Interesting week 😃🤔

First off I just want to say how grateful I am for each and every one of you! If you are on this email list it obviously means that I have so much love for you💞! Second I also want to say how blessed I am to have this opportunity to be serving the Lord at this time!

Also drop your addresses so I can try and send a card to y'all! And here's my address if you want to send a letter instead of an email ahah, I do love mail, my ma can testify to that ahha!! 1320 Ridgeland Ave, Naperville, IL 60563 Monday: P-Day!! We went shopping for most of the day because we both kinda hate our clothes so we were like lets just go shopping with all the money we have haha(NONE) anyways we went to lots of places but didn't find a whole lot. The rest of the day we just chilled and talked to fam. Once p-day was over we had exchanges and I got to go with Sister Law and she is so cute and amazing I love the two sisters that are in the zone. We always have a party! We stayed up pretty late and we just had a deep convo which was much needed and was just nice to have! Tuesday: Super fun day! We went to Sister Barnes house ofc for Dairy Queen but right before we left she gave me something and what she gave me was….. 🥁🥁🥁 I got the Veggie Tales Nativity scene!!!! I was so happy when I opened it! Sister Law had Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat sound track and so we jammed out to that while doing stop bys it was fun! Finally to end off the night before exchanging back we met with our friend Brett who is the twin of pretty much my brother Lincoln ahha it was really funny and everytime we meet with him im always like what the heck ahah. Wednesday: We had a super good district council today and Elder Arnett gave a good training on obedience which I really needed to hear because I have not done so good with that but anyways the thing that stood out to me was his analogy he used “ This person is sitting on the fence on one side is God and Jesus Christ and on the other side is Satan. The man was asked what side will you choose. The man said I choose both.. All of a sudden it goes dark and the man is confused until Satan appears and says Hey thanks for choosing me! The man is confused because he didn't choose Satan but he chose both.” What I got from it was like yeah its nice to sit on the fence and have both but in reality you don't have both you honestly chose to be with satan and that as long as we have one foot out and one foot in we are never going to be giving it are all to God. Anyways I just really liked that. We then had a district lunch and we ate so well that day haha. We went to this super good diner place and it had literally everything you could think of, it was good. The rest of the day we had lessons here and there which were good but mainly phone work. Thursday: Today was really good. We had a district fast for one of our friends who is going through a lot right now and so Sister Surio and I invited our district to join us with this fast. I thought it was going to be hard because I've never been the best at that but going into it with a prayer and a purpose helped a lot and that it was for our friend. God really did give me the support and the energy I needed for that day. Today was the day though our trend of lessons started to fall through, it was really sad and unfortunate but we made the best of it and kept working hard! We then broke our fast and got the free frostys at Wendy's and the lady was so stinking sweat she was like as long as I'm working you will get a large frosty instead of a jr ahah it was like oh shoot okay aha! We had a really good talk with her and that was fun. We then just did phone work the rest of the night lol shocker I know. Friday: Super busy but super good day! Today we had an in person leadership meeting and so we had to get up pretty early but man did I have energy that day! At this meeting I felt very called out by the spirit in a way because I know I haven't been the best missionary lately and the things we talked about I was just like shoot welp. But I'm truly grateful for the meeting we did have because it definitely helped me for the rest of the week to try and be better. Some highlights from this was I got to see Sister Hoggard which is always a party! Second, when we had to talk about our zones I was the only one that talked loud and clear and one of the Presidents in our mission made a comment about it and really liked how I did it. I was like lets goooo!! Anyways he talked to me after about it and I told him that's my family for you, we are just loud people in general ahah. We then had a member meal with one of our new recent converts and it was super good and we had a good talk. To finish the night off we did more phone work and at mcdonalds and as we were leaving a bunch of 13 year old boys started cat calling us, it was sooo WEIRD AND AWKWARD. Saturday: Today was a weird day, all of our lessons fell through once again # day 3 of this happening. But the lessons we did have were blessed! First off we went to Grandma Bev's house and im her new tech person pretty much but I helped her fix her facebook and she was sooo happy when I got it fixed that she started jumping and she's like 87 it was crazy. Anyways to the blessed lessons we did have, the first one we were teaching her about the restoration and the whole time she was like this is what I needed and this is where I belong is with this church. We were talking about the Book of Mormon and we were like we would love to bring you a copy and she goes oh no need for that I just downloaded it on to my phone and once we get done here ill start reading it. We were like WHATTTT!! So that was a super cool and an amazing lesson! The second one we had right after with our friend Marcel and we had a member join in and they both love history so much and so they were just talking about the history of the church and we then also talked about how this church isn't just a religion but its a family and Marcel was like really like I can be part of this family and we were like YEAH!! And the smile that he had on his face was so precious. He then said the closing prayer for us and was like thank you for my new best friend and thank you for my new family that I can't wait to join! It was so cute! On the way back we had a call with another person and he was on something because he was like if you say anything wrong I'm going to sew your church!!!! And man did the spirit leave so fast, we were able to hang up thankfully. But other than that it was a good day! Sunday: Day # 4 of our lessons falling through but we had a good day at church today! I love Fast Sunday and when you go into your fast with a prayer it's SOOO MUCH DIFFERENT! But anyways we joined in with the youth today and that was fun because they were talking about missions and trusting God and so it worked out perfectly and so there was a few youth that have been thinking about a mission and were on the fence about it and so I shared my story and the adults were appreciative of it because it helped them see a different perspective in a way. Anywho fast forward to lots of phone work and past that that ahah we had a lesson with Christina and Charles and we also had dinner with them at the Sr. Sisters house which was actually so fun and we had really good food! Today was super chill and we just did facebook the rest of the night. Anyways there is the week for yall, love you all so so much and hope you had an amazing week and hope you have a good rest of your week🫶💞!!