Busy Week...like most weeks are
April 25, 2011
Hey Family!
First off let me tell you that I love you all very much! Now that I've let you know that, I shall tell you about my week, as I know you are dying to know.
Monday- It was a chill preparation day where we taught some lessons and were missionaries.
Tuesday- It was my Appreciation Day so I opened the package I got from you and I loved it! Thank you so very much for the watch necklace, I love it! Especially since my regular watch wasn't working, but I discovered that it fixed itself and works again! Yeah for two watches! Also on Tuesday we had a Sister's meeting, which was wonderful since we were able to see all of the Sisters in the Mission, but more importantly, we saw all of the Hermanas! In truth, Hermanas are way different than Sisters. It’s kinda weird, but true. We had some lessons in the afternoon and then, in the evening, we went to do some quilting. They helped fix one of my skirts that was too big for me so that I could wear it, since it's super cute. (I got it from another Sister. Don't worry, Mom, the skirts you made me fit me perfectly!) And I also continued to make a quilt. It’s looking awesome and I'll send you a picture of it once it’s done.
Wednesday- We went to Correlation and talked about missionary work. Then we went to the Relief Society luncheon and got to know some of the members of the Ward better. Then we met with the RS President since I didn't really know her, and then we visited a member who lives up in the boondocks.
Thursday- I baked some banana bread in the morning while we did our weekly planning. Then we went to District meeting which is where I took the bread since I was in charge of the refreshments, seeing as we no longer will be having District lunch after the meetings. Then we drove home and went to a surprise party that was held by some members and investigators. Then we went home and studied until the Hermanas from Agua Fria were here, because we were going on exchanges with them. Hna. Ochocinski left and Hna. Okeson stayed here with me.
Friday- Spent the whole day with Hna. Okeson tracting and teaching lessons and just learning from her. Then we drove down to the Agua Fria area and ate dinner at Waldo's Tacos, a great taco stand that feeds missionaries for free. Then Hna. Ochocinski and I drove home.
Saturday- I opened the package that I got from you and was pleasantly surprised to find a dozen chocolate eggs for Easter. Happy Easter to us! We had some plans to do a lot of tracting, but my throat had been sore for about two weeks so I called Sister Beck and she told me to go to Urgent Care (which is pretty much a doctor’s office that's always open). The closest one was in Surprise, so we drove down there and they looked at my throat and told me I did NOT have strep. That I just had some bacteria that was hanging out back there making it sore and red, so they gave me an antibiotic for it and I'm feeling much better now.After having that fun we taught some lessons and re-extended a baptismal date. It was a pretty good day, except we weren't able to get too much done.
Sunday- We went to church, and then ate lunch. Then we went out to Wittmann to find a referral we had received. He was home and he is wonderful and wants to see us again and ask us more questions. Then the program "The Savior of the World" was being broadcast in Spanish, so we went to the church building with a bunch of our investigators and we watched that. Then we came home and did our morning studies. And today we're going to go party it up in Surprise at a District P-day activity, which should be lots of fun.
How are things in Mich? Still snowy? How is Washington? My companion is going to be there in about a week! Next week I'll be able to tell you if I'm staying here in Wickenburg, and if I'm training. Crazy. We've heard that four Hermana's are going to be coming in this transfer, so almost everyone will be training. I love you all so very much!
Love,
Brea
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
April 18, 2011- The Hills are alive, with the sound of music! That’s the first phrase that came into my mind...
The Hills are alive, with the sound of music! That’s the first phrase that came into my mind...
April 18, 2011
Dear Wells people (and Teeters),
How have you all been doing? I shall update you on my weekly events! Last Monday I forgot that I had put my watch in my cargo pants pocket when we were painting a house and then I washed those pants. Needless to say, my watch has died. Sad, I know, but I'm living without it. It just means that I won't have a watch tan line when I get home.
Tuesday- we did a lot of contacting, which we've been doing a lot more since we're trying to find some more investigators. That evening we went to the quilting club thing and I started to make a quilt. Hna Ocho finished her first quilt ever! She was so excited and this week she gets to make the sandwich and continue with it. It’s the first thing she's ever sewn so she's super excited. That evening I started to feel sorta sick, like a cold / flu so I went to bed, and decided to just get sick instead of keeping on fighting it off.
Wednesday- We went to Zone Conference and it was wonderful! We got a ride from Brother and Sister Lyon who will be starting to work in the mission office on June 1. We talked a lot about giving church tours, or showing investigators around the church before Sunday so they'll feel comfortable later on in the week. Then I received a blessing from my District Leader since I wasn't feeling too good, and it was a great blessing. When we got home I slept and have been working on feeling better. All things are in the Lord's time.
Thursday- I was still feeling kinda sick, so I slept for most of the afternoon and then we visited a few people and had some great lessons.
Friday- We had a fantastic District Meeting in Wickenburg and it was amazing. Elder Bell said he'd been thinking about that District meeting since he found out he was going to be our District Leader. We talked about the Anti-Nephi-Lehis and how they made covenants with the Lord, and how we need to consecrate our time here on the Mission. It was a really amazing lesson.
Saturday- We had been planning to go to the Easter Pageant, but all of our progressing Investigators couldn't make in so we were unable to go. (We found out later that since we had potential investigators and recent converts that we could have gone. Oh well.) So instead, we tracted and did our weekly planning that we'd missed due to me sleeping all that day.
Sunday- We went to church, and then checked up on some people that we hadn't seen in a while to see if they're alright and if they're still interested in learning about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Then the day was done, so we came home and did numbers and planned for today. Being a missionary is so much fun. They told us some dates for meetings this week and then ended up changing most of them since they tried to have everything on the same day. Silly APs. First we had exchanges on Tuesday, but now we have a Sister's meeting on that day so exchanges are now on Friday. And then they tried to have a Zone Conference on Tuesday, but since there are quite a few Sisters in this zone they had to postpone that. Ha-ha Elders.
Mom, quick question. Do you know someone named Tammie Dorsey? She might have been in your Ward when you were about 10-14? She's a member out here and she was living in Farmington, NM at about that time in her life, and she says that there were a lot of Knudsens out there and that a Nancy Knudsen sounds very familiar to her. Her sister's name is Debbie Dorsey, if you know her. Haha, that would be so funny. Ok, I love you all so much and will write you next week!
Love,
Brea
April 18, 2011
Dear Wells people (and Teeters),
How have you all been doing? I shall update you on my weekly events! Last Monday I forgot that I had put my watch in my cargo pants pocket when we were painting a house and then I washed those pants. Needless to say, my watch has died. Sad, I know, but I'm living without it. It just means that I won't have a watch tan line when I get home.
Tuesday- we did a lot of contacting, which we've been doing a lot more since we're trying to find some more investigators. That evening we went to the quilting club thing and I started to make a quilt. Hna Ocho finished her first quilt ever! She was so excited and this week she gets to make the sandwich and continue with it. It’s the first thing she's ever sewn so she's super excited. That evening I started to feel sorta sick, like a cold / flu so I went to bed, and decided to just get sick instead of keeping on fighting it off.
Wednesday- We went to Zone Conference and it was wonderful! We got a ride from Brother and Sister Lyon who will be starting to work in the mission office on June 1. We talked a lot about giving church tours, or showing investigators around the church before Sunday so they'll feel comfortable later on in the week. Then I received a blessing from my District Leader since I wasn't feeling too good, and it was a great blessing. When we got home I slept and have been working on feeling better. All things are in the Lord's time.
Thursday- I was still feeling kinda sick, so I slept for most of the afternoon and then we visited a few people and had some great lessons.
Friday- We had a fantastic District Meeting in Wickenburg and it was amazing. Elder Bell said he'd been thinking about that District meeting since he found out he was going to be our District Leader. We talked about the Anti-Nephi-Lehis and how they made covenants with the Lord, and how we need to consecrate our time here on the Mission. It was a really amazing lesson.
Saturday- We had been planning to go to the Easter Pageant, but all of our progressing Investigators couldn't make in so we were unable to go. (We found out later that since we had potential investigators and recent converts that we could have gone. Oh well.) So instead, we tracted and did our weekly planning that we'd missed due to me sleeping all that day.
Sunday- We went to church, and then checked up on some people that we hadn't seen in a while to see if they're alright and if they're still interested in learning about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Then the day was done, so we came home and did numbers and planned for today. Being a missionary is so much fun. They told us some dates for meetings this week and then ended up changing most of them since they tried to have everything on the same day. Silly APs. First we had exchanges on Tuesday, but now we have a Sister's meeting on that day so exchanges are now on Friday. And then they tried to have a Zone Conference on Tuesday, but since there are quite a few Sisters in this zone they had to postpone that. Ha-ha Elders.
Mom, quick question. Do you know someone named Tammie Dorsey? She might have been in your Ward when you were about 10-14? She's a member out here and she was living in Farmington, NM at about that time in her life, and she says that there were a lot of Knudsens out there and that a Nancy Knudsen sounds very familiar to her. Her sister's name is Debbie Dorsey, if you know her. Haha, that would be so funny. Ok, I love you all so much and will write you next week!
Love,
Brea
Saturday, April 16, 2011
11 April 2011
Dear Family,
I'm so very grateful to have received your emails. Ok, I'll review the week and then talk about y'alls messages. Monday- We changed things up and had our proselyting time in the middle of the day since we had had some appointments but then as both of them canceled but it worked out perfectly since the best time to knock doors in this area is between 2-5 so we were able to do that and then no have to go knock doors during creepy hour (8 pm, worst time EVER to not have an appointment and have nothing else to do) So that was great. Tuesday- We had coordination in the morning and then we had language study. I'm trying to memorize a million words before zone conference this week in order to finish the first page of our APM study guide, complete the goal that i set with President Beck and receive my APM pin. So I've been working on 177 Spanish words to memorizes (those are just the ones i don't know yet) and D&C 4 in Spanish. We visited Juana who is a recent convert and had surgery a few weeks ago, so she's just in the house all day. We explained the different priesthood things (priest, teacher, seventy...whats that called again?) and she really wants us to be able to meet with her husband and son and explain it to them since they just received the priesthood. Then we were in Wittman and were quilting. I cut fabric again but tomorrow I get to start a quilt! Wednesday- We had District meeting in the morning and then ate at Subway (its sort of a district tradition) but next week we're super excited since we're having district meeting up here in Wickenburg instead of in Surprise! We're going to take them to Filiberto's which is an awesome Mexican fast food restaurant and is so very good! After lunch we drove to the Mission Office and picked up a large print copy of the book of Mormon for Melvin, who's 83 and had trouble seeing small print. We then had some really great lessons and then ended the day with some studies. Thursday- We weekly planned< knocked doors all day and then ended the day with a fantastic lesson with Dawn and a member! The members here are great...now if only they could speak Spanish. Friday- We knocked some doors, and then had a great lesson with Susan who is just coming back to church and recently stoped smoking !!! We're so excited, shes going to go to the temple soon and do baptisms for the dead and she is so very excited and had such a respect and awe for it. I grew up knowing that when I turned 12 I would be able to do that and it wasn't that big of a deal to me but seeing her having this tremendous joy to be able to go and do that for the first time in her life (she's 53) just makes me realize how great of a blessing it is. Saturday- We went over to an investigators house and helped her paint some rooms in her someday house. They bought and old abandonment house and are fixing it up, so we helped cover up the graffiti with white primer and it was loads of fun. In the evening a member was throwing a house warming party and we were invited so we went to that and there were quite a few of our investigators there so it was a great opportunity to talk with them and get to know them more. Sunday- We went to church and then went to see our ward mission leader's wife since she just had a little baby boy this week. He's so very cute! Then we finally met with our investigator Levi who Hna. Ocho hadn't seen since Feb. He's a very hard man to get a hold of. We talked with him and he said he's wants to be baptized and has a goal of the end of July / August. Longest baptismal commitment I've ever had. But after he's baptized he'll get married to Vicky, who's a member he's been dating for a long time but isn't married to yet since she doesn't marry non-Mormon boys. They're such a cute couple. Levi looks kind of like Billy Idol and David Bowie combined. We met with Dawn in the evening and she wants to be baptized! She's preparing for the 30th of April, which would be just wonderful since Hna. Ocho leaves for home on the 2 of May. Today we had a Zone activity in the morning and we played volleyball and my team got in second place! We were undefeated until the finals and were against a team that we had beat the very first round, but they beat us twice in a row so they one. Then we bought groceries in Surprise since they're cheaper down there and on the way home I picked up a birthday present for Marie since her Birthday is coming up this weekend. Oh, So on Wednesday we have a Zone Conference which I'm really excited about and then on Saturday we're going to go to Mesa with our Mexican investigators and see the Easter Pageant in Spanish. I'm stoked! That's why this week is going to be amazing. I'll tell you more about that next week.
I'm morning the lose of our dear friend Lady Winifred, Duchess of Katz. She was the best Duchess of Katz I've ever known. She shall be missed.
I love you all so very much and miss you tons! Love, Brea
P.S. sorry, but i didn't take any pictures this week. I'll try harder for next week. But I will leave you with an awesome picture I took of the Mesa Temple.
I'm so very grateful to have received your emails. Ok, I'll review the week and then talk about y'alls messages. Monday- We changed things up and had our proselyting time in the middle of the day since we had had some appointments but then as both of them canceled but it worked out perfectly since the best time to knock doors in this area is between 2-5 so we were able to do that and then no have to go knock doors during creepy hour (8 pm, worst time EVER to not have an appointment and have nothing else to do) So that was great. Tuesday- We had coordination in the morning and then we had language study. I'm trying to memorize a million words before zone conference this week in order to finish the first page of our APM study guide, complete the goal that i set with President Beck and receive my APM pin. So I've been working on 177 Spanish words to memorizes (those are just the ones i don't know yet) and D&C 4 in Spanish. We visited Juana who is a recent convert and had surgery a few weeks ago, so she's just in the house all day. We explained the different priesthood things (priest, teacher, seventy...whats that called again?) and she really wants us to be able to meet with her husband and son and explain it to them since they just received the priesthood. Then we were in Wittman and were quilting. I cut fabric again but tomorrow I get to start a quilt! Wednesday- We had District meeting in the morning and then ate at Subway (its sort of a district tradition) but next week we're super excited since we're having district meeting up here in Wickenburg instead of in Surprise! We're going to take them to Filiberto's which is an awesome Mexican fast food restaurant and is so very good! After lunch we drove to the Mission Office and picked up a large print copy of the book of Mormon for Melvin, who's 83 and had trouble seeing small print. We then had some really great lessons and then ended the day with some studies. Thursday- We weekly planned< knocked doors all day and then ended the day with a fantastic lesson with Dawn and a member! The members here are great...now if only they could speak Spanish. Friday- We knocked some doors, and then had a great lesson with Susan who is just coming back to church and recently stoped smoking !!! We're so excited, shes going to go to the temple soon and do baptisms for the dead and she is so very excited and had such a respect and awe for it. I grew up knowing that when I turned 12 I would be able to do that and it wasn't that big of a deal to me but seeing her having this tremendous joy to be able to go and do that for the first time in her life (she's 53) just makes me realize how great of a blessing it is. Saturday- We went over to an investigators house and helped her paint some rooms in her someday house. They bought and old abandonment house and are fixing it up, so we helped cover up the graffiti with white primer and it was loads of fun. In the evening a member was throwing a house warming party and we were invited so we went to that and there were quite a few of our investigators there so it was a great opportunity to talk with them and get to know them more. Sunday- We went to church and then went to see our ward mission leader's wife since she just had a little baby boy this week. He's so very cute! Then we finally met with our investigator Levi who Hna. Ocho hadn't seen since Feb. He's a very hard man to get a hold of. We talked with him and he said he's wants to be baptized and has a goal of the end of July / August. Longest baptismal commitment I've ever had. But after he's baptized he'll get married to Vicky, who's a member he's been dating for a long time but isn't married to yet since she doesn't marry non-Mormon boys. They're such a cute couple. Levi looks kind of like Billy Idol and David Bowie combined. We met with Dawn in the evening and she wants to be baptized! She's preparing for the 30th of April, which would be just wonderful since Hna. Ocho leaves for home on the 2 of May. Today we had a Zone activity in the morning and we played volleyball and my team got in second place! We were undefeated until the finals and were against a team that we had beat the very first round, but they beat us twice in a row so they one. Then we bought groceries in Surprise since they're cheaper down there and on the way home I picked up a birthday present for Marie since her Birthday is coming up this weekend. Oh, So on Wednesday we have a Zone Conference which I'm really excited about and then on Saturday we're going to go to Mesa with our Mexican investigators and see the Easter Pageant in Spanish. I'm stoked! That's why this week is going to be amazing. I'll tell you more about that next week.
I'm morning the lose of our dear friend Lady Winifred, Duchess of Katz. She was the best Duchess of Katz I've ever known. She shall be missed.
I love you all so very much and miss you tons! Love, Brea
P.S. sorry, but i didn't take any pictures this week. I'll try harder for next week. But I will leave you with an awesome picture I took of the Mesa Temple.
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