tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48848768679384818322024-02-07T21:15:16.191-08:00Teaching in the Rain!Keeping up with Sister Slattery and her umbrella as she spreads the Gospel in the Washington Vancouver Mission!Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-78006006145204161242016-07-11T14:22:00.001-07:002016-07-11T14:22:58.062-07:00Week 75: 2 John 1:12<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
2 John 1:12</div>
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Having many things to write unto you, I would not <i>write</i> with paper and ink;</div>
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but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face,</div>
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that our joy may be full.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner on 4th of July.</td></tr>
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<br />Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-25507210659868119242016-07-04T16:07:00.000-07:002016-07-04T16:07:33.749-07:00Week 74: Happy 4th of July!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">What a week! There were many moments when it seemed it would never</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">end, but here we are, another p.day !Friday</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"> we got to meet President and Sister McAteer for the first</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">time! It just so happened to be Canada Day, and they are from Canada,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">so we wore red and white to welcome them. Problem! I do not own</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">anything red, so I borrowed my companions maroon shirt. Close enough,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">right? We walked into the building, and I saw him, and I didn't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">realize at first who he was. They are so cute! It is easy to tell that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">they are nervous, but who isn't at the beginning of a mission? They</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">told us that not all of their things had made it to the mission home</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">yet. That is a bummer. They are very much foreigners with their</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">accents. It was fun just listening to them. They presented to us a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">slideshow of pictures, but they did not have all the pictures that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">they wanted to show us because their things have not made it yet, so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">the slideshow was very random. Every time they referred to a place in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">Canada they always looked at Sister Mandin for a connection because</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">she is from Canada. It was funny. Sister McAteer has a kangaroo skin</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">scripture case! It was a gift from her son who served his mission in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">New Zealand.</span></div>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">One day we go over to help this new family move in, but we get there,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">and it is all done! The wife was under the impression at she needed to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">feed us, so we stayed and ate. She felt bad for us coming, and have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">nothing for us to do, so she was looking for stuff we could do, but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">then we ended up feeding, and watching the pet raccoon they inherited.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">It was so cool!</span></div>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-14774570988944324102016-06-28T07:57:00.000-07:002016-06-28T07:57:47.021-07:00Until We Meet AgainLetter from President Derlin Taylor, sent at the end of his time as the mission president for the Washington Vancouver Mission.<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />26 June 2016<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Our Dear Elders and Sisters,<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />The sudden death of Elder Lambert has stunned our mission and causes us to wonder why this would happen and how could it have happened. We know much about death, but we do not know why people die when they die. That is one of those questions the Lord requires us to take on faith.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />From Alma we know that death is essential to the plan of happiness. He taught; "Now behold, it was not expedient that man should be reclaimed from this temporal death, for that would destroy the great plan of happiness." (Alma 42: 8) It does seem odd that death is essential to happiness when it causes so much grief and pain. Again, something we must take on faith. All I know is this, the Lord knows all these things and I trust Him.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Elder Maxwell said this: "Since this life is such a brief experience, there must be regular exit routes. Some easy, some hard, some sudden, others lingering. Therefore, we cannot presume, even by faith, to block all these exits, all the time, and for all people. Nor, if possessed of full, eternal perspective, would we desire so to do."<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Given our mission to proclaim the truths of the gospel to all the people in the WVM and given that Elder Lambert was actively engaged in that same objective, it seems to me the best thing we can take from this is to again realize our purpose and understand that this work is bigger than all of us. We should recognize that we are here to help all we can to receive the saving ordinances of the gospel so they can walk through the veil as prepared as he was. And by so doing, we will prepare ourselves to also enter into the presence of God, having walked the strait and narrow path with singleness of heart, seeking righteousness and obedience to the laws and commandments of God.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Death is never easy for those left behind. It will always close a chapter of life that will change our way of living. We can choose to be bitter or we can choose to rejoice in the joy of having had the relationship for as long as we did. When we truly become disciples of Christ we will trust Him in all things, especially the difficult things. It will not be easy all of the time but we know we can do hard things. May the blessings of the Lord be upon each of us as we deal with Elder Lambert's death and may the Lord bless this mission as we move together toward bringing souls unto Christ.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Now, as this mission is handed over to President and Sister McAteer, Sister Taylor and I testify they have been called of God to be your Mission President. He will hold the keys of this mission and He will lead you according to the Spirit. This is not our mission or their mission, but always the Lord's mission.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />We feel much like Ammon in Alma 26 when he says; "we have traveled from house to house...we have entered into their houses and taught them, we have taught them in their streets and upon their hills...and through the power and wisdom of God we have been delivered...all this that we may be the means of saving some soul...we can look and see the fruits of our labors and are they few?...Nay, they are many...have we not reason to rejoice? Yea...there never were men and women that had so great reason to rejoice as we."<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />From Moroni; "I would exhort you that ye would come unto Christ, and lay hold upon every good gift, and touch not the evil gift, nor the unclean thing...Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness...then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ...and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot."<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Farewell, WVM. We love you and trust you to carry on the great traditions of previous generations of missionaries. Yours is a valued heritage which will be handed down to future missionaries from you until the Savior shall declare the work to be finished.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />We love you and pray for you always.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />President and Sister Taylor</span></div>
Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-30870612545431340612016-06-28T07:52:00.000-07:002016-06-28T07:52:08.832-07:00A Tribute to Elder LambertThis is the email the Washington Vancouver Mission received from President Derlin Taylor about the sudden and unexpected death of Elder Gordon Lambert.<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.3;">When you have known someone for nearly 60 years and been close friends for 50 years it becomes difficult to put into words what all of that means. There are too many stories and too many experiences to attempt to single out one or two in an effort to describe someone like Elder Lambert. I believe it may be impossible to describe Gordon Lambert to anyone who did not know him. First, they would never believe that someone like him actually existed and secondly, well, to know Gordon Lambert required one to have experienced Gordon Lambert.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.3;">He loved life like few people ever have. It didn't matter if he won or lost a game as long as he was in the game. He found pleasure in every thing he did. As a missionary, he embraced every day he had, fearing that someday it may have to end. Watching him one could have thought he was in Disneyland, he was so happy to be Elder Lambert.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.3;">When I was preparing Sister Lambert to meet him for their first, blind date, I described him to her as being 6 feet 4 inches tall, a star athlete at Burley High School and the boy all the girls in the school hoped to date. The reality is that he lived his life well beyond the stature of 6 feet 4 inches and the strength of his character exceeds that of the best athlete that has ever played at BHS and any girl who had any understanding of men would have been overjoyed to have been asked out by him. He was a man among men and set an example worthy of any aspiring young person to follow. As missionaries of the WVM, if you are looking for someone to emulate, look no further than Elder Lambert.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.3;">Today I lost a friend, the mission lost a mentor, his family lost their hero, his siblings lost their rock, his father lost his prote'ge' and the world is smaller because Gordon Lambert has moved to another world. While we all understand the great plan of happiness and we all trust that the Lord knows all things, this is really difficult for those of us who have been left behind. We cannot know all things but we can "be still and know that I am God."</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The day we forgot the Lamberts were coming for housing inspections!</td></tr>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-5288236665422426972016-06-27T08:44:00.000-07:002016-07-05T07:50:45.315-07:00Week 72: Departing Missionary<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week has been an emotional roller coaster. On Monday Sister</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Stephens and I got to go to the mission home for a departing dinner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with President and Sister Taylor. President grilled some hamburgers,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and hot dogs for us. There are a lot of Elders going home this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">transfer! After dinner we went outside, and we lit lanterns. Mine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">burnt. None of the sisters were able to figure it out. It was super</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fun. Sister Hansen, Stephens, and I got to spend the night because it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is to long of a drive back home. President told us to get our pajamas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">on, and we had a couch talk with President and Sister Taylor. It was</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Departing Sister Missionaries<br />
Sister Slattery, Sister Black, Sister Nielson, Sister Stephens & Sister Hansen</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We get up the next morning, and we drive to zone conference. Sister</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Stephens and I cleaned the car so good because we wanted to win the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">competition, and this was our last time to win. We didn't. That is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">okay, that just means that we had a really clean car.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also had departing interviews with President. Then I got to give my</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">departing testimony. President and Sister Taylor stood to the side of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the chapel after the closing prayer, and hugged all of us. The closing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">prayer was not even done, and all the sisters were crying. It was a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">very somber day.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You just never know who you will meet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Super cool totem pole at a park.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last town I will live in during my full time mission. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Massive amounts of potato salad for a Stake BBQ.</td></tr>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-42237917465923745472016-06-14T09:14:00.000-07:002016-06-14T09:14:45.477-07:00Week 71: Dropped like a hot potato<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Well these past couple of weeks have been hard finding new</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">investigators. The ones we do find are flakey. This one investigator</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">set up a time for us to come back, and we were super excited! We come,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">and she tells us that if we want to talk about Jesus all day with her</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">we could do that, but she did not believe in the "other stuff". She</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">said she did not believe in Joseph Smith. Okay, so we talk about Jesus</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Christ for a bit, and back track to prophets, and how that is the</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">pattern Heavenly Father works since the beginning of time. We asked</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">her if she believed God would call a prophet for us today. She said</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">yes. I just wonder who she thinks Joseph Smith is... He was called as</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">the next prophet. We were not really able to teach the restoration of</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">the Church of Jesus Christ part when her church friend came. The whole</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">atmosphere changed. This lady just wanted to bash us. She wouldn't</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">even let us finish our sentences. It was really awkward, and we needed</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">to leave. When we get up to go her friend had this smirk on her face</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">because she ran the Mormon missionaries out. I just do not understand</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">how people can be so spiteful.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> We are also trying to outreach more to less active members. This one</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">lady had not been active for a very long time. We got to know her a</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">bit, and she agreed for us to come back. Well we go, and we see the</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">restoration pamphlet that we left with her clipped to the screen door</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">with a sticky note on it. Haha! All I could do was laugh! This has</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">been the second time this has happened to me on my mission.</span></div>
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<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">We also had a service opportunity this week. A less active member in</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">our ward needed some help clearing some overgrown weeds. We got a few</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">sets of missionaries to come help. It was fun. At one point someone</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">found a garden snake! My companion was so brave she held it. Then she</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">panicked, and asked for one of the elders to take it back.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Sunday</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was really good. In Sacrament meeting a Sister talked about</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">obedience. She said that even though we are obedient to God, that does</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">not mean that the trials will go away. She talked about Elijah, and</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">how he was obedient to God, but could not see the fruit from his</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">labor, and laid down to die. We can see all the good the Elijah has</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">done, but in that moment he probably didn't. This talk was for Sister</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Stephens and I. Most times we will never know the influence we have on</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">other people. We just got to keep going on. Then we gave a lesson in Sunday </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">school about the priesthood. They finally called a new teacher,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">so we do not have to teach last minute any more. Then we were invited</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">to young women's to be part of a panel. Their lesson was on the</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">priesthood. We represented a home without the priesthood, another</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Sister talked about dating and marriage, and another Sister talked</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">about raising sons so they can be righteous priesthood holders. It was</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">really cool.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">This morning we had breakfast at President Marshall's house. It was</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">fun. It is also my last breakfast with any stake president as a full</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">time missionary. Then tonight we get to go to the mission home, and</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">have a departing dinner with President and Sister Taylor. We also get</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">to stay the night! Then tomorrow</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is my last zone conference. I am</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">actually going to have to face my emotions about going home. I never</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">thought I would make it to this point in my mission where I am doing</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">my last of everything.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The time is far spent.</span></div>
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<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">I hope you all have had a wonderful week.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Love,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Sister Slattery</span></div>
Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-76284167694023534722016-06-09T14:00:00.004-07:002016-06-09T14:00:42.261-07:00Week 70: It's Summer Time!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">It is so hot! I feel like I am melting. The car said it was 101</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">degrees yesterday.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">This past week the Hermanas had a service opportunity. A less active</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">member was moving, and had to be out of the house by the end of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">night. We go down into the basement, and the air just feels funny. It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">turns out that the house had flooded awhile ago, and everything was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">wet. We work for a little bit, and the Elders said that we should go</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">get some fresh air. Turns out the more we work the more black mold we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">found. Some of the Elders went to the hospital to go get some masks,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">and gloves. We went home, showered, and took a nap for lunch.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">It is graduation season! Big shout out to my sister Delanie! I love</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">her so much, and am bummed that I can not be there for her big day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">This week we went over to Bishop Lindsey's house for dinner. It was a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">graduation party for his son. It was so fun!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">We went tracting Saturday,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;"> and we found this awesome tree!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">We also got to pet a baby goat.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">We also found tree stars!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">Sister Stephens gave me a temple tattoo.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">That was my week.</span></div>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-84758543440077913272016-06-02T13:46:00.000-07:002016-06-02T14:06:59.600-07:00Week 69: Happy Memorial Day<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was so much better! I can not believe it was the last week</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of the transfer. I feel like I just got here. This week feels like it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">went by in a blur, and now here I am emailing again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My mom occasionally will ask me what is the worst thing I have eaten</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for a dinner appointment. I never had an answer. Everything is edible,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and I know what I am eating. Now the question of sanitation is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">another... This week I finally have an answer for the worst thing I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have eaten on my mission, and possibly my whole life. Before the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sister we were going to eat at said that we would be having pork</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">chops. Great! I love them... Nope we didn't have that. Instead she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">made this German dish. She is explaining how you put the noodles down</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">first, and you put the sauce over it ( at this point I am think it is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">beef stroganoff, which I love, but no.) then you put the meat on top.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">There were individual pieces to take. The dish was a cooked dill</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pickle with mustard wrapped with a thin steak, and bacon. It was so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">gross. I could not even fib, and tell her it was good. I thanked her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that she had us over, and I drank a lot of water with my dinner. The</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">funny part of it is that her husband does not even like it! I do not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">know if they were in a tiff with each other, and she wanted to be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spiteful, so she made this dinner instead, or what. Some times you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just have to go to McDonald's after dinner appointments I guess.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had housing inspection this Friday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">morning... and we forgot! We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were sitting in the kitchen having companionship study when the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">doorbell rang. We looked at each other with panic. Now I want you to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">know that we are clean people, we just live in our space. And it is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">kinda hard to have everything perfect when there is two of you in one</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bedroom. We quick ran to our room, and I started to chuck EVERYTHING</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">into the closet. (Years of last minute "quick mom is home cleaning"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have prepared me for this moment.) Our bathroom had no hope of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">redemption. Sister Stephens told me to go answer the door while she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stayed, and did what she could. I go to answer the door, and I stall</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the senior couple as long as I could. We walk in, and my companion had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tossed her covers over her bed, but failed to do that to my bed. (side</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">note, I sleep on the top bunk, and I hate making the bed, so I just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">don't). They were so kind when we told them that we forgot that they</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were coming, and said they will not write us up if we cleaned. We told</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">them we would so do that!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also went to Columbia River for a baptism for Aamir! (that is not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">how you spell her name, but this is the only spelling that I know of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this name). She is Jayden's cousin who got baptized a couple weeks</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ago. I got to speak about baptism. It was so wonderful! I love that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">family so much!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also got transfer news! Sister Stephens and I are staying together,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and finishing our missions together! I am so grateful that she is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">still my companion. I look forward to this last transfer with her.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Wow. My last transfer. I only have six more p days! I am so excited</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that I have this time allotted to me to serve God.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Now for the best news.. Sister Mandin is going to be in my district! I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love her so much! My dream would have been to be companions with her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my last transfer, so we could say that I brought her into the field,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and she took me out of the field. However, I am so happy that I get to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">serve around her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love you all, and I hope you have a great week ahead of you!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Slattery</span></div>
Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-6517235388331149262016-05-27T08:40:00.000-07:002016-05-27T08:40:13.973-07:00Week 68: I have had better weeks.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well last Monday my companion lost her wallet. After a tough week it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was the icing on the cake. Little did we know that was the beginning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of our trials.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tuesday was not bad. We did have an awkward dinner with this member.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">She took us out to dinner, and her visiting teacher came with. We just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sat there listening to their conversation; thanked her for dinner; and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">left.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On Wednesday we left early so we could go get Sister Stephens a new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">drivers license. It took less time than what we thought, so we went to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the stake center for district meeting, and waited for everyone to show</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">up. We are on the floor watching addiction recovery videos when the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">door knob jiggles. We shot up so fast! It was our district leader, and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">his companion. It was really awkward, but so funny! Our appointments</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pretty much fell through the rest of the day. Then we were having</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dinner with this less active couple. They could have us over, but it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had to be later. She told us 7:30. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We get there, and dinner is not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">even done. We finally sit down at 8 for this lentil soup which was not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the best. It is time to give a spiritual thought, and I go to get my</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">iPad, and it is not there! I am silently freaking out. So my companion</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">come over, and while she was grabbing her iPad I pulled out the phone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to see if we had anything on it. We had a 6 message epistle from our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">investigators who were getting baptized on Saturday. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> They were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dropping us over text message, and told us to cancel the baptism. Here</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we are heart broken, and we still have to be engaged in the dinner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appointment, and give a spiritual thought. We leave, and we go see if</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we can find my iPad at the last house we were at. It was not there. I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">called the person we were at before that, and she said yes it was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there. Thank heavens! I do not understand why she would not have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">contacted us to let us know she had it, but whatever. I knew where it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was. We decided that were were not going to respond to our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">investigators. That we would go over to their house the next day, and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">see what happened. We were really in a damper mood the rest of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">night, and pretty much all day on Thursday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On Thursday we left early to go get my iPad, and then we went to the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mission office to trade cars. We got a new 2026 Toyota Corolla, but it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">would get stuck, and was having a struggle to get us to some of our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">members houses. We go, and we now have a jeep with four wheel drive!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Stephens also picked out her classes for school. At this point</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we are back in our area tracting when we get another text from our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">investigator asking if we got last nights text message. We decided to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">go over then. While we were on our way there I felt like I was on a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">death march. I didn't know what their concerns were, I kept over</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">analyzing if I was a bad missionary, and praying desperately for the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spirit to be with us. We pull up, and they are in their truck. It was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the worst feeling of dread getting out of the car. We talk, and they</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">said that they were under spiritual attack. Of course! Because Satan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wants them to be miserable! This gospel is true, and brings happiness.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He knows that, and wants to keep as many people away from it as</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">possible. We testified of the priesthood, and she completely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">disregarded it." Yeah, that is what you believe" she said. Ouch. I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just do not understand why they kept meeting with us. They never even</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">said, hey I have a concern, or anything like that. (Her husband did</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It hurt so much. We testified of our Savior, of the priesthood power,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They paid no heed</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Anyways, there is a lot I am leaving out, but it was such a hard day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Morgan's came, and picked up some of my stuff to take home to Las</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then on Friday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we had more investigators drop us. We were so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">depressed. Later we decided that our Areabook is just purged. The area</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then that night our investigator who wants to be baptized came to a</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week has been the most draining roller coaster spiritually,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">6 Remember thy suffering saints, O our God; and thy servants will</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">7 My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">8 And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week I got to go back to Columbia River again for Jayden Kennedy's</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptism! His family came to church one Sunday.His </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> mom and Aunt</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">excited to get baptized! It was wonderful to go back! I see that boy,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and I see him going on a mission, getting married in the temple. So</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">many lives he will touch and influence!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also had interviews with President! It was kinda short. He said he</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">finish our missions together. That would be great! Also found out he</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We got a new car this week! A brand new 2016 Toyota Corolla. We named</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him Heber. He is very classy. However.. He is only two wheel drive,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and low to the ground. Our area is a lot of boonies. Heber needs the</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dhana and Michael had their baptismal interview this week as well!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">They are so excited for their baptisms this Saturday! They are so pre</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pared for the gospel!</span></div>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-66709185820809525522016-05-10T08:11:00.001-07:002016-05-10T08:11:44.458-07:00Week 66: Happy Mother's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">see my mom, and family! I can't believe that this was the last time</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that I get to skype them before I come home. I never thought this time</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My week was so good! On Friday w</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">e went to the Jonny Miller fireside.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Do you know who he is? I didn't. Apparently he is the Tiger Woods of</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">get much out of the fireside, but I got to see my people! I also got</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to see Brother and Sister Ball! It was such a surprise! I love them so</span></div>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-9418450631600865272016-05-03T10:57:00.000-07:002016-05-03T10:57:40.226-07:00Week 65: SpringNot much to report here.<br />
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The work is awesome! We have a couple on date for the 21st of this month! Missionary work is great here, and this is the best area I have been in for member missionary work. I like the area, it really out in the boonies and mountains. This area is the biggest in the mission. </div>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-60271809761412380752016-04-26T10:06:00.000-07:002016-04-26T10:06:53.488-07:00Week 64: I'm Not In Gresham AnymoreHey everybody! I am in my new area with Sister Stephens! We are in the<br />Woodland 2nd Ward. We cover Woodland, and Kalama. It is the biggest<br /> area in the mission. It has a lot of boonies! My companion was making<br /> fun of me because all the pamphlets that I had in my bag. "You are not<br /> in Gresham anymore!" It is so true. Not a lot of street contacting<br /> anymore. It is super awkward when we pull into people's driveways<br /> because there is no where for us to park anyplace else. Sister<br /> Stephens put in an address in the gps, and it said we would get there<br /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_587110491" tabindex="0">in 15 minutes</span>. That is craziness to me. I will get to know my<br /> companion really well with all this drive time.<br />
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<br /> Speaking of my companion, I love her so much! I have decided that she<br /> is my spirit animal. We get along so great! I am hoping she will be my<br /> last companion. She also decided to go home in the July transfer. That<br /> would be really cool if we killed each other. (Send each other home)<br /> apparently this area gets white washed a lot. Speaking of going home..<br /> Our second day together we got our trunkie call from Sister Burgoyne.<br /> I never thought I would get mine! It just puts into perspective for me<br /> how fast time goes.<br /><br /> We also had a baptism <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_587110492" tabindex="0">on Saturday</span>! There are these sisters who are in<br /> the adoption process with a couple in the ward. The area is really on<br /> fire. We have some solid investigators we are working with, and I will<br /> keep you posted.<br /><br /> Hope you all have a great week!<br /><br /> Sister Slattery<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i>Hello readers, it's the Mom. Just wanted to let everyone one know and also so that this epic week doesn't get forgotten. We as parents have received the official email from the mission office with Sister Slattery's travel itinerary. She will fly from Portland, Oregon on July 12, to Salt Lake City with a very short 1 hour layover and then on to Las Vegas! People told me how fast this time would go, but I didn't believe them and I certainly didn't think I would survive not being able to talk to my girl. It has been one of the hardest things I have ever survived! For real. So here is to the last 76 days of this adventure. And yes I am counting now.....I can't help it. </i></span>Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-16987903129210074632016-04-21T14:16:00.000-07:002016-04-21T14:16:24.323-07:00Week 63: Transfer Week Already We moved <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_302223542" tabindex="0">on Friday</span>. It only took us two trips. We cleaned the cottage. Fast forward to ward council, and Relief Society, the Jensen's announced about how well we cleaned it, haha it was kinda funny/ embarrassing. I like the apartment. Except I am being transferred! I will be leaving Oregon and will be going to the Washington side of the mission. I am going to Long View Zone to the Woodland 2nd Ward with Sister Ami Stephens. She came out with me. Super exciting! <br />
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Miracles all day! We contacted a referral from this member in Hartley Park Ward. Collette is so cool! She has a desire to increase her faith. We have a lesson with her tomorrow, so we will see how it goes. </div>
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Then we meet with Jeremiah, Ronny's grandson, who wants to be baptized. His dad prevented him in the past, but has finally given the okay. This little boy is so smart! He almost recited the first vision to us. He was so funny, he wanted to start the lesson with a song, so we sang Follow the Prophet. I loved hearing him pray. He just has a conversation with God. He and Ronny are planning on being baptized M<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_302223543" tabindex="0">ay 7th.</span> (my sister Courtney's birthday!) </div>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-2065325468911575762016-04-15T07:57:00.000-07:002016-04-15T07:57:10.210-07:00Week 62: My WeekTuesday April 5,2016<br /> Today we met a pagan lady. She had to make sure that we were not poor<br /> women suppressed by the men in the church. We explained to her that we<br /> have the same power and authority that the elders do. It was an<br /> interesting conversation. She also told us some interesting theories.<br /><br /> The elders told us about a return appointment they set up with this<br /> guy that they met while tracting. They thought he would go to the<br /> Rocky Butte elders, but really it was our area. They call us 15<br /> minutes before the lesson. Luckily we didn't have anything going on.<br /> We went, and met the guy. Turns out he was getting ready for work, and<br /> we did not have another person with us, so we could not go in anyway.<br /> We set a time to come back later in the week. He seems pretty open<br /> minded. We will see.<br /><br /> We taught a RM about missionary work and dating. She has been home<br /> from her mission for almost two years now, and has not really found<br /> her place. She is from Micronesia, and served in Australia. We had<br /> this other RM that has been home for a week come with us (she is from<br /> the Tongan ward). We shared with her the April ensign article Taking<br /> Fear Out of Dating. It was interesting to see how missionary work, and<br /> dating can parallel each other. Then her aunt had made home made<br /> donuts, and they were super delicious. We also were given this white<br /> drink. I taste it, and it is really good. It had almost an almond<br /> taste to it. I ask what it is, and the aunt with her little English<br /> tells us it is milk mixed with water. Haha really? After that it was<br /> kinda gross to drink it, but I didn't want to be rude.<br /><br /> Wednesday April 6,2016<br /> Let me preface this with a phone call we got last week. It was from<br /> this member out of town wanting us to help her non member parents<br /> move. Her parents are old, and not in a condition to load a truck by<br /> themselves. She wanted us to call elder's quorum president to see if<br /> they could get a couple of guys to help load the truck. The daughter<br /> assured us that it would all be packed, and we would just need to load<br /> the truck. Well, his wife was expecting a baby any day, so we called<br /> the bishop. He handed it off to us the missionaries because it would<br /> be a great missionary opportunity. So we call the lady, and she said<br /> that they would need about 4 people. Well I can not really lift<br /> things, so we decided to ask our district for help. That would make 8<br /> of us. We get there, and nothing is packed. We started at 10, and<br /> finally left at 2. And it still was not all done. I kept telling<br /> everyone that they can leave when they need. One set of elders said<br /> they block psd out the time until 2. They know how moving people goes.<br /> The lady was so disorganized, and didn't want to through anything<br /> away. She had so much dust in her house, and took constant breaks for<br /> a smoke. It was really hard to be happy, and serve. The elders kept<br /> telling me to smile apparently I didn't look to happy either. It was<br /> tiring! She was kind enough to give us money to go get some pizza, so<br /> the elders did that while we finished boxing up some other stuff. At<br /> one point I called our bishop out of desperation. He came, and helped<br /> for a bit, but had to peace out.<br /><br /> We got home, and I took a nap. I was so tired. I iced my back, took<br /> some medicine, and I fell asleep on the couch. We didn't leave the<br /> house until it was time to go to dinner. Which was with bishop..<br /><br /> We are at dinner, and Sister Dethman made this new recipe with this<br /> kind of steak, that I forgot what it was called. Well it was hard to<br /> chew. Super yummy though. At one point I took a bite that was too<br /> big, and I did not chew it enough, and swallowed. I knew that was a<br /> mistake once I did that. Yep, I was choking at the bishop's house. I<br /> locked eyes with Sister Dethman, and I put my hands to my throat. She<br /> asked if I was okay, and I shook my head no. Everyone was kinda<br /> freaking out. I think I really scared her adult son who has<br /> autism..sigh.. Yep. Luckily Sister D does not freak out like Aunt<br /> Jane. Bishop had to give me the hymlick. It was a miracle that I<br /> didn't throw up everywhere.<br /> I am never going to live that one down. I am sure the whole ward will<br /> know that I almost died at Bishop's house.<br /><br /> We leave, and Sister De Leon Gomez is just laughing, and explaining<br /> her concern, and laughed some more. I told her to take me to<br /> McDonald's, so I could get a shake. My throat was sore, and I needed<br /> something to smooth it. It still hurts. I told her I was going home,<br /> icing my back, drink my shake and lay down until our one appointment<br /> tonight at eight. But then that cancelled.<br /><br /> It has been a really long day.<br /><br /> April 7,2016<br /> It was so hot today! It was so nice out! At one point we went to a<br /> convenient store for a drink, and a snack. It was a pretty solemn day.<br /> Walked around, talked to some people. At one point we were at a park!<br /> Guess what happened? I bruised my leg. I am just falling apart over<br /> here.<br />
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<br /><br /> We had our meeting with Brother Mueller. Had some ice cream. Bishop<br /> told him that I choked at his house.. Then came the teasing.<br /> Missionary work is hard in this area. It does not help that my<br /> companion is a negative nelly. I also do not like how she talks about<br /> herself. She says she is fat, and all these things. It is so<br /> exhausting reassuring her when she does not believe me anyway.<br /><br /> We also started to get the cottage ready for when we leave. We trashed<br /> a lot of stuff, and tore down the wall decorations... Yep, and that<br /> was my day.<br /><br /> April 8,2016<br /> Weekly planning day! Except we barely have anyone to plan for.<br /> We started our exchange with the sister training leaders. I came to<br /> the Kelly Creek ward. It took me forever to fall asleep because of my<br /> back.<br /><br /> April 9,2016<br /> I actually had a really good exchange! We were walking through this<br /> apartment complex when Sister Hansen points to this gutter, and says I<br /> can have it if I grab it. I look down, and what do my eyes behold? A<br /> five dollar bill. I was so determined to get it! I have no shame, I<br /> bent down, and I had to use two pens as chop sticks to get it out.<br /> Sister Hansen helped, but I did the hard work. After my hands were a<br /> bit nasty. We went to this investigator's house, and he was not there,<br /> but his wife was. Sister Hansen has never been inside, so I told her<br /> that washing my hands would be the perfect excuse. Turns out the wife<br /> was sick, but I really needed to wash my hands, and she was kind<br /> enough to let me do that. Later I washed the five dollar bill, and it<br /> is all clean now. Normally I find pennies, and on a good day I find a<br /> quarter. This by far was the best find. It reminds me of a story my<br /> dad told me when I was young we were standing in the check out line,<br /> and I was on the floor, and my dad told me to get up. I some how found<br /> what I think was a five dollar bill. (I do not know, I can't remember)<br /> Apparently I love finding money. If I believed in reincarnation I<br /> think I may have been a pirate or something. It was good to take a<br /> break from Columbia River. I got to see Heidi Bell. I got to teach her<br /> while I was in Columbia. Her in laws live in Kelly creek, and that is<br /> where we had dinner. She was picking up one of her kids from there<br /> when we showed up. Then we exchanged back. We spent a long while<br /> trying to find this address of this referral. We have decided that it<br /> does not exist.<br />
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<br /><br /> April 10,2016<br /> A few days ago we met this girl (we will call her Sarah) when we were<br /> trying to find a less active member. Turns out they moved. She said we<br /> could come back. Fast forward to tonight we go back again. We meet a<br /> different girl. We ask for Sarah, and she says no one lives here by<br /> that name. I was kinda sassy when I asked really? Because we met her a<br /> few days a go. "Oh! My house mate Sarah, yeah she is not home right<br /> now." Seriously? How could you forget your house mate's name? Just<br /> tell the truth.<br /><br /> We also found this free couch sitting on the side of the road. We told<br /> the lady we would be back <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2120065297" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Saturday</span></span></span> for it. Haha it gave us an excuse<br /> to talk to her plus we got a free couch. Killed two birds with one<br /> stone.<br /><br /> Now it is p day! I will blink then it will be over..<br /> Love you all!<br /><br /><br /> Sister SlatterySlattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-31353112686487029132016-04-07T16:49:00.000-07:002016-04-07T16:49:19.938-07:00Week 61: General Conference<div style="text-align: center;">
Wow, another conference has come and gone. Last one on my mission!<br /> Time goes by so fast. I definitely got what I needed to hear.<br /><br /> This week feels like it would never end! It was a good week, don't get<br /> me wrong, but it seemed like Monday would never come. At the beginning<br /> of the week we had a zone study with President Taylor. We talked about<br /> becoming a Preach My Gospel missionaries.<br /> Then we had a shortened district meeting.<br /><br /> One day we made a wrong turn on a street, but we saw this giant<br /> nutcracker in his case on this front porch, we had to say hi, and get<br /> a picture.</div>
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<br /><br /> One night Brother Jensen (we live with them) texts us, and tell us to<br /> call him before we get home for the night. We call, and he tells us<br /> that earlier there was a man hunt in the neighborhood. He wanted us to<br /> stay in the car until he came and got us to walk us to the cottage.<br /> The police must have found whoever they were looking for because I<br /> have not heard about anything since.</div>
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<br /><br /> Fast forward to April 1st. We are home getting ready to plan for the<br /> next day when our District Leader calls us. He tells us that Elder Funk<br /> (he is in charge of the cars) has been trying to get into contact with<br /> us. That he got an alert from TIWI that our car had a flat tire. Our<br /> district leader was calling to make sure we were okay. He needed us to<br /> go take a picture of the flat tire for Elder Funk. We were so<br /> confused. We had no calls from Elder Funk, and our phone had been on<br /> all day. Sister De Leon Gomez is not gullible like I am, so she caught<br /> him. April Fools! He kept wanting us to go outside. We were not going<br /> outside. We hang up the phone, and some time passes, then we hear this<br /> bang, bang, bang at the door. We scream, and hit the ground so fast.<br /> As a result I got rug burn. We call Brother Jensen, and he didn't<br /> answer, so we called the District Leader... Long story short we open<br /> the door to find apple juice for Sister De Leon Gomez. All that for<br /> apple juice. He is the kindest DL I have ever had.</div>
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Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-63758098121597238112016-04-01T18:20:00.000-07:002016-04-07T05:21:36.443-07:00Week 60: Happy EasterI am so privileged that I get to serve God this time of year. I am so<br />
grateful for my Savior. I would like to copy paste a part from the<br />
Infinite Atonement by Tad R. Callister.<br />
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<em><u> The most important event in history<br /> If a survey were taken of history's most significant events, common<br /> answers might include the harnessing of fire, the discovery of<br /> America, the splitting of the atom, landing on the moon, or the<br /> invention of the computer. Each is a wonderful event, but absent the<br /> backdrop of the Atonement each is of but transitory importance - no<br /> more than a shooting star illuminating the sky for a brief moment, and<br /> then vanishing into the night. The Atonement gives purpose and potency<br /> to every event in history. President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke of its<br /> relationship to other events in the world history : ” When all is said<br /> and done, when all of history is examined, when the deepest depths of<br /> the human mind have been explored, there is nothing so wonderful, so<br /> majestic, so tremendous as his act of grace." Is was not just another<br /> great event in he chronicles of history. It was, as Hugh Nibley<br /> observed, "the one supreme reality of our life upon this earth!"<br /> .....All other events, doctrines, and principles are subservient to<br /> and appendages of that godly act.</u></em><br />
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I know that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is real. He descended below<br />
us all. He does in reality live today.<br />
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With Easter comes fun family traditions, candy, and stuffed eggs..<br />
Which brings me to this past week.<br />
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Sister De Leon Gomez came up with this really good idea to "egg" all<br />
the members. We put in a piece of candy, confetti, and a scripture<br />
about missionary work. I can not tell you how many times we got<br />
caught. It was super fun!<br />
We also were invited over to color eggs after women's conference.<br />
(Which was wonderful by the way) I found out that this was my<br />
companion's first time coloring eggs, and eating peeps! Oh the<br />
memories. I of course managed to get pink coloring on my face..<br />
Luckily it was not a lot. I can not tell you how much candy has<br />
consumed our week. I really just want a carrot. Not the chocolate<br />
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This morning we went to the Crown Point Vista House. I think I have<br />
been there five times now. Guess what, it is still the same. Same<br />
view, same gift shop and everything. It is interesting to see how a<br />
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Happy Easter!<br />
I hope all of you are doing well, and have a great week ahead of you!Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-17537912542461205382016-03-23T16:49:00.000-07:002016-03-23T16:49:04.559-07:00Week 59: Happy St. Patrick's Day<div style="text-align: center;">
It took a little more than a year, but I finally got my <span style="color: #38761d;">green</span> dinner.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgya7NdkGZQU9mE3d6hakp0IUm9ODD5NT-IWiTK0-RRFR2afo2qvuMAMkemNpItgg5b1S_BVjPED3Kph4b8acYaWPQ3loFrG9R0qSO-A0RMkRtVdS83i6bb9ysis1OeJp31Q1R-OJ6BW50/s1600/greendinner.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgya7NdkGZQU9mE3d6hakp0IUm9ODD5NT-IWiTK0-RRFR2afo2qvuMAMkemNpItgg5b1S_BVjPED3Kph4b8acYaWPQ3loFrG9R0qSO-A0RMkRtVdS83i6bb9ysis1OeJp31Q1R-OJ6BW50/s320/greendinner.JPG" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Dinner!</td></tr>
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<br />
We also had zone conference the same day. Sister Lambert had this<br />
Easter program for us at the very end. It was put together very well.<br />
The narration was The Living Christ, and we were the choir. I am very<br />
surprised that I did not cry. I can count on my hand how many times I<br />
have not cried at Easter. I love hearing all the different trainings<br />
at zone conference. I had the realization that I only have <strong><span style="color: #38761d;">ONE</span></strong> more<br />
left. That is a crazy thought.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvNIYpEngIDnhh-k-c6-siq9Sx-obEiAuA9WEn1-ii1ODSfcW35WJKBznOh9wwYH7Z1txrvOti4u4Lr81Atnbq0COeSgmGzvvn25v-WCGrUUpLk48jZhgaFZsIGHIO5WT1f4u7VFZ0ek/s1600/zoneconference0316.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvNIYpEngIDnhh-k-c6-siq9Sx-obEiAuA9WEn1-ii1ODSfcW35WJKBznOh9wwYH7Z1txrvOti4u4Lr81Atnbq0COeSgmGzvvn25v-WCGrUUpLk48jZhgaFZsIGHIO5WT1f4u7VFZ0ek/s320/zoneconference0316.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zone Conference 3/17/16</td></tr>
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<br />
For the Easter season we have been egging people's houses. Haha, not<br />
in the way you think though. We got these Easter eggs, and we put<br />
scriptures about missionary work with a little piece of candy in it.<br />
We hide the eggs, leave a note on their door that they have been<br />
egged, and run. Unfortunately we have been caught a couple of times,<br />
but whatever. It was fun.<br />
<br />
Sister De Leon Gomez had two baptisms in two of her past areas this<br />
past <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_704801795" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Saturday</span></span></span>. It was so much fun! She called some investigators to<br />
give us a ride. They are very interesting.. They love missionaries,<br />
but they hate the church. They would do anything for the missionaries.<br />
The wife told me that 13 years ago her neighbor asked for a favor to<br />
feed the Spanish missionaries because they were not being fed; and<br />
they have been doing it ever since. They are very kind.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkfSQodY5wk3LEX31s8dtpshRICYu69OsvQJmM_ltLHPOWfGMfHE22ME1-2xme-26SwkPNyR897jl7eRjLFHtAo3jJq0FdYzY1iqWCSGcjNLjiMTWIoyOXnoxuxmsQ5wK0ZY-YLQ9EPY/s1600/baptism031916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkfSQodY5wk3LEX31s8dtpshRICYu69OsvQJmM_ltLHPOWfGMfHE22ME1-2xme-26SwkPNyR897jl7eRjLFHtAo3jJq0FdYzY1iqWCSGcjNLjiMTWIoyOXnoxuxmsQ5wK0ZY-YLQ9EPY/s320/baptism031916.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sisters together at the baptism.</td></tr>
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<br />
I do not know what else to tell you that happened this week. My life<br />
is good, I can not complain. Once in awhile something exciting happens<br />
to me.<br />
<br />
I hope you are all doing great! Have a good week! Until next time..<br />
<br />
Sister Slattery<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDLTFOhup5DD_EUaYaHhXcjHmzKJdf8Kxp3Ay2VI4tZo97peNEJ_haB9nEAk1fruFWR8oZlQ9TiP0P8WEEshWjtQBD1-gl1XZhyphenhyphenyeXSxoS1effk8gkgrVcvQH0mpYf3zsKdw210NZ4FI4/s1600/baptism031916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-92123396407545919112016-03-15T15:21:00.003-07:002016-03-15T15:21:58.693-07:00Week 58: Random things that have happened<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: blue;">Okay, so the weather is bipolar. It just depends on what cloud you are</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">under. We got soaked walking to the car, and by the time we get there</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">it is not raining at all.</span></div>
</span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We had stake conference. I saw some of my Columbia people! I also got</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">to see Brother and Sister Morgan. Lisa Ellsworth's parents. I met them</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">before my mission, and I have been keeping my eye out for them since.</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Morgan came up to me explain who she was, and then Bree was</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">there too! ( She is Sister Morgan's granddaughter, and I went to high</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">school with her). We made plans to get together for dinner one night.</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Super excited to see them!! The world is so small.</span></div>
</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYajO-tBXV39LVC66PegLWPccTzZmrjFAuCkRM3kdpVCH9NpFIA9Zoa9A1-zEWfuwZMmx955HVHbli7J2qssKaCf2jnZrvZ9o4M3HSlkAk_2gw61ddkcKT7C4fTzgP_r1fWCV3xFMafdg/s1600/sistermorgan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYajO-tBXV39LVC66PegLWPccTzZmrjFAuCkRM3kdpVCH9NpFIA9Zoa9A1-zEWfuwZMmx955HVHbli7J2qssKaCf2jnZrvZ9o4M3HSlkAk_2gw61ddkcKT7C4fTzgP_r1fWCV3xFMafdg/s320/sistermorgan.jpg" width="231" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister Morgan & Bree</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="color: blue;"><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: blue;">This grandma lady ran into a tree at the church parking lot, and broke</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">it in half. She is okay! The tree and her car, not so much..</span></div>
</span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder and Sister Bunderson took us out to lunch one day. That was</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">super kind. They are really nice people.</span></div>
</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkgBizDioj0qfWBvOiWvALuay9Fz1G64iOtER0YkBGfgoFdikXnTtA9AiuCblkhW5HXZoEsmK8jPFLKYoycqFnhGiMlopu6emIrTfvC0P05DJ1SklJwzspvct9_78DLyDjYPeYKsMPjUw/s1600/bundersons.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkgBizDioj0qfWBvOiWvALuay9Fz1G64iOtER0YkBGfgoFdikXnTtA9AiuCblkhW5HXZoEsmK8jPFLKYoycqFnhGiMlopu6emIrTfvC0P05DJ1SklJwzspvct9_78DLyDjYPeYKsMPjUw/s320/bundersons.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch with Elder & Sister Bunderson<br /><span style="color: red;">(Sister Bunderson is the mission nurse)</span></td></tr>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="color: blue;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: blue;">Then today!!! Sister De Leon Gomez wanted to go shopping, and I told</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">myself that I would be really good, and not buy anything.. Biggest lie</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I have told myself. I found overalls! I have been looking forever for</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">overalls! I love them so much!</span></div>
</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9rbUQEyPYipatogB9w3eO9y8jVGeSPnVSRR0kVFcaVrxemPDk5pYtdX91nGPnXdqQJBOfPoulKyzkppxKDE7NwnfhIZuY24iq0hJs3fWnFnbQAp5JSIKRdo2ElbPf9Af8gXijf-MIbM/s1600/overalls.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9rbUQEyPYipatogB9w3eO9y8jVGeSPnVSRR0kVFcaVrxemPDk5pYtdX91nGPnXdqQJBOfPoulKyzkppxKDE7NwnfhIZuY24iq0hJs3fWnFnbQAp5JSIKRdo2ElbPf9Af8gXijf-MIbM/s320/overalls.JPG" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overalls<br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="color: blue;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: blue;">Yep, and all our appointments fell through this week.. So yeah.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I got the option of coming home in July, and I took it! Time is going</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">by so fast.</span></div>
</span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love you all, and I hope you have a great week</span></div>
</span>Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-76613772103086854502016-03-11T16:54:00.000-08:002016-03-11T16:54:32.315-08:00Week 57: New Companion!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Another transfer gone! This time I got a new companion. Her name is</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Sister De Leon Gomez. She is from Guatemala. It is super cool because</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">now when we come across Hispanic people I do not have to be that white</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">girl who knows one sentence, but I have a companion who actually</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">speaks Spanish! I am super excited. This is my second companion who is</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">a foreigner. That is pretty cool. We had a really good week. I can</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">already see the area picking up.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Here is the one picture that I took this week... Okay it was this morning.</span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhqJkMLAQ1SYmZF2Qx1yUJWt0IRLiSkMrBZyuig8NHk8lrFXALioomtxGamUhlbLzu9Yz9skZPRwW_FQYn1aqo_fQ1zYxfW8JX624oZw8Dvp6uWVy3mPiUp4ToiapaGNSk9ertuP18I0/s1600/deleongomez.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhqJkMLAQ1SYmZF2Qx1yUJWt0IRLiSkMrBZyuig8NHk8lrFXALioomtxGamUhlbLzu9Yz9skZPRwW_FQYn1aqo_fQ1zYxfW8JX624oZw8Dvp6uWVy3mPiUp4ToiapaGNSk9ertuP18I0/s320/deleongomez.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister De Leon Gomez, and of course me!</td></tr>
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<br />Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-15728191668788889692016-02-23T07:08:00.000-08:002016-02-23T07:08:27.662-08:00Week 55: Straight SkinnyOkay before I tell my story let me preface this. "Give me the skinny"<br />
is a saying that means to tell the truth. I did not know that. Nor<br />
have I heard of such a saying.<br />
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Bother Mueller, our ward mission leader is such a father figure.<br />
Everyone, thinks he is funny, stubborn German, I am your father<br />
first, friend second kind of guy. He also has a tender side to him. I<br />
love seeing him interact with his wife, children, and grandchildren. I<br />
feel like I have molded into their family I love them so much. On<br />
Friday he sends us a message asking how I and Sister Chance are doing<br />
( We had a rough day before). He says "How are you doing? Give me the<br />
straight skinny." ...Um... what? The way I read that I thought he was<br />
trying to be a gangster or something. Silly Bother Mueller. I respond<br />
with "We do not know if that was meant for your wife, Sister Chance<br />
because she is skinny, or me Sister Slattery because I am a babe."<br />
Then we precede to tell him how we were doing. We then get a second<br />
text message which reads " The skinny is a term used on and tell the<br />
truth by that old." What in the world is he talking about? We decided<br />
to call him because this whole texting thing was not working out. Then<br />
he answers the phone "Hello, this is the not so skinny Brother<br />
Mueller." Lol it was pretty funny. He explained that he was driving,<br />
and trying to speak to his phone to type out a text message. He<br />
explained to us what he was trying to say. Haha It was just pretty<br />
funny.<br />
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My back is doing so much better! We had to help the elders move out<br />
some people from their ward. I will not go into any details, but I<br />
will just tell you it was gross. Silly elders had to do a box weight<br />
check before they would let me carry anything. It was funny the way<br />
they would call Sister after me.<br />
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Yesterday we went over to have dinner at the Mangum family's home. We<br />
go, and there is this guy vacuuming their carpet. He was selling Kirby<br />
vacuums. After awhile he started talking about religion. The short<br />
story is we taught him the Restoration. We gave him a copy of the Book<br />
of Mormon, and some pamphlets. Haha he told us we made him want to go<br />
to church. He said that he would look into it. It is just interesting<br />
to think that I will never know what will be the result of talking to<br />
that guy. Then that makes me think of my story, and how missionary<br />
work has affected my life.<br />
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Later today Wanda and Latisha are coming to see me!! I am so excited!<br />
I love them so very much. They hold a special place in my heart. I<br />
can not believe that it was almost been a year since they were<br />
baptized. It is interesting looking back on my memory of where I was a<br />
year ago. Who I was with, the problems that were in front of me, you<br />
know things like that. Now it is almost the end of February.<br />
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Well, I can not think of anything else super important to tell you<br />
about. Hope everyone had a really great week! Love you all, and until<br />
next time.<br />
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Sister Slattery<br />
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<br />Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-39776625245611846412016-02-15T16:36:00.000-08:002016-02-15T16:36:44.481-08:00Week 54: Wailing and Gnashing of TeethHappy Valentine's Day! Hope everyone was able to spend it with loved<br /> ones. We spent the evening with the Mueller Family. It was so much<br /> fun! Afterwards we had a hot date with Ben and Jerry's ice cream.<br /> Those guys always come through for me.<br /><br /> So this week has been interesting.. Let me preface this with the fact<br /> that I have had back problems since before my mission. It has been<br /> acting up as of late, and I have no idea what I did to it in the<br /> first place to make it start hurting again. The following is my<br /> journal entry from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_513627689" tabindex="0">Friday</span>.<br /><br /> It all started <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_513627690" tabindex="0">Tuesday</span> wen we went over to a member's house to help<br /> her out with painting, and dishes. I do not mind doing dishes, so I<br /> did that while Sister Chance painted. I may have been on my feet for<br /> an hour and a half. Popping my head in the other room to be part of<br /> the conversation, and doing the dishes. It took me longer than it<br /> probably should have. It hurt to stand there in one place, so I was<br /> shifting my weight back and forth. The whole rest of the day I was in<br /> pain. I later got another blessing from the district leader. He was<br /> very persistent. By the end I am just crying, with my head in hands<br /> not wanting to look up because there was 4 elders, and I did not want<br /> them to see my face. It was embarrassing.<br /><br /> Then today we get this crazy last minute call from the mission office<br /> saying we have a referral from the Portland, Oregon mission. This less<br /> active member was moving into our ward, and was going to be there in<br /> 15 minutes. We could not ask our ward members or even other<br /> missionaries to drop whatever they were doing to help us out in 15<br /> minutes. That is just plain rude. We called Bother Mueller our ward<br /> missions leader, and told him the situation. He told me not to do<br /> anything to hurt my back. Yeah, okay Brother Mueller. We go, and I may<br /> or may not have hefted a large couch. By the time Brother Mueller and<br /> another brother came we were done unloading the truck. We had a<br /> conversation about my back. They told me to contact mission nurse,<br /> (Which I was supposed to anyway today). And this brother in our ward.<br /> -Advantage of being in a ward when everyone is a chiropractor!<br /><br /> We went over and it was approved by the mission nurse, so I did not<br /> feel bad about it. He had me all lined up to pop me back into place<br /> before he did some deep tissue stuff. He poked me, and it brought me<br /> to tears. I jumped so high, and was squirming all over the place. It<br /> was awful. Let's just say I have a clear understanding of what the<br /> scriptures mean when it talks about wailing, and gnashing of teeth. I<br /> feel like jello now. All of my muscles keep shaking because they are<br /> in that much shock.<br /><br /> Also today Sister Chance let me sleep for 2 hours during weekly<br /> planning. I love her. I felt so bad! She told me that if she wanted me<br /> to do work she would have woken me up. I am so grateful that she is so<br /> understanding.<br /><br /> Okay, so fast forward a little bit. Yesterday we had a broadcast from<br /> Salt Lake. That was really good, but a struggle to hear. The volume<br /> was not very good. Plus I got to sit in the metal chairs. That hurt so<br /> bad! Good old Brother Mueller asked if I was okay. I simply replied<br /> yes. He chuckled at me.<br /><br /> I went to the doctor's office, who happens to be the Stake President.<br /> He gave me more stretches to do. He also gave me some stronger<br /> medicine to take before bed. I hate going to the doctor's office.<br /><br /> Shout out to my district leader! He gave me all of his extra ice packs<br /> at their apartment, and brought me a pack of Gatorade. He made the<br /> rule of no more dishes, and if Sister Chance sees me carrying more<br /> than my iPad, and a bottle of Gatorade she is to call him immediately.<br /> Best district leader ever!<br /><br /> That is my life right now.<br />
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<br />Slattery'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891932572760796254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4884876867938481832.post-39936272450560325172016-02-09T17:34:00.000-08:002016-02-09T17:34:52.017-08:00Week 53: Has it really been a year?<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Oh my goodness, where does the time go? This past week I went through</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">my journal of my adventures last year. Super glad I am where I am now!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">I am pretty sure there is a scripture that says something along the</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">lines of look not behind thee. I unfortunately did not do anything</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">super exciting to celebrate. My mom is so awesome though, and sent</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Sister Chance and I a package! I may have cheated, and opened it up</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">the day before my year mark even though the package had writing on it</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">that told me to wait. Our ward mission leader and his wife gave us ice</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">cream with sprinkles! That is about how much fun we had that day.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Yesterday I may have been karate chopping the Bishop in the hall way.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">He started it, so no fault of my own. Then Brother Etherington the</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">High Priest quorum president happened to see this. He was chuckling to</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">himself. It is funny if you know him. He has the appearance to be this</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">gruff old guy, but really he is so sweet. I love the Etheringtons!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">They moved up here from Rock Springs Wyoming, so we talk about Wyoming</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">a lot when they have us over for dinner. He was telling his wife that</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">he feels like this ward has exceptional missionaries, but that he</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">particularly likes the current two they have. Tender! It made me feel</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">really good about our companionship, and that members really do like</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">us. I really love being in this ward. The people are fantastic!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Yesterday was also the Super Bowl. We're were told that we had to be</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">in by 7:30</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>just for safety precautions. We did not think that we would</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">have very much success knocking on people's doors, so we didn't. Your</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">welcome all you football fanatics. Instead we walked up and down this</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">really long street. 30 blocks down, and back. Really bad idea with</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">pinchy shoes. I did it though! Plus it was perfect weather! We then</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">went to dinner with the Jorgensen family. Good thing it was fast</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Sunday! Every time we go over she always has this big spread laid out</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">for us. They have this rocking horse, and Sister J had us take a</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">picture with it. She said we were the first missionaries in a while</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">who have not asked to take a picture with it. She decided that she was</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">going to have a missionary wall of all the missionaries that come</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">through with the horse.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Another funny thing about this week.. For those who do not know I love</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">coins. I get so excited when I find a penny, and if I am lucky a</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">nickel or quarter on the ground. Sister Chance just laughs at me. She</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">probably thinks I am a weirdo, but whatever. Money is money. I keep</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">telling her that one of these days I am going to count all of my</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">coins, and I will have a full dollar. One day we are walking down this</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">street, and I hear this coin fall to the pavement. I turn around, and</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">I see this clean, pristine, shiny quarter. I asked my companion if she</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">dropped that. She said yes. She just loves my reaction when I find</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">coins. She decided to do me a favor, and drop me some big change.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Bahaha! I am sure reading this over email is not very funny, but trust</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">me, it is.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">We also went to the Stake President's house for breakfast like we do</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">every first Saturday </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">of the month. I love them so much! Their son is</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">over the 11 year old Boy Scouts, and they had a camp out in the back</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">yard, so that to join us for breakfast.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Well, Thanks for reading!!! I love you all, and I hope you have a</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 12.8px/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">great week! Until next time..</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opened my package a day early.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister Chance with her anniversary box.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Zone at the Stake Missionary Breakfast</td></tr>
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