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