Week 51

i am terrible with emails guys i am so sorry! but we got our moves this week and i am staying in Edinburgh with sister Curtis! We have been in a trio for the past week and sister Irving is going home this week! i am excited to be here though!

We went to this cool beach for boxing day last week and had a bonfire inside this old ruined castle it was fun! 

this week is gonna be crazy for sure but i am excited to see what will happen this transfer:) 

thank you to everyone who sent me a letter for Christmas! It was by far my favorite gift! Love you!

heres a pic of me and my companion teaching our friend ming in the park:)...

the beach we went to on boxing day...

this is a member we visited who has cancer :( he served his mission in california!...

Week 50

Skyping on Christmas!

Week 49

Hey so this week was kind of just chill. We had our normal week in Elgin just trying to do a lot of member visits and inviting less active members to the special carol service this month! Hopefully some people will be able to attend. With all of this I still had no idea when president was going to tell me my new area and companions. He finally called and said that i will be in a trio with the sisters in Edinburgh! So that was interesting. but it will be good! the sisters are way nice so were chillin. So now I am here in Edinburgh and just back to normal missionary work life, which is so nice honestly. To be honest there’s not much to say today. sorry! but i hope you all have a good week and have some cool plans for the holidays:)

 Love you all

1. missionaries in edinburgh

2,3,4. pics from conference

Week 48

This week we had our CHRISTMAS conference! it was the best. We had some instructions in the morning and then we had a big lunch, which was so weird because they didn't give us a time limit on the lunch like we always do or like i have had for the past 11 months. but it was nice just sitting there and talking with everyone. then we were able to do a white elephant exchange with all the missionaries it was insane. I got this like african dark wooden mask. it was actually pretty sick.Then after we got to watch a movie! We watched Incredibles 2, i loved it haha i really think since being on my mission i find a lot more things entertaining and funny because i was dying that whole movie.

  Afterwards we had interviews with president and crazy stuff man! So my trainee seriously hurt her back a year ago and was a solider but at the start of the transfer it was causing lots of problems so with talking to president and the mission home for a few weeks they have decided it's best for her to go home and get surgery. So i am getting taken out of Elgin and put in a new area in a trio. but president has no idea where yet so we are still waiting to find that out. so while we are here we are just going to continue to teach our friends and then tell them we are leaving and then pass them to the next missionaries. SOooo i don't know where i will be for christmas but it will be an adventure!

  

   There is this family here called the Dawsons and they were planning on having us over for christmas eve, christmas and boxing day (the day after christmas) and when we told her we weren't gonna be here she was way sad and then invited us for dinner last night. And we showed up and she had made a really nice dinner and had taken out all her christmas dishes and her christmas tablecloth that she only ever takes out for christmas day and we used all that for dinner it was so cute! then we shared with them our christmas message that we were saving for christmas and it he spirit was very strong, it was a fun night:) We also set up their Christmas tree.

   We had the chance to teach some of our friends this week and at one of their homes they gave us apple juice from there own apple tree that they made themselves. it was way good! We taught this couple in their 60s that we met while at the resource center that we volunteer at. it was so fun! we were able to teach them the first lesson. 

    

   LOVE YOU ALL!!!

the dawsons for dinner 

Week 47

but i had a cool spiritual experience, so because i have been with companions who are younger than me basically my whole mission i was heavy stressing because i was like how am i suppossed to improve my missionary skills, because i really just want to be a missionary and i had been really praying about it lately and we were teaching some lessons and they just weren't going well and i was getting really frustrated. and then we taught this first lesson to this man David and it was such a good lesson and felt like i had improved some of my skills and really taught to HIS needs. and i came out of the lesson and was thinking what was so different about it? you know what it was? it was the flippin Spirit.. i was like oh my goodness. then it hit me that i have had basically nobody like other missionaries helping me improve my skills and that the Holy Spirit would be the that guides me and teaches me. literally something that i teach everyday to other people but didn't realize about myself. To be honest it is really hard when it is just the spirit but it is so cool to see how the Spirit has worked with me especially these past two weeks. He is this only thing i got right now and it has taught me to rely completely on the spirit. so that was cool.