The end!!

The final countdown!...We are the champions!!...I'm comin' home!

Holy cow this week blinked by. It was honestly a really great week. I got to do all of my favorite things. I didn't expect it to be anything spectacular... and it wasn't.. but it was very fulfilling and I'm very grateful. Wowza I can't believe I'll be home on Wednesday!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhh!!!! I'm psyched out of my mind. I think I'm going to crash sometime soon. But I can do it.. I can do it..

Hey my homecoming is at 

10:30 on June 23rd at 725 S 200 E Layton Utah.

Highlights!

~I went to lunch with my Recent Convert Jessica! She is seriously the funniest human ever and it's been so cool to see how she's adapted over the last year and how much she loves the gospel. It's amazing to know we have a friendship for life.

~I went to lunch with Chris who is also a very funny human!! He gave me the best life advice as always and lightly roasted me as always but it was great. Man I've missed my friends.

~Wednesday we had a bomb district meeting and talked about real stuff. Our district is awesome and they're my best friends and I'm going to miss them so much!!! Ugh I've never had this much unity before and they've helped me through so much!

~We got to take Olivia to a temple tour and a baptism! She's progressing so nicely and is getting really excited for baptism! She just fits in so nicely. It was awesome to go to the temple and appreciate the beauty and have her recognize the peace that was there too.

~We went to a synagogue with Corey and his family! Super interesting. They have way cooler music than us though. It was in Hebrew but it was still cool. A kid got Barmitzfa'd. I have no idea how you spell that ahhaha. The Rabbi did not want to talk to us at all. But it's all good. It was just weird having no mention of Christ at all. The spirit was still there but not as strong as it could've been.

~On Sunday we went to Olivia's non-denominational church. Also super awesome and the music was great! She plays the keyboard in the band. The speaker was awesome and talked about surrendering to God's will which really resonated with me. She gave a lot of good insight but it kinda felt like "what do I do from here?" They didn't really have any doctrine. I didn't really know what they believed in besides Christ. But it was still good. Olivia recognized the holes in it herself so that was cool.

~ Anthony from College Park got baptized!!!! Me and Sister Russell were the first missionaries to teach him and after a year and Elders he finally decided to get baptized! It was super cool to see his conversion over the year as well. He had an amazing testimony of the Book of Mormon. It's been amazing.

~We had the departing temple trip on Friday and I felt the spirit super strong. I just felt such a love and acceptance from God of my mission and it was so cool. I received a lot of revelation and made some cool connections. It was all I could've asked for.

Wow so many memories!! I've been so blessed. God has made this last transfer amazing. It's been an emotional roller coaster but I know with  more surety than ever that God loves us and that he has a plan. I know that this is the true church and that more joy and happiness than can ever be imagined is possible through his gospel. I've seen miracles. I've seen tender mercies. I've seen the Atonement of Jesus Christ work in others lives. I've seen my life changed. I know that I will never be the same. It's been the hardest time of my life, and honestly, most of the days sucked, but I'll be forever grateful for the growth that occurred for the rest of my life. This experience has been priceless. Thank you all for supporting me. I'm so grateful to see you in 2 days!!!!!!

"The happiest place on earth"...Pres. Nelson

Yeah the prophet came to town!!!!! It was the best day of my life!! Honestly. all we did was go to church and go to the devotional, It was just like General Conference! We just got spiritually fulfilled all day! I think my favorite part was Sister Nelson. She is just a hoot. She told us all about her experience dating President Nelson. She was like "How do you date an apostle? I didn't want to say Thanks but No thanks President Nelson." She talked about the 3 prayers that have changed her life:

1. Help me fulfil the full measure of my creation.

2. Thy will be done

3. Please bless me with this..... or something better.

I loved that! Because God's will for us is always better! So when certain blessings we want are withheld, it's only because God has something better in mind, and not in a conceptual way like you'll get more patience instead, but like the outcome will be better than what you had originally wanted! We can ask for the best because God wants to give us the best!

Other highlights of the week:

~I went on exchanges with Sister Wheeler and Sister Bulloch who I love!!! We tried out park contacting and met some amazing people!!! We felt so fulfilled! So many children were invited to Christ. And on Saturday it was Pokemon Go Community day! So there were hundreds of people on their phones and it was very confusing but good to start conversations with. 

~Ummm that's the only good things I can think of that happened hahahaha... But also I think my memory is failing because I'm so tired. It was a super good week...

~Oh Game night!! Yeah I knew there was something... We had a game night for the ward at the chapel! We had a good turn out and it was a blast. We had 3 non-members that came. We played Charades and pictionary and board games and it was a blast.

~One more week!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm stoked. I have no idea what to expect for my last 9 days but I know it will be good. Pray for me. I think I might die. But also there will be a miracle in there somewhere. I love you all!!! 

~Oh yeah I dyed my hair blonder... I like it!!

~Also my college park friends came and took me out to dinner! I love them!!!!