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Kelsey with Hermana Vaughn, her trainer.
She just went home last week!
Hermana Kelsey 4:4 -email-


Mama!
Hola!! Como esta? Como fue su semana? (How was your week) I hope things are good. We have had so many miracles, and blessings this last week or so. On Tuesday, we found out that one of our investigators who has been coming to church for like 5 years, and couldn’t get baptized because she wasn’t married, is finally getting married at the end of July! We are so excited. She will be getting baptized the week after. 🙂 Also we have a few really awesome investigators that will hopefully be getting baptized soon as well. They are pretty legit!
Sister Vaughn was with me for Monday and Tuesday, but she left Wednesday. I was really sad. 🙁 But my new companion is really cool too. Her name is Sister Summers, and she is 6’2″!! We make quite the companionship. 🙂 But we even each other out pretty well. Her spanish is muy bien, which is great because mine sure isn’t. It’s getting better though. Slowly, but surely. I prayed in our meeting that we have with our branch president every Sunday, and he commented on how much better my spanish has gotten already since the last time he heard me pray. That was pretty cool. Also, just as a side note, Sister Summers is from Morgan and she lives like right across the street from Summer W.! Crazy right?! Even crazier, her brother is serving his mission in the same place as cousin Andrew! It sure is a small world.
On Saturday, we ate dinner at one of our investigators homes, and she made the spicest food I’ve ever eaten. It was so hot! I thought I was going to die. But it was pretty good too.
I miss the Empey’s! Julie and Melissa sent me a letter together, so that was really cool. Also, my best friend, Amanda, wrote me a letter finally! 🙂 That was really cool. That’s crazy that Landon is coming home that soon! I swear he hasn’t been gone for two years.
Awww! I miss my sweet niece! I was showing Sister Summers that family album you gave me, and I saw Natasha in the picture, and it made me a little sad. But then I was okay. It’s just gonna be really crazy, because when I get home she’ll be so big! But it’s okay. 🙂
Anyway, I better go now. Te amo mucho!! (I love you much)
con amor, Hermana Kelsey
Papi,
Hola! I’m kind of jealous you get to play real life soccer. We play this game we call chair soccer, but it’s not the same as real soccer. Also, I’ve gotten really into soccer, because a lot of our investigators love soccer, and will talk to you more if you know about soccer. So I have an “insider” that always tells me who won the soccer games and who Mexico played against, and then I can talk to people on the streets about it. It’s fun. But I really wish we could play for real.
If we can borrow a bike from someone, we might ride around a little bit, which should be fun. Although I am really out of shape, so maybe not.
I remember when you taught me how to do a backflip. That was so long ago. Man, I miss jumping on the tramp! Some of our members have trampolines, and I want to jump on them so bad, but we aren’t allowed. 🙁
Anyway, I better go now. Te amo! (I love you)
Love, Hermana Kelsey 
Emmysaurus Rex!
I’m still waiting on a real letter from you!!!!! You crazy girl! I’m glad you enjoyed church though. I love church. Our branch is so great. All of the members are so cool, and they are so closely knit because there are so few of them. Everyone is friends with everyone else. It’s so cool. I love the spanish people so much! I was little scared before, because, I’m not gonna lie, I was a little prejudice. But most of the people I have met are so awesome, and the Hispanic people are so much nicer than white people and african american people. We try so hard to find Hispanics, because we don’t want to have to talk to white people. They are mean.
Anyway, I’m glad you are having fun with Melissa. Did you know she sent me a letter? Yeah…she sure did. So maybe you should send me one too!! 🙂
Anyway, I probably better go now. Te amo!! Be good. Make good choices. Do what you know you are supposed to.
Love, Hermana Kelsey 

P.S. What does BFN mean?



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Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 12:1 -email-

Make,

ya this week has been pretty good we taught some very prideful people and thats something i don’t enjoy. I’m beginning to be pretty quick with my scriptures almost all main doctrine points. but the other day we taught this seven day Adventist guy and he just spouts out scriptures that have nothing to do with the topic. one thing that you will find is that most religions just have one thing that they will just repeat over and over. like this guy all he cared about was that the seventh day is on saturday so we should worship on saturday and so i showed him the scripture and explained the fulfillment of the law of moses and he just was too prideful to listen. but ya mission is cool. love you
    Love Elder Flexy

 

Baba,
thats cool that your still riding bikes and i haven’t driven since i came on mission for almost a year its kinda weird. thats so weird that Caleb got married i hope they continue to make good decisions. but ya mission is good i’m about ready for a new area i’ve only had two areas so far so i’m getting bored of this place. but ya we played soccer today and i did ok not way good but it was fun. so Kaden is growing up thats so cool we will chill when i get home. well thats it for the day. love you
     Love Elder Flexy

M,
well i’m glad someone cries as much as me but ya mission is good. one of the africans from my group is now training an elder from hawaii its pretty cool i shoul be training at the end of next transfer. but ya life is good. love you sis.
    Love Elder Flexy

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Hope!

2 Nephi 31: 19 & 20
19 And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save. 20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: 
Ye shall have eternal life.
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Hope is: the feeling that what is wanted can be
had or that events will turn out for the 
best.
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Jeremiah 17:7
Blessed is the man
 that trusteth in the Lord, and whose 
hope the Lord is.
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I hope your Sunday was the Best! 
Love, Joy

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Hermana Kelsey 4:3 -email-

Mama,
 
I hope thing are bien for you. I an doing pretty fantastico. We had my first baptism yesterday. It was pretty freakin’ AWESOME! He is a cool guy. We could tell he was nervous, and then while we were waiting, he started crying. But not just crying. He was BAWLING! We asked him if he was okay and he told us he was just really happy. We did it at 9 in the morning, and he got confirmed during our sacrament meeting at 11. It was really cool.
 
Sister Vaughn is going home this week. We got our transfer calls this morning, and my new companion is going to be Sister Summers, who actually was roommates with Sister Vaughn before they both came out on their missions. She sounds pretty cool. Sister Vaughn wants to stay another transfer now, and be in a trio with us, because she has always wanted to serve with Sister Summers. So that’s exciting. I’m sad Sister Vaughn is leaving, but at the same time, it is time to move on.
 
Anyway, our Sunday was great too. We have 6 investigators at church, and one of them we just barely met yesterday, and he got up and bore his testimony! Kind of. As much as someone who doesn’t know how to do it can. But it was really cool.
 
Anyway, I probably better go now. Love you lots. Be strong!
 
Love, Hermana Kelsey
 
XOXOXOXOX
 
P.S. Wasn’t Riley going to write me a letter and send it with that package you sent?!
 
Papi,
 
I learned a new thing in spanish. It is about fathers, so I’ll tell it to you.
 
“Yo como una papa, no como a mi papa (accent on a)
(I eat a potato, I don’t eat my dad)
Una papa es comida, un papa (accent on a) es mi padre”
(A potato is food, a papa is a father)
 
It’s funny in spanish, but not really in english so it’s okay if you don’t laugh or anything. 🙂
 
Anyway, this week has been pretty good. Is it still raining a lot there? That’s crazy that Brad’s house got flooded. Is our house doing okay? I hope so, cause I sure don’t want to move!
 
Anyway, I better go now. Love you lots. Sorry these are so short, but time just doesn’t mean the same thing it used to. Bye.
 
Love, Hermana Kelsey
 
Emmysaurus Rex!
 
JA JA JA JA JA JA!! You have to be in summer school?!?! That’s so funny. I did that too, once upon a time. But it was pretty much the easiest class I ever took, so I didn’t mind.
 
It is really really hot down here. It was been within a few degrees of 100 all week! It’s craziness!!! Muy loco!! Pero, esta bien. (I hope you can understand my spanish) 
 
But anyways, Por que did you corto su pelo?! We were supposed to be having a contest! JK JK, it’s all good. I’m just going to win. 🙂
 
What kind of changes are happening in your life? Are you’re friends still moving away? I will tell you one good things about that. I know it is really hard (trust me, I REALLY do know), but when friends leave, you get to make new ones! It was super, super hard for me at the MTC when the older districts would leave, because we became such good friends with them, but then new people would come and we would be friends with them. So them you have lots and lots of friends. So it’s okay. I’m pretty sure most of the people I met at the MTC will be my life long friends. 🙂
 
BYE. Love you lots.
 
Love, Hermana Kelsey
 
P.S. You are never too busy to write a letter. I am one of the busiest people I know and I can still write letters to people. I’m actually better at writing letters than anyone that I am writing to. 🙂

Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Make,
this week has been ok, i don’t think i have ever had this many people bunk us in one week. but oh well we will keep going. ya that’s funny about Brad’s dogs there is this chihuahua that we walk past a lot and it always runs and hide from us. ya that’s crazy that Caleb is getting married. but its probably good for him. ya this sunday we had a recent convert bear his testimony it was pretty funny he talked about how he used to be a Zionist Prophet but then he found that he didn’t have authority to do that but it was pretty powerful. but anyway thats all for now. love you
   Love Elder Flexy

Baba,
so now my dad is lumber jack as well!!! thats cool we did some service for and old Gogo(Grandma) in the branch. it was good to do some manual labor. but ya my clothes are starting to get a little rugged those eccos shoes are even starting to get old. but ya mission is good thats weird that there has been so much rain it never rained when i was home. but ya i’m thinking they might give me some leadership this next transfer. but ya life is good. anyway mission is going great. love you
Love Elder Flexy

M,
well this week was kinda boring nothing really exiting happened except the testimony of that recent convert that was pretty funny but i hope you can continue getting those credits for school don’t follow in my foots steps on that one. well love you
Love Elder Flexy

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“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures exclude them.”

-C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Hope your Sunday was the Best!  Love, Joy

"…stop accumulating…"

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Andrew Carnegie, one of my heroes said, 
“I resolve to 
stop accumulating 
and begin the infinitely more serious and 
difficult task of 
wise distribution.”
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I am about there. 
I have lived in my home for 14 years. I have been bringing things into my home for 14 years. I do take things out too, but too much has come in and not enough has been taken out. One day my dad was here visiting, and he looked around and said, “I can see you’re still a gatherer!” Ouch! He and my mom had just moved from a 4000 square foot house, into a 2 bedroom apartment. 
How did they do it? 
“Wise distribution!” I have been wanting, needing, to stop accumulating and distribute more! I am going to work on this, I am going to stop accumulating, stop bringing things home. And make more trips to donate! Now, if I can get the others I live with to do the same, we’ll be in good shape!!

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Hermana Kelsey 4:2 -email-
Mama,
Hola! Como estas? I hope you are doing well. That’s good you’ve been looking for a job. I have been praying for you and I know that the Lord will bless you. Keep the faith and it’ll all work out!
Thank you so much for the package! I got it the other day, and I was so excited. I won’t be asking for much anymore though. I’m just so thankful for the shampoo! I needed it so bad. Muchas gracias!!
It is HOT here! I will give you some of our sun, if you give us some of your rain. We have been almost out of miles for the last week or so, so we’ve been walking and riding the bus a lot. It has been super hot and humid, so we are miserable the entire time. It is not fun, but I’m getting used to doing it so it’s okay. Yesterday for p-day we played football outside. It was so fun! All the elders think I’m cool because I can actually play a little and throw pretty decent (thanks to dad :)). They chose me to be on their team before even some of the guys. It’s awesome. 
Anyway, we have a baptism this Sunday! This guy A___ who has been meeting with the missionaries for like 2 1/2 years is finally getting baptized. He’s pretty cool. It’s exciting. I feel like I’m finally starting to get used to the work. But I’m a little worried because Sister Vaughn is leaving in a week (ish), and none of the other sisters that could be my companion have ever served in my area. I still don’t know a lot of the people or the way to get around our area very well. I think we are going to get lost a lot. 🙁 But it’ll be okay I guess. Our branch is so great. They are pretty good with fellowshipping and becoming friends with our investigators. It’s sad though because all our people who are really good at it will be leaving soon. We have a really cool member family, but the parents are getting deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan soon; the branch president’s brother and sister, who come on exchanges with us, are leaving to go to Utah and Idaho soon. We aren’t going to have many people to help us. But, it’ll be alright. Esta bien!
That’s crazy that Landon is coming home already! I swear it hasn’t been two years. It’ll seem like that with me I’m sure. 🙂
Hermana Vaughn is still cool. She’s getting a little bit trunky now, but not too bad, and not more than is expected when you are going home in a week.
One of the things we have to do with investigators that have problems with the law of chastity is just wait it out. We can’t really do anything to help them, because most of the time it has something to do with legal or money issues, and we don’t have anything we can use to help them with those. It’s kind of hard to watch, but we just pray for them a lot.
Anyway, I probably better go now. Love you lots. Keep doing good things.
Love, Hermana Kelsey
P.S. I’ll hopefully send some pictures soon. I haven’t printed any for a while (since I left the MTC to be exact), and I haven’t really taken that many, but I’ll try to get some to you.
Papi,
Howdy! How’s it going? I hope things are good. That’s crazy to hear about all the flooding. Hopefully our weather switches soon. We are also having a dry season. We could seriously use some rain. But I guess this is usual in Texas about this time.
In our combined meeting, we talked about keeping the chapel clean (by parents not having their kids drink red punch :)), and being member missionaries. It was a pretty cool meeting. 🙂 Kind of. Anyway, I’m glad you are getting as much yard work and stuff doen as you can. Hopefully, the weather will work for you to be able to do all the things you need to.
Anyway, I better go now. Sorry this is so short, but I’m all out of time. Love you, bye.
Love, Hermana Kelsey
Emmysaurus Rex!
Hola mi hermana! Como estas?! Aren’t you so glad school is out? I sure remember that. Although now I miss school It’s funny how your out look changes depending on where you are in life. Anyway, that’s also exciting you are finally getting your license. It is about dang time! Just kidding. But seriously. 🙂
Please write me a letter!!! Letters are so fun. Anyway, I better go now. Love you my little seester!
Love, Hermana Kelsey
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I wish I was a "cool" mom!

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Riding in the car, I say to Emily:
“I wish I was a ‘cool’ mom!”

Emily: “You are a ‘cool’ mom!”

Natasha (tapping Emily on the shoulder): 
“She’s really not a ‘cool’ mom!”

Kids say the darndest things!!
(Maybe I am a “cool” grandma?)