Hermana Kelsey 10:2 -email- 

Hello family, How are y’all doing? I hope things are going great for you. I have a pretty great week. We had a baptism on Saturday! Her name is S___. She actually tried to cancel her baptism like an hour before, but we went and talked to her and she went through with it. It was seriously one of the most stressful situations I have ever been in. Every time we have a baptism, it is very stressful getting ready for it, but this one was even more so than others. I am going to attach a picture of her, her two daughters and Sister A. and I. 🙂

In other news, this week we had lots of stress! We were running low on miles, because it was the end of the month, and so we were trying to figure out how to get work done, and still not go over our miles. So we tried really hard not to, but we still did…and then we found out that we actually had 50 extra miles. So we didn’t go over anyway. So that was good.

Thursday: We got to hold some tiny puppies, and we wanted to keep them, but we aren’t allowed to have pets, so we had to leave them there. And it was even harder because they were FREE!!! But oh well.

Friday: I went to ZMCs where they train the zone leaders about how to be better leaders. And apparently they only invite sister missionaries if they are going to be training…so I might be training next transfer. :$ I’m not sure how I feel about it. I felt like I had prepared myself to do it last transfer, but it is really scary now. But the Lord knows best, so I’ll do what he wants me to do. I also got to see Sister V., who I met in the MTC, and she is super duper awesome! So that was really cool.

Okay, so to answer your questions…

1. My companion is from Lindon, Utah.

2. Things are going good. We get along well, and we can be very open with each other, so that is good.

3. She has been out for 6 months, but she speaks spanish very well.

4-How often do you feel the spirit in a day? 4. It depends on the day. Sometimes a lot, and other days not as much. It also depends on if we did all the things we are supposed to do in the morning. Sometimes if we aren’t obedient it is harder to fell the Spirit.

6. No we don’t have to talk to a certain number of people, but we are supposed to talk to everyone we see, and we have another goal to get 6 new investigators in each work.

7. Sometimes we do tracting, but it’s not all that useful, so we try to get referrals from members and other missionaries of people that are actually interested. Also, we stop by people who used to be investigating to see if they are still interested.

8. I am serving in a ward right now.

9-Did you open your Christmas packages? (Alex) if not, don’t till Christmas!! 9. Did you send me a Christmas package? Or will you? I’ll probably get it today if you sent it already.

10. We will try to talk on Skype on Christmas, because we have a member that has Skype, but I think that we have to get permission to do it first. So probably I’ll just be calling with our phone here.

11-What can we do in our lives to feel ready for the second coming of our Savior?11. The typical answer we usually tell people is praying, reading the scriptures, and coming to church. If we are doing all of those things, well, and keeping the commandments, we will be spiritually prepared for whatever will be coming in the future.

That is so cool Chad is home. Does he seem different than before? It is true, our time will come. And you will get two of your kids back within a couple months of each other! 🙂 And it won’t be very long from now. It feels like a long time still, but it’ll go fast.

Dad:

I’m glad you enjoyed the creche. We had something kind of like that here, but I don’t think it was as great as the one back home. There were a lot of really cool nativities though. We went to talk to the people that came in that spoke Spanish, so it was fun.

Hmmmm…that’s weird you saw Fred. I was actually talking about gymnastics a lot lately, so that is kind of weird. Also, I’m glad Scott and Stacy’s house is okay. 🙂

Emmysaurus Rex:

Hey buddy…so I never wrote you a letter last p-day. Sorry!! And I probably won’t write you a letter this week either because p-day is almost over…but I will write you one and send it and tell you all kinds of fun things that are happening and crazy stories and stuff. So you can look forward to that. But I’m glad you are doing good. I’m just telling you right now that turning 18 and graduating from high school will not make your life any easier. Things will just continue to get harder. But with hard things comes good things too. So that is good news. 🙂 🙂 But yeah, I’m glad things are good for you. 🙂 I better go now.

I love you all!!!

Love, Kelsey

I’ll be home for Christmas, just you wait and see

I’ll be home for Christmas…if only in my dreams. 🙂

Hermana Kelsey and her new companion 10:1 -email-

Hey everyone!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy halfway through the mission (for me)!!! :):):):):):)

So how’s life? Things are pretty good here. I got my new companion Sister A. She is great. She has a lot of fire, and truly loves being a missionary. She is awesome! I don’t know if you got the picture that we tried to send. There was that one lady (the one that does missionary moms stuff) at our transfer we had on Wednesday, and she took a picture of us together and tried to email it to you. So hopefully you got it. 🙂

We have had a semi challenging week. On Monday Sister Q. left. 🙁 It was a really hard day, but after she was gone I was okay. I was temporary companions with Sister H., who is a sister serving in the singles ward here. She is super cool. She is an older sister (she’s 28 years old), but she is very good at being a missionary. She actually was graduated twice from college, and was established in her career, before she decided to come on a mission. We had to work both of our areas the rest of Monday, and also Tuesday, so it was a little difficult, but we managed. We had a really great lesson with one of their investigators Tuesday night. He is from China, he understands a lot of english, but his sister was there to help translate and stuff. It was crazy, because we would teach him something, and then he would turn to his sister, and she would explain what we had just taught again, in Chinese, to make sure that he knew what we were talking about. It was pretty crazy.

Wednesday: Sister A. came in…and also our new district leader Elder T. He is really cool, but he is super super quiet, so I don’t really know him that well. We had a pretty good day, and got a lot of work done. We also set another baptismal date with S__…again. Hopefully this time she will actually go through it. We have had a lot of troubles with her following through on being baptized. She knows it is true, but something is holding her back. But we are going to continue to work with her.

Thursday: We had two Thanksgiving dinners! We were fed by our ward mission leader’s wife, and also another member family. It was a pretty good day. It was really hard to find people at home though, because everyone was visiting family out of town or whatever.

Friday: We went Black Friday shopping…jk jk!!! But we talked going about it a little. Elder R. is really rich, and he was joking around offering us a “budget”, so he told me if we went Black Friday shopping I could get anything that I wanted as long as it was cheaper than $2000. Ha ha, he is hilarious! It was pretty funny.

Saturday: It was really really cold! Well not that cold I guess (it was like high 40’s low 50’s), but the cold is different, and it just goes right through all your layers. It’s ridiculous. So I might be needing to get some other clothing (like tights/leggings, or long sleeved shirts) sometime, otherwise I may freeze to death!

Sunday: We had a interview with S__ with one of the counselors in our mission presidency, so she will hopefully be getting baptized this Saturday. She seems to be more sure about it now than she was before so that should be good. We are pretty excited. 🙂

Mommy!!!

I’m glad you had a great Thanksgiving. It kind of didn’t really feel like Thanksgiving though, because I wasn’t with family or anything. But mine was still pretty good. That is so cool you had Natasha. I miss that little stinker! Is she getting so big now? It’s crazy to think that she will be in kindergarten when I get home. Does she even remember me? I hope so. Anyway, that is also way cool that you went to Temple Square. I saw a picture of the Salt Lake temple the other day with all the lights surrounding it, and it made me a little sad. But I really am doing great. I love being a missionary! Anyway, I probably better go now.

Thank you so much! I love you so much, and I am so glad you are my mami. Cuidese mucho! (Take care of yourself)

Dad:

I’m glad you had a good Thanksgiving as well. 🙂  When I get home, I am going to get a dog, so it can come visit you. 🙂 😉 Ha ha. Are you getting a little chunky, Dad? 🙂 Hee hee. That is funny. But it happens to the best of us. 🙂 Well, other than that, things are good here. I hope things are great there with y’all. Love you!

Emmysaurus:

Hey girl! I am writing you a letter today, so this will be short. I’m glad you got to go Black Friday shopping. I wanted to, but we couldn’t. Anyway, I will just talk to you more in the letter I will be sending later. 🙂 Love you!