Things are good here. We had a pretty good week. We’ve been teaching J. quite a lot, and he’s progressing really well. I’m pretty sure he’ll be good to get baptized on the 28th of July! 🙂 Wooo! He’s super cool.

Anyway, so this week:

Monday: We had a p-day activity and we played chair soccer for the first time since I left my last area. It was super fun, but there were way too many people. All of the sisters got hit at one point or another. But it was still fun.

Tuesday: We went with a recent convert, V., to the family history center thingy in the church to help him try to find his ancestors. It was pretty fun, but for hispanic people it is super hard to go back into their geneaology, because the records that they keep, in Mexico especially, aren’t that great. So we had a hard time finding his family. Also it’s hard, because he doesn’t know any of his father’s information. But anyway, we’ll find something.

Wednesday: Happy 4th of July!! It was pretty good, but we didn’t do anything besides the usual.

Thursday: While we were planning there was a huge wasp in our apartment, and Sister M. was really brave and killed it. We also found a really cool new investigator, P. She is a sweet little old lady, and her husband died about 6 years ago. She was actually given to us as a referral from her son-in-law, who is a member of one of the english wards. She is awesome! We are still teaching her so we’ll see what happens from here on out. 🙂

Friday: We had a zone huddle, and it was super awesome. We talked about making “baptism soup”, and all the ingredients and the process that does into that. It was pretty good. We’ll definitely be eating ourselves full of “soup” in no time. ; )

Saturday: We had a storm and the tornado warnings went off. Sister M. is like deathly afraid of tornados, so she was like desperate to find shelter. It was so funny, because I kept telling her everything was going to be okay, and she kept telling me, “But what about this…” or what about that?”

Sunday: Elder A. said something really funny while we were at church. He said, “How can so much anger fit into such a tiny body?” It was so funny to me, because y’all know that I have little spunk. He also knows this, but then the funniest part was what he said after. “It’s like she has midget madness!” Ha ha ha. He’s such a funny guy. I just laughed, and walked away.

Mom: First of all…OH MY GOSH!! That is not little T. and G. and Natasha!!!! What the heckies?!!? They are so big now. Oh my goodness! I miss those sweet little chidlets.

Second…Thank you thank you thank you!!! for the package. It was wonderful. I really was super excited about the clothes and the watch. And also the shampoo and pills were very needed 🙂

That was such a sweet story about the little tribe kids. I feel like it’s a little bit like that in missionary work, because if the missionaries you are serving around aren’t having success, it is hard to enjoy your own. But when everyone is doing good, then we are all happy. 🙂 I think it’s that way in life in general though. And that is true about the gospel as well. The other day we were talking to this guy and this a little of how the conversation went:

       Man: Why do you go out and knock doors? Is it for your own salvation or is it really to save other?

       Me: The reason I come out and knock doors is because I know that the message I bring is true, and because I want everyone to be able to feel the happiness that I feel to know what I know. (I’m not sure if those were the exact words, but it was something like that)

But it’s true. When we are truly living the gospel of Jesus Christ, and not living it just because it is something good we should do, but because we really know that it is true, you feel a happiness that is unlike any other. And even when hard times come, you still have that faith and that testimony to fall back on. And I’ve come to see that that is something that everyone deserves. Every single person on this planet should have the opportunity to hear about the good news that we share as missionaries! 🙂 And I am so thankful that I have the gospel in my life, because I would be in a very dark place if I didn’t have it.

Dad: Ha ha ha! Oh man, that is super funny what you called us in you’re email. I really am not to trunky. I have moments when I think about it, but just for like a few seconds, and then most the time when I do think about it, I’m not excited, I’m nervous. The real world is a scary place. 🙁 But it’ll be okay.

Man, that is sad you had to miss the fireworks on the 4th. We also missed the fireworks, but we heard them. They kept us awake. But it was a good day.

Emily: I am for real writing you a letter today. I just didn’t finish your letter fast enough last week and then p-day was over so I couldn’t finish. But I will FOR SURE! 🙂

Well, I gotta go now. Tell Flexy hi for me when you see him! ; ) And the rest of you, be good and I love you all lots! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Love, Kelsey

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Pre-mission beauty!

HOW ARE YOUUUU?! (said like Nacho Libre says to Ramses) I’m doing good here in  Denton. This week was good. We found a really cool new investigator this week. I’ll tell you more about him in a minute.

So this week on:

Monday: We had a pretty good p-day, but then the evening was kind of crazy. We ended up being late to dinner, because the elders were taking too long at Walmart. Then we were late leaving dinner, because we were late getting there. Then we were late to pick up our exchange, and when we finally got a hold of her, she had to go to the hospital because her dad was sick. So we ended up having a weird night, and we only taught one of our investigators. But anyway, I guess that is the life of a missionary. :/

Tuesday: We were tracting these mobile homes, and we went to knock on one of the doors. As we were standing there waiting for the person to answer the door I saw something unusual hanging from their roof. It was a huge banana spider!! It was porbably the size of a golf ball! And it wasn’t even as big as a normal banana spider. It was crazy. When the guy answered the door I asked him if he knew that it was there, and he said. He kept it there to eat the grasshoppers. Also Elder A. was on exchange with Elder T., who is from the Marshall Island, and we ate dinner with the P’s. Hermana P. gave us chili pequin which are like these super tiny, but very strong peppers. We dared Elder T. to eat one, so he did. It was like when I ate one all over again. He was asking for milk, and bread, and whatever else to try to calm the fire. Ha ha. It was so funny! But only because I have been there, and now I am on the other side, watching instead of suffering.

Wednesday: We had a super good district meeting about our studies. We rated our studies that we had had that morning on a scale of 1 to 10. I rated mine a 6. So my goal now is to get a higher number on the scale everyday in my personal studies. Sometimes, I just get to the point where I am loving it, and I don’t want to stop, and then my time is up. I can’t wait till after the mission when I will get to study what I want to study, and not what we have to study. 🙂

Thursday: We tried to help a member of the YSA ward here move stuff from her house, but it didn’t end up working out. We were disappointed because we LOVE service so much! But for reals! We also set 2 baptismal dates! They are with a couple named F. and B. They have 3 kids, two of them are named after themselves, and the youngest is named J. They are such a cute little family.

Friday: We had another sister, Sister M., with us for most of the day. Her companion Sister K., went to a meeting in H. (<3), and so she stayed with us. It was pretty fun. She is a really funny sister. She actually met me on my first morning her in Texas. And now she is going to be going home in like 4 1/2 weeks. :s Weird! I also got probably 30 mosquito bites on my legs. We had to teach a lesson to J. (our cool new investigator) outside, because we couldn’t go into his house, and we were out there for a while at the worst time of day (in the evening right before we are supposed to go home). 🙁

Saturday: Almost all of our plans we had set had to change, because we didn’t have enough miles to get ourselves to our appointments. But we had some emergency help and rides from some of the members, so it worked out okay, and we were able to get done what we needed to. We also taught J. again. He is super receptive, and he understands a lot of what we teach.

Sunday: J. came to church!!!!! It was amazing! That almost never happens. But he showed up and he met a lot of the members which was really cool. He loved sacrament meeting, and how people got up and shared their testimonies (because it was fast and testimony meeting). But something not so cool that happened was that in gospel principles, some of the recent converts were making some comments about other religions, and he didn’t like that very much. 🙁 We told him that the gospel, and the things we teach are perfect, but the members of the church are most certainly not perfect. That’s why we are all here, because we want to improve ourselves. He told us he still wants to learn, so that is good. 🙂

Mom: Wow, did you do anything fun in while you were in Vegas? I remember when I lived in St. George I took two little like day trips to Vegas, one with Julie and Jennifer and Amanda to check out the Planet Beach that was down there. We got to do some of the spa treatments and then we ate lunch at The Cheescake Factory. The other was just one Amanda and I decided to do. We went to the mall and “shopped” (I didn’t really have any money). It was pretty fun, but I don’t think I would want to have an extended stay there. Sister V. (my last comp) took a trip to Vegas like a few weeks before she entered teh MTC. But she didn’t do anything crazy. They actually went to the temple there! 🙂 Ha ha. Funny the difference between what some people do in Vegas and what others do in Vegas. 🙂

Woohoo! Congratulations, Mom! I’m glad you got yourself some new daycare kids. The Lord sure does bless us. 🙂 I’m glad you are getting more stuff going on with you job. 🙂

Mom, can we feed the missionaries when I come home?! Please please please!!! I want to be able to help the missioanries any way I can, because I know what they need, and that any little thing you can do helps a ton. 🙂

Dad: I’m glad you had fun at your convention thingy. I hope you learned lots of good stuff to help you be better at your job, and to have huge amounts of success! 🙂

That’s kind of funny that things have been dry there, because it has been super humid here. I feel like I’m going to have some adjusting to do when I get back home. It’s going to be cold and dry, instead of hot and humid.

Emmy: I wrote you a letter last p-day, so you should have gotten a letter from me as well. 🙂 But I will write back to you today.

Anyways, I love all of you lots! Tell Flexy not to get too trunky! 🙂

Love, Kelsey

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How are all of you?!?! This week has been good. It seems to be going by even faster than usual. I honestly don’t know how that is even possible, but that’s the way it seems. Things are still good here in D. I turned 16 months in the mission on Saturday, and to celebrate Sister M. and I bought luchedor masks at the pulga (flea market)! They are pretty legit if I do say so myself! 🙂 🙂 We look like Nacho Libre only cooler! 🙂

Some things that happened this week:

Tuesday: We went to go see a kind of investigator in the hospital. She got walking pneumonia, so we decided to go visit her there. It wasn’t too bad. Normally I have troubles being in hospitals because I just feel sad and weird in there, but it was not so bad this time.

Wednesday: We taught this girl named E. the restoration of the gospel, and she was super cool. She told us she got chills when we said the First Vision. She is actually really involved in her church, but we are thinking her and her family are going to go places. We are super excited for them. We also met Elder K.’s new missionary. He is a native! His name is Elder A. He was born in Guadalajara, but he lives in Georgia. He’s pretty cool. They get along swimmingly, so that is good too.

Sunday: I climbed through a member’s window to unlock the door, because she accidentally locked herself out of her house. It was fun. It reminded me of the time we got locked out of our house, and I was super little, but I climbed through the window and unlocked the door for everyone else. I don’t know if you remember that, but I do. Ha ha. Good times! 🙂

Well, I guess it’s been kind of a boring week, so that is all I have to report.

Mom: Okay so first, WOW!!! Elder H. is going to Chicago!?! Wooo! That is so exciting. I don’t know how he had the self control to wait that long to open it though! Anway, tell him congratulations! He’ll love it. I’ll have to write him some letters and stuff after I get home. That is so awesome. That is also really cool that he read the Book of Mormon.

That is fun you went to a party with Janet. How did she like it? I miss relief society activities. We usually don’t get to go, because we don’t really have very many women investigators right now, and we only get to go if we have an investigator there.

Ha ha. That’s so funny that you did the tooth fairy again, because I remember getting a picture of you as the tooth fairy from last year and you said that it was the last year. 😛 Anyway, that is fun. I’m miss having Founder’s day. That is one my favorite holidays.

Dad: Ha ha. I love trips on a shoe string. 🙂 I bet that will be fun. I’m glad y’all enjoyed founder’s day. That was always one of the things I loved the most growing up. But anyway, I hope everything else is good. Sorry, I took to long writing to mom and now I am out of time almost (and I still have to write to president). :/ But be good, and continue working hard. You’re AWESOME! 🙂

Emmy: I am really going to write you a real letter today, because I still have a little bit of time left for p-day, just not on this computer.

Okay, well, I love you all lots! Do good things and be good people. Yo se que esta iglesia es verdadera! 🙂

besitos y abrazos,

Kelsey

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This has been a great week!!! We had been struggling for a while trying to find new investigators. We lost a lot of the people we had been teaching, and no one would sit down and have a lesson with us. But then we prayed and fasted a lot, and worked really hard, and the Lord blessed us with 8 new investigators, and we have set baptismal dates with 4 of them! Wooo! It’s been awesome. We are so thankful for the success we are seeing here, and that our labors are bringing forth good fruits.

So we got transfer calls today. Sister M. and I are staying here in D. together. Elder A., one of the missionaries serving in Denton with us, is getting transferred, and his companion Elder K., is going to be trainging a new missionary. Other than that I don’t really know what is going on with the rest of the zone. But I am excited, because I love when new missionaries come in. They are just so eager and willing to do whatever, even though they don’t really know what is going on. 🙂 Plus, you get to influence them for good in the beginning of their mission. I’m not gonna lie though, I’m a little bit jealous, because I kind of want to train, and now I won’t get to, because they have to train for two transfers now, and I only have two transfers left. 🙁 But I guess it’s not what the Lord wants.

Other than that things are just dandy here.

Monday: We had a p-day activity were we went bowling. I didn’t bowl, but it was still pretty fun. We got to spent time with all the other missionaries in our zone, which we don’t get to do very often. We usually only see them like once a week if that.

Tuesday: We talked to a lady named A., who goes to some Christian church, and she was telling us all these things about the rapture and some chips I guess they are going to start putting in to people (like in their hand or their forehead or something). Have you heard anything about that? I’ve never heard that before, but we don’t have any access to the outside world, so that’s not really surprising. Anyway, so she told us about all this stuff, and then as we were walking away, she yelled to us really loud, “Whatever you do, don’t take the chip!!” It was so funny. I’m not really sure why she felt like she needed to tell us that, but it was just funny that she yelled after us to let us know.

Wednesday: Nothing really to tell you.

Thursday: Sister M. and I went to court, because Sister M. got a speeding ticket at the beginning of last transfer. It was super long and boring. It was crazy the people that were there from all different walks of life, and they all had diffferent stories and different things going on in their lives. It made me miss people watching a little bit. We never have time to do that anymore, and sometimes I feel like I’m too busy to enjoy the small moments I used to. But the thing is as well, that the small moments I used to enjoy have now been replaced by other small moments that bring just as much joy. Like when someone prays for the first time, or when someone keeps their commitments. 🙂 Also, we found and taught 4 of our new investigators! One of them is a girl named E. We found her, because we actually had an appointment with her mom, but her mom was busy so we taught her instead. She is basically golden! And we set a bap. date with her for the 14th of July.

Friday: We had a ward party for Father’s day. It was pretty fun. It was cowboy themed and they had country music playing (which I wasn’t enjoying, but I heard :)), and it reminded me of my daddy, and it made me miss him. But then I was okay. I didn’t really get too sad or anything, I just realized how much I miss seeing my daddy, and hugging him, and that he is a really great guy! 🙂 I have seen a lot of examples of bad fathers on my mission, and I’m glad to say that none of them are anything like my dad. 🙂

Saturday: We found two of our investigators today as well. We are super stoked, because they are a family of 5 (well the parents and their 3 kids). I think only one of them is old enough to get baptized, but that’s what we are looking for now, is families. So we are exctied about that.

Sunday: E. came to church! We just met her this week! It was a miracle. She really liked it a lot. We also taught her later in the evening, and there was all kinds of crazy drama going on at her house, but she told us that she wants a better life for her and her son, and that she doesn’t want to be involved with all the bad stuff of the world.

Mom: Ha ha. Yeah, I’m totally okay with you going to Bear Lake without me. I am in no shape to be going anywhere in a swimsuit, so I’m glad I at least get like 6 months before siwmsuit season comes around again, so I can get myself in shape. 🙂

Ahhhh! Please write me a letter when you find out where Colin is going! Okay!?! 🙂 I’m soooo excited!

I’m glad you got to go the temple in Logan. Sister M. and I are going to see if we can go to the Dallas temple sometime this transfer. 🙂

That’s awesome that Kimi got married. 🙂 Tell her congratulations for me. Oh, weddings! Are you going to be a basket case at my wedding, Ma? Because I think I’m gonna be pretty chill, but then that means that someone else has to be the one freaking out. 🙂

Everything is good here. I’m glad you get to go and open the trailer in Bear Lake. That sounds like it’ll be fun. I honestly only miss things like that when it is super hot outside, and we see people in the pool swimming, and it looks so refreshing and nice. But other than that I can still wait to do those things for another little while. Anyway, I just want to tell you how much I love you, and how much I appreciate the sacrifices you are making to help me be here as a missionary. You are an AWESOME dad! Take care and enjoy your week. 🙂

Emmysaurus Rex: Have fun at Bear Lake!!!!! Write me a letter int he car ride up!!  🙂 🙂 🙂 Love you!!!

Gotta go now! Be good!

Love, Kelsey XOxXOoXoXOxOXooXOxOXXoXO

 Emmy: Hey seester! Howw arre youuu?! (said like Nacho Libre) P.S. I almost bought a luchedor mask, which is what he wears when he is fighting in the ring at his matches, but I don’t have any money, so I couldn’t. But later, after the mission, when I have money, fo sho! 🙂 Anyways, I’m glad everything worked out with your car.  I hope everything else is good. Sorry you are sick. Everything is okay here. You should write me real live letter. 🙂 🙂 Well love you!

Hermana Kelsey 16:2 -email-

This week has been good. We had a baptism yesterday!!!! WOOOO!! It went really well.  We had the usual drama/problems right before the service, but other than that things went really smoothly. He was so ready. He will probably be a missionary in a year or so. 🙂 But first we have to teach him a little bit more. He is so awesome though. He is a solid kid. 🙂

So I only have a part of a week to report since I wrote to you part of the way into last week, but here are some things that have happened since we last wrote.

Tuesday: We were almost out of miles for the month, so we spent almost all day Tuesday walking and talking to people. We didn’t talk to very many hispanic people, but we did to talk to a really nice older lady that was telling us about her trip to Jerusalem. I really want to take a trip there some day. She went there back in like the 60’s or something, so it was a long time ago, but I still think it would be cool to go and see the places where Jesus Christ walked when he was here on the earth. 🙂

Wednesday: We had an appointment with G. and J., but they weren’t home when we went by. We are so so sad, but we are still going to keep trying with them, and see where we can go.

Thursday: There was a baptism of a lady that Sister M. and Sister P. and W. contacted when they were all here together. She is english so they didn’t get to teach her, but they were the first ones to talk to her about the church, and then she got baptized! We were planning on going with M. so he could see how a baptism was, but then he couldn’t make it, and we were also stuck at our dinner for too long, so we didn’t end up getting to go to the baptism. But we called her and told her we were so excited for her, and congratulations and all that, and she was happy that we called her.

Saturday: We had M.’s baptism. Also, after that we taught A., J.’s dad, and P., her mom. We are supposed to be teaching them again tonight, and finish the lesson we started with them, but we’ll see what happens. Before, A. was the only person in their family we hadn’t taught. He was also telling them things about the church and kind of trying to turn them off to the things we were teaching, saying that they weren’t in the Bible, etc. So now we are hoping that since we are teaching him he can see exactly what it is that we do believe, and he’ll bring the whole family with him.

Sunday: We had M.’s confirmation. They were super late to church, but Bishop M., who is way awesome, held off the annoucements and business long enough that they still did it at the very end of those. 🙂 It was a little bit of a weird day for me, because in sacrament meeting it was fast and testimony meeting, of course, and a returned missionary got up and bore his testimony. There is a girl (V.) in our ward, that just got back from her mission this last Wednesday. The guy, A., got up and talked about how when returned missionaries see other missionaries just barely coming home, it makes them trunky, but trunky for the mission, not for home. I feel like I’m going to be like that when I get home. I’m not trunky to come home now, but I feel like when I am home, I’m going to miss it a lot, and when I see other missionaries it will make me think of my mission. Also, we went out on exchange with a girl who is actually the sister of the V., and she just got back from her mission about 5 months ago, and she was telling us about how weird you feel coming home and doing real things again. I am just calling it now, I think I’m going to be super awkward when I get home. At least for a little bit. But hopefully I can adjust back fairly easily.

Mom: Hah. Okay,Mom, I will pray for your sanity. That is something that you probably need for at least a little while longer 🙂

Oh my gosh! I am so proud of Colin! Tell him congrats for me, and tell him that I say being a missionary is the best thing ever! I wouldn’t take back the decision I made to serve the Lord in trade for anything. I am so thankful I have the gospel in my life, and I am thankful for the opportunity I have to share the happiness that I feel with other people every single day as a servant of the Lord.

So I don’t mean to be a bother or anything, but I am having a severe drought of letters. No one is writing to me! I think part of it may be that since I am on the downhill people just figure that they will talk to me when I get back…but I still would appreciate some letters. If there is any possibly you could help make that happen that would be awesome! 🙂 Thanks!! ANYTHING will do! 🙂

Dad: I’m glad you are still just plugging along. Like I always say, or better, like I now say, “Life is always better when you are busy.” I can’t seem to hold still for very long now, because I feel like I am wasting the Lord’s time. It’s not my time anymore, it’s the Lord’s, so I feel horrible about moments that slip by without me doing anything. Maybe that will change when I’m back home. I hope not though. 🙂

When you say your truck expired, are you talking about the registration, or that it died? I hope it didn’t die, but that stinks if it did. Well either way it stinks I guess, because you still can’t use it.

Emmy: WOW! I’m glad you liked the singles ward. I didn’t like it at first, but that’s because I didn’t get involved with any of the activities or anything, so my advice would be to get involved and you’ll enjoy it more.

Well, I gotta go now. I love you all so much! Have fun!

Love, Kelsey

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Hello! How is everyone?! I’m doing good. It is so hot and humid today. I am really not looking forward to this summer. The humidity is killer here. But anyway, we’ll survive. We are almost out of miles for the month, so we are walking to our dinner after this. I’m not sure what the temperature is now, but it will for sure be getting hotter soon.

Monday: We had an awesome noche de hogar with Bishop M. and his family. We had our investigator, M., and his sister, N., who is a recent convert there, and it was pretty good. They are an awesome family. They are from Peru, and the Hermana had a stroke a little while back so she has trouble talking and one side of her face doesn’t move. But their three sons are the sweetest things ever to her. They are always loving on her, and helping her out. It is so cute. 🙂 I want to have boys like that someday. 😉

Wednesday: I turned 15 months in the mission! WOOOOWWW! Sister M. and I went to QT (it’s a gas station here in Texas), and we got a doughnut for 49 cents and 69 cent drinks! Woooohoo! It was fun. Then later in the day an hermana brought us dinner at the church (sometimes they do that if it is more convenient for them), and she also brought us drinks from QT. It was great.

Thursday: We had zone conference! It was super good. Sister M. and I received a lot of revelation for our investigators and how we can help them. We also watched part of a movie where a guy ran less than a 4 minute mile. It was unbelievable!!! He was literally sprinting almost full speed the whole 4 laps. It was super cool. I wish I could do that…maybe with training. 🙂

Saturday: We were going to go to another set of english elders’ baptism, but it ended up getting cancelled. The lady who was getting baptized sons and husband got the chicken pox! :$ So we didn’t get to go to that.

Sunday: We ate dinner with a family that is from Argentina, and I tried something they call mate (it’s not pronounced like mate). It’s a type of tea, which I guess it has been approved so it’s not against the Word of Wisdom. Anyway, it was really weird. It tasted really herb-y, and I didn’t really love it that much. But it was a good experience I guess. Now I can say that I’ve tried mate.

Monday: The elders bikes got stolen…so they were kind of upset about that. We ended up going to the mall yesterday, because we didn’t have anything else going on. Well basically we went to the mall and spent all our time in Barnes and Noble. I love that place. I truly forgot how much I love just spending time in that store and looking at the books and stuff. It was fun. We also went to the Goodwill, because someone told us that it was supposed to be 50% off everything, but it really wasn’t so Sister M. didn’t buy anything. But it was still fun to look. 🙂

Oh, also some other random chismes (gossip)…Sister W., who just went home 3 weeks ago is engaged and she is getting married the 1st of September. Like 2 weeks before I come home!!! She is crazy! I’m not going to get married that fast. Just so you don’t fret and worry, Mom! 🙂 🙂

Mom: That sounds like a great talk. I’ve been wanting more and more to learn about the Bible and to have time te read it, but our schedule for how President S. wants us to study in the morning only allows us to study Preach My Gospel and the Book of Mormon. So I’ll just have to read and study the Bible after I come home. But it is fascinating to me now. I also think I will take some institute classes to learn some more stuff about it. 🙂

Dad: I love that it is a family tradition to go eat at Costa Vida after graduations now. 🙂 We did that after Alex’s graduation too (without him :)). Okay wait who is Al Foxx? Ha ha. I’m not gonna lie, that story of Riley telling Mom she is a kind and loving mother is so funny to me. I can just imagine that little stink of a brother I have saying it, and it just makes me laugh. Even though it is kind of sad.

Emily: Things are good. I’m glad you got your card. I forgot to send it on p-day, but I sent it the day after. That doesn’t sound like a fun job to me. I really like my sleep. 🙂 But anway that is cool. Did you win any prizes at the graduation party? When I went, I won a $25 Walmart gift card, which was pretty cool. But other people won like iPods and Xbox 360s and other cool stuff, so it wasn’t really that great of a prize. But still. It also stormed here last night. It kept me awake for a while because the lightning and thunder were so bad, but I love the Texas rain here. When it rains, it RAINS!!

Well, I better go now. I love you all lots. Be good, and stay safe. 🙂

Love, Kelsey

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How are you?! Things are good here. I am loving D.! It is a really great place. We have some really cool people we are teaching. Two of them are G. and J. I talked to you a little about them on the phone on Mother’s Day. They are a young married couple, and they have a little girl who almost a year and a half. She is a stinkin’ cute little girl, but also a little bit of stinker. 🙂 We are also teaching an 18 year-old kid who is getting baptized on the 2nd of June!! He is so cool. His name is M., and he is basically a member, he just hasn’t gotten baptized yet. 🙂 His sister, N., is a recent convert that got baptized when Sister V. was serving here. She has been baptized for almost a year, and she is going to the temple sometime in June! So so so cool! We might get to go with her, but we’ll have to see what happens. 🙂 But they are our most progressing investigators right now. They keep commitments better than almost any other person I have ever taught. They are really great people. 🙂

Mom: I’m glad things are still just plugging along for you. I just want to tell you that I love you so so so much! I don’t know why, but I am just feeling like that is something you need to hear, so I just wanted to write to you and let you know. You are such a great mom, and it’s really true that you don’t appreciate things until they are gone. I miss my mommy! But it’s okay. I am just thankful for all sacrifices you have made for me (and are still making for me). 🙂 You and Dad and the best!!!! 😀

Dad: That is awesome y’all saw the solar eclipse. I just heard about it today, but I guess some of the missionaries saw it. How often does that happen?

Emily: I’m glad things are still going good for you! I’m sad I’m missing all of these really cool things that are happening, but whatever. Also….WHAT?! You are dating someone? and that someone is K.?! When did this happen? And why was I not informed? Okay, well, that was a bit dramatic, but anyway, my time is up. Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now! 🙂

Dear family,

How is everyone? It is always bittersweet talking to all of you, because it always goes way too fast. That 40 minutes flew by. I was thinking about it, and the next time I talk to all of you, it will be face to face! Ahhh! Weird! But anyways, it was good all the same. I’m glad you are all surviving this crazy world we live in and making the best of it.

Mom: Ha ha. I also got a flower at church, even though I’m not a mommy. They had extras so they gave to all the “future mothers”. It was sweet. I really like this ward a lot. I still don’t really know very many of them, but I feel like they are all excellent people. Anyway, I feel like I told you most of the stuff I was going to talk about yesterday, but I will write more to you next week for sure. 🙂

Dad: Awww! I miss the little chidlets! I feel a little sad that they are growing up without me. 🙁 But it’s okay I guess. It happens. I miss seeing everone at family parties. It was good times.

Emmysaurus Rex: That’s awesome you got your young womens medallion. I remember when I got mine. It was fun. So since you are graduating next Tuesday, I can expect a letter sometime next Friday? Because you’ll be less busy? 😉 Okay deal! 🙂 Ha ha. Anyway, I think that is all for now. I love you all a lot! Be good.

Love, Kelsey

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How are you all doing? I am doing okay. We got transfer calls today, and I am getting transferred to a new area. 🙁 I am very sad to leave this area. I love this place!

Anyways, other than that things are good here. We had a wedding on Saturday for two of our investigators. It was awesome! She has wanted to get married for a really long time, but he never would do it. But finally it happened and they are both getting baptized this Saturday (I’m going to miss it 🙁 ). We also have another investigator getting baptized as well. His mom and his brother got baptized together like 2 months ago, but now he is finally ready. All kinds of good things are happening here! And I’m missing a lot of them. But I guess I am needed in another place.

Mami: I am very sad to hear about Herman. Give Vickie and Megan and Colin and Jase lots of love from me. I wish I could be there, but I know that wouldn’t really help anything. I also am thankful for the gospel and the knowledge that we have of what comes after this life. Death would be such a scary thing if we didn’t know what was going to happen to our loved ones, or ourselves, when this life is over. Herman is no doubt running around like there’s no tomorrow, and preaching the good word as a missionary. He and Colin will be doing the same thing pretty soon.

In other news, Sister W. is going home this Thursday, and she lives in R. So I am not sure when, but at some point, she is going to be stopping by y’all for a visit. I hope that is cool. She’ll probably share some photos and stories of the transfer that we served together. She is so awesome! I just wanted to let you know that may happen. 🙂

Papi: Ha ha. Why is it that when we cry we do things to cry more? I think everyone has done it at one point or another, but it’s so irrational. Man, I haven’t cried in a while, but I cried today reading this email. Good luck with your tree cutting. That should be fun. 🙂 Ha ha. I miss Mom’s potato salad. We ate something that was kind of like potato salad, but it was nowhere near as good as Mom’s. Her’s is still the best. 😉

Emmy: Hey, I’m glad things are good. Are you still going to send me a graduation picture?! I hope so. Sister V. was looking at a picture of her sisters the other day, and she didn’t even recognize them. I feel like I might be the same way. I don’t know what anyone looks like anymore. Well except Natasha, because mom sent me a picture of her.

Okay, so I found this dog that is the sweetest thing ever. She is a little black chihuahua mix, and she has the sweetest little face. You should try to convince mom and dad to buy a dog like her. 😉 🙂 Ha ha. Jk jk. But really she is adorable. I’m sending a picture of her.

Well, sorry this is really short, but I will be talking to all of you in less than a week!!! Wooo! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

Love, Kelsey

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