ATTENTION, EVERYONE {robin hood crocodile voice}

this week was another great week! it went by so fast! but also felt so long? haha basically the story of my whole mission ;)
so first of all, an assignment/challenge/idea for you! in preach my gospel, pp176-77, there are 10 "how to begin teaching" bullet points. the assignment/challenge/idea is to pick one and journal about how you've seen that truth in your own life :) and thennnnnnn to tell me about it! haha we talked about those last district meeting and they're cool :) also you can mold them to fit any situation. so they're perfect and true :)
so these are the facts:
1. this week {mondaytuesday&wednesdaymostly} was deathly hot. in the 90s. 5 million % humidity. and by that i mean i think it was actually in the 70s%. it felt like i was swimming.
2. my glasses fogged up. this is how hot & humid it was. THEY FOGGED UP;. i thought that a cloud was in the car with us. i have never been so wet.
3. there was an unsafe heat weather advisory not to go outside. That we didn't find out about until after.........
4. i walked 6 miles in this weather. 6. miles. MISSIONARY WORK, i tell ya! i was on exchanges in sturgeon bay with cute sister eden. it was great. and hot. and wet. and hot. and hot. and hot. i drank water.
5. bugs were sticking to sister ericksons arms. sticking to them. it was wet.
6. I GOT A FREE CHERRY PIE. let me repeat, a free cherry pie. this is perfect the highlight of my week, if not my entire life. this is how it went down: door county (where sturgeon bay is) is famous (apparently) for its cherries & cherry pies. so, obviously, i wanted one. During dinner in sturgeon, we went on the hunt. we located a bakery, it looked like they were closed, but there were people so we decided to go talk to them because that is what we do. and it turned out that yes the bakery was closed but they swore it was the best cherry pie in
door county and that getting any other pie would be doing myself a disservice. what a dilemma! so one guy went to get the owner while we chatted up the other guy and told him who we were and what we were doing :) THEN THE OWNER COMES OUT WITH A FROZEN CHERRY PIE. "how much do we owe you?" "psshhh. just come back here for breakfast sometime." and then he flees back into the store. leaving me. with a free.
frozen. door county cherry pie. yes this was the most exciting part of my week hahaha i hope you enjoyed reading that whole entire long story :) :) :) :): )
7. the pie was delicious :)
OTHER great things of the week................ a surprise wedding! My second hmong wedding, and i got to play the piano again! hooray! :) :) it was sooo cute :) bai is amazing, and i just love her. also elder schvanaveldt LOVES weddings and relift society. this is another fact.
and after the wedding we got to teach the m**** and cute miss b*** is progressing so much and feeling the spirit and loving it :) so cute! i just love her & her whole family!! :) :) they listen to the book of mormon every night on their ipad as they fall asleep :)
then THURSDAY we got to go to CAMP!! and i LOOOOOOOVE girls camp!! It made me want to go so so bad!!!! i love girls camp!! so fun!! we just went for testimony meeting and it was so so so so good :) and they
looooooooooooooooooove sister missionaries at girls camp hahaha we were like celebrities.............. seriously. so funny hahaha so cute!!!! LOVE girls camp & girls campers!! :) :)
and thaaaaaattttt was pretty much the week i think! just teachin lessons, meeting people, working with the ward, getting pumped for our un-titled ysa bonfire next sunday.... should be great!!

love you family!!! you are the greatest & i love you so so much :) :) :) :) :) hope you had a great week!! email me soon & tell me allllll about it :)


love, love, love   sister cece proffit :)

i'll think of a title later maybe :)

hello family! it's been another crazy busy speedy fast week!! and I wasn't even in my area for half the time! haha :)

updates on friends: sister m and her kids came to the church tour on monday! hurrah!! :) :) alsoooo n & m & h were there and they were all 3 at church and n & m are at girls camp right NOW :) yay!!! :) :) :) alsoooooo their mom wants to come to church! we brought sister r, who is awesome, to come with us to explain to her what girls camp is and to basically help us convince her to let the girls go hahaha and it worked!! they're there right now!! hurrah! i love girls camp!! :) :) :) sister r has also b & o to church every sunday since she found out they knew her daughter and basically she is just awesome :) alsoooo we {finally!} were able to teach j again and i just love her :) aaaaand we had zone training meeting, which was fun..... the elderzz just always make me laugh hahahaha they're just so good and trying to hard to be good and i just love 'em :) :)

speaking of things i love......... MARQUETTE MICHIGAN. it is like a magical land up dere, i tell yah. Caleb condie i thought of you & your michigan pride! up in da UP eh it is a wonderful place!! i met such great people! and funny people! with beards! and also a guy who looks like chad michael murray / heath ledger. yes, this is true.  side note about marquette: we carpool up with the zone leaders & the marinette elders, and on the way up we were talking about weight lifting....... yes, this is something i am an expert in............ but i was saying how my brother is like a champion weight lifter and elder palmer (who is from a literal FARM FARM in oregon) was talking about how he used to go out in the field and throw some weight around....... and from the back of the mini van (yes the zone leaders drive a mini van) comes elder lebaron's voice....... "i'll never be able to protect my woman :(" hahahahahahahahahaha i looooostttttt it hahahahhahahahaha sister erickson and i were CRYING laughing so hard hahahahahahhaaha. you have to know him........... all i can say is he loves lord of the rings and would fit right into the movies. so well. poor elder lebaron hahahah you'll be able to protect your woman! don't fret hahhah. i hope he never reads this. elder lebaron, you made my day hahahahaha :) :) :) such good elders.

anyways, the UP is a great place to be. it is BEAUTIFUL. oh wait, I think i have a picture! i'll try to attach it :) lake superior is definitely superior to lake michigan haha. also it's not as HOT up there (i am dying in green bay.) and the people are just amazing. We met bro graham..... look him up on mormon.org. http://mormon.org/me/9YTB/BroGraham. he plays in a band called "sparrow tree" or something and has a song called Zarahemla. yes, he is great. also he told me to look up a band called "langhorn slim" [I told him i liked his music] and so this is my reminder to myself to do so next april :)

speaking of april, how weird is that. so weird. anyways...

marquette is beautiful and the people are great :) :) also they have the world's greatest children's museum.

we've had some great lessons this week, trying to use art & music more & it's been great!! :) :) i just loove the Book of Mormon & the Spirit & how music & art can help people to feel the Spirit more :) :) :) sister erickson has that picture book, Another Testament? from mark mabry? it is great :) :)

yesterday we texted the entire world of YSA's and now we are waiting to hear back! well a couple of them have already said "GO AWAY" Hahaha but whatever! we texted like 100 people in the time it would've taken to knock like 5 doors so success = yes :) :)

also i love girls camp. i wish i was going every day. we might get to ride up thursday night for testimony and to see n & m!!!! :) :) and yesterday we got a referral from an 11 year old girl... she wants us to teach her friend and she wants to come with us. and we didn't even ask and neither did her parents. her name is o and she is awesome :) :)

and that was the week! it was a great one! 3 people came to church, hoorah!! :) :) missionary work is the best! it is stressful sometimes! perhaps a great majority of the time! but there is so much to learn! and do! and become!! :) :) i love it! even when i feel like i can never ever do it and i am the worst! which happens a lot haha Heavenly Father just seessoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much more in me than i see in myself and it is overwhelming at times!! but i just have to rise a little bit and try a little harder to be a litte better!! how grateful i am (general conference tense) for a Savior who Atoned for me, who makes it possible for me to REPENT and become better day by day as I rely on Him :) :) :) I just LOOOOOOOOOVE Him and I love you!! I'm grateful that He has made it possible for us to be together Eternally!!! also I love temples!!!!! everyone needs to go to one as often as possible!! worship there and feel His Spirit :) :):)

mission prep tip of the week: learn to recieve answers & revelation from the scriptures, not just to read them :) i know this will happen as you live what you learn! i'm so grateful for the scriptures and for you!!

love, love, love, love, love    your favorite wisconsin sister :) :)  xoxo

OH AND THIS AMAZING QUESTION from a lesson taught by a less-active ysa in marquette :) "What is your example telling others about your relationship with Heavenly Father?" :) :) :) :) :) perfection. ponder it :) love you!!!!

ahhhhh and remember how in appleton we would play music with the elders? well aparently elder smith sent some videos home and his mom put them on youtube........ try searching "usumicsmi nephi's courage"??? hahaha hopefully that works!!!!!!! :) :) :)

hola familia!

i have titled this email thus because we just got back from the mexican store. and i wish i spoke mexican :)

SOOOOOO this week was pretty fatastic! we played prophets charades with this cute mexican family... it's pretty funny when all the kids know about the stories is what you just told them hahaha i***** did a gigantic belly flop for hers..... any guesses?? no??? OBVIOUSLY it's Jonah being spit out of the whale! hahahaha she kills me :) :) AND the mother is less-active, so we've been going over there and just teaching little lessons to the kids, trying to bring the spirit, teaching them to sing the primary songs so the spirit can stay even after we leave.... and we've been going over there weekly since we got here, we found this family our first real day in green bay where we just walked around in the sun for hours. and. last tuesday. Sister m totally opened up and talked about how she believes in God and Jesus and the church and all that but she maybe doesn't feel it as much as we do? so we talked about that and helped her find the gospel library app for her phone and she was like "so where should i start? the book of mormon?" and we were like "hmmm yeah that might be good..." playing it all casual haha we were SO EXCITED!!!!!!! and then b**** and o**** came to the 4th of july picnic and bella was like "you know that app you put on my mom's phone? she's been on it every time she has a free minute at work and at home!" !!!!!!!!!! so that is p r e t t y darn exciting. totally worth walking around in the sun for 9 hours :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

also m****, our 13 year old investigator (n's sister!) is toooottally reading the book of mormon and loving it too :) :) hooray!! and we just saw their family today and finally met the mom and she's going to let the girls come to girls camp!!! hooray!!!!!! and the ward is so excited about it!! and the mom wants to come to church on sunday! hoorah!! now i just need to learn to speak hmong........... haha :) :)

other fun facts from the week: there is a sister in the ward who has had season packer tickets in the family since 1936. this is a true fact.

we alsooooooo had meet the president! and I love the Cutlers!! so so so so much :) :) :) :) :) love them. they have a huge focus on families, rescue work, and the book of mormon and i love it. they are  great teachers and leaders and i'm just so excited for the next 10 months with them!! (ps can you believe i've almost been out 8 months????????????????????????!!!) this cute senior couple bore their testimony (ps i love senior missionaries!!!!!!!) and they said the coolest, simplest thing... do you want to be closer to God? read the Book of Mormon :) kind of a neat challenge! so basic & true! :)

OH THIS ONE IS SO GOOD. attention everyone. l l, our investigator from chicago who is finna come to church, has written a rap. About what, you might ask? ABOUT ALMA THE YOUNGER. and it. is so. legit. we read it with her and then she made up a RAP on the spot about how she can relate to him and all this. it is soooooo cooooooool hahahah i'll have to make a copy of the words for you. it was so fun. i love it hahahahahahaha.

so on FRIDAY was mission leadership council, which is awesome, it's seriously so fun & cool & i just love president & sister cutler :) we carpool down with the gb & appleton zone leaders, who are great, and then we meet with all the zone leaders & sister training leaders & the assistants & president & sister cutler. and then we talk about the needs of the mission and how we can lift the mission! and it's wonderful! president cutler has SUCH a clear vision for this mission and is also really good at listening to our ideas and helping us council with each other :)he said over and over things like "teaching less-active members will help you find new investigators, but more importantly it will help you bring people back." and "it's just as important to bring someone back as it is to baptize. they have friends. we will have so many people to teach." and he kept over & over mentioning the book of mormon! it was the perfect answer to like every question hahaha when we talked about how we're struggling with progressing investigators & investigators at church, he would ask "how do you think it would make a difference if they were invited to study the book of mormon?" and we're all like uhhh that sounds good.... and then he would BOOM throw out an awesome promise - if we invite everyone to begin a serious study of the Book of Mormon, our issues with progressing investigators and sacrament meeting attendance will change dramatically. the Book of Mormon will bring repentance and will change our mission. they will WANT to come to sacrament meeting." !!! so we're all like, okay! let's do it! let's make this happen! hooray! :) :) :) and it just is really FUN! the spirit was so present and i loved it :) :) :) he also wants us to get a list of YSA's and just start texting them! he's like "you can text 100 people in the time it takes you to knock on 10 doors so......." :) :) :) also, wausau stake has a cool program called "flood the stake with the Book of Mormon," and part of it is inviting every recent convert to give a friend a Book of Mormon. and guess what? Wausau stake has 100% retention. i wish i could put numbers in all-caps. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. that is unheard of!!!!!!! and i know it's because of the Book of Mormon :) :) :) :) :) so that's awesome. also we've been going out with members to do some rescue work and it is legit! yesterday we had 4 lessons in 3 hours! miracles! :) :) :)  so basically, things are great.

scripture of the week: hebrews 13:16. because sometimes i'm really bad at communicating hahaha. :) :) also, from the cutlers: where did laman & lemuel get their joy? from their stuff. and they chose to be miserable without it. where did nephi get his joy? from the Lord :) who do you look to for approval? when we feel the Holy Ghost, we feel God's approval :) and when we read the Book of Mormon, we feel the Spirit!! :) :) :)

so that was the week! oh and we are planning the most legit ysa-rescue-work-shindig OF ALL TIME. i am seriously sooooooooooooooooooooo excited. we're calling it "bonfire" because the e***, j***, and i all agree that titles make it lame. sister erickson disagreed and wanted to call it "s'more spirit" but we outnumbered her hahahahaha. [note: that is a cute title. but perhaps not fitting for our target audience hahah] :) :) :) anyways the e***' have a seriously legit like loft-thingy and little cabin with a sweet backyard and a fire pit so we are having a bonfire shindig and everybody is going to come. booya. and we even got a budget for it. yes. this will be fantastic. i know it. i'm stoked :) :) july 28th! i'll let you know how it goes! :) :) we invited j*** because, by her own admittance, she doesn't like YSA things because they are lame. so she is our official lame-o-meter to help us make this osmething that people will actually want to come to :)

i hope you've had a fantastic week family!! i'm glad wyoming was fun!! you are the best & i love you :) :) :) i love being a missionary!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) 

love,  sister cece proffit :)  xoxoxoxoxox

request: can i have a little primary songbook? it would be soooo useful. jacob, bring one on your mission :) where will you go???????? when can you submit your papers?????????? :) :) :) :) :)

happy july! :)

SO this week has been a lotttttttttttt better hahaha :) and have I mentioned that the Green Bay *** ward is amazing??????????????? because they ARE :) :) :) last sunday we passed around a little hand-drawn calendar and were like "hey if you want to come out with us write down your name on a day and we'll call you" and it came back FULL. these sisters are incredible :) :) and they are all my best friends. i never want to leave them ever. the m's are moving at the end of the month and i'm SO sad about it....... she was baptized in college and served a mission in italy and she's a philosophy professor and she's AWESOME. she came out with us on tuesday for FIVE HOURS haha we didn't even realize how much time had gone by!!! we taught some lessons, tried to contact some people, did some street contacting and she just testified so straight up "i know that you're a son of God and that He wants you to be happy" and basically she's just amazing, then she took us to get the most delicious lunch ever, and then she introduced us to her neighbor friends that they've been having scripture study with for the past few weeks. aaaaaaaand everything is great and i love her. also we were looking for this referral (just sis erickson and i, sis m wasn't there) and couldn't find it and couldn't find it haha (the elders gave us the wrong street.......... that's okay! haha) but we were wandering around and it was like 9009283940 degrees (okay it wasn't thaaaaaaaaaaatt bad but it was hot) and TWO members drove past and were like "Heyyyyyy sisters!!! need a ride?????" and you probably don't realize how much of a miracle that is haha but i have only ONCE before on my mission met a member on accident, and that was at walmart in appleton. so it was cool. we didn't need a ride but it was just really nice of them, and the hones even helped us find the address :) :) :) soooooooo i love them. :) also i love the m. brother m is the WML and sister m is the RSP........ yeah. crazy haha. And they have 4 little daughters who are SO cute and always give us hugs.... they're like 9 7 4 and 2. or something. i just guessed haha. but they're super awesome. and hilarious. and they love each other. and they do so much to help this ward. it's incredible. the saints in wisconsin are the best, y'all!!

i re-read my mission call letter this week and just remember how when i read that i had NO IDEA what i was getting myself into.... i had no idea how much i would come to LOVE the state of wisconsin and the good
wonderful amazing beautiful saints here and the other missionaries I serve with and just EVERYTHING about being a missionary. i had. No idea. i still don't have any idea. but it's just really cool. :) and i
love it here :)(can you believe it's been almost a year since i got my call? WHAT.) :)

aaaaaaanyways, the saints here are amazing. and i use the word "Saints" intentionally :) :) we've taught some fun lessons this week, some of the most spiritual of my time in Green Bay, and STILL no one has made it to church haha we're going crazy.................................. we might just have to get creative hahaha but it will all work out!!! anyways sister erickson is really good at thinking of lesson ideas and so we've had some fun...
something i've been realizing is that in missionary work, finding and teaching, you have to play to your strengths. God gave them to you for a reason! so one of our new favourite things to do is to sing in
lessons. we teach this family with all these crazy kids.......actually just two 7 year olds and a 2 year old haha but it feels crazy sometimes!! so for our last lesson we sang "joseph smith's first prayer" (to the tune of "come thou fount" because that's easier......):) and just had them write/color whatever they heard or thought about,
 and then they shared what they had made and it was really cool! They were quiet and you could tell they felt the Spirit! even the mom did :) so it was fun! and then they put the pictures up by their beds to remind them to pray :) and we adapted it for these other girls we're teaching, they're 13 11 and 18 and so we sang again and they made little bookmarks to put in their book of mormons :) it was fun AND the Spirit was there... hooray! :) :)

ALSO (and this is cool) we're teaching this way cool girl named L.... she is from chicago. like, FROM chicago. And sometimes...... i cannot understand what she says haha. she's african-american and FROM the ghetto of chicago. she is teaching me the ways of being cool and i am teaching her the gospel. it's a good
trade ;) haha. no but she says this word, "finna", and i was like whaaaaaaaaaaatttttt are you saying????? "FINNA". it's short for "fixing to." which is short for......? i don't know what haha. but you use it like "i was finna go outside" or something. or "i was finna beat him up" in her case hahahahaha. she is awesome. and after a while i totally start to understand. if that's not the gift of tounges I don't know what is ;) haha. anyways she is legit and we brought our friends the Es' with us (ANOTHER amazing couple!!!) and now they're like her best friends hahahaha :) :) also she always tells us to bring snacks. so a lot of our lessons are food object lessons hahaha. BUT ANYWAYS here is the awesome part. we get to talking to her and she says she believes in God but she doesn't understand how someone she doesn't even know would come and die for her. she says she's had some experience in the world and no one would even give you a dollar, let alone give their life for you. WOAH. so we got to straight up just teach and testify of Christ which is MY FAVORITE THING EVER. it was SO COOL. and brother e was teaching and explaining about how the Atonement gives him strength to become better etc etc and she just had the BIGGEST GRIN ON HER FACE and afterward she was like "while you were talking i just thought, if he can do it i can do it" and even though she's had a WAY different life and has way different challenges, it was just cool. so now they are like best friends forever hahaha. she is legit. up top. thumbs up. yaknowhatimsayin? haha. it's fun :)

in other news........ hm. i met a man from texas! he called me ma'am :) alsooooooo while we were at the restore we called a member to ask if he could come with us to a lesson, he said he had work but "i've
been meaning to call you guys...... my neighbors are coming to church on sunday and they want to learn about the gospel, so we can set up a time for you to come teach them at my house if you want" uhhhhhhhhh whattttttt??????????????? hahahahhahaah AWESOME. soooo cooooool!! And that's just how this ward is, that's how the saints in wisconsin ARE! they just WANT to share the Gospel -- they are so motivated by their
LOVE of God and their love for their friends, and it is amazing and I love them :) :) and i have so many other best friends here that I could tell you all about but i guess that'll probably come up later :)

other fun lessons we've been teaching....... the gospel of Jesus Christ with a tide-to-go stick. sis erickson gets a stain on her white skirt. how does it feel to have dirty clothes? tide to go stick = Atonement. faith = knowing that it works enough to USE it :) repentance = scrubbing the stain out. baptism/sacrament = the washing
machine. the gift of the holy ghost = scotch guard. and it warns you when there is a big drip of spaghetti sauce about to fall on your lap!!! & helps you become better :) enduring to the end = doing it over & over until we stand before our Heavenly Father in totally clean white clothes :) :) :)

also sister erickson has a pretty good sports analogy for the plan of salvation........ it's fun :) we're teaching a baseball player so pre-earth life = practices before the game, the dugout. earth life = you're up to bat, etc. baptism is like hitting a home run. haha fun stuff like that :) :) And then the goal is to get HOME....... get it?????? hahaha :) :) i just love the gospel and i know that it's true! :)

scriptures of the week:
Alma 2:28 -- they prayed to be DELIVERED.... the Lord chose to STRENGTHEN them :) :)
2 Cor. 13:14 because i like it :)

I love you all!!!!! So so so so much :) :) :) You are the best examples to me, and I just love you :) amen, amen, & amen :) :) love, love, love

sister cece proffit :) :)

and yes new mission president is here! meeting him wednesday! mission leadership council friday! oh boy oh boy!! :)

THE GREATEST BROADCAST OF ALL TIME

OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay so i feel that this letter will mostly focus on the AMAZING broadcast from last night, since i was smart and actually brought my NOTES to the library this time hahaha and this week was pretty regular anyways. :) but just a quick re-cap......... we have the greatest ward ever and i love them, nacho is my new bff, she came with us to a lesson and bore the GREATEST testimony of prayer that totally brought the spirit like woah and made the whole lesson amazing, it was awesome, we volunteer at the habitat for humanity restore which is the greatest idea ever, it's like home depot meets goodwill and dad would love it, and while i was there i made up mad-gabs (sometimes it's pretty slow, especially when there are thunder & lightning storms ps we have had the biggest craziest thunderstorms of my life this week) and so here is my mad-gab: "chilled rent office real." i was pretty proud of myself. (that could be an indicator for how the week went............ take it however you like hahaha) :) :)

SO THEN THERE WAS THIS BROADCAST. and hooooooooolyy smokies was it good. and boy howdy did i need it. and did i cry? why yes i did because it was amazing and i felt it. :) :) i mayyyy have mentioned last letter about the seven-month-slump and i how i feel like i'm getting worse at a missionary and how i feel like i'm not good at anything? did i mention that? i think so. anyways, Heavenly Father is merciful and loving and aware, and it's not like everything is 100% better but let me tell you two things that are amazing: 1) CHURCH. 2) the Spirit. and they go together like wham. it's the best. God really does know what He's doing with these commandments hahaha. :) :) :) also, living apostles & prophets & modern revelation. i just can't get over that hahaha it's JUST SO COOL :) :) :) :) :)

sooooooooooo bascially it was the best. and i love this ward because they are already ALL over it!! they always invite their friends to dinner with us, or to church, or they text us and say they want to come out with us, and when we passed around a "when do you have some time to come out with the sister missionaries" calendar it came back FULL. yes, they are the best. :) :) :)

so can everyone just please watch this broadcast? and can we show the videos in every member appointment ever? and can we use the internetand ipads soon? yes we can :) :) :)

Probably the number 1 thing that I loved from the broadcast was just the spiritual, personal reminder of Jesus Christ's PERSONAL interest in me and in what I'm doing. that felt good hahah. :) I always knew that Jesus was interested, invested even, but I just liked the word "personal." like He really does have a PERSONAL interest in me! we're like BFFS! we're more than BFFs, we're related!! :) :) :) best friend ever <3 alsoooooooo one of those videos, i forget which one, i think the missionary song medly one? reminded me that THIS, what i'm doing right now, is what i've prepared my whole life for. and it's what mom & dad have prepared me my whole life for. this is it! this is the culmination of so much! not like this is the end goal of my life but serving a mission is what i've wanted for soooooooo long and prepared for soooooo much and what mom & dad have raised me for and sacrificed so much for and now i'm living it!! :) :) :) it reminds me of the talk we had in sacrament meeting last week -- ps this kind of cracked me up because (oh i am going to sound heartless, and i feel bad but...) the man was speaking about a really hard experience, and he got pretty emotional and choked up, and i thought it was going to be like his mom has cancer or something.... well it was that his dog had died, but it was a really great talk because he talked about his two new lab puppies and how they were bred to be bird dogs (POINT!) and then talked about what we were bred to do, and how we were bred to love. and it was just really great but it kind of cracked me up too, so it was awesome :)

anyways...... israel israel God is calling! and this is what it means to follow the prophet. in noah's day it meant get on the ark, in moses' it meant cross the red sea, in Jesus' day it meant leave your nets behind, and for me today in 2013 it means be here in Green Bay Wisconsin and work my heart out everyday to bring souls to Christ. what does it mean for you? :) :)

i loved the soccer team analogy... i loved how they said that friends and neighbors are properly situated to invite, because that is so true.... we don't have any friends here haha but the members do! I loved the video they showed of the family, i loved Elder Holland's *promise* that an invitation that is born of our love for them and for Jesus Christ, & our sincere concern for their happiness, will NEVER be recieved with offense :) woooo-hoooooo prophetic promises!! oh and that reminds me -- sometime Elder Oaks asked when he was here was "How does it feel to be a prophetic priority?" meaning that the prophet personally prays for us every day. and someone else yesterday was like "i hope you're having a great day! you'd better be, you've got like 10 million people praying for you" hahaha which is so true!!!!!! & i can feel the prayers and they're great :) boy howdy do we need them! Also i'm thinking about adopting "boy howdy" as my new go-to phrase..... what do you think? ;)

anyways, family history is great, families are great, rescue work is great, missions are great, and God is great :) it was the awesomest meeting ever. what were your thoughts?? boy howdy i would love to hear them!!! (okay okay i'll stop hahah) ps i'm sorry i haven't responded to letters all transfer!!!!!!!!!! also - THIS IS IMPORTANT TAKE NOTE - we got a new mission office address!! so they've been holding the mail for a while so i haven't gotten any haha but i think it'll come soon, they usually hold it during transfers anyways, speaking of which this
is the craziest transfer ever ahhhhh i fwd'd the transfer board and the new mission address to mom & dad i think :) nate-ster i should fwd the address to you too.... or i could just attach it to this email I guess haha. i'll just do that :)   okay my new address is:

Sister Cecelia Proffit
Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission
7111 W. Edgerton Ave STE #100
Greenfield, WI 53220 :)

also that email cracked me up with the fortune cookie segue hahaha. (how do you even spell segue anyways????)

soooooooo speaking of segues...... i loved the mission broadcast! The Lord's objectives are accomplished one soul at a time! this is something Elder Oaks talked about last week (think 1st vision..... question to ponder, why did the Father and Jesus Christ appear to just one boy? why not a crowd of people?) and Elder Bendar in that
FANTASTICALLY AMAZING LIFE-CHANGING talk from the MTC - why did the Savior touch the 16 stones from the brother of Jared 1 at a time?? (see ether 3. i think. maybe 2.)

act by inspiration, motivated by life. decide to do it right. decide to be better. (decide what to be, and go
be it.) :)

Israel, Israel, God IS calling! Now is the time, and we are the troops:) I love this great redemptive work, and I love my Savior Jesus Christ, in Whose strength I can do all things :) :)and I love YOU, family! i love this gospel that lets us be together forever, AS a family! love, love, love it. love this gospel. love you all. amen. :) :) :) :)

xoxoxoxo     

SISTER CECELIA PROFFIT, MISSIONARY :)   

  oh and i just want to add a ps that there is no greater bromance than the quoroum of the 12 apostles. if that is blasphemous, i am sorry. It is true. :) :) :)act by inspiration, motivated by LOVE i mean hahaha my fingers are too fast. also someTHING elder oaks said, not sometime. whatever. you get it. :) :) love you!!!

is there anything better than a sneak-atta​ck-from-th​e-back hug from an old hmong grandmama? no, no there is not :) :)

hello family! i can't believe how quickly this week has gone by! every week is like p-day, district meeting, exchanges, planning,service, saturday, church.... p-day again!! what the whaattt?? so this week went by way too quickly.
 the obviously highlight is (of course) getting to meet with an APOSTLE. hey remember how Jesus called like 12 or so apostles back in the day? and how after his death they called another one? Peter,James, John, those guys? yeah we have LIVING apostles on the earth today with the exact same power & authority and it is AWESOME. Jesus Christ has again called apostles and given them authority! and they go around the world and testify of Him! it is amazing! and one came to Wisconsin! and he shook my hand! and said hello sister proffit! and also 4 seventies were there! (those are from the bible too...) :) and it was awesome! and i played the piano while sister erickson played violin and my friends elder kanahele and elder densley sang! and i didn't even mess up that bad!! haha thanks for the prayers, seriously, it was really good and i loved it :) :) :)
  so that was awesome. Elders Ward, Funk, Nielson, and Clayton came, and then of course Elder Dallin H. Oaks, who it turns out is HILARIOUS and loves to make jokes about his balding head and then laugh so hard his shoulders shake hahahahaha it was marvelous. i loved it :) they're all so happy! :) of course i left my notes at home but the main thing isn't even what they said, it was just how they said it...... ah. i loved it. Elder Oaks talked for about an hour, it flew by, just random stuff kind of, he would be like "hmm what else do i need to tell you......" and then go off on something else. it was awesome. probably one of my favorite things he said was that we are the only ones (us + him and the other general authorities, but mostly us) who get to do this full-time. you'll spend the rest of your life trying to balance work and family and school and life, but right now you get to be a full-time missionary. so BE A FULL-TIME SERVANT. and just the way he said it..... the Spirit was like boom. yeah. do that. :) :) :) it's harrrrrrdd!! haha but it's the only way to be!!
> so sometimes i feel like i'm just getting worse and worse as a missionary as time goes on haha i think i'm in like a seven-month-slump or something............ which is lame........... but i'm working on it!! and sister erickson has been amazing, and being a sister training leader is helping even though i'm feeling WAYunderqualified still hah. this next transfer should be crazy! we're way excited!
> as far as investigators go, there's not much to report..... we still have not had any friends come to church with us, but that's okay, there's always next week.... lots of people have said they want to be baptized, it's just a matter of meeting with them and helping them progress and feel loved, so that's our goal for the upcoming week. we did a lot of volunteer work this week at the railroad museum, which was way fun and we met a lot of people, but it did cut into our proselyting time. but that's okay. next week will be different :) also there is the worlds giantest spider in the library window next to me right now. but that's irrelevant haha.
> sooooo.......... that's been the week!! I love you all, I miss you tons, I love being in Green Bay :) This ward is amazing, they're so excited to introduce us to their friends so we're working on doing that in the best way and helping everyone to come unto Christ! Woo-hooo!!! What a great work we are engaged in!! :) :) I love it. I really do love it, even when I'm tired and grumpy haha. The Lord is merciful! He loves us all. He is patient with us, and He sees so much more in us than we see in ourselves. Hopefully someday I'll be able to be some tiny part of what He sees in me :)
  love, love, love you so much --- have a great week :) :)>  
 sister cece proffit :) oh ps - one thing that i also loved from elder oaks is that he said he didn't know something. elder holland did that too when he spoke at the MTC. elder oaks was like "what is the gospel apart from the church? well, i'm still thinking about that one...." and i LOVE that! Even the apostles don't know everything! they don't need to! so take a chill pill sister Proffit and just rely on what you DO know haha :)
anyways. love love love you still :) :)  xoxoxoxox


sister cece :)

 

I LOVE GREEN BAY WISCONSIN.​..........​.. whattt????​??

Wellllllll wellll wellllllll......... another week over and done with already!!! it's been a GREAT one, as usual. Missionary work is never the same! :) I wrote down just some random things that I wanted to tell you all, so we'll see how this email goes haha.

Last Monday we got home from grocery shopping and had like -3 seconds till we had to be at correlation so we just stuffed our grocery bags into the fridge.... a la "it's a miracle" hahahaha it made me laugh :) :) Other funnies...... we learned that "Packer Sunday," with abbreviated 30 minute sermons, is a real-life thing. Go Pack Go! hahaha :) :) additionally, we were role playing with the zone leaders at mission leadership conference, the
baptism invitation, and the one companion was like "what scripture should we use.......... 3 Ne. 3:7?" and his companion was like "NO" hahahaha..... look it up ;)

food update: i'm addicted to these things called "gogo squeez." all-natural applesauce in a deliciously convenient spoonless pack. I think it might be baby food. but i love it regardless. :)

scenery update: green bay wisconsin continues to be the most beautiful area of all time. OF ALL TIME. the end. (i sent some pictures home but they are lame at capturing the amazing beauty of the world God gave us
to live in. He loves us tons, it's whatever. Well actually it's not but you know.) :)

IMPORTANT update: I have a new bff named........NACHO. NACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! technically her name is pronounced na-CHOW (kind of... it's Hmong) but literally everyone calls her Nacho. it's awesome. And on a more serious note, she asked for a priesthood blessing yesterday and it was... so beautiful. so much beauty. God's love for each
individual.... it's amazing.

More important updates........ I officially love the Green Bay 2^nd ward and have adopted them into my heart. They are amazing. Too many amazing people to write about but suffice it to say they are ALL amazing and I love them ALL so so much!!!! We had Ward Council yesterday and my head was spinning hahaha it was going so so fast! (Bishop has ADD I think.) It was awesome though! and then we had the most amazing relief society lesson ever about the temple! and I remember how grateful I am for the temple! and that I love my family so so much!!! And yes I definitely cried! it was embarrassing but not because I love the Green Bay 2nd ward relief society like they are my home ward! :) :) :)

We've had some amazing teaching opportunities with members and their friends which has been AMAZING of course, i'm overusing that word but i don't care, it's true. And we had a great exchange on Saturday with
Sturgeon Bay!! It made me really really really grateful for the Sister Training Leader program and SO humbled to BE a sister training leader, but it seriously is so great to be able to go into and area, feel such
a love for these sisters, and identify how we can best help them and lift their area and find "more joy in His service!" :) These poor Sister had been tracting all day every day for 3 weeks............ not okay. It was wearing on them; you could tell they just weren't happy. So we halted THAT and brainstormed together some new creative better finding methods and then put them into practice! Let's use the members! Let's get creative! Let's please not just be knocking doors all day long!! haha. So it was cool to be able to help. And it was really good for me too because I've been feeling just SO YOUNG lately and like I have NOOOOOOOOO idea what I'm doing (satan you sneaky dog.........) so it was good. I don't know much, but I do have a bit of experience and I DO love these sister so so much and I love what the Lord has called us to do :) How great is our calling???????????? (SO GREAT!!!)

So basically I love being a missionary, and I love all of you. Family you are the greatest!! We are a forever family. Hallelujah!!! aaaaaaaaamen :) :) :) have a great week!!! live the gospel, love the gospel, share the gospel :)

xoxoxoxoxox

SISTER CECELIA PROFFIT  :) :)

and um okay SORRY about the horrible spelling and grammar towards the end of this haha i was feeling a bit rushed for time???? but i do have 10 more minutes haha so....... my bad. :) :) and SINCE i have more time, i'll tell you one quick story -- after our exchange with sturgeon bay, we met in the TINIEST TOWN EVER with the
most BEAUTIFUL view for pizza.... it was delicious, and then we talked to to the pizza worker and told him who we were and invited him to church and prayed with him and got his number to text him the address haha. thumbs up for missionary work! talk with everyone! :) :) haha. AND we've met a ton of awesome people, and like all of them want to be baptized. well not all of them but so many of them. one of them is italian. it is awesome. :) :) we call him FRATELLO HERSI, all-caps always. :) :) :)

loveeeee youuuuu!!!!! missionary work is the best!!! Xoxooxoxoxoxoxo