Hey family! Well I
am so sorry about last week and that whole fiasco…BUT this week was so much
better and I am doing a lot better. The first part of this email will be from
last week, which I didn’t get to send because of some computer issues and not
getting my computer time. SO!
Monday- We had a pretty normal p-day. Emailed and then headed to Lancaster to hang
out with mission friends. Sometimes
being out in the middle of nowhere makes you miss civilization. haha. But
we played some soccer, which I was horrible at, and then we went gold panning. There is an older guy in the mission who buys
dirt with gold in it, and then teaches the missionaries how to pan for it. It was really neat. I got some little flakes of gold in a jar. After that we headed to the Winterton's for
dinner, and I seriously love this family.
Tuesday- We had our last meeting before the
Easter parade on Saturday and we are getting excited! It should be a super fun experience. Our ward is making a float to put in the
parade! Whoo hoo! We had a lesson with a potential new
investigator but she wasn’t home so we just left a Book of Mormon on her door
and we will try again soon. And then we
headed to dinner with the Winterton's again haha. After dinner we had a lesson with the Water's
and they told us that they want to go through with their baptismal interviews!!
They were thinking a lot about what to
do and Tommy was I guess looking for a new church, but liked ours and agreed
with what we teach. But we were so
excited to hear that and that they want to move forward!
Wednesday- I woke up not feeling good at all...so
we headed to Lancaster to take me to the doctor to get checked out cause all
the home remedies I am trying are doing nothing. So the doctor told me that I had a sinus
infection and ear infections…whoo hoo! It
is from the desert and all the sand. It
blows different bacteria than I am used to and they cause sinus infections. Hopefully I wont be prone to them the whole
time I am here in Cali. Afterwards we
went to Soup Plantation for lunch, which was delicious, so thanks to MAMO :) we
got to go there. After that we had to
take our car in and get the oil changed and get part of the bumper fixed. We sat at the car place for 3 hours, but I got
to do some language study, which was nice! By the time we got home it was 8 o'clock and I
just wanted to go to sleep.
Thursday- Not too much happened. We did our weekly planning pretty much all
afternoon until dinnertime, and then headed over to our dinner appt. with a
super fun cute family. Which MOM- or
aunt Kristi if you read this-- Sister Day's (the lady we had dinner at) aunt
and uncle served their missions in South Africa I think around the time you
did…do you know a sister named Sister Hadley- or her married name is Sister
Neilson- she married an elder from her mission???? Funny how small the Mormon world is.
Friday- We got up extra early because we had a
lesson scheduled with a Spanish lady, but when we showed up no one was
home. This is the 4th time we have
scheduled an appointment and then she has not been home, so we aren’t sure what
to do but keep trying to meet with her. We
then headed to our district meeting, and we did something way awesome. We did this activity where we had to try and
sell our favorite dessert to our companion and so I chose the frozen dessert
with crushed Oreos on the bottom and then mint chip ice cream on top with hot
fudge. H. Dodge wasn’t too thrilled, but
whatever haha, she doesn’t know what she is missing out on. And then after that we all came together and
he told us to then share the Book of Mormon with our companion and you know
what, it was so much easier then sharing our favorite dessert. It flowed a lot easier and I truly wanted to
share it. And then I had the opportunity
to share my testimony with all of them about the Book of Mormon and what it
means to me. Later that night we had
dinner with two families in our ward and that was way fun. And I have another thing for you MOM-- Ask
Krisit Stone if she knows a Sister from her mission in Barcelona named Skye
Phillips? I think they served at the
same time! After dinner we had to make a
banner for the float in the parade tomorrow and my hands were all painted and
numb and cold. haha. Not too fun, but
the banner looked awesome!!
Saturday- We got up early and headed to Boron to
help with the Parade set up and got the floats checked in, and at first I am
thinking this will be stressful with all these people trying to check their
float in and there only ended up being 10 floats haha, which I guess was more
than last year! So we gave some of the
kids and adults that sat on the float pass along cards and they handed ALL of
them out! Which is awesome. And then we headed to a baptism for an 8 year
old in our ward after the parade. Later
that night we had Tommy and Becca's interview. We were anxious during it, but Tommy and Becca
came out happy and easygoing so that was a relief for us! We are waiting on our mission President to
tell us when they can have their next interviews.
Sunday- EASTER!! :) It was such an awesome day. Church was wonderful and we sang like the
powerhouse hymns during sacrament, and you could feel the spirit so strongly in
that chapel. And HEVEN came to church! We were so excited because this is what we have
been struggling with for her. But she
came and she said she liked it. So
crossing my fingers that she comes more now! We had dinner with the Martz family and they
had some friends over and got to talk with them and we shared the "Because
of Him" video and talked about our Savior and it being Easter and how it
was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate his resurrection. They all loved it, even the non-member friends
who were there.
NOW THIS PAST WEEK
Monday- Ohh boy…it was a rough day. We had planned to go to the mall, so we got up
early and headed to Lancaster to email there so we had more time, and as we
begin our email, the other Hermana's walk in and it was their email time, so we
had to give up our computers, and I was already on edge, so that didn’t help at
all. So we got ready and then one
computer was open. It was the SUPER slow
computer but I was determined to use it haha. So I get on and write out the entire email for
last week, and I go to push send and the internet connection went out and didn’t
save my email…ughh, so then we got the answer no from president that we couldn’t
go to the mall and our missionary friends left to go do something so we didn’t
have anything to do, so yeah. And then
our dinner appointment cancelled on us, and our lesson with Heven fell through.
So the day was going down the drain and
we didn’t know what to do.
Tuesday- We had our day full of contacting
people and trying to find new investigators and so we stopped by a couple
members houses to tell us more about the people we were going to talk to and
they helped us out a lot. And we stopped
by Donna Forts house but she wasn’t home, so we just gave the kids the Easter
gift we had for them and said hi and then we had to go. Then we headed to the Irish's for dinner and
they invited their non-member friends who we have been trying to get in contact
and learn more about so it was awesome! And
we also showed them the "Because of Him" video, and they really
enjoyed it and they said they want to get more involved in church activities
and they were really nice to us and told us that if we need anything that they
can help us out. So we will definitely
be talking to them more. Our appointment
with the Waters’ was cancelled which was a bummer…but it’s alright.
Wednesday- We had our normal studies and I was
informed by our district leader that I was to give a talk in district meeting
on something that I learned from PMG. So
I worked on that and read some really wonderful scriptures on how listening to
the spirit is so vital in missionary work. After that we headed out to our lesson with
Heven, but when we showed up she wasn’t home, so we decided to go talk to a
lady from the Easter parade committee who knows a couple things about the
gospel. And then we headed to Cristina
Romero house to teach her English. She
always feeds us when we go over there, and she said 5 something to H.
Dodge. We didn’t know what she meant,
but she comes around the corner and gives each of us 5 enchiladas...haha. I just looked at H. Dodge and was like "I
CANT FIT ALL THIS FOOD IN ME!" and so I tried haha. They were really good but seriously my stomach
was about to explode. So then we started
helping her pronunciation of words and one of the words was urinate…DONT ASK ME
WHY THIS IS ON HERE...haha, but we tell her the word and her and her daughter
start yelling at each other how to pronounce the word urinate and H. Dodge and
I just busted out laughing!!! We didn’t
try and hide it hahahahah. It was so
funny and they didn’t even realize how hard we were laughing. Good times, good times. After that we had our dinner appointment. I seriously was about to burst, but I fit
more food in me. Heavenly Father blesses
our stomachs so they can stretch, that’s for sure. And then we came home early to clean our house
for inspections the next morning.
Thursday- Had our house inspections and
seriously I have never seen our house this clean. We did a pretty good job! :), which we passed
with flying colors haha. And then we did
our studies and I worked on my talk for district meeting, which now was a
different topic, but that’s okay! I am
flexible. So I started reading in How to
Begin Teaching, which is a wonderful tool for missionaries to get to know
someone and to make that good first impression when we start teaching a new
investigator. I finished my talk just in
time for our weekly planning. It’s crazy
how fast Thursday's come for planning - we planned until our dinner appt.
Friday- The wind was blowing so hard today it
sounds like our house is howling / going to blow over! haha. We had our coordination meeting with our ward
mission leader. We are so blessed to
have such a wonderful ward mission leader who wants to help us and is tying to
forward our missionary work along too. Before
our district meeting we filled our car with gas and as I was getting back in
the car, this HUGE gust of wind came and my skirt blew up just like Marilyn Monroe
and I flashed luckily only my companion haha.
It was pretty funny! And then we
headed to our district meeting, which was good. My talk turned out well I think! We came home and did some studies and then
headed to dinner and then came back and finished some weekly planning.
Saturday- We had to get up really early and head
to Lancaster for the Community Day of Service or (Mormon Helping Hands), and we
helped paint the park and the buildings. It was really cold and windy! But it was fun! And I got to see all the missionaries from my
district in the MTC! I ended up getting
paint all over my new pants from Walmart…yeah Walmart I know…haha. We were there all morning and then came home
and showered and then did some planning and then headed to our lesson with the
Water's. We shared one of our favorite
scriptures with them from the Book of Mormon, and then bore our testimonies
about it and showed them the index and the footnotes and all that cool stuff,
and they were in awe about it! They
thought it was so neat! So hopefully
that will help them get more into the Book of Mormon.
Sunday- We had church and that was wonderful. We read a talk in Relief Society - Pres.
Thomas S Monson “You Never Walk Alone” from the Oct 2013 General Conference. And sacrament meeting was good. We had three youth investigators come to
church! Heven didn’t come, and Becca had
to go home because she wasn’t feeling good. But after sacrament we were standing in the
hall way and the Bishop comes up to us and asks us if we are ready for the
fireside tonight. We told him we weren’t
planning on coming but if he wanted us to we could and he was like, "I
thought you guys were in charge of that" and we were like, "...uhh
no. No one told us haha, but we can be I
guess!" And we were like "yeah can you guys do it!" So we are
now in charge of the fireside! So we
headed home and began our personal study and then comp study and tried to
figure out what we wanted to do. We then
ran to dinner with the Irish's and then headed to the church for the fireside. We had some non-members there and taught the
Restoration and then opened it up to Q&A for them to ask questions. It was kind of stressful, but it went well and
we got to talk to the youth non-members who came. And we got three new investigators out of it! So good day for us!
Monday- TODAY! We have a fun day planned. We are going to the air force base and getting
a VIP tour of the NASA base!! We have a
couple people in our ward who work there so we got that set up through them :)
I am so excited! It should be sweet. We are going with 4 other Elders from our
district/zone. I will be sending you
more pictures later of that!
Well family, these past two weeks were rough and
hard, but I am doing well and I am learning a lot and really trying to become
the missionary the Lord needs me to be. I
am finding out that I am stretching myself, and that I am really starting to
step out of my comfort zone even though that is not fun for me, it is growing
me and I know there will be a time when I don’t feel uncomfortable anymore and
I can be myself and be the best missionary I can be. I love it out here and I cant see myself doing
anything else at this time.
I love you all and I am so blessed to have you
in my life and supporting me on this call.
pray for this week- Tommy and Becca, Donna,
Heven, Christain, Britney, and Mikayla,
I will talk to you guys next week!! :) Have an
awesome week!
Love, Hermana Aase
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