March 3, 2014

To Me

3/3/14 at 11:54 PM

Dear Mother,

Although I have NOT received any sort of mail or email from my dear mother.....I have decided to write you anyway Because I LOVE YOU....apparently that feeling isn't mutual. Tehe just kidding, but really! Write me a letter since I missed you! I HEARD KENYA GOT HER MISSION CALLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! Where is she going???????? I'm dying here!!! I wrote her a letter but Cass told me that she got her call so now I have to rewrite it. SOMEONE TELL ME!!! I'm so excited I could die! Just kidding but seriously tell me!!! I LOVE YOU KENYA!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS ON ....my guess is......NORWAY!!! ;) Ok, hoppin in mama. Today's email is gonna be kinda short cause I have a lot of letters to catch up on, but the weather is also causing us to change plans. It's the most bizarre weather out here. Last friday it was 73 degrees and we thought we were going to put up our winter stuff...Yesterday it was 23 degrees with sleet, hail, rain and snow. It hailed 2 inches worth and we had freezing rain. It took an hour to get home from church as opposed to the usual 30 minutes. Church was canceled after sacrament becuase the weather kept getting worse. IT's so strange! People are seriously so crazy in this weather! They have no clue how to drive in it so they're trying to go the speedlimit still even though the roads are frozen and there's a giant hail storm going on. Crazy heads. SIster Breaux and I are good though.:) Oh my goodness! IT's time for transfers AGAIN!!! Can you believe it??? I'm about to start my 3rd transfer! Which means a few things. 1) I am now open game to be a trainer and sister training leader becuase my 2 transfers of training are over! 2) Sister Breaux is probably going to be transfered...we both feel it :( Which is ssooooooooo sad becuase we've really become like best friends, actually more like sisters :) We build each other up though and we make a really good, powerful team. Someone told us that they're pretty sure we're one of the strongest companionships in the mission right now......out of 200 something missionaries!!! That was quite the compliment, but I really feel that we do jsut work really hard and we work together. We have a sense of unity when we teach and we make up where the other lacks. IT's AWESOME!!! We also see it in the way challenges come up. We have been put in so many freaky situations where Satan is really tring to get to us and hurt us, but we've truly learned how the Holy Ghost communicates with us and he's always there to guide us and protect us, but we have to listen. Luckily, we have always heeded his warnings and the situation never got worse than what we can handle. I'm seriously going to miss having her around when she leaves. She really honestly makes me feel like a better missionary because we both push each other and motivate each other enough to get a lot of good work done. Plus! We have a common goal to be exactly obedient, fully consecrated missionaries which unites and motivated us even more. Gah! I love her so much! I'm really thinking I'm gonna be training soon....which TERRIFIES ME!!! I do not know enough yet and I'm still working on getting the hang of things myself, but I've had this feeling that it's coming haha. I also keep praying that I'll get called to become a spanish speaking missionary...tehe one can hope :) Oh my goodness! Guess what I did this Saturday!!!....Went to the temple...AGAIN!! Hahah I have gone to the temple 3 times in 2 months! That's unheard of! We actually just had stake conference and they counseled everyone to go to the temple as often as power because every time you go your endowed with power from on high. The spirit testified to both sister Breaux and I that we've been given so many opportunities to go to the temple becuase we truly need extra power from on high to deal with the situations that come our way. It's nice to know Heavenly Father has our back :) Anyway, We went this Saturday with our recent convert Katie who is 21 and we LOVE HER!! She's so much fun to be around. :) She's like one of our gal pals and she comes out with us on splits and what not. SHe LOVED the temple SOOOOO much! We helped her get together her grandparents names and she was able to be baptized and confirmed for her Grandma and she asked Elder Allred to be baptized for her grandpa. He was not only able to be baptized for him but he went through and did his initiatory and endowment! It was awesome! (She has a massive crush on Elder Allred and it's really inappropriate haha. SHe's so blunt! SHe told him she was going to marry him...she's also told this to the rest of the ward. haha it's slightly hilarious but really uncomfortable at the same time becuase he's trying so hard to focus haha but she's so blunt :) Dahah I love her. We're trying to get her to calm down :) It's crazy how many people try to set us missionaries up with their children or grandchildren or neighbors or friend's friend's friend! It's like you have to walk around with a sign that says: "MY HEART IS LOCKED! I WILL NOT MARRY YOUR SECOND COUSINS GREAT NEPHEWS DAUGHTERS SON IN LAWS SON...THANK YOU FOR THE OFFER AND GOD BLESS." :) Hahaha it's funny. Oooh! so crazy experience of the week. We met this lady whom was a referral and we tried to teach the concept that the gospel blesses families. Well she informed us that God is her husband and that she doesn't need to be married because she sleeps with Jesus..............................it truly was as uncomfortable to hear as it was to read. It was the most interesting thing I have heard since I've been out here. We just lovingly explained that we believe God to be our Father and that he loves us as his children and that Christ is our Brother..she wasn't convinced. :) Slightly awkward haha but hey! Agency is a gift we all have! :)..........Hahah ok that's all I got for this week :) EXCEPT: THANKYOU WORTHINGTON FAMILY!!!!!! I LOVED MY VALENTINE'S DAY CARD SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! You guys are the best! :) Hahah the mail man loved it :) And Manda I had a card written for you and was going to mail it on Monday, but then I got that card from you that night so it was no longer applicable haha but I am sending a new one! I love you all to pieces! :) I'll try and attach a picture of me with it! :)

Love,

sis drea