Hello All, Don't worry, I'm still alive! This last Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day and we write our emails at the local library which is not open on Holidays, so we couldn't come on Monday. And then on Tuesday we had Zone conference in the morning and some appointments in the evening / afternoon, so we had to wait until today when they're open. Zone conference was fantastic! Hna. Jensen and I had to go early to go to a trainer trainee meeting and they split us up into trainers and trainees so we could talk about our challenges and figure out how to take care of things and all that since your expectations almost never are the same as what you get. Some of the Elders had quite a few problems with their companions, and the AP's (they were conducting the meeting) tried to get me to ask a question or something but I didn't have that much to say since Hna. Jensen is fantastic and I knew exactly what to expect. Also, I saw Elder Waynick at the zone conference which was super funny to me. We also got new phones at ZC, so we no longer have a giant brick but we have the phone that I used to have. The conference focused a lot on planning and companionship inventory. We were given a sheet of paper to write down things that were going well, things that needed work and a plan on how to fix things. It was really good, and made me realize that Comp Inventory isn't just for when things are going wrong, but it’s there to help strengthen relationships, and there’s always something that you can be doing better. President Beck and his wife did a comp inventory for us (live) and it was great.
On Saturday we had a baptism and it went really well. Eduardo was baptized and three of the Elder's investigators. President and Sister Beck were there, and Hna. Jensen and I taught the first lesson (in Spanish) while people were changing. It was kind of nerve wrecking but it went really well.
At district meeting this week we were told that we're to go on the computer twice a week now. once to write to family, and the other time to check out mormon.org and boncom.com/mormon so that we can talk to people about it and actually know what we're talking about.
P-day was a lot of fun this week (except I didn't get to email you!) We went to the church and played soccer with some of the members and it was a lot of fun! I know that I'm not good at soccer, but at least I’m trying now, so I’m improving. Also, we finished P-day early and went to a member’s house for dinner which was fantastic. It was one of her son's birthdays so we had pizza and cake and sang happy birthday and shared a message and it was just overall fun. We've been doing a lot of contacting and having quite a few lessons so the work has been going really well. Oh, FYI P-days can be switched up if need be. Like if we're going to be going to the temple one day, we can switch our p-day to a more convenient day for that. So, don’t' freak out if I don't email you, we might have changed our p-day or there was a holiday or all computers in the world stopped working. But I will email you every time that I get on my email page. I love you and will write you next week. You're the best!
Love,
Breanna
Monday, March 28, 2011
Great Week to Work in Phoenix- January 10, 2011
Hey family that I love,
This second week in phoenix has been pretty busy, but some days it’s just chill and full of fun bike rides. I've been getting to know the area a bit more this week and sometimes I know where i am instead of just following Hna. Jensen around. Hna. Jensen by the way is fantastic. She's been lending me some of her warm clothes and she's really nice and a hard worker. She's just fantastic. We've been working really hard this week, but it doesn't seem like super hard work sometimes. We ride out bikes a lot so it just seems like we're out having fun on a bike ride and as we go we stop and talk to everyone we see (well, sometime not EVERY one, if they're a big group of guys out drinking) We went over to a members house (Diaz Family) for FHE on Monday and it was a lot of fun. We stopped by an investigators house (Maria) before hand and invited her but she said she wouldn't be able to make it. Well, we went back over to the member's house and started teaching a lesson to Eduardo (he's an awesome investigator who is going to be baptized this Saturday!) and part way through the lesson Maria and her friend knocked on the door. After we had left they had stopped what they were doing and came over to the FHE. They're fantastic people.
This week on the 6th was the Day of the Kings, and we happened to have a dinner appointment that day at the Diaz's house and they had the cake of kings and it was pretty good. Inside of this giant donut shaped cake are a few plastic dolls, and if you get a piece of cake with a doll in it then you have to throw a party, so every person has to cut their own piece of cake. Hna. Jensen and I didn't get a little doll in our cake, but it was funny to see when people did.
The weather has been getting a bit better, but it still can't decide if it wants to be warm or cold. It’s cool at night and a couple of times it rained. One night we were contacting in the park and it started hailing a little bit. We were going to just stand under a tree but we went over to a member's house that we had gone to one day when it had been raining real hard. They're nice people. Oh, just so you know, this library opens at 2 and p-day ends at 6, so that’s the times when I’ll be able to email you. But I think that that’s all for me. I love you! Oh, mom thanks for forwarding Hna. Stouts letter to me!
Love, Brea
This second week in phoenix has been pretty busy, but some days it’s just chill and full of fun bike rides. I've been getting to know the area a bit more this week and sometimes I know where i am instead of just following Hna. Jensen around. Hna. Jensen by the way is fantastic. She's been lending me some of her warm clothes and she's really nice and a hard worker. She's just fantastic. We've been working really hard this week, but it doesn't seem like super hard work sometimes. We ride out bikes a lot so it just seems like we're out having fun on a bike ride and as we go we stop and talk to everyone we see (well, sometime not EVERY one, if they're a big group of guys out drinking) We went over to a members house (Diaz Family) for FHE on Monday and it was a lot of fun. We stopped by an investigators house (Maria) before hand and invited her but she said she wouldn't be able to make it. Well, we went back over to the member's house and started teaching a lesson to Eduardo (he's an awesome investigator who is going to be baptized this Saturday!) and part way through the lesson Maria and her friend knocked on the door. After we had left they had stopped what they were doing and came over to the FHE. They're fantastic people.
This week on the 6th was the Day of the Kings, and we happened to have a dinner appointment that day at the Diaz's house and they had the cake of kings and it was pretty good. Inside of this giant donut shaped cake are a few plastic dolls, and if you get a piece of cake with a doll in it then you have to throw a party, so every person has to cut their own piece of cake. Hna. Jensen and I didn't get a little doll in our cake, but it was funny to see when people did.
The weather has been getting a bit better, but it still can't decide if it wants to be warm or cold. It’s cool at night and a couple of times it rained. One night we were contacting in the park and it started hailing a little bit. We were going to just stand under a tree but we went over to a member's house that we had gone to one day when it had been raining real hard. They're nice people. Oh, just so you know, this library opens at 2 and p-day ends at 6, so that’s the times when I’ll be able to email you. But I think that that’s all for me. I love you! Oh, mom thanks for forwarding Hna. Stouts letter to me!
Love, Brea
Mucho Frio!- January 3, 2011
Good day everyone! I'm here in Arizona and having a wonderful time! The first day we had really nice weather, and then it turned cold. It’s been crazy interesting. Hna. Jensen is my companion and she is really good and I love her to death. She knows the gospel really well and Spanish and she just totally nice (she's the one standing next to me in the picture of the Spanish speaking sisters, but the white girl, not the Mexican) The first day we had a meeting with the RS presidency to tell them a bit more about the ward mission plan and then we met with some less active members. On Tuesday it was cold and rainy and we were on our bikes (every area here is a biking area but it can be only biking, bike and bus, or bike and car. we have a bike and car.) for a few hours because we have a very limited number of miles for our car. We got pretty cold and everything was flooding because they're not used to rain, so we went back to our apartment and had some hot chocolate and tea to warm up and then went back out but in the car. The last few days have been pretty cold but I’ve had my sweaters and my sweatshirt. We went to the store one day to get some food for me and see if we could find a jacket, but all of them were either not that warm or just really ugly, but I’ve been totally fine. Hna. Jensen is really nice and lets me use one of her jackets and scarfs and I bought some gloves. Plus we're really into layering right now. On New Year’s Eve all missionaries in this area had to be in by 6, so it was a long night but we caught up on some journal writing and ate a good dinner. On New Year’s Day we were only allowed to go out if we had an appointment, which we luckily did, but only two and they both fell through. But we talked to everyone who was on the street and met some nice people that way. We also met a drunk guy at a bus stop, a guy who told us the Catholic Church is exactly like the Italian mafia, and someone who called us babes on bikes and told us not to get helmet hair. OH, also something crazy is that some of the elders and sisters from my zone in the MTC are in this mission! How random is that. But Elder Ochoa is not. He is now in the Farmington, NM mission. Sunday was really good. Church is at 1 and all in Spanish (there are a lot of Spanish speakers here, so I’m trying hard to remember all the Spanish i learned) We had an amazing lesson with an investigator, Maria, and the spirit was so strong during the lesson. Hna. Jensen invited her to be baptized on Feb. 5 and she said yes!
Today we've been running around and having fun. In this mission we only have district or zones get together on p-days once a transfer, and i was all, that’s really weird to me. So we went and played soccer with our district and it was really fun. Then we've been shopping and we get to write whenever we have time, which was at the end of the day for us today. This week has been really amazing and I’m feeling really good about the mission. The areas fantastic and the people are so sweet.
I love you all,
Hna. Wells
Today we've been running around and having fun. In this mission we only have district or zones get together on p-days once a transfer, and i was all, that’s really weird to me. So we went and played soccer with our district and it was really fun. Then we've been shopping and we get to write whenever we have time, which was at the end of the day for us today. This week has been really amazing and I’m feeling really good about the mission. The areas fantastic and the people are so sweet.
I love you all,
Hna. Wells
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