and it appears that the season of appleton is
over :( :( :( sadsadsadsadsad. cry me a river & call it the fox <3
okay, that was dramatic haha. :) but yes, i am
leaving appleton and now is the season of kettle moraine!! which is a teeny
town that no one has heard of so i just say south milwaukee or west of
waukesha.
i had a feeling i would be going back down
south to milwaukee.... which actually gives some nice symmetry to my mission: i
started in south milwaukee, went to appleton, then green bay, then back to
appleton, and now back to south milwaukee, which will mostly likely be my last
stop.
CRAZY RIGHT???????? i'm not sure how i feel about all this. it's weird.
but anyways. president cutler called to tell
me i was needed down there and so down there i will go. but i will leave my
heart in appleton!!! just kidding i'll bring part of it with me to kettle moraine.
:)
perks: it's close to the TEMPLE so i can go
hopefully!! aaaaaaand it's south for the winter hahaha ;) not that it makes
much difference....... HEY it was -1 yesterday! withOUT the windchill!
wooo-hooooo!! :) :)
this is what is hard: it is hard to give your
whole heart to somewhere/someone/something, and then to just leave it all
behind. but. we survive :) okay do you wanna hear about my week now??
:) :)
first of all, i love my elder friends. and
it's sad because i'm getting to the point where i will probably never serve
around them again. but tis okay. i can make new friends right?? :) & elder
beech is coming with me to mke to be the new assistant wooooooo! party :)
fact: this letter is going to be all over the
place. like my brain. and my life.
fact 2: the lady next to me is singing along
with michael jackson under her breath and it is uber distracting and i don't
use that word lightly hahaha
fact 3: okay she's gone. i had to pause my
email until she stopped hahaha bc i literally could not handle it.
you're welcome for this peek into actual
missionary life ;) #nexttimeonthedistrict
okay sorry i'm insane.
ANYWAYS. :) :)
so tuesday was good. zone training meeting! i love
Preach My Gospel & the Book of Mormon. seriously my two most valuable
earthly possessions are my mission copies of those books. i LOST my PMG
temporarily and it was the worst thing ever. but they found it in oshkosh. so
i'll get it back on wednesday and hug it forever and never let it leave my
sight. *yay!* :) :)
more facts: i love appleton
i love the new mormon message with the guy
from kid history!! :) :) http://www.mormonchannel.org/christmas-videos?v=2919740155001
i love it when sister silva flooded the
kitchen with soap trying to do the dishes!! (pictures to follow)
i loved it when i got to tutor a s on the
protestant reformation!! we went to their house just to bring them some candy
and a paper chain because i love them, and sis s was like "I don't know
anything about that a i can't help you study" and i was like "hey
that was my major! i'll help you study!" and then she got an a because i
made her say "copernicus questioned the calendar" twelve times fast
and "ignatius no-questions" and dumb stuff like that hahaha and then
sister s told me i was a rockstar angel. and i love her and i love helping
people. and she invited me over on Christmas to skype and play PIANO DUETS but
dumb, i'm leaving. depressing. oh well. :)
anyways, i loved that. also, it's cold. 9 degrees and i'm not wearing a coat! so
perhaps i am acclimating? :) :)
another fact: I AM SO HAPPY. MISSIONS ARE THE
BEST. seriously, i had this realization (again) on thursday... THIS IS THE GREATEST. i have 100% of my
time to dedicate to helping my friends. no job, no school, no studies.... you
need me? i'm there. nothing else to distract me. nothing else to do but serve.
HOW COULD I NOT LOVE IT. i tell ya. so happy :) :) and i love my friends and i
love the Appleton 2nd ward <3 <3 <3 we had a relief society white
elephant gift exchange and then missionary correlation meeting thursday night and i just laughed and laughed and was SO HAPPY!!!!!
these people are the greatest hahaha.
OOKAY. so i literally told sister silva AS WE
WERE WALKING INTO CHURCH on
sunday not to tell anybody
that i'm being transferred because i don't like people to know. AND THEN br s comes up to me and is like "hey i hear
you're being transferred! where are you going??" and i'm like "what
the...." and THEN they announce it over the pulpit during church hahaha
well there goes that secret....... but anyways. in relief society sis s was
like "thanks for truly being a sister to us" and that meant a lot to
me. i just love this appleton 2nd ward :) :) :)
this email is completely out of order but i'm
not even going to attempt to fix it.
i still haven't told you about my saturday morning panic attack. be
excited :)
anyways. friday
was great. we went to restore funland and took pictures with friends!! and
EEEEEVERYONE was asking us if we celebrate Christmas and what we're doing for
Christmas and why aren't we going home and what do we do all day anyways??
welllllllll let me tell you, my friends!! :) :) so that was lovely. pictures to
follow :) also my friend s from restore asked us a really interesting
question.... we told her that we volunteer and pay to be here and all that and
she's like "so what benefits do you get from your mission?" and we
were like uhhh..... nothing really.... at least nothing monetary! we just love what
we do! :)
it was kind of cool to think about :)
SATURDAY was day of drama because it was flip-flop day (i have
less time left than sis silva has been out), dad's birthday (not too much drama
there), the 1st day of the 12 days of Christmas (...again, not too much
drama...) and THE DAY WE FOUND OUT ABOUT TRANSFERS. (DRAMA!!!) well actually
not drama. just anxiety hahaha. :) :) so i was having like a legit internal
turmoil panic attack until we got the text, then i found out i was leaving,
then i had MORE anxiety and sadness, so we went about our day and we're
teaching my friend and i'm mostly focusing but also have a huge internal
breakdown (i don't know what's wrong with me..... basically, it's just really
hard to love something so much and then leave. i'm so happy i'm worried about
not always being this happy hahaha dumb, right????) so after we leave i'm like
sister silva. i am going to die if i do not go to starbucks right this moment
and get a gingerbread steamer. and she's like "okay" so we go and i'm
like "i need to go inside because i just do" and so we do and not ONE
MINUTE after we sit down a woman comes up to us and is like "are you
sister missionaries?" uhh... yes? "can i talk to you?" no, we're
busy. OF COURSE YOU CAN!! :) :) :) turns out she's a less-active member from
neenah who just reeeaally needed to talk to sister missionaries & Heavenly
Father knew it so he brought us to starbucks not 5 minutes after she got there
so that she could see us. and i was legit even fidling with my nametag as we
walked in. yeah. revelation through internal breakdowns!! haha. basically,
Heavenly Father knows all of His children and He is SO AWARE of us and totally
in control and He knows our needs. He knew that she needed to talk, and He knew
that I needed to forget myself and serve. I LOVE HIM. He is so great :) :) :)
:) :) :) :) literally the best, not kidding, that is doctrine. :) :)
so pretty much i love this missionary life and
i love all of my friends and this gospel and everything.
so how was your week? :)
oh, and i had a dream friday night that r n single-handedly opened neenah/ysa for sisters.
by herself. because she totally could ;)
my dreams are really weird hahaha.
oh happy birthday daddy!! i love you!! :) :)
:) also, i love the appleton 2nd ward.
yesterday we went to a Christmas party at the
W's house with them & their neighbors and it was THE BEST, first of all
their 14 year old son teaches piano and is SO CUTE, they had a little piano
concert, adorable. and then we just got to introduce ourselves and talk to all
their friends and eat delicious snacks. and i got to play their NICE piano and
i loved it. i've decided that i love to play the piano. :) :)
also we saw the m's and i love them. turns out
C loves to pretend to be a missionary.
so i gave her my nametag and she pretended to be me hahaha. hilarious,
embarrassing, and wonderful. and, she actually learned a lot & bore her
testimony and it was wonderful. so there :) #sistermissionarywork. :)
actual temperature yesterday: -1. just in case
you missed it up there in this MASSIVELY LONG EMAIL. sorry about that...... also,
when you picture me this week (...do you picture me during the week?
creepy....) please picture me blasting amy grant "emmanuel" with the
bass all the way up and the volume as loud as it will go.
because that will probably be accurate. i love you all buckets & bunches &
heaps. i love this land. i love this gospel. IT MAKES ME SO SO HAPPY. I know God lives. I know He has a plan for us
to be as happy as He is. WOAH WAIT HOLD THE PHONE. i know. it's awesome. tell everyone :)
:) :)
LOVE YOU
LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU ps merry christmas!! i'll email you next week
from kettle moraine!!
pray for my soul i always pray for you <3
love, sister proffit :) :) :) xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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