Dahaha that is the most random piece of news ever! Yay for Ginger on the price is right haha. Ok so my apologize for the freaking out last email. I'm glad Sister Vendel calmed you. I stinkin LOVE HER SO MUCH!! Gahhhh and brother Vendel sooooo much! We are definitely going back to visit them after I'm done. Which! By the way! I am going to meet my 3 month mark TOMORROW!!! What?? That's so crazy!! Yet it also feels like I've been out here for forever..... and a day haha. Mama let me tell you. You are one inspired lady. That quote you sent SIster Breaux and I about Lot's wife at New Years: "Look not behind thee..Did lt's wife ever consider her future would be better than her past?" has kept me going! SIster breaux and I were living by that quote this past week. And it is sitting on my desk next to all of your guys' pictures :) For heaven's sake! I don't even know what to think. THe first day was ROUGH. I wanted to bawl my eyes out BUT! I HAVE YET TO LET MYSELF CRY ABOUT THIS SITUATION SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE! Ya that's impressive haha. Not because I haven't wanted to!! I just remember how much I relied on SIster Breaux to be strong and so I'm doing the same. Sister Ratto (like Colorado) is my new trainee. Yes, being a trainer is also being the Senior companion. Shoot me. Just kidding! I am realizing that I know more than I thought I knew, and that it doesn't matter if I don't know everything, because God can work with whatever we've got to offer as long as we are willing to do what he asks of us. It's funny to have to explain why I'm doing everything I'm doing and why it's so important to be exactly obedient. I am workin this girl hard because it's when you sit around and do nothing that you realize you're hundreds of miles away form everyone and everything you know and love. Thus! We keep busy. I am living with members again hallelujiah!!! I don't feel quite as alone as I could haha However, we live in this mother in law suite thing that's like detached from the rest of the house, which is really nice but it's also really dark and depressing haha. We're gonna go to the thrift store and buy some things to brighten it up :) Our new address is : 501A CR 702 Berryville, AR 72616 . I haven't gotten your package yet. Oh! The members we live with are the Coley's and they are super healthy! Hahaha heavenly father knew I needed this haha. We had dinner with them last night and they are incredible! The Elders left a bag of apple jack cereaL, grape pop, whole milk, jerky and...a leg of Goat in the apartment for food....I'm not even kidding haha! They are ridiculous! Luckily, the COley's had pitty on us and they went shopping in their amazing food storage and brought us up 2 big bags full of healthy food!! YAY! They also taught us how to make healthy chocolate!! I am bound and determined to learn as much as I can from them because they seriously are full of wisdom. :) Brother Coley was sweet. He was like : All my daughters have moved out so it was kinda fun to hear the blow dryer going this morning. :) haha he's such a nice guy. They're in their late 40s but they seriously could pass for 30s. THey have a 16 year old son and 10 year son living at home still. The area has only ever had Elders and so everyone Is SUPER exited to have sisters! :) THat's a HUGE blessing. They were all really sweet to us yesterday. The branch has about 70 active members but 300 members live in it... ya we're gonna change that right quick. The ward mission leader's name is brother jim coley (little bro of the coley's we live with...there's the coley's and the engles and then a tone of Marshallese and latino people in this town haha) and he is super nice and helpful! We met with him and the also super nice and helpful Relief society President and got some things figured out on Friday so that was good. On Thursday it was our branch president that actually came and picked us up at transfer point so we got to talk to him and his wife who is the yw president and it was really good. Oh! And! Sister Ratto got super car sick on our way to Berryville...we had to pull over like 3 times so she could puke:/ Poor girl. We are literally in the middle of the Ozarks and EVERYWHERE is hilly and everything is around a turn....it's slightly ridiculous haha. BUt! Luckily I think I've gotten used to it a little so I'm not getting super sick anymore!! Oh! And like I mentioned, the whole area has a ton of Marshallese and Hispanic people in it! Woot! for cultures! I seriously mentioned to Heavenly Father once before I left that it would be cool if I went somewhere with other cultures and he sent me to the middle of muticulture city! :) We had to try to talk to this lady in Spanish and it was rough...haha very VERY rough! So! We have decided that we're gonna teach ourselves some Spanish haha. IT's SO weird cause I told you guys I felt like I'd eventually be called to speak Spanish..well here it is. Our branch has a Spanish sunday school, and they need to get people to it but they can't find anyone to speak Spanish besides sister Galicia's family (RS PRES) and she's running so much already! So..haha we literally must learn at least some Spanish. We've already got this much figured out: "Hola! Mucho gusto! Somos missioneros de la iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos dias"....haha forgive my spelling! THat means: Hello! Nice to meet you! We are missionaries of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!" Haha..hopefully. I think that's right. Anyway! We've got to get Spanish and Marshallese down so...pray that I'll have the gift of tongues!! Also, I saw Chris Hansen for the first time on Saturday!! That was cool. He came up to me and it took me a minute to realize what was going on haha. We're now in the same tri zone area so whenever we have zone conferene I'll see him....which is once every three months haha so we could be moved again by then. We had a zone conference where Elder SOuthward from the 70 and.... AND ELDER CALLISTER!! From the presidency of the 70 came and spoke to us!! That was awesome! And quite honestly the best part about it was that I got to see sister breaux again!!!! Ahhh!! I stinkin love that girl! We're really really close and she started crying later on that day because she's having a hard time too! We just got along so well and worked so hard and loved the area and whatnot but! We are bound and determined to work so hard in our other areas that we'll be righteous enough to ask Heavenly Father to make us companions in Charleston again! Haha..really though. Hey! Look up Historic Eureka Springs on google and see the other type of culture I'm covering! So we cover Berryville, Eureka springs, and Green Forest...and Shell knob?? But it's way far away so it may be hard to get there too often. Anyway! Eureka springs is this EXTREMELY hilly place that is super artistic. It reminds me of New Orleans except SUPER hilly...not that I've ever been there haha but I can tell from Princess and the Frog :) Anyway, it's totally crazy. There's art everywhere and the buildings are all colorful and gingerbread house like haha. I'm gonna have to take pictures but! I dropped my xd card under sister vendels car seat before I got out and forgot to grab it! It was the one I already sent home so I PRAY!! that you got those on a CD. It was really weird cause all the pictures were still on there. Will you check that CD to make sure they're on the cd? Also, the weather here is CRAZY! It was literally 84 on Wednesday and yesterday it was 32 and snowing! It snowed ALL Day! We got like 3 inches!! what?! Ya and today it's back to 60 ish degrees and everything is melting! Haha it's crazy. Oh! And I do have to say that even though I really don't have to great of a clue about what I'm doing...we do have 5 new investigators even though we only had literally 30 hours inbetween traveling and zone conference in the area. Woot! The ward mission leader and branch pres couldn't quit telling us how excited they are to have us here and that we're a breath of fresh air. So, I may not know a lot, but I know how to go out and talk to people and invite them to talk to me and my companion to talk more about Christ! Hahah all that talking in school is really paying off! :) Ya so, it's gonna be good. And honestly, I had been praying to Heavenly father that I'd be able to change into a greater person. I want to be so much better than I was when I left and : "It may not be comfortable in the growing zone, but there's no growing in the comfort zone"....sigh....such is my life. Haha ok I better go. We're gonna go to wal mart and buy some non processed food hehe. Just kidding, I'm still buying frozen chicken nuggets :) Last couple of things! That's so great that Kolby has an apartment now!! And that Kyle's doing well and that Kalen has a job!! Y'all are movin up in the world haha but really that's awesome :) And Cass's pictures are great! She's going pro I swear. She needs to send me some!! Tell her to take some of the family in her super cool photographer way and send those. Mom, thank you for loving me. I'm not gonna lie I really do miss you but I'm so glad that you're helping the sisters out there! They need you! Tell Kent that the flag pole looks great! Send my love to everyone and tell them to write me! Let us all press on in the work of the Lord! I keep you all in my prayers.
Love your FOREVER,
Sister Moreno
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