Some new photos Dec 30th and letter

new jamas

clothes from TJ

Skype on Christmas Day from Bron's side

hello my lovelies!! i love you all! i just LOVE tuesdays cause i love being able to read all of these emails and write home! agh i love it :)

so this week was CRAZY! like it was super busy... but also hard to be productive cause NO ONE IS HOME during the holidays and also NO ONE wants to talk with us :P suuuuper lame.... and ALSO all of our investigators are busy during christmas time... which i totally understand... just sucks for us ya know? but on a happy note... CHRISTMAS WAS SO WONDERFUL and the best present in the whole world was getting to see all your beautiful faces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you so much! and just talking to you! ahhhhh! i love you :)

so ya umm on monday was the funnest Pday ever!! we hada district christmas party :) pizza and all :) i wore my cat shirt ;) (paha!!!) then we had the live nativity that night with a minature horse as the donkey LOL it was FAREEZING..... -35... i dont know what that tranlates to in F.. but with the wind blowing it felt like -80 degrees... needless to say we didnt have that many people show up the first night but it went well. oh............. waiiiiiiiiit that was actually on sunday that it was that cold.... on monday it was beautiful weather and we had a KABIZZILION people show up and we were running around like mad people trying to talk to everyone... we talked to SO MANY PEOPLE and got another GOLDEN referal from it all so it was totally worth it. i. was. EXHAUSTED. after that... like 6 hours on your feet running around being ridiculously bubbly and happy and smiley and laughy and trying to make everyone feel loved was the GREATEST THING Ever... BUT  i could hardly walk up the stairs and crawl into bed when we were finally done haha... but it was worth it and lovely.

tuesday was Christmas lovely eve and we delivered christmas grams all day and then went to the Anecas for Christmas.. they SPOILED us and it was so so sooo yummy dinner (sushi!!!) we played games and got to know them and had a blast. (i got a huuuuge bag of clothes from tj... ill have to send some jeans home cause they are to DIE for but they will prolly fit morgan.. but the pair that is mine is OFF LIMITS you have to put it in my bag in storage... no touchy pplease!!!)

wednesday was CHRISTMAS  and the best day ever and you know all about that day.. plus i guess theres evidence of it all over fb???? hahah i dunno... but we had fun ;) loooots of fun :)

thursday we had a lovely district meeting and then went to menchies for lunch which is a frozen yogurt place.. now dont ask my WHY we were going there... no one really knew why we just felt like it... and then low and behold it was actually the Lords plan all along BECAUSE!! this guy named nathan comes up and is like "i saw your badges and it says the name of your church on them right??? is that like the mormon church? what do you guys believe?? cause i have been reading alot about different religions lately and i dont know much about you guys"

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thats basically what all six of us missionaries did for like 30 seconds as he stared at us confused until finally i was like

"YOUR AWESOME!!! well lets tell ya!!!!" and he's like"dont you guys preach this or something what are you all about, what makes your church different from everyone else??"

so i said"we believe in the RESTORATION of the gospel of jesus christ, and we know it to be true from the evidence of the book of mormon" which then led to alll SIX of us missionaries giving him the first 2 lessons in a 45 minute discussion at menchies... it was SO COOL.

we sorted doterra oils at sister hamiltons, we smelled so yummy after we left, had dinner at the lillies (she is the one during our first week here we saw and thought we were gonna convert her and turns out she was already a member! suprise! haha :) )

then we went to see miss wanda and we helped her get ready for bed... she is like 90 years old... and she is HILLARIOUS.

friday we did weekly planning which took FOREVER but was good... then we went to natashas... her husband dave is home and .. he got us SWORDS FOR CHRISTMAS.... well not REAL swords.... more like... daggers..... BUT THEY ARE SUPER LEGIT AND IM LIKE A MISSIONARY WARRIOR PRINCESS...... :3

went to the rosaks for supper,  i love them, and they had this little purple guitar that i played for them... haha sooo funny. also her mom's name is ATHENA which is super cool :) to end the night we visited sis. depeel and she gave us white hot cocoa which is DELICIOUS

saturday seemed like a day full of good intentions and great planning but everything fell through and everyone was busy and no one was home.... :P LOTS of praying. visited natasha had dinner there... then visited sister baade (she is suuuuper sick with a disease similar to vertigo.. except way extreme... called menaes or something??)

sunday: WHAT A DAY!!!!! SIMONE CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REPEAT SIMONE CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SIMONE. CAME. TO CHURCH. oh my heck i was overjoyed! it only took us 10 weeks to get someone to come to church lol and she brought her gorgeous baby girl oh my goodness i love them! and we will be meeting with her sometime next week! :) so excited!!! sunday was also filled to the brim at church cause we were teaching the sunday school lesson and the ym/yw lesson at the same time as trying to give simone a tour but then trusting other people to do it (which was scary but the right thing to do anyways) (her baby HATES nursery haha... but it will all work out) but everything worked out how it was supposed to,

had dinner at the goebels :) went and visited tamala and her husband dave and shared the video Good things to come by elder holland and dave even shared it on fb haha :) we got non members doin missionary work for us! :D

overall its been a rollercoaster of a week but heavenly, we really are in his hands. im praying i dont get tranferred we find out on the 12.. i dont ever want to leave!!!!!!

i love you all so so much!
love sister dougie (thats what all the elders call me lol)

Finally some pictures

On the way to Sister Sui's Valley

Christmas Pageant

-35 celsius at Christmas Pageant

typical road conditions

Merry Christmas!

Thanks to the Rolls Family for allowing Bron to use their Skype and computer.  It was amazing to see her face and hear her voice again.  40 Minutes FLEW by.

Mwah, Goodbye!

we get to Talk to this woman tomorrow!!!!

hello beautifuls! :)

soooo imma be skyping around 11... 11 am! from sister rolls house.... soooooooooooooooooooooooo mayyybe you could call her phone around then to set things up so that i dont have to use her minutes... or like you should give me your skype name and everything cause i dont even know what it is.. and how we are going to set that up?????

anyways... this week i kept a good journal so i can tell you all the happenings! :):)

monday the 16th:

got everything done that we needed to as FAST as we could...so i didnt do much grocery shopping... except i bought NASTY BEATRICE milk that tastes like wax. gross. anyways we then went to the church and played ball with the elders... im getting better at dunking.. ha.

then i accidentaly drank some pepsi... and i was SOOOO hyper.. and we went to the hudsons for dinner (who i LOVE btw) annnnd i was way to hyper i had to tell myself like 5 different times to STOP TALKING. they also had a cute dog... OH ANNNNND I WORE MY CAT SHIRT ALL DAY!!! teheh..... :):):)

tuesday the 17th:

went to natashas i love that lady.. she is going through some STRUGGLES but i made a promise that if she would read the book of mormon everyday she would have more peace and comfort in her life... (so i was praying suuuuper hard that heavenly father would give her that peace) cause she promised BACK that she WOULD read it and she will SEE if it works!! (scary!) but then it BLEW UP IN MY FACE with the whole book of mormon thing!! and at first i was like "what the heck the book of mormon is supposed to soften peoples hearts not make them angry!!!!' she was angry at the fact that EVERYONE has to go through all these crazy trials and no one can seem to catch a break and it was really hard to see that heavenly father would let bad things happen, or give us these hard trials if he loves us? so that was a tough question to answer... but we talked alot about becoming and then i asked the scariest question and... WAIT i just remembered i told you about this last week.......

had dinner with the hamiltons.. they are so cute!! her name is valoy! haha and she reminds me of ellie off of the movie up haha she also gave us a ton of dottera stuff for christmas... it was soooo great :) deep blue rub :):) mmmm mm!

had a lesson with alfred and nancy... the little STINKER alfred is making me so mad!!!!!!!! we were talking about praying to Heavenly Father and how when we pray it helps us recieve revelation from him and we can recieve answers... and nancy was totally feeling the spirit and knew it was true and the stinking ALFRED says "thats great but you are hallucinating your answers from god.. he doesnt speak to us anymore!"
how SAD IS THAT! and i was so angry.. i was like "ummm no im not hallucinating but thank you for your comment!!" ok i didnt really say that but i wanted to.. ahha i love that lil old guy so much but he sure is annoying sometimes!!!! one day he's going to get an answer to his prayers and its gonna whack him across the face.. in a loving way of course.. and then he will remember everything we taught him and he will be so so happy! yay!

wednesday 18th: CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE!! oh my goodyness this was so so fun!! we had a huge training meeting with President and everyone got to share their success stories (which totally helped us and i will tell you how in a little bit :) ) and there are so many amaaaaazing talented missionaries in our mission! im so blessed to be a part of this :):) i looooove being a missionary i could sing and cry and laugh about it all day!

anyways so that training was great and i wrote alot about what i learned about different ways to talk to everyone and how to get investigators and UTILIZE members... HEY do your missionary work family!! :):) ;) do some fhe's or dinners or something... member present lessons are GOLDEN!

but i got to know alot more of the missionaries here and the church is such a small world hey.. i dont even remember all the connections but they are all over the place. the talent show was hillarious.. i feel like my life could be a movie... they should make our district the next season of the District hahah

we had dinner with sister bailou who is scottish!! haha i love it!

follow up lesson with natasha!! she is reading the book of mormon everyday... she ALMOST smoked.. but she turned on the book of mormon and just listened to it for a whole hour and it pulled her through!! she is so strong! alot of her concerns were resolved and she is so much happier... even from just these past 2 days!! dave (her husband) works up on the rigs up north so we have only met him once.. but he says we are already a part of their family... and they took us out to eat on friday and we drove around and looked at the lights.. it was so great :)

thursday 19th : we didnt have district meeting but we went out to lunch with all the elders, it was elder caruso and elder rogers 1 year mark so we made cupcakes and sang to them haha we are so nice

it was -35 degrees outside.. enough for us to legally stay inside... but we braved the cold and went to work! :) we went and checked on natasha... (she really has such a hard life.. day to day she just barely gets by) and she was soooo tired of everything... and mention that she hasnt even had time to do her eybrows or dye her hair or anything... we had a free hour so we RAN to walmart boguht some cute hair color and i did some magic on her hair.. let me tell you.. I HAVE FOUND MY CALLING IN LIFE,,,, YOU KNow how i wanted to do art therapy?? well i deciced that doing hair IS art therapy.. because you talk to them the whole time and get to know them and can help and serve them all the while creating and making cute hair!! :) i cute and colored it and i really think the spirit helped me cause i gave her a hairstyle i have never done before and when i was done she looked int he mirror and just cried she was so happy.. literally haha she was wiping tears and couldnt stop hugging me.. i was so happy :) so thats what i want to do... maybe i will just go to hair school.... but i still wanna go to byu??? i dont know ill worry about it later haha ;)

we went to the oviatts for dinner... they live way out in the country.. but i love it... the hills remind me of the lake point hills... excpet there are alot more trees here haha

friday 20th:

WE GOT A NEW INVESTIGATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! georgina!! we met her on the sidewalk about 4 weeks ago and she was yelling at us "mormons!!! look out the mormons are coming!!!" hahaha she is like 80 years old and so we ran after her and were like "lady your hillarious who are you!!?!?" and  we totally thought she was a member but tunrs out she's not but her ex husband is now and she wanted to learn more but had surgery and all this other crazy stuff... but we were finally able to make contact with her and the lesson was so great! and she gave us referalls to her family..they all live in lacomb but the missionaries there are gonna be so happy! :)

saw miss wanda at the old age home... she cracks me up she always asks us to sing.. but then asks us to sing louder and louder till we are practically screaming hymns at her.. hahaha

we got lost trying to contact a referal way out in the country :P LAME
then we went and saw michelle and her girls they are soooo fun :) and the lesson was so great cause they all participated.. they are a PM family.
went to the Kosaks for dinner... i LOVE THEM!!! plus their house looks like a little cottage in a magizine and then the inside is like.... that store at gardner village grandmom used to paint for... SO FUN :) annnnd we basically laughed and giggled all through dinner cause everyone was so funny and happy :')

then we went to Dairy queen with natasha and family but i already told you about that :)

saturday the 21

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!! I SENT YOU HAPPY THOUGHTS ALLLLLLL DAY!! i love and miss you!!! :):):):):):):)

we had a MIRACLE lesson with ALISHa WHO IS ALSO OUR NEW INVESTIGATOR!!!!!!!!!!! she is a friend of rachel (who has been coming with us to lessons) and she invited alisha over for dinner last week... so this week our appointment with alfred and nancy fell through so we just stopped by alisha's and she wasnt interested in legit lessons when we talked with her last week but i had a prompting to ask her if she would help us (this is something i learned at christmas conference to do) if she would help us "practice the lessons on her" and she ACCEPTED!! and now she has legit questions about it all hahah :) like joseph smith and she is a perfect situation cause she has a kabizzilion member friends :) woo hoo!

lesson with donna fell through :/ bummer

sunday 22:

i. SANG. IN CHURCH.. and i even had a solo part.. and then sang a harmony with this professional singer lady... suuuuuper scary i had to pray sooooo hard my heart would calm down so my voice wouldnt be shaky... and i couldnt even look up cause i had to follow the notes really good cause  i had only ung the song 2 different times!! but when i looked up once everyone was crying! :) well not everyone.. but a few! :):) hahaha! it was great!!

we had dinner with sister schindler and SIMONE WAS THERE WITH HER BABY SANAA!!! AND SHE ALSO COMMITTED TO THE LESSONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 we got NOT 1 NOT 2 BUT THREE new investigators this week which is more than we have had my WHOLE mission basically!!! hahaha and simone is SO GOLDEN she is coming to church and everythign!!! :):) im so excited!!!!!!!

the pageant was that night and it was -35 again so not that many people came but we did have a few good conversations with non members and we also saw our friend heather from drayton valley and i love her so that was exciting! :)

annnnd the library is closing early for christmas so i dont have time to write to anyone else! tell everyone i LOVE them and merry christmas and i will see you soon! ;) haha :) i love you all so much!
love sister douglas

OH loooooots of snow shovelling...

dear my family :)

I GET TO TALK TO YOU NEXT WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which we still need to figure out cause christmas is gonna be a lil cray cray. good crazy but busy nonetheless. we are going to members houses for breakfast lunch AND dinner :) haha wowee wow woow. they take such good care of us here :) i love this ward. but so ya we will be at the sukhus for dinner and they are the ones who said we could skype from their house.. so it will be in the afternoon some time.. but im not really sure WHAT time yet soooo i dont know how to organize it cause i know you will have plans aswell... soooo and i only have 40 minutes allotted to talk :/ bummer... but it will be soooo good :)

so this week was awful "number wise" they are called key indicators.. like how many lessons you taught how many referals recieved and contacted... those kinds of things... and you shouldnt OBSESS over the numbers cause sometimes they dont mean that much, but they also are super helpful to set goals and to measure progress..... so that was a little frustrating, but we did have alot of success in conversations with people. i have been trying to be even more bold and brave and bring up religion to EVERYONE... and so now we have 3 potentials from random people... like glenn the gas station man! yay!

we went to a christmas concert that our stake performed and there were soooo many non memeber is was like missionary heaven and we met a GOLDEN lady named simone from JAMAICA! :) and she has the most DARLING girl... ah! i cant wait to go see them this week :) also GUESS WHO SAT BEHIND ME???? some SOUTH AFRICANS.... i turned around and basically screamed at them in excitement, but i also kinda started crying hearing their accents hahahahahaha but they have lived here for 13 years now and they know the krugers and the goldens and the name jakins... but they didnt know any of US really... soooo i dont know... but i loved speaking with them.

also the hudsons in our ward... they remind me alot of the pollmans :) i dont know why.. but they do haha... their daughter rachel had us over for dinner and she brought her friend alisha and pretty sure she will be baptized to! :) im so excited to teach all these new people.. dana is moving along... slowly.. but she is learning more and more and she wants us to meet her boyfriend which is a big deal :)

we set up our CHRISTMAS tree!!!!!!!!!! haha it is the cutest most christmasey ugliest tree ever hahaha... total charlie brown skinny little thing with no lights... but i bought a BIG sparkly star... its decorated with my za za jewelry that is to snazzy to wear... christmas cards from everyone.. candy canes and candles aunty dara sent me! HAHA we love it! and we are SO BLESSED theres quite a few packages under that tree and we put all the wrapped presents under there as well... our parents must think alike cause sister schofield got a box full of wrapped stuff to.. THANKYOU. for being so good to me. i am SO BLESSED to have a wonderful family. so blessed. THAT is something i have learned from being out here is.. i always LOVED YOU... but i now fully appreciate how good i have had it. i LOVE you. AND AM SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU!

ummmm i cant even think of what else has happened this week.... OH loooooots of snow shovelling... LOTS. imma be so buff when i get home. ha.

we are making lots of cupcakes to give to everyone for their presents :)

ermmm what else...

OOOOOHHH i got your letter!!!!!!!!!! from all of you :) and i am so excited to get dads talks... and i have been working on being a HERO instead of a survivor... and QUESTIONS in missionary work are soooo powerful....
today we had this conversation with natasha.... she is my FAVORITE i love her! she has been soooo angry with God... and she has gone through AWFULLNESS so i can SEE how she is angry... but its still so sad so we have been trying to help her.. and today i asked the boldest question ever cause it could have gone so wrong... and it ALMOST did... but it didnt :) i asked...
natasha.... would you have the faith you have now... would you learn the things you did ANY OTHER WAY? cause i would argue no... God was being merciful when he was TEACHING you the things he was... and continues to... and she about slapped me... but then she starts crying and was like your RIGHT! i wouldnt! annnd it was sooo neat :) dave (her husband) wants to take us out this next week for dessert with the whole family which (according to natasha) is unheard of :D hooray!

welllllllllll i think that is all for this week :) i love you so much :) the church is true.. so so true. and i love it. and i love missionary work and i love YOU!
love me! sister D!

I know you're in there!

My dear family :):)

this week has been MIRACULOUS!! in every sense!! we have received RREFERRALS OUT THE WAZOO! AND I AM SOOOO EXCITED because the work is starting to pick up and rolllllllin on! i love it!!

sooo we had transfer meeting on wednesday and cute little sister sui is now back in drayton valley so its just sis. schofield and i again. oh how i love her! :) we are just going to be best friends forEVER and i get kinda emotional thinking about that... because i was promised in more than one blessing that i would make friends for LIFE on my mission :) and life never ends!! what a wonderful thought :)

sooooo we had a MIRACULOUS investigator named DONNA... im not sure if i told you about her or not... wellllllll if not basically the lesson was the best i have ever been in  cause we didnt really even get to plan that much and all FIVE of us missionaries (the elders and 3 sisters) were so guided and all of what we were saying blended in to this perfect lesson to kick it off and she basically begged to be baptized... and so the next lesson we were going to set a baptism date.... we go over... and she wouldnt answer her phones or her dooor!! i was so frustrated so i said well maybe she'll answer her back door (haha) and the elders were like "sister douglas that is super creepy if you knock on her back door" and i said "I KNOW SHE'S IN THERE AND IF SHE ISNT GOING TO ANSWER HER PHONE im going to ask her why!" and so i marched to her back door and i couldnt get to the door to knock on it cause it was on this balcony thing so i started yelling!! hahaha it was like i movie i was like "donna!! donnaaaaaa!! DONNA! we know your in there!! why are you hiding!!!!!!!!!???" AND so she called us haha and was like "go away!!!" WHAT THE HECK RIGHT??? ends up her MOM  said that if she kept meeting with "the mormons" then she would stop paying for all this stuff that donna needs.... (which i THINK that she should just pay for herself ANYWAYS) buuuuttt donna is going to meet with us at a MEMBERS house this week.. and not at HER house so that her mom doesnt know... which sounds awful i know... keep in mind donna is 48..... so her mom is like 80 something anyways.. i dont like that old 80 year old lady and i kinda wanna call her and ask her why she hates us so much when she has never met us! but i wont. not yet at least ;)

Natasha is making progress... she actually says she's coming to church after the new year! AND she quit smoking!!! booooo ya!

thursday we met our... do do DOOOOOO...DRUM ROLLL PLEASE........NEWWWWWWW INVESTIGATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! her name is dana :) and she has 2 kids... and her life is MESSED. but she is so awesome :) and i cant wait to see her again today :) we are going to teach her the very best lesson and we are just going to focus on God and his love for US his CHILDREN!! so that she can pray to him :) we ACTUALLY knocked on this lady's door a while ago and she didnt want to talk to us.. but the elders ended up doing some service for her... which led to her heart softening right up and now we get to teach her :) cause she is a single sister and that is our specialty ;) haha :) i love her :) THANK YOU ELDERS! i have come to realize that it is like practically unheard of to FIND someone TEACH the same person AND be there for their baptism. THE lord lets us just leave little finger prints here and there on the conversion story of someone else.. like the elders are the ones that got INTO her house to open it up for us... WE will teach her.. and someone ELSE will baptize her.. and hopefully she will have member friends that are influential in the whole thing as well.... we have a cute girl coming with us to her lesson today... she is 18 and wants to go on a mission herself... shes awesome :)

really i have been SO prideful... for a while i was frustrated feeling like we werent getting enough support from the ward or the bishop.. really this ward is AMAZING and the leaders do SOOOO MUCH and our job is to HELP THEM.. our purpose to to invite OTHERS to come unto Christ. and as much as we want NEW MEMBERS we also are doing our job when we help EVERYONE members included... and i have found a whole new love and respect and appreciation for the ward and the ward leaders as we have looked to serve them and pray for them.
a lady in our ward gave us a CHRISTMAS TREE!!! :) were going to set it up on monday :) im so excited! and we have ZTM tomorrow and christmas conference the next week... so hopefully i will be able to get some mail to put under the tree! :) and mom sister rolls texted us today and said SHE HAS MY PACKAGE!!!!:) THANK YOU SO MUCH :) were going to go pick that up today... i REALLLLY want to open it.. but im going to wait till christmas :)

OH before i forget there are a few people i have been telling to add me on FB so hopefully can you just accept those for me :):)  theres carrie and mary lou and danielle and shelby... and i love them all :)

lets see what else has happened this week.. oh! we had the ward christmas party which was a HUGE SUCCESS dana and her mother came! her mom is being taught by the missionaries in stony plain so that is GREAT :) and we had a potential investigator come! heather :) haha oh heather.. she said she loves us so much already like her own granddaughters and she wants to take us to dinner... but only if we dont talk about church.. ahha i laughed and said um heather.... thats kind of our JOB... haha so she said... ugh fine.. :) shes totally gonna be baptized lol the members all introduced themselves to dana too.. so it was amazing to see :)

soooooo i have to sing a SOLO on the 22 for our christmas program..... NOT sure how i got roped into that but it IS a pretty song... jk its not actually a solo.. more like a suet with sis. oviett who happens to sing proffessionally which is super scary... but the harmonies are SO pretty.. i DO have to sing by myself for a whole verse tho... D:

alfred and nancy are wonderful... they are coming to the stake christmas concert which is the first sign of commitment we have ever seen from them! a lady in our ward will be taking them... so hopefully the fellowship helps :)

yesterday for Pday we went to walmart and made Christmas cards :) youll be getting those gems one of these days :) also i sent my packages to you off LAST week... so you should be getting those soon.. hopefully :) haha

ummm but ya we HURRIED and got everything done that we need to so we could actually relax yesterday... sooooo heavenly to just wear SWEATS for like an hour haha :).... ALMOST got the dunkin business down.. watch out when i come home mitch imma be such a baller youll lose all the bball games ;) hahaha

some other questions you had... i bought the liner at super store.. its just like a fleece jacket basically that feels like heaven and it is super warm :) but it was like 30 dollars :P i hate money... other than that i have been keeping warm... my toes get cold.. but not TOO cold.

the moose we had actually was suprisingly delicious.. its very lean meat so not greasy at all and it tasted pretty similar to beef :)

service lately??? we delivered all the left over food from the ward party to some needy families :) that was really fun :) we also shovel sidewalks alot annnnd helped with the lighting of central square which was suuuuper cool and ill have to tell you about it but im out of time!!!
i love you all!! and i MISS you all :)
love sister bronwyn

Thank You to Sister Rolls for sending this pic.

Crazy Snow Driving

Dear Everyone :)

i dont even have words for the tenderness of this week :) and it makes my heart just smile to think you have had the same week :)

Im praying really hard for you all and i know you are just going to be taken care of how it is all supposed to go.

SOOOO sister siu is AMAZING today she was telling us her "story" and she shouldnt even be ALIVE like.....ah man... and im crying typing this because of something kathy stienagel told me before i left.... but the story about the little asian guy they were teaching and his dad had a restoration pamphlet from years and years ago?? THAT HAPPENED TO HER FAMILY! like... she was telling us that they dont know where it came from or how it was even in her language... cause (thats the weird part we dont even have a book of mormon in her language (cause its not ACTUALLY vietnamese its some little tribe down there? id dunno) but ya so soooo miraculous) and THEN when they escaped to canada the missionaries found them and they all went "WHAT?? WE KNOW THIS STUFF!!!" and its super cool!! but actually it was only her and her sister that got baptized her mom and dad are suuuper protestant... and but they still sound super cool. i dunno i just thought it was so miraculous and amazing at how Heavenly Father provides for his children as a whole and then as FAMILIES! he love our families! :)

something i have learned this week was how to pray. for real how to pray. like to NEED what you are praying for and to make sure you have enough faith and to plead with heavenly father and talk to him like he is REALLY listening to me and to bawl my eyes out when i just felt... like he REALLY LISTENS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!! a;sdlkfja;lsdkf i just love this gospel... i cant even handle how happy this gospel can make us! i wanna SING!!

sooooo crazy story time!

on our way to drayton valley.. the weather was AWFUL TIMES 5... LIKE FREEZING RAIN. the kind that shut the airports down last year in utah? ya? gross.

sooooo we are driving to drayton and this car SPINS OUT on the highway in front of us... and we had to swerve to the left to get out of the way and then OUR car couldnt get back into our lane so we were headed towards a TRUCK and then it just corrected itself and we were able to pull over and ran and helped this car that had just spun out and it was a little family from COLUMBIA!! and they had 2 little girls... everyone was pretty shook up and there car was SOOOO stuck in like 2 feet of snow in the ditch soooo we asked if we could say a prayer that we would be able to get it out... and that if they had the faith ,God would help us get the car out so they wouldnt have to pay for a tow truck.. and so we used out TINY little shovel to dig out the wheels and then 3 sisters and one little comlubian lady started heaving against their car but it wasnt going anywhere and then this TEXAN pulls up.. and i mean like he was a cowboy strait down to his boots hahaha sooo funny he comes and helps us PUSH IT OUT.. like it was a total miracle cause we were basically pushing it up a 4 foot wall in 2 feet of snow... MIRACLE

and then AFTERWARDS the lady says iin broken english "i know your church.. back in columbia my pa was listening to your "fathers" (haha) and you dont drink coffee and you believe in joseeph smeeeth" haha

so we were so excited to tell her about what we believe and she invited us to DINNER AT THEIR HOUSE and they want to learn more!!! sooooo they arent in our area but we got a GOLDEN potential for sis. siu when she goes back to drayton on wednesday haha

ummm im trying to think of all the things that have happened this week.. i need to be better at writing it all down... much to my embarassment my journal is more of a diary annnnd i dont really keep that good a record of the happenings but more of my thoughts so you get what you get from me....

tender mercies tho, just to have WONDERFUL WONDERFUL angels in this ward of ours... dinners and thanksgivings and meetings with them all just makes me loooove them,,, well like i already love them but i just dont even know how to say how much i have fallen in love with this place and these people. mom you have to find kathy harding on fb... she reminds me of a mix of grandmom and eyrin and you and aunty broni all in one and i just love her so much.

ummmmm lets see what else..

i am eating SO SO healthy... like you would be proud of me. no white bread.. actually not much bread.. at all really. i dont reamember when i bought bread last.. but veggies and fruit and granola and get this... SOY MILK... its cheaper and yummier :) im so granolaey and healthy tehe... :)

oh you asked about the people here ya?

my companions oh i lvoe them i lolloooooosd;ofjasdkl;fjal;sdkflloooove sister schofield.. i almost pee in my pants i laugh so hard with her.. she has the greatest sense of humor... the dry kind of humor ya know?? or i should actually spell humor like humour.. i think?? i dunno....
but yes she is so funny and fun and i love her and she did my hair today (very za za) haha she reminds me of kathy ALL the time. even her style.

sister siu is also HILLARIOUS she has a funny little accent and her voice sounds like the minions on dispicable me and she is sassy as... as ever? haha i dunno she cracks me up. little 4'8 lady!

ummmmm i love sister rolls, she takes such good care of us.. and she left us cupcakes at her house while we were doing laundry that were so yummy it was cruel.... soooo not so healthy there but they were SO GOOD!

sister harding well BOTH OF THEM theres 2 haha kathy and tracy and they both help alot. tracy brought a croation friend to church! :) and so we are getting a croation BOM for her.

ummmmm our teaching pool is SEVERELY small.... but we are going to just open the flood gates here. one way we are going to do that is work with the YOUTH we feel really good abotu that and are planning a sweet lesson/ fireside/ disguised as District meeting thing for them. and they all get call letters and badges and everything haha so cute...

the ganders we ate with them last night and her house is ADORABLE like pottery barn or anthropology all mixed together and its from all over yard sales and vintage shops... oh i love it!

nancy and alfred had us over for "drinks" hahaha we bought some sparkling cider and drank it out of REAL SHERRY GLASSES hahaha it was great! and THEN alfred let me play his fiddle!!! needless to say im AWFUL at it but it made for some cute pictures hey?! haha

i am SO FRUSTRATED with the computers here i dont know how i will ever be able to send you photos.. until i get transfered!!! humbag!

as to the mail situation i got a package from the williams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did i say that last week??? pres manion brought it!! and i also got a letter from jill! and from danelle!! that were from my first week here! hahahaha aw man the mail situation stinks but i am ETERNALLY grateful for the package... im wearing the socks today actually and the lotion AND the chapstick. i love them. oh i love them :)