its 2 degrees right now..

we had the branch halloween party that we went to :) we dressed up as "baby sisters" in our onsie pjs :) i thought we were cute :) P and C came with S so that was soooo good :)

its 2 degrees right now.. i want all of you to just let that soak in right now

DEAR EVERYONE

i love you all so so much i could hug you all right now i miss you!

ok so this week

the suckiest i have ever had for "numbers" (as in reporting lessons and such)

for one reason or another this area has just come to a standstill it seems!! its like we ran out of people to teach but just a few weeks ago we couldnt handle all the work we were doing.. sooo thats annoying... but

"no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing...the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent."

i got the flu shot on tuesday. almost passed out i was so scared but i did it and was obedient to the council of President manion :)

we walked like 1200 miles on tuesday hoping to street contact, but it was to cold and we talked to 2 uninterested people.

I DONT KNOW WHY PEOPLE ARENT INTERESTED IN THE TRUE CHURCH. IN THE THING TAHT WOULD CHANGE THEM FOREVER. INT HE THING THAT IS CONSTANT IN ALL OF THE CHAOS. I DONT KNOW WHY PEOPLE CLOSE THEIR HEARTS. I DONT GET IT.

wednesday we went to lunch with sister bals and the elders investigator, L. it was an awkward but yummy lunch haha

we taught T (the referal from C who initially hated us) with sister giddey and it was alright. she doesnt want to INVESTIGATE but she says she'll check out church one of these days and she took a book of mormon. she is VERY QUICK to jump to negative conclusions and i just hope she'll "not cast the seed away by unbelief."

saw the palskys for supper and they always make me feel better. i love them. on sunday i saw sister warr and robin was there and we all hugged each other and jumped around like we were back in highschool or something haha :)

thursday it seemed that NOTHING happened EXCEPT MAHONRI came out to see us!!! it was so nice to visit with him at lunch :) we went to boston Pizza and it was GLORIOUS im not even gonna tell you how many pieces of pizza i ate but it was divino

we had the branch halloween party that we went to :) we dressed up as "baby sisters" in our onsie pjs :) i thought we were cute :) P and C came with S so that was soooo good :)

we had supper with C, a potential investigator and her 2 darling children. she is prolly one of the nicest people i have ever met and i love love love her kids.. she is engaged to a south african! who knew i would meet so many africans!!

she asked us to come back the next day and when we came back we met her fiance, jan (pronounced yan) and he is like legit africaans his accents is tooootally different than from what im used to but he was super nice and friendly, and then her MOM showed up who ASKED for a book of mormon cause she had missionaries in her home ages ago and loooove s them. we were so excited. candice and her family are suuuuper involved in another church right now tho and so were a lil anxious to inviting her to INVESTIGATE but we'll continue to soften her up and talk alot about the book of mormon.

we had a gong show lesson with C with sister bals. we drove all the way out there and C had forgotten we were coming and then when we finally got into the lesson she kept bringing things up that we thought we had already resolved with her and then she just disagreed with everything and sister bals was being snippety back at her and it was just a night mare, i was really down hearted about it because we were so hopeful for C.

we had stake conference which was nice :) lots of spiritual insights. i cant WAIT to be able to go to the temple more regularly. please take advantage of that sacred place :)

all in all i think sister boyd and i walked 52000000 miles this week and i am learning deeper and more heartbreaking lessons than i ever have experience with life and agency and the power to choose. In heaven i fought for that blessing of agency and i need to fight to sustain it.

i love you all.

i love you so so so much

the gospel is real and glorious and tangible. TASTE IT

love sister douglas

Jesus is the Christ and His atonement covers us. USE IT.

Dearest everyone that i love so much!!!!!!!!!!

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just kidding it was way better than a blah but i just dont really feel all that wordy today cause my head feels like a balloon about to pop ha. thank HEAVENS for the meds mom sent me. I LOVE YOU.

carrie had work off all week.. so we went over there as much as possible and can i just say THAT LADY IS AMAZING.. she was like worst of the worst druggies a year ago.. like on every kind of drug you can imagine and now she is like... she is like king lamoni or something. and she is so converted and sends us to her friends all the time and teaches so powerfully and moves me to tears everytime she talks about the gospel. we have been working with her kids A and L and  Lis preparing to become a deacon (which weirds me out that seth is older than L cause i feel like seth is still only 10 in my eyes.. he's my little brother.. dont grow up ever seth) but so we have been doign scripture challenges with him and i love it :)

G moved up to high prairie this week.. WAY UP HIGH NORTH

H one of my favorite people up here is so crazy and tries to do to much stuff and was overwhelmed and on top of that was trying to cover like 4 people at work and didnt have time to make her family suppers.. so we went during our lunch our and i made some LOVELY turkey soup... mom you would be so proud.. it was GOOD.

we went and visited H and her two darling children.. she is a member but the kids arent.. they both want to be baptised so bad and i know they will be soon. they are elect kids i tell you. so noble. their little eyes shine so bright :)

we had a do or die lesson with C... she is so stubborn that lady and she told us she doesnt want to learn the gospel unless she learns it from US. so i said then she really must not want to learn the gospel cause thats not what its about. its not MY work. its the LORDS and he will send whomever he wants to where ever he wants and its for the BEST. and she said... fine. so slowly but surely she will be converted. She sent us to a lady nameT this week. she told us a little bit about her life and sparing you the details.. it hasnt been a nice life... and she is looking for a church.. but she didnt know we knew that and when we knocked on her door she was rude and couldnt wait to shut the door.. the the spirit wouldnt let us leave so basically putting my foot in the door i just kept asking her questions about herself and what she was looking for and she kept shooting us down cause she had all these misconceptions about "mormons" and FINALLY she let us in enought for us to straighten out some of her false ideas and long story short she invited us back to drink "ice water" not tea or cofee haha.. and she then texted us the next morning about what time our church starts!!!! so that was cool :) i love people

G and M had their baby!!! they named him hyrum and he is so gorgeous... i could just kiss his little head but im not allowed to hold him :P rude.

we went to the P's little baby's bday party and met a bunch of philipinos and a german guy and had cool conversations with all of them.. but they all had closed hearts to change. :( its really frustrating to me cause all i want to do is change for the better.. and i feel like im not changing all that much and then people that i know can change and should change and would be SO MUCH HAPPIER if they would just TRY are closed to it.

i can only imagine the tears our father in heaven sheds for us if i cry this much for people i hardly know.

i love this gospel and i love these people so much. i love them so much i would die for them but i donthave to because someone way cooler than me and capable already did. all i need to do is testify of him.

Jesus is the Christ. and his atonement covers us. USE IT.

 i love you all

love sister douglas