Hermana Kelsey  9:1 -email-

Dear family,

Hola! Como estan? I hope everything is good with you. I am doing okay.

We had a cool thing happen this week. On Tuesday, we had Elder Baxter

from the seventy come to visit our mission, so we had a conference

with him. He was born in Scotland, but he grew up in Britian (Glasgow,

I think). He told us a lot of stuff about how we can improve ourselves

and be better missionaries. He talked really cool with his accent and

all that, and said some really funny phrases, one of them being,

“Well, that is a statement of the blatantly obvious” (like, “Thank you

for telling me something I don’t already know”). Ha ha. British people

are so funny. 🙂 It was also cool, because I saw some of the

missionaries that I worked with in Temple/Waco area. It was really

fun.

Anyway, so this week we have had quite a few little miracles. We have

found some really, really cool investigators. The only problem

is…they don’t live in our area/mission. One of them lives in Hurst,

so we’ll probably give her to the sisters that work in that area. And

the other two really cool people we met live in Dallas, but the sister

of the lady is in our ward, so we can probably still teach them when

they come to visit her. But they are all pretty cool, so we are

excited about that.

So it has been raining a lot lately, and sometimes in the middle of

the night, it wakes me up. Last week there was a night when it woke me

up at like 4 in the morning, and on Sunday, it woke me up at 2:40. It

is just really really loud, and once I’m awake, I see the lightning

even if my eyes are closed. It’s crazy here when it rains, which is

quite a bit lately.

So yesterday at church, we also had another miracle. So one of our

investigators, S., was planning on coming to church. We were

sitting in the chapel waiting for her to walk in and she texts us

saying that she can’t find the keys to the car. We texted her back,

and told her to pray to find them. She said she would do it. A few

minutes later she texted us again, and said that she had found them!

We were so excited. She was a little late, but she still got there in

time for the sacrament and all that, so that was really good. I know

that prayer truly does work, even for the little things in life. 🙂

And when she got there she was wearing a skirt!! She used to always

come in her pants, so that is a big step. You can always tell when

people are starting to change, because for the women it’s when they

start wearing skirts, and for men it’s when they start wearing button

up shirts, especially white ones. It’s a sign of conversion. She is

was cool, and she is getting baptized this Sunday!! 🙂 🙂 I’ll be

sending a picture of that probably next p-day. 🙂

Mom: Thank you so much for sending those clothes. It is starting to

cool off quite a bit (on and off) lately, so those clothes will be

really helpful.

Speaking of mission scriptures…I really wish I could change my

mission scripture. I mean the one I have is pretty good, but I have

found so many great scriptures about missionaries lately, and they are

all way better than the one I have. But it’s okay. Now I know. 🙂

Ha ha. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you something about Elder Baxter. He

was telling us about how we need to not go back to our old ways once

we get home from the mission. Then he was telling us about how if

President Sagers finds out that we aren’t active in the church or we

aren’t doing what we are supposed to, he is going to “find us and

spank us really hard.” President Sagers just laughed really, really

hard. It was hilarious. It reminded me of it when you said you were

going to spank Flexy. 🙂 (I told Flexy that I was going to spank him if he didn’t answer the questions I asked in my email)

Dad: I’m so glad you had a great weekend in St. George. That’s crazy

Kad-O is a deacon now.  I really miss going to the temple. We have a new rule that we can go to the temple once a month if we get a ride with members, and if we give up a p-day. But it’s really hard to do that, so I’m not

sure if I will. I think I will just wait until I get home, and then I

can go every week. 🙂 Well I think that’s all for now.

Well, I have to go now. I love you all. Tell Emily “hi” for me. I’ll

probably write her and Riley letters, but maybe not today. We still

have some stuff to do, so I might not have time. But Tell them I love

them too. Bye!

Love, Kelsey