. IT MAKES ME SO SO HAPPY.  I know God lives. I know He has a plan for us to be as happy as He is. WOAH WAIT HOLD THE PHONE.  i know.  it's awesome. tell everyone :) :) :)

LOVE YOU    LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU  ps merry christmas!! i'll email you next week from kettle moraine!!

 

pray for my soul   i always pray for you <3

 

love, sister proffit :) :) :) xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo