tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886234934192942682024-02-07T19:49:01.700-08:00Be of Good CheerI am serving a mission in the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission. Updates posted here. Take a look, happy you could stop by!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623493419294268.post-71918163205940072072014-08-04T17:58:00.000-07:002014-08-04T17:58:07.289-07:00In His Strength, I Can Do All Things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I can't believe that this is the last week that I´ll be emailing you all as a set apart missionary in the Dominican Republic. I´m not really sure what to say that will do justice to everything that has happened or all that I have learned.</div>
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This year and a half has been full of experiences, joy that I can't even put into words and times that I was sure I wouldn't be able to move forward. But I came to recognize that the moments I thought would break me never did, my Heavenly Father pushed me to the very very edge to show me my own strength, to help me to grow and if he hadn't taken me to that breaking point I would never have recognized the things I was capable of, it's a funny thing to think about, but looking back from my new perspective I´m really grateful that He loved me enough to do so.</div>
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But I also came to the realization that the mission really isn't the end. That it's just a starting point to a lot of things to come. I´ve got a lot of desire and excitement to be able to apply all that I have learned in each an every ward that I join, I´ve gained a new perspective that I know I didn't have before the mission and when I recognize things like that everything is okay.</div>
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My mission isn't meant to last forever, but the things that I have learned are meant for just exactly that.</div>
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I´ve learned to love a whole new group of people, I´ve found family that speaks a whole different language but that I love just the same, I´ve sweated, I´ve studied and I´ve prayed, and now my Heavenly Father has a new journey to take me on, and just like the mission, I´m going to have to take it on faith, and leave the rest to him.</div>
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<i>For our brethren, the Lamanites were in darkness, yea, even in the darkest abyss, but behold, how many of them are brought to behold the marvelous light of God! And this is the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work.</i></div>
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<i>Behold, the field was ripe and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in the sickly, and did reap with your might, yea, all the day long did ye labor; and behold the number of your sheaves! And they shall be gathered into the garners, that they are not wasted.</i></div>
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<b>Note from Sue:</b> I kinda fell off the blog-wagon a few months ago when I got overwhelmed keeping up two blogs :-) Sorry...but Kenzie requested that I put up a few pics from the last little while, cuz whenever she emails anyone a pic, they can't open it! Well...everyone except for MEEEEEE!! Where's there's a will, there's a WAY!! And I wasn't about to not be able to see my sweet girl. So, here you go! Good thing a picture's worth a thousand...you know :-)</div>
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today I went to a dominican salong and did rollers!</div>
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Our surprise pineapple themed FHE for Hermana Walker's birthday -- pulled it off without a hitch. It was AWESOME, and everyone was such good sports :-)</div>
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sweet sweet members from cancino that I ran into today!</div>
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always nice to know someone remembers you!</div>
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<i><b>plus, as a bonus - here's her email to us this week!!</b></i></div>
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This week has been great, we got the transfer call and everything is staying the same! Which means that I will be finishing here in Mendoza with Hermana Flores! So in mission terms, she´ll be killing mee (I always knew that she was secretly an assasin)</div>
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This week's brought a superrrr hardcore change in the weather! It has been sooooooooo hot. There are no clouds ANYWHERE in the sky. Luckily I have somewhat adjusted but my companion who comes from the country of year round spring (guatemala) is dying haha. And she hates it when I remind her that this has NOTHING on the weather we´ll be having in august! </div>
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We´ve been dropping a lot of investigators and havent had to much luck finding new ones, buttt the ones that we do have are the best. And I guess its quality not quantity right?</div>
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And our sweet sweet investigator Amarily is all set for her fecha the 28th of june! It has been the COOLEST thing to see how prepared she has been to accept this gospel. She grasps everythign that we teach the first time that we say it and by personal decision chose to live the word of wisdom eight years ago and hasnt had a sip of beer or coffee since.</div>
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She is a sweet heart, every singlt member that we have brought with us in the lessons just falls in love with her and wants to do whatever they can to support her. It is awesome. A sweet older lady in our ward gave us a bible that she had bought in the temple store(it was for a less active member, but turns out she already has one), so we asked her if she would like to come with us in a lesson and gift it herself. Amarily was overjoyed. She jumped up and gave her a hug thanking her for completing her scriptures and bringing her the word of God. She's excited to search all of the other scriptures that are in ehr pamphlets. It was awesome, she is awesome. Plus the last couple visits shes been waiting for us with icy coca colas. win win win</div>
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If there is anything that the mission has taught me it's that there is no such thing as a coincidence. It never ceases to amaze me the poeple that are placed in our path or the trials that we have to face. They always serve a purpose when we are looking back.<br /></div>
So we have this investigator. One day we were knocking doors (which here is more like yelling through gates ¨SALUUUDDOOOOSS, BUENNAAAAS¨) and at the very last house at the verrrry end of our area, we met a man and set an appointment to return. When we came back he wasn´t home, but his nephew who lives above him was. We called him down and honestly from first appearance we didn't really think he would want to talk to us, he had lots of tattoos and earrings, etc., but he ended up being super nice and rad. We ended up talking to him and found out that he had been visited by missionaries before when he was 7 and that his family had visited the church back then. He had awesome memories of the elders who taught him and said that they had lost contact when he moved out to Curacao (island by aruba). So we set a return appointment with thim and invited him to come to the church. </div>
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When we came back for the cita (appt) he wasn't there and we were super bummed, we assumed that we wouldn´t ever see him again. But that very next Sunday he showed up at the church and said he felt really bad for not being there. We set another cita for the next day and it went really well, butttt after that he kinda just fell off the map, wasn't home and didn't answer his phone. So we decided to go back one last time, and lo and behold, he was there, and let us know that some stuff had been going on in his family and so he hadn't been able to go to the church. Andd we found out that he was going to be moving the next day, AND not only that, but he was going to be moving to the same street that we live on, wayyyy closer. But once again after a cita or two he started dissapearing so we decided to stop trying to visit him. This past week (about a week or two later) we were in a cita teaching a brand new awesomeee family we had just found...and guess who comes walking up the stairs to there house and happens to be a close family friend! This samee guy! We were nowhere near where he lives and had no idea they even knew each other. What are the chances? and we hadn't been even planning on being there that day because we had had to move the cita last minute. So we´re hoping to be able to keep moving forward, anddd just learned from a member, that hadn't seen him since he was little, but was so excited when he showed up that first week, that his mom is a menosactiva. </div>
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So that was basically a big confusing paragraph, but the moral of the story is, when there is something that is meant to be put in our path, Heavenly Father finds a way to put it or him there over and over again even when we are cluelessly walking away. We´re hoping to start sharing with him again soon, obviously there's a reason for all of the run-ins.</div>
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Honestly this transfer has been a really big learning experience for me, its had some major ups and some major downs, but it's pushed me to keep moving forward. We´re never done learning anddd we really can never do it on our own. I know for a fact that I would have never survived the last year without the help of a loving PATIENT and ever present Heavenly Father and the people that he has placed in my path. We really can never be standing still-- time just keeps chugging along! Which is sometimes a super bummer, maybe it could just pause for a little while, like 6 months or so? I mean its only fair, 2 years sounds great--I got lots to do:)<br /></div>
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I know I´m always saying this,<br /><br />but life really is gooodd</div>
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So I have to say that this was seriously one of the best birthdays ever! Who would have thought? I woke up in the morning to our wall decorated with balloons and notes from hna thomas and hna Fox and thenn we went and played soccer! (unfortunately we lost, but it was a blast). </div>
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I´m freaking out, I had no idea that Shannon was engaged! But that is way awesome and she looks super super super cute haha!! Wish I could have said congrats! These are the moments when I feel so out of the loop out here!</div>
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This week has been good, the best part was actually being allowed to do some service, in addition to our normal missionary-sharing-the-gospel service! And the best part is it was PAINTING! 3 times in one week. Crazy right? I just kept thinking about how annoyed I was when we painted our WHOLE house back when we built the addition, and now I basically just feel like a pro from all of that practice. Although, I will say, that the whole time, I was thinking how dad would absolutely die from how un-organized it was. No taping stuff off, and we cut in all the corners SECOND. Haha ... but it was awesome, and they all really appreciated the help.</div>
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But we really did have a good week. Set a baptismal date with one of our investigators who is absolutely awesome. She has a lot of challenges coming up (including children who are superrrr unsupportive of her decision) but I think that she really is ready. She came to the church Sunday and said at the end that it was absolutely ¨the best day¨. I'm so excited. She always has the coolest questions when we teach her and she always teaches back to us what she has learned.</div>
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Anddd transfers are coming up at the end of this week! I have 4 and a half months in this area, and for the first time ever, I really really don't want to leave it. It hasn't been easy here, but things are finally starting to settle in, and move forward. It would be a bummer getting transferred right before we get to see the fruits of our labors... but it happens, so I guess I just need to be patient and wait out the calll.</div>
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This last Saturday we got to go to a super legit activity at the park by the temple with the family we are teaching. It was super awesome and the kids were all soo dang cute. Although I will say that it took all 4 of us adults to keep them all corraled together and in one peace. There were people dancing, different choirs and orchestras and just absolutely incredible lights everywhere!</div>
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I've got a lovely bunch of coconutssss!</div>
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We've been getting a loooot more lessons in recently, like we went from an average of 16/17 a week (not including with menos activos) to 24/25 every day. Its been crazy seeing the area explode, we visit our investigators a lot more times each week and we're seeing a lot of progress. I've literally never seen anything like it on my mission. Plus we gave BofM.s to the cute family we are teaching and the two oldest boys were super stoked.<br />All in all, we're excited to keep working and moving forward.</div>
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We're really trying to help our zone be more united, and to talk to us. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Note from sue: sounds like she an her companion are the only female missionaries in her zone) </span>There's this awkward segregation because no one wants to cross the line of flirting, but it's dumb when we're always off to the side alone because no one will acknowledge us. Plus the elders are all like 12, soooo no worries there - haha. But it was good, and afterwards we rented bikes and rode them around the park/lake. It was so fun, and weird to me that that's how so many missionaries get around. weirdd</div>
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This week has been looooooooooooong ... oh, so long. We´ve been in this waiting game with moving houses and it's been killing me. The elders kept telling us - oh, for sure last weekend; oh, for sure Wed or Thurs; oh, for sure Fri... And then we finally got the call Saturday that we were good to get the keys. It was so hard trying to think about when in the world we would have time to pack, how we would get everything there, taking down bunkbeds, rescheduling appointments. A compelete mess. But after four loads in a tiny truck that absolutely robbed us price-wise, in the RAIN, and hauling it all upstairs, with the help of our angel district and zone leaders, we got it all up there to our beautiful, brand-new, squeaky clean, never-been-lived-in-by-dirty-elders-or-anyone-else-for-that-matter apartment. But after dealing with having to buy waaay more things than we had planned for (like parts to hook up the gas) and not having electricity at first, we finally got everything figured out.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">I really am learning the truth that satan works the hardest on us right before and after great things happen, it kind of surprised me, just another reason that it's so important to have our backup supply of spiritual experiences and faith for when things are a little overwhelming and you need that extra boost and drive!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">But all is well, life keeps moving forward (and I'm pretty sure it's getting faster tooo!) Learning lots, changing lots, and just plain growing up. Miracles happen every day, and there isn't a night that I don't fall asleep in about five seconds after my prayers. </span><br />
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Yesterday we were in a cita (lesson appt) with Haydee, and we were talking about cooking and how I neverrr liked to do it before my mission, I'm not even kidding -- microwave was always the way to go. Abbie would cook, and I would eatt. I told her my mom was basically going to die when she found out it was my new love.... sooo shhh I won't tell if you dont;)</div>
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In our last cita with Haydee, we realized that we had somehow gotten weirdly matching burns? Turns out cooking is dangerous, but how funny and sassy is this picture? Love her soooo much.</div>
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This is Susan, she is my life saver!! She got home from her mission my first transfer and ended up going out with us for a few hours before she got released. She's so awesome, and is in our ward, also super helpful that she was born in the states and speaks perfect english and I love her guts (and did I mention she has awesome hair?)</div>
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I'm sending your way this week!</div>
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First off celebrated my 6 months in the field! </div>
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It was pretty much the best! </div>
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Made the most delishh tacos I've ever had - with mango, fresh avacado</div>
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Do elders eat like this?</div>
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And finished it off with brownies and a surprise diet coke, let me tell you, food is by far the best way to my heart:)</div>
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Needless to say it was a great day and I super love the girls in my house.</div>
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Also got a surprise package of letters from the Halls for my 6 month anniversary that literally got there that exact day. Thank you for your awesome timing skills:)</div>
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Also, it turns out that, without fail, every time it's ready to downpour, I have either forgotten my umbrella or wearing white.... or both. This night it was an absolutely unreal lightning and thunder storm! I have never felt one so close in my whole life. </div>
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Of course I didn't have my umbrella, and since we were more worried about our backpacks (and the package I was hauling around in my backpack), Hna Petersen ended up taking them both ... and I danced in a tropical rainstorm the whole way home.</div>
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Needless to say we were soaked, but our backpacks and my package survived!</div>
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And now for the tour! Our p-day got switched because one of the elders in our zone got us a rad tour of the presidencial palace. It's in my area and I walk by it every single day, so needless to say I was pretty stoked to sneak a peak inside. I was talking to one of the dominican elders in my zone and asked him if he was excited to go in. He looked at me like the crazy white girl that I am, and informed me that he'd already been there when he was in High school... so no. </div>
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Haha, oh well -- I continued my disneyland-like excitement basically the whole time and it made for a fantastic p-day today.</div>
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Basically I just kept singing the 'once upon a december' song from Anastasia since they all reminded me of the ballroom dancing scene in that movie :-)</div>
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We spend a little time taking classy juice drinking pics at the end of the tour</div>
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I seriously remember being 8, and super stoked on having a little brother. You were tiny with huge eyes, a bald head, and a birthmark between your eyebrows that got super red when you cried. I rememver you crying a ton when babysitters would try to put you to bed, and I would end up rubbing your back and making up songs to sing to you until you fell asleep. You were basically hudini (sp?) trying to crawl out of your crib and even learning to unzip the crib tent we eventually put on. My favorite was pushing you around in my "double stroller" aka, two plastic play strollers taped together with you and my doll in either side. And then you got older and paid me back by taping the door handles together of me & Abbie's room until I yelled to mom to "let me out cause I gottaa peee" who cut through the entire roll of masking tape wrapped around it so I could escape!</div>
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Happy thirteen, I'm literally refusing to let you get any older!</div>
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So we bought some snacks (chips, carrots & sandwich stuff) to have a picnic before intercambios instead of ordering food, so we hopped on our gua gua with our stuff & headed home. A few minutes into the ride, Hna Taylor somehow dropped the tube of Lays potato chips, and they flew right out the door of the gua gua. She immediately yelled, "Stop!" <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(in spanish, of course)</span></i> but the driver didn't hear her, and we flew right through the intersection! </div>
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<b><i>You seriously would have thought that Hna Taylor had dropped her first born child out the door, from all the commotion that happened afterwards!!</i> </b> Anyways, he was so embarrassed as she tried to offer him oreos or anything else she had in her bag, to thank him! </div>
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I love this country -- A big chunk of my heart is making its home righttt here in Gazcue:)</div>
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Sometimes I wake up all stuck in my head thinking about life and our big purpose here. I'm grateful to be able to have some of the answers to my questions through this gospel and studying the <a href="http://mormon.org/beliefs/plan-of-salvation"><b>Plan of Salvation</b></a>. Turns out those are the questions of the soul, the things that we yearn to know, the things that make everything else make wayyy more sense.</div>
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If you can't tell this week has been one of major self-reflection for me. It is the weirdest realization to see that I'm already 1/3 of the way through my mission. I know I've still got a whole year left, but have I really accomplished everything I would have hoped to in these 6 months to really make a difference?</div>
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I'm learning that, like with everything else, this is a step-by-step process, it doesn't come over night, and sometimes it takes a good amount of effort to actually make the changes that are necessary, but I've been lucky enough to be raised in a family that taught me that the effort isn't one we make on our own. We have some pretty powerful back up from our Heavenly Father, and everything we go through in this life was designed specifically for us to learn and grow. Which basically means that sometimes it's stinken hard, but not only do we learn as we go, but we also get stronger. What a blessing right? Because anyone with eyes knows we need to be strong to make it through all this crazy going on in the world.</div>
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So there's my brain dumped out in an email, haha! <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(wow, that sounds way grosser when I re-read it)</span></i></div>
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So, the past few p-days, we've been painting at a member's work, it's like Color Me Mine, but on crack <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(am I allowed to say that on my mission blog? ...oops)</span></i>. It started out as the white, then the black and the last picture is when it's all finished! I must say I'm super proud of it! </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623493419294268.post-14590918134802450442013-07-22T20:53:00.000-07:002013-08-13T22:07:46.837-07:00link to video :-)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kenzie sent a letter this week talking about a woman she has been teaching about the gospel -- she said this woman's grown daughter is a member of the church already, and is in an "I'm a Mormon" video. She told me I should google it cuz it shows a lot of the D.R. Thought you might like to see it too! <br />
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Here's the link: <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjvzEHHKN60">Soy Mormona doctora y madre dedicada</a></b><br />
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<i>(don't forget to turn on the closed captioning if you don't speak espanol :-)</i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623493419294268.post-73289970099145132152013-07-15T22:20:00.000-07:002013-08-12T22:43:06.809-07:00A couple "Firsts" (and I survived!)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Doing well, super busy, learning how to do things better than I have before and not get stuck in ruts!</span><br />
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Set my first baptismal date, and taught the Preach My Gospel class in our ward for the first time, in spanish, with the mission president there (talk about nerve racking). But I survived and all is well. </div>
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Hermana Petersen is learning soo much so quickly and we had a really good week of lessons. Will try to do better at documenting life and stories to share with you all! </div>
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Love you all, you're in my thoughts and prayers.</div>
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Read your scriptures, pray, be good, put your Heavenly Father first, and everything will fall into place. </div>
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until next week</div>
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seems like years ago.</div>
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