07.20.15 Letter

For my birthday...can you send me the converse and baseball tee's and denim shirt that I left in Yuma?  Or perhaps a bicycle flash light to put on the front of my bike.  Mine got destroyed when it hit the freeway.  No flashlight makes for some interesting rides home at night. 

Sister Nuñez and I are still trying to figure things out.  We talk about it a lot haha. We are on different obedience levels I guess, but she's trying to do better. We haven't really taught many spanish people, but I'm getting ceviche next monday from a spanish member!  I got my bike repaired, but it has a really hard time shifting gears now.  That's alright though. Only 8 more months and then I promised Azavier he could have it. 

This week has been good though. We have still been doing a ton of finding.  We invited 100 people to be taught.  And it is SO hot, so we have to find ways besides tracting to talk to people. But we have found a few people with potential. 

07.13.2015 Letter

Hello! thank you for the pictures! haha all my missionary friends laughed at the one of Jacob. So chunky.  

I've been great!  Left Alex City on a great note.  The twins got baptized and I could tell that Ricky's self confidence and faith in the atonement really increased.  I love that place and I miss it a lot.  On the drive to Florence Sister Nelson called because Azavier lost it when I didn't show up and she thought letting him talk to me would calm him down...then I lost it.  I love that family so much.  I got to drive through Cullman though and stop and see some people.  When Mason and I saw each other we just ran and hugged each other.  Oops haha.  But I love that kid and his grandma.  I can't describe the love I have for these people. It really is something else.  

I like Florence so far.  It has been a Spanish area for a long time, but President is transitioning it to English, so I'm with a Spanish sister, well English Sister but she's here because she's from Chile and is fluent.  Sister Nuñez has been stressed out because we wrote each other before we became companions and so she doesn't want to do something to make me mad and not like her anymore haha.  We had to talk about that.  She's a funny kid. Florence is pretty big and it's a college town.  I've only ever been in smaller towns, so I'm nervous to be in such a big place, but Nuñez and I are having a party.  We are kind of starting over too because all of our investigators dropped us so finding!  

Nothing much else too crazy happened this week, besides the house fire across from our apartment on Saturday.  It was crazy.  We were driving back to the apartment and Sister Nuñez asked "is that house smoking?" and I look over and yup, smoke coming from the windows.  So I pull in really quick right outside the gates, tell Sister Nuñez to grab the phone, and run across the street.  There is a lady outside already on the phone and another guy and I ask if she was on the phone with 911.  she tells me yes and then proceeds to walk away.  the guy walks away too, so it's just me and Sister Nuñez out side of this burning house.  We didn't know if an ambulance was coming or not, but everyone who lived in the house just left us.  The ambulance came, but not before a good amount of damage was done.  It was the weirdest thing. 

I left my recorder at home, so I'll just have to write for today, but let me know if y'all need anything.  Love you! Be good. 

07.09.2015

Hey kids!  So I'm up in Florence with Nuñita.  Love this kid. She's so swag. Our address is 151 Gilbert Ct Apt G5

Florence, AL 35630. 

Be good. Love you!

07.06.2015

lol Brooklyn is sassy. They all sound so much older.  Thank you for the recordings. I love them!  Sounds like y'all had a lot of fun at your camps.   You will have to show me your experiments when I get home!  I recorded my week too, but I again left my cable at home, so I can't send it yet.  But I will in a few hours.  I love y'all! Be good! 

Also

This is what happens when you hear the tornado sirens in the middle of the night.

So many good things have happened recently.  I am so happy!  The Taylor girls got baptized! And despite brother ermer making things slightly toasty, it was amazing! I can see a whole new light in those girls and Ricky.  The whole family really.  It's amazing. I love that family.  I am going to miss Alex City a ton.  I was just sitting there during sacrament yesterday enjoying all the little quirks of this branch.  Elder Hamblin attempting to play the piano and everyone laughing when we sound terrible.  President Anderson being an awkward engineer and giving the branch business very slowly.  Jim's crazy deep doctrine. The little chapel that still looks like a baptist church.  But most of all the people.  Brother Foster, Eva, Jim, Rod, Dinesha and the kids.  Everybody.  I don't think anything can match Alex City in its crazy and adventure, and even though it was often frustrating, I've learned a lot from it, and I will miss it so much.  Every area and companion is for a reason.  The places where you have seen God's hand will always be special.  I can't wait to show you this crazy place.

I will totally help you with your business when I get back.  It's coming up fast.  We'll figure all that out at some point right?  

I don't know if we would get permission to go.  It's not next transfer, but the one after that, so there is a chance I wouldn't even be in Florence.  I'm still going to bring it up with President in my interviews this month.  

We never found the bum weenie's home.  I think he just kind of wonders. 

I forgot my recorder cable again, but I'll be able to send them in a few hours.  And if you could send me some Nashville Tribute Band music that would be awesome, but other than that don't worry about birfday stuff.  Just keep sending recordings/videos.  I love them. I love you kid!  Be good! 

06.15.2015

https://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/im-a-mormon/paris-thomas-loving-son-ping-pong-master-mormon

I don't know if y'all have ever seen this video, but this is Alabama. 

06.08.2015

Hello!  

The weather here has been up and down.  It is supposed to be rainy all week so it hasn't been too hot.  But I'm not sure which I prefer.  The allergies have been better.  I'm just taking allergy medicine everyday.  I have a ton that has been left by other sisters, so I should be good. I was taking it everyday, before I had that allergic reaction, so I'm not sure what it was.  Why won't David be able to get off work??  :/  Sounds like they had a fun week with David though.  Katelynn sent me a video with Jacob's old man face...so funny haha. Sorry about his foot.  I don't know how that would happen either.  Thank you for the prayers.  I'll need them this transfer...another transfer an AC...whoo who!  I'm trying to be optimistic about it.  I'll keep y'all in my prayers too.  Love you!  Thank you for the pictures!  Be good!

05.18.2015

Hello!  How is the Mower family this week?  Tell David I said thank you for helping me out with my drug problem yesterday.  Still have to figure out what I'm allergic to...probably a lot of things.  But thank you!  I'm not sure if Katelynn is there to have y'all listen to my recordings, so I'll send you the hard copy:

We were out tracting and a storm was rolling in.  I thought for sure we had a while before it hit, but everyone kept telling us to get in soon...didn't listen.  Hit when we were about a mile from the car.  Sister Nelson thought far enough to bring umbrellas, but they didn't really make much of a difference.  We got soaked.  

We had zone conference this week!  It was awesome as always.  President and Sister Hanks are great.  Love them! We went back to teach Alexis who we had met the week before, but told us that she didn't have time to talk to us that day because she was playing dominoes.  She is crazy. Like legitimately.  She has schizophrenia, but she wants God back in her life, so we are going to help her as much as we can.  Surprisingly I have taught a lot more people with schizophrenia than you would think. The last one we taught told us she believed it all, but didn't want to be baptized because she wasn't sure if it was the spirit or the voices in her head.  So we'll see how it goes with Alexis. AND THEN we went to see Montasia.  So we have Montasia, Lenasia, Amaze, and Amaze's sister standing all around us outside as they have just gotten off the bus.  Montasia wants to play a game and whoever wins gets a pamphlet. She won, but she gave everyone a pamphlet because "they all did a good job." So we have four girls standing around us with pamphlets. THEN this lady walks out of her house, sees this, and is like "all you girls, come over here."  Its the projects so everybody knows everybody, so the girls all run up to this lady.  She huddles them around her, says something to them, takes their pamphlets, turns around, and tells them to run home and hide before she turns back around.  All the other girls start running except for Montasia who walks back towards us, really upset.  I asked her what the lady said, and she says "she's racist, she told us not to talk to y'all"  So yeah the lady told all the girls that we teach not to talk to us and she was really embarrassed when she turned back around and Montasia was still standing next to us.  I was like "yeah we teach her and her mom...we were just standing outside for a second."  People sometimes. 

Gabe didn't end up getting baptized this weekend.  His parents put it off...again.  His dad is the same one that made it so that Devin and Angela's dad won't let them get baptized now.  Poor kid.  His parents are both members and he is already 10.  I pray that it won't keep getting pushed back.

We met another set of twins.  Octavius and Christavius.  They are the cutest ever!  We were walking down the street...before we got soaked, and Octavius calls out from his house "are y'all church people?"  We go over and start talking to him and Chris and all his cousins.  They didn't want us to leave haha.  We're going back to visit them and their parents today.  

It is coming up towards the end of the transfer.  We find out Saturday if I am leaving or staying for another transfer.  It's always a bitter sweet.  I would love to stay and continue to work with those people I have met and I know that Alex City is not done teaching me patience, as I am still working on being patient.  I'm not sure that I want it to finish though...I'll be in AC for another week for sure. 

Thank you for setting everything up for mother's day and helping me out so much.  Love you! Be good!