May 18, 2011

How are you two doing? I bet you, mom, were kind of freaking out with not getting an email from me on Monday. :) Sorry we had our Temple day today so our P-day changes from Monday to the day of our Temple date. Something I didnt know until last week after we already had P-day. So for future reference, if I have a temple day my Pday will be on that day instead of Monday :) But it was great, And the celestial room was GORGEOUS!!! You will both love it, the stain glass with the sun coming in looks amazing, I didnt presonally see it but I can imagine it.

So we went to Deseret Book on Monday to get scriptures for a family, a ward member gave us money but we were there and I was thinking about a lady we were teaching. We bought her a few things for her baptism but then all of a sudden it hit me-Dad makes those Living Christ pitures for people so I was wondering if you, Dad, could make like :$ maybe 5 or something like that for me. There are a few families that I would like to give them to. Sister Sprouse said she would pay for one.

This past friday we had a Greenie day. Who's bright idea that was i dont know. They decided to put all of us new sisters (Sister Spencer, Walker, and I) together for the day because the Trainers (Sprouse, Laluia, Dixon) had a training meeting. So I got to drive the car!!! It was fun though I had no idea what I was doing because we had so much time with nothing planned. It was kind of scary at first but it was good once we went along. We made visits to the Less actives in the Singles ward so it was good. And I got to drive!! :) it made me so happy finally after like 11 weeks without driving. We did service last week at DI in the Humanitarian Aid center, this lady came up to me and we started talking and she told me about these Hugs that they make and donate to hospitals. She said they donate them to the cancer center hospital here, so we got to talking about that. She said that they will probably give me a tour if I go down and ask them, she gave me the address and everything. So when I get to come back to visit I want to go there as well, because I think its out of the mission boundaries.

Oh I forgot to tell you about the temple, it was beautiful. Sister Lords took us she is so sweet, I love her. She bought us a loaf of bread at Great Harvest. But when we were in the Temple one of the ladies told us that Marie Osmond works there on Wednesday! That is pretty amazing, we were hoping to run into her but we didnt but now that we know she works on Wednesdays in the morning probably there is a chance of running into her when we go :) Oh also the Elders told us yesterday that they were walking down the street and some guy pulled up next to them and asked them if they had one of those Book Of Mormon's he can have they said yes. They said he looked familiar and that they knew him some how and then they figured it out, it was Donnie Osmond!! Pretty great!

 It has been weird weather here lately it rained off and on today which is not normal, and it has been kind of chilly. I am not complaining my sweatshirt is getting used though so thank you. I was worried I wouldn't be able to wear it until winter time but I wore it today :) I know I will be staying next transfer but there are 8 more sisters that will come into the mission over the next couple of months so they will be opening up new areas. I am hoping for a California area for the sisters to be in, I really want to serve there :) But I am afraid I may train next transfer but we will see. Oh so we were super close to the strip the other night pretty awesome, dont worry we didnt break any rules. But we were coming back from one of the apartment complexes we visited and we drove past BLACK BEAR DINER!!!! So when you come to visit we can go there, its on Tropicana I believe just west of the strip. I freaked out!

The picture of us in the back yard was our service day at the Goodnoughs, :) we are going to do more service for them hopefully next week. The next time you see the lady at the temple, tell her I said Hi and thank you. That is way cool that you see her all the time and get to talk to her. She's like your temple friend that you made by just attending the temple. The people you meet and the friendships you make they are priceless. I keep telling Sis. Sprouse that she is going to get transferred next transfer but we will see. I just hope I dont train. So we saw this lady today at Sunflower (grocery store) and she was SO excited to see us she was almost crying and almost hyperventilating it was great. She served in Ohio and she LOVES sister missionaries, it was awesome she made my day. But she went to BYU-Idaho and got married last month but it was so funny, I wish you could have seen it.

So today we went to Sister Cooks home to work on our musical number for the baptism on Saturday. They got me to warm up and get higher on Soprano. I almost died though!! My abs were getting a nice work out and my heart rate was getting up there, I had to take off my over shirt becasue of it. But it was good they said I had a good voice, but we will see how Saturaday goes. I am really excited for her baptism. She is so so excited as well, she will be my first official baptism it is going to be so cool to see. This past Saturday was my first unofficial one, we were the first to teach Ben about the gospel so it was awesome to see him get baptized. We got pictures so dont worry. We have been super busy and its about darn time. I have been so tired and exhausted from it all. We have had a lot of cancellations but we are still working really hard which I love. I even go to bed on time and wake up on time and I am still tired. But its great I know that I am doing something right if I am tired all the time. We had like 16 lessons scheduled but we will see how the rest of the week plays out. We were so packed that we couldnt fit anyone else in if we tired but we have had cancellations so we are trying to fit some people in we will see how it goes. One of these weeks we are going to get 20 lessons I know it. We had a great lesson with our investigator last night. We went over to her place after we left the Garrett's home for dinner (they had her over too) and we watched The Restoration The Joseph Smith video. She Loved it and when we were at the Distribution Center Monday I bought her a copy of the D&C 4 disc DVD, and we gave it to her. She loved it, it was so cool to see her light up when we told her that. We forgot it because we were running out of time but we went back home and got it for her and we watched the Strength Beyond My Own video of the temples and she pretty much LOVED it too. the Spirit was so strong and tender it was way awesome to see. It is such a great experience out here, I couldnt ask for anything better. We got to get to our dinner apt so I will close and I will write to you on monday (Pday). I love you and miss you bunches.

Love Heather Baby Little One