Friday, January 24, 2014

and suddenly, it’s Monday again…




confused about how THAT happened.......

but anyways. it's been another great week family!! i'm excited about it!!

HAHA i have to skip ahead and tell you something that happened saturday night........ we were teaching my friends d & a, and we invited them to church and I was like "yeah! i'm excited about it!" and then ".... you don't seem that excited about it." hahaha. sister blood laughs at me. so did my friends and the member friend we brought haha. update: they did not come to church. next week for sure. we're gonna get them pumped up with the Spirit of the Book of Mormon :) :) :) :) :)

but ANYWAYS. i love being a missionary now again & forever :) :) tuesday we ate dinner with my friends who served a mission in romania and they reminded me of gramma & grampa condie :) :) :) 

wednesday i found a perfect Christmas scripture...... one month too late......... (Alma 7:7!)

i learned that high fives = my kryptonite.

i learned that "although it sometimes appears otherwise, sin always leads to unhappiness." (pmg 50)

i learned that o my father can be sung to the tune of come thou fount and that i love it that way.

i remembered that i want that song sung at my funeral and NEVER AGAIN on father's day....

i learned that when you tell people your favorite things, they give them to you. for example, once upon a teaching appointment (plan of salvation):

sister proffit: "Heavenly Father knows everything about me! He knows my favorite candy, He knows --"

friend: "what's your favorite candy?"
me (without thinking): "peanut m&ms."

and then at the end of the lesson....... we're saying goodbye to his wife and he comes down the stairs with an ENORMOUS BABY-SIZED BAG OF PEANUT M&MS!!!! {see attached pictures} :) :) :) 

soooooooo that happened. hahaha. :) :)

also, we called a referral and they weren't interested but they asked my name and i said sister proffit and they said "oh i see... that's not a name, that's a title..." "ummm no proffit is my last name........" hahaha :) :)

also, tonight we're having dinner with an indian man who was a hq referral and we've never met him but he INSISTED.... like WOULD. NOT. TAKE. NO. for an answer on feeding us........... so that's happening. hahaha we've been so confused. also yesterday he texted to ask us if we were roman catholic. friend, i feel that you do not understand what is going on. i feel that you think i am a nun. hahahaha.

speaking of which, once upon a contacting time i knocked on a friend's door and heard "that says "sister"! she's a nun, let her in." ummmmmm no....... but i took advantage of it anyways hahaha it was the nicest old lady ever and her caretaker (who thought we were nuns....) my sweet friend a read my nametag and then said ever so nicely, "we're lutheran, may i please ask you not to waste your name with me?" hahaha a, you are so sweet. she was so excited to pray with us. we will be going back to find my less-active friend k who lives there but wasn't there. and to pray with arlene again hahaha. #notanun #thatsokay :) :) :)

ps keep us in your prayers! satan is a real thing and he's annoying. but we're conquering him. thanks to my BFF & Savior & Redeemer Jesus Christ :) :) :) 

also on wednesday we got to teach o about the word of wisdom and i love her :)

quote from wednesday night planning session

sis. p: "goal for tomorrow: take a shower."

Sis b: "... that was your goal yesterday."

sis p: "..... pmg 146?"

#preachmygospelonthebrain #itsaproblembutitsnotcauseiloveit :) :) :)

also on thursday we decided on a missionary theme song. "WE GON' FIND YOU." :) :) :)

also on thursday we went to starbucks (again.) conversation that ensued when we both ordered steamers:

barista: "don't you guys like espressos?"

both of us in kind of creepy unison: "we don't drink coffee."

"......"

hahaha :) :)

also, question. What do y'all think I do all day??????? hahaha I'm REALLY curious so please actually answer this question to me :) :) :) :)

FRIDAY WAS A GREAT DAY BECAUSE I GOT TO GO ON EXCHANGES WITH MILWAUKEE YSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaand i decided that i love milwaukee. i kind of think i was meant to serve there. or at least go on more exchanges there. and i love sister hurst to the max :) :) quote from sister hurst at 10:20: "obedience!" (as she flys towards the bedroom in a superhero pose) hahahhaahahahhahahaha

first of all, we had fantastic studies. i love preach my gospel and the Book of Mormon forever :) :) 

second of all, i love sister hurst. this was our 4th exchange together!! i was with her on her first exchange ever in fond du lac!! almost a YEAR AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so it was fun to see how much we've both changed. especially cause back then we both had NO IDEA how to talk to people.......... and then on friday we walked the streets of milwaukee and talked with EVERYONE and had an awesome time :) :) also, it was snowing. perfect for street contacting :) :) actually it was really great though. we went down to UW-M to get lunch and it reminded me of UW kind of except it was snowing haha. and then we talked with everyone. and ate delicious thai food. and it was a wonderful wonderful time of miracles that i loved :) :) and i got to talk to some hipsters and tell them that their ankles looked cold. #goodtimes :) and THEN we went to the hood and there were even sirens in the background and i loved it hahaha. and we had LEGIT GOOD LESSONS totally full of the Spirit (well obviously, we were talking about Christ and reading from the Book of Mormon and we were all just feelin' it...) :) :) AND i got to go to the 17th floor of a building in milwaukee and i loved it. and i had weird rock de ja vu with a picture on the wall. it was a photo of a rock and i SWEAR i'd seen it before. or dreamed about it. it was weird. but it's fine. :) :) 

also my knees froze. should've worn a warmer skirt. :)

and it snowed all day long and fyi it is still snowing. #itsfine. 

also i love the painting of Moroni at the end of the Book of Mormon pictures and we totally used it to teach a legit great lesson in the church because oh let me tell you about this miracle. so we played chair soccer in the church gym for exercise and as we were leaving sis hurst walked up to this guy and asked him if we could teach him later in the day and i thought he was a member since he was, you know, in the church, but turns out he was NOT a member, he was remodeling the church haha. but he was down to meet with us so we set it up for subway at noon but then he texted and was like "actually can yall come here i won't be able to get away" and we were like uhhhhhhh cause we're not allowed to meet just us and a guy (obviously.) so we decided to be obedient even though it would be WAY easy to justify it cause it was IN THE CHURCH. but we didn't. we called a member and set it up for 4:15. AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE WAY MORE AMAZING THAN GOING TO SUBWAY obviously because the Lord always blesses us when we are obedient :) :) :) :) :) anyways, we taught him IN THE CHURCH, WITH A MEMBER, WITH a picture of Moroni burying the plates staring him down. We had him look at the picture and he was just rapt. Is he reading the Book of Mormon? YES. is he finna pray about it? YES. is he finna get BAPTIZED when he knows that it's true?? YES YES YES and imma tell you what family, there is NOTHING ON EARTH like feeling the Spirit and helping other friends to feel it too. NOTHING LIKE IT, i tell you. #bestbestbest :) :) alsoooooooo fun fact, did you know that the gift of the Holy Ghost is a foretaste of eternal joy and a promise of eternal life?????????????? #yesyesyes #everybodyneedsthis #pmggoodness :) :) :) #loveit

okay. so that was milwaukee. i loved it. OH the miracles just keep comin. so the MEMBER who came with us SERVED IN THE FORT WORTH TEXAS MISSION IN WACO DENTON & ARLINGTON. so she took a picture of us and sent it to some members there to show to nathan. how cool is that. :) :) and then she took us out to dinner at the most fantastic place in a mall in milwaukee where you cant be there alone if you're under 18 hahaha. #loveit :) :) :) and it was most fantastic and i loved it. i love making friends!! i love milwaukee ysa!! all the friends!! never ends!!! #rhymetime #allthetime :) :) 

okay family. almost done. just a couple more cool things :) :) 

3 Nephi 12 is totally "come unto Christ & be perfected in Him." left page = Come unto Jesus, right page = & be perfected in Him :) :) :) #COOL

also, good news! Jesus Christ has a church! and you can join it!! #SOEXCITING #TELLEVERYONE :) :)

also, i made some new friends :) the h's. they are wonderful and i love them. and they fed us waffle sandwiches last night. yes, you read that correctly. lettuce tomato cold cuts and cheese on waffles. #DELICIOUS #TELLEVERYONE. 

also, missionary tip of the day from h n, age 16: he puts a Book of Mormon on the passenger seat of his car so that his friends have to look at it hahhaaha #whateverworks #everyhonorablemeans ;)

ALSO I LOVE O AND I LOVE J M. we had a lesson with Oa in the M's house and i just love them. and, guess what, we talked about the Atonement from 3 Ne 9 & Alma 11:40 and Mosiah 18:26 (because it's my new favorite) and i loved it, obviously, because it's true and i love feeling the Spirit testify to me over & over & over again that is is true. i love it. never never never getting tired of it. it is true. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) LOVE IT.

also, tonight we're eating two dinners, thank you j the indian man who will be getting baptized (probably.) #thisiswhyimfat.

oh family. i love you so. you are all the greatest. i love that because of you i can testify with conviction that the restored gospel of Jesus Christ really does bless families. the gospel helps families to be united now and in eternity :) :) :) pmg ch 1. it's the greatest everrrrrrrrrrrrrr. i love this gospel!!! i love being a missionary :) :) :) i love families and I love Jesus Christ :) :) :) 

love, love, love

xoxoxox

sister cecelia proffit :) :) :)

oh & hey! turns out you can watch joseph smith: prophet of the restoration on hulu now! hooray!

also, sister blood and i have turned our favorite quotes from the restoration movie (the 20 minute missionary one that you guys should totally watch b/c it's GREAT) into hashtegs because we WISH that there was missionary twitter because that would be hilarious. #statesideproblems #bewareofprideboy #youreternalsoulisatstake 

:) :)

#loveyoubye 

:)

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gifOn Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Cecelia Proffit <cecelia.proffit@myldsmail.net> wrote:confused about how THAT happened.......

 

but anyways. it's been another great week family!! i'm excited about it!!

 

HAHA i have to skip ahead and tell you something that happened saturday night........ we were teaching my friends dean & angela, and we invited them to church and I was like "yeah! i'm excited about it!" and then ".... you don't seem that excited about it." hahaha. sister blood laughs at me. so did my friends and the member friend we brought haha. update: they did not come to church. next week for sure. we're gonna get them pumped up with the Spirit of the Book of Mormon :) :) :) :) :)

 

but ANYWAYS. i love being a missionary now again & forever :) :) tuesday we ate dinner with my friends who served a mission in romania and they reminded me of gramma & grampa condie :) :) :) 

 

wednesday i found a perfect Christmas scripture...... one month too late......... (Alma 7:7!) 

i learned that high fives = my kryptonite.

i learned that "although it sometimes appears otherwise, sin always leads to unhappiness." (pmg 50)

i learned that o my father can be sung to the tune of come thou fount and that i love it that way.

i remembered that i want that song sung at my funeral and NEVER AGAIN on father's day....

i learned that when you tell people your favorite things, they give them to you. for example, once upon a teaching appointment (plan of salvation):

sister proffit: "Heavenly Father knows everything about me! He knows my favorite candy, He knows --"

friend: "what's your favorite candy?"
me (without thinking): "peanut m&ms."

and then at the end of the lesson....... we're saying goodbye to his wife and he comes down the stairs with an ENORMOUS BABY-SIZED BAG OF PEANUT M&MS!!!! {see attached pictures} :) :) :) 

soooooooo that happened. hahaha. :) :)

 

also, we called a referral and they weren't interested but they asked my name and i said sister proffit and they said "oh i see... that's not a name, that's a title..." "ummm no proffit is my last name........" hahaha :) :)

 

also, tonight we're having dinner with an indian man who was a hq referral and we've never met him but he INSISTED.... like WOULD. NOT. TAKE. NO. for an answer on feeding us........... so that's happening. hahaha we've been so confused. also yesterday he texted to ask us if we were roman catholic. friend, i feel that you do not understand what is going on. i feel that you think i am a nun. hahahaha.

 

speaking of which, once upon a contacting time i knocked on a friend's door and heard "that says "sister"! she's a nun, let her in." ummmmmm no....... but i took advantage of it anyways hahaha it was the nicest old lady ever and her caretaker (who thought we were nuns....) my sweet friend arlene read my nametag and then said ever so nicely, "we're lutheran, may i please ask you not to waste your name with me?" hahaha arlene, you are so sweet. she was so excited to pray with us. we will be going back to find my less-active friend karon who lives there but wasn't there. and to pray with arlene again hahaha. #notanun #thatsokay :) :) :)

 

ps keep us in your prayers! satan is a real thing and he's annoying. but we're conquering him. thanks to my BFF & Savior & Redeemer Jesus Christ :) :) :) 

 

also on wednesday we got to teach olivia about the word of wisdom and i love her :)

 

quote from wednesday night planning session:

sis. p: "goal for tomorrow: take a shower."

sis b: "... that was your goal yesterday."

sis p: "..... pmg 146?"

#preachmygospelonthebrain #itsaproblembutitsnotcauseiloveit :) :) :)

 

also on thursday we decided on a missionary theme song. "WE GON' FIND YOU." :) :) :)

 

also on thursday we went to starbucks (again.) conversation that ensued when we both ordered steamers:

barista: "don't you guys like espressos?"

both of us in kind of creepy unison: "we don't drink coffee."

"......"

 

hahaha :) :)

 

also, question. What do y'all think I do all day??????? hahaha I'm REALLY curious so please actually answer this question to me :) :) :) :)

 

FRIDAY WAS A GREAT DAY BECAUSE I GOT TO GO ON EXCHANGES WITH MILWAUKEE YSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaand i decided that i love milwaukee. i kind of think i was meant to serve there. or at least go on more exchanges there. and i love sister hurst to the max :) :) quote from sister hurst at 10:20: "obedience!" (as she flys towards the bedroom in a superhero pose) hahahhaahahahhahahaha

 

first of all, we had fantastic studies. i love preach my gospel and the Book of Mormon forever :) :) 

second of all, i love sister hurst. this was our 4th exchange together!! i was with her on her first exchange ever in fond du lac!! almost a YEAR AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so it was fun to see how much we've both changed. especially cause back then we both had NO IDEA how to talk to people.......... and then on friday we walked the streets of milwaukee and talked with EVERYONE and had an awesome time :) :) also, it was snowing. perfect for street contacting :) :) actually it was really great though. we went down to UW-M to get lunch and it reminded me of UW kind of except it was snowing haha. and then we talked with everyone. and ate delicious thai food. and it was a wonderful wonderful time of miracles that i loved :) :) and i got to talk to some hipsters and tell them that their ankles looked cold. #goodtimes :) and THEN we went to the hood and there were even sirens in the background and i loved it hahaha. and we had LEGIT GOOD LESSONS totally full of the Spirit (well obviously, we were talking about Christ and reading from the Book of Mormon and we were all just feelin' it...) :) :) AND i got to go to the 17th floor of a building in milwaukee and i loved it. and i had weird rock de ja vu with a picture on the wall. it was a photo of a rock and i SWEAR i'd seen it before. or dreamed about it. it was weird. but it's fine. :) :) 

 

also my knees froze. should've worn a warmer skirt. :)

 

and it snowed all day long and fyi it is still snowing. #itsfine. 

 

also i love the painting of Moroni at the end of the Book of Mormon pictures and we totally used it to teach a legit great lesson in the church because oh let me tell you about this miracle. so we played chair soccer in the church gym for exercise and as we were leaving sis hurst walked up to this guy and asked him if we could teach him later in the day and i thought he was a member since he was, you know, in the church, but turns out he was NOT a member, he was remodeling the church haha. but he was down to meet with us so we set it up for subway at noon but then he texted and was like "actually can yall come here i won't be able to get away" and we were like uhhhhhhh cause we're not allowed to meet just us and a guy (obviously.) so we decided to be obedient even though it would be WAY easy to justify it cause it was IN THE CHURCH. but we didn't. we called a member and set it up for 4:15. AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE WAY MORE AMAZING THAN GOING TO SUBWAY obviously because the Lord always blesses us when we are obedient :) :) :) :) :) anyways, we taught him IN THE CHURCH, WITH A MEMBER, WITH a picture of Moroni burying the plates staring him down. We had him look at the picture and he was just rapt. Is he reading the Book of Mormon? YES. is he finna pray about it? YES. is he finna get BAPTIZED when he knows that it's true?? YES YES YES and imma tell you what family, there is NOTHING ON EARTH like feeling the Spirit and helping other friends to feel it too. NOTHING LIKE IT, i tell you. #bestbestbest :) :) alsoooooooo fun fact, did you know that the gift of the Holy Ghost is a foretaste of eternal joy and a promise of eternal life?????????????? #yesyesyes #everybodyneedsthis #pmggoodness :) :) :) #loveit

 

okay. so that was milwaukee. i loved it. OH the miracles just keep comin. so the MEMBER who came with us SERVED IN THE FORT WORTH TEXAS MISSION IN WACO DENTON & ARLINGTON. so she took a picture of us and sent it to some members there to show to nathan. how cool is that. :) :) and then she took us out to dinner at the most fantastic place in a mall in milwaukee where you cant be there alone if you're under 18 hahaha. #loveit :) :) :) and it was most fantastic and i loved it. i love making friends!! i love milwaukee ysa!! all the friends!! never ends!!! #rhymetime #allthetime :) :) 

 

okay family. almost done. just a couple more cool things :) :) 

 

1. 3 Nephi 12 is totally "come unto Christ & be perfected in Him." left page = Come unto Jesus, right page = & be perfected in Him :) :) :) #COOL

 

also, good news! Jesus Christ has a church! and you can join it!! #SOEXCITING #TELLEVERYONE :) :)

 

also, i made some new friends :) the hardy's. they are wonderful and i love them. and they fed us waffle sandwiches last night. yes, you read that correctly. lettuce tomato cold cuts and cheese on waffles. #DELICIOUS #TELLEVERYONE. 

 

also, missionary tip of the day from harper netteshiem, age 16: he puts a Book of Mormon on the passenger seat of his car so that his friends have to look at it hahhaaha #whateverworks #everyhonorablemeans ;)

 

ALSO I LOVE OLIVIA AND I LOVE JAIMIE MCEWAN. we had a lesson with Olivia in the McEwan's house and i just love them. and, guess what, we talked about the Atonement from 3 Ne 9 & Alma 11:40 and Mosiah 18:26 (because it's my new favorite) and i loved it, obviously, because it's true and i love feeling the Spirit testify to me over & over & over again that is is true. i love it. never never never getting tired of it. it is true. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) LOVE IT.

 

also, tonight we're eating two dinners, thank you james the indian man who will be getting baptized (probably.) #thisiswhyimfat.

 

oh family. i love you so. you are all the greatest. i love that because of you i can testify with conviction that the restored gospel of Jesus Christ really does bless families. the gospel helps families to be united now and in eternity :) :) :) pmg ch 1. it's the greatest everrrrrrrrrrrrrr. i love this gospel!!! i love being a missionary :) :) :) i love families and I love Jesus Christ :) :) :) 

 

 

love, love, love

 

 

xoxoxox

 

 

sister cecelia proffit :) :) :)

 

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also, i vote we have a secret family mormon.org keyword on our profiles (because mormon.org is like the only fun missionary website......). "team proffit". then when you search "team proffit" on mormon.org, our whole family would come up :) :) okay? okay. :)

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