Exclusive Weekly Sister Lovell Magazine: September 2022

Monday, September 26, 2022

Breaking and Entering 🔓🗝

Gooooood afternoon/evening my good friends and family! This week was a shorter one, and again I have a slight lack of desire to write this, so we're going to go speedy haha!

Tuesday!

Mostly the comps just packed while I rearranged the house haha! Wrote a lot of emails. We had dinner with the Rupnicks! The lasagna was actually quite good. Not sick of it yet! XD

Wednesday!

Transfer day!! Craziness ensued! Every single companionship in our zone was affected except I think Rhinelander and Wausau Hmong. Crazy!

I'm not gunna go into detail of how we arrived each place, it suffices me to say that we arrived safely, though not always on time. (That wasn't my fault by the way. Just in case someone wanted to try and call me out haha. *cough* Dad *cough* XD)

We finally made it to Milwaukee, and we were instructed to go right into the chapel. I asked the AP's if I had time to use the restroom first and they said sure, so I sped in and out of there, saw Sister Hollingsworth and pulled a tight U-ey in the hallway and made a beeline for her, gave her the biggest hug, and then sped down the hallway to the chapel. I was definitely the last one in there, but that's alright.

They were just chilling and making preparations for the assignments, so I was very easily able to slip into the back and sit by the Rapids sisters.

I pretty much knew who I was going to be training, but I also expected President to say she was going with literally all of the other sisters, because our zone was very LAST. I wasn't nervous until I was sitting in the chapel stressing haha.

After I finally got to hug my cute Sister Olsen, we got to eat the usual Chick-fil-A. I had brought some handy dandy ketchup again of course. That's just me for ya. (Bonus points!! I didn't end up with a 3rd experience of exploded ketchup in my bag lol)

Then we said goodbye to some of the other Sisters, Sister Olsen's MTC comp is being trained by Sister McGary which is so fun! And then hopped on the transfer bus. That was a pretty fun drive to Neena!

We then went from Neena to Steven's Point and then decided to go out to dinner with the Sisters. That was really fun!

We got home around 7:30, and did some work and a little bit of personal study. And then we unpacked and headed to bed!

Thursday!

Thursday was good! Only think that I honestly remember is having a member meal with the Filimauas. They were very kind to have us over. They're pretty awesome!! Their daughter Minaui is cute as usual.

Friday!

Friday was buck wild. Honest to goodness insane. Short version!

- we had 3 new missionary zoom meetings that day!

- one at 9

- one that was initially at 10, but got moved to 9:30 at the last minute (This made us miss the first half)

- and one at 1:00 which we missed the second half of because we had a lesson.

- they gave us literally no notice for these things XD. Its okay. We forgive them wholeheartedly.

- we got a covid test because our dinner on Tuesday ended up with covid and we were both showing symptoms! :o

- we both ended up negative! Big miracle!

- we had a good lesson with our friend Christel!

- we had a member meal with the Englebretsons that night! Which we were late to.

- we locked ourselves out of our car and apartment.

- the apartment manager was on vacay

- we said a prayer and both had the feeling we'd get the door open, even though both were definitely locked.

- we did not.

- we went around back and our neighbor Deb instructed us on how to get through the window as this had happened to her before.

- we managed to get the screen out and open the window

- we had moved the dresser in front of the window the day prior. 🤦🏼‍♀️

- Sister Olsen managed to sneak up and over the dresser and get the door unlocked so we could get the keys and be on our way.

- we did in fact make it to the Englebretsons alive and in tact.

- dinner was spaghetti and was amazing

- we got to drive home in the dark! It was awesome!!

That was about it, but boy was it crazy!

Saturday!

We had studies in the morning, and then we had stake conference that afternoon. We found out we were invited to the leadership meeting, so we secured a last minute ride as we couldn't go with just President Lonsdale.

We made it, and thoroughly enjoyed it! We went to dinner with the Rapids sisters inbetween sessions. With all of the sisters really lol. We all showed up at Culver's XD.

The evening adult session was really good as well! The themes were how to help the youth (leadership), and ministering (both other sessions). Lots of good thoughts shared!

Sister McKee gave us a ride home because she's a sweetie.

Sunday!

We got a ride to and from stake conference with the Lonsdales! This session was amazing as well! Bonus points! Our friend Gabriel traveled the hour to come to stake conference!! It was pretty awesome! Bishop was coming over to say hi, but Gabriel left before he got to us.

We were so grateful we got to go to conference because of the COVID scare. Also! We got to see President and Sister Hansen in Saturday's sessions! Awesome stuff!! So grateful for it!

We also called Mark on fb, and he has a lot of questions! We taught half Gospel of Jesus Christ, and half Plan of Salvation, because really that's what he needed. It was very interesting, but we will continue to teach him and that's awesome!

Today!

Yet another chill pday. Did some shopping and chores etc, we have a member meal tonight, and that should be really awesome!

We've also been working on plans for a district pday. Probably October 10th. Sister Englebretson offered her gazebo for a meeting place, and we're getting pretty excited about it. :D

That's all, folks!!

Always remember! Even though we maybe we were talking about breaking and entering our own apartment, we also tried to "break and enter" into the hearts of the souls of many this week! We managed one, our good buddy Mark, and possibly others in ways we maybe don't even know about!! Your efforts aren't wasted my friends!! Keep goin' at 'em out there.

Love yous!

We can do this!
¡Sí se puede!
Peb Yeej Ua Tau!

Love
Sister Lovell

Link to the photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/hH8UuZNVov71FYot7

Link to the blog:
https://sisterhannahlovellwisconsin.blogspot.com/

P. S. Hey everyone!! I'm having a hard time with Google photos, so here's a photo dump for this week. When I figure out the problem there I'll upload them.

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

✈️ Flyin' Solo ✈️

Okayyyy!! Wassup my good friends and family!! This week was pretty crazy!! Transfers are this week, and that's always insane!! I don't have the motivation to write an email this week, so yous might get lucky with a shorter one this time.

Monday!

We were going to have a district pday, but the Rapids sisters got COVID, so we didn't do that. We just had a regular old pday and cleaned and stuff so, it was chill haha!

Tuesday!

We went to the Bauer's and had an SPF with cute Sister Bauer! I love her lots!!

I made dinner for us this day! It was the only day besides Monday where we didn't have a meal, so that was really nice! I made Shepherd's Pie!!

Wednesday!

Wednesday was crazy! We postponed our personal study because we got an emergency call from a returning member to drive out to Spencer and do some cleaning service. Which we did! It was pretty good! Lol her toddler had Frozen 2 on, and I was far more into it than the kid was even though I couldn't see the TV XD. I was just doing dishes jamming out to my favorite songs, telling Sis Pear what part of the movie it was at XD. That's one of my favorite movies actually.

We had lunch at McDonald's with Sister Calli which was so fun!! I love Sister Calli; she's absolutely darling.

We had a few lessons with friends and such which were good!

We went to the Smith's for dinner, and they had lasagna again! ...I'm having that for dinner tonight too.... 😅 I'm getting kinda sick of having Lasagna. We have it actually kinda a lot. I just want dad's lasagna that's all. 😥😣

Anyways, the lasagna was good, but they made it with sausage... which I'm allergic to lol. Good times. The Smiths are super sweet though!! I absolutely adore them!! Definitely some of my favorite people!!!

Thursday!

We had a few lessons that morning, and we had District council after lunch!! We all went out to that Mexican place again. (Sans the Sisters who were still in quarantine...) I managed to finish my whole burrito this time which was honestly impressive.

District council itself was good; we had half an hour to kill in between lunch and the meeting because the Sisters couldn't join until 1:30p, but we were done with lunch by 1p, so we just made up a bunch of the RANDOMEST get to know you questions, and rolled a dice for which one we had to answer. I'm not even going to bother trying to recall them lol. Dumb teenagers XD.

The Sisters joined via messenger call, and we were able to have our DC.

We went to the Beazer's for dinner that night, and they had Mexican too! I was literally so stuffed. So much food!! It was so amazing though!! They're darling!!

Friday!

Friday we did weekly planning for the last time, and we went to the Curtis's for dinner! We also filmed a church story with them, which they were SO excited about! Haha they're really fun to do.

Saturday!

We had New Missionary Summit for cutie Orozco, and it was definitely different than before, but it was so good! I love President and Sister Hansen so much!!

We had an SPF with Sister Larson, and Sister Richardson came! That was awesome of course!!

We went to Casa Amigos for lunch, which is definitely a big part of the reason I'm broke... it's okay XD I'll survive somehow. (It was also the third time we'd had Mexican that week. 😳)

After that we had an SPF with Sister Parks; we helped her clean the church building's windows before heading off to the ward party!

The ward party was pretty fun, but never have I been more exhausted from just talking to people. So many people were there, and the family hosting it has a pond in their backyard, and I couldn't swim... 😣 so saddddddd!! Anyways lol, it was pretty fun! Eliana was there, and we got to talk to her!! She's a cutie!

Sunday!

We had the shortest, and probably again not effective coordination meeting before church, but progress!

Church itself was great!! We had Crystal and her son Diamond attend, as well as a less active Sister Karnga! Plus Dean watched over Zoom, as did Sister Larson! It was pretty awesome!!

Second hour Sunday school was about Isaiah, and I'm not gunna lie, all I remember is talking about Christ and the Restoration, and the microphone screeching every 45 seconds or so.... it was terrible. XD the microphone not the lesson lol.

We took pictures with a couple people before heading to the Bauer's after church. The Bauers are darling!! We had a good time with them too and took pictures with them as well!

Our dinner cancelled on us last minute, but luckily we'd been doubly invited for dinner, and the other family was more than happy to have us over. We didn't share a message because it was their daughter's bday party, and we're going again on Thursday, plus there were a lot of people, so he just told us to share it on Thursday. 👍🏻👍🏻 Okay by us!

We had studies after dinner because of how crazy the day was haha!

We had mission prayer where prez announced a lot of changes happening with transfers, but not who was going where. That was for Monday night.

The biggest news that affects all yous, at all is I'll find out about transfers on Saturday or Sunday instead of Monday, and pday will always be Monday. No more Tuesday pday. So that's hype!

Monday!

We visited a lot of members because we didn't want to be sitting around all day.

We bought lunch and took it to eat with Sister Larson. We all enjoyed our pizza haha! It was a lot of fun!

We went to see Sister Richardson, and that was awesome! Her cat decided to finally settle on my lap right after I said we should say prayer and head out. 😥 It's like he was waiting 😆 Silly kitty.

We also visited Sister Ashby which was cool! She's very sweet. She got to talk to her missionary daughter while we were there!

For dinner we went to the Lonsdale's! That was good! They had really good soup and homemade biscuits which I actually really liked for once!!! I was happy about that!

We had a lesson with Gabriel which was interesting. It was held at the library in the last 20 min of the library being open. It was kinda crazy haha! Casey, a member who was a convert a couple years back came to the lesson, and was more of a distraction to the Spirit than anything tbh [to be honest]... he doesn't like Sisters, because they can't come over and hang out like the Elders did, so he... in any case, it was a crazy lesson.

Then we had a little while of Facebook calls before we finally got to hop on the Monday Mission Miracles and get hyped for transfer news! Let me tell you, it was a CRAZY transfer!! Now we get to the good stuff:

Sister Orozco is going to Brookfield to be companions with Sister Hollingsworth!!!

Sister Pearson is going to Winnebago YSA with Sister Cluff and trio training!! (Again lol. 4th time trio training for her haha!)

ME!! I could NOT be more excited about my transfer assignment!! I have been praying for this since my second transfer on the mission, and it has finally happened!! I am solo training!! Just me and a cute trainee!!! No longer two trainers, JUST MEEEE!! I can't wait to meet her!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I am staying here in Marshfield, so I'll be here for like... 6 months by the end of it haha!

My trainee and I will get to do fun Halloween and Thanksgiving stuff!!! 🥳🥳🥳 I CAN'T WAIT!!

In other news, my trainer, Sister McGary is also training this transfer, so I am getting a younger sister!! I'll be excited to meet her, too!!

All in all, I am very excited!!

That's all, folks! Hope to hear from yous soon!! Have a good one!! ❤️❤️❤️

Pictures:

1) Cute Sister Bauer!

2) The Smiths!!

3) District stickers I made

4) District silliness!

5) The district

6) The Beils

7) The Beazers

8) Me on a swing

8) Me on a swing x2

9) Comp silliness

9) Comp silliness x2

10) Comp silliness (video)

11) Sticker for the Bauers

12) The Bauers!!

13)The Curtis's ❤️

14) Ally Brunson

15) Coloring page bday present

16) The Lonsdales

Pday @ Culvers

Pday @ Culvers x2

Monday, September 12, 2022

💙🍄Messy Smurf🍄💙

Come one, come all! To the crazy circus that is my weekly email!! 😆

In all seriousness, thanks for coming back again every week all y'all that read this. ❤️ Y'all are the real MVPs. (Most Valuable Players, to those of yous who never know what I'm talking about lol)

Well!! Let's hop right on into it shall we??

Monday!

So, funny story, at about noon last pday, the Rapids sisters texted us to ask if we wanted to come to their area and have a district pday. Apparently the Elders were chilling with games and such at their building (as it's the middle point of the district) and had invited them. We turned down the offer because of... a good couple things. It was very last minute, and we hadn't accomplished all of our pday tasks yet, and the Elders didn't even invite us, the Sisters did. If it had been planned out we totally woulda gone, but as it were.... it wasn't planned, and I wanted to talk to my family. So we didn't have a district pday last week.

Tuesday!

Tuesday was crazy honestly!! We drove out to Neilsville and visited a bunch of members out there!! Time for speed round of what happened!!

- We first went to the Bauer's, in the opposite direction of Neilsville, but they're darling, and it was the first time they invited us over, so we just went with it. It was honestly the best. They're a darling young married couple. :D

- After that we went to Neilsville and had lunch with a less active!! She's really sweet, and her mom and mom's best friend were in town too for some summer shenanigans! Her mom is active and was very happy we were visiting her daughter. :)

- Next up were the Ludovics! They're really sweet, and we shared a message with them. :)

- We headed to the Rupnick's next! We were doing service for them and brought service clothes, because I wasn't about to paint their walls in my dress haha! It was fun, but rather chaotic. (Sounds like them haha!!) Most their furniture was still there, and most of the time we didn't have drip cloths 👀. They told us to just go at it. No tape or nothing... He said he was proud of what we'd done, but idk if I'm proud of it.... part of it was the color. XD The room was bright pink before, and now it's a darker blue. Not dark, but not neon... so we're getting there. The ceiling was also being painted blue. It was interesting.

- Sister Orozco had stepped in the paint tray with her sock at one point and was just generally covered in blue paint by the end, so she received the nickname "Messy Smurf" from them. They like to give their missionaries nicknames. I don't know whether or not to be sad that I didn't receive one. 😆 I did however draw Sister Orozco as a Smurf sticker, so look for that picture.

- We ended up at the Rupnick's about an hour longer than planned and went over another SPF we had elsewhere. We showed up there and apologized for our tardiness, but she's a cute old lady and she said that she'd just gotten up anyways, and to not worry as she likely wouldn't have been up earlier. All's well that ends well! The Lord has impeccable timing.

- That SPF went really well. :D She said she was feeling kinda lonely and wishing someone would stop by, and she was glad we had! I love Joel!! (Joe-elle pronunciation wise) She's a cutie.

- We also had another SPF after dinner with the Fosters who live too far for our miles, but we set up a Zoom call, and that went well!! :D

That's about it for Tuesday!

Wednesday!

We had District council this day, and that was good! We went out to eat at the Mexican place again afterwards, and bOY are those burritos good. 😋 They're also massive, though. 😆 I'm always able to eat like 90% of it, which basically means I can't finish the last 3 bites of it because of how huge they are. Too little to save, too much to stuff down my face. ...but talking about it makes me want it rn [right now] haha!

We had a lesson with our friend Amanda on the ride home, and that went well I think!!

We had dinner with a cute family that evening! The Gilbert-Peter's! The mom is a member, and the dad is not, but he's a grey dot in our Areabook, and we shared a message, so that was awesome!! They were really amazing, and we're going back!! (They're cancelled actually, mega sad).

We also did silly facemasks again that evening which is always hilarious! Idk if we took pictures this time, so if we did they'll be attached.

Thursday!

Speed round time cause I'm running low on it.

We had several lessons, and we had two meals this day!

Lunch was with the Beils for Ward Mission Leader Meeting ft [featuring] food this time!! It was awesome, and the food was amazing!! Sister Beil makes excellent homemade bread!

Dinner was with Sister Calli, and THAT was SO FUN!! It was at the Blue Heron again, and we had so much fun talking to her!! We all three get along with her so well, and she just loves the company. :D the cutest lady!!

We also had weekly planning.

Friday!

The thing that stands out the most from this day was the Amish dinner!! It was really good, and I definitely enjoyed it! I went back for seconds this time and felt that for the next... still feel it a bit, haha! 😆 It was so good, though! It was haystacks, but it was on mashed potatoes! It was AMAZING!! and as usual, the phenomenal homemade ice cream!! Top notch ice cream right there.

Saturday!

Saturday was good! Pretty busy actually! We visited a couple less active members, heart attacked another few members, and had SPFs with our usuals!!

Sister Freeman was feeling sick so they gave us our food to go because they're amazing. Baked potatoes!!! Good stuff!! :D

Sunday!!

We had ward council that morning, and I swear, it usually goes pretty okay, but then someone always starts contention, and this time I tried to speak up, and felt like I was being attacked. After I stopped talking my heart was going WAY fast.

Basically someone didn't want to do something because it "wasn't their responsibility, but their councilor's", and I basically just talked about BYC (bishop youth council, and how if the president of the quorum or class can't come, the councilors go, or even the secretary! Because it's important someone from that group is there. She wasn't having it though, so I gave up. I tried to make it seem like a joyful thing, but oh well. Next time I'll just keep my mouth shut, I guess.

Church itself was good!! The Beazers all spoke except for their dad who will presumably be talking soon, haha! They actually captured my attention very well, so that was fantastic!!!

We went to the Lockhart's for lunch, and we were there 2 hours. 😳 They had come see all their animals, (3 bunnies (2 babies), 4 black cats, 5 massive golden doggos, 4 chickens, and a horse.) It was so fun, though, and so worth it!! It was a lot of fun!! :D

We also went to the new move in's house for dinner, the Carlsruh's, and that was awesome!! They have 6 kids but 5 at home. They had a really yummy salad!! They're absolutely darling! So were the Lockharts, haha!

We found someone that evening!! His name is Isaac, and he was really cool!! We called him through Facebook and shared a scripture and set up a time to call back!

We also had a lesson with Solomon earlier in the day which was good because we hadn't had a lesson with him for a good while. :)

Also Mission Prayer of course!

Today!

Today was supposed to be district pday, but the Sisters got COVID, so that was cancelled. Maybe next week?? 😅😥

It was pretty chill. :) Had the shortest shopping list ever! Ended up with enough money left to go to lunch!! Awesome stuff! Culver's, of course!!

I have received a CRAP ton of emails from friends today, so sorry that this is coming out later than usual; I was preoccupied talking to people because I love it when my friends talk to me, haha! 😆 Makes me feel loved. 🥰❤️

I love you all so much!! That's about it for this week!! Have a great one!!!

Photos:

1) Us at the lake last pday

1) Us at the lake last pday x2

2) the lake

3) Messy Smurf sticker

4) Cute Sister Anderson

5) The district

5) The district x2

6) Sis 🍐 and I

6) Sis 🍐 and I x2

7)Them facemasks

8) The Queen herself

9) Wisconsin chair ft. UP side table

10) Us + cute sis Calli

Monday, September 5, 2022

Howdy Y'all 🐎

Hey all! Happy Monday! I hear most people are back in school now, so I hope everyone is enjoying that!! This has been a good week!! Kinda crazy, but we'll get into that!!

Monday!

We had an awesome Sister pday with the Wisconsin Rapids Sisters! We got ice cream from Webbers, and walked around the zoo! It was really casual, but it was a lot of fun!! I have a rather lot of pictures haha! They're of course included!

We also went to the Brunson's for dinner which was awesome!! There's never anything bad to say about the Brunsons! They're amazing! Haha, but I will say, I need to be more clear on telling everyone my allergies, because we ate grilled pork and corn on the cob. 😆 Did I eat it? Of course! ...Did I pay for it later? Oh you bet.

Tuesday!

Tuesday was filled with SPFs! The most notable were Sister Richardson with Sister Ratsch, and the McKees.

With Sister Richardson, she had made us these snickerdoodle muffins. They were quite large, and on top of that, they were the most DENSE cupcake I've had ever. It was insane! I couldn't even finish mine, and we were there nearly an hour. They were like a meal I swear. They were good! So good! Just very filling haha!

The McKees had us over at 7:00 that evening, and when we got there she said she forgot to tell us that they wanted to have us over for dinner. So we shared the message and they gave us to go containers full of it. I was very sad to have eaten already because Sister McKee makes everything from scratch, and it's always amazing. It sure looked amazing.

The other lesson I want to note was our lesson with Dean. His baptismal date passed, and we invited him to pray about another date to work towards. He said he would! We haven't had a lesson with him since, but we've done a lot of morning prayers.

Wednesday!

Yet another day full of lessons and SPFs! My favorite one though, was that we had a member meal with the Catmulls. They're so cute!! He's the Elders Quorum President. They've been out of town nearly all summer, so this was our first time going over, and it was awesome!! They fed us this REALLY good poppyseed chicken dish. We asked her for the recipe, but I can't remember if she ever sent it to us. It was amazing.

They also have a cat that recently had kittens, so we all three got to hold a kitten!! Mine just curled up on my shoulder and started purring. I about died!! It was so sweet!! I'll tell you, that precise moment, made my entire week.

Thursday!

Thursday started off at 8:30 because we were doing a service project in Spencer. We were helping some less actives move out and deep clean their house. It went pretty well! We got it done in just under 2 hours. To clarify, they already moved most the big stuff out the night before, and we were just doing the few things left, as well as the cleaning. We were happy to do some service!

The rest of the day was pretty chill! Did some weekly planning, and finding, etc. :)

Friday!

Friday was CDC! It was really good! There was a lot that I needed to hear, (funny how the spirit works that way haha!) and we had a lot of good discussions. :)

Afterwards, all the Sisters went to lunch!! We were planning to go to Olive Garden, but the wait was too long, so we ended up at Panera. It's kinda the sister store to Zupas, but like... not as good. Also!! Why do all their drinks gotta have caffeine, huh? Literally my only non caffeinated option was water. So water it was.

It was pretty good! My tomato soup was amazing as always, but my salad... was eh. I really miss Zupas. I did get a really cute pumpkin cookie though!!

After that, we drove home and had our meeting with Brother Beil, which was shorter than usual (Thank goodness, we weren't even sure what we were going to talk about, haha) and!!! They also gave us really yummy ice cream which was so appreciated!! It was awesome haha!

This whole day was go go go, it was insane! After that meeting, we went home and had like an hour before heading to dinner out at the Englebretson's. That was really good too! It was pineapple salsa chicken, and I very much enjoyed it!!

Saturday!

Saturday was good! We went and visited a bunch of less actives as well as some grey dots! We also heart attacked two families!

We heart-attacked the Ellsworths, and the Boyacks. It was hilarious. The Boyacks we tried to be as sneaky as possible, and succeeded!! The Ellsworths? Not so much lol.

We walked up to the door and their dog barked. (Dogs and their lack of appreciation for sneakiness.) Their son opened the door immediately and wandered off. We were just standing there with hearts behind our backs like "uhhhh...". Brother Ellsworth showed up and invited us in, and we were super awkward. He mentioned something about them just doing Saturday chores. It was then we decided we had to tell them we were literally just there to put something on their door, and not to infringe on their Saturday.

He laughed and we went out and stuck up the hearts and fLED. It was so awkward. It was also kinda hilarious looking back, but mostly awkward.

We had a few other SPFs that afternoon as a part of our usual Saturday schedule.

We also had!!! THE FREEMANS!! For the first time in like a month!! We were so excited!! They had bacon wrapped chicken, but they luckily know me, and made some chicken sans bacon, which their son had too, because apparently I'm not the only person alive who's not fond of bacon. 😆 It was really good!! Very messy, but fantastic.

They also had an AMAZING dessert that was a mix between apple crisp, cinnamon rolls, and raspberry crumble. Basically it was cinnamon rolls with apple pie filling (I think) on top, and crumble stuff on the top, and it was PHENOMENAL. Sister Freeman is an excellent cook.

The lesson we had with them was a tad awkward because we had invited them to make a list of friends, and in short they told us because they're homeschooled... they don't have any friends. We really didn't know what to say to that. It worked out though.

We also took a picture with them!! (Included)

We found someone that evening!! Her name is Amanda, and she's really sweet!! She gave us her number and told us that if we ever wanted to hang out she'd be down. It was really darling! 😆😁

Sunday!

Sunday was a DAY let me tell ya! Here's the cliff notes version cause there was a lot.

- church was good

- there was a girl who randomly showed up with her brother(?) (Likely 20s)

- she didn't talk to anyone, but she gave the people who talked to her each a bead from a cup she was holding.

- we followed her out to her car, her name is Kirsten, she's very sweet but very quiet.

- they came in and out of sacrament meeting a few times, and ended up leaving before it was over. (We think she was anxious)

- we have her number though!!

- it was fast Sunday, so 2nd hour crawled. Attention was unfortunately not paid.

- we took a picture with Sister Curtis and Sister McKee for Sister Curtis' weekly "Sunday Best" Facebook story.

- we had the shortest coordination meeting that wasn't particularly effective, but it was our first, so it works.

- came home and attempted personal study lol

We had dinner at the Taylors, and they're awesome! (Not doing cliff notes for this one) we had a Costa Vida inspired meal, which was really good!! We also had an AMAZING dessert which was some sort of lime cake thing. We do have the recipe for this one. I'll include it in photos or something. They also gave us this gift card thing, as well as like $30 to go get ourselves some Taco John's today. It's apparently really good. 😆

My favorite part though? We asked if we could help them with anything, and Brother Taylor said yes!! He said we could help bring the horses in for the night. !!! 🤩 it was SO COOL! I also got to wear a cowboy hat, so that was great! Pictures included!! Also, be looking out for a Facebook story from me within the next couple days.

Also! Talisa texted us last night that she wanted to move her baptismal date up to two days after the next transfers!! 🤯 More on that later.

Mission Prayer was great as well! We sang our mission song which is always fun! I'll include a pic of the sheet music too.

Today!

Today will be yet another chill pday. Just cleaning, writing emails, shopping, laundry, etc. We'll also likely be going out to Taco John's, so look forward to pictures from that in next week's email. :)

Back to Talisa for a sec, we received a text today that she talked with her Pastor and is no longer interested in being baptized or attending church. 😥 She did say we could feel free to check on her and still talk though! 😅😊🥲

That's all folks!! I sure appreciate all y'all who read these, and I especially appreciate hearing from you!! I hope yous have an incredible week, and that you always remember that God loves you!! And so do I!! Have a great one!!

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