Mouse slayer

Hello my DARLING friends and my DARLINGEST family :)

i have SO much to write about and SOOOOO little time... i only have about 30 minutes before we have an appointment... and first most important news first:

we are in a TRICOMPANIONSHIP!! with sister SUI :) shes from Vietnam! and she is prolly 4 and a half feet tall...she comes 2 inches from my shoulder!! hehe cute little fairy missionary! i love her :) so ya he companion was sick :/ and had to go home... soooo we get to have so so much fun for the next days till transfer meeting which CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT ITS BEEN LIKE....ALMOST 2 MONTHS.. what the HECK???????????? so we do this training program called the 12 week program and we have to watch these really cheezy videos.... and yesterday a TEAR ACTUALLY CAME OUT OF MY EYE cause i thought to myself "i love this. and i dont want to go home ever!!" like i was crying cause i realized how fast it goes! i think the ONLY reason i can ever leave this place is just cause i miss you all SO MUCH!! i put my christmas package together for you and was writing cards for you and it made me cry cause i actually thought about how much i miss you. mostly i just miss you. but if i THINK about it... then i get sad. soooooooo thats not fun but i am SO blessed to have such a WONDERFUL family to miss :)

ok i gotta tell you some crazy stories now :):):) :3

first I AM THE MOUSE SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!! AND THE BRAVEST EVER! AND SO PROUD OF MY SELF :) caaaaause natasha has this insane phobia of mice right? and so she calls us SCREAMING and crying and telling us we have to come over RIGHT NOW AND SAVE HER... haha so we ran down there and turned the house UPSIDE DOWN looking for the mouse that she had uhh... evidences of in the closet... but we couldnt find the lil nasty thing... SO we went to walmart and bought SNAP TRAPS AND STICKY TRAPS AND GREEN POISON STUFF AND THESE LITTLSOUND THINGS... oh wait i just remembered i was telling you about this last week... shoot.... oh well

WE CAUGHT 3 MICE!!!!!!!!!!!!! and sister schofield was dry heaving the whole time cause NOT HER but IIIIII HAD TO PICK THEM up... and i was laughing so hard i peed in my pants... well skirt.... it was... like there are no words for how funny it was... SO FUNNY.

so THEN that same night we had mushroom stew...and sis. schofield ALSO gags at mushrooms but she swallowed those suckers whole! i was so proud of her :3 THEN THAT SAAAAAAAAME night.... when we were going home.. we got STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR. annnnnnd it wouldnt move... and it wouldnt open and it was like the movies... and sister schofield was like hyperventalating and i just said COOL IT AND PRAY LADY! HAHA and she did..... and i used the emergency phone which was a JOKE cause this alarm was beeping in my ear the whole time and the 911 lady was absolutely NO help finally we ended up PRYING the door open with our fingers and then squeezing on out... it was hysterical. needless to say that day rocked... i dont even remember what day it was... ha! WHAT A WEEK!

SOOOOOOOO this week has been awful for numbers of things we were trying to accomplish but MIRACULOUS in miracles :):) we talked to EVERYONE and we have about 4 "potentials" and so we are going to follow up with them next week cause THIS week is gonna be a challenge cause we have to drive back and forth from our area to sis. sui's which is in drayton valley like an hour and a half away.... not the best situation but we will definately be staying busy.. adn the reason we have to drive back and forth is because they have THREE baptisms in the coming month and we gotta get those people READY!! :) awesome stuff :) go sister sui :) what a boss

one of the elders in my area is from cedar... tell the browns!! but he doesnt know them so im sure they dont know him.. haha but his name is... elder rogers... and i THINK his first name is landon... lol im not sure!!!

i have been informed 3 different times this week that i am "powerful" and at first i was like COOL :) but not actually cause apparently they meant in a "bantering" way... whoops i gotta cool it on the "prove it:". Grandpa sent me an interesting email that i PRINTED OUT cause it was awesome and we are going to use it with out members now :) thanks grandpa... we are gonna focus on what people NEED, what they NOTICE... when we teach simply and purely the spirit can witness truth, but we need to know WHAT to teach simply and purely... and what he sent really helps with that :)

ermmmm we met a family that is baptist.. the dad is a pastor or something... haha he said that he read the book of mormon... but really he DIDNT and it frustrated me and i was trying so hard to bite my tongue when he kept saying joseph smith was a good man but misguided.... finally i was like... "ok if you have read the book of mormons and oh so many of joseph smiths 'misguided' teachings i would love to hear what you learned from it all and WHAT exactly you found to be wrong with it... cause i TOO have read it and have had an AMAZING experience with the book of mormon" and he said... ok well actually i have just read a few chapters and neener neener neener and kept bringing up stupid stuff like polygamy and the official declaration 2... and it is FRUSTRATING.... but... we are gonna work with his SONS... cause they were really interested in what we had to say if their DAD would just be quiet we could teach them... haha but the one son was like "theres GIRL mormons??? ive never talked to girls who are actually COOL and religous!" and then he was like "i would totally come to church with ya.. but mine is at 10 and im the drummer so i kinda have to go." haha... the drummer... awesome.
so i feel like im kinda ranting about unimportant things... honestly im just telling you the funny or crazy stories..... day to day there are small miracles i wish i could capture them all... theres a spirit in this work like none else. of protection. oh man.... i dont want to freak you out or anything but we have had some NOT so cool experiences in the scary sense..... but it has all worked out. prayer.... i have found to be SUCH a protection. the spirit has warned us so many times this week.... and i am so thankful for the priesthood, and the elders came and blessed a home and we prayed over ours and we dont go ANYWHERE now without praying about it and we dont LEAVE anywhere with out praying over the home... its super cool how it works... man i just....

the SPIRIT IS EVERYWHERe!! :) well with us :)i just feel so overwhelmingly GOOD with everything... like this week we were talking about how, yes, we all have flaws and things we are working on but the Lord knows where we are at with it all and he guides us along just as he helps us help others and it just works out perfectly in all the ways its supposed to. i havent felt FEAR or DOUBT... but have been working so hard to gain more FAITH and TRUST... and we are gonna move MOUNTAINS of darkness out of this place and bring in the FLOODS OF LIGHT to spruce grove :) well and now drayton valley to :)

im out of time! i love you all!!! i miss you but i love you and i am so grateful for you :)
love sister douglas