Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Heather's 5th week in Vegas!!!

Happy Late Easter!! I am glad you both had a wonderful Easter. Those pictures were so great to receive. They made me light up so much. Well so much has happened. We are really busy and I barely get time to write it all down in my journal. I have set a new bed time for myself 10 oclock which is a lot better because I need it. There are days that I dont know how I get through them but I do, I know its is all because of the Lord. He blesses us when we are obedient to his commandments. Easter for us was great. I did get the package, thank you so much!! I also got the package from Kim tell her I said thank you! I will try to send a card to them soon. But my companions loved it as well. That lotion she sent smells so good! So its great I really need lotion out here. We went to the Whites house for Easter dinner, and they had an Easter egg hunt for us in their backyard so we did that as well. It was awesome I think the last time we did an Easter egg hunt for Jeff and I was when I was about 12, I think. But we took pictures so I will try to send them next week through email.
 
I got a hair cut today, its short now so its good. It feels so much lighter now, its about to my shoulders now. But I got it done for free, the lady was a member who owned the place we went to, it was amazing how the Lord played a hand in it. I called this other lady this morning and I set up an appt. with her for next Monday which I really didnt want to wait that long, but I just set it up just because. Then we went to this place Sister Cockrell went to and I prayed right before I left and I said you know what I will pray about it because I know the Lord will answer my prayers. So I went into this place and I asked the ladies that were there how much it was for a hair cut and they were telling me and then this other lady walked in and they told me to ask her. So I started talking to her and she saw our tags and said oh well I do hair cuts for free for missionaries so I asked her if she had an opening today, which she did so I got my hair done at 2. It was so amazing to see how things worked out because when she was doing my hair she said that it was amazing how she walked in at the right time and also she had someone cancel on her so she was able to fit me in. Cool, huh?!?! So I shouldnt get to hot now in the summer here. Transfers are this Saturday, I really dont want to leave but I kind of feel like I might. But there are a couple of members here that are making it hard on me. There is this one kid in the singles ward that likes me and he will randomly text our phone and say stuff to me. I told President Black about him and having to go to his house this friday, we are trying to reactivate his sister so its extremely uncomfortable for me to go over there. We may arrange for splits when that time comes, but I cant believe how hard it is when members do things like this. I feel really bad for the Elders because they go through a lot of it, but the Elders feel like brothers to me so I feel safe when they are around. I am gaining a deeper appreciation for them.
 
Thank you for sending those piano books out I am getting better at playing Redeemer so its been really helpful for me. I am so thankful to be able to play the piano out here, it is a sense of relief for me now, so piano has taken over my stress releaser instead of riding dirt bikes seeing the fact that I cant ride on my mission. But its been a blessing God works in glorious ways. I am really glad you got to go to the temple. I am excited to go this next month wherever I will be. It will be amazing and I am just so happy that I will be able to go. I dont remember the last time it was that I had to wait this long to go to the temple, but it will be so wonderful.
Last week we didnt get our 20 lesson goal but I am praying and hoping this week we will. we had so many people cancel on us it was insane, we never had that many people cancel. But I have been learning that the more we have faith in Christ the more Heavenly Father will bless us. I know that all these things are happening because he wants us to have more faith in him that he will provide a way for us to reach our goal, for us to trust him more and rely more on him. It is a beautiful thing to learn. We had interviews with President Black this past Thursday it was great, I love seeing them both. Sister Black gave us this hand out that talked about missions I will have to type it out next week for you both. Thank you for keeping up with the blog I really appreciate it and I know every one else appreciates it as well.
 
So I think I got the best Easter gift ever. I got to see Stacie at Church yesterday. It was SO great, it made my day. Even though I had a rough night being able to see her made my Easter amazing. I will always remember this Easter for it, and it was like seeing family so I had you all in my heart yesterday, and it was added upon when I saw Stacie. I felt the Saviors love so deeply and profoundly yesterday. And I learned so much about the Atonement. I love the scripture "He is not here: for He is Risen!" I think Matthew, the very last chapter like verse 14 or something. But I was able to talk to Stacie for a little bit after sacrament it was great, I couldnt contain my happiness. But I am so happy for her, shes graduated and will finally be able to go out and do her thing. Her sister said I told you I would bring her, I really didnt think I was going to be able to see her before I left, if I do leave. But I am glad I did, I seriously wanted to give her sister the biggest hug ever as well. So amazing, great great day!!
 
It is great to hear about Ayden I love that little guy. Thats so funny about him eating a smurf,(he was coloring eggs with small paint rollers and stuck the blue one in his mouth, so it looked like he ate a smurf) he is a crazy Clevenger. I wanted to color eggs but didnt get to, but I will have to see those videos. Thank you for all the things you sent in the package.
 
That is really interesting that you mentioned addictions in your email because I have been encountering those things quite a bit lately. Its hard to see others struggle but it makes the Atonement that more real for me and everyone else. I know that Heavenly Father is watching over us. He loves us even when we are doing things wrong, he may not bless us exceedingly but he still watches over us and protects us. I have been working on that song Redeemer and I really want to play it for them, so hopefully I will be able to play it for them. I played it Saturday night at the Lorenzi building, love that building the organ pipes are amazing! But it was great and Sister Sprouse said she cried, I felt the Spirit take over as I played. It was a tender blessing and sweet moment. 
 
I got a lot of emails this week so thank you so much. Tell everyone else I said thank you as well I really appreciate them. I have been trying to write them back so I have been successful. I havent been able to read all of moms email it is super long and it took more time to write to everyone else first. But I am putting the email on the geek stick and I am going to try to print it off, it cost to print it off here at the library so I dont want to do that. But I also saved those pictures of Ayden, such a cutie. But I heard from Tahnee which is great, she is doing good busy with school and her brother came home this past week, which is so cool. I am so happy for her. Time has flown by I can remember just last year I was at school starting a new semester and meeting Tahnee for the first time and now its a year later and I am living in VEGAS!! I seriously didnt see that one coming at all, and then I got to see my roommate Stacie. God is filled with love and he wants to give all he has to his children, he wants to give them what they want but sometimes we have to wait patiently for better things that will come ahead. 
 
I did get an email from the Bishop but I didnt get time to write him back so I will try to write another letter so he will have two to read to the ward. But this ward has 13 missionaries out in the field, that is so amazing!!! Dont worry about me getting hurt I am doing fine, there will be a good stroy to tell about that that can relate to the gospel. But we went hiking at Red Rock, I told stacie that we will have to do that when I come back to visit. Sister Black said something about having a sister day, and going hiking with all the sisters here. We went on the ice box trail it was amazing we hiked into this BIG canyon! Breath taking and so many places to rock climb.

We taught an investigator this past Friday about the plan of Salvation, she seemed really confused when we were going through it. But once we were able to talk to her about it all and help her understand, it was amazing she finally understood it and once she understood it she said "I believe it all I accept it!" It was amazing to see, she has been prepared so much for this gospel its astounding! I hope I am here for her baptism, she wants to move her date back to the end of May but we are praying for the 3rd week of May instead so we will see what the Lord wants for her. She is kind of nervous about it so we had the Elders come over to give her a blessing. Oh but the lesson on Friday it was so crazy, when we got there to her place I felt this nervousness inside of me I felt as if someone else was nervous those feelings I usually get when someone close by is feeling it. Well I asked sister walker if she was nervous at all and she said no i dont think so, so then I got her to question it-not what I meant to do. But I felt like someone was nervous but we went in and near the end of the lesson Debbie said that she was super nervous before we came over, I seriously felt that feeling from her when I wasnt even near her. Crazy, but if finally made sense, but she is doing better. I dont even know what else to say but we did go tracting alot, there was one day that we didnt even use any miles on our car, we are way below our limit we have 300 miles still left to use before Saturday. Can you say joy ride around Vegas!! :) hahahaha just kidding but we may have to use more miles because if they see we dont use them all they may pull some away from us and we dont want that.

 
I know the Lord will take care of you all and things will be okay. I have been praying for you all and I am glad that things are going well. I was so excited to tell everyone about you both doing missionary work, President Evans said that when there is a missionary in the field the family is more blessed in doing missionary work. It is a great blessing to witness. I was talking to the lady that did my hair today about the mission. And I realized that the more I am tempted with my testimony the more it is strengthened because with every struggle comes strength and blessings. So I know that with every thing that comes about even with my testimony being questioned it is going to get that much more stronger. It is such a blessing from Heavenly Father, and the Atonement is so powerful. I am learning so much more about the Atonement and the power of prayer, I have a neat story about prayer which I will have to save for later. But I thought I knew a lot about the Atonement and Prayer before but now its even more than before. Its great I am so thankful for my trials because they are great blessings afterwards. Thank you so much for that quote mom it was awesome. Well I need to go, I do love P-days and being able to hear from you and everyone else. I love you and Miss you bunches, of oats!!!
Love Heather Baby Little One

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Heather's 4th week in Vegas!!!

Well you both will freak if I tell you this but I think its pretty hilarious and anyways what kind of fun would it be if you didn't get hurt. :) We went hiking today at Red Rock it was the best time I have ever had on a P-day so far. But the view was amazing and the quietness was the best thing we could ask for. We went as a zone so there were about 8 other elders there I think, we got member rides which was so nice don't remember their names. But one guy brought his super nice camera and took pictures for us I think he is going to make copies and send them out. Awesome! On our way back I was coming through this tunnel of tree branches and one of these stupid trees decided to grab my shorts and the hard headed Clevenger that I am decided to pull forward instead of step back and unloosen it with my hand. So I fell down on some nice looking rocks that scraped my shin and knee all up. Pretty great if you ask me, I think its one of my best battle wounds yet, besides the dog bite but that doesn't count it wasn't self inflicted. But don't worry I took pictures for you :) I am going to try to get pictures printed next week and send them to you. Vegas reminds me so much of California it is great, oh and going to the strip here is something you dont do if you are a local. I am learning so much it is great.
 
We got a new investigator yesterday. A girl from the Singles ward brought her friend (Benjamin) to church and in Preisthood he introduced himself and said that he will be joining the church. Pretty great. But I have seen many blessings come from tracting I am hoping my trainer can see to make it more of a priority to track. Though I dont like it I still will do it because we are told to do so and blessings come from it. I dont know much about the Heather Clevenger but I told them that it would be awesome to meet with her and the other clevengers to see if we are related. Oh yes that is great you got an email from Sister Schlauder they are an amazing family, her husband is actually the Stake President for our area. They are super nice and we had dinner with them last night(Sister Schlauder sent me an email with a picture of Heather and her 2 companions and Sister Schlauder's grandkids!! It was pretty awesome to receive that! And I will post the picture she sent on here!) Oh so we went to Canyon Gate the other day to visit this one family, you have to have permission to go in, they are super strict. But we got in through another member I dont think she knew we sort of used her but we shared a spiritual message with her. But anyways those houses were MASSIVE! They were like that one house in California on Grangville off on the left going to the base, BIG! I did get pictures of some random houses for you all to see, I will try to get pictures of some of the members homes. I have wrote down a couple of people I need to write back to so i am going to try to do that this week when I find time. But I got the letter I sent to Bishop Webb, they returned it to me so I was thinking about just sending it home so you can give it to Bishop for me.
 
We were in the store today and I almost bought an Easter Lily, but I didn't I have to save so I can afford a hair cut. It will be interesting how its all going to work out with money but it will be okay. I got the 2 packages on Friday THANK YOU! They get here so fast when you don't have to send them to the mission office, I love it. and I did get your letter as well a day or two before hand thank you. But I really enjoyed the piano books, I was able to play on Saturday and Sunday but not as long as I would have liked to. I really need to play for like 30 mins to an hour. My companions really liked the gifts, we took pictures for you, so hopefully Sister Sprouse will send them to you.
 
Things are going good here. We didnt meet our lesson goal last week but its okay the Lord tests us to see if he can really trust us and help us have more faith in him. But we were blessed with wonderful opportunities and moments last week. It has been a true blessing, though there were hard times. Satan does tempt you a lot while being on a mission, there are so many mind games I have played its hard. But they have been a source of help to strengthen me. There was a moment that a thought came in to question if what I really felt was the Spirit, it was one of the most scariest thoughts I have ever had. But I remember that those feelings are real and nothing can counterfeit them, not even Satan can give us those feelings that come from our Heavenly Father. Thank you so much for your testimonies they made me cry it was great. I am still not good with just talking to random people but hopefully my mission will help me to overcome it. One night we had an appointment get canceled so we didn't know what we were going to do. But we made some visits, and we went to Sister Taylor's house to see about their neighbors that they referred us to meet them. While we were there Sister Jacobson from our ward stopped by and we asked them before we left if there was anyone they could think of for us to visit. Sister Jacobson told us of this lady she visit teaches, she is less active so we went over there. She was there and we were able to get in after I said Sister Jacobson told us to come see her. We spent almost 2 hours with her, it was crazy. But she really needs help, she is so confused and lost. Some of her friends told her that she shouldn't be going to a church where they read outside the bible, meaning she should only go to a church where they only read from the bible and that's pretty crazy. This lady has been to the temple and every thing it is sad to see her fall away so far, she had a testimony and believes its true but she stopped reading the Book of Mormon. But we told her that she needs to get a testimony again and she needs to start reading the Book of Mormon it will help and the Atonement is here to help us we must use it and rely on it. We all fall short of the glory of God and need a savior. But the spirit was so strong in her home that night. She lost her husband a year ago and a month, to the exact date we were there. When I saw the tattoo on her arm of the date her husband died I almost started crying because I knew in that instant that only God could work that miracle in placing us in her house one month to the exact date (one year later) from the passing of her husband. God works in mysterious ways but when they come together they are the most glorious things to behold.
 
We are going to the temple May 18 I was thinking the 17 but its the 18 so I am super excited about that. It has been too long since going to the temple I don't like waiting this long to attend. But I am torn in a way with this next transfer. I really want to see Waymond and our other investigators get baptized, it would be so amazing. But I know it is what ever God sees fit. I was thinking that it would be cool to stay here next transfer and then the following transfer get moved to Fallon but that probably won't happen. So Waymond one of our investigators he lives kitty corner (sp?) from the Andrews, he said his first vocal prayer last week. He says he won't pray for himself but he will pray for other people and give thanks so he gave thanks for us in the prayer. It was amazing we asked him how he felt and he said wierd but good, and then he started crying. It was so cool, and he has been reading the chapters we have been asking him to read. He is progressing a lot but has a long way to go before he can get baptized, so tomorrow night we are going to teach him about the plan of salvation. I am going to have so many stories to tell you both when i see you.
 
So this past Friday we had a lesson with Debbie the one who came into the church on general conference wanting to get baptized. She has come so far since that time she has been so blessed, she has a family within the ward now it is great to see, and she is possibly getting a job soon. But we went over there and had Bro Decker come with. It was hard at first the lesson was all over the place she had so many questions and Bro Decker just wanted to answer them all and he was talking quite a bit, but he tried to get it refocused a few times by directing it back to us. But boy I thought we were never going to get through the first lesson with her that night. But thankfully we did, and it was so amazing. It was funny when I was doing the first vision after I quoted Joseph Smith she said well he really didnt see God and Jesus Christ because no one can in the flesh. I seriously had the biggest smile on my face when she was saying this. I was thinking oh you have no idea just wait and listen. After that I bore my testimony it was the best thing, the Spirit was so strong it took over me, he directed me on what to say and I knew that there was no way she could deny it. It was the greatest moment that night. She already has a testimony of the Book of Mormon and of Joseph Smith. She said when she was reading it she thought she had heartburn so she went to take some tums but it didnt help. We told her that was the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the truth of the book and what we have been saying, she literally started crying. It was one of those moments where I felt the happiness of Heavenly Father and got to witness someone gain a testimony to come to that realization of this gospel, it was the best thing ever. Those goals that I wrote before I left have just been blown away, I know that I will get to see all of them on my mission and maybe have one fulfilled after but when I looked at them they seemed pretty weak in a sense because all that I have experienced has gone beyond those goals and beyond my expectations. Struggles will come and I know they will, a mission is hard work and talking to people about the gospel is hard because of rejection but those moments like Debbies and Waymonds make up for all the rejection we recieve, it makes it worth doing what it is I am doing. I am so grateful to be able to help others come unto Christ and recieve so many blessings, and ultimately return back to the presence of our Heavenly Father.
 
I am so happy to hear about Cheyenne it will be the best day of her life, tell her and make sure she records that day, what happened but especially how she felt because those moments and those feelings will help her so much when things come into her life and make her struggle. I think sometimes we make things harder than they really are, we lose focus and forget the most important things in life. But that is why I love the atonement so much, with it every burden we have will be lifted. Christ wants to take our burdens from off of our shoulders we just have to be willing to allow him to do so, to go to him and ask him to take them. I am learning that I have to pray every night for Heavenly Father to take my burdens from me. I love you both so much and miss you bunches, of oats.
Love Heather Baby Little One
PS This transfer has flown by so fast this time is going to end so quickly I can feel it. But it will be worth it I can see myself change in so many ways already. Its great. Keep up the work with sharing the gospel Heavenly Father will bless you when you open your mouth to share his word D&C 84:88 (scripture that sums up the mission so far)

Monday, April 11, 2011

Heather's 3rd Week in Vegas!!!

Here is another email we got from Heather, not as long as last week's but still a little bit to read:

Mom & Dad!
How are you both doing? Thank you so much for the emails. I loved them, though mom your emails took me a while to read but its okay I loved them. Thank you! I am glad you two were able to go to the temple this past Friday. I cant wait to go, our date is May 17th so I dont know if thats a different date than I told you. But they officially announced it in our District meeting. So the other night we were at one of the ward buildings and I was snooping around and found some picture boxes. They were like those white cards with a picture in the middle, like grandpa has.(She is talking about slides!) Well they had some of those and I was looking at them. They were of the Las Vegas temple being built!!!! It was so awesome, they had some amazing pictures of them in that box there were tons of boxes like the one I was looking at. It was SO cool. Oh I saw a shooting star the other night and I thought of you mom. I remember the last shooting star I saw was when we were driving to the Stake center for me to go get set apart. It was so cool, I knew when i saw that one with you I would remember you when i saw the next one. It was pretty awesome!! Oh I saw a little girl in RS yesterday and I talked to her mom, she was like 8 months old maybe. She was standing and grabing stuff so she isnt 4 months but she is super small and SO cute. Oh someone asked me yesterday if I knew a Heather Clevenger. I laughed and said yes thats me, it was funny but I guess there is another heather Clevenger around here who is married. Pretty crazy I told them I wanted to get together with them and see if we are related or how far back it goes.
We had 2 baptisms for the YSA ward on Saturday and we got two of our investigators to go to it. Pretty cool. There are three of the four investigators that we are teaching really want to get baptized. We are going hiking next monday I am pretty excited about it. Sister Cook is an awesome lady, she is so sweet. She said during a lesson that she wants her sons to meet a few of us after our mission. hahaha pretty funny.  We have three baptism dates set so far, one on June 4, one set for April 30 and we have another one set for May 7th.
Our transfer day is May 2 and 3 we find out April 30th if we are moving. I found out that the Mission President takes the leaving Missionaries to the temple so i will be able to go to the Las Vegas temple before I leave my mission. I really cant believe I have been here for 3 weeks, everyone keeps asking me how long I have been here and i forget. But it has been six weeks since I have left home, thats half a semester at BYUI. It has gone by super fast, but it has been so fun and really good. There are struggles but its good I am learning from them. Also we had 15 lessons this past week and we are going to strive to get 20 lessons this week. Most of them are Less actives or recent converts but its still good. So one day we were coming into the Library and some lady stopped us and gave us 20 dollars to go get lunch, pretty awesome! This months goal for the ward here is to share the Living Christ with someone and I think the other thing is to serve in the community. So thats their goal, pretty great, I am learning so much. It will be great they have like 5 couples for ward member missionaries, they go out with us to lessons and help fellowship less actives and things like that its really great. Well I want to write more but it took a lot of time to read moms emails so, sorry. But we do have an activity every monday, I found out that they have an indoor rock building here in our area I am super excited about. Well that is it for now! Sorry it took me so long to update the blog! I hope you enjoy reading this, even though it is very long and have a great week!

Heather's 2nd Week in Vegas!!!

Well, instead of writing a condensed version on here, I decided to copy and paste most of Heather's email in here, so I hope you enjoy reading it! She is really having a wonderful time there and keeping VERY busy!
 
Mom & Dad,
How are you both doing? I am doing good, a lot better than last time. I am feeling a lot better now. It is interesting because I think i was getting sick but then I think I have allergies as well so its probably a combination of the two. We are excited to be able to go to the temple in May I cant wait, that was one of my desires was to go to the Vegas temple while on my mission and after I was able to go there then I was fine with going up North. So we will see. It has been a good week but a hard day. We tried to talk to people in the stores and it seemed that every person we talked to rejected us, but its okay because it will help us. And I just keep thinking that we are looking for those that have been prepared we are trying to prepare those that aren't yet thats the Lords work to help prepare them we can though plant a seed. I think we plant many seeds by just going out and having people see us. Sister Sprouse had some pretty good moments, we talked to one guy and he said he was atheist or how ever you spell it (doesnt believe in God) and Sister Sprouse said that we are on a mission for 18 months but I dont think the guy heard her because she said that when we go home we go get married and he thought that we were us three were heading home to get married to eachother! Talk about the foot in the mouth moment for her, I laughed because I didnt know how to help her out on that one   : D But she does talk alot about getting married and finding hot guys to marry so it was a matter of time that it was going to go the wrong way. Also when we were going to Sister Cooks house we came into the gate (gated neighborhood) sister Sprouse saw the number to their house so we go out and went to the door. And some couple came to the door who werent the Cooks at all it was so funny we went to the wrong house, we werent on the right street. So Sister Sprouse decided to contact them (tract them), they werent intrested but it was her way to cover up her mistake. I laughed so hard because there was no point to get embarrassed we all make mistakes like that and its better to laugh them off than anything else. I was going to call President on Wednesday about my throat but it felt better and then it got worse, but I just needed more sleep. I have been getting to bed by 1030 there was one night that I didnt but I have been lately. They stress alot about sticking to the rules, so I am trying really hard too. It is difficult sometimes when you dont know that you are breaking a rule or you have a habit and its difficult to change. One of them being wearing sunglasses, we are only really suppose to wear them in the car or when we tract. But when we are talking to someone we are suppose to take them off.
Sister Cook came by last night to tell us about the phone calls. We were over there and she said can I call your parents and I said yes thats fine. So she wrote all the information down for our parents. So she called the other Sisters families as well. She said she really liked it when members where her sons were serving would call her and tell her how they were doing and she wanted to do that for us. I am getting some really good ideas to do when I get home or have my own family. But she said that dad called her back and he was kind of serious in way or probably more curious and then he finally started to relax. I could just imagine that phone call, because you both didnt know. I was smiling and laughing because it was so both of you, then she said she talked to mom and you were sort of the same way and you were quiet. I told her you were probably crying which I dont doubt you were, because thats you mom. :) I loved it, it was way awesome to hear about. Sister Cook is the Relief Society President for Caynon Gate (the family ward). It was way awesome we went to her house Saturday night during the Priesthood session and she gave us food to take home, we get a lot of food from members it is great we got cooks that night too from Sister Lords. But before we were leaving I asked her about her baby grand in the room, she said it was a baldwin and sister sprouse asked her to play. She said she would only play if we sang along so she played a rendition of I know that My Redeemer Lives and we sang with her. It was AMAZING!! I loved it, there is something about gathering around a piano and singing together.
I did send you a letter about all the things that were going on this past week so you will probably get more details in that than this email. We also got another plate on top of the one plate we got from sister lords last night, so we took the extra one to the elders at the P-day activity. But this past Friday was probably the best day out of the week. It was amazing we saw so many people. We did go to In-N-Out friday for you both and got a double double for dad, and I had Sister Walker take a picture. I was going to try to send it to you through the email but I dont have the right hook-ups to down load them. So I dont know what I will do, I probably will print them out and send them next week, if I do print them out next week. I think we are going to try to go hiking next monday or the monday following it. I really cant believe I have been here for almost 5 weeks. It seems longer but it also has gone by fast its weird. Oh I will probably try to write Kim back soon but I dont know. I am going to try to email tahnee today. We reserved computers for 2 hours so it gives us more time to email, which i like.  I am trying to learn to play Come Thou Fount before I get home, one of the ward buildings had an 1948 hymn book with the song music to it so I copied it in the library, pretty genius huh?  Yes I did make a mormon.org profile I think it has to get approved first, and it says its still pending. Sister Sprouse said she made hers about 7 weeks ago and hers is still pending so mine may take a while to be accepted.
Oh my goodness so yesterday, this week has been pretty busy and crazy but we have been getting a lot of member referals which is AMAZING. But yesterday we go a phone call from an Elder he said that there was a lady that went to the building and said she wanted to get baptized and wanted welfare. We had to pass her off to the bishop but then we got a phone call later last night and they said that we are to start teaching her because she wants to get baptized for other reasons a well, all we know is this and her name is Debbie. But we are hoping to meet with her this week to start teaching her. There is a baptism for another sister this Saturday for our YSA ward, pretty great. We also asked a young women girl to commit to baptism on May 7 we are hoping her parents custody works out correctly so she can. We are going to set another baptism date to another investigator this week too, she already said she wants to get baptized. Pretty insane!!

Oh so our pday, its pretty busy we have to go shopping do laundry, we got the pday activity and we email home so its packed. But its good, we do many different things for the activity, today we met at the park and played softball as two zones there were so many missionaries there it was great. And I got to play catch after we got kicked off the field by some guy, he was pretty rude about asking us to leave becasue they were going to have practice. But anyway it was so nice to play catch again, and the sun was shining all day. I am getting so dark I am going to get black before May even gets here.
 
It is nice to not have to worry about bikes, yes that is right I wont have to ride a bike at all on my mission so more money saved. We just have to be careful about our miles. But we get to drive around in a silver Mazda 3 its pretty nice, but I dont get to drive until I am a trainer or seinor companion. How are the new missionaries? Oh the ward here has a missionary monthly goal where each month theres a different goal to achieve its pretty amazing. I really cant wait to get home and try to get the ward to start doing this, I think it would really help so much more. There is such a strong spirit and untiy within this ward and I think alot of it has to do with their goals and striving for missionary work they are huge on every member a missionary. So awesome. Yes many of these houses in the ward are huge. Sister Cook has a big house many of them look like the Warners house, and some of them are a little bit smaller. But they are still big.
The apartment we live in has a bathroom, but its kind of like a U shape its hard to explain but we share the laundry room with the Andrews and thats it. We have our own door, own kitchen, dining room, living room/bedroom, and bathroom. So its pretty nice its small and kind of snug but its better than other places. There are many Elders that do have nicer places than we do who live with members but the Andrews are super nice, Sister Andrews will come by some time and give us food that she bought from the store. So we cant complain at all.
Well I dont know what else to say. I am going to try to email Tahnee real quick before we have to go to our dinner appointment tonight. Well I love you both so very much and miss you. I am so happy to hear from you both. Love you and miss you bunches, of oats!
Love Heather Baby Little One