Monterey!

Fwd: and more pictures

Monterey!

Hello all. Im back. Yes If you all havent figured it out yet I spent yesterday on the beach in monterey. But we will come back to that in a moment. 

-Pday last week was a blast. we played slaughterball. Its like dogdeball but its every man for himself. Quite fun actually. oh and guess who won twice? Me. I know I rock. ;) Also it was hilarious because it was seriously intense and then you had Sister Ellis who just ran around screaming. Love that girl. then there was my companion who had a talent of getting hit in the face. poor girl. 

-then it was my bday! yep so my comp decided to tell everyone and their dog that it was my bday so it wasnt really a day focused on others. oh well. It was really good! I made cinnimon rolls in our toaster oven and then we opened some presents and then we went to Brandon and Nichelles house to help them paint their garage. They had made me a cake that said "happy birthday Annlie!" Yep it said Annlie. and they gave me a cute quote frame thing.. They are the best! 

-Then at dinner the lady in our ward made me close to my favorite dinner. there was mashed potatoes so thats all that really matters. :) She also made me my favorite cake! It was great. This ward is amazing! and the relief society president gave me flowers! Now I have gotten flowers from my parents and the relief society pres. Exciting life huh? hahaha

-But the best part of the day was that fact that everyone we tried was home. Which didnt happen most of the week. and we finished off the night with the bonds who are this adorable old couple!- Thanks everyone for the bday wishes and packages!

-Wednesday it poor rain.

-We saw miss ruby! Yeah she is still progressing slowly. but she didnt say no to coming to church at christmas!

-Ah now to sunday night, we headed down to San Jose -Me and my comp as well as two of the pleasanton sisters. The other sisters in our zone were invited but they didnt want to go. So anywho we went to San jose and on the way there we were stopped on an overpass. By a car on fire. Who needs to go see Catching fire? Or the girl on fire? We just see cars on fire. the best is when sister swapp goes-this always happens to me! I always find cars on fire! - awesome.

So after that fun event we made it to the sisters house in san jose where we went to bed and then after studies the next day when went to monterey! It was great president let us drive a ford explore from utah and he gave us cash for food. Monterey is so pretty! I am so moving there. Sorry everyone Im not coming back to utah. So We played on the warf for a while and ate crepes and shopped and took lots of pictures of seals and then we went to the beach! Yep i put my feet in the water. We can go up to our ankles. At least thats what the other sisters told me. hahaha It was the best day! And then as we were leaving we saw president across the street. Apparently he had brought his family down as well. 

So overall this was a great week! No worries we did do missionary work. The non missionary work is just more fun to talk about :) 

love you all and happy thanksgiving! 

Annlie

Hello to you all!

This week was  a good week. and a busy one! So If I forget things sorry. that happens when its really busy!

-We had dinner with the Viazzo's. they are hilarious. the dad is a huge fan of disney so we always get a major update on anything disney when we go. and they have a daughter serving in the rome italy mission and so when we went to share a message he was like nope we have a message from our daughter. hahaha so they told us about a message their daughter shared with them. It was really good. it was about praying for family and friends who are either less active or not members and that if we pray for them daily for 21 days then the lord will prepare some of them! (that was the shortened version by the way)

-Wednesday we got to watch the testaments with Brandon and Nichelle and their family. yep it was in english. it was great. haha

-We saw all of our elderly ward members this week. if you have widows or elderly couples in your ward go see them. they are all so sweet! 

-It was sister Ellis' bday on thursday! we made french toast and she opened her presents and then that night we had cake. It was great! and now all the sisters Iive with are 20! well that is until tomorrow. haha Sorry I ruined that plan. 

-Zone conference! It was sooo good! I loved it. my president is by far the best president out there. sorry everyone else! I dont know we have had multiple people say we come to a mission not only for the people but because of who our president is and I am a big believer in that. I love him and his wife!

-I tried african food this week. it was pretty good. no idea what it was. but i think that might be better... no there was spinach and chicken. I think. 

-Today we helped our landlord cover some things in a creepy shed with plastic so the rain doesnt get on them. I am going to go a head and ignore how many spider webs I may have touched. yuck. 

-Over all it was a wonderful week and I am so excited for this coming week! 

Love you all!

Annlie

p.s. Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! 

Fwd: Its beginning to look a lot like..

September. Christmas music is a lot more fun in november when it actually looks like christmas. Oh well! 

5 Months and a Baptism!

Well here we are again everyone! And today marks my 5 months out on a mission! Can you believe that?

me neither. 

So it was a good week! 

-We had dinner with Brandon and Nichelle and we did an object lesson and their son Nathaniel loved it! he is like 9 and he went and told another mom in our ward all about it and how it helps us get to christ. Yes he rocks. haha

-We were able to go up to the visitors center at the oakland temple! the youth were going to do baptisms and sis goodman and I kindly volunteered to stay with the 2 non member girls at the visitors center (we really wanted to go and we can only go with investigators so we were really excited!) 

-It was great both alyssa and selma were crying and they just loved it!

-We saw miss ruby! she still hasnt read or prayed but she told us that she told her manager that "she had her girls coming over today do to bible study and she just loves how she feels when we come over" awesome thats the spirit now read the book of mormon! oh well maybe she will by our appointment next month. slow and steady wins the race!

-We got to see sister miller! she is an inactive in our ward that is an elderly lady. its great we read a scripture and she smiles at us and says thats so nice! thank you and then changes the subject. I was with sis ellis that day and I told her thats what she would do and after the appointment sis ellis was dying laughing because thats exactly how it went down.

-BRANDONS BAPTISM!

-it was great, he was so excited and he got a suit for it and his family was excited and so many people came that we had to move everyone into the chapel for the service! it was amazing! 

-We have a new investigator Vera. We had the elders give her a blessing and after she gave them hugs. they aren't supposed to hug women. It was hilarious. 

-Oh Sister Ellis and I build a fort. that was fun. mostly because we wanted to put the heater under it and stay warm. haha

Welll it was an amazing week with many miracles, I hope you all had a good week and I know this church is true!

love you!

Annlie

Fwd: Pictures!

Pictures from the wedding and halloween. Yep chase decided to sneeze right as we took that picture. also the outfit that I am wearing in the wedding pics is from safeway. be jealous. I  love you all!

Wedding Week!

HELLO! 

So it was a crazy week! Sorry if this isn't that long though. Also for those of you who get the recordings there will be a second recording in a different email. :)

so here was my week!

-Last pday we went to a BBQ in the park. it was a lot of fun, we played games and played tag on the playground.

-On tuesday we helped Nichelle - she is our investigator brandons fiance-now wife- anywho we helped her with the wedding decorations. I should be a wedding planner. haha No just kidding. But we helped her decorate the arch with tull and lights and then we put little candy boxes together. It was great fun! Her littlest kids were home and Natalia was so stinking cute! and then Chase woke up from him nap and came over and sat on my lap and It was so sad because I had to pick him up and put him on the floor next to me. I hate not being able to hold kids! But it was great because we showed Nichelle a talk from conference last year and she just loved it and wanted to hear more! she has been less active for a while. So exciting!

-WE had dinner with the young women pres and her dad was there from Canada. he had an accent. it was hilarious. WE also had dinner with a 20 year old girl in our ward and her nonmember step mom. they made nestle tollhouse cookies. it was great. :)\

-Halloween was fun, we all wore orange and then we drew pictures of pumpkins and scary houses and sis ellis who is from hawaii drew a pumpkin surfing and other pumpkins tanning on the beach. My kind of girl! hahaha

-We also managed to get a lot of candy without trick or treating. hmmm how did that work? hahaha

-We had dinner with a family on friday that has 3 little boys and while we were grabbing our scriptures I heard one ask about a movie and his dad said "we arent talking about the movie we are listneing to the missionaries." so then I walk into the family room and see "the croods" sitting on the table and I am like " oh the croods!" "oh wait we are talking about missionary work!" hahaha my bad. the dad was like "thanks sister! hahaha oh well.

-Saturday we had breakfast with the stake president. that was fun.

-THEN IT WAS TIME FOR THE WEDDING! so it was brandon and nichelles wedding and we got to get all dressed up pretty and help with the set up and send the kids down the isle. then durning the reception we helped with the food and clean up. it was so wonderful. Nichelle was beautiful and Brandon was so thankful and it just worked out so well. The ward members were so kind and helpful and helped them get this wedding done quick and yet it was done so well! Now we are excited for saturday because brandon is getting baptized!

-Then on sunday selma bore her testimony about how grateful she is for this gostpel. Oh I gjust love her!

Well everyone I will talk to you next week! love you All and this churhc is true!

Annlie