IOWA with Loo

This week was so good!! We made cookies for all of our college friends who were taking midterms this week (I don't miss those).  It was beautiful this week, so we were outside a lot more. We studied outside one day, we had lunch with the sisters in the park, I missed just being able to be outside. We went to Nauvoo for zone council, that was lots of fun and I got more pictures outside of the temple, I wish it was open. We went to a member's farm and helped them clean out their greenhouses, once again it was great to just be outside, and I love serving others. If you are ever having a rough day or just need some cheering up, go and do something for someone. No matter how big or small, it will brighten you day!  It wasn't a very eventful week, Brandy and Sabrina are both doing great! Sabrina watched church, her life is so crazy and busy right now but she is still making time. Brandy is great, he is just loving everything he's learning and we're going to m...

My week was good, it went by really slow, .  Transfers were this week, it doesn't feel like it but they were just on Tuesday. We didn't meet the new missionaries in our district until district council which wasn't until Friday since Elder Newman didn't get here till Thursday. District council was cool, seeing Elder Newman (in his first few days in the field) it reminded me of my first district council. It was cool to see how much has changed in the last 6 weeks, I remember sitting there and just taking it all in and not having anything to say or add because it is all still so knew to me. But now it's completely different and really cool to see the difference.  I don't remember a lot of what we did this week, but we had a few great lessons with Brandy this week! We read some of the Book of Mormon with him and I love hearing what he gets out of it. We also had lesson about priesthood yesterday and that was really cool, he prayed at the end and asked...

  Sorry I haven't been sending a lot of emails, time is literally flying by. Recap of the last two weeks, last week we had a trainers meeting which was so good! I got to see all the missionaries I came out with which was really great! Especially seeing Sister Chatelain!!! I miss her so much, but we had fun and she's killing it out in Morton with Sister Chase.  One day last week we were driving around and no one that we wanted to visit seemed to be home. So we were a little sad that we didn't get to do what we set out to do, but we saw this massive icicle on the side of a building. It was at least 8 feet tall, so obviously we took pictures with it.  I have been a missionary for 2 months now! Time has flown, especially the last 6 weeks, it is so crazy. Sister Evans hit her year mark on Friday! We celebrated with pizza and cheesecake We had some great lessons with B! We read some more of the Book of Mormon with him, he still loves it in case you were wondering...

  That sounds like a fun week! B is still doing good, he's reading the Book of Mormon a few verses at a time and he really likes it. He came to church last week and was sad that he couldn't this week, it was stake conference and was during his parents church time so he wasn't allowed to come. But he'll come next week and it will be great! Next week we are going back to 2 hour church, that's exciting but it might be a little rough getting some people there for all of it I'm excited to get a little closer to normal though. Sounds like Grandpa had a good week! Did he actually smile when you teased him? I think he likes you better, I always got an eye roll and a "knock it off."  My week was really quick, we went up to Iowa City to a trainers meeting which was so good and I got to see Sister Chatelain! She is so cute and I miss being comps, plus we're not supposed to message other missionaries in our mission so the only contact we have is...

  Hi mom! First off you can take as much time as you want cuz I love you. Yes we did get snow and its not supposed to stop for a while. This whole week the high is 1⁰ if we're lucky, so we're gonna try our best to stay out of the cold. We don't want to fully avoid the outside world cuz that makes everything harder, but it's gonna be so cold. Yesterday was 1⁰ and snowing but it felt like -8⁰ so that was not fun at all. But other than the weather, it's been a good week.  We had combined district council with our zone on Wednesday so I got to go to Nauvoo! The temple is very pretty and I got to meet my zone in person so that was cool. We had exchanges on Thursday and that was so fun! My STL's are so cute! I learned a lot, right now we're trying to shorten member lessons, instead of doing full lessons with them we do SPF's which are short powerful and frequent and by short I mean like 5-7 minutes. And that is very hard to do when the members are...

Sister Evans is good she's a very sarcastic and smart person so we get along great!We are staying warm, it's been snowing and raining all week which is the worst but we don't go door to door so we're not outside for long periods of time which is so nice. It is supposed to snow a lot at the end of the week and get down to like 0⁰ on Sunday so maybe I'll have a different story by then.