Farewell from Sunny San Jose

Except its totally not sunny its raining. haha oh well!!

So everyone here is my final email. Well I actually forgot to bring my camera. stupid me. so you may or may not get an email next week with pictures. we will see. :)

So I will go over the week quickly

Monday-PDAY! we had an ugly sweater contest. i won. 

then we got to have dinner with two of my favorite mbrs here sister wallace and sister post. they are hilarious!!! also we got to go see christmas lights with a familly in the ward! they are the best!

Tuesday-We saw diana! we were hoping she could get baptized this last saturday but her husband doesnt think she is ready so we are waiting. guess ill have to come back out for that baptism! road trip anyone? but we told her that we were leaving and well that was a bad life choice. haha she was so upset it was sad! its really going to be hard to leave all the people i love out here.

then that night we got to go up to palo alto and help at the creche exhibit. they had nativities from all around the world! there was even one from Oaxaca (carson!) It was a really fun thing to do!

Wednesday- a busy day! we saw a few people and had interviews and life was crazy. 

thursday- we saw lots of people! okay only like 4. haha but we were at one of my favorite services in the morning. it was also pouring rain. like crazy.  and i had to drive. not my favorite. haha but we got to see penny, one of my favorite less actives. she is actually going to miss us. haha we also saw janet and the kids! man i am going to miss those little kids. 

Friday- we had a missionary meeting and then saw diana and then went to the ward christmas party! we got to be santas helpers. kids i have the in with santa. so you all better be good! 

Saturday. longest day of my life. but it was awesome!!! so we started by cleaning hte church then we had diana come for a baptism that the elders were having then we went and saw our investigators the ramos, going to miss them too! then off to see another investigator pepetua and thne to see our ivnestigator rose. she is in the hospital. it doesnt look good. she has a growth in her stomach that is the size of a watermellon. and she isnt in the best of health. i hope she is okay. but she was happy to see us! we also went to our other ward party and then to dinner! crazy day. 

Sunday- church. all. day. long. then we had the outgoing fireside. so usually its my favorite thing. i get to see people i love its awesome. well this time i had to speak. so that was unfortunate. hahaha But i survived! and i got to see some people i love from monterey and these wards right now. dublin couldnt make it down because their stake had something going so that was sad. but oh well!!! 

Well that was my final week. it was a good week. I am really glad that i have been able to spend the last 18 months out here in california serving the lord. i wish i could stay(though i am excited to sleep). But thank you all for your support. I know that this church is the true church restored upon the earth today. Our heavenly father loves us and i know that christ died for us. i wish you all a merry christmas and thanks for everything you all have done for me. 

SEE  YOU ALL SOON!

Love, Sister Stevenson

ps. 

So if you are lucky i might actually update my blog when i get home so if you want to continue following the adventures of me check out annliestevenson.blogspot.com. 

Fwd: Pictures!

Fwd: Steve Young

Me and steve young. he is the one in the blue on the ground, then there is the guy in white. then me! 

One Foot in the Grave and the Other on a Banana Peel

Well folks. here we are. My final full week of being a missionary has come. and the good news is that I am okay to go home? why you ask? well you see I had this thing called a mission bucket list. it was to serve in dublin. Check. to serve in monterey. Check. to go to pebble beach golf course. check. and to serve in palo alto so i could meet steve young. check. 

(this is the part where you all go what??? you didnt serve in palo alto!!)

Well Youre right. I am still in san jose. But I got to meet steve young!!!!!! Thats right. i even shook his hand. his hands are huge. but we will come back to that story in a minute.

Monday-pday! we played cracker tag. for those of you who dont know what that is, we tie saltine crackers to our hips and then roll up newspaper into bats and try to hit everyones cracker as well all run around. stupidest game ever? yes. but so awesome. hahaha

Tuesday- I was on exchanges with sis sakamoto! she is from Japan! I took her to her first american mcdonalds. I felt special. hahaha

Wednesday- We saw kristina and lisa and anastasia. Lisa made us hot coco. best day ever. especially since it was raining.

thrusdya- we did brianna's baptismal interview!!! she was so nervous it was adorable.

Friday-I met steve young. so we were at a mtg and president mella was like so we will ahve a guest speaker at 1030 so that should be fun. and sis berry leans over and says its steve young and we both laugh because that never happens. so then we went to have a break before our guest speaker and i looked to the other door and guess what? it was steve young! hahaha so funny! I guess him and president mella know each other pretty well so he had him come speak to us and he even let us take a picture which is pretty rare.So firday was great. haha

Saturday- alright so brother young was pretty cool but he will never compare to saturday. it was brianna's baptism! she is the 9 year old that we have been teaching and she was so excited. nervous but excited. and her whole family was there to support her. it was just an amazing time to see her baptized and to reflect on how amazing the past 18 months have been. there is no feeling better than seeing someone you love accept the gospel and decided to make promises with heavenly father. I am so grateful for the chance that i ahve had to serve  a mission. But no worries i still have a week left so more stories next week!!

love you all!!

Sister Stevenson

God is not dead, nor does he sleep

But I sleep. And boy did I sleep a lot this past week! But we will get to that in a moment. So first I hope you all had a great thanksgiving! Mine was interesting. also the room we are eamiling in is freezing so i cant feel my fingers so If you wonder why the typing is horrible that is why. plus i am in  a hurry like always. :)

 

so monday!- we went mini golfing!  a mbr owns the golf land out here so we get to go for free. its great.

Teusday- it was a good day. but the start to the rest of hte week. i started sneezing. i thought it was just allergies. but alas no. so we saw a bunch of people which was great! we got to see the ramos family and they are awesome as always! then I went on exchanges with Sister Sotele! We both were in the same mtc district together so it was fun to be iwht her all of wednesday!

So wednesday- we saw their cute recent converrts, we helped them pack because they are mvoing, and they ahve this cat that they call the mormon cat becasue apparently it only comes out if there are mormons in the house. haha we also got to see some other people from their ward and we met this lady that still has a type writer and uses it. so legit! then at the end of the night we swtiched back but my sneezing was getting worse.

Thursday- turkey day! so president mella said no turkey bowls but that we could play others sports with our zones. so we did in the morning and then sister berry was sick so i went to one thankgviign dinner and then i came home sick and called it quits for the day. sis berry had food poisening and i had  a cold. so thanksgiving was a very chill day!

Friday- i didnt get up. my comp left me home most the day. so i slept! but then i got a migrane and took a excedring migrane and then didnt sleep al night. so then i slept some more saturday and tfinally went out and worked a bit in the eveing. then sunday was my first full day back. i was so tired by the end of the night.

So i have decided that i cannot be sick anymore because I only have 2 weeks left and i am working all of it!!!

 

WEll I hope you all had a better week than  me!

Talk to you all next week!

Annlie