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so this is going to have to be very short because I am awful and ya no
excuses i just am awful and would always get distracted talking to Elder Davis
and Ottoni while i was trying to email and now we need to be home in 20 mins and
it takes 20 mins to walk home.... oops :) walk fast!
but update on the week, we didn't have a working toilet for 5 days.... 5
DAYS!!! and the nearest one we could use was at the chapel.... and as you know
sister coons is sick and stuff so it is necessary that she have a toilet, so
every morning for exercise we would go to the chapel.... and before we would go
home for the evening we would have to go to the chapel and ya we pretty much
lived at the church for those 5 days....
I had a proper thanksgiving dinner! it was amazing. a new senior couple
moved in from Utah last monday and invited us over for dinner on thanksgiving.
it was amazing!!! actually had mashed potatoes. but sad thing was no pumpkin
pie. they don't like it. they make a pumpkin cake instead... but that is okay
they are so lovely that i decided to forgive them. Their daughter and
granddaughter were there visiting and it was so great to be with a family. but
it made me wish i was home with you guys. but hey next thanksgiving! i can't
believe it is already the end of the year. half way done pretty much..... and i
need to start thinking about school and signing up for classes and what i want
to do with my life and ahhhhhhhhh not yet. brain overload. put it off for as
long as possible. anyways the couples name is the whittickers i definitely
spelled that wrong.... from Utah. They are amazing!!! I can't wait to serve a
senior mission with my husband. it is going to be the best thing ever. i know
kinda jumping ahead there. but he is a Joseph Smith history guy, taught at BYU
for 40 years. Just finished working on the Joseph Smith papers. he helped
write a book that I thought you would be interested in dad something like men
with a mission or something like that about the first missionaries that came
over to England.
we had interviews with President Jordan. They are my favorite. he is such
an amazing man. I always feel like i want to go change the world after we
finish the conference.
oh ps i chopped my hair off.... okay i didn't i am too chicken, but i
definitely peer pressured Sister Coons into cutting her hair short.... but it
looks great!!! don't worry she likes it, but let me just say i can be very
persuasive haha
St. Ablans is lit up like Disneyland. It is beautiful. If anyone has a
chance to go to disneyland this time of year.... DO IT! best experience of your
life. I remember last year i went, and you feel like you have entered a whole
new world (pun intended... sorry that was so lame, that is what happens when i
type this fast and now i don't have time to go delete it and i don't care that
much to delete it). anyways it will change your life go to disneyland. it is
magical.
I have a challenge for you, sit in a rollie chair that spins in a circle,
and don't let your feet touch the floor or the chair and try and spin in a
circle..... not to brag or anything but i am actually a pro. i just look spastic
doing it. i will send a video hopefully next week.
so much to say and no time. With different circumstances they have not been
the typical weeks you would think of when you think of mission life, but i am
trying really hard to not let it affect me and my happiness. I am trying my
best to do my best and be thankful for the different situations i am in and the
things i am learning from them! it is amazing the things we can find to be
grateful for even in the midst of trials. I decided that we can either let
challenges and blocks in our path trip us up and make us stumble and fall, or we
can use them as stepping stones to become the person Heavenly Father wants us
and needs us to become. Everything happens for a reason and we just need to
find out what we are supposed to learn, and how we can help others.
Christmas time is a magical time. I hope we can all try and look at others
and find ways we can serve them. The best cure for our own problems is to serve
others and forget about ourselves.
i love you! you guys are the best. have a great week! thank you for the
emails sorry i didn't get to respond. i will next week i promiseeee. glad you
got home feom provo safely and had such a great time. i wish i was there, but
not bad enough to come home haha have a lovely week and i love you! rach
ps the comments from adam were hilarious. i laughed. very. hard. thanks
:)
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Merry Christmas to all the missionaries in England! Here's a mission conference photo of the London England Mission taken in the summer. It's inspires me to see all these young adults dedicating their time to serving the Lord and His children.
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