sister sister

YALL this week has been a wild one. its another novel of a email so skip to where i talk about sunday if you aren't gonna read it all... cause i know most of you dont. ;) so last monday we had a lesson after pday ended, it went so well, but the funny thing was that Jarvis (one of the members in the branch) came to the lesson. but afterwards he comes back up to me and said, he knew he knew me somehow cause i looked so familiar. a cute sister that had just gotten home that i was able to go to breakfast with before i left had send our selfie to him and he had it on his snapchat... funniest thing! so the members in the branch knew me and had seen me before i even got here! also that night we had FHE and we played spoons.. literally so fun! elder kuchler cheats like no ones business, but its fine hes a great missionary thats all that matters right?  tuesday i got to spend a lot of time with victoria square because sister b had to do trainings. I LOVE sister brooks and lousi! they are li...

ok so first I'm gonna finish off the last few days at the MTC... Sister Skousen's Saturday night class was the most incredible thing, we started off with our weird energy, but then we ended on such a spiritual note it was incredible. I love her and the rest of our MTC teachers, offical and unofficial (teachers, will you send me the teachers that were teaching our new zones email, I lost the paper I wrote their emails down on) But our MTC teachers were honestly the greatest thing that could have ever happened to us! Shout out to Brother Trautman for helping so much with though provoking questions our 1st district meeting was focused on that so I smashed that!  Gonna kinda fast forward to monday, sunday was rough. Bless your soul if you endured a fast Sunday in the MTC. But Monday was good, I was so sad to leave our cute kids behind, but they will smash it in Vegas and Colorado! We said bye to the rest of our Brizzy Missionaries and that was so sad, love you missionaries and talk...

yall it has been such a good week i don't even know what i did to deserve it, but i'm blessed. ATTENTION. I leave monday morning, i knew a few of y'all were gonna sent packages, but I am out of the MTC at 8:45 am so I probably won't get them. love y'all though. feel free to use amazon australia to send me something! ;) sunday sister randall and I were asked to be STLs. so go us. STLs for a week. haha killing it. Then we watched missions are forever by elder holland and he literally pounded the podium. so unless i die i will be in the land down under until next november.  monday we taught a new TRC investigator named jacqui. shes super old and super cute. i love her and am so happy that we got to teach her she is definetely mormon but ya know the practice is good. also more homework for yall is to study the words of the current prophet. start at the beginning of nelson being an apostle and go to his most current. i have loved it and have a long way to ...

Ok y'all. I am killin it here at the MTC Sunday was good. So busy but so good. We had a devotional by the MTC president and his wife it was super good but if I'm being honest I only remember the character of Christ video we watched after. It was so good. All missionaries need to go to work. Amen preach and that's what we did this week.  Monday was our first TRC aka real investigator. Her name was Jasmine and I love her but she was a royal pain she wouldn't let us talk about anything we had planned and I mean it was good she was asking questions but she's super smart (English Major) and I didn't know how to answer her questions so we tried bringing it back into the BOM but she'd take it right back to the bible. Such a bad lesson. Sister Randall got super discouraged after that for a good 24 hours which was tough cause nothing was good enough after that.  Tuesday we had one of the 12 come. 1st Tuesday devo and guess who shows up?! ELDER RASBAND. umm ok that...

"I love to see the temple, I'll go inside some day" I know everyone always says that, but I went today and it was incredible. I went down to the Manti temple to receive my endowments. It was an awesome experience. My mom was my escort, and I was in tears so many times. surprise surprise right? NOT. The spirit was so strong from the second I said my name to the sisters helping me. The initiatories were the coolest part! That is something I am so excited to do over and over! It won't be for me, but I will still feel it. Can't say alot about my experience because we aren't supposed to talk about the temple outside of the temple. I can say that it was a unique experience with it being a live session. And I'm excited to go to basically every other temple, cause it will feel as if I am doing it for the first time. There were two other girls receiving their endowments as well. One was going to Brazil and one was just getting them out I think.. I'm not qui...

Can i just disclaimer this post with this message: I know it doesn't matter what you're wearing on your mission. But for me when I look good and presentable I am productive and feel confident. If I look like a scrub I act like a scrub. I dress to impress myself not others just to make this clear. I know I'm not the only one with these thoughts, so I thought I'd share. If I'm being honestly one of the biggest and only worries in preparing for my mission was losing a sense of style on the mission. I am fine flying half way across the world, spending time away from loved ones, etc. But this actually worried me, and I feel like this this is worse than school dance dress shopping (cause we all know that's a huge stress in hs) , and slightly less worse than wedding dress shopping (and we all know that this is a huge concern in real life haha). There is nothing wrong with the way the girls in the pamphlet dressed that's totally fine, its just not my style. Neit...

ya its 2:45 am and i'm writing this. people have told me to get on the missionary schedule and all that to prep. but i have 18 months to go to bed early, get up early, and be in sight or sound of another girl. so ya know i'm gonna stay up late, sleep in, and be alone while i can. i gotta enjoy this. but in all that mission prep i am not doing mentioned above i am doing some shopping and let me tell y'all it is hard to find something cute, comfy, lightweight, good for biking, and will last a hot minute on my mission. ok ok i know y'all are gonna say. jord really?! you're worried about your clothes? you're ridiculous, you aren't even gonna care once you get there. but let me tell ya this. i will. i really will. not for the reason i want to impress people cause heck i couldn't care less about that. i do it for me. i get ready for me. i look presentable for ME. if i look good i feel good, get more things done and just have a better day honestly. and if i...