looks like i'm moving to appleton!!
you can all come visit me here come april. it's a lovely place. you will love
it here :) :)
no but seriously. i love this ward
too much. and woodman's is a MAGICAL land of food that i'm NOT sure i can live
without. also culvers. & toms. & mostly woodmans'. #lovewisconsin
#toomuch? #nevertoomuch :) :) :)
this week was lovely. the weeks
always are. do i have to come home in april? i vote not.
conversation on halloween:
sister k: "so when does your
mission end?"
me: "NEVER!"
"..... okay but when do you go
home."
".... april :("
that's pretty much how it goes
around here hahaha. :) :) so i never want to be transferred ever (story of my
life) and this ward is the greatest ever. i'm pretty sure there are 4 amazing
wards in wisconsin and i've served in all of them. they are the greatest. and
actually i was kind of homesick on friday (i'll tell you WHY in a second!!) and
of course the time comes to come home but............. i just really love
wisconsin okay????????? #thingsineverthoughtidheardmyselfsay #seemyselftype
#whatever :) :)
okay this is why i was homesick. friday
at restore-land my friend p (i love my friend p! he cracks me uppp) put in an
album and what was it?? THE AVETT BROTHERS.
family. i forgot how much i love this band......
those are missionary songs, right??????
jk jk. but i really love that band
hahaha. i knew me and phil were true friends!!!!!!!!!
so that made me a bit homesick. and
other stuff probably. but i am still happy :) :) :) one year!! so crazy. i love
you, family! why do we always end letters with love, instead of starting them
that way? #ponderthat.
okay i'm a weirdo. what else is
new............ oh, my sincere apologies to everyone i've neglected to write
back over the past like..... month or 3 hahaha. i'm working on it!!!!!!! i've
resolved to write SO many letters today so hopefully i will get one to you soon
and just know that letters light up my life :) :)
okay. in other news, zone
conference! was wonderful :) highlights --- a testimony from a member who
joined as an adult several years ago. um can you say spiritual overload?? yes i
can. notes: -- no other book has the same promise as the Book of Mormon (moroni
10:3-5). -- our commission is to PREACH. (mark 16:15) not convert or anything
else. -- no one you ever talk to is not a beneficiary of the Atonement of Jesus
Christ. -- i know that the Book of Mormon has changed your life.
family, have i already talked about
how amazing the Book of Mormon is?? i have?? well here it comes again..........
I DIDN'T KNOW all the things that i know that have changed my life and shaped
me and helped me to be happy come from the Book of Mormon!!! i thought people
just knew that........... oooohhh family. oh how everybody needs this book at
the truth it contains!!!!!!! let's share it, okay? :) :) challenge: find a
doctrine in the Book of Mormon that has changed your life. and then share it
with me :) :) :)
other thing that is true that i knew
but it just clicked this week how simple & perfect it is:
God loves us perfectly, so He wants
what's best for us. God has all wisdom, so He knows what's best for us. and God
has all power, so He can make all things work together for our good...... if we
let Him :) :) :) so awesome, right??? love that :) :)
an update on my friends: sister m is
doing AWESOME and has probably the best home teachers of all time. so what else
is new with this ward.......... of course they're awesome. brother d (her home
teacher who sent his kids to help her friend move which of course they did even
though it was their vacation time and it was like... a sketchy house way out in
kaukauna hahaha) is TEXTING her EVERY NIGHT to follow up on how her Book of
Mormon reading is going & how her addiction recovery is going.
THAT is true home teaching my
friends!!! that is more than a 15 minute visit once a month. that is being a
true undershepherd. :) :) :) sooooooo good. loooooove it :) :) :) also, she's
doing great. she got a blessing and is reading and it's just so so lovely :) :)
and K K who i love with all my
heart............ CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! yesssssssss it was soooooo good
to see her there :) :) :) she is reading a verse a day from the Book of Mormon
(apparently there's an app for that.....) and she had an awesome job interview
with time warner cable (yesss..... we practically pushed her out the door to that
one haha but she went!! hooray!!) AND she went to addiction recovery on
thursday. yayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! oh k. i love you with my whole heart. you
remind me so much of me haha :) :) :) I JUST LOVE HER AND ALL THE HUMANS OF
APPLETON PRETTY MUCH. they are the greatest........... as usual. :) :) :)
other news: the d are great. we had
dinner there and i laughed harder than i have in a looooooong time. long time
hahaha. they have two teenage boys who remind me SO MUCH of my brothers it was
ridiculous & hilarious. soooooooooo fun. chuck norris jokes forever. :)
:)
also, we went to go talk to the
beehive president about my recent convert friend named c who is a beehive......
and of course she is awesome. she's 13 and she's awesome. she's like "yeah
i've been thinking about her and praying about it, and i think this would help
her to feel more welcome" etc etc etc. what?????? who even are
you............... the rising generation. i tell ya. so ridiculously awesome.
also a c was there (she's the beehive advisor) and she is the best. as usual.
as always. whatever. LOVE HER. :) :) :) so that was awesome.
saturday was lovely..... we taught
some cute little kiddies in the morning and decorated a CHRISTMAS tree!! :) :)
:) our friend sister z had her great-grandkids over and they have not been
raised in gospel-centered homes....... not at all. so we broke out my gospel
art book (best present ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and flipped though the pictures of
Christ and asked them what they saw and talked about it and it was sooooooooo
good!!!!! i felt like this video http://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/suffer-the-little-children-to-come-unto-me?lang=eng which
is a good feeling cause it's a video of Christ ;) haha. but yes. it was lovely.
and i realized that sooo many people don't know what we know!! they don't know
about Jesus Christ, that He lived & died & lives again for them and
that He is the way to be happy!!!!!! sooooooooo we gotta tell people. so that
they can tell their kids. because kids who don't know become teenagers &
young adults who don't know, and i'm not sure how anybody is supposed to
survive that time of life without knowing that they are a child of God who
loves them.... that someone (Jesus Christ) is there for them. Someone who loves
them & knows what's best & can help them. All love, all wisdom, all
power. it's real!!! and kids need to know :) :) soooooo i love that. teach all
the children!! we will be later this week :) :) :) wiiiiiiiiith my friends from
the primary, of course :) :) and my handy-dandy picture book!! hooray!! :) :)
also --- i just HAPPENED to grab a couple of cds i'd made earlier of primary
songs, i literally never carry them around but i just grabbed them that morning
and did i give each little boy a cd? you betcha i did :) :) take it home, feel
the Spirit. boom.
also, best referral ever from
isaiah, age 6, after looking through the Jesus pictures. "Yeah, you can
come teach my class at school this! my teacher, and all my friends!"
that's the spirit :) :) :) love it.
also sister silva has pointed out
that i used smileys and hearts instead of punctuation.
this is true. it's whatever :) :) :
also, something else that is true:
revelation comes when we're driving in the car, not sitting in the apartment.
how unfortunate...... my apartment is warmer hahaha. but this is a truth! God
can't steer a parked car :) :)
what else is true....... oh. this is
true: our neighbor listens to SAIL by awolnation very loudly at aproximately 11-11:30pm
every night. it's quite enjoyable.....
truth: apparently i'm referred to as
a "lady" now, instead of a girl. "ask that lady" etc. #old
#yearmark
truth: matthew 25:34-40
that is the scripture of yesterday
<3 <3 we weren't planning on it (since when do our plans ever actually
happen.......) but the P'S (who i love and want to be exactly like) came over
to drop something off for us and then were like "hey we're gonna go visit
this member in the hospital, wanna come?" um obviously yes. so we did. and
oh, family. it was so spiritual. soooo touching. so sacred. i'll just tell you
the gist of it.... basically, we brought him church.
1) i am so grateful for mom &
dad forcing/encouraging us to sing all the hymns and learn to play the piano.
we went and chatted a bit, asked him
how he's doing, sang a few hymns, and then his home teachers showed up (one of
who is recent convert j k who.... you guessed it..... I LOVE) and they brought
him the sacrament. and we sang the sacrament hymn of the day, "I stand all
amazed" and he just cried and cried. and then brother k knelt and blessed
the sacrament just for him. and it was like i'd never heard the sacrament
prayers before. oh. my goodness. i can't even describe it. i wish i could. 3 ne
17:17. anyways..... it was glorious. and then we sang some more hymns. and had
a prayer. and it was beautiful.
and then brother p was like
"did you gals sing with the mormon tabernacle choir before your mission??
let's go sing to some more people!!" so we got the zone leaders permission
and we just went hymn-caroling to people all afternoon long. AND IT WAS
GLORIOUS. oh my friends. how the gospel blesses lives :) :) :) i. love. people.
i love faithful people who have such a long rich life full of faith :) :) :) it
inspires me. the p are amazing, seriously. he has the best smile of my life and
i need a picture of it before i get transferred. married for 43 years, sealed
for 40. introduced to the church by a co-worker :) :) :) LOVE IT.
so that's pretty much been the
week!! i don't ever want to leave appleton...... i've had that musical about
gethsemane, "the garden" stuck in my head all week and i really want
to listen to it..... and i love church! and i love the gospel!! and it's making
me & all my friends here so so happy!! sooooooooo......... let's share it
with everyone :) :) k? k :) :) :)
i love this missionary life
i love all of you
i love appleland
i love the Book of Mormon
i love temples (i want to
go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
i love the plan of salvation
oh!!! i taught a lesson almost all
in spanish on friday. well i didn't really teach in spanish. i tried. we brought
a member who speaks spanish haha and i used all my spanish words and then just
testified in english. but i understood like 65% of what was going on!! hooray!!
:) :) :) so that was fun :) :)
but anyways yes. the gospel maketh
me happy :) :) :)
i. love. this. life.
& i love you so so much :) :)
hooray for Jesus Christ & His restored gospel!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)
love love love sister cece proffit :) :) xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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wow sorry that is like... the
world's longest novel haha :) :)
xoxo
also, i'd like to issue a formal
apology for the ATROCIOUS spelling & grammar in my letters as of late. i
just get really excited??? it's embarrassing...... whatever :) :)
ALSO -- we're teaching this friend of mine in spanish (do i speak
spanish?? nope! whatever, not a problem) and she texted us alllll in spanish
about why she didn't come to church and i'm so confused and i'm busting out the
spanish-english dictionary we have but there's so many typos and conjugations
that i don't know so all i basically get is "plums" ........... so i
fwd the text to a spanish-speaking member who says "I am not making this
up!! She says she drank too much prune juice last night and it hit her hard this
morning. lol!!" hahhahaa. i love members? yes i do. :) :) :) HAVE AN
AWESOME WEEK!!! beware mucho jugo de ciruela!! (or something.....) :) :)
:)
love you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
:) :) :)
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