‘please bless that mom won’t be so……evil werewolf….’

oh hey there family! :) 

so monday was a crazy, CRAZY blizzard......... like literally praying "dear Heavenly Father, please bless that we don't die right now......." {hint: we did not die} :) also, our car got stuck in the snow. so a member tried to push us out with her car and i witnessed a voluntary car crash. but Harry [the car] is okay. the car crash did not work to remove us from the snow. so a bearded man and his 5 children helped us push it out. and i helped as well. i felt like Rocky. [duh dunn dunnnnnn! duh dunn dunnnnn! duh dunn dunnnnnnn! dun nuh nuh NUH dunnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!] :) :) also the bearded man was like "can we get an adult over there?" and i was like yes, an adult should do that....... before i realized that i counted as an adult. so apparently i do not yet consider myself a grown-up. haha. oh well :)

after this adventure, we went to subway (shout-out to everyone who sent us subway gift cards for Chistmas......) and when i went to go buy a cookie, the nice worker girl informed me that it was "free cookie monday" and gave me a warm one for free. #prettysureyoujustmadethatup #thanksanyways #tendermercies #Godisgood :) :) :)

on tuesday we sang hymn #103 (precious savior, dear redeemer) to the tune of come thou fount and i loved it :)

also, had dinner at a member's house and this was the prayer of the child: "please bless that mom won't be so.................. evil werewolf................" ................................... cue sister proffit DYINGGGGGG laughing hahahahahaha

so that was great :) :) also it was 44 degrees and it was really really weird. we took pictures hahah. 

also i would like to announce that the top of PMG 93 is a hidden gem. mad that i wasn't studying like this earlier. but tis okay :) #repentance

and on FRIDAY IT WAS ZONE CONFERENCE. and, sad news........... it was my FINAL zone conference :( :( :( :( :( so obviously we had to make it awesome. so obviously we created a fun new game i like to call.................... "zone conference bingo."  :) :) :) it was super duper fun. i loved it. 

ZONE CONFERENCE WAS SO SO SO SO GREAT. it was seriously fantastic. i was pumped. i would now like to share with you a series of quotes:

"this is wisconsin! it snows miracles every day!" ~ elder aldo hernandez 

"this is not a "Heavenly Father, bless everybody, goodnight!" kind of prayer!" ~ president cutler

"without the Book of Mormon, there would be no reason for us to do missionary work." ~ president cutler

[talking about how John the Baptist was beheaded but then was resurrected...... with his head firmly attached....... which thing i never had considered....... mind blown........] "When you get old, you wanna know! You're gonna come back lookin' good!" ~ president cutler

"When Christ comes again, you won't have to worry that you will miss it." ~ president cutler (he was on one that day...... i wish i could email you his facial expressions and inflections hahaha)

"God wants us to be connected to other people." ~ president cutler. this is actually a great one. he was talking about how elijah came to joseph smith and this is why.....  God wants us all to be connected to each other. :) :) :)

"You're actually connected to everybody on earth through Noah!!!!!!" ~ president cutler. and you have to know the face he made and the way he said it..... it was like the most exciting news EVER to him hahahaha

elder hernandez quotes from our role-play together:

"i'm not perfect, i'm not a sister..."

~ elder beech (AP) looming over us so that he can like.... hear how we're doing.... or something ~

elder h: "you know how, when you feel the Spirit it feels really good [please know that he has the world's strongest mexican accent ever], but when satan is around it feels like he's closing in on you?? elder beech is like satan." Hahahahahaha

okay basically i died. i know that you don't know any of these people or very much about my life or why this is funny. but i still feel that i want to share with you my life :) :) :)

"look around, people!! beer & cheese does not make an attractive society!!" d h h. i died laughing harder than everybody else. it was okay. :) :)

sister martin taking a picture of us: "1.... 2..... 18......"

elder hernandez: "in the MTC, i learned that 3 comes after 2......... is that not right???" hahahahaha

also, elder beech is from england and he was showing me a picture he took of something in "marquette" and i swore he said "my cat" and then "my car" ..... i was confused. which was a good thing, actually, because "horrendous british accent" was on my bingo sheet ;) :) :)

okay. i'm sorry. this email is not very uplifting or spiritual haha it's just kinda weird. well. that happens i guess haha sorryyyyy familyyyyyy :) good thing you have two other missionaries to write you.......? hahah ;)

but hey, good news! J d l s got baptized!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) 

quote of the day for sunday is "ninja vanish!!" haha because that's what sister blood and i say to each other when our friends disappear directly after sacrament meeting. it is seriously impressive, the speed at which they slip away. i should ask them to teach me their tricks. :) :)

o quote of the week (apparently this is going to be a quote-y email). we were teaching about enduring to the end, and she is awesome and like... the best human ever and teaches me. and she said. "there's a difference between just obedience and having a desire to be obedient." which is so true. and i love her. amen. :) :)

okay family. so here is the skinny. friday febuary 21st [zone conference] was my first "last." and it kinda freaked me out a little bit and so i've been on this roller coaster of emotion lately and it's mostly good it's just also making me nauseous.... as roller coasters tend to do haha :) 

so i apologize for this weird nature of this email.

basically.... i love my mission. and i love other missionaries. and i love the state of wisconsin (i know, weird, right???). and i just love it here so much. but i also miss you a lot. and i'm excited to see you (eventually...) and i know that everything happens in the Lord's timing and that He will take care of me. but it's also kind of scary. and i love it here a lot. so. we'll see. :) 

friday they asked me to bear my testimony. president started calling up a bunch of people, and i was like "hmm hmm hmmm" (humming to myself a la sister butler<3) and then he called up me and sister stuart and i was like hm. all of the air in this room is suddenly gone. these are all the people who are going home in the next 2 transfers. and i am one of them. how unfortunate. 

because i'm PRETTY SURE i just got here. i'm pretty sure i've only been out for like.... 2 months. or so. i'm PRETTY SURE it was just my first zone conference a couple days ago and i was bearing my testimony in that very same building but as a NEW missionary, not a going-home one.

so i didn't really know what to say. so i just said what i know. about Jesus Christ. and how He lives and loves us. and how He's watching over us. and working alongside us. and He knows us and is aware of us and He helps us. and I love Him. and that's about it.

i don't know, family. it's a weirddddd feeling, going home. i mean i still have 8 1/2 weeks. but still.

also, sister blood has been having really bad headaches. so it would be good if she could feel better, because she is a champion missionary and i love her a lot :) 

i love my mission.

i love the precious little elder who came up to me after zone conference and thanked me for always brightening his day hahahaa :) :) 

i love all the missionaries

i love the work He has called us to do :) :)

i love you, family :) :)

forever&ever&ever&ever :)

xoxoxoxoxoxox

sister cece proffit :) :) :)