roses are red, nothing natural is blue…..

.... but there's nothing unnatural….about my love for you!!! :) :) :) hahahahaha. that is my valentines poem for the year, of which i am SO proud...... :) last night we had dinner with a person who works for the company who makes all the colors of anything ever. and he informed me that there is no natural way to obtain the color blue. and that just got my creative juices flowin ;) hahaha. :) :) :) #illbemyownvalentinethisyear ;)

good news family! i remembered my planner this week! #noveltime :) :) 

things i forgot last week were mostly just scriptures that i like. 3 Ne.18:23 because it reminds me of that giant thing in the sand that eats people from Star Wars VI. Romans 10:14-15 because it's legit. Mormon 5:18/Ether 12:4 because we've recently resurrected the anchor lesson, shout-out to Sister Ciarra Butler for that one :) :) and Jeremiah 20:9 because it's epic. 

i would now like to give you a peek into my life by sharing a series of quotes from this past weeks district meeting:

"modern-day miracles, people. it's not just with the seagulls in 18-whatever."

"the point is, we all have access to spiritual bagpipes, to drown out the voice of satan. whaaaaaaaaaa.........." [bagpipe noise]

"if you don't have the Holy Ghost, you're not a missionary. Boom."

"before my mission, walkin down the street i was like, yeah that's a person, that's a person.... but now i'm like, i freakin love all these people!!!!!" 

"faith and hope together are like a giant centrifuge of missionary power."

:) :) #lovethedistrict

something i wish i would've started doing earlier is writing down great/funny quotes in the sides of my pmg. i love it hahah :) :)

also, on tuesday miss o had her baptism interview and we were showing her how to get baptized... (we showed her a clip from the district haha) and then the member was like "plug your nose!" and she was like "okay!" and he was like "no i'm serious. the water will rush into your lungs, and you WILL drown. plug your nose." #intensity #shepluggedhernose :)

okay family. i am going to buckle down and write this letter now. #blameitontheaddbaby

this is a true statement: sometimes things are not always fun. and days are cold and no one is home and satan is a dummy. but if you put a smile on and FAKE IT.... and talk in a british accent with your companion all day.......... and sometimes accidentally slip into it in public............. and are friends with your companion who is lovely and great............ you can make it through and even be HAPPY :) :) :) so THA'T'S awesome, right????? :) :) :) i shall be my friend, even if no one else is. and sister blood. and Jesus. ;)

wednesday we taught the m and i love them. even though they are just....... so...... funny and old. and stubborn. hahaha. i am going to LOVE THEM into this gospel and the greatest part is, it's not even hard, i really do love them!! :) :) :) (they're the ones who gave me a baby-sized bag of m&ms, btw.) :) good news: the Book of Mormon is LITERALLY buried treasure (thank you elder q via sister butler) and is pure gold and all i everrrr want to do is read it with people. fail-proof. for real. :) :) also i have learned that 3 Ne. 11:1-17 is a journey. a journey from not-knowing to knowing. and i love it. and, in the words of elder clark, "conversion is a journey you take yourself." and it's the best journey, people. so take it. and read 3 Ne 11:1-17. because it's ze best :) :) :)

thursday............. was a tornado of drama that through me into a tailspin of emotional angst. hahaha. is that dramatic enough for you?? ;) here is what happened:

*sister proffit and sister blood coming home to weekly plan* 

sister proffit: i hope we have mail today!

*sister blood checks the mail and pulls out a huge white envelope* 

*sister proffit realizes it's from the mission office and her heart plunges into despair because she knows what it is and she's been dreading this day since the start of the transfer*

*charlie brown music starts playing* "waaaaaa-waa waaaaaaaaaaaaa.... waaaaa waaaaaaaaa........"

*sister proffit hangs her head and shlumps up the stairs holding the envelope*

- we enter the apartment – 

*sister proffit opens it and throws the papers around the room* "no, no, no, no, definitely not!"

*sister proffit starts washing dishes with great vigor*

*sister blood starts reading sister proffit's mail*

okay i'll spare you the rest of the play-by-play hahaha. basically, i got my trunky papers. (we're probably not supposed to call them that but oh well.) and what it is is a packet of letters from the mission office, one from president that's like "endure to the end! start setting goals for the first year after your mission!" (my heart: "nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!") and then TRAVEL TIPS ("NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!") and then a letter that's like "you miiiiiiiiiiiiight have tuburculosis so you should probably get tested for that asap when you get home" hahahahah. 

TUBURCULOSIS.

the ridiculousness of everything and the reality of how OLD i am kind of threw me for a loop. it was a weird rest of the day. i cried. two tiny tears. about pine needles. (remember when i cried about mis-matching spoons?? it was that kind of a day.... hahaha) (also there are still pine needles on our carpet. #nevergetalivetree.)

but good news. i survived. and how weird that thursday was jakey's first full day, nathy's year mark, and my...... tuburculosis papers day. hahaha. man, you are champion parents. that's all i've got to say. :) :)

also, fun fact: when you get a carwash and it's 9 degrees outside, the side-mirrors freeze. #dumb :)

let's see. what else.

oh! a tender mercy from the Lord in the form of J J. he's home from his mission right now for medical reasons but he's headed back soon (hopefully) but while he's heeeeeereeeeeeeeee he is the CHAMPION MEMBER-PRESENT OF ALL TIME. and we are totally using and abusing him hahaha but he's cool with it. seriously, best member-present ever. love it. aaaaaaand, it's giving me hope for the future hahah. becaaaaaauseeee (obviously) i've been stressing about home-time. and i've decided to stop it asap, but something that is helping is knowing that okay, i can just go home and be like j. and it'll be okay. it's nice :) :) but right now i can just focus on right now. and not even think or worry about it :) :)

so anyways. we brought j with us to teach our friend s. AND WE TOTALLY FELT THE SPIRIT so we knew the Lord was pleased :) :) (pmg 11). and it was delicious. and we read the Book of Mormon (obvi) about the plan of salvation and she was like "thaaaaaaaaat's what's in this book?? okay now i totally want to read it!!!" um, yes. you should've been. but that's okay. :) :) also, it was like suuuuuuuuuuuch a classic plan of salvation lesson with her asking questions like, "but what about people who never got to hear about Christ?" ohhhhh s. we are GETTING there :) :) :) :) #loveit

I would like to say that i love Alma 31:32-38 because it is a primo example of the prayer of faith. boom baby. pmg ch. 4. also, alma 31 is two prayers, neatly laid out on opposite pages for us to more easily compare them. how nice of God. :) :) :)

so Friday was a good day after all. and I remembered that I love this :) 

AND THEN IT WAS SATURDAY. and O got baptiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizedddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) aaaaaaand i love her. and she was a bright star in my life throughout this week of crazy. and we got to clean her house and teach her the gospel and i just love her :) :) it was sooooooooooooooo stupidly cute, there were more people at her baptism than there usually are at sacrament meeting......... haha. and b m gave the talk on the Holy Ghost and he called her his unofficial older sister and i died. because it was so cute. (they m's are the family next door to o who had a youth activity at their house and then invited o and introduced her and loved her) :) :) aaaaand i just loved it. i sent pictures home :) :) it was a party. of love and Spirit and covenants :) :) and yesterday she got confirmed and told us she felt like she was floating :) :) 

quote from o as we were cleaning her house: "you guys are the best missionaries........ and not just cause you're cleaning my house......." hahah :) :)

also on saturday i got new great music and we danced in the snow. and it looked like glitter in the sky and i was happy. :) :) and we went to Culver's and ate chocolate eclair frozen custard because that is their greatest flavor and it just so happened to be the flavor of the day. and it was delicious. #imabutterburgerbaby ;)

and i love sister blood for always putting up with me hahah :) :)

miracle of Sunday = this: Sister C P! from Racine!! she's in the stake primary presidency so she came to visit Kettle and she remembered meeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! which, hello, it's been a year since i left racine and i was only there for 3 months! but she totally saw my nameteg on my coat and remembered me and we hugged and hugged and it was a glorious reunion and i am SO looking forward to the celestial kingdom of God because glorious reunions for days up there :) :) :) :) :) :) :) anyways. it was tender. and it got me to thinking about how i forget sometimes what it feels like to be known and cared about for being YOU, not just a sister missionary. it's what i signed up for, and it comes in handy sometimes cause it gets you in doors (sometimes.........;)) and starts friendships, but it can also feel like you're interchangeable and replaceable. which i've kind of gotten used to haha. so it's nice when somebody remembers me by name and cares about ME. so often i'm just "sister" or "missionary," but when i'm called by my name it feels good :) and then i realized that God knows me by name!! He knows all of us by name. When He appeared to Joseph Smith, He called him by name. When we see Him again, He will call us by name. Think about it. it feels good :) :) :) He knows my name. I'm not interchangeable or replaceable to Him. and neither are you :) :) :) He knows us! Hooray!! :) :) 

and then Sunday night we had dinner with the A and engaged in a conversation that launched the birth of this email's titular poem. and it was hilarious. and i laughed so much. titanium dioxide is in all our food. i'm never eating oreos again.

and sister a bought me little applesauces from woodman's cause she knows i like them :) :) 

well family... i guess that's it! three cheers for making it to the end of this email hahaha believe it or not i did leave some stuff out ;) i love you all to the moon & back. i love my mission. sometimes days are hard and things are lame. but we keep marching on, and at the end of the day, i'm always always happy :) :) :)

roses are red

the Book of Mormon is blue

the gospel''s restored

and I love you :) 

:) :) :) xoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxo

sister cecelia proffit :) :)