IT’S THE FINAL TRANSFER!!!!!

duh nuh-nuh nuh.... duh nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh!! duh nuh-nuh nuh....  duh nuh-nuh nuh-nuh-nuh duhhhh.. nuh nuh nuhhh...  duh nuh-nuh nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh, dunn dunnn! duh nuh nuh!! duh nuh nuhh!!!!!!!!

okay okay okay. i mostly just did that because i wanted you to have that song stuck in your head all day ;) in actuality, i really am not feeling that tense/nervous/panic-y/whatever about this being "the final transfer." it really doesn't feel like that at all. just another transfer, gonna make it totes the best... it's gonna be great :) :) also, thanks to everyone who's sent me letters & advice & encouragement & prayers.... it's really really helping and i'm feeling a lot more at peace than i have been for the past little bit. so, hooray!! :) :)

so this title really doesn't fit. but i promised myself (and sister blood) i would use it. so there we go :) :)

thoughts from monday: "bringing our lives in line with God's will is a central purpose of our lives." (pmg) also, had a lovely dinner with r & h w ("wR what are you doing in hewe!!!!!!!") and it was wonderful. they are just so great. and i love them. and i'm adopting them into my millennial family <3 and it started me thinking this week that i don't have to be perfect yet.... sometimes i feel like dang, i'm a super old sister missionary, i only have 6 weeks left, i should be perfect now!! i should know how to do all the things!! i should be making 0 mistakes!! or at least only 1 a week or something!! but....... no. sadly friends, i'm making several mistakes a day still hahaha. i've learned, i've grown, but i haven't been perfected yet. but, that's okay. Jesus didn't even call Himself perfected until after He was resurrected, so there :) nah but seriously though. spiritual growth is a process. thank you pmg <3 (p. 126... i think) 

tuesday we got to see the worsley's and i would just like to remind everyone that they are the greatest most full-time gospel livin' loving family ever, and that the gospel blesses families, and that if we live the gospel we will have happiness now & forever <3 <3 <3 also, i would like to announce that i learned how to say "the gospel blesses families" in portugese #languagestudy i regret to inform you, though, that i did not learn how to spell "the gospel blesses families" in portugese soo...... #nextweek 

wednesday was TRANSFERS. and it was crazy and it was sad and it was tragic and it was fun and it was.... boring, after a while hahaha. but mostly crazy and funny and sad :) :) i said goodbye to my poor baby sister blood and put her on the fun bus, then talked to allllllllll the elders alllllll day long, literally waiting for like 5 or 6 hours at transfer point hahah. but, it was fun. good news: i got to see elder HERNANDEZ again!! he offered me a cookie and i told him i was gonna need a powerful invitation if i were actually going to act (me making fun of our mission focus from the past zone conference / making fun of him cause he just got made a zone leader) and he totally did it hahaha it was the funniest thing everrrrrrrrrrrr (#missionjokes) and i died. "why would it be important for you to know for yourself that this cookie is delicious? how do you think you would be able to find out?" etc etc etc #HILARITY #missionhumor. and then i asked if i could have another and he said that's like an investigator asking if they could come to church again! or read the Book of Mormon again! and then i ate three cookies. so that was basically wednesday :) also elders that i only semi-know took pictures with me. #old #celebrity? #thankskids #emailmein6weeks...... #;) also, found out that there is no word in hmong for when someone sneezes. NO WORD. they just sit there awkwardly. #THISISATRUEFACT. #thingsyoulearnattransferpoint  hm. that's all i can remember mostly. sister blood and i got starbucks and it was delicious. i love sister roylance AND sister ruiz #goodnews #triopower #wrotearaptogetherlastnight #threeisbetterthantwo  here is a sample of our rap: "three of us / two beds / one is on the floor / good news though / is that none of us snore" #grammysherewecome #airmattressfordays #feelslikecamping #itsweirdlyfun? :) :) also i forGOT to grab the air mattress so we were literally all the way to waukesha before i realized and then we had to turn around and go back to milwaukee #miles #problems #walkin...... also i realize that you have no idea where waukesha is. #whatever #wauke$ha:) so wednesday was decently fun. 

thursday we had weekly planning!! ... alll dayyy longggggg hahaha i forgot how long it takes to explain a new area to new companions. but! it was good. they are great. they totes have great ideas and i kept forgetting they'd never met these people. it's gonna be great. trios = extra brain power :) :) :) also we have LANGUAGE STUDY now and i LOVE IT. i love learning portugese. i know like 3 words. but it's fun. and it's teaching me the gospel actually cause we read PMG in english while she reads it in portugese and try to follow along and sometimes the non-literal-translation teaches me something i never even thought of. so it's fun and great :) :) also, i love sister ruiz & sister roylance and i'm so happy they both are here with me :) :) they are great. friday night we were saying our tender mercies and this is what sister ruiz says: "coolest thing: so i saw this ice skating duck..." cue all of us collapsing in fits of laughter. probably so many of these things are not funny to you. but they are funny to me because i live in wisconsin and i sleep on the floor. so there. :) :) :) more sister ruiz-isms: "aw heck!" (in a new zealand accent? all the time) and "for sure!" to testify hahhahah. best moment: teaching in a trio. i teach something. no one knows whose turn it is. moment of awkward silence. sister ruiz: "for SURE!" hahahahahaha. :) :) #triopower also on friday we got to teach o and i love her, and she taught me part of the wisconsin fight song... "when you say wisconsin, you've said it all!" #yes #true ;) #weirdlyiaminlovewithwisconsin??? #ifeelitsfine :) :) AND we saw the cantrells and i love them. amanda is finna go on a mission and i am excited for her. step 1 = come to church hahah. we taught out of pmg ch 1, our purpose, and just asked her a few questions and i just felt the Spirit so so so strong and i love feeling the Spirit :) :) also, had one of those moments when you know that you're doing something right. we asked amanda why she wanted to go on a mission, and she talked about when she came to O's baptism and saw me & sister blood..."You just looked really really happy. I think that's what sparked it.":) :) :) :) :) :) :) oh, miss amanda. i am so so happy. i'm glad you could see it. the gospel is true happiness. this i know is true :) :) :) :) :) :) :) 

also this is skipping ahead, but on sunday sister h asked us to come into primary and share our favorite primary song, and i was going to pick something else but then i changed my mind last second and picked "i hope they call me on a mission" because my mission is the happiest i have ever been in my whole entire life and everyone should have this happiness. and then i cried when they sang it to me hahaha. #sappy #getittogethersisterp ;)

also i would like to say that friday it was 50 degrees and i almost died of heatstroke.

#shoutouttosisterpugmirewhoisservinginfloridaandfreezingat50degrees ;) #love

saturday i ate a klondike bar on a china plate with a fork sooo... that was fun! #moments ;) also, comp studies with trios are fun. we get to learn so much!! sister ruiz totally matched up alma 23 to the Atonement of Jesus Christ and it was legit. #triopower :) :)

saturday got to teach the restoration out of the pamphlet and 1 Ne 11 and it was legit #lovethisgospel :) :) :) 

friday, got some "spiritual vitamins" trying to volunteer at the YMCA (#stilldonthaveservice.... #ifeelitsnotfine) twO quotes:"God's work done God's way will never lack God's supply." "Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.):) #wrotetheminmyPMG :) :)

SUNDAY sunday sunday... always my favorite day :) :) but this one was extra EXTRA favorite ("they're both favorite" <3) B & J J spoke...... J just got back from his mission (early, medical reasons, tragic) and B is working on his papers. they are brothers. technically B didn't speak, they just called him up last minute to bear his testimony (haha, get it??) and i was like HOW DARE YOU because he talked about his big brother on a mission and how he was cool before and now he's super cool and i just CRIED ALL THE TEARS. seriously, crying so much. everyone was. it was suuuchh a good homecoming talk. it was good and it was tragic. he (j) had to come home early from his mission because his knees were acting up and so he talked about that and how it was the hardest thing he's ever had to do but how he knows that God has a plan... God had a plan for him to meet the people that he did in california, and God still has a plan for him now. and it was just..... really really good. <3 <3

also, miracle. as i alluded to earlier.... ever since about november/december, i've started getting really really PANIC-Y whenever people mention/talk about/bring up missionaries, missionaries going home, the special spirit only missionaries have, etc etc. so you might have imagined that yesterday's sacrament service would have been a panic fest for poor ol' sister proffit, right? well... it was not. miracle!! i actually felt really, really, really, really peaceful about everything. I don't feel stressed about coming home... I don't even feel like it's coming that soon. I'm not in denial, I'm not ignoring it, I just feel like when it comes, it'll come, and for now I'm just here to serve the Lord and give it my all and try my best until the end.... whenever that is :) :) So, it's a really really really good feeling hahaha. Not being in weird denial but not having in occupy my mind all the time??? #yessss #answertoprayers :) :) :) :) :) so, yay. :) :)

more good things about sunday: s came to church (literal MIRACLE, too good to be true, i kept expecting her to change her mind or be sleeping or not be dressed or for her car to break down or SOMETHING.... #butwhatoffaithJonah #missionjokesagain #seriouslythoughitwasamiracle) :) :)also we wrote an area rap. i mentioned this already. but it was really fun :) :)also, taught a family the story of Abish (Alma 19:17) and one of my beautifully spiritual companions asked, "why was it important for Abish to do this, instead of Ammon?" #goodquestion #inspiredquestion #triopower :) :) also, promised blessing in verse 36. #legit #lovetheBoM :) :)

well family, i guess that about raps it up this week...... i mean wraps it up hahaha #literalmistake #englishishard #LANGUAGESTUDY ;) ;) ;) okay but seriously. the trio is going great. thanks so much for all the prayers. keep 'em up hey? haha they're working really well for me.... :) :) we're hoping to have a fantastically great week next week. as per usual. :) i love this area. i love my companions. I LOVE MY MISSION. it is literally the happiest i have ever been in my whole entire life. these past 16 (or however many...) months have been punctuated with moments of pure, true, joy. it's been the greatest thing i've ever ever ever ever done. and i love it. :) :) 

some favorite scriptures 'ere we part: Ether 3:18/Alma 26:30 -- "and all this, that this man might know that He was God" / "and all this, that perhaps we might be the means of saving some soul... and we supposed that our joy would be full if perhaps we could be the means of saving some." :) :)the work of salvation is about individuals :) :) ALL this is worth it for just one child of God :) :) :) :) :) :) :) i love it!!! i love, love, love, love, love you family :) :) :) this life is the greatest!! hard but good.... with moments of joy :) :) :)   can't wait to see you soon          xoxoxoxoxoxoxox               seester proffit :) :) :)