Hello family!!!
I am glad to hear you made it home safe and sound! Sorry to hear about your cough! Sister Smith has a cough tambien...she only sounds like she is dying, but she says she is fine.
Japanese Udon Noodle Soup sounds absolutely fantastic! I am really missing real Asian food (they have a lot of Chinese buffets down in Arkansas...but it isn't nearly as yummy as homemade real Chinese food!) Oh pretty neat food discovery this week was that carrots dipped in peanut butter is SUPER addicting! Just try it I know that I was pleasantly surprised!
How is Grandma Caye doing! I haven't heard from her in a while! I am super excited about all of the temple work you and dad are doing! And I can't wait to get on the action when I get home! Family History work is so amazing and is just as important as full time missionary service! So proud of you! Keep up the great work!
Spanish sessions!!! Yeah! Que Bueno! Estoy muy animado por ustedes! Gracias por su ejemplo para mi!
Cade Hartshorn is going to be an awesome missionary! I am SOOOOOOOO excited for him! and he is going to have to give me a list of places that I need to visit while in England (after my mission, after I have a job, after I have saved enough... he will probably be home for 5 years before I am ready to go...but still!)
Catching up on Downtown Abbey, Studio C, White Collar, and BBC Sherlock are all on that list right?!? They need to be.
Wow, by your description I would thing that our ward Primary is better than the Tabernacle Choir! Great description! lol, it made me really happy to read.
Have you had a chance to talk to Mary Simpson? Just wondering how everything turned out.
I like your bathroom cleaning strategy... if you are going to put a cleaner in a toilet and let it sit I would actually invest in a Lysol or Clorox toilet cleaner... (but that is just me)
As for the ward action plan, I think that it is pretty neat that you are able to get the ward thinking about being more involved. I might try having people sign up for a day of the month that they have to help the missionaries (kind of like a meal calendar but for lessons). I will keep thinking about that action plan...
Alright, so here is the latest adventures in the promised land of Warren Arkansas! Are you ready???
P-day. I decided that it would be a fabulous idea to make a homemade scripture case for my Spanish Scriptures because they are/were homeless... so I gathered my scissors, cardboard, markers, and tape! What an adventure. It turned out super cute actually....but it is also about a centimeter too small...I can make my scriptures fit but you really don't want to wrestle them out unless you absolutely HAVE to...so I might try again...I am not sure yet.
Thank you so much for the package! It was super yummy and I LOVED your missionary experience! I will keep praying for you! You are such a great example for me always!
So...We have a member of our branch named Nora and she has a friend named Johnny that she brought to church and we started teaching. Anyways, at church Johnny made some comment about marriage (to Nora), Nora laughed awkwardly and no one else knew what to say, so after a little too long period of silence we resumed Gospel Principles. After class Nora comes and talks to us, "I don't want to get married! I've only known this guy for a week!" (so Sister Smith and I thought this was pretty funny)
Next evening we get a call. It was from Nora. She excitedly announced, "I'm getting married!!!" Couple days later she calls again. "Can ya'll be bridesmaids?" (we didn't know the answer to that one so we asked President Petersen. President said, "yes, if it helps you fulfill your purpose." Nora is marrying one of our investigators their family are not members. This is going to be a great missionary opportunity! So we are going to be bridesmaids!!! I think it is awesome that we get to be bridesmaids while on our missions! Que bueno!
We went Spiritual Harvesting this week. We knocked at this one house and I had to take a double look! I could have sworn it was Uncle Allen! Does Uncle Allen have any family in Warren Arkansas? The guy's name was Chris. It was just funny, same hair color, beard, body build, everything!
There was stake conference this last Saturday and Sunday. So we had to travel 2 hours up to the stake conference in Little Rock and then back. On Saturday we thought we would have a lot of investigators so we found a member who had a bus because a lot of our investigators don't own vehicles. So we were able to ride to Little Rock in a brightly painted school bus because the bus was used to pick up kindergartners we have lovingly given it the nickname of "the fun bus"
We were able to listen to the entire stake conference translated into Spanish...There is a ton that I don't know.... but I have also learned bunches! So it was pretty cool.
Yeah.... that was my week. We are on bike week right now so that is pretty.... interesting.
The weather here feels like it should be the end of March. it is really pretty warm.
Loves,
Hermana Ives
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