Pics 4-4-2016

On our way to watch General Conference and enjoying the sunshine and the warmer weather :)

We cleaned a hoarders house this week...... yuck.... this is the before pic

and after :)

after day one of cleaning the hoarder house and not knowing what we were getting into, the next day we came prepared

Went street contacting on the Broadway Bridge after conference on Saturday. It was SO WARM, like 20! And suuuuuper windy.

we made milkshakes and watched Ephraim's Rescue last night :) 

Hahaha this is Bella :) She is the daughter of one of our investigators, Christine. She is a cutie, but usually a diva and never seems to like us haha she wont high five us or sit by us or let us touch her toys haha BUT she just came and sat right down in between us! So we took advantage of the moment and got lots of pics. 

Waiting in line at the car wash haha there is ALWAYS a HUGE line. Today wasn't the worst it's been though so that's good.

Pics 3-28-2016

Easter!

I opened my Easter package yesterday morning. So many fun things that I love, my family knows me well :) These are our comp unity fuzzy socks that we got in my package haha :)

THE GOLD PLATES! :) So we went to the Slocombes last night for Easter supper and Sister Slocombe is a seminary teacher so she had her husband make her this replica of the gold plates years ago and they showed them to us :) SO NEAT! They are actually super heavy haha and he even engraved actual reformed Egyptian engravings on the front plate 

Exchanges with Sister Smith. Could be my last exchange as an STL. I guess we will see what happens with transfers next week.

we found the Mystery Machine! haha

there was a cute little birdie stuck in walmart when we were shopping last week. hopefully he gets out and finds his family

running from our crazy neighbor Leslie in our apartment building hahaha

we got Kinder Surprise Eggs and they had cars in them! And we got to put the stickers on it too, it was fun :) 

We went to the Kennedy's and colored eggs last monday :)

Pics 12-21-2015

I SAW THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!!! IT WAS AMAZING!

The Aurora Borealis! It was so Wonderful!!!

I may or may not have screamed and flung myself out of the car when i saw it..... 

I got to go on exchanges with my mission daughter Sister Bersie! I've missed her! It was super fun :)

I love the snow :) 

The days are so short here. This is how dark it is at 8:30 AM! and it gets dark by 5!

like my canada mittens? :) i love them :)

Lots of Pics, Dec 7th 2015

I've been slacking off in posting to Maddy's blog.

Here are some pics from the last few weeks.

Sister Wray and I, We had a lot of fun <3

Brother Pepin and Sister Maple, i love them so much. We got her that scarf! :) Please keep them in your prayers, her chemo is taking a lot out of both of them <3 It was really sad to leave them

This is Mandy and her kids, I love them! We found them tracting not too long ago, they are the best :)

I'm gonna miss Barb and her birds :) 

This is Annie, she is a cutie eh :) 

This is the Drozdowskis, I love them too :) They were fun :)

oh no, they are gonna burn the church down hahah 20 candles puts off a lot of heat haha

my surprise bday party :) it wasn't really a surprise though haha but it was fun :) and very nice, i felt loved

the tays are wonderful, they got me a really nice timex watch so "whenever i check the time i will think of them" :) cute 

these are the Tays :) The elders invited them to the little surprise bday party haha :) they are so cute Brother Tay is our ward mission leader

These elders are the best :) They made me yellow cake with chocolate frosting and threw a little surprise bday party for me on my last night in winnipeg :)

opening my presents! :)

love it! Im wearing it right now and it is so pretty :)

all my bday presents, i love my fam <3 they know me so well

BDAY SELFIE :)

This is the Barlow family. They are really nice and let us come over for family home evening and help them decorate their neat christmas tree. It was nice :)

This is our christmas tree hahaha we were so lucky to have a full size one in our apartment. Only half the lights work and As you can see the decorations are a little iffy.... notice the glittery deer antlers hahahahaha Those are what mom needs for her woodsy tree ;p But even if it isn't the prettiest, it still makes me happy :)

It was a rough night so we tried making snow angels haha. 

My first Starbucks since I've been in Canada. It was so good. Tasted like home :) haha #TypicalWhiteGirl

Email 10-5-2015

My week was good.

We went to I-falls minnesota for exchanges :) that was fun. And we brought back american oreos and cheezits :)

Conference was SO GOOD. I can't wait until the ensign comes out and I can study all the talks again.

Transfers are coming up and they are splitting our areas. We won't get our transfer call until Saturday so I'm not sure which area I will stay in, if any, or if i will stay with Sister Wray or what. I'm trying not to make any guesses or any hopes so I don't get let down haha. I'm just gonna go with the flow. Come what may, and love it :) So we will see what happens i guess.

The next general conference will be my last in the mission and by that time i will have 4 months left. totes cray. And Canadian Thanksgiving is next monday so then after that it's already christmas season :) haha So I'm sure the time will fly :) Christmas time always does.

At this point I'm just trying to figure out how I can have more courage to be a better missionary so that I will be happier and enjoy my last 10 months and not just endure. So that's about it :) I love you.




(I asked Maddy if she was ready for the cold weather around the corner)

I think I forgot how cold it actually gets and what it feels like. I'm worried I might need a bigger jacket haha the mission home has some Canada Goose ones they got for free but they only have smalls which is a little too small. But I might be able to make it work since the one I have is small anyway haha but other than that, I think I'm all set. It's already cooling down which is nice :) It might snow by halloween :)

awkward bathroom selfie cause no where in my apartment has good lighting haha but GENERAL CONFERENCE DAYYYY! :) and making it a tradition with Cadbury mini eggs for a conference treat since for some reason Cadbury mini eggs are year round in Canada haha #whynot #ldsconf

Our drive to I-falls was totes gorge :)

Our drive from Manitoba to Minnesota :)

look at this HUGE FISH! Baudette, Minnesota :) #USA

Tyler, I thought you would like this :)

last pday we went to Ikea and it was the best thing ever :) 

made it across the border 

:)