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September 8, 2014

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

September 1, 2014

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

August 25, 2014

Fwd: a couple pictures!





I have no idea why my skirt is all skiwophmas is that pictures. also i dont think that skiwophmas is a word but i dont care. :)

Yes I survived...

Yes everyone that heard about the earthquake in Napa i did survive. haha Though it did wake me up and i have come to the conclusion that if i am ever in a real earthquake i will die because as it was shaking i looked at my watch and thought "sweet 2.5 more hours of sleep!" and fell back asleep. yep will die. oh well.

So this is the part where i would love to tell you all that this email is going to rock but its probably not going to. sorry. haha

monday- Pday! we signed journals and did nothing.
tuesday- it was a good day, we met with our investigator kim who informed us of her baptismal date on sep 20th. I love when they plan their own dates and then just tell us. haha We also got to know brenda more, she is a member and amazing! though the ysa ward might have stolen her from up. :(
Wednesday-Luella! we helped clean luellas house. she is the cutest old lady ever with the worst memory. haha
thursday- We saw a lot of people. it was a busy day!
Friday- WAS THE BOMB!! Sister smith was my companion again :) her new comp was at advanced orientation in the mission office so she came with me to do service while sis powell went with another sister to do some service and teach lessons. Multitasking to its finest! plus that meant i got to catch up with smith! and all the monterey people i texted using her phone. haha :) It was a great 4 hours.
Saturday- we did a lot of service. and helped a lady move. i hate moving. haha no it was fun!
Sunday- was busy with church and other things! we contacted a man and in spanish he tried to save us. my comp knew what he was saying but i had no idea. haha but when he got down on his knees and started praying for us i figured he was trying to save us. haha got to love it!
Well this week was much more productive so that was nice! I love you all and have a great week!
Annlie

August 18, 2014

Fwd: Guess what?



More pictures. :)
 I totally forgot to get a pic with May and seth! They were there too! So many people that I have come to love. too bad i had to say goodbye to them all again. :/

Fwd: Guess what?




Pictures. :)