Pics 5-4-2015

This is our last sunday in the London ward with. We decided to all match haha :)

We found a random burning tree and had to call the fire department and also take a selfie

All three of us sitting on a tractor haha out at the Heieies

Pics 4-28-2015

Au Revior Winnipeg!

Maddy just found out she is getting transferred. I'm not sure where she is going. No long email this week. I guess we'll read about it in her letter.

saw this super neat old tank and had to stop for a pic :)

we got matching 3$ sunglasses :) haha

Sister Davis :) I'm gonna miss her like crazy

Sister Miller, I love her!

Jumpin on the trampoline at the Heieie's. We were over there for service and we were waiting for Bro. Ryan Heieie to help us with something. So we figured we may as well have a little fun :)

Kate Gross and her cute kids and one of those girls is a Fisk child that practically lives there since the Gross family and Fisk family are besties

These are the Gross kids, Navy and some of his siblings.

This is Grandma Gross. This is my last picture with this sweet woman. I love her with all my heart and if I came out on a mission just to meet her, it was worth it. I'm gonna miss her a lot.

This Navy Gross and a few of his siblings and friends. He is literally the cutest little boy I have ever met. He is so gentle and sweet and I love him. He always tells us this story about how one time he heard the Holy Ghost warn him that he and his brother shouldn't do something so he didn't do it haha it is so cute. His family is amazing. I love them all. Every time I see Navy he runs up to me and give me the biggest hug.  :) 

Pics 4-7-2015 (3)

The Young Women did an activity called 'I mustache you a question' and they did a little trivia thing about the bishopric and then we went to the store to get treats for the bishopric 'stache' or stash so they would have snacks and treats when they have long meetings. Except when they went to the store they all had to wear mustaches hahaha it was supes funny. But being a missionary, that wouldn't be very dignified so we weren't allowed, but we wore them till we got to the store just for fun :) haha

Lucky Charms for belated St. Patricks day :) mmm :)

We're so silly :)

(This is Maddy's very serious and most excellent trainer, Sister Davis!)

These are my super cute new shoes, they are super comfy too and only $6! I love bargain shopping!

Me and my companion Sista Milla! haha :)

Email 3-30-2015

Portions from Emails with Dad

...The baptism was AMAZING :) it was so fun and so good :) Church was good for us too. We have zone conference tomorrow and I'm singing with Sister Davis and Elder Johnson and Sister Miller is playing piano. They just told us yesterday after church that they needed us to do a musical number... but I think its going to be really good. I'm kinda nervous for zone conference but I think it will be fun. I just hope I don't fall asleep, that would be embarrassing. I can't believe Tyler is already getting his permit that is so crazy to me. I'm great, we went shopping today and I got some cute stuff. I'm getting more and more nervous each day as the end of my training gets closer. I don't want Sister Davis to go home and I don't want to be on my own idk what I'm doing or where to go or how to get anywhere yet! Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter because it comes anyway. I love you.

...yeah and I might just train right after I'm done with my own training which is even scarier and we only have a stupid paper map booklet not even a full map you can open up. You have to look in the directory and find what page the street is on and figure out how to get from one page to the next and the pages don't line up! It's so hard idk whats gonna happen I'm just trying to not think about it! haha

Pics 3-2-2015

We bought a fish as a joke for one of our members. The elders bought the boy one a couple weeks ago so we thought we would get a girl and she has a lucky fin so we named her the girl version of nemo so her name is Nema Milldavin (miller-Davis-martin) haha She is super small so you can't really see here haha.

We had to go to another appt before the one where we could give the fish,and we couldn't leave her in the car cause she would freeze so we put her in sister Miller's purse and brought her in the lesson with us so we had a fish in our purse in a lesson and no one even knew! Hahaha it was funny. Here's Nema Milldavin j-chillin in the purse.

Email 2-9-2015

Well here we go.

It's been crazy. Leaving the MTC was harder than I thought it would be. I met so many amazing people there and it was sad leaving them. We woke up super early and left for the airport and travel took a long time. One connecting flight in Minnesota and then straight to Winnipeg. I got to call my family from the airport which was nice. I miss them a lot and I was so glad to talk to them. When we got to Canada there were some issues with my Visa so I only get to stay in the country for 90 days and then I have to leave the country and reapply for a visa. Which will be okay cause luckily we have one area in the mission in the States in Minnesota so I can go there and get it all sorted out. I hear it's beautiful there too so I'm excited for that.

When we got to Winnipeg we went to the Mission President's house and had some amazing food. Way better than MTC food haha. It was nice having a home cooked meal. Then in the morning we had a long orientation and then found out where we were going!

I am now in the Winnipeg North area serving in the London Ward. I stayed with my MTC companion and we are both being trained by Sister Davis. Tri-pan numba TWO haha already. Crazy. But I'm grateful for it.

It's nice staying with Sister Miller cause I love her and I know her and its nice having a familiar face around :) Sister Davis is great. She is very obedient and I'm learning a lot. She is super energetic and cute and fun which drives me a little crazy sometimes haha cause she's like always happy but good for her.

When we got placed we had to leave almost right away and go to some lessons. Our first lesson was amazing. It was a less active at a member's house and she made us tea and brownies so it was like a little tea party with her fancy china, it was cute. But the spirit was so strong our less active cried. Not gonna lie, Sister Davis did all the talking, I said like 5 words the whole time and Sister Miller said like 15 haha. But it was still fun.

I haven't gotten used to the sleeping schedule yet. I feel like I'm always tired and I fall asleep in random places at random times all the time. Its awkward haha but I haven't fallen asleep in a lesson yet so thats good. Maybe I'm like a little narcoleptic or something. It is freezing here but not too bad cause we are only outside when walking to and from the car. And we're always busy, we have like 5 or 6 lessons a day so far. It feels like I've been here way longer than I have.

We got to do service at someone's house and help them demolish their basement and tear everything out. It was fun. We're teaching some great people and I love almost every lesson. Even when I'm super awkward haha. But oh well.

Sunday was great. It was pretty relaxing and spiritually uplifting. And on Sunday mornings when we usually get up and exercise we get to just relax and do something else like write letters so i liked that too. Well I can't really think of anything else right now. But I'm doing okay. I'll try to be more organized and send better letters from now on haha it's crazy how fast the time flies, it's like I'm rushing through all my emails. I love you all!

Sister Martin