Week 4

 Elder Wilson pretends to use his camera as a cell phone to freak out the other missionaries to think he's on a phone. we dont get out much.

Sunday Temple Walk! We finally got to have one this week. they keep canceling them because missionaries are meeting their family and friends and they were punishing us. Thats my district. we're pretty bonded 

Me and Hermana Fuhriman. She's going to Canada Spanish. we like to tease her and tell her there is no such mission in canada where they speak spanish. 

 me and hermana north! i dont like my face here, but i think my hair looks good. choose your battles. 

 hermana mecham! we really like each other

our zone! a lot of them have already left for their missions. we are finally no longer the baby district in our zone!

hermana mcknight! i love this sister! she is going to poky so someone please go see her for me! 

 it snowed this morning on our way to the temple. at 6:30 am. 

 by the time we came back we were frozen solid. 

we apparently have never seen snow before

 my district and some sisters who were in our zone but then they got taken away and put into a brand new zone. we were sad. but all 5 of these girls are roommates. me and hma monroe are outcasted in a room with swedish sisters. we love it though. 

and me and hma mecham. she is going to argentina to the mission right across from me in chile. 

Week 3

I LOVE letters!! These are all the letters my district wanted to send to their families and they made me take them because it was snowing outside and they all hate the cold. But I want mail time at night to look like that for me!!

This is my desk space. Everyone keeps their books under their desks but I claimed the corner for my own and I told my companion to deal with it haha. I basically take over whatever I want. Its so nice and neat huh?

Brownies!!! We LOVED them. Someone forward this picture to aunt bonnie please. and also tell me how good I look. jaja jk. but really :)

Hma Mcknight and Moffat (companions) this is what we do during emailing our president time. because honestly we noticed that he copies and pastes his answers to all of us so once we found out we werent loved individually we stopped being so wordy jaja

I love this gir!! She is going to Poky so you all need to write her and go see her for me.

Ok so breaking in my shoes is a painful thing. But I am determined to wear these suckers and I will win this battle.

Does anyone miss this face? 

yay map picture

our district!! I spend 24/7 with these girls for sure. I even sometimes spend more time in their room  than i do in my own! :)

Week 2

me and hermana monroe

me and hermana mcknight (going to poky!!!)

zone temple day!!!

 Hma McKnight - Pocatello Idaho, Her companion Hermana Moffat -McAllen Texas me, Hermana Mecham- Argentina

 Hma  McKnight- in my district and one of my favorite sisters here. I love her and Jess try to find her and say hi and love her for me.

Mecham, mcknight, fuhriman (canada spanish) and moffat and me in the back

Recreate Family Photos

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So Long

See ya later blogger! I'm out of here in 9 days! I might be able to coerce one of my siblings to post my weekly emails on this blog, but if not, make sure you get a hold of my mom to forward you them...you know, if you are into that kind of stuff.

I don't know if I am ever going to be ready because I keep coming up with things I need! But fitting my life into 2 fifty pound suitcases is not one of the things that I am excited for. I might have to do a test run and see if I can even do it. I hope that you all write me as many DearElder's as you possibly can!  I'm talking like one every single day! My mission is a part of the pouch mail that is for free, so even when I get to Chile, you can still email me from that website for free and they will print them off and give them to me! But realistically I know nobody writes missionaries, so I won't get my hopes up too much.  I don't know if I'm ready, but I do know that I can't wait to get out of here! Provo's not gonna know what hit it!

I still have this week to get through, so come hang out with me and do stuff with me! I'm too bored. Well. Hasta Luego!

The Last Airbender

It took us about 8 hours of complete and utter chaos followed by some tears, but we finally got a family picture before I leave on my mission. I don't know about the rest of your families, but mine is especially good at making this task really hard to do. We didn't get very many, but at least we look happy. I think.

If any of you noticed, this location has been used in the past. It is like the family pictures spot. We took our neighbors pictures here, and we have had ours done here in the past as well. It's not even our own house. That's how cool our neighborhood is, we just walk around and take pictures in front of other people's houses. Well, feast your eyes cause this family won't be all together again for at least another year and a half. Adiós! 

The Spiderwick Chronicles

You can learn a lot from the people you associate with. It feels like I have met them all...the single mothers in their 30's with nothing good to say about their low life boyfriends, the teenage punks, the young adult who has about as much of an idea what to do with their life as any 20 something year old does, and the straight up weird people. When I was living back east, I worked with a lot of questionable people and I had to deal with a lot of their judgments towards me, my religion, the way I lived my life, and basically anything I had to say about anything. I got into a lot of heated debates about why I do the things I do (no drugs, alcohol, experimenting with the boundaries of relationships, etc.) and after awhile I decided not to fight about it, just discuss it instead. That can really be said for just about any social experience you have with most people. You talk about yourself, and in time, the things that make you who you are are evident. Usually I am a fairly decent judge of character, and I most definitely try not to judge those I don't know and haven't gotten a chance to meet yet. I would say that I learned this the hard way by befriending less than honorable people my freshman year of college, but that is just what being a freshman meant. Learning from my mistakes and becoming someone who knows how to deal with people and their intentions.

This was on my mind mostly because I am about to go serve a mission for a year and a half and a lot of people don't agree with the LDS religion and they do not like Mormons. I am not one of those people who get upset and aggressive defending my beliefs, but I also do not quietly allow someone to bash everything I have ever believed in. I have been feeling a lot of pressure at work because I work with 3 very non religious people and I feel like every time I speak I have to defend myself, others, and my friends. Customers will come in with packages to mail to missionary sons (I work at a UPS store) and as soon as they see the label to "Elder" they immediately become rude to that customer. I am standing there chatting it up with them talking about their child's mission and my coworkers are giving me the death glare. I feel really defensive lately and I just wish I had a couple of work friends who love my beliefs and standards. If this felt like a back and forth whip lashed post, that's because it was. So deal with it.