Fwd: Our district!

So Sis powell has this "act normal" thing she does in pictures. so she told us to all act normal. that would be the picture of me sleeping :) 

Im Alive! Barely.

Can I just tell you all how tired i am? Let me  put it this way. as we were sitting there on the couch finishing companionship study i thought to myself. i am so tired i would literally sleep all day and skip emailing and everything if i could. thats how tired. fortunately for all of you i am still emailing :) 

So this week was.... drum roll.... AMAZING!!!

Me and sister Powell got 72 lessons. 72. thats a miracle. we beat the last record set. or so we thought until after we reported numbers last night and found out that the menlo park elders got 77 the week before. alas looks like i am going to have to beat them too! in like a month when i am awake again. haha so getting 72 lessons was a blast. I was able to see my perspective on missionary work change. The numbers turned into people and stories. it was a lot of fun to see the love that heavenly father has for each of his children no matter their background. I was also able to see that if you are willing to sacrifice an have faith God will help you.  To get 72 lesson without going on splits we were going to have to work hard. really hard. and not take lunches. now i really like lunch. its a great time to eat and sleep. but my sleeping part was going to have to stop if we were to reach our goal. (dont worry we still ate haha) but man as we got going we trusted heavenly father that he would help us get to our goal and he did! Sure by the end i wanted to die but its cool. haha It was also my comps last week on her mission so it was good to keep her focused. and also i made her tell everyone that she was leaving because she has been in denile for a while. shes a great missionary! Anywho so this week was a blast! It was also the outgoing fireside last night so i got to see some of my favorite people! Now on to pictures!

love you all! this church is true!

Sister Stevenson/Annlie :)

Fwd: a couple more pics

not sure if these will work but we will see!

Fwd: Pictures!

Baptism, Island fair, pday snow ball fight... other random pics...

Hi Yall!

Well here we are another week! nothing to great happened this week. Oh wait thats a lie. haha Our investigator Kim got baptized! Man the weeks are starting to blur together... haha

So lets go through the week!

Monday- boring

Tuesday- Boring

Wednesday- I got asked out on a play date by a 4 year old. the good news is if im not married in 18 years he might be an option. and like his father said I will still look like im 12. hahaha I love little kids!

Thurdsay- Boring

Friday- Boring

Saturday! Okay so it was kims baptism! it was great! the spirit was so strong and she was so excited. when we got in the font she was smilling and so nervous and when she came back up out of that water you could see the difference in her. and she could feel the difference. I love baptisms. then that evening the stake had an Island Street fair. Which meant i was excited!!!!! YAY! So there was a lot of people to talk to and lots to eat and enteretainment. It had a really good turn out too! Well sorry this is a boring email, but ill send pcitures too!

love you all!

Annlie

Here we are again..

Who is ready for a very uneventful email!?!? I am! haha Sorry this week was rather boring. haha

So on to the week!

 

Monday- pday- we were supposed to go bowling, but then they switched it half was through to field day. too bad i was in skinny jeans in flats. so i just sat and absorbed the sun. and wrote a letter. it was actually pretty nice.

Tuesday- Oh! we had interviews with President Mella. It was good. He was funny, he was like, now you are coming up to the end of your mission so make sure you keep working hard. dont let obedience slip, stay focused, things at home can wait. And then he was like, but for your outoging interview it will be a lot of fun because we get to talk about one of my favorite things which is life after the mission. Wow president. way to get me pumped up to work hard to then make me trunky. haha He is funny.

Wednesday-Oh we have a stocker. She might be scizoprhenic. she calls herself 2 dfferent names depending on who she is talking to. the good news is she only has our phone number. plus the elders are meeting with her tomorrow so we shall see how this goes. maybe she is normal! haha

Thursday0 We soaw kim, she is awesome. She is getting baptized on saturday! we are so excited.

Friday- yep. haha so we had an appointment with an investigator and she texted us early and told us she might have to work, but she would let us know. then she never texted. so we texted her and no response. so we headed out and there she was walking by our apartments. not at work. and not at our appointment. so we followed her in our car. we are not stockers or creepy at all!! haha but she is quite good at loosing a tail becaue she dissappeared on us. hmmm well guess we will find out more about her! haha

Saturday- it was a good day. we did a service that was a good workout so that was fun. haha

Sunday- it was long. haha

So that was my week! it was actually a really good week, just kind of wierd! But thats the life of a missionary! hope you all have a great week!

Love ya,

Annlie

Fwd: Pictures!

Carson- I think i found your cement truck.

I put those bikes on all by myself. yes thats why they look retarted. #whyidontbike

the cook house! 

Me and Hannah!

Why didnt i take pictures when toryn and hardy came to see me? I have no idea. such an idiot. haha just kidding!

The week of contacting

Hi everyone! It was a grand old week and so now i shall tell you all about it. :)

Monday!- PDAY!!! Mary Hannah and Taylor from monterey came up and saw me! Well they came back from Utah and before going to monterey they came and saw me! It was soooo good to see them! I miss them. Except they got to go to the ogden temple open house so that wasnt fair. haha No im glad they went. So anywho after catching up with them we chilled at home and then went to dinner and to an appointment. The lady we taught is hilarious. She is less active but an RM and is so funny. she hates church. its hilarious. 

Tuesday-"I looked out the window and what did I see?" Toryn, elder hardy and elder hardy's brother.(elder hardy is now home and came back to visit people)  haha More monterey people! Yay!!! I am sure my companion wants to kill me by now. Sorry i cant help it if I am popular! haha just kidding,maybe. :)

So the rest of tuesday was good. it was actually a busy day. not a usual for tuesdays. and we met this awesome guy on the street named manuel. He wants to change his life, and he said he would read the book of mormon and we are going to go see him this week!

Wednesday-We helped an old lady named Elanor out.  she is having an estate sell and she used to be an antiques dealer so you can imagine what her house looks like. awesome. 

Thursday-a very busy day. we met a new family named mike and darlene! they are awesome! except for the part where they didnt come to church yesterday. lame. oh well. 

friday- more service. oh and we went contacting and usually sis powell will contact in spanish to the latinos but i contacted some and realized they didnt speak english and instead of helping me she just smiled. Awkward. haha i dont know spanish. haha also no one was talking to us so we saw a cat and decided to pet it but it ran away from us toward another cat so then we watched it hoping they would fight and then one of the cats started moving in slo-mo toward the other and then the big fluffy orange one ran away. boring. but if we hadnt stopped to watch the cats we wouldnt have ran in to john who walked around the corner just as we were leaving! and we had a great talk about christ and then he had to hurry off to go complete a drug drop. never a dull moment while contacting. haha

saturday-we met with our investigator dianne finally! she is from Rwanda! she is awesome.

Sunday. The contacting day. church was great. then it was time to go contacting. Sis powell is somewhat competative. so am i. So the elders really wanted to beat us in lessons. But i cant have that. and then we found out that the hermanas were beating us. we cant have that. so we went contacting. and kept teaching. it was great! so many great lessons! there was an awesome couple, and a fun pastor guy and another guy that told us that christ was a vegan... yeah. haha but then the best was when i guy walked up and had a gryffindor tshirt on so i started a converstaion about that and next thing you know we were all talking about harry potter and how i was in slytherin and how powell was in gryffindor but we were hanging out and then the guy was like. you two just made my day. and then we walked away. totally didnt relate it to the gospel at all. oh well. haha then we saw the hermanas and helped them get more contacts and in the end we tied for lessons but still beat the elders. but then i found out that there is a record of like 70 lessons taught in one week here in the mission. challenge accepted. 

have a great week! this church is true!

Annlie

Fwd: When did it become September?

Well hello everyone. here we are on another september day. WHEN ON EARTH DID IT BECOME SEPTEMBER???

crazy how time flies. speaking of time, this shall be another short email. sorry yall. :)

Monday- pday. i spent my lovely time sitting on the stage at the church writing letters. who i wrote letters to at the moment i cant remember. But if i wrote you a letter you should write me back! :)

then monday night was really weird. very weird. yep.

So tuesday- no one was home.  no one. but for dinner we went to a cute old couples house and guess what? it turns out they are the grandparents of the relief society president in the monterey ysa ward! I love their granddaughter carrie!!

wednesday- our car broke down. not really, it just started making weird noises so we took it to the mission office and took another car while i was looked at. turns out nothing was wrong. strange.

ugh im out of time.

so cool story we have this indian lady we teach and she doesnt understand a lot of english and we were trying to figure out how to teach about the apostacy and so i asked if she had been reading the book of mormon and she said no we read some with her and then i asked her to read on her own and so right there she flipped to a chapter and started reading. after she was done she told us what it was about. Guess what it was about?? the apostacy!!! God is awesome.

Have a great week!!

Love you all!

Annlie